France`s adaptation to global climate change
... Adaptation is therefore the result of the observation that climate change is happening, that its effects may already be felt across a number of natural and human systems and that preventive measures are necessary. It is clearly distinct from mitigation efforts, which must be carried out through «an ...
... Adaptation is therefore the result of the observation that climate change is happening, that its effects may already be felt across a number of natural and human systems and that preventive measures are necessary. It is clearly distinct from mitigation efforts, which must be carried out through «an ...
Community Adaptation Plan Bluefields, Jamaica
... 2.1 What is climate change? ....................................................................................................................... 14 2.2 What causes climate change? ............................................................................................................... 15 2. ...
... 2.1 What is climate change? ....................................................................................................................... 14 2.2 What causes climate change? ............................................................................................................... 15 2. ...
Climate Narratives: What is Modern about Traditional Ecological
... significant role in this. It is the stories people tell that connect them and others, including non-human parts of the environment, into a coherent whole, and provide meaning. Through these stories, people make sense of the whole and discover how the world fits together. Hence, narratives have been ...
... significant role in this. It is the stories people tell that connect them and others, including non-human parts of the environment, into a coherent whole, and provide meaning. Through these stories, people make sense of the whole and discover how the world fits together. Hence, narratives have been ...
The Potential Conseque
... increase because of earlier and more rapid melting of the snowpack and more intense precipitation. Even if total precipitation increases substantially, snowpacks are likely to be reduced. However, it is possible that more precipitation would also create additional water supplies, reduce demand and e ...
... increase because of earlier and more rapid melting of the snowpack and more intense precipitation. Even if total precipitation increases substantially, snowpacks are likely to be reduced. However, it is possible that more precipitation would also create additional water supplies, reduce demand and e ...
Deliverable 2B.1
... production zones around the world. Furthermore, different crops will be affected differently, leading to the need for adaptation of supporting industries and markets. Climate change may alter the competitive position of countries with respect, for example, to exports of agricultural products. This m ...
... production zones around the world. Furthermore, different crops will be affected differently, leading to the need for adaptation of supporting industries and markets. Climate change may alter the competitive position of countries with respect, for example, to exports of agricultural products. This m ...
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... volatility. Since Hurricane Ivan in 2004, power sector infrastructure has been severely impacted and infrastructure reliability and distribution concept put into question. On the other hand, Grenada has the potential to develop renewable energy sources, especially solar, wind, and biomass (e.g. suga ...
... volatility. Since Hurricane Ivan in 2004, power sector infrastructure has been severely impacted and infrastructure reliability and distribution concept put into question. On the other hand, Grenada has the potential to develop renewable energy sources, especially solar, wind, and biomass (e.g. suga ...
Climatic Threat Spaces as a Tool to Assess Current and Future
... A series of crop production years are analyzed, and years showing relevant decreases or increases are searched within the threat space for a potentially responsible climatic factor. Years with extreme climatic conditions are expected to have an impact on agricultural yields and production. The clim ...
... A series of crop production years are analyzed, and years showing relevant decreases or increases are searched within the threat space for a potentially responsible climatic factor. Years with extreme climatic conditions are expected to have an impact on agricultural yields and production. The clim ...
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... Climate change refers to change in climate attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural variability observed over comparable time periods (IPCC, 2001). People in developing countries are subject to a vari ...
... Climate change refers to change in climate attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural variability observed over comparable time periods (IPCC, 2001). People in developing countries are subject to a vari ...
Quantification of hydrologic impacts of climate change in a
... physically based, distributed hydrologic model. The highresolution forcings in reference and future conditions (30year records for each period) were provided by four combinations of global and regional climate models, bias-corrected and downscaled in space and time (from ∼ 25 km, 24 h to 5 km, 1 h) ...
... physically based, distributed hydrologic model. The highresolution forcings in reference and future conditions (30year records for each period) were provided by four combinations of global and regional climate models, bias-corrected and downscaled in space and time (from ∼ 25 km, 24 h to 5 km, 1 h) ...
