Chicago`s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... reductions in Chicago, and more than 200 suggestions were submitted. After review of all mitigation ideas, 33 were selected for in-depth research. Climate change is a global problem; mitigating it is both a national and a local issue. Many strategies to reduce GHG emissions are large-scale, such as ...
... reductions in Chicago, and more than 200 suggestions were submitted. After review of all mitigation ideas, 33 were selected for in-depth research. Climate change is a global problem; mitigating it is both a national and a local issue. Many strategies to reduce GHG emissions are large-scale, such as ...
Urban Climate Adaptation Planning - Resilient Cities
... between climate adaptation and environmental sustainability measures, including those designed to ensure the viability of ecosystem services, improve greenspace, foster urban agriculture, and facilitate improvements in buildings and urban infrastructure. Adaptation also goes beyond environment to ad ...
... between climate adaptation and environmental sustainability measures, including those designed to ensure the viability of ecosystem services, improve greenspace, foster urban agriculture, and facilitate improvements in buildings and urban infrastructure. Adaptation also goes beyond environment to ad ...
Scanning the Conservation Horizon
... Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species and systems—from the fragmentation and loss of habitat to the ongoing deluge of invasive species. Vulnerability assessments can provide a factual underpinning ...
... Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species and systems—from the fragmentation and loss of habitat to the ongoing deluge of invasive species. Vulnerability assessments can provide a factual underpinning ...
Scanning the Conservation Horizon
... Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species and systems—from the fragmentation and loss of habitat to the ongoing deluge of invasive species. Vulnerability assessments can provide a factual underpinning ...
... Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species and systems—from the fragmentation and loss of habitat to the ongoing deluge of invasive species. Vulnerability assessments can provide a factual underpinning ...
the User Guide
... This document has been prepared with all due diligence and care, based on the best available information at the time of publication. The department holds no responsibility for any errors or omissions within this document. Any decisions made by other parties based on this document are solely the resp ...
... This document has been prepared with all due diligence and care, based on the best available information at the time of publication. The department holds no responsibility for any errors or omissions within this document. Any decisions made by other parties based on this document are solely the resp ...
8 — Urban Areas - Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report
... Urban climate change risks, vulnerabilities, and impacts are increasing across the world in urban centers of all sizes, economic conditions, and site characteristics. {8.2} Urban climate change-related risks are increasing (including rising sea levels and storm surges, heat stress, extreme precipita ...
... Urban climate change risks, vulnerabilities, and impacts are increasing across the world in urban centers of all sizes, economic conditions, and site characteristics. {8.2} Urban climate change-related risks are increasing (including rising sea levels and storm surges, heat stress, extreme precipita ...
the state of city climate finance - Cities Climate Finance Leadership
... Taken together, these decisions will lead to the building of either low-emission, climate-resilient infrastructure that increases economic opportunity or more of what we have already, effectively locking the world into a carbon-intensive pathway with sprawling human settlements, hazardous pollution, ...
... Taken together, these decisions will lead to the building of either low-emission, climate-resilient infrastructure that increases economic opportunity or more of what we have already, effectively locking the world into a carbon-intensive pathway with sprawling human settlements, hazardous pollution, ...
Ireland’s Pathway to Kyoto Compliance Review of the National Climate Change
... response to global warming. The concept of partnership was central to the Strategy. At the domestic level, it identified necessary changes right across society. Every sector of the economy, and each of us as individuals, had a part to play. At the international level, the Strategy recognised that we ...
... response to global warming. The concept of partnership was central to the Strategy. At the domestic level, it identified necessary changes right across society. Every sector of the economy, and each of us as individuals, had a part to play. At the international level, the Strategy recognised that we ...
did not take into account the impact of climate change
... development and political economy to establish a world-leading centre for policy-relevant research, teaching and training in climate change and the environment. It is funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, which also funds the Grantham Institute for Climate Change a ...
... development and political economy to establish a world-leading centre for policy-relevant research, teaching and training in climate change and the environment. It is funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, which also funds the Grantham Institute for Climate Change a ...
can lichens protect themselves using UV
... Lichens – symbiosis between a fungus (95%) and an alga (5%) ...
