Mental Health and Our Changing Climate
... of climate change have emphasized the physical health effects, while mental health has been secondary. Building upon Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change, the goal of this updated report is to increase awareness of the psychological impacts of climate change on hum ...
... of climate change have emphasized the physical health effects, while mental health has been secondary. Building upon Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change, the goal of this updated report is to increase awareness of the psychological impacts of climate change on hum ...
development and climate change in bangladesh
... and assistance. Third, an in-depth analysis is conducted for coastal zones, particularly the coastal mangroves – the Sundarbans – which have been identified as particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate change poses significant risks for Bangladesh, yet the core elements of its vulnerability ...
... and assistance. Third, an in-depth analysis is conducted for coastal zones, particularly the coastal mangroves – the Sundarbans – which have been identified as particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate change poses significant risks for Bangladesh, yet the core elements of its vulnerability ...
Future changes in Mekong River hydrology
... its hydrology and the characteristics of its exceptional flood pulse. The rapid economic development of the riparian countries has led to massive plans for hydropower construction, and projected climate change is expected to alter the monsoon patterns and increase temperature in the basin. The aim o ...
... its hydrology and the characteristics of its exceptional flood pulse. The rapid economic development of the riparian countries has led to massive plans for hydropower construction, and projected climate change is expected to alter the monsoon patterns and increase temperature in the basin. The aim o ...
Robust Adaptation to Climate Change in the Water Sector in
... on Irish water resources. The IPCC states in its Technical Report Climate Change and Water (Bates et al., 2008) that changing climate over the past several decades can be associated with changes in a number of key components of the hydrological cycle. For instance, changes in precipitation (annual a ...
... on Irish water resources. The IPCC states in its Technical Report Climate Change and Water (Bates et al., 2008) that changing climate over the past several decades can be associated with changes in a number of key components of the hydrological cycle. For instance, changes in precipitation (annual a ...
Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of
... Penguin feathers are highly modified in form and function, but there have been no fossils to inform their evolution. A giant penguin with feathers was recovered from the late Eocene (~36 million years ago) of Peru. The fossil reveals that key feathering features, including undifferentiated primary w ...
... Penguin feathers are highly modified in form and function, but there have been no fossils to inform their evolution. A giant penguin with feathers was recovered from the late Eocene (~36 million years ago) of Peru. The fossil reveals that key feathering features, including undifferentiated primary w ...
Impact Assessment on Aquaculture Framers in Sarawak, Malaysia
... persuades the growth of algae blooms which affect toxins to the water (World Bank, 2010). The climate change also will cause the modification to evaporation and precipitation cycle and harm mostly to the salt water aquaculture. The most dangerous effects for aquaculture production and other coastal ...
... persuades the growth of algae blooms which affect toxins to the water (World Bank, 2010). The climate change also will cause the modification to evaporation and precipitation cycle and harm mostly to the salt water aquaculture. The most dangerous effects for aquaculture production and other coastal ...
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the
... aims to generate new stakeholder-driven knowledge on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in semi-arid regions, develop innovative communication approaches for effective knowledge sharing on climate change vulnerability and adaptation, and stengthen capacity for adaptation in research, pol ...
... aims to generate new stakeholder-driven knowledge on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in semi-arid regions, develop innovative communication approaches for effective knowledge sharing on climate change vulnerability and adaptation, and stengthen capacity for adaptation in research, pol ...
Competition for land in the global bioeconomy
... resources between biofuels, agriculture, and forests. They find that land-based mitigation options could contribute anywhere between 15% and 40% of the total mitigation required for stabilization of radiative forcing. Bioenergy (including both liquid fuel and solids) is an extremely important part o ...
... resources between biofuels, agriculture, and forests. They find that land-based mitigation options could contribute anywhere between 15% and 40% of the total mitigation required for stabilization of radiative forcing. Bioenergy (including both liquid fuel and solids) is an extremely important part o ...
Geographical Variation of Climate Change Impact on Rice Yield in
... have negative effects on rice yield in tropical regions [14], but others have found that site data from tropical and subtropical regions show significant differences [15], leading to contradictory conclusions. Thus, geographical effects are important in investigating the spatial pattern of the clima ...