Ozone hole and Southern Hemisphere climate change
... Gillett and Thompson, 2003], its detailed impact on the various components of the SH climate system, from the polar regions to the subtropics, remains unclear at present. This question is especially pertinent in view of the predicted recovery of stratospheric ozone [e.g., Eyring et al., 2007] which, ...
... Gillett and Thompson, 2003], its detailed impact on the various components of the SH climate system, from the polar regions to the subtropics, remains unclear at present. This question is especially pertinent in view of the predicted recovery of stratospheric ozone [e.g., Eyring et al., 2007] which, ...
The importance of biotic interactions for modelling species
... of the null hypotheses that: (H0 1) – biotic interactions do not exert a significant role in explaining current distributions of a particular species of butterfly in Europe; and (H0 2) – biotic interactions do not exert a significant role in predicting species distribution shifts under climate chang ...
... of the null hypotheses that: (H0 1) – biotic interactions do not exert a significant role in explaining current distributions of a particular species of butterfly in Europe; and (H0 2) – biotic interactions do not exert a significant role in predicting species distribution shifts under climate chang ...
How does climate change cause extinction?
... same search criteria as a recent review [9]), and the evidence linking them to climate change is typically very tenuous (see the electronic supplementary material, table S1). However, there is abundant evidence for local extinctions from contractions at the warm edges of species’ ranges. A pattern o ...
... same search criteria as a recent review [9]), and the evidence linking them to climate change is typically very tenuous (see the electronic supplementary material, table S1). However, there is abundant evidence for local extinctions from contractions at the warm edges of species’ ranges. A pattern o ...
How does climate change cause extinction?
... same search criteria as a recent review [9]), and the evidence linking them to climate change is typically very tenuous (see the electronic supplementary material, table S1). However, there is abundant evidence for local extinctions from contractions at the warm edges of species’ ranges. A pattern o ...
... same search criteria as a recent review [9]), and the evidence linking them to climate change is typically very tenuous (see the electronic supplementary material, table S1). However, there is abundant evidence for local extinctions from contractions at the warm edges of species’ ranges. A pattern o ...
`2°c capital stock` for electricity generation
... emissions of SLCPs were then stopped completely, their contribution to long-term irreversible warming would decay to zero, unlike CO2, from which warming persists for centuries. Due to the essentially irreversible impact of CO2 emissions on the climate system, we focus our analysis on the risk of lo ...
... emissions of SLCPs were then stopped completely, their contribution to long-term irreversible warming would decay to zero, unlike CO2, from which warming persists for centuries. Due to the essentially irreversible impact of CO2 emissions on the climate system, we focus our analysis on the risk of lo ...
Infectious disease, development, and climate change: a
... literacy, and absolute poverty significantly affect infant mortality. We use scenarios of these three determinants and of climate change to project the future incidence of malaria, assuming it to change proportionally to infant mortality. Malaria deaths will first increase, because of population gro ...
... literacy, and absolute poverty significantly affect infant mortality. We use scenarios of these three determinants and of climate change to project the future incidence of malaria, assuming it to change proportionally to infant mortality. Malaria deaths will first increase, because of population gro ...
Climate Change, Federalism, and the Constitution
... global web of interactions that constitute climate change, will also make it equally difficult to distinguish between local and national or global concerns. In short, the basic concepts of territoriality that underlie much of our federalism jurisprudence are being slowly washed away. Courts should n ...
... global web of interactions that constitute climate change, will also make it equally difficult to distinguish between local and national or global concerns. In short, the basic concepts of territoriality that underlie much of our federalism jurisprudence are being slowly washed away. Courts should n ...
Public Policy and Climate Change: Land-use
... how and what development takes place. The policies set out in the plan can also have a deeper influence on the precise design or layout of developments, the uses they involve, and the issues which local authorities will expect developers to tackle or address in drawing up their proposals for develop ...
