Module: Introduction
... corporate business plan. Like all objectives related to the business plan, progress is monitored throughout the year so there is timely warning if targets are at risk of not being achieved. When that occurs, steps are identified to get back on track. SCIENCE-BASED APPROACH: We’ve analyzed what “doin ...
... corporate business plan. Like all objectives related to the business plan, progress is monitored throughout the year so there is timely warning if targets are at risk of not being achieved. When that occurs, steps are identified to get back on track. SCIENCE-BASED APPROACH: We’ve analyzed what “doin ...
climate change, disasters, and human mobility in south asia and
... brought together some 70 participants from Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. The participants agreed that displacement in the context of disasters is an important or very important issue in South Asia, and likely to increase in importance in the future. They e ...
... brought together some 70 participants from Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. The participants agreed that displacement in the context of disasters is an important or very important issue in South Asia, and likely to increase in importance in the future. They e ...
Migration and Climate Change: Toward an Integrated Assessment of
... drought affecting agricultural production and access to clean water; rising sea levels making coastal areas uninhabitable and increasing the number of sinking island states; and increased competition over natural resources that may lead to conflict (Martin 2009). Although they will vary regionally, ...
... drought affecting agricultural production and access to clean water; rising sea levels making coastal areas uninhabitable and increasing the number of sinking island states; and increased competition over natural resources that may lead to conflict (Martin 2009). Although they will vary regionally, ...
Summary Report CwD Project Profile 2012
... of rainfed maize, sorghum and cotton production to climate change using downscaled best case and worst case climate change scenarios. For livestock, cattle and goats are considered. Main drivers of vulnerability and possible adaptation strategies are identified through participatory techniques invol ...
... of rainfed maize, sorghum and cotton production to climate change using downscaled best case and worst case climate change scenarios. For livestock, cattle and goats are considered. Main drivers of vulnerability and possible adaptation strategies are identified through participatory techniques invol ...
Application for CMIP6-Endorsed MIPs
... The recently proposed, revised CMIP structure (see information on the CMIP Panel website at http://www.wcrp-climate.org/index.php/wgcm-cmip/about-cmip) provides for a small set of experiments to be routinely performed by modeling groups whenever they develop a new model version. The output from thes ...
... The recently proposed, revised CMIP structure (see information on the CMIP Panel website at http://www.wcrp-climate.org/index.php/wgcm-cmip/about-cmip) provides for a small set of experiments to be routinely performed by modeling groups whenever they develop a new model version. The output from thes ...
Framework Programme on Climate Change Adaptation
... Climate change affects all agricultural sectors in a multitude of ways that vary region by region. For example, it reduces the predictability of seasonal weather patterns and increases the frequency and intensity of severe weather events such as floods, cyclones and hurricanes. Some regions face prol ...
... Climate change affects all agricultural sectors in a multitude of ways that vary region by region. For example, it reduces the predictability of seasonal weather patterns and increases the frequency and intensity of severe weather events such as floods, cyclones and hurricanes. Some regions face prol ...
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and the Highway System
... increasingly rapid pace over the coming decades. Such change will likely alter both long term climatic averages and the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, both of which play an important role in the planning, design, operations, maintenance and management of highways. Projected climat ...
... increasingly rapid pace over the coming decades. Such change will likely alter both long term climatic averages and the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, both of which play an important role in the planning, design, operations, maintenance and management of highways. Projected climat ...
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... wetlands in western Canada, for example, have been and continue to be drained as a result of agricultural development. The social benefits of wetlands do not typically accrue to landowners, so they continue to convert them to agricultural production. Wetlands in western Canada’s grain belt are also ...
... wetlands in western Canada, for example, have been and continue to be drained as a result of agricultural development. The social benefits of wetlands do not typically accrue to landowners, so they continue to convert them to agricultural production. Wetlands in western Canada’s grain belt are also ...
fram forum 2015
... wide variety of perspectives. Some collect data about factors that contribute to changes in the environment, such as deposition of black carbon or release of methane hydrates. Some attempt to predict changes by developing and refining computer models for sea ice, contaminant transport, or entire eco ...