... have negative effects on rice yield in tropical regions [14], but others have found that site data from tropical and subtropical regions show significant differences [15], leading to contradictory conclusions. Thus, geographical effects are important in investigating the spatial pattern of the clima ...
GEF awareness briefing
... Provide phased and sustained support for the implementation of a multi-year program that better integrates global environmental objectives into national strategies and plans. ...
... Provide phased and sustained support for the implementation of a multi-year program that better integrates global environmental objectives into national strategies and plans. ...
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... Natural climate variability has always been a challenge to human livelihoods. Humaninduced climate change has lent a complex new dimension to this challenge. Evidences show that the natural climatic variability, compounded with climate change will adversely affect millions of livelihoods around the ...
... Natural climate variability has always been a challenge to human livelihoods. Humaninduced climate change has lent a complex new dimension to this challenge. Evidences show that the natural climatic variability, compounded with climate change will adversely affect millions of livelihoods around the ...
Identifying adaptation options - South Florida Regional Planning
... and engaging the relevant community of interest (ie. stakeholders) is considered key to success. Stakeholders contribute through the knowledge and skills that they bring to the process. The more comprehensive that knowledge and skill base is and the more informed the stakeholders are about the proce ...
... and engaging the relevant community of interest (ie. stakeholders) is considered key to success. Stakeholders contribute through the knowledge and skills that they bring to the process. The more comprehensive that knowledge and skill base is and the more informed the stakeholders are about the proce ...
Local Climate Impacts Profile
... from excessive rainfall and high winds. These aspects will be focussed on whilst the harsh winters will be used as an example of the Local Authority’s vulnerability to inclement weather generally. As a result of the harsh winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11 there is frequently doubt cast over whether cli ...
... from excessive rainfall and high winds. These aspects will be focussed on whilst the harsh winters will be used as an example of the Local Authority’s vulnerability to inclement weather generally. As a result of the harsh winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11 there is frequently doubt cast over whether cli ...
Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics
... • Used its extraordinary access to the Bush administration to block federal policies and shape government communications on global warming. The report documents that, despite the scientific consensus about the fundamental understanding that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide and other hea ...
... • Used its extraordinary access to the Bush administration to block federal policies and shape government communications on global warming. The report documents that, despite the scientific consensus about the fundamental understanding that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide and other hea ...
Report of the President`s Advisory Committee on Divestment from
... 2. The Committee acknowledges that certain activities, though socially injurious, nevertheless offer society indispensable benefits that currently cannot reasonably be gained in any other way. In the Committee’s view, such activities are not properly the focus of divestment action. 3. However, the C ...
... 2. The Committee acknowledges that certain activities, though socially injurious, nevertheless offer society indispensable benefits that currently cannot reasonably be gained in any other way. In the Committee’s view, such activities are not properly the focus of divestment action. 3. However, the C ...
Identifying adaptation options
... change (ie. they can act as “agents of change”). In the case of adaptation, there are often trade-offs and/or a number of different adaptive strategies or measures that could be taken. Stakeholders are expected to bring to the assessment process their different perspectives, including those related ...
... change (ie. they can act as “agents of change”). In the case of adaptation, there are often trade-offs and/or a number of different adaptive strategies or measures that could be taken. Stakeholders are expected to bring to the assessment process their different perspectives, including those related ...
Bird Species and Climate Change
... (DEFRA, 2005) with 84 per cent of migratory bird species2 facing some type of climate change threat. For example, the Arctic-breeding redbreasted goose, already globally vulnerable, is expected to lose 99 per cent of its tundra breeding habitat due to climate change (Zöckler and Lysenko, 2000). Bird ...
... (DEFRA, 2005) with 84 per cent of migratory bird species2 facing some type of climate change threat. For example, the Arctic-breeding redbreasted goose, already globally vulnerable, is expected to lose 99 per cent of its tundra breeding habitat due to climate change (Zöckler and Lysenko, 2000). Bird ...