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... emphasised clearly the role of adaptation affirming: “Policymakers will have to decide to what degree they want to take precautionary measures by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing the resilience of vulnerable systems by means of adaptations”. There are several reasons for this that c ...
... emphasised clearly the role of adaptation affirming: “Policymakers will have to decide to what degree they want to take precautionary measures by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing the resilience of vulnerable systems by means of adaptations”. There are several reasons for this that c ...
Properly designed emissions trading schemes do work!: Working
... The Munich Re Programme is evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector. It is a comprehensive research programme that focuses on the assessment of the risks from climate change and on the appropriate responses, to inform decision-making in the private and publ ...
... The Munich Re Programme is evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector. It is a comprehensive research programme that focuses on the assessment of the risks from climate change and on the appropriate responses, to inform decision-making in the private and publ ...
Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types
... modeled within PFTs based on ecological theory, but without needing to invoke mechanistic processes that are not fully quantified or understood. By quantifying the relationships between observed variation in community mean traits and their environmental drivers and incorporating these into DGVMs, tr ...
... modeled within PFTs based on ecological theory, but without needing to invoke mechanistic processes that are not fully quantified or understood. By quantifying the relationships between observed variation in community mean traits and their environmental drivers and incorporating these into DGVMs, tr ...
The future of the Covenant of Mayors
... from a bank or from private capital in order to be transformed into projects. This is often because the skills needed to achieve this are absent at the local authority level. The ELENA programme, managed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), can provide assistance in this respect, but it supports a ...
... from a bank or from private capital in order to be transformed into projects. This is often because the skills needed to achieve this are absent at the local authority level. The ELENA programme, managed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), can provide assistance in this respect, but it supports a ...
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... people who are the beneficial owners. A few state constitutions say this explicitly, including Hawaii’s, ...
... people who are the beneficial owners. A few state constitutions say this explicitly, including Hawaii’s, ...
Greening of Refrigeration Industry in China—Refrigerator
... Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other st ...
... Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other st ...
Rainfall in Australia`s eastern seaboard: a review of confidence in
... Allen et al. (2014) report a projected increase in the frequency of potential severe thunderstorm days in eastern Australia, with increases of about 14% for Brisbane and 30% for Sydney. Some studies project a possible increase in global thunderstorm activity, while other studies do not indicate a si ...
... Allen et al. (2014) report a projected increase in the frequency of potential severe thunderstorm days in eastern Australia, with increases of about 14% for Brisbane and 30% for Sydney. Some studies project a possible increase in global thunderstorm activity, while other studies do not indicate a si ...
The Indian monsoon and climate change
... Indian summer monsoon affects the lives of more than 2 billion people across South Asia, and provides more than 75% of total annual rainfall. Agricultural and industrial consumers require reliable source of water, together with an appropriate forecast on seasonal and intraseasonal timescales. How mo ...
... Indian summer monsoon affects the lives of more than 2 billion people across South Asia, and provides more than 75% of total annual rainfall. Agricultural and industrial consumers require reliable source of water, together with an appropriate forecast on seasonal and intraseasonal timescales. How mo ...
Climate change and Ontario`s provincial parks
... change challenges. Policy, legislation, and regulation guide development and use of the programs needed to combat climate change. MNR will work to ensure that its policies are proactive, balanced and realistic, and responsive to changing societal values and environmental conditions. Strategy #9: Com ...
... change challenges. Policy, legislation, and regulation guide development and use of the programs needed to combat climate change. MNR will work to ensure that its policies are proactive, balanced and realistic, and responsive to changing societal values and environmental conditions. Strategy #9: Com ...
The impacts of climate change on soil functions
... Assuming constant inputs of carbon to soils from vegetation, soil-climate models predict that expected changes in temperature, precipitation and evaporation will cause significant increases in organic matter turnover and increased losses of CO 2 in mineral and organic soils across the UK. This will ...
... Assuming constant inputs of carbon to soils from vegetation, soil-climate models predict that expected changes in temperature, precipitation and evaporation will cause significant increases in organic matter turnover and increased losses of CO 2 in mineral and organic soils across the UK. This will ...
ExamView - Climate practice test
... Therefore, even people living in areas that are expected to be least affected need to be concerned and do their part to help. Many of the projected effects of climate change alter the entire planet. Effects that begin in the Arctic will cause widespread changes around the globe. That is what makes r ...
... Therefore, even people living in areas that are expected to be least affected need to be concerned and do their part to help. Many of the projected effects of climate change alter the entire planet. Effects that begin in the Arctic will cause widespread changes around the globe. That is what makes r ...
Land Cover Land Use Change and Soil Organic Carbon Under
... the 9 LCLU classes and the SOC modeled for the corresponding spatially explicit model inputs for those classes. White shows areas where no SOC was modeled (water bodies, clouds, cloud shadows, settlement areas, or no Landsat data). ......................................... 77 Figure 6 Histograms of ...
... the 9 LCLU classes and the SOC modeled for the corresponding spatially explicit model inputs for those classes. White shows areas where no SOC was modeled (water bodies, clouds, cloud shadows, settlement areas, or no Landsat data). ......................................... 77 Figure 6 Histograms of ...
Report - The University of Texas at Austin
... the threshold where snowfall turns into rainfall (Figure 2a). As it warmed in the spring of the following year, the temperature rose to the threshold to turn what was snowfall before the warming to rainfall. The snow never completely melts in the T+0°C scenario. But in the spring of 1989 (the end of ...
... the threshold where snowfall turns into rainfall (Figure 2a). As it warmed in the spring of the following year, the temperature rose to the threshold to turn what was snowfall before the warming to rainfall. The snow never completely melts in the T+0°C scenario. But in the spring of 1989 (the end of ...
Climate Change and India: A 4x4 Assessment
... Climate change is recognized as a significant manmade global environmental challenge. It is also treated as a threat. International efforts to address climate change began with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. The importance and significance of the v ...
... Climate change is recognized as a significant manmade global environmental challenge. It is also treated as a threat. International efforts to address climate change began with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. The importance and significance of the v ...
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... goals but they are intrinsically connected through their over-arching objectives. Foremost is the aim to progress our understanding of the present marine environment in order to predict the potential response of the ocean to the pressures that may affect its function in the coming century. To take t ...
... goals but they are intrinsically connected through their over-arching objectives. Foremost is the aim to progress our understanding of the present marine environment in order to predict the potential response of the ocean to the pressures that may affect its function in the coming century. To take t ...
On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
... dismal theorem states that the evaluation of climate change policy is highly sensitive to catastrophic outcomes, even if they occur with vanishingly small, but ‘fat-tailed’1 , probability. The dismal theorem suggests that such fat-tailed risks are an inescapable consequence of bayesian statistics, a ...
... dismal theorem states that the evaluation of climate change policy is highly sensitive to catastrophic outcomes, even if they occur with vanishingly small, but ‘fat-tailed’1 , probability. The dismal theorem suggests that such fat-tailed risks are an inescapable consequence of bayesian statistics, a ...
Invention and transfer of climate change mitigation technologies on a global scale: A study drawing on patent data: Working Paper 17 (390 kB) (opens in new window)
... questions such as: In which countries does climate-friendly innovation take place? More particularly, what is the contribution of innovators located in emerging economies? To what extent is technology being transferred to developing countries? Is climate innovation special as compared to other techn ...
... questions such as: In which countries does climate-friendly innovation take place? More particularly, what is the contribution of innovators located in emerging economies? To what extent is technology being transferred to developing countries? Is climate innovation special as compared to other techn ...
Using the past to understand the future
... Maldives and Western Australia54,137,138 suggests this also was a global sea level event. A significant amount of new information has been gathered over the past several years that point to a large number of ‘abrupt climate change’ events during the more recent geologic past when most living marine ...
... Maldives and Western Australia54,137,138 suggests this also was a global sea level event. A significant amount of new information has been gathered over the past several years that point to a large number of ‘abrupt climate change’ events during the more recent geologic past when most living marine ...
April 2015 Tayanah O`Donnell and Brian Weir
... Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF), based at the University of Canberra, had its origins in the realisation that urbanisation, population pressures, the impacts of climate change and an awareness of the environmental and social impacts of urban growth were driving an increasing interest in r ...
... Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF), based at the University of Canberra, had its origins in the realisation that urbanisation, population pressures, the impacts of climate change and an awareness of the environmental and social impacts of urban growth were driving an increasing interest in r ...
Climate Change Adaptation and the Australian Urban Water Industry
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to advance Climate Change Adaptation which states that "where extreme weather events become more intense and/or more frequent, the economic and social costs of those events will increase, and these ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to advance Climate Change Adaptation which states that "where extreme weather events become more intense and/or more frequent, the economic and social costs of those events will increase, and these ...
Assessment of climate change impacts on rainfall
... for both the ensemble daily precipitation and temperature. Most of the cases where the SDSM is applied, are located in the region with high rainfall and SDSM is rarely used for rainfall prediction in arid and semi-arid regions. In this study, three nonlinear methods including ANN, KNN, and SVM are u ...
... for both the ensemble daily precipitation and temperature. Most of the cases where the SDSM is applied, are located in the region with high rainfall and SDSM is rarely used for rainfall prediction in arid and semi-arid regions. In this study, three nonlinear methods including ANN, KNN, and SVM are u ...
CD9.14 - Shepway District Council
... disadvantages of Heathrow. ...” Particular attention was drawn to the need for stringent limits on aircraft noise (11.53), and for compliance with the mandatory air quality limit values for NO2 (applicable from 2010 under an EU Directive) (11.54). Reference was also made to the need for improvements ...
... disadvantages of Heathrow. ...” Particular attention was drawn to the need for stringent limits on aircraft noise (11.53), and for compliance with the mandatory air quality limit values for NO2 (applicable from 2010 under an EU Directive) (11.54). Reference was also made to the need for improvements ...
Building Resilience through Family Planning
... To increase resilience, households and communities need both adaptive capacity—the ability to quickly and effectively respond to new circumstances—and the ability to reduce vulnerability and the risk of impacts.11 There are many different ways to increase adaptive capacity and reduce vulnerability a ...
... To increase resilience, households and communities need both adaptive capacity—the ability to quickly and effectively respond to new circumstances—and the ability to reduce vulnerability and the risk of impacts.11 There are many different ways to increase adaptive capacity and reduce vulnerability a ...