Polar Lows - Hans von Storch
... analysis of past and present change as well as scnearios of possible future conditions a) Application of downscaling strategy to Polar Lows in the N Atlantic b) Application of down scaling strategy to SE Asian typhoons ...
... analysis of past and present change as well as scnearios of possible future conditions a) Application of downscaling strategy to Polar Lows in the N Atlantic b) Application of down scaling strategy to SE Asian typhoons ...
Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
... be responsible for up to 75% of global emissions of carbon dioxide from anthropogenic sources. Although, as discussed below, these figures are highly contested (28–29), the urban concentration of GHG emissions is perhaps not surprising—given the increasing proportion of the world’s population that li ...
... be responsible for up to 75% of global emissions of carbon dioxide from anthropogenic sources. Although, as discussed below, these figures are highly contested (28–29), the urban concentration of GHG emissions is perhaps not surprising—given the increasing proportion of the world’s population that li ...
Climate Commitments: Assessing the Options
... The nature of the climate change problem, as well as the history of international environmental cooperation more generally, suggest the need for commitments. The existence and implications of purported legal obligations, such as the duty to prevent transboundary pollution and the polluter pays prin ...
... The nature of the climate change problem, as well as the history of international environmental cooperation more generally, suggest the need for commitments. The existence and implications of purported legal obligations, such as the duty to prevent transboundary pollution and the polluter pays prin ...
Student Sheet 1.2: Where on Earth?
... Background: The most dangerous part of a hurricane is the storm surge that forms on the water of the ocean or other body of water, such as a nearby lake. Low air pressure at the center of the hurricane draws water up into a hill that is higher than sea level, and hurricane winds push the hill of wat ...
... Background: The most dangerous part of a hurricane is the storm surge that forms on the water of the ocean or other body of water, such as a nearby lake. Low air pressure at the center of the hurricane draws water up into a hill that is higher than sea level, and hurricane winds push the hill of wat ...
climate, water, and political-economic crises
... complexity. Society is viewed as being oriented toward solving minor and major problems that are constantly emerging, although sometimes they emerge abruptly and without warning. Solving problems requires the investment and expenditure of resources. Some of these resources are easily accessible and ...
... complexity. Society is viewed as being oriented toward solving minor and major problems that are constantly emerging, although sometimes they emerge abruptly and without warning. Solving problems requires the investment and expenditure of resources. Some of these resources are easily accessible and ...
The Missing Science from the Draft National Assessment on Climate Change
... 2012) which has been shown to influence precipitation, soil moisture, and run-off in downstream regions. The models do not include changes to river courses, water flow barriers, or infiltration changes which can act to increase the frequency and magnitude of flood events (e.g. Pielke., Jr., 1999). T ...
... 2012) which has been shown to influence precipitation, soil moisture, and run-off in downstream regions. The models do not include changes to river courses, water flow barriers, or infiltration changes which can act to increase the frequency and magnitude of flood events (e.g. Pielke., Jr., 1999). T ...
Potential Impacts of Contemporary Changing Climate on Caribbean
... Caribbean where there is incomplete tidal and weather station coverage, estimates of past and future temperature changes must rely on extrapolation from other regions. While our knowledge of global mean temperature change is still uncertain, even in the present era of instrumental meteorology, resea ...
... Caribbean where there is incomplete tidal and weather station coverage, estimates of past and future temperature changes must rely on extrapolation from other regions. While our knowledge of global mean temperature change is still uncertain, even in the present era of instrumental meteorology, resea ...
Special Climate Change Program 2014-2018
... The PECC 2014-2018 has the objectiveof reducing the vulnerability of the populations and the productive sectors, as well as to preserve and protect ecosystems and environmental services, and increase resistance of the strategic infrastructure to the adverse impacts of climate change. It also represe ...
... The PECC 2014-2018 has the objectiveof reducing the vulnerability of the populations and the productive sectors, as well as to preserve and protect ecosystems and environmental services, and increase resistance of the strategic infrastructure to the adverse impacts of climate change. It also represe ...
Climate change and forced migration
... shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption. Since then various analysts have tried to put numbers on future flows of climate migrants (sometimes called ‘climate refugees’)—the most widely repeated prediction being 200 million forced climate migrants by 2050. But repetition does ...
... shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption. Since then various analysts have tried to put numbers on future flows of climate migrants (sometimes called ‘climate refugees’)—the most widely repeated prediction being 200 million forced climate migrants by 2050. But repetition does ...
Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism: Working Paper 42 (830 kB) (opens in new window)
... Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely con ned to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justi ed and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of future ut ...
... Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely con ned to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justi ed and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of future ut ...
O b s e rved Impacts climate change in the U.S.
... the ecosystems and organisms in the United States are already suffering from other anthropogenic stre ssors such as habitat destruction or fragmentation, introduction of invasive species, and contamination. As yet, scientists do not have a clear idea how climate change might affect this already frag ...
... the ecosystems and organisms in the United States are already suffering from other anthropogenic stre ssors such as habitat destruction or fragmentation, introduction of invasive species, and contamination. As yet, scientists do not have a clear idea how climate change might affect this already frag ...
Government
... pension funds do not characterize their work as social investing at all. This may be the language of the Episcopal Church or the Sisters of Charity, Calvert funds or Domini Social Investments, TIAA-CREF’s Social Choice Fund or the Dreyfus Third Century Fund, or investment managers such as Walden Ass ...
