on Clean Growth and Climate Change
... of meeting or exceeding Canada's 2030 target of a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. First Ministers issued the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change and agreed that a collaborative approach between provincial, territorial, and federal govern ...
... of meeting or exceeding Canada's 2030 target of a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. First Ministers issued the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change and agreed that a collaborative approach between provincial, territorial, and federal govern ...
Reenberg, A. (2009) - LaSyRe
... In the Sahelian region, agricultural and pastoral production constitutes a very important sector that sustains the majority of people living here. Hence, the overall livelihood conditions are to a very large extent linked to the agricultural activities and the natural resource endowment. The signific ...
... In the Sahelian region, agricultural and pastoral production constitutes a very important sector that sustains the majority of people living here. Hence, the overall livelihood conditions are to a very large extent linked to the agricultural activities and the natural resource endowment. The signific ...
Climate Change in Japanese History and Prehistory
... variability, rather than increased temperature per se, was the key factor. ...
... variability, rather than increased temperature per se, was the key factor. ...
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... (1994) rather than a time-series panel approach for several reasons. First, yearly changes in weather are unlikely to affect households’ WTP to live in an area: WTP should depend on long-run climate rather than the outcome of the weather in the most recent year. Second, low frequency changes are not ...
... (1994) rather than a time-series panel approach for several reasons. First, yearly changes in weather are unlikely to affect households’ WTP to live in an area: WTP should depend on long-run climate rather than the outcome of the weather in the most recent year. Second, low frequency changes are not ...
Sinaloa - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... Institutions for synergies between CSA pillars In Sinaloa, institutions promoting synergies across all three pillars of CSA are mostly federal. Trust Funds for Rural Development (FIRA), through its national-level programs for energy efficiency grants, has also had an impact on Sinaloa in overcoming ...
... Institutions for synergies between CSA pillars In Sinaloa, institutions promoting synergies across all three pillars of CSA are mostly federal. Trust Funds for Rural Development (FIRA), through its national-level programs for energy efficiency grants, has also had an impact on Sinaloa in overcoming ...
WaterfoWl and WetlandS amid Climate Change
... DU has prepared this white paper summarizing the impacts of climate change on waterfowl, wetlands, and the waterfowling community as part of the Sportsman’s Advisory Group on Climate Change supported by the Hewlett Foundation. The paper synthesizes new conservation and research approaches to provide ...
... DU has prepared this white paper summarizing the impacts of climate change on waterfowl, wetlands, and the waterfowling community as part of the Sportsman’s Advisory Group on Climate Change supported by the Hewlett Foundation. The paper synthesizes new conservation and research approaches to provide ...
full text ( 360kb) - USF College of Marine Science
... found in the Byrd ice core (Johnsen et al., 1972). The Orca Basin data do not appear to track Greenland air temperatures. Gulf of Mexico warming while the North Atlantic remained cold is consistent with weakened cross-equatorial heat transport (e.g., Manabe and Stouffer, 1997) and may indicate that ...
... found in the Byrd ice core (Johnsen et al., 1972). The Orca Basin data do not appear to track Greenland air temperatures. Gulf of Mexico warming while the North Atlantic remained cold is consistent with weakened cross-equatorial heat transport (e.g., Manabe and Stouffer, 1997) and may indicate that ...
Proceedings - The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
... transportation and climate change. No topic is more current or more pressing to address than climate change, so it was appropriate that this year’s symposium focused on the relationships between land use, transportation, and green house gas emissions. In the past year, world temperatures have reache ...
... transportation and climate change. No topic is more current or more pressing to address than climate change, so it was appropriate that this year’s symposium focused on the relationships between land use, transportation, and green house gas emissions. In the past year, world temperatures have reache ...
The impact of weather shocks on trade diversification
... The consequences of climate change on economic and social development of countries have received increasing recognition. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) categorically states that aggregate economic losses accelerate with increasing temperature, but global economic impacts from c ...
... The consequences of climate change on economic and social development of countries have received increasing recognition. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) categorically states that aggregate economic losses accelerate with increasing temperature, but global economic impacts from c ...
2016: global heat record broken again
... Great Barrier Reef. In November, the world’s first universal climate agreement entered into force, committing countries (125 at time of publication) to do everything possible to limit global warming to well below 2.0°C above the pre-industrial level, and to make every effort to limit it to 1.5°C. Wi ...
... Great Barrier Reef. In November, the world’s first universal climate agreement entered into force, committing countries (125 at time of publication) to do everything possible to limit global warming to well below 2.0°C above the pre-industrial level, and to make every effort to limit it to 1.5°C. Wi ...
Climate and Land Degradation - Integrated Drought Management
... human activities” (this definition excludes the hyper-arid lands). Furthermore, UNCCD defines land degradation as a "reduction or loss, in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain-fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, ...
... human activities” (this definition excludes the hyper-arid lands). Furthermore, UNCCD defines land degradation as a "reduction or loss, in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain-fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, ...
Climate and Land Degradation - The World AgroMeteorological
... human activities” (this definition excludes the hyper-arid lands). Furthermore, UNCCD defines land degradation as a "reduction or loss, in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain-fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, ...
