Investment and growth in the time of climate change
... issues. More specifically, in addition to reviewing adaptation priorities for Europe, chapter 2, Mitigate, adapt, or endure: a question of balance, illustrates key factors that determine the optimal balance between climate-change mitigation and adaptation. The findings following from this illustratio ...
... issues. More specifically, in addition to reviewing adaptation priorities for Europe, chapter 2, Mitigate, adapt, or endure: a question of balance, illustrates key factors that determine the optimal balance between climate-change mitigation and adaptation. The findings following from this illustratio ...
Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of
... (CCSP) is pleased to transmit to the President and the Congress this Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP), Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate, Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. This is part of a series of 21 SAPs produced by the CCSP aime ...
... (CCSP) is pleased to transmit to the President and the Congress this Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP), Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate, Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. This is part of a series of 21 SAPs produced by the CCSP aime ...
GEOGRAPHY
... the contact belt between forest-steppe and steppe (the right banks of the rivers Korocha, Valuy, and Tihaya Sosna, and the basin of the river Oskol); other parts of the transect have low percentage of the forested land (4–7%) within all phytogeographical zonal belts. Large planted pine stands are si ...
... the contact belt between forest-steppe and steppe (the right banks of the rivers Korocha, Valuy, and Tihaya Sosna, and the basin of the river Oskol); other parts of the transect have low percentage of the forested land (4–7%) within all phytogeographical zonal belts. Large planted pine stands are si ...
Impacts of climate variability and extremes on global net primary
... of 50.5 Pg C yr–1 using CASA model. Although their estimates (53.5 vs. 50.5 Pg C yr–1) are comparable at the global level, they provide different mechanisms for variation in NPP across years. For example, Zhao and Running (2010) found that increased water stress and autotrophic respiration due to wa ...
... of 50.5 Pg C yr–1 using CASA model. Although their estimates (53.5 vs. 50.5 Pg C yr–1) are comparable at the global level, they provide different mechanisms for variation in NPP across years. For example, Zhao and Running (2010) found that increased water stress and autotrophic respiration due to wa ...
doc - Eldis
... 1.1. Why focus on gender and climate change? ................................................................................. 7 1.2. What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it? ........................................ 10 1.2.1. How are people talking about climate change? ...... ...
... 1.1. Why focus on gender and climate change? ................................................................................. 7 1.2. What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it? ........................................ 10 1.2.1. How are people talking about climate change? ...... ...
climate mitigation in the least carbon emitting countries
... Development has entered a time where it cannot be thought of without reference to climate change. While historically development in the industrialized countries has to a great extent been driven by a fossil fuel based economy, this option is no longer seen as viable for developing countries, which a ...
... Development has entered a time where it cannot be thought of without reference to climate change. While historically development in the industrialized countries has to a great extent been driven by a fossil fuel based economy, this option is no longer seen as viable for developing countries, which a ...
Technical note on science- based targets
... be evaluated using information disclosed in CDP’s questionnaire and can still qualify for leadership (see CDP’s 2016 Climate Change Scoring Methodology for more details). To submit a target for official evaluation, please fill out the target quality check form and send it to info@sciencebasedtargets ...
... be evaluated using information disclosed in CDP’s questionnaire and can still qualify for leadership (see CDP’s 2016 Climate Change Scoring Methodology for more details). To submit a target for official evaluation, please fill out the target quality check form and send it to info@sciencebasedtargets ...
Climate Change Adaptation and the Australian Urban Water Industry
... Despite these inherent uncertainties, some long term investment decisions have already been necessary to meet immediate needs, particularly to secure water supplies in areas that have experienced drought in the last ten years. Whilst this does represent some form of progress on climate change adapta ...
... Despite these inherent uncertainties, some long term investment decisions have already been necessary to meet immediate needs, particularly to secure water supplies in areas that have experienced drought in the last ten years. Whilst this does represent some form of progress on climate change adapta ...
