Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities C
... the form of infrared radiation. This is the heat one can feel radiating up from, say, a paved road in the sun at midday. Most of the heat that is radiated up escapes into space, but a bit is trapped by heavy molecules in the atmosphere, a process called the greenhouse effect. Although it is sometime ...
... the form of infrared radiation. This is the heat one can feel radiating up from, say, a paved road in the sun at midday. Most of the heat that is radiated up escapes into space, but a bit is trapped by heavy molecules in the atmosphere, a process called the greenhouse effect. Although it is sometime ...
Technical Analysis and Data Management
... Table 19-1 displays the primary sources of data used to prepare Plan sections, how the data/documents were relevant to Plan preparation, and specific notes that might help current or future stakeholders use or update a data source. When possible, information for at least a 20-year planning horizon w ...
... Table 19-1 displays the primary sources of data used to prepare Plan sections, how the data/documents were relevant to Plan preparation, and specific notes that might help current or future stakeholders use or update a data source. When possible, information for at least a 20-year planning horizon w ...
how does the theologizing of physics contribute to - Philsci
... Like most scientific models or theories that are at the center of an active and growing research field worked in by thousands of scientists all over the world, global climate models have been criticized, adjusted, evaluated and refined throughout their 40 year history. While acknowledging both weakn ...
... Like most scientific models or theories that are at the center of an active and growing research field worked in by thousands of scientists all over the world, global climate models have been criticized, adjusted, evaluated and refined throughout their 40 year history. While acknowledging both weakn ...
Agriculture and climate change: A prairie perspective
... Agriculture is an economic activity that is highly dependent upon weather and climate in order to produce the food and fibre necessary to sustain human life. Not surprisingly, agriculture is deemed to be an economic activity that is expected to be vulnerable to climate variability and change. The vu ...
... Agriculture is an economic activity that is highly dependent upon weather and climate in order to produce the food and fibre necessary to sustain human life. Not surprisingly, agriculture is deemed to be an economic activity that is expected to be vulnerable to climate variability and change. The vu ...
the impact of weather and climate risks on cereal crops productivity
... decreases, unfortunately, is still unknown, but some analysts suggest that they could be quite severe. Therefore, changes in temperature and precipitation associated with the permanent CO2 emissions will bring changes to agricultural land suitability for maize development. According to the IPCC Spec ...
... decreases, unfortunately, is still unknown, but some analysts suggest that they could be quite severe. Therefore, changes in temperature and precipitation associated with the permanent CO2 emissions will bring changes to agricultural land suitability for maize development. According to the IPCC Spec ...
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... (France) which brought together 65 individuals—scientists, and leaders and representatives of the local authorities from 10 different countries. Working together on both innovative and complementary projects, research teams from nine different countries worked intensively over two years to collect a ...
... (France) which brought together 65 individuals—scientists, and leaders and representatives of the local authorities from 10 different countries. Working together on both innovative and complementary projects, research teams from nine different countries worked intensively over two years to collect a ...
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... representative panel data on Ugandan households together with a set of novel weather variation indicators based on interpolated gridded and re-analysis weather data that capture the peculiar features of short term (weather) and long term (climate) variations in rainfall and temperature. In particul ...
... representative panel data on Ugandan households together with a set of novel weather variation indicators based on interpolated gridded and re-analysis weather data that capture the peculiar features of short term (weather) and long term (climate) variations in rainfall and temperature. In particul ...
Forest Service Chief`s Climate Change and Wilderness Briefing
... With climate change, then, it is more important than ever to move beyond exclusive reliance on traditional fire suppression to fire management policies that better balance the short and long term risks associated with fire. In wilderness, wildland fire use is the preferred means of reducing combusti ...
... With climate change, then, it is more important than ever to move beyond exclusive reliance on traditional fire suppression to fire management policies that better balance the short and long term risks associated with fire. In wilderness, wildland fire use is the preferred means of reducing combusti ...
Conceptual framework: Definitions for key concepts
... climate hazards, and are typically modulated by changes in biogeophysical and social systems. Impact categories covered by the case studies in CIRCE might include: health (e.g., mortality due to heat stress; hospital admissions for respiratory disease); tourism (e.g., tourist bed nights; visits to t ...
... climate hazards, and are typically modulated by changes in biogeophysical and social systems. Impact categories covered by the case studies in CIRCE might include: health (e.g., mortality due to heat stress; hospital admissions for respiratory disease); tourism (e.g., tourist bed nights; visits to t ...
Chapter 4 The Ocean`s Role in the Hydrological Cycle
... The spatial distributions of these freshwater fluxes drive important patterns in regional and global ocean circulation, which are discussed in Chapter 5. The Southern Ocean (defined as all ocean area south of 60°S) deserves special mention due to its role in the storage of heat (and carbon) for the ...
... The spatial distributions of these freshwater fluxes drive important patterns in regional and global ocean circulation, which are discussed in Chapter 5. The Southern Ocean (defined as all ocean area south of 60°S) deserves special mention due to its role in the storage of heat (and carbon) for the ...
Legal Working Brief - Mexico General Law of Climate Change
... Mexico has become the second country, after the United Kingdom, to set out a regulatory framework that comprehensively addresses climate change through a committed multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approach. Importantly, this Law removes the challenge of addressing climate change from the whims o ...
... Mexico has become the second country, after the United Kingdom, to set out a regulatory framework that comprehensively addresses climate change through a committed multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approach. Importantly, this Law removes the challenge of addressing climate change from the whims o ...
