A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster
... to start from a clear concept that climate-related risk is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate-related risks are significantly managed and reduced. The current proliferation of parallel international fra ...
... to start from a clear concept that climate-related risk is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate-related risks are significantly managed and reduced. The current proliferation of parallel international fra ...
Adaptive Capacity Benchmarking: Handbook and Tool Kit
... More formal testing: we have made predictions about what organisations at different stages of development would be doing and have been able to test these on the ground. 1.3 What does this Handbook and Toolkit aim to provide? This Handbook and toolkit summarises a way of giving organisations a simp ...
... More formal testing: we have made predictions about what organisations at different stages of development would be doing and have been able to test these on the ground. 1.3 What does this Handbook and Toolkit aim to provide? This Handbook and toolkit summarises a way of giving organisations a simp ...
Girl Guide Climate Change Challenge Table of Contents
... Idling a vehicle for 10 minutes a day uses an average of 100 litres of gas a year. A recent study suggests that in the middle of winter, Canadians idle their vehicles for a combined total of more than 75 million minutes a day – equal to one vehicle idling for 144 years! With the cold winters in the ...
... Idling a vehicle for 10 minutes a day uses an average of 100 litres of gas a year. A recent study suggests that in the middle of winter, Canadians idle their vehicles for a combined total of more than 75 million minutes a day – equal to one vehicle idling for 144 years! With the cold winters in the ...
Climate Change Impacts on the Water Resources of the Cooper
... climate model tuned to a number of complex models with a range of climate sensitivities. Also for comparison, following the same method, results are shown for IS92a. The darker shading represents the envelope of the full set of thirty-five SRES scenarios using the average of the models results. The ...
... climate model tuned to a number of complex models with a range of climate sensitivities. Also for comparison, following the same method, results are shown for IS92a. The darker shading represents the envelope of the full set of thirty-five SRES scenarios using the average of the models results. The ...
global forum on food security and nutrition
... and services to enhance the resilience of the food supply in crisis-prone areas, including areas affected by climate change”. ...
... and services to enhance the resilience of the food supply in crisis-prone areas, including areas affected by climate change”. ...
International Conference on Climate and Environment Change
... possible impact of climate change on the hydrological regime of river basins for better planning and implementation of adaptation measures. Policy and decision makers increasingly stress the need to improve the monitoring schemes of snow, ice and water resources in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) reg ...
... possible impact of climate change on the hydrological regime of river basins for better planning and implementation of adaptation measures. Policy and decision makers increasingly stress the need to improve the monitoring schemes of snow, ice and water resources in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) reg ...
The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: vegetation change in eastern
... extended well inland during the YDC, but were more moderate there than near the coast (Fig. 1C; location 4) (see also Manabe and Stouffer, 1997; Schiller et al., 1997). However, greater-than-modern summer insolation combined with atmospheric circulation changes during the YDC also produce higher-tha ...
... extended well inland during the YDC, but were more moderate there than near the coast (Fig. 1C; location 4) (see also Manabe and Stouffer, 1997; Schiller et al., 1997). However, greater-than-modern summer insolation combined with atmospheric circulation changes during the YDC also produce higher-tha ...
Climate Change, Carbon, and Forestry in Northwestern North America:
... activities have been examined in detail by IPCC (2001). Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased over the past 150 years, from a pre-industrial mean concentration of 280 ppmv to a mean concentration in 2000 of 367 ppmv, representing an increase of 176 Gt of carbon between 1850 and 1998. Betw ...
... activities have been examined in detail by IPCC (2001). Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased over the past 150 years, from a pre-industrial mean concentration of 280 ppmv to a mean concentration in 2000 of 367 ppmv, representing an increase of 176 Gt of carbon between 1850 and 1998. Betw ...
