Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) - Convention on Migratory Species
... volatile ice, a large multiannual home range, of which only a portion is used in any one season or year, is an important part of the polar bear life history strategy (Amstrup 2003; Vongraven and Peacock 2011). Ferguson, Taylor and Messier (2000) found that, during spring and summer, polar bears in t ...
... volatile ice, a large multiannual home range, of which only a portion is used in any one season or year, is an important part of the polar bear life history strategy (Amstrup 2003; Vongraven and Peacock 2011). Ferguson, Taylor and Messier (2000) found that, during spring and summer, polar bears in t ...
Climate Change Impacts on Phenology
... fruiting, leaf colouring and leaf fall) are taken of each ...
... fruiting, leaf colouring and leaf fall) are taken of each ...
pLAnnIng fOR cLIMATE chAngE
... Vancouver, Canada developed the original version of this guide in 2011. Planning for Climate Change – Version 1: for field testing and piloting in training was released and extensively reviewed and tested in numerous Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) countries around the globe by UN-Habita ...
... Vancouver, Canada developed the original version of this guide in 2011. Planning for Climate Change – Version 1: for field testing and piloting in training was released and extensively reviewed and tested in numerous Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) countries around the globe by UN-Habita ...
THE GARNAUT CLIMATE CHANGE REvIEW
... high proportion of the extraordinary number of Australians and others who were interested in the Review’s work. Veronica Webster held together the threads of my absurd program of commitments against all the odds. Many of the individuals mentioned above, and some others, made exceptional and particul ...
... high proportion of the extraordinary number of Australians and others who were interested in the Review’s work. Veronica Webster held together the threads of my absurd program of commitments against all the odds. Many of the individuals mentioned above, and some others, made exceptional and particul ...
Solar Influences on Climate
... below 100 km because at present there is little evidence to suggest a downward influence on climate from regions above this. Transfer mechanisms from the overlying thermosphere have been proposed, such as through wave propagation feedbacks suggested by Arnold and Robinson [2000]. However, there is l ...
... below 100 km because at present there is little evidence to suggest a downward influence on climate from regions above this. Transfer mechanisms from the overlying thermosphere have been proposed, such as through wave propagation feedbacks suggested by Arnold and Robinson [2000]. However, there is l ...
Climate Change Adaptation by Federal Agencies: An Analysis Jane A. Leggett, Coordinator
... agencies to adapt their own missions, infrastructure, operations, and personnel to projected climate change. (It does not address federal programs meant primarily to assist others to adapt, although the boundary is often hard to delineate.) This synthesis is not comprehensive. It identifies common a ...
... agencies to adapt their own missions, infrastructure, operations, and personnel to projected climate change. (It does not address federal programs meant primarily to assist others to adapt, although the boundary is often hard to delineate.) This synthesis is not comprehensive. It identifies common a ...
The making of a riskier future: How our decisions are
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... The text in this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part and in any form for educational or nonprofit uses, without special permission, provided acknowledgement of the source is made. The GFDRR Secretariat would appreciate receiving a copy of any publication that uses this report as a sour ...
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... review of the state-of-the-art articles and background papers addressing urban adaptation to climate change. The conclusions drawn from the application of the framework and supporting evidence from recent literature are presented herein. Levels of administrative adaptation planning are discussed in ...
... review of the state-of-the-art articles and background papers addressing urban adaptation to climate change. The conclusions drawn from the application of the framework and supporting evidence from recent literature are presented herein. Levels of administrative adaptation planning are discussed in ...
WeatHerinG tHe storM options for Framing adaptation
... This report has benefited immensely from advice, information, and assistance generously provided by many people. The authors would especially like to thank the following individuals who took the time to speak with us in detail about lessons and insights from their work: Ian Burton, Boubacar Dembele, ...
... This report has benefited immensely from advice, information, and assistance generously provided by many people. The authors would especially like to thank the following individuals who took the time to speak with us in detail about lessons and insights from their work: Ian Burton, Boubacar Dembele, ...