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... 1. Introduction A key challenge today’s policy makers are facing concerns the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions; the major cause of climate change. If emissions continue to grow as they have over the last century, the consequences on the ecologic and human systems could be daunting. This is t ...
... 1. Introduction A key challenge today’s policy makers are facing concerns the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions; the major cause of climate change. If emissions continue to grow as they have over the last century, the consequences on the ecologic and human systems could be daunting. This is t ...
The New General Law on Climate Change in Mexico
... Mexico has become the second country, after the United Kingdom, to set out a regulatory framework that comprehensively addresses climate change through a committed multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approach. Importantly, this Law removes the challenge of addressing climate change from the whims o ...
... Mexico has become the second country, after the United Kingdom, to set out a regulatory framework that comprehensively addresses climate change through a committed multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approach. Importantly, this Law removes the challenge of addressing climate change from the whims o ...
The Meaning of Uncertainty: Debating Climate Change in the Gilded
... well as a hubristic attitude toward both “nature” and American expansionism.15 But I argue that this certain and confident intellectual tradition ran alongside a more uncertain current in an ongoing dialectic. The term “uncertainty” is not a neologism in the context of climate debates: some nineteen ...
... well as a hubristic attitude toward both “nature” and American expansionism.15 But I argue that this certain and confident intellectual tradition ran alongside a more uncertain current in an ongoing dialectic. The term “uncertainty” is not a neologism in the context of climate debates: some nineteen ...
Agreeing to disagree: Uncertainty management in assessing climate
... Groups, and do not exclude that other dimensions could also be considered. The division between the objective and the subjective views of probabilities is the oldest. Objective views of probabilities include the classical approach (probability is the proportion of favorable cases over total cases), ...
... Groups, and do not exclude that other dimensions could also be considered. The division between the objective and the subjective views of probabilities is the oldest. Objective views of probabilities include the classical approach (probability is the proportion of favorable cases over total cases), ...
COP 17 and accountants: where next? AccountAncy futures
... agenda, one that concerns sustainability and green growth, a trend that will increasingly define the global economy. It is no longer a question of getting governments to agree on a policy. Governments must cooperate with business; business must cooperate with governments. As a result climate policy ...
... agenda, one that concerns sustainability and green growth, a trend that will increasingly define the global economy. It is no longer a question of getting governments to agree on a policy. Governments must cooperate with business; business must cooperate with governments. As a result climate policy ...
EThekwini - Urban Energy Support
... project) also did not help advance this understanding. Involvement of municipal staff in the projects focused primarily on the delivery of the projects in terms of meeting funding and other administrative deadlines. In addition, the highly technical nature of the greenhouse gas inventory and the bui ...
... project) also did not help advance this understanding. Involvement of municipal staff in the projects focused primarily on the delivery of the projects in terms of meeting funding and other administrative deadlines. In addition, the highly technical nature of the greenhouse gas inventory and the bui ...
A Bottom Up, Resource- Based Perspective To Deal With Climate Variability and Change
... limitations, which have come increasingly to light over the past decade. The concept is inadequate for some forcing agents, such as absorbing aerosols and land-use changes, that may have regional climate impacts much greater than would be predicted from TOA radiative forcing. Also, it diagnoses only ...
... limitations, which have come increasingly to light over the past decade. The concept is inadequate for some forcing agents, such as absorbing aerosols and land-use changes, that may have regional climate impacts much greater than would be predicted from TOA radiative forcing. Also, it diagnoses only ...
evaluating the impacts of climate change on catchment
... pollution. A study by Donner et al. (2002) attributed ~25% of the nitrate export to the Gulf of Mexico to increased runoff alone. Observational studies have also shown an increase in nitrate pollution during wetter years with greater nitrogen retention in dry years (Kaushal et al. 2008). The process ...
... pollution. A study by Donner et al. (2002) attributed ~25% of the nitrate export to the Gulf of Mexico to increased runoff alone. Observational studies have also shown an increase in nitrate pollution during wetter years with greater nitrogen retention in dry years (Kaushal et al. 2008). The process ...
Worksheets on Climate Change: Going under! The threat of rising
... Many small Pacific islands are only about 3–4 metres above average sea level at their highest point. Tuvalu’s highest point is only just over 4 metres from the water, but in fact on average it is only 1.5 meters. Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
... Many small Pacific islands are only about 3–4 metres above average sea level at their highest point. Tuvalu’s highest point is only just over 4 metres from the water, but in fact on average it is only 1.5 meters. Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
What is STAP? - Global Environment Facility
... Ensure the scientific and technical quality of GEF projects and programmatic approaches ...
... Ensure the scientific and technical quality of GEF projects and programmatic approaches ...
Climatic Research Unit documents
Climatic Research Unit documents including thousands of e-mails and other computer files were stolen from a server at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in a hacking incident in November 2009. The documents were redistributed first through the blogosphere of global warming skeptics, and allegations were made that they indicated misconduct by leading climate scientists. A series of investigations rejected these allegations, while concluding that CRU scientists should have been more open with distributing data and methods on request. Precisely six committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. The scientific consensus that global warming is occurring as a result of human activity remained unchanged by the end of the investigations.The incident occurred shortly before the opening December 2009 Copenhagen global climate summit. It has prompted general discussion about increasing the openness of scientific data (though the majority of climate data have always been freely available). Scientists, scientific organisations, and government officials have stated that the incident does not affect the overall scientific case for climate change. Andrew Revkin reported in the New York Times that ""The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument.""