... Lichens – symbiosis between a fungus (95%) and an alga (5%) ...
Constraining temperature variations over the last
... modeling approach that is as yet a new constraint on temperature variations over the last millennium. Magnitude and importance of fundamental mechanisms operating in the climate carbon cycle system such as the role of solar variability in climate change or the dependency of primary productivity on a ...
... modeling approach that is as yet a new constraint on temperature variations over the last millennium. Magnitude and importance of fundamental mechanisms operating in the climate carbon cycle system such as the role of solar variability in climate change or the dependency of primary productivity on a ...
Eco-Fiction: Bringing Climate Change into the Imagination
... though disproportionality, to the risks associated with our planet’s changing climate. These changes are largely caused by our unabated expulsion of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Our globalized world and economic activities have largely engendered the burning of fossil fuels. The 2014 report fr ...
... though disproportionality, to the risks associated with our planet’s changing climate. These changes are largely caused by our unabated expulsion of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Our globalized world and economic activities have largely engendered the burning of fossil fuels. The 2014 report fr ...
Improving the 5th UK carbon budget
... carbon budgets, or accounted for when setting the budgets, to ensure they are aligned with a cost-effective trajectory to our 2050 target. 4. The UK’s long-term goal should be strengthened to reflect the stronger climate objectives in the Paris agreement, and the 5th carbon budget should be adjusted ...
... carbon budgets, or accounted for when setting the budgets, to ensure they are aligned with a cost-effective trajectory to our 2050 target. 4. The UK’s long-term goal should be strengthened to reflect the stronger climate objectives in the Paris agreement, and the 5th carbon budget should be adjusted ...
Projected impacts of climate change and ocean
... form one of the richest databases for reconstructing paleoenvironments, particularly through changes in their taxonomic and shell composition. Using an empirically based planktonic foraminifer model that incorporates three known major physiological drivers of their biogeography – temperature, food a ...
... form one of the richest databases for reconstructing paleoenvironments, particularly through changes in their taxonomic and shell composition. Using an empirically based planktonic foraminifer model that incorporates three known major physiological drivers of their biogeography – temperature, food a ...
Growth is Failing the Poor: The Unbalanced Distribution
... of the world to follow. However, for everyone on Earth to live at the current European average level of consumption, more than double the bio-capacity actually available would be required—the equivalent of 2.1 planets the size of our Earth; for everyone to consume at the US rate, five would be requi ...
... of the world to follow. However, for everyone on Earth to live at the current European average level of consumption, more than double the bio-capacity actually available would be required—the equivalent of 2.1 planets the size of our Earth; for everyone to consume at the US rate, five would be requi ...
Temperature variation makes ectotherms more sensitive to climate
... those published for An. gambiae (Bayoh & Lindsay, 2003). Note that critical minimum (CTmin) and maximum (CTmax) temperatures are commonly derived from experiments whereby temperature is slowly decreased or increased, and some kind of short-term physiological or behavioral response is recorded (e.g., ...
... those published for An. gambiae (Bayoh & Lindsay, 2003). Note that critical minimum (CTmin) and maximum (CTmax) temperatures are commonly derived from experiments whereby temperature is slowly decreased or increased, and some kind of short-term physiological or behavioral response is recorded (e.g., ...
Poster - Ross School Senior Projects
... chemical energy, which becomes food for the reef. When the fish eat the plants that live off of the food that the microalgae manufactured through photosynthesis, energy is released and recycled. The reason that this is a symbiotic cycle is because within coral reefs there is a lack of nutrients and ...
... chemical energy, which becomes food for the reef. When the fish eat the plants that live off of the food that the microalgae manufactured through photosynthesis, energy is released and recycled. The reason that this is a symbiotic cycle is because within coral reefs there is a lack of nutrients and ...
Land Ecosystems and Hydrology
... While much progress has been made toward realistic and accurate formulation of LSMs, there is plenty of room for improvement. A recent LSM intercomparison study showed large discrepancies between the predictions made by the various models (Pitman et al. 1993), and it is not clear which formulations ...
