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... Trade-offs are particularly relevant on an average, national, or global level. And they are perhaps nowhere more apparent on the planetary scale than in the case of climate change. It’s the ultimate battle of growth versus the environment. Stronger climate policy now implies higher, immediate econo ...
... Trade-offs are particularly relevant on an average, national, or global level. And they are perhaps nowhere more apparent on the planetary scale than in the case of climate change. It’s the ultimate battle of growth versus the environment. Stronger climate policy now implies higher, immediate econo ...
Ocean Circulation and Climate: an Overview
... The ocean is in perpetual motion. Through its transport of heat, carbon, plankton, nutrients, and oxygen around the world, ocean circulation regulates global climate and maintains primary productivity and marine ecosystems, with widespread implications for global fisheries, tourism, and the shipping ...
... The ocean is in perpetual motion. Through its transport of heat, carbon, plankton, nutrients, and oxygen around the world, ocean circulation regulates global climate and maintains primary productivity and marine ecosystems, with widespread implications for global fisheries, tourism, and the shipping ...
Climate Investment Funds (CIFs): An Overview CRS Report for Congress Richard K. Lattanzio
... appropriations, and (2) overseeing U.S. interests in the programs. This report provides an overview of two of the larger and more recently instituted mechanisms—the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs)—and analyzes their structure, funding, and objectives in light of the many challenges within the contem ...
... appropriations, and (2) overseeing U.S. interests in the programs. This report provides an overview of two of the larger and more recently instituted mechanisms—the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs)—and analyzes their structure, funding, and objectives in light of the many challenges within the contem ...
Estimating Effects of Tidal Power Projects and Climate Change on
... species through climate change and ocean acidification (hereafter grouped under the term climate change) (IPCC 2007; NRC 2010). To meet growing energy needs without increasing carbon emissions, utility companies are turning to renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, tidal, and wave energy. T ...
... species through climate change and ocean acidification (hereafter grouped under the term climate change) (IPCC 2007; NRC 2010). To meet growing energy needs without increasing carbon emissions, utility companies are turning to renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, tidal, and wave energy. T ...
apv-methodological approach WB project HP
... High level of monitoring system/network Integrated water management Sustainable spatial planning Cooperation with neighbours and international conventions High level of monitoring and early warning system Direct water from N to S, maintain reservoirs, spatial planning maintenance of water reservoirs ...
... High level of monitoring system/network Integrated water management Sustainable spatial planning Cooperation with neighbours and international conventions High level of monitoring and early warning system Direct water from N to S, maintain reservoirs, spatial planning maintenance of water reservoirs ...
Works Cited - Institute for Domestic and International Affairs, Inc.
... man and man, but also conflicts between man and earth. Global climate change poses a great challenge for all nations regardless of their stage in development and access to technology. Tourism in particular suffers a heavy blow in that the changing environment deprives many locations of the natural r ...
... man and man, but also conflicts between man and earth. Global climate change poses a great challenge for all nations regardless of their stage in development and access to technology. Tourism in particular suffers a heavy blow in that the changing environment deprives many locations of the natural r ...
COP - UN Global Compact
... 6 customers are invited and Assistant General Manager (responsible for Marketing) and Business Development Manager attend. In 2008, 2 meetings have been organized so far, however these meetings are planned to continue in 2009 as well. Since it is really difficult to reach these customers through a r ...
... 6 customers are invited and Assistant General Manager (responsible for Marketing) and Business Development Manager attend. In 2008, 2 meetings have been organized so far, however these meetings are planned to continue in 2009 as well. Since it is really difficult to reach these customers through a r ...
Indonesia Second National Communication Under The United
... sector that was significantly less affected by the AFC, and indeed helped the recovery of Indonesian economy after the crisis through a substantial increase in exports and its absorption of unemployed workers in its role as an “employer of last resort” for many jobseekers (Siregar, 2008). In line wi ...
... sector that was significantly less affected by the AFC, and indeed helped the recovery of Indonesian economy after the crisis through a substantial increase in exports and its absorption of unemployed workers in its role as an “employer of last resort” for many jobseekers (Siregar, 2008). In line wi ...
CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE SOUTHWEST
... Precipitation Trends and Water Consumption in the Southwestern United States by Henry F. Diaz with Craig A. Anderson Coping with Severe and Sustained Drought in the Southwest by Michael Dettinger Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential by R. Reynolds with M. Dettinger, ...
... Precipitation Trends and Water Consumption in the Southwestern United States by Henry F. Diaz with Craig A. Anderson Coping with Severe and Sustained Drought in the Southwest by Michael Dettinger Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential by R. Reynolds with M. Dettinger, ...
Strategic Planning
... What are the important stakeholders and ‘innovative involvement’ in your city and who could/should be the ‘owner/driver’ of a CC adaptation process in your city? ...
... What are the important stakeholders and ‘innovative involvement’ in your city and who could/should be the ‘owner/driver’ of a CC adaptation process in your city? ...
in-class final exam
... because of, e.g., availability of energy and water and climate stability both within and between years. Climate change is projected to impact food security the most in tropical regions because, e.g., that’s where many poor people live who are dependent on agriculture, and because that’s where temper ...
... because of, e.g., availability of energy and water and climate stability both within and between years. Climate change is projected to impact food security the most in tropical regions because, e.g., that’s where many poor people live who are dependent on agriculture, and because that’s where temper ...
Thematic Sub-Priority 1.1.6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems
... I.4. Prediction of climatic change and its impacts The research should be performed on a global to regional scale. The physical impacts in view include sea-level change, changes in storminess and precipitation, severity and frequency of droughts. Models for predicting climatic change and its impacts ...
... I.4. Prediction of climatic change and its impacts The research should be performed on a global to regional scale. The physical impacts in view include sea-level change, changes in storminess and precipitation, severity and frequency of droughts. Models for predicting climatic change and its impacts ...
BROOKINGS MOUNTAIN WEST LECTURE SERIES, 2009-2015 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
... After failing to reach agreement on revenue increases and health care reforms, the two major issues underlying the unsustainable federal deficit, Congress punted by assigning the next step in deficit reduction to a Super Committee composed of twelve members of Congress (6 Republican, 6 Democrats; 6 ...
... After failing to reach agreement on revenue increases and health care reforms, the two major issues underlying the unsustainable federal deficit, Congress punted by assigning the next step in deficit reduction to a Super Committee composed of twelve members of Congress (6 Republican, 6 Democrats; 6 ...
Vol.11, No.1, 2011
... and changes in the rainfall pattern. Thus, man-made emissions seem to be at the root of the long-term rainfall changes. Could the circulation changes come about because SST warming due to greenhouse gases altered the interaction among the three main regions of deep convection of the Asian summer mon ...
... and changes in the rainfall pattern. Thus, man-made emissions seem to be at the root of the long-term rainfall changes. Could the circulation changes come about because SST warming due to greenhouse gases altered the interaction among the three main regions of deep convection of the Asian summer mon ...
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... to enhance C sinks, particularly through soil C sequestration (IPCC, 2007a). It is estimated that improved grassland management and restoring degraded soils together have the potential to sequester around 2 000 tonnes CO2eq/year by 2030 (Smith et al., 2008), and in extensive grazing systems these fi ...
... to enhance C sinks, particularly through soil C sequestration (IPCC, 2007a). It is estimated that improved grassland management and restoring degraded soils together have the potential to sequester around 2 000 tonnes CO2eq/year by 2030 (Smith et al., 2008), and in extensive grazing systems these fi ...
A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data
... included a claim of ‘‘cooling’’; and likewise more than a quarter of all mentions of arctic ice alluded to its ‘‘recovery’’, and so on. Those numbers represent a lower bound on the prevalence of the claims in contrarian discourse because the claims can be expressed in a number of additional ways tha ...
... included a claim of ‘‘cooling’’; and likewise more than a quarter of all mentions of arctic ice alluded to its ‘‘recovery’’, and so on. Those numbers represent a lower bound on the prevalence of the claims in contrarian discourse because the claims can be expressed in a number of additional ways tha ...
ALC Working Paper Climate Change, Gender and Human Development:
... associated with conflict. Anthony Nyong and his colleagues saw a correlation between reports of conflict and drought periods in northern Nigeria.8 They also noticed that communities in northern Nigeria had successfully evolved traditional systems to manage new types of conflict, including those that ...
... associated with conflict. Anthony Nyong and his colleagues saw a correlation between reports of conflict and drought periods in northern Nigeria.8 They also noticed that communities in northern Nigeria had successfully evolved traditional systems to manage new types of conflict, including those that ...
Protecting health from climate change - WHO/Europe
... challenge. Never has it been more evident that health concerns are at the cornerstone of the changing climate. From heat-waves, floods and droughts to worsening air pollution and changes in vectorborne diseases and plant distribution – climate change profoundly affects health, directly and indirectl ...
... challenge. Never has it been more evident that health concerns are at the cornerstone of the changing climate. From heat-waves, floods and droughts to worsening air pollution and changes in vectorborne diseases and plant distribution – climate change profoundly affects health, directly and indirectl ...
Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
... is amplified through a series of positive climate feedbacks (e.g., water vapor and sea ice); best estimates of projected global mean surface temperature increase over the twenty-first-century range from approximately 1.8◦ C to 4.0◦ C, depending on emission scenario (Solomon et al. 2007). Fossilfuel CO ...
... is amplified through a series of positive climate feedbacks (e.g., water vapor and sea ice); best estimates of projected global mean surface temperature increase over the twenty-first-century range from approximately 1.8◦ C to 4.0◦ C, depending on emission scenario (Solomon et al. 2007). Fossilfuel CO ...
Precipitation Regional Extreme Mapping as a Tool for Ungauged
... 1. The change of flow extremes may hugely affect the safety of the hydraulic projects 2. The plan and design of hydraulic projects need the information about the flows 3. There are many evidences of climate change and it may change the precipitation extremes and consequently, change the flow extreme ...
... 1. The change of flow extremes may hugely affect the safety of the hydraulic projects 2. The plan and design of hydraulic projects need the information about the flows 3. There are many evidences of climate change and it may change the precipitation extremes and consequently, change the flow extreme ...
Bangladesh, climate disasters
... speak of socio-natural disasters. Natural and/or climate disasters will potentially result in displacement on a huge scale, and the Bengal region (India, Bengladesh) would, on its own, be unable to prevent or manage it efficiently. Generally speaking, all evidence points to the fact that forced migr ...
... speak of socio-natural disasters. Natural and/or climate disasters will potentially result in displacement on a huge scale, and the Bengal region (India, Bengladesh) would, on its own, be unable to prevent or manage it efficiently. Generally speaking, all evidence points to the fact that forced migr ...
2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Governance Parallel
... Access to natural resources and institutional conditions for adaptation to increasing climate risk in upland communities in Thailand and Vietnam. Malin Beckman ...
... Access to natural resources and institutional conditions for adaptation to increasing climate risk in upland communities in Thailand and Vietnam. Malin Beckman ...