Planning for an Uncertain Future: Climate Change Sensitivity
... change or variability with regard to runoff timing, volume, and severe drought in their specific water supply basins. This paper describes the investigation of these potential impacts by a collaborative effort among utility staff, a federal agency, and universities that was facilitated by the Wester ...
... change or variability with regard to runoff timing, volume, and severe drought in their specific water supply basins. This paper describes the investigation of these potential impacts by a collaborative effort among utility staff, a federal agency, and universities that was facilitated by the Wester ...
Assessing Dynamic Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Policy: the
... assessment criteria in terms of good practice. Problematic aspects of CBA will also be addressed. The aim of this part is to set up a frame to evaluate different CBA approaches and generate critical questions about CBA as such in the climate context. As a first step in section 2.1, the use of projec ...
... assessment criteria in terms of good practice. Problematic aspects of CBA will also be addressed. The aim of this part is to set up a frame to evaluate different CBA approaches and generate critical questions about CBA as such in the climate context. As a first step in section 2.1, the use of projec ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Guyana
... vectors through water pooling and soil erosion associated with the increased intensity of hydro events. In addition, climate change is likely to affect crop productivity in specific geographical areas through its impact on growing seasons and crop patterns, to the extent that crop varieties cannot a ...
... vectors through water pooling and soil erosion associated with the increased intensity of hydro events. In addition, climate change is likely to affect crop productivity in specific geographical areas through its impact on growing seasons and crop patterns, to the extent that crop varieties cannot a ...
Community Climate Petition to the House of Representatives
... Our greenhouse gas emissions have already warmed the world by more than 1°C since the end of the 19th century. 2016 was by far the hottest year ever recorded and each month more heat and extreme weather records are broken. Yet because of emissions from our transport & energy, mining & industry, agri ...
... Our greenhouse gas emissions have already warmed the world by more than 1°C since the end of the 19th century. 2016 was by far the hottest year ever recorded and each month more heat and extreme weather records are broken. Yet because of emissions from our transport & energy, mining & industry, agri ...
English
... intervention in the planetary environment of a nature and scale intended to counteract anthropogenic climate change and its impacts. This definition is used for the purposes of the 2015 Update without prejudice to any definition that may subsequently be agreed under the Convention. “Climate engineer ...
... intervention in the planetary environment of a nature and scale intended to counteract anthropogenic climate change and its impacts. This definition is used for the purposes of the 2015 Update without prejudice to any definition that may subsequently be agreed under the Convention. “Climate engineer ...
PDF - Global Bioeconomy Summit 2015
... • Lei do Bem... After 10 years, the law that fostered innovation in Brazil is in jeopardy. • New Biodiversity Law... Is under discussion at the Presidency and will determine what incentives are in place for R&D in biodiversity. ...
... • Lei do Bem... After 10 years, the law that fostered innovation in Brazil is in jeopardy. • New Biodiversity Law... Is under discussion at the Presidency and will determine what incentives are in place for R&D in biodiversity. ...
Trend and Change Analysis of Monthly and Seasonal Temperature
... locations (less Taraba where trend was negative), indicating Nigeria is experiencing a rise in air surface temperature too. Since most of the Nigerian population is dependent on economic activities that are temperature sensitive, findings here implicate Nigeria is also one of the susceptible to the ...
... locations (less Taraba where trend was negative), indicating Nigeria is experiencing a rise in air surface temperature too. Since most of the Nigerian population is dependent on economic activities that are temperature sensitive, findings here implicate Nigeria is also one of the susceptible to the ...
Forest pathogens with higher damage potential due to climate
... Effects of climate change on health trends of trees In general, it is considered that field crops and other annual or short-lived vegetation reflect weather changes, whereas trees and other perennial flora also reflect climate changes. A severe outbreak is a rare removal by weather of obstacles that ...
... Effects of climate change on health trends of trees In general, it is considered that field crops and other annual or short-lived vegetation reflect weather changes, whereas trees and other perennial flora also reflect climate changes. A severe outbreak is a rare removal by weather of obstacles that ...
