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... civil society movement that both puts pressure on investors and significantly raises awareness on the link between investments and climate change. Governments are also on the move, with the French finance minister recently announcing new legislation, which makes it obligatory for institutional inves ...
... civil society movement that both puts pressure on investors and significantly raises awareness on the link between investments and climate change. Governments are also on the move, with the French finance minister recently announcing new legislation, which makes it obligatory for institutional inves ...
T M Climate Negotiations After the Copenhagen Overview of Emissions Targets
... Greenhouse gas emissions reduction pledges submitted to the UNFCCC as part of the Copenhagen Accord process are insufficient to limit temperature increase to 2°C relative to pre-industrial global mean temperatures. Only a few reports have analyzed the emissions reductions goals expressed by various ...
... Greenhouse gas emissions reduction pledges submitted to the UNFCCC as part of the Copenhagen Accord process are insufficient to limit temperature increase to 2°C relative to pre-industrial global mean temperatures. Only a few reports have analyzed the emissions reductions goals expressed by various ...
A Profile of the Greenhouse Industry in British Columbia and Clues
... agricultural reality and that they need to be implemented “in compliance with the ...
... agricultural reality and that they need to be implemented “in compliance with the ...
mitigating climate change in the tea sector
... Climate change is expected to have a significant impact on global tea production. Because tea relies on welldistributed rainfall, increased temperatures and changes to rainfall patterns will influence both the quantity and quality of tea production, posing a threat especially to vulnerable smallhold ...
... Climate change is expected to have a significant impact on global tea production. Because tea relies on welldistributed rainfall, increased temperatures and changes to rainfall patterns will influence both the quantity and quality of tea production, posing a threat especially to vulnerable smallhold ...
Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change
... have a responsibility to become informed and to take appropriate action within their mandates to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. ...
... have a responsibility to become informed and to take appropriate action within their mandates to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. ...
Adapting for climate change - City of Sydney
... community is ready to face the likely impacts of climate change. Far more than that, the City of Sydney is working to ensure that our city continues to thrive and is more liveable than ever. so we must adapt… This strategy sets out the impacts the changing climate will have on our city, the risks th ...
... community is ready to face the likely impacts of climate change. Far more than that, the City of Sydney is working to ensure that our city continues to thrive and is more liveable than ever. so we must adapt… This strategy sets out the impacts the changing climate will have on our city, the risks th ...
SYNCHRONIZATION OF POLAR CLIMATE VARIABILITY OVER
... The climate system is complex, whatever our definition of system complexity may be, but if that complexity can be reduced in some measure by detecting and recognizing long-range symmetries caused by synchronization, our understanding of climate dynamics would greatly benefit. The focus of this paper ...
... The climate system is complex, whatever our definition of system complexity may be, but if that complexity can be reduced in some measure by detecting and recognizing long-range symmetries caused by synchronization, our understanding of climate dynamics would greatly benefit. The focus of this paper ...
AHDR-‐II FACT SHEET: POPULATION AND
... and international law is specific to the Arctic, the adoption of the Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic at the 2011 Nuuk AC Ministerial Meeting heralds ...
... and international law is specific to the Arctic, the adoption of the Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic at the 2011 Nuuk AC Ministerial Meeting heralds ...
Spatial-Temporal Characteristics and Climatic Responses of Water
... number, have increasing water levels. There are 80 lakes with decreasing water levels, which accounts for approximately 1/3 of the total number. Of the 80 lakes for which the water level is dropping, more than 60 of these lakes present little change, with change rates between −0.03–0 m/a. Only a few ...
... number, have increasing water levels. There are 80 lakes with decreasing water levels, which accounts for approximately 1/3 of the total number. Of the 80 lakes for which the water level is dropping, more than 60 of these lakes present little change, with change rates between −0.03–0 m/a. Only a few ...
CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS: AN
... climate change helps to reduce impacts on all climate-sensitive systems, whereas the potential of adaptation measures is limited for many systems. It is, for instance, difficult to conceive how some of the Pacific small island nations could successfully adapt to substantial levels of sea-level rise. ...
