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... linked through a common oceanic influence and were consistent with greenhouse gas forcing39. Climate fluctuations that we review here are not necessarily anthropogenic. Some proxies representing local climate at different places across the world reveal that the 20th century is probably neither the w ...
... linked through a common oceanic influence and were consistent with greenhouse gas forcing39. Climate fluctuations that we review here are not necessarily anthropogenic. Some proxies representing local climate at different places across the world reveal that the 20th century is probably neither the w ...
The São Paulo Proposal for an Improved International Climate Agreement
... needed for long-lived capital investments and for research on and development of lower-emission technologies. Rather it assumes successive commitment periods with revised national commitments reflecting the most recent scientific evidence. Changing the responsibilities of countries over time is impl ...
... needed for long-lived capital investments and for research on and development of lower-emission technologies. Rather it assumes successive commitment periods with revised national commitments reflecting the most recent scientific evidence. Changing the responsibilities of countries over time is impl ...
Climate Change & Resource Development Scenarios for the
... community amongst decision-makers living and working in the region. ii. To work with stakeholders to envision four future scenarios for the Nechako watershed based on climate-change and resource development variables. These scenarios are intended to envision plausible futures for the watershed and t ...
... community amongst decision-makers living and working in the region. ii. To work with stakeholders to envision four future scenarios for the Nechako watershed based on climate-change and resource development variables. These scenarios are intended to envision plausible futures for the watershed and t ...
ELPIS-JP: a dataset of local-scale daily climate change scenarios for
... greenhouse gas and aerosol emission scenarios. Recently, 20 km grid atmosphereonly GCMs have been made feasible [1]. Yet, the simulation period and the size of ensembles are limited for such GCM experiments, constraining probabilistic impact assessment. To that end, many ensembles of higher resoluti ...
... greenhouse gas and aerosol emission scenarios. Recently, 20 km grid atmosphereonly GCMs have been made feasible [1]. Yet, the simulation period and the size of ensembles are limited for such GCM experiments, constraining probabilistic impact assessment. To that end, many ensembles of higher resoluti ...
- White Rose Research Online
... environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas emissions, is invisible. The predominant approach of making climate change visible is the use of iconic, often affective, imagery. Literature on the iconography of climate change shows that global iconic motifs, such as polar bears, ...
... environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas emissions, is invisible. The predominant approach of making climate change visible is the use of iconic, often affective, imagery. Literature on the iconography of climate change shows that global iconic motifs, such as polar bears, ...
Global Warming - Atmospheric Aerosol Group
... infrared radiation. Increasing CO2, therefore, effectively increases radiative energy input to the Earth’s atmosphere. The path of this radiative input is complex. It is redistributed, both vertically and horizontally, by various physical processes, including advection, convection, and diffusion in ...
... infrared radiation. Increasing CO2, therefore, effectively increases radiative energy input to the Earth’s atmosphere. The path of this radiative input is complex. It is redistributed, both vertically and horizontally, by various physical processes, including advection, convection, and diffusion in ...
Israel Country report 2013
... The ENPI CLIMA-South is implemented in a dynamic region, with rapidly changing social and political environments. At the same time, climate change is at a critical stage of the international negotiations in which new developments may be expected. Flexibility is therefore of the utmost importance and ...
... The ENPI CLIMA-South is implemented in a dynamic region, with rapidly changing social and political environments. At the same time, climate change is at a critical stage of the international negotiations in which new developments may be expected. Flexibility is therefore of the utmost importance and ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Countries
... 2030 and the National Environmental Action Plan of Estonia 2007-2013 , serving as the implementation plan of the strategy, did not specify climate change adaptation as goal or activity of the Estonian environmental policy (Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Estonia 2007 and 2008). On nat ...
... 2030 and the National Environmental Action Plan of Estonia 2007-2013 , serving as the implementation plan of the strategy, did not specify climate change adaptation as goal or activity of the Estonian environmental policy (Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Estonia 2007 and 2008). On nat ...
Creating a Climate Smart DFID
... against which offices are encouraged to assess themselves: bronze, silver and gold. You will need to agree the level of response which your office aims to reach with your Director and when you want to start your SPR by the latest early 2012. This will help you allocate resources and plan your activi ...
... against which offices are encouraged to assess themselves: bronze, silver and gold. You will need to agree the level of response which your office aims to reach with your Director and when you want to start your SPR by the latest early 2012. This will help you allocate resources and plan your activi ...
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... Climate change threatens to accelerate degradation or loss of the basic assets for food production, including land, water, air and biodiversity. The Near East, like in the rest of the world, climate change is expected to affect food production and the whole food supply chain. Further, the sustainabi ...
... Climate change threatens to accelerate degradation or loss of the basic assets for food production, including land, water, air and biodiversity. The Near East, like in the rest of the world, climate change is expected to affect food production and the whole food supply chain. Further, the sustainabi ...
Renewable Energy under the Kyoto Protocol: The Case
... renewables may not solve the climate change problem alone. 14 Improved energy efficiency is an important part of making renewables, which are difficult to introduce at a large scale, more viable. But many other technological options have significant drawbacks that make renewable energy relatively at ...
... renewables may not solve the climate change problem alone. 14 Improved energy efficiency is an important part of making renewables, which are difficult to introduce at a large scale, more viable. But many other technological options have significant drawbacks that make renewable energy relatively at ...
Assessing EU Leadership on Climate Change - Userpage
... of climate change? This working paper seeks to shed light on this topic by examining the attempted diffusion of climate change norms, policies, and institutions by the EU to China and India. The paper argues that the Chinese and Indian Governments responded in significantly different ways to the EU’ ...