Climate change information for adaptation: Climate trends and
... 2007 (Levinson, 2008). From 1990 to 2000, the atmosphere’s CO2 increased at a rate of 3.1 gigatonnes carbon per year but from 2000 to 2008 the rate was 4.1gt C/year (IGBP, 2009). At the same time the International Energy Agency in late 2007 reported that global energy use and greenhouse gas emission ...
... 2007 (Levinson, 2008). From 1990 to 2000, the atmosphere’s CO2 increased at a rate of 3.1 gigatonnes carbon per year but from 2000 to 2008 the rate was 4.1gt C/year (IGBP, 2009). At the same time the International Energy Agency in late 2007 reported that global energy use and greenhouse gas emission ...
Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis
... Wisconsin is already experiencing the effects of climate change, and impacts are expected to increase in the future. Data gathered from weather stations across Wisconsin indicate that the state has been warming since at least 1950. The length of the growing season has increased by at least 5 days st ...
... Wisconsin is already experiencing the effects of climate change, and impacts are expected to increase in the future. Data gathered from weather stations across Wisconsin indicate that the state has been warming since at least 1950. The length of the growing season has increased by at least 5 days st ...
Institutions for Climate Adaptation: An are Relevant for Climate Change
... general ideas on adaptation problems and solutions in Europe, and as such they do not set out obligations, rules, rights or procedures for adaptation. They merely describe a vision about future adaptation in Europe. This vision includes aspects of governance. Both papers advocate a multi-level gover ...
... general ideas on adaptation problems and solutions in Europe, and as such they do not set out obligations, rules, rights or procedures for adaptation. They merely describe a vision about future adaptation in Europe. This vision includes aspects of governance. Both papers advocate a multi-level gover ...
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... The mystery of the 2011 Sargassum seaweed abundance that affected much of the Caribbean illustrated the uncertainty for which the region should be prepared, but over which it may have little influence. The workshop should help to strengthen approaches and interventions to ensure a more safe and secu ...
... The mystery of the 2011 Sargassum seaweed abundance that affected much of the Caribbean illustrated the uncertainty for which the region should be prepared, but over which it may have little influence. The workshop should help to strengthen approaches and interventions to ensure a more safe and secu ...
Climate Change
... all of you - committed and interested members of the food and nutrition community. A year has gone by since the publication of the SCN News 37 and many , conferences, meetings and initiatives important for moving the nutrition agenda forward have taken place. We can see that nutrition is high on the ...
... all of you - committed and interested members of the food and nutrition community. A year has gone by since the publication of the SCN News 37 and many , conferences, meetings and initiatives important for moving the nutrition agenda forward have taken place. We can see that nutrition is high on the ...
Climate Change The UK Programme 2006
... profound impacts on our societies and way of life, affecting agriculture and food security, leading to water shortages, triggering population movements and impacting on our economies, and our security. So action is needed now. The UK has already taken significant steps to meet this challenge. The Go ...
... profound impacts on our societies and way of life, affecting agriculture and food security, leading to water shortages, triggering population movements and impacting on our economies, and our security. So action is needed now. The UK has already taken significant steps to meet this challenge. The Go ...
For submission to Global Change Biology
... Woody thickening is a global phenomenon that influences landscape C density, regional ecohydrology and biogeochemical cycling. The aim of the work described here is to test the hypothesis that increased atmospheric CO2 concentration, with or without photosynthetic acclimation, can increase GPP and t ...
... Woody thickening is a global phenomenon that influences landscape C density, regional ecohydrology and biogeochemical cycling. The aim of the work described here is to test the hypothesis that increased atmospheric CO2 concentration, with or without photosynthetic acclimation, can increase GPP and t ...
UK Climate Change Programme 2006
... profound impacts on our societies and way of life, affecting agriculture and food security, leading to water shortages, triggering population movements and impacting on our economies, and our security. So action is needed now. The UK has already taken significant steps to meet this challenge. The Go ...
... profound impacts on our societies and way of life, affecting agriculture and food security, leading to water shortages, triggering population movements and impacting on our economies, and our security. So action is needed now. The UK has already taken significant steps to meet this challenge. The Go ...