... climate change helps to reduce impacts on all climate-sensitive systems, whereas the potential of adaptation measures is limited for many systems. It is, for instance, difficult to conceive how some of the Pacific small island nations could successfully adapt to substantial levels of sea-level rise. ...
Kazakhstan
... improved climatic conditions for agriculture. However, the potential for gain is unclear, since it could be offset by increased variability and extreme events. ...
... improved climatic conditions for agriculture. However, the potential for gain is unclear, since it could be offset by increased variability and extreme events. ...
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan Climate Change in the
... The general change of glacier extend is different in the Karakoram compared to observations for the majority of glaciers on the globe. While, in the rest of the world, glaciers are retreating dramatically (Lemke et al. 2007), a large number of glaciers in the Karakoram central ridge are stable or ev ...
... The general change of glacier extend is different in the Karakoram compared to observations for the majority of glaciers on the globe. While, in the rest of the world, glaciers are retreating dramatically (Lemke et al. 2007), a large number of glaciers in the Karakoram central ridge are stable or ev ...
Past and future conditions for polar stratospheric cloud formation
... the effects of the halogen loading (using the period 2080 to 2099 does not affect any of our discussion). Since there are three members of the ensemble, we have sixty years in each sample. The secular increase in carbon dioxide in the model runs is expected to lead to steady cooling above the tropos ...
... the effects of the halogen loading (using the period 2080 to 2099 does not affect any of our discussion). Since there are three members of the ensemble, we have sixty years in each sample. The secular increase in carbon dioxide in the model runs is expected to lead to steady cooling above the tropos ...
A New Climate for Conservation: Nature Carbon and Climate
... conservation biology, forest ecology, sustainable forest management, ecological land classification, and conservation, with a wealth of field experience throughout British Columbia. The hope is that this synthesis of scientific information (on primarily terrestrial ecosystems) will be an important c ...
... conservation biology, forest ecology, sustainable forest management, ecological land classification, and conservation, with a wealth of field experience throughout British Columbia. The hope is that this synthesis of scientific information (on primarily terrestrial ecosystems) will be an important c ...
The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost
... “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking care to protect citizens against risks that cannot be established with certainty. By contrast, Americans are reluctant to take precautions, requiring clear evidence of harm in order to justify regulation. These claims seem plausible in light of the fa ...
... “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking care to protect citizens against risks that cannot be established with certainty. By contrast, Americans are reluctant to take precautions, requiring clear evidence of harm in order to justify regulation. These claims seem plausible in light of the fa ...
climate change and eu security policy
... Commonwealth Affairs William Hague suggested that climate change is “perhaps the twenty-first century’s biggest foreign policy challenge.”12 At the end of 2011, the UK government committed itself to producing a more political set of climate risk assessments. In the ensuing report, the government att ...
... Commonwealth Affairs William Hague suggested that climate change is “perhaps the twenty-first century’s biggest foreign policy challenge.”12 At the end of 2011, the UK government committed itself to producing a more political set of climate risk assessments. In the ensuing report, the government att ...
The economic potential of bioenergy for climate change mitigation
... of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also to meet rural development goals [1]. Today, almost all of the commercially available biofuels are produced from either starch- or sugarrich crops (for bioethanol), or oilseeds (for biodiesel). Recent research has found that these bioenergy sources have the ...
... of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also to meet rural development goals [1]. Today, almost all of the commercially available biofuels are produced from either starch- or sugarrich crops (for bioethanol), or oilseeds (for biodiesel). Recent research has found that these bioenergy sources have the ...
Abstract Book The Human Side of Climate Change Bergen 16
... Reflecting on the ‘unusual’: Climate change narratives in decision-making about the future The experience of an extreme event can serve to open up spaces for reflection upon the nature of the event, the underpinning causes, the immediate responses and effects on longer-term decision making. Extreme ...