Type of relationships in GHG emission trading scheme
... The climate should be considered as an object of legal environmental protection (direct norm in the law); Among main principles of environmental legislation it is necessary to foresee the obligation to take the steps to prevent negative climate change; Necessity to carry out scientific research in t ...
... The climate should be considered as an object of legal environmental protection (direct norm in the law); Among main principles of environmental legislation it is necessary to foresee the obligation to take the steps to prevent negative climate change; Necessity to carry out scientific research in t ...
Knowledge, ignorance and the popular culture: climate change
... the specialization pressures that can besiege occupational role incumbents. Whether the knowledge demands of one’s own occupational role are onerous or not, increases in the volume and complexity of information have escalated the entry costs to virtually every other knowledge domain. Research on the ...
... the specialization pressures that can besiege occupational role incumbents. Whether the knowledge demands of one’s own occupational role are onerous or not, increases in the volume and complexity of information have escalated the entry costs to virtually every other knowledge domain. Research on the ...
Subglobal Regulation of the Global Commons: The Case of Climate
... Throughout the world, subglobal actors' are emerging as leaders in addressing climate change, perhaps the foremost global commons problem facing the world today. In the United States, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases,-^ this movement is decidedly from the bottom up, with at 1. We use ...
... Throughout the world, subglobal actors' are emerging as leaders in addressing climate change, perhaps the foremost global commons problem facing the world today. In the United States, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases,-^ this movement is decidedly from the bottom up, with at 1. We use ...
15A.3 THE IMPACT OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE ON
... (Table 3). This reduction is attributable to a warmer mass-weighted outflow temperature, and seemingly contradictory to the increased intensity. Despite the lower thermodynamic efficiency in the A2 simulation, the larger amount of tropospheric water vapor and heavier precipitation in this simulation ...
... (Table 3). This reduction is attributable to a warmer mass-weighted outflow temperature, and seemingly contradictory to the increased intensity. Despite the lower thermodynamic efficiency in the A2 simulation, the larger amount of tropospheric water vapor and heavier precipitation in this simulation ...
the full report
... adoption of pollution control technology for coal plants in the United States.23 On the other hand, few middle-income countries are able to meet their own air quality standards, perhaps in part because most lack source performance standards that provide regulatory guidance over how to comply with ai ...
... adoption of pollution control technology for coal plants in the United States.23 On the other hand, few middle-income countries are able to meet their own air quality standards, perhaps in part because most lack source performance standards that provide regulatory guidance over how to comply with ai ...
Extreme Heat Events - Minnesota Department of Health
... Adcock MP, Bines WH, Smith FW (2000), “Heat-Related Illnesses, Deaths, and Risk Factors – Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, 1999, and United States, 1979-1997,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr ...
... Adcock MP, Bines WH, Smith FW (2000), “Heat-Related Illnesses, Deaths, and Risk Factors – Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, 1999, and United States, 1979-1997,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr ...
Combined biogeophysical and biogeochemical
... Studies of the net effect of historical land cover change on global temperature have shown that biogeophysical and biogeochemical mechanisms are of the same order of magnitude (Matthews et al., 2004; Brovkin et al., 2006). Therefore, in order to quantifiy the impacts of large scale land cover change ...
... Studies of the net effect of historical land cover change on global temperature have shown that biogeophysical and biogeochemical mechanisms are of the same order of magnitude (Matthews et al., 2004; Brovkin et al., 2006). Therefore, in order to quantifiy the impacts of large scale land cover change ...
checklist-toward-zero-carbon-updated-7-22-09
... refugees. We could be among them. Hundreds of millions of lives will be at risk, quite possibly billions. Yes, billions. We face these consequences not in 1,000 or 100 years, but in our lifetime. We face an emergency, the likes of which civilization has never seen. What is to be our legacy? The tipp ...
... refugees. We could be among them. Hundreds of millions of lives will be at risk, quite possibly billions. Yes, billions. We face these consequences not in 1,000 or 100 years, but in our lifetime. We face an emergency, the likes of which civilization has never seen. What is to be our legacy? The tipp ...