... While much progress has been made toward realistic and accurate formulation of LSMs, there is plenty of room for improvement. A recent LSM intercomparison study showed large discrepancies between the predictions made by the various models (Pitman et al. 1993), and it is not clear which formulations ...
Arranging deck chairs on the Titanic
... The notion of global warming caused by human activity was first promulgated in 1938 by engineer and inventor GS Callendar. 1 The human activity which most contributes to global warming is the burning of fossil fuels, be it in the production of electricity and commodities or to generate the drive pow ...
... The notion of global warming caused by human activity was first promulgated in 1938 by engineer and inventor GS Callendar. 1 The human activity which most contributes to global warming is the burning of fossil fuels, be it in the production of electricity and commodities or to generate the drive pow ...
Short-Lived Climate Pollution
... those with primarily a warming effect through increasing absorption of solar radiation (primarily black carbon). These are too short lived to be well mixed, and they lead to spatially and seasonally inhomogeneous climate forcing. Finally, atmospheric chemistry acting on certain anthropogenic emissio ...
... those with primarily a warming effect through increasing absorption of solar radiation (primarily black carbon). These are too short lived to be well mixed, and they lead to spatially and seasonally inhomogeneous climate forcing. Finally, atmospheric chemistry acting on certain anthropogenic emissio ...
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... collections or on-farm conditions. The first FAO Report (1998) on the State of the World‟s Plant Genetic Resources concluded that most of the diversity of the major staple crops was now conserved ex situ. The total number of accessions worldwide has continued to grow over the last 10 years, with thi ...
... collections or on-farm conditions. The first FAO Report (1998) on the State of the World‟s Plant Genetic Resources concluded that most of the diversity of the major staple crops was now conserved ex situ. The total number of accessions worldwide has continued to grow over the last 10 years, with thi ...
Forcing of anthropogenic aerosols on temperature trends of the sub
... 0.06uC per decade for the North Atlantic to less than 0.02uC per decade for the Indian and Pacific Oceans2. About 30% of the recent warming3 has occurred below 700 m, while around 65% of upper-ocean warming has occurred in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific4. Away from the polar latitudes the pattern ...
... 0.06uC per decade for the North Atlantic to less than 0.02uC per decade for the Indian and Pacific Oceans2. About 30% of the recent warming3 has occurred below 700 m, while around 65% of upper-ocean warming has occurred in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific4. Away from the polar latitudes the pattern ...
Topic paper 1: Climate change
... states that a home must be warm, weatherproof and have reasonably modern facilities in order to be classed as 'decent'. Decentralised energy: Energy from local renewable and low-carbon sources (i.e. on-site and near-site, but not remote off-site). District heating network: A system where a centralis ...
... states that a home must be warm, weatherproof and have reasonably modern facilities in order to be classed as 'decent'. Decentralised energy: Energy from local renewable and low-carbon sources (i.e. on-site and near-site, but not remote off-site). District heating network: A system where a centralis ...
The Impact of Climate Change and Population Growth
... annual expected loss levels, and possible administrative considerations. The study is groundbreaking in two major ways. First, it demonstrates innovative methods to capture the influence of climate change and population growth on the nation's flood hazards through the century, accounting for both ri ...
... annual expected loss levels, and possible administrative considerations. The study is groundbreaking in two major ways. First, it demonstrates innovative methods to capture the influence of climate change and population growth on the nation's flood hazards through the century, accounting for both ri ...
Drivers of Deforestation: Facts to be considered
... shifting cultivation embodied in states’ forest policies and programs. Key issues and findings that need to be considered seriously in the discussion on the impact of shifting cultivation on forests and climate change are briefly summarized here. More detailed information can be obtained from the su ...
... shifting cultivation embodied in states’ forest policies and programs. Key issues and findings that need to be considered seriously in the discussion on the impact of shifting cultivation on forests and climate change are briefly summarized here. More detailed information can be obtained from the su ...