Current and Future Exposure of Infrastructure in the United States to
... Communities, companies, and governments at all levels are making decisions that will influence where, what, and how infrastructure will be built. These design and policy decisions shape infrastructure, influence economic development, and influence future exposures to natural hazards for decades. If ...
... Communities, companies, and governments at all levels are making decisions that will influence where, what, and how infrastructure will be built. These design and policy decisions shape infrastructure, influence economic development, and influence future exposures to natural hazards for decades. If ...
Climate Change in the Midwest - Climate Adaptation Knowledge
... About This Series This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on ...
... About This Series This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on ...
The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia
... slowdown may be considered more important. This, however, needs not be the case. Many countries are introducing green fiscal stimulus that creates jobs, shores up economies, and reduces poverty and, at the same time, spin-off activities of adaptation and mitigation to combat climate change. There is ...
... slowdown may be considered more important. This, however, needs not be the case. Many countries are introducing green fiscal stimulus that creates jobs, shores up economies, and reduces poverty and, at the same time, spin-off activities of adaptation and mitigation to combat climate change. There is ...
Zimbabwe`s National Climate Change Response Strategy
... thinking into all key socio-economic sectors in order to bring about an integrated response across all sectors. ...
... thinking into all key socio-economic sectors in order to bring about an integrated response across all sectors. ...
Climate Change Adaptation Manual
... The need for climate change adaptation has become increasingly widely recognised in the last 20 years. Nature conservation was one of the first sectors to identify the need and to start developing approaches. To date, much of the focus has been on identifying general principles. This was an essentia ...
... The need for climate change adaptation has become increasingly widely recognised in the last 20 years. Nature conservation was one of the first sectors to identify the need and to start developing approaches. To date, much of the focus has been on identifying general principles. This was an essentia ...
Turn Down the Heat - Open Knowledge Repository
... 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0. Under the Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial–NoDerivatives license, you are free to copy, distribute, and transmit this work, for noncommercial purposes only, under the following conditions: Attribution—Please cite the work as follows: W ...
... 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0. Under the Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial–NoDerivatives license, you are free to copy, distribute, and transmit this work, for noncommercial purposes only, under the following conditions: Attribution—Please cite the work as follows: W ...
The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A
... slowdown may be considered more important. This, however, needs not be the case. Many countries are introducing green fiscal stimulus that creates jobs, shores up economies, and reduces poverty and, at the same time, spin-off activities of adaptation and mitigation to combat climate change. There is ...
... slowdown may be considered more important. This, however, needs not be the case. Many countries are introducing green fiscal stimulus that creates jobs, shores up economies, and reduces poverty and, at the same time, spin-off activities of adaptation and mitigation to combat climate change. There is ...
Climate Change Adaptation Manual
... The need for climate change adaptation has become increasingly widely recognised in the last 20 years. Nature conservation was one of the first sectors to identify the need and to start developing approaches. To date, much of the focus has been on identifying general principles. This was an essentia ...
... The need for climate change adaptation has become increasingly widely recognised in the last 20 years. Nature conservation was one of the first sectors to identify the need and to start developing approaches. To date, much of the focus has been on identifying general principles. This was an essentia ...
WeatHerinG tHe storM options for Framing adaptation
... climate effects, it is critical that adaptation efforts be designed to reach the poorest communities to safeguard their development efforts. Likewise, development must foster adaptation if it is to succeed under a changing climate. That the poor are the people least responsible for global warming ma ...
... climate effects, it is critical that adaptation efforts be designed to reach the poorest communities to safeguard their development efforts. Likewise, development must foster adaptation if it is to succeed under a changing climate. That the poor are the people least responsible for global warming ma ...
Climatic variation alters supply-side ecology
... obtained for South Beach applied to all four sites. Data analysis Ideally, because of the likelihood of temporal autocorrelation in some of our data sets, time series analysis approaches would be employed. In fact, preliminary analysis suggested that for mussel recruitment, significant autocorrelatio ...
... obtained for South Beach applied to all four sites. Data analysis Ideally, because of the likelihood of temporal autocorrelation in some of our data sets, time series analysis approaches would be employed. In fact, preliminary analysis suggested that for mussel recruitment, significant autocorrelatio ...
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the
... Climate change is increasingly becoming an important driver of biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services. The Paris Agreement, which strengthened international support for limiting global warming, will enter into force on November 2016 and is a positive step, especially from the point ...
... Climate change is increasingly becoming an important driver of biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services. The Paris Agreement, which strengthened international support for limiting global warming, will enter into force on November 2016 and is a positive step, especially from the point ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
... To date, the majority of impacts and adaptation research has focused on the biophysical impacts of climate change. Much of this research suggests that the most significant challenges would result from increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events, such as floods, droughts and s ...