No Additionality, New Conditionality
... them incentives to integrate low-carbon strategies into their development plans and investment decisions’ (World Bank, 2008d: para 2). Countries eligible for funds must demonstrate ‘greatest potential for transformation towards low carbon development and GHG emissions reductions as well as demonstra ...
... them incentives to integrate low-carbon strategies into their development plans and investment decisions’ (World Bank, 2008d: para 2). Countries eligible for funds must demonstrate ‘greatest potential for transformation towards low carbon development and GHG emissions reductions as well as demonstra ...
ASEAN IN A CLIMATE OF CHANGE
... aware that South-east Asia is vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of climate change. This white paper from The Economist Corporate Network (ECN) assesses the climate challenge faced by ASEAN member states in the light of the landmark agreement adopted at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) in Dec ...
... aware that South-east Asia is vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of climate change. This white paper from The Economist Corporate Network (ECN) assesses the climate challenge faced by ASEAN member states in the light of the landmark agreement adopted at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) in Dec ...
Pulse response functions are cost-e cient tools to model the link
... e ort of model-building and computer programming, even for models of simple structure. A typical example of inadequate interdisciplinary collaboration found in literature is then the coupling of a complex economic model to a very poor representation of the carbon cycle to estimate the abatement and ...
... e ort of model-building and computer programming, even for models of simple structure. A typical example of inadequate interdisciplinary collaboration found in literature is then the coupling of a complex economic model to a very poor representation of the carbon cycle to estimate the abatement and ...
Incorporating estuaries as a source or sink of sediment within
... Complex coastal landforms exhibit variable behaviour in response to sea-level rise. A proposed modelling framework that integrates shoreline changes associated with longterm recession, short-term variability and sea-level rise advocates that coastal risk assessment be undertaken within the context o ...
... Complex coastal landforms exhibit variable behaviour in response to sea-level rise. A proposed modelling framework that integrates shoreline changes associated with longterm recession, short-term variability and sea-level rise advocates that coastal risk assessment be undertaken within the context o ...
greening wildlife documentary
... wildlife and nature. To give just one example, 48% of the UK population watched at least 15 minutes of Frozen Planet (2011), a remarkable figure considering the fragmentation of audiences brought about by the rise of digital broadcasting and online media. But, prior to the recent greening of wildlif ...
... wildlife and nature. To give just one example, 48% of the UK population watched at least 15 minutes of Frozen Planet (2011), a remarkable figure considering the fragmentation of audiences brought about by the rise of digital broadcasting and online media. But, prior to the recent greening of wildlif ...
IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT)
... that Rwanda is likely to experience more cool spells in the coming years especially in the northern highlands, which naturally have the lowest temperatures. However, these changes will not have much impact on both natural and human activities as long as they are not significant. The monthly maximum ...
... that Rwanda is likely to experience more cool spells in the coming years especially in the northern highlands, which naturally have the lowest temperatures. However, these changes will not have much impact on both natural and human activities as long as they are not significant. The monthly maximum ...
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Conservation
... addresses climate change and the conservation of cultural heritage. The initial purpose of this review is to help inform organizations like the Association for Preservation Technology (APT), the National Centre for Preservation & Training (NCPTT), and others involved in preservation/conservation res ...
... addresses climate change and the conservation of cultural heritage. The initial purpose of this review is to help inform organizations like the Association for Preservation Technology (APT), the National Centre for Preservation & Training (NCPTT), and others involved in preservation/conservation res ...
Options for Marine Turtles - Organization of American States
... degree of future warming. However, even if greenhouse gas emissions were to be cut dramatically, some change in climate is unavoidable. Stabilizing present day emissions would result in a continuous increase in atmospheric CO2 over the 21st Century 3, with consequences for society and ecosystems. Mi ...
... degree of future warming. However, even if greenhouse gas emissions were to be cut dramatically, some change in climate is unavoidable. Stabilizing present day emissions would result in a continuous increase in atmospheric CO2 over the 21st Century 3, with consequences for society and ecosystems. Mi ...