... how and what development takes place. The policies set out in the plan can also have a deeper influence on the precise design or layout of developments, the uses they involve, and the issues which local authorities will expect developers to tackle or address in drawing up their proposals for develop ...
PDF - ECC Platform Library
... climate-induced environmental developments which might lead to security issues in and beyond South Asia. Mainstreaming climate change in the security strategies of the countries is a vital precondition for this cooperation. ...
... climate-induced environmental developments which might lead to security issues in and beyond South Asia. Mainstreaming climate change in the security strategies of the countries is a vital precondition for this cooperation. ...
Climate change impacts on crop production in Iran`s Zayandeh
... and volume of water used (m 3). Higher temperatures can generally increase the irrigation water requirement. While increased irrigation can result in higher crop production even under higher temperatures, generally lower crop production is expected with global warming due to the limited water supply ...
... and volume of water used (m 3). Higher temperatures can generally increase the irrigation water requirement. While increased irrigation can result in higher crop production even under higher temperatures, generally lower crop production is expected with global warming due to the limited water supply ...
On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis: Abstract of Working Paper 18 (1 MB) (opens in new window)
... Hence this paper attempts to address the question of whether “serious errors” could be made by evaluating non-marginal projects with conventional BCA, which uses discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis to determine net present value (NPV). By the term “non-marginal”, we mean sufficiently large for the f ...
... Hence this paper attempts to address the question of whether “serious errors” could be made by evaluating non-marginal projects with conventional BCA, which uses discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis to determine net present value (NPV). By the term “non-marginal”, we mean sufficiently large for the f ...
Water Quality and Quantity, Climate Change and Public Health
... Three significant observations in this overall warming: Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or 'overnight low' temperatures have been rising faster than the maximum temperature, or ‘daytime high’ Since the early 1980s, the temperature ...
... Three significant observations in this overall warming: Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or 'overnight low' temperatures have been rising faster than the maximum temperature, or ‘daytime high’ Since the early 1980s, the temperature ...
Senate Inquiry into the Kyoto Protocol
... Climate change will have the greatest impact on agriculture (compared to any other sector in the economy). Farmers, more than anyone else, depend upon the land and environment for their continued livelihood – they deal with the climate on a daily basis. For agriculture, climate change could lead to: ...
... Climate change will have the greatest impact on agriculture (compared to any other sector in the economy). Farmers, more than anyone else, depend upon the land and environment for their continued livelihood – they deal with the climate on a daily basis. For agriculture, climate change could lead to: ...
An imperative need for global change research in tropical forests
... Imperative need for global change research in tropical forests 905 diverse array of other methods has been employed to understand possible responses of tropical forests to global environmental change. Those methods include long-term monitoring, plant physiology experiments, atmospheric observation ...
... Imperative need for global change research in tropical forests 905 diverse array of other methods has been employed to understand possible responses of tropical forests to global environmental change. Those methods include long-term monitoring, plant physiology experiments, atmospheric observation ...
Complaint
... 47. Defendant Harvard Corporation’s investment in fossil fuel companies is a breach of its fiduciary and charitable duties as a public charity and nonprofit corporation to uphold the purposes as described in paragraphs 2931 above, including its “special obligation and accountability to the futur ...
... 47. Defendant Harvard Corporation’s investment in fossil fuel companies is a breach of its fiduciary and charitable duties as a public charity and nonprofit corporation to uphold the purposes as described in paragraphs 2931 above, including its “special obligation and accountability to the futur ...
High Resolution - Responses to Climate Change
... generally characterize current, or past, climate in the study region. While the primary cause for global warming is attributed by the scientific community to human-induced increases in atmosphere levels of heat-trapping gases (Walsh et al., 2014) this section is not focused on attribution or cause ( ...
... generally characterize current, or past, climate in the study region. While the primary cause for global warming is attributed by the scientific community to human-induced increases in atmosphere levels of heat-trapping gases (Walsh et al., 2014) this section is not focused on attribution or cause ( ...
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.