... To date, the majority of impacts and adaptation research has focused on the biophysical impacts of climate change. Much of this research suggests that the most significant challenges would result from increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events, such as floods, droughts and s ...
Central Asia - International Institute for Sustainable Development
... Caribbean. These actions are providing opportunities to: increase understanding of the implications of climate change for the achievement of development objectives in the near and long terms; identify strategies and measures that can be taken to reduce climate vulnerability; communicate and build aw ...
... Caribbean. These actions are providing opportunities to: increase understanding of the implications of climate change for the achievement of development objectives in the near and long terms; identify strategies and measures that can be taken to reduce climate vulnerability; communicate and build aw ...
Adaptation to climate change in desert contexts
... Several indicators of adaptive capacity to climate change have been used in a variety of studies. However, this research argues that the selection of the best possible indexes of adaptive capacity in a specific region requires the identification of the climate stimuli and driving forces of social vu ...
... Several indicators of adaptive capacity to climate change have been used in a variety of studies. However, this research argues that the selection of the best possible indexes of adaptive capacity in a specific region requires the identification of the climate stimuli and driving forces of social vu ...
The making of a riskier future: How our decisions are
... 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 source. Copies may be sent to the GFDRR Secretariat at the above address. No use of this publication may be made for resale or other comme ...
... 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 source. Copies may be sent to the GFDRR Secretariat at the above address. No use of this publication may be made for resale or other comme ...
Contrasting the direct radiative effect and direct radiative forcing of
... effective radiative forcing (ERF), which allows physical variables (e.g the temperature profile) “to respond to perturbations with rapid adjustments”; this does not generally include feedbacks or responses to climate change, but in the case of aerosols, now includes the “semi-direct effect”. The DRF ...
... effective radiative forcing (ERF), which allows physical variables (e.g the temperature profile) “to respond to perturbations with rapid adjustments”; this does not generally include feedbacks or responses to climate change, but in the case of aerosols, now includes the “semi-direct effect”. The DRF ...
The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A
... Marine and coastal areas in North America already experience a multitude of climate change related impacts. These changes are beginning to affect ecological and socioeconomic aspects of marine and coastal systems. In this section, we provide a brief overview of the current and projected manifestatio ...
... Marine and coastal areas in North America already experience a multitude of climate change related impacts. These changes are beginning to affect ecological and socioeconomic aspects of marine and coastal systems. In this section, we provide a brief overview of the current and projected manifestatio ...
Turkey`s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and
... her important income makes it an obligation for us to attach the required importance on adaptation studies. The fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stresses that “the cost of mitigation and adaptation activities in combating climate change will be much lower than the cost ...
... her important income makes it an obligation for us to attach the required importance on adaptation studies. The fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stresses that “the cost of mitigation and adaptation activities in combating climate change will be much lower than the cost ...
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... From this perspective climate change might simply be one more reason to scale up microfinance. However, what is perhaps more critical from an adaptation perspective are more specific issues like how microfinance could be tapped for more targeted climate risk reduction and adaptation, for building ad ...
... From this perspective climate change might simply be one more reason to scale up microfinance. However, what is perhaps more critical from an adaptation perspective are more specific issues like how microfinance could be tapped for more targeted climate risk reduction and adaptation, for building ad ...
Full Report
... In making its Impacts Assessment, Working Group II has built on the available country assessments, taking into account significant work undertaken more recently. By its very nature, such work is distributed over many fields. There are many uncertainties in them, and some results have yet to be publi ...
... In making its Impacts Assessment, Working Group II has built on the available country assessments, taking into account significant work undertaken more recently. By its very nature, such work is distributed over many fields. There are many uncertainties in them, and some results have yet to be publi ...
The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation
... eading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change published their fourth assessment of the state of knowledge about climate change and its impacts in spring 2007. They reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming t ...
... eading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change published their fourth assessment of the state of knowledge about climate change and its impacts in spring 2007. They reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming t ...
Planning instruments
... change will have significant implications for cities and coastal development (IPCC 2014). For Australia, the impacts include warmer coastal futures, including drier coastal environments in the south east and southwest regions, extreme weather events, stress on coastal and marine biodiversity and eco ...
... change will have significant implications for cities and coastal development (IPCC 2014). For Australia, the impacts include warmer coastal futures, including drier coastal environments in the south east and southwest regions, extreme weather events, stress on coastal and marine biodiversity and eco ...
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.""