Australia`s country towns 2050: What will a climate
... infrastructure and processes ....................................................................................... 15 Table 2: Projected changes in weather and climate extremes..................................... 33 Table 3: Predicted climate change-related extreme weather events ................ ...
... infrastructure and processes ....................................................................................... 15 Table 2: Projected changes in weather and climate extremes..................................... 33 Table 3: Predicted climate change-related extreme weather events ................ ...
BASE Evaluation Criteria for Climate Adaptation (BECCA)
... This also means considering the context specificity of adaptation and also policy coherence in the way it is experienced at ‘street’ and/or actor level. Criteria must be chosen based on the relationship between planned adaptation activities and the socio-economic, political, environmental and climat ...
... This also means considering the context specificity of adaptation and also policy coherence in the way it is experienced at ‘street’ and/or actor level. Criteria must be chosen based on the relationship between planned adaptation activities and the socio-economic, political, environmental and climat ...
Conceptualizing urban adaptation to climate change. Findings from
... review of the state-of-the-art articles and background papers addressing urban adaptation to climate change. The conclusions drawn from the application of the framework and supporting evidence from recent literature are presented herein. Levels of administrative adaptation planning are discussed in ...
... review of the state-of-the-art articles and background papers addressing urban adaptation to climate change. The conclusions drawn from the application of the framework and supporting evidence from recent literature are presented herein. Levels of administrative adaptation planning are discussed in ...
Jordan`s Third National
... It is a very suitable timing to launch Jordan’s Third National Communication report on Climate Change which will be submitted to the UNFCCC and then to the international community of Climate Change stakeholders. As the UNFCCC negotiations are approaching the crunch time of developing an ambitious, f ...
... It is a very suitable timing to launch Jordan’s Third National Communication report on Climate Change which will be submitted to the UNFCCC and then to the international community of Climate Change stakeholders. As the UNFCCC negotiations are approaching the crunch time of developing an ambitious, f ...
Master Thesis - Erasmus University Thesis Repository
... In other words, the very language scientists employ plays into scientific uncertainty as a salient theme in media coverage. (Weingart et al, 2000, Zehr, 2000) Therefore, scientific findings usually require translation into more colloquial terms in order to be comprehensible. Like any other dimensio ...
... In other words, the very language scientists employ plays into scientific uncertainty as a salient theme in media coverage. (Weingart et al, 2000, Zehr, 2000) Therefore, scientific findings usually require translation into more colloquial terms in order to be comprehensible. Like any other dimensio ...
Turkey`s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and
... The fact that climate change will lead to consequences other than expected natural impacts on the planet’s transformation process necessitates urgent measures for lightening the negative impacts we will be facing. Being an issue beyond an environmental problem at the global level, climate change wil ...
... The fact that climate change will lead to consequences other than expected natural impacts on the planet’s transformation process necessitates urgent measures for lightening the negative impacts we will be facing. Being an issue beyond an environmental problem at the global level, climate change wil ...
Religious engagement in the interface between ethics, policy and
... Secularisation theory and the assumption held by many that religion does not belong in the public sphere is slowly dissipating, paving the way for active collaboration between secular and religious institutions. Evaluation of the current influence and relevance of religion within the international l ...
... Secularisation theory and the assumption held by many that religion does not belong in the public sphere is slowly dissipating, paving the way for active collaboration between secular and religious institutions. Evaluation of the current influence and relevance of religion within the international l ...
climate change and the south african commercial forestry sector
... 2°C, possibly due to decreased occurrences of frost. A decrease in the climatically optimum area would occur when temperature is increased and rainfall is decreased simultaneously, but a substantial increase in the climatically optimum area is projected to occur with both an increase in temperature ...
... 2°C, possibly due to decreased occurrences of frost. A decrease in the climatically optimum area would occur when temperature is increased and rainfall is decreased simultaneously, but a substantial increase in the climatically optimum area is projected to occur with both an increase in temperature ...