The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A
... overview of the current and projected manifestations of climate change on marine and coastal systems. We have chosen to focus on five types of marine and coastal change: changes in air and water temperatures, sea level rise, changes in precipitation patterns, altered ocean and atmospheric circulatio ...
... overview of the current and projected manifestations of climate change on marine and coastal systems. We have chosen to focus on five types of marine and coastal change: changes in air and water temperatures, sea level rise, changes in precipitation patterns, altered ocean and atmospheric circulatio ...
Banner - Indigenous Peoples` Climate Change Portal
... As communities adapt to new conditions, they employ new systems of survival, which are hardly grounded on their customary institutions. The market economy has come to define the pastoralists’ survival system, which unfortunately continues to erode significant cultural institutions at the community l ...
... As communities adapt to new conditions, they employ new systems of survival, which are hardly grounded on their customary institutions. The market economy has come to define the pastoralists’ survival system, which unfortunately continues to erode significant cultural institutions at the community l ...
South Africa`s Second National Communication under the
... been built on its wealth of mineral resources and its primary sectors, but which is now shifting towards an ever greater GDP share in tertiary sectors. Since the establishment of a democratic government in 1994, South African national policy has strived to address the legacy of Apartheid, including ...
... been built on its wealth of mineral resources and its primary sectors, but which is now shifting towards an ever greater GDP share in tertiary sectors. Since the establishment of a democratic government in 1994, South African national policy has strived to address the legacy of Apartheid, including ...
Vanishing Polar Ice Sheets
... shortening days and wonderful protracted sunsets. The reverse is true for polar sunrises. The tropical regions in contrast are more or less perpendicular to the incoming solar radiation and hence receive the global annual maximum radiation with little seasonal variability. Consequently, the tropics ...
... shortening days and wonderful protracted sunsets. The reverse is true for polar sunrises. The tropical regions in contrast are more or less perpendicular to the incoming solar radiation and hence receive the global annual maximum radiation with little seasonal variability. Consequently, the tropics ...
The Urban Physical Environment: Temperature and Urban Heat
... expanded greatly in the last two decades spurred on by a series of successful international conferences. Despite considerable research, many questions about UHI effects remain unanswered. For example, it is still not clear what portion of the long-term trends of increasing temperatures at standard w ...
... expanded greatly in the last two decades spurred on by a series of successful international conferences. Despite considerable research, many questions about UHI effects remain unanswered. For example, it is still not clear what portion of the long-term trends of increasing temperatures at standard w ...
Federal Agency Actions Following the Supreme Court’s Climate Change Decision Robert Meltz
... On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court rendered one of its most important environmental decisions. In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Court held 5-4 that greenhouse gases (GHGs), widely viewed as contributing to climate change, constitute “air pollutants” as that phrase is used in the Clean Air Act (CAA). As ...
... On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court rendered one of its most important environmental decisions. In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Court held 5-4 that greenhouse gases (GHGs), widely viewed as contributing to climate change, constitute “air pollutants” as that phrase is used in the Clean Air Act (CAA). As ...
Summer climate and heatwaves in Europe
... Mechanisms behind the 2003 heatwave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
... Mechanisms behind the 2003 heatwave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Keywords: climate change, land use, gravel-bed rivers
... al., 2002, Macklin et al., 1992, Leopold, 1968). Climate changes influence precipitation and temperature, two variables that either directly or indirectly control the supply of water and sediment to stream channels. Land use changes, particularly conversion from agriculture to urban land uses, also ...
... al., 2002, Macklin et al., 1992, Leopold, 1968). Climate changes influence precipitation and temperature, two variables that either directly or indirectly control the supply of water and sediment to stream channels. Land use changes, particularly conversion from agriculture to urban land uses, also ...
8.1MB - Climate Change 2013
... Executive Summary This chapter assesses the scientific literature on projected changes in major climate phenomena contingent on global mean temperatures continue to rise and more specifically their relevance for future change in regional climates. Regional climates are the complex result of processe ...
... Executive Summary This chapter assesses the scientific literature on projected changes in major climate phenomena contingent on global mean temperatures continue to rise and more specifically their relevance for future change in regional climates. Regional climates are the complex result of processe ...
Interaction of impacts of doubling CO2 and changing regional land
... without and with natural and anthropogenic land-cover changes that are assumed in the inner core of four hydrothermally different, but similar-sized (≈3.27x106 km2 ) regions (Yukon, Ob, St. Lawrence, Colorado, and lands adjacent to them). A further set of simulations assumes 710 ppm CO2 conditions w ...
... without and with natural and anthropogenic land-cover changes that are assumed in the inner core of four hydrothermally different, but similar-sized (≈3.27x106 km2 ) regions (Yukon, Ob, St. Lawrence, Colorado, and lands adjacent to them). A further set of simulations assumes 710 ppm CO2 conditions w ...
Marine productivity response to Heinrich events
... the data, whereas in other regions they do not agree with the marine response seen in data (Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Southern Ocean, see Table 1). These regional differences between model results and marine sediment records suggest that physical or biogeochemical processes might be missing or und ...
... the data, whereas in other regions they do not agree with the marine response seen in data (Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Southern Ocean, see Table 1). These regional differences between model results and marine sediment records suggest that physical or biogeochemical processes might be missing or und ...
International Council on Human Rights Policy (Stephen Humphreys), Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide (ICHRP, 2008) - FULL TEXT
... reach those whose lifestyles and activities are most to blame. Climate change will, in short, have immense human consequences. We have known this for a long time. This report is not by any means the first to draw attention to the urgency of the many human impacts that climate change will entail, nor ...
... reach those whose lifestyles and activities are most to blame. Climate change will, in short, have immense human consequences. We have known this for a long time. This report is not by any means the first to draw attention to the urgency of the many human impacts that climate change will entail, nor ...
Green Allies: Speculative Realism, Evangelical Christianity, and
... have ever known. The political challenge, in turn, is creating the political will to change, for instance, human reliance on coal, gas, and oil. For years, environmentalists have tried to convince politicians and CEOs that humans are destroying the planet, but moral cajoling alone has not worked. ‘‘ ...
... have ever known. The political challenge, in turn, is creating the political will to change, for instance, human reliance on coal, gas, and oil. For years, environmentalists have tried to convince politicians and CEOs that humans are destroying the planet, but moral cajoling alone has not worked. ‘‘ ...
- Deltas in Times of Climate Change
... home to many millions of people. However, deltas also face problems. Sea levels are rising and land is subsiding. As floods become more frequent, as salt water intrudes more aggressively and as heat waves become routine, these dangers combined with increasing populations put larger numbers of people ...
... home to many millions of people. However, deltas also face problems. Sea levels are rising and land is subsiding. As floods become more frequent, as salt water intrudes more aggressively and as heat waves become routine, these dangers combined with increasing populations put larger numbers of people ...
Impact of climate change on infrastructure in Australia and CGE
... differences. Under the U1 scenario, Perth and Brisbane require the development of new water sources as an immediate priority and a significant response in the short term. The scenarios with either higher rainfall or lower temperature increases and evaporative potential (U2, M2) still indicate high i ...
... differences. Under the U1 scenario, Perth and Brisbane require the development of new water sources as an immediate priority and a significant response in the short term. The scenarios with either higher rainfall or lower temperature increases and evaporative potential (U2, M2) still indicate high i ...
Sample 1st Affirmative Constructive (1AC)
... saves preparation time in the debate, ensures that you know your arguments well, and gives you time to choose the best arguments against the disadvantage. Blocks are most important for the 1NC and 2AC, but you can make blocks for any speech other than the 1AC. For instance, there are only so many po ...
... saves preparation time in the debate, ensures that you know your arguments well, and gives you time to choose the best arguments against the disadvantage. Blocks are most important for the 1NC and 2AC, but you can make blocks for any speech other than the 1AC. For instance, there are only so many po ...
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.