Effects of Climate Change on the Canadian Arctic Wildlife
... about the importance of the role of sea ice in wildlife ecology. • Consequences of climate warming on wildlife can sometimes be negative and sometimes be positive, depending on the species that is considered. Those species most specialized for Arctic environments (e.g. Peary caribou, polar bear, ar ...
... about the importance of the role of sea ice in wildlife ecology. • Consequences of climate warming on wildlife can sometimes be negative and sometimes be positive, depending on the species that is considered. Those species most specialized for Arctic environments (e.g. Peary caribou, polar bear, ar ...
Best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous
... adaptation to climate change (NWP), the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirty-eighth session, requested the secretariat to prepare a technical paper before SBSTA 39 on best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and ...
... adaptation to climate change (NWP), the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirty-eighth session, requested the secretariat to prepare a technical paper before SBSTA 39 on best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and ...
Impacts of climate change on water resources
... Changes in 100-year return-levels of river discharge in recurrence of 100-year droughts for the 2020s and 2070s using ECHAM4 and HadCM3 climate models and Baseline-A water use scenario. ....................................................................... 33 ...
... Changes in 100-year return-levels of river discharge in recurrence of 100-year droughts for the 2020s and 2070s using ECHAM4 and HadCM3 climate models and Baseline-A water use scenario. ....................................................................... 33 ...
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under
... extended during several meetings with a growing number of interested partners. After two years of preparation, the project proposal was submitted to the European transnational funding programme INTERREG IV B Central Europe and later on approved for a three-year runtime. We chose this funding opportu ...
... extended during several meetings with a growing number of interested partners. After two years of preparation, the project proposal was submitted to the European transnational funding programme INTERREG IV B Central Europe and later on approved for a three-year runtime. We chose this funding opportu ...
National Integrated Mitigation Planning in Agriculture: A review paper
... with transformational impacts. Most of this financing comes in the form of loans. Public finance will therefore have to be used to leverage private finance for the implementation of many mitigation plans and actions. Agriculture receives a very small proportion of international climate financing. B ...
... with transformational impacts. Most of this financing comes in the form of loans. Public finance will therefore have to be used to leverage private finance for the implementation of many mitigation plans and actions. Agriculture receives a very small proportion of international climate financing. B ...
Integrated analysis of risks of coastal flooding and cliff
... erosion and flooding in most coastal locations (Nicholls et al., 2007a). Changes in the pattern and extent of coastal erosion and flooding are all the more concerning because a significant proportion of the world’s population reside in the coastal zone: in 1990, 1.2 billion people lived in the nearc ...
... erosion and flooding in most coastal locations (Nicholls et al., 2007a). Changes in the pattern and extent of coastal erosion and flooding are all the more concerning because a significant proportion of the world’s population reside in the coastal zone: in 1990, 1.2 billion people lived in the nearc ...
STATE OF THE ANTARCTIC AND SOUTHERN OCEAN CLIMATE
... [12] Knowledge of the phasing of climate events on regional to hemispheric scales is essential to understanding the dynamics of the Earth’s climate system. Correlations based on the similarities seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice core methane signals (Figure 6) suggest that climatic events of mille ...
... [12] Knowledge of the phasing of climate events on regional to hemispheric scales is essential to understanding the dynamics of the Earth’s climate system. Correlations based on the similarities seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice core methane signals (Figure 6) suggest that climatic events of mille ...
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... in the middle of the other crop models when it comes to the results, and is one of the most widely used gridded crop models. They find that the yield uncertainty with soybeans is higher than with maize overall, and the variability between crop models is also significant. It is clear that irrigation ...
... in the middle of the other crop models when it comes to the results, and is one of the most widely used gridded crop models. They find that the yield uncertainty with soybeans is higher than with maize overall, and the variability between crop models is also significant. It is clear that irrigation ...
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.