... pension funds do not characterize their work as social investing at all. This may be the language of the Episcopal Church or the Sisters of Charity, Calvert funds or Domini Social Investments, TIAA-CREF’s Social Choice Fund or the Dreyfus Third Century Fund, or investment managers such as Walden Ass ...
... investments in the short term, such as contributing to the development of statewide forest resource assessments and strategies that identify and address priority landscapes, and developing and applying new techniques in land management, and many others. In Shared Landscapes, the overarching goal wou ...
Smallholder Farmers` Perception of Climate Change and Variability
... over some decades without given it much attention but now they have already had obvious impacts on economies, biodiversity, people and health. The highly variable rainfall (intensity, distribution, and amount), increasing temperature, frequent floods and droughts as are currently being experienced i ...
... over some decades without given it much attention but now they have already had obvious impacts on economies, biodiversity, people and health. The highly variable rainfall (intensity, distribution, and amount), increasing temperature, frequent floods and droughts as are currently being experienced i ...
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6 February 2007. This meeting[2] discussed a background
... Research on climate change at World Heritage properties will be carried out through partnerships with and influence of those who are currently conducting or can carry out such research or who fund research programmes. It will not necessarily have to be undertaken by the managers themselves or their ...
... Research on climate change at World Heritage properties will be carried out through partnerships with and influence of those who are currently conducting or can carry out such research or who fund research programmes. It will not necessarily have to be undertaken by the managers themselves or their ...
Climate Change and Doom Tourism
... drastic loss of Arctic sea ice had encouraged him to list the polar bear as an endangered species because its population could collapse within a few decades and, 2007-2008 was named the International Polar Year, aimed at drawing attention to the rapid changes in the Arctic and Antarctic (Wilkinson, ...
... drastic loss of Arctic sea ice had encouraged him to list the polar bear as an endangered species because its population could collapse within a few decades and, 2007-2008 was named the International Polar Year, aimed at drawing attention to the rapid changes in the Arctic and Antarctic (Wilkinson, ...
Climate and Carbon Cycle
... 1987). Assumed cause of this change, that occurred 8,000 years ago, is the beginning of agricultural settlements in the Northern Hemisphere. Deforestation had been leading to increased CO2 emission to the atmosphere, decreasing at the same time the natural absorptive capacity of the biosphere in rel ...
... 1987). Assumed cause of this change, that occurred 8,000 years ago, is the beginning of agricultural settlements in the Northern Hemisphere. Deforestation had been leading to increased CO2 emission to the atmosphere, decreasing at the same time the natural absorptive capacity of the biosphere in rel ...
UN Sustainable Development Goals Setting Agenda for
... for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response, with a view to accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. It recalled that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provides that ...
... for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response, with a view to accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. It recalled that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provides that ...
Author`s personal copy - Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC, 1992) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential for Canada’s Inuit population. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally obligates parties to ‘‘stabili ...
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC, 1992) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential for Canada’s Inuit population. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally obligates parties to ‘‘stabili ...
Our People, Our Planet, Our Power
... To build a climate justice movement in Seattle and the surrounding region, we must first identify the barriers to community engagement, leadership and policy solutions. How do we organize to achieve real power? How do we lift our voices in the current climate change debate? What does leadership by p ...
... To build a climate justice movement in Seattle and the surrounding region, we must first identify the barriers to community engagement, leadership and policy solutions. How do we organize to achieve real power? How do we lift our voices in the current climate change debate? What does leadership by p ...
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... The term eco-efficiency was proposed to emphasize creating more goods and services while using fewer resources and inducing less wastes and pollution. In other terms, this is a strategy by which to produce more food without using more land, water and energy-based input (Wilkins, 2008). This is achie ...
... The term eco-efficiency was proposed to emphasize creating more goods and services while using fewer resources and inducing less wastes and pollution. In other terms, this is a strategy by which to produce more food without using more land, water and energy-based input (Wilkins, 2008). This is achie ...
Key Developments in CCS- & John Gale General Manager
... solvent-based capture systems. Corrosion prevention strategies and analysis of solvent emissions are still active areas of R&D. Improved absorber design, accurate modelling and simulation of control procedures are now on going These will further enable deployment of large-scale postcombustion units ...
... solvent-based capture systems. Corrosion prevention strategies and analysis of solvent emissions are still active areas of R&D. Improved absorber design, accurate modelling and simulation of control procedures are now on going These will further enable deployment of large-scale postcombustion units ...
Protected area needs in a changing climate
... have individually derived representation targets for each species based on their population dynamics and area needs, such individual treatment was not possible for the large number of species treated here. Using these criteria, the current protected area system was “completed” for each region to ach ...
... have individually derived representation targets for each species based on their population dynamics and area needs, such individual treatment was not possible for the large number of species treated here. Using these criteria, the current protected area system was “completed” for each region to ach ...
Solar radiation management
Solar radiation management (SRM) projects (proposed and theoretical) are a type of climate engineering which seek to reflect sunlight and thus reduce global warming. Proposed examples include the creation of stratospheric sulfate aerosols. They would not reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and thus do not address problems such as ocean acidification caused by excess carbon dioxide (CO2). Their principal advantages as an approach to climate engineering is the speed with which they can be deployed and become fully active, as well as their potential low financial cost. By comparison, other climate engineering techniques based on greenhouse gas remediation, such as ocean iron fertilization, need to sequester the anthropogenic carbon excess before any reversal of global warming would occur. Solar radiation management projects can therefore be used as a climate engineering ""quick fix"" while levels of greenhouse gases can be brought under control by greenhouse gas remediation techniques.