A Climate for Change
... will highlight the vulnerability of individual countries and the issues that the South and Central European region face because of climate change. Climate change is not only about polar bears and glaciers and it does not happen just because somebody else is burning more fossil fuel than we are, mean ...
... will highlight the vulnerability of individual countries and the issues that the South and Central European region face because of climate change. Climate change is not only about polar bears and glaciers and it does not happen just because somebody else is burning more fossil fuel than we are, mean ...
2014 Assessment in pdf - Ozone Secretariat
... etc.) has in altering the balance of incoming solar and outgoing infrared irradiance (W m-2) in the Earth-atmosphere system. It is an index of the importance of the factor as a potential climate change mechanism. Radiative forcing is approximately proportional to temperature changes at Earth’s surfa ...
... etc.) has in altering the balance of incoming solar and outgoing infrared irradiance (W m-2) in the Earth-atmosphere system. It is an index of the importance of the factor as a potential climate change mechanism. Radiative forcing is approximately proportional to temperature changes at Earth’s surfa ...
Building Climate Change Resilience in
... of the likely local impacts from climate change scenarios; encourage and support actions that reduce risks (and vulnerabilities) now while recognizing the importance of measures taken now to begin the long-term changes needed in urban form. These measures must also address changing spatial distribut ...
... of the likely local impacts from climate change scenarios; encourage and support actions that reduce risks (and vulnerabilities) now while recognizing the importance of measures taken now to begin the long-term changes needed in urban form. These measures must also address changing spatial distribut ...
Finland`s Fifth National Communication under the
... Greenhouse gas emissions by sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 3.2.1 Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 3.2.2 Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 3.2.3 I ...
... Greenhouse gas emissions by sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 3.2.1 Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 3.2.2 Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 3.2.3 I ...
Recent trends in vegetation dynamics in the African Sahel and their
... factors of the Sahelian ecosystem. The vegetation cycle closely responds to the seasonality in rainfall, with virtually all biomass production taking place in the humid summer months. The sharp seasonal contrasts are overlain by considerable fluctuations in rainfall at inter-annual and -decadal time ...
... factors of the Sahelian ecosystem. The vegetation cycle closely responds to the seasonality in rainfall, with virtually all biomass production taking place in the humid summer months. The sharp seasonal contrasts are overlain by considerable fluctuations in rainfall at inter-annual and -decadal time ...
Full-Text PDF
... changes in NDVI was significantly and positively correlated with annual air temperature (r = 0.52, p < 0.01) and not associated with annual precipitation (p > 0.1); (5) of the vegetated area, about 24% showed significant correlations between annual mean NDVI and air temperature (93% positive and rem ...
... changes in NDVI was significantly and positively correlated with annual air temperature (r = 0.52, p < 0.01) and not associated with annual precipitation (p > 0.1); (5) of the vegetated area, about 24% showed significant correlations between annual mean NDVI and air temperature (93% positive and rem ...
Scoping study: Modelling the interaction between mitigation and adaptation
... above pre-industrial levels. Meanwhile, risks of catastrophic climate change and more particularly dangerous climate change impacts become significant with larger increases in temperature. Since adaptation has limits, mitigation will be required to address this risk. Hence, combinations of mitigatio ...
... above pre-industrial levels. Meanwhile, risks of catastrophic climate change and more particularly dangerous climate change impacts become significant with larger increases in temperature. Since adaptation has limits, mitigation will be required to address this risk. Hence, combinations of mitigatio ...
English
... intense extreme weather events, Pacific islands countries, especially those in warmer latitudes, are the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Their populations are expected to be among the first that will need to adapt to climate change or even abandon their traditional homeland ...
... intense extreme weather events, Pacific islands countries, especially those in warmer latitudes, are the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Their populations are expected to be among the first that will need to adapt to climate change or even abandon their traditional homeland ...
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.""