... Reflecting on the ‘unusual’: Climate change narratives in decision-making about the future The experience of an extreme event can serve to open up spaces for reflection upon the nature of the event, the underpinning causes, the immediate responses and effects on longer-term decision making. Extreme ...
Saving Kyoto - Graciela Chichilnisky
... ‘Timely’, this is the word that immediately crossed my mind when I read Graciela’s and Kristen’s call to ‘save Kyoto’. The international community is at this time facing a moment of truth because the additional greenhouse gases accumulated in the atmosphere since the Rio Conference in 1992 are such ...
... ‘Timely’, this is the word that immediately crossed my mind when I read Graciela’s and Kristen’s call to ‘save Kyoto’. The international community is at this time facing a moment of truth because the additional greenhouse gases accumulated in the atmosphere since the Rio Conference in 1992 are such ...
nd-gain_technical_document_2015_do_not_print
... There are many systematic methods for converting data into an index. For instance: scaling data into similar ranges of values, including normalizing to a common mean and standard deviation; setting base low and high values for the data (e.g. from the observed minimum to the observed maximum; or from ...
... There are many systematic methods for converting data into an index. For instance: scaling data into similar ranges of values, including normalizing to a common mean and standard deviation; setting base low and high values for the data (e.g. from the observed minimum to the observed maximum; or from ...
Comparative analysis of the influence of climate
... Each tree compartment is characterized by biomass, nitrogen, and ash contents. Initialization of biomasses is done using Marklund’s equations (Marklund, 1988). Biomasses of compartments in the annual modelling step have been calculated using allocation coefficients, which are derived from data on di ...
... Each tree compartment is characterized by biomass, nitrogen, and ash contents. Initialization of biomasses is done using Marklund’s equations (Marklund, 1988). Biomasses of compartments in the annual modelling step have been calculated using allocation coefficients, which are derived from data on di ...
the role of the barents sea in the arctic climate system
... [8] Complementary to the wind feedback, we hypothesize the existence of a new positive “ocean feedback” (Figure 3). The existing, relevant ocean observations are reviewed in section 2.2, and climate model simulations are presented in section 3.4.2 to support this new idea. A large portion (>60%) of ...
... [8] Complementary to the wind feedback, we hypothesize the existence of a new positive “ocean feedback” (Figure 3). The existing, relevant ocean observations are reviewed in section 2.2, and climate model simulations are presented in section 3.4.2 to support this new idea. A large portion (>60%) of ...
Regional Climate Projections
... this century. The warming is likely to be somewhat smaller than the global annual mean. Summer rainfall in the Caribbean is likely to decrease in the vicinity of the Greater Antilles but changes elsewhere and in winter are uncertain. Annual rainfall is likely to increase in the northern Indian Ocean ...
... this century. The warming is likely to be somewhat smaller than the global annual mean. Summer rainfall in the Caribbean is likely to decrease in the vicinity of the Greater Antilles but changes elsewhere and in winter are uncertain. Annual rainfall is likely to increase in the northern Indian Ocean ...
Climate change feedback
Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each climate forcing, and so play an important part in determining the climate sensitivity and future climate state. Feedback in general is the process in which changing one quantity changes a second quantity, and the change in the second quantity in turn changes the first. Positive feedback amplifies the change in the first quantity while negative feedback reduces it.The term ""forcing"" means a change which may ""push"" the climate system in the direction of warming or cooling. An example of a climate forcing is increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. By definition, forcings are external to the climate system while feedbacks are internal; in essence, feedbacks represent the internal processes of the system. Some feedbacks may act in relative isolation to the rest of the climate system; others may be tightly coupled; hence it may be difficult to tell just how much a particular process contributes. Forcings, feedbacks and the dynamics of the climate system determine how much and how fast the climate changes. The main positive feedback in global warming is the tendency of warming to increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to further warming. The main negative feedback comes from the Stefan–Boltzmann law, the amount of heat radiated from the Earth into space changes with the fourth power of the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere.Some observed and potential effects of global warming are positive feedbacks, which contribute directly to further global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report states that ""Anthropogenic warming could lead to some effects that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change.""