... wide variety of perspectives. Some collect data about factors that contribute to changes in the environment, such as deposition of black carbon or release of methane hydrates. Some attempt to predict changes by developing and refining computer models for sea ice, contaminant transport, or entire eco ...
Extreme climatic events in relation to global change and their impact
... populations. We will not consider paleo-climatological or paleontological evidence in this review. The literature on impacts of extreme events applies the terminology of meteorologists to weather conditions without clearly stating how rare they are in relation to the climatological probability distr ...
... populations. We will not consider paleo-climatological or paleontological evidence in this review. The literature on impacts of extreme events applies the terminology of meteorologists to weather conditions without clearly stating how rare they are in relation to the climatological probability distr ...
Country Newsletter: Rwanda November 2016
... The Paris Agreement will provide the much-needed international support to help vulnerable countries like Rwanda achieve this. The amendment will see an end to the production and use of chemical substances called hydrofluorocarbons - dangerous greenhouse gases used in refrigeration that are thousands ...
... The Paris Agreement will provide the much-needed international support to help vulnerable countries like Rwanda achieve this. The amendment will see an end to the production and use of chemical substances called hydrofluorocarbons - dangerous greenhouse gases used in refrigeration that are thousands ...
Impacts of climate change on disadvantaged UK coastal communities
... Coastal communities throughout the UK already face a variety of different complex issues which make planning for climate change particularly challenging. From a demographic perspective, the existing population of coastal communities is becoming increasingly older as a result of high levels of inward ...
... Coastal communities throughout the UK already face a variety of different complex issues which make planning for climate change particularly challenging. From a demographic perspective, the existing population of coastal communities is becoming increasingly older as a result of high levels of inward ...
here - DeSmogBlog
... preferably by PhDs, amplified and repeated endlessly through the PR network (red boxes and arrows). Memes are seen so often they have gotten standard debunking numbers, tagged Meme-nn, listed in §0.5. ...
... preferably by PhDs, amplified and repeated endlessly through the PR network (red boxes and arrows). Memes are seen so often they have gotten standard debunking numbers, tagged Meme-nn, listed in §0.5. ...
impacts of climate change on urban development in the uae
... live in peace in their home, the earth. The response is developed through a climate change governance and the implantation responsibility lies on cities to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change, and mitigate the anthropogenic consequences of human activities through its spatial planning ...
... live in peace in their home, the earth. The response is developed through a climate change governance and the implantation responsibility lies on cities to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change, and mitigate the anthropogenic consequences of human activities through its spatial planning ...
Bacterial Extracellular Enzymatic Activity in Globally Changing
... Ectoenzymes ensure a close association between the hydrolysis products and the cells, and prevents that both enzyme and hydrolysis products may be easily lost to the environment [15]. Strict-sense extracellular enzymes occur in free form and catalyse reactions detached from their producers. Bacteria ...
... Ectoenzymes ensure a close association between the hydrolysis products and the cells, and prevents that both enzyme and hydrolysis products may be easily lost to the environment [15]. Strict-sense extracellular enzymes occur in free form and catalyse reactions detached from their producers. Bacteria ...
Trade And Climate Change - WTO-UNEP Report
... compelling. Based on a review of thousands of scientific publications, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that the warming of the Earth’s climate system is “unequivocal”, and that human activities are “very likely” the cause of this warming. It is estimated that, over ...
... compelling. Based on a review of thousands of scientific publications, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that the warming of the Earth’s climate system is “unequivocal”, and that human activities are “very likely” the cause of this warming. It is estimated that, over ...
Optimal Dynamic Carbon Taxes in a Climate
... WG I, 2007). Moreover, "most" of the observed temperature increase is "very likely" due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, most importantly carbon dioxide (IPCC WG I, 2007). Climate change is expected to a¤ect human welfare through numerous channels. These include changes in agricultural pro ...
... WG I, 2007). Moreover, "most" of the observed temperature increase is "very likely" due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, most importantly carbon dioxide (IPCC WG I, 2007). Climate change is expected to a¤ect human welfare through numerous channels. These include changes in agricultural pro ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES RARE DISASTERS, TAIL-HEDGED INVESTMENTS, AND RISK-ADJUSTED DISCOUNT RATES
... The average return on all investments in a country is often proxied by the mean real historical return on a comprehensive index of equities traded on that country’s stock exchanges. For the U.S., whose stock markets are relatively large in representing the private economy and which have a long unin ...
... The average return on all investments in a country is often proxied by the mean real historical return on a comprehensive index of equities traded on that country’s stock exchanges. For the U.S., whose stock markets are relatively large in representing the private economy and which have a long unin ...
Climate Change Adaptation: What Federal Agencies are Doing
... There is a growing consensus that regardless of our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, significant climate change is unavoidable. Although climate mitigation remains critical, we must also be thinking about and planning for ways to limit the adverse impacts from unavoidable changes in our ...
... There is a growing consensus that regardless of our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, significant climate change is unavoidable. Although climate mitigation remains critical, we must also be thinking about and planning for ways to limit the adverse impacts from unavoidable changes in our ...
Accountable Climate Governance: Dilemmas of Performance Management across Complex Governance Networks
... context of ‘‘international democracy-deficit’’, ‘‘politics of knowledge’’ and ‘‘intergenerational accountability’’ to inform the evolving negotiations on designing international climate policy in the post-Kyoto (post-2012) time frame. 2. The Governance Network Accountability Framework ‘‘Accountabilit ...
... context of ‘‘international democracy-deficit’’, ‘‘politics of knowledge’’ and ‘‘intergenerational accountability’’ to inform the evolving negotiations on designing international climate policy in the post-Kyoto (post-2012) time frame. 2. The Governance Network Accountability Framework ‘‘Accountabilit ...
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the
... aims to generate new stakeholder-driven knowledge on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in semi-arid regions, develop innovative communication approaches for effective knowledge sharing on climate change vulnerability and adaptation, and stengthen capacity for adaptation in research, pol ...
... aims to generate new stakeholder-driven knowledge on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in semi-arid regions, develop innovative communication approaches for effective knowledge sharing on climate change vulnerability and adaptation, and stengthen capacity for adaptation in research, pol ...
Chapter 12. Human Security - Center for International Earth Science
... Indigenous, local and traditional forms of knowledge are a major resource for adapting to climate change (high agreement, robust evidence). Natural resource dependent communities, including indigenous peoples, have a long history of adapting to highly variable and changing social and ecological cond ...
... Indigenous, local and traditional forms of knowledge are a major resource for adapting to climate change (high agreement, robust evidence). Natural resource dependent communities, including indigenous peoples, have a long history of adapting to highly variable and changing social and ecological cond ...
Post-2012 Climate Change
... take inflexible positions that do not consider other parties’ interests. Parties’ positions generally ignore the legitimate interests of others and are designed to protect individual party interests or counter their opponents’ positions. Instead of focusing on positions, after identifying and discus ...
... take inflexible positions that do not consider other parties’ interests. Parties’ positions generally ignore the legitimate interests of others and are designed to protect individual party interests or counter their opponents’ positions. Instead of focusing on positions, after identifying and discus ...
Potential future fisheries yields in shelf waters: a model study of the
... axis) between modelled and observed data. Validation results for the three sites are very similar, with high correlation factors, reflecting the general size-based structure of the marine ecosystem (Kerr, 1974; Sheldon et al., 1977; Kerr, 2001) and the small geographic area. More observations on a s ...
... axis) between modelled and observed data. Validation results for the three sites are very similar, with high correlation factors, reflecting the general size-based structure of the marine ecosystem (Kerr, 1974; Sheldon et al., 1977; Kerr, 2001) and the small geographic area. More observations on a s ...
Nota di lavoro 2000.038 - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
... risks of storm surges, severe waves and tsunamis. Climate change may not only enhance the most threatening extreme events (e.g., through increasing storminess) but also aggravate long-term biogeophysical effects, such as sea-level rise, shoreline erosion, sediment deficits, saltwater intrusion into ...
... risks of storm surges, severe waves and tsunamis. Climate change may not only enhance the most threatening extreme events (e.g., through increasing storminess) but also aggravate long-term biogeophysical effects, such as sea-level rise, shoreline erosion, sediment deficits, saltwater intrusion into ...
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.""