... of climate change? This working paper seeks to shed light on this topic by examining the attempted diffusion of climate change norms, policies, and institutions by the EU to China and India. The paper argues that the Chinese and Indian Governments responded in significantly different ways to the EU’ ...
Changes in the potential distribution of humid tropical forests on a
... vegetation types are based on vegetation form (e.g. trees, shrubs), density, leaf type and phenology. HTFs were assumed to be represented by a class of evergreen broadleaved forests and forests flooded by freshwater, both within the tropics. A number of variables related to surface precipitation and ...
... vegetation types are based on vegetation form (e.g. trees, shrubs), density, leaf type and phenology. HTFs were assumed to be represented by a class of evergreen broadleaved forests and forests flooded by freshwater, both within the tropics. A number of variables related to surface precipitation and ...
backgrounder - The Heritage Foundation
... and investors have urged the President to remain in the Paris agreement.13 In an open letter, they wrote, “Implementing the Paris Agreement will enable and encourage businesses and investors to turn the billions of dollars in existing low-carbon investments into the trillions of dollars the world ne ...
... and investors have urged the President to remain in the Paris agreement.13 In an open letter, they wrote, “Implementing the Paris Agreement will enable and encourage businesses and investors to turn the billions of dollars in existing low-carbon investments into the trillions of dollars the world ne ...
The Economics of Global Climate Change
... the negative externalities associated with local and regional pollutants have to some degree been internalized. But, until recently, few controls existed for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas. This global air pollutant has no short-term damaging effects at ground level, but atmospheric ...
... the negative externalities associated with local and regional pollutants have to some degree been internalized. But, until recently, few controls existed for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas. This global air pollutant has no short-term damaging effects at ground level, but atmospheric ...
Coal Equals More Poverty
... poor, and an understanding of the scale and pace of action necessary from Australia to meet our obligations under the Paris Agreement and help limit warming to 1.5°C — a matter of survival for many vulnerable countries. As an international development agency working in more than 90 countries, Oxfam ...
... poor, and an understanding of the scale and pace of action necessary from Australia to meet our obligations under the Paris Agreement and help limit warming to 1.5°C — a matter of survival for many vulnerable countries. As an international development agency working in more than 90 countries, Oxfam ...
Policy Brief n°2 - Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society
... Shipping in the Arctic : Links to Air Pollution and Climate Change Nowhere is climate change more visible than in the Arctic. What happens in the Arctic also has global impacts. With its large expanse of heat-reflecting snow and ice, the Arctic serves as the “refrigerator” of the global climate syst ...
... Shipping in the Arctic : Links to Air Pollution and Climate Change Nowhere is climate change more visible than in the Arctic. What happens in the Arctic also has global impacts. With its large expanse of heat-reflecting snow and ice, the Arctic serves as the “refrigerator” of the global climate syst ...
Atmospheric composition, irreversible climate change, and
... 1 Radiative forcing is defined (e.g., IPCC, 2007) as the change in the net irradiance (downward minus upward, generally expressed in W m–2) at the tropopause due to a change in an external driver o ...
... 1 Radiative forcing is defined (e.g., IPCC, 2007) as the change in the net irradiance (downward minus upward, generally expressed in W m–2) at the tropopause due to a change in an external driver o ...
Climate Change News 13 July 10
... “Bringing forest carbon projects to market” recognises a much under-utilised sector of carbon reduction effort and identifies opportunities for profitable forest carbon project development. The guide was authored by a team at French environmental consultants ONF International and funded by UN Enviro ...
... “Bringing forest carbon projects to market” recognises a much under-utilised sector of carbon reduction effort and identifies opportunities for profitable forest carbon project development. The guide was authored by a team at French environmental consultants ONF International and funded by UN Enviro ...
U.S. EPA’s Models-3 : An Integrated “One
... tropospheric ozone. Both are proven health hazards. Reducing both would not only address climate change, but also dramatically improve people’s health.” (President Bush, June 12, 2001, New York Times) ...
... tropospheric ozone. Both are proven health hazards. Reducing both would not only address climate change, but also dramatically improve people’s health.” (President Bush, June 12, 2001, New York Times) ...
Long-Term Ecological Records and Their Relevance to Climate
... The high amounts of CO2 will affect rates of photosynthesis and water-use efficiency for plants, and this coupled with the nonanalog climate means that species’ realized niche conditions relative to temperature and water may be altered (MacDonald 2010). Furthermore, the rates of the temperature and c ...
... The high amounts of CO2 will affect rates of photosynthesis and water-use efficiency for plants, and this coupled with the nonanalog climate means that species’ realized niche conditions relative to temperature and water may be altered (MacDonald 2010). Furthermore, the rates of the temperature and c ...
Transport - British Social Attitudes
... argued that man-made climate change is scientifically unproven, that the threat posed is exaggerated, or that there is little we can do to avert its predicted consequences. The British public, while experiencing the most prolonged period of economic uncertainty since the 1930s, has had to contend wi ...
... argued that man-made climate change is scientifically unproven, that the threat posed is exaggerated, or that there is little we can do to avert its predicted consequences. The British public, while experiencing the most prolonged period of economic uncertainty since the 1930s, has had to contend wi ...
More coal equals more poverty: Transforming our world
... poor, and an understanding of the scale and pace of action necessary from Australia to meet our obligations under the Paris Agreement and help limit warming to 1.5°C — a matter of survival for many vulnerable countries. As an international development agency working in more than 90 countries, Oxfam ...
... poor, and an understanding of the scale and pace of action necessary from Australia to meet our obligations under the Paris Agreement and help limit warming to 1.5°C — a matter of survival for many vulnerable countries. As an international development agency working in more than 90 countries, Oxfam ...