... human activities” (this definition excludes the hyper-arid lands). Furthermore, UNCCD defines land degradation as a "reduction or loss, in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain-fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, ...
Updated February, 2016 FRANCINA DOMINGUEZ francina@illinois
... Hydroclimatology, Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Precipitation Recycling, Climate Change, Dynamical and Statistical Downscaling, Surface Hydrology, Regional Climate Modeling, Atmospheric Isotopic Water Tracers, Extreme Hydrologic Events ...
... Hydroclimatology, Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Precipitation Recycling, Climate Change, Dynamical and Statistical Downscaling, Surface Hydrology, Regional Climate Modeling, Atmospheric Isotopic Water Tracers, Extreme Hydrologic Events ...
on Clean Growth and Climate Change
... of meeting or exceeding Canada's 2030 target of a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. First Ministers issued the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change and agreed that a collaborative approach between provincial, territorial, and federal govern ...
... of meeting or exceeding Canada's 2030 target of a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. First Ministers issued the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change and agreed that a collaborative approach between provincial, territorial, and federal govern ...
‐century warming scenarios Persisting cold extremes under 21st Evan Kodra, Karsten Steinhaeuser,
... 2007; Ganguly et al., 2009] and observations [Easterling et al., 2000; Easterling, 2002; Frich et al., 2002; Klein Tank and Können, 2003; Zhai and Pan, 2003; Alexander et al., 2006] have used multiple definitions for climate‐ related extremes. One study on cold‐air outbreaks (CAOs) using seven globa ...
... 2007; Ganguly et al., 2009] and observations [Easterling et al., 2000; Easterling, 2002; Frich et al., 2002; Klein Tank and Können, 2003; Zhai and Pan, 2003; Alexander et al., 2006] have used multiple definitions for climate‐ related extremes. One study on cold‐air outbreaks (CAOs) using seven globa ...
Modelling the Response of Mountain Glacier Discharge
... period of the melt season. Currently, many conceptual runoff models do not include explicit routing routines for water transport through the glacier, taking into account the different hydraulic properties of snow, firn and ice with respect to throughflow velocities. Such routines are necessary to accu ...
... period of the melt season. Currently, many conceptual runoff models do not include explicit routing routines for water transport through the glacier, taking into account the different hydraulic properties of snow, firn and ice with respect to throughflow velocities. Such routines are necessary to accu ...
Observed Cloud Cover Trends and Global
... • anthropogenic or natural external forcing is unlikely to directly produce the observed cloud trends • an internal response of the climate system to external forcing could produce the cloud trends • there is not yet enough information to attribute the cloud trends to anthropogenic global warming ...
... • anthropogenic or natural external forcing is unlikely to directly produce the observed cloud trends • an internal response of the climate system to external forcing could produce the cloud trends • there is not yet enough information to attribute the cloud trends to anthropogenic global warming ...
Taking the temperature - Sustainable Development Unit
... lead to rising sea levels and more extreme and unpredictable weather conditions around the world. The increasing likelihood of more frequent and severe droughts and flooding threaten not only direct loss of lives and livelihoods but also a variety of wider health and social consequences. In the UK a ...
... lead to rising sea levels and more extreme and unpredictable weather conditions around the world. The increasing likelihood of more frequent and severe droughts and flooding threaten not only direct loss of lives and livelihoods but also a variety of wider health and social consequences. In the UK a ...
Bachman - Climate Change Regulation Paper
... “increased to levels unprecedented in the last 800,000 years,” primarily as a result of human activity.10 Fossil fuel combustion and other industrial activities have raised atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 391 ppm in the past 150 years.11 In the United States, ...
... “increased to levels unprecedented in the last 800,000 years,” primarily as a result of human activity.10 Fossil fuel combustion and other industrial activities have raised atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 391 ppm in the past 150 years.11 In the United States, ...
7 Forest Health in a Changing Environment
... evolved. However, when a forest ecosystem is subjected to disturbances outside its historical range, such as those expected from rapid climate change, large-scale land use-change, or logging, its resilience may be inadequate and collapse becomes possible. The challenge ahead is to ensure that forest ...
... evolved. However, when a forest ecosystem is subjected to disturbances outside its historical range, such as those expected from rapid climate change, large-scale land use-change, or logging, its resilience may be inadequate and collapse becomes possible. The challenge ahead is to ensure that forest ...
Insert Country - United Nations REDD Programme
... Approval: OCCES submits to a National Climate Change Advisory Board, including stakeholders from public, private and civil society, to review and recommend NJP and REDD-Plan. ...
... Approval: OCCES submits to a National Climate Change Advisory Board, including stakeholders from public, private and civil society, to review and recommend NJP and REDD-Plan. ...
Climate-driven enrichment of pollutants in peatlands
... gest that about 60% of all peatland area in Canada and a similar proportion in North Eurasia will be severely to extremely severely affected by climate change (Gorham, 1991; Tarnocai and Stolbovoy, 2006), leading to a higher release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Although the predi ...
... gest that about 60% of all peatland area in Canada and a similar proportion in North Eurasia will be severely to extremely severely affected by climate change (Gorham, 1991; Tarnocai and Stolbovoy, 2006), leading to a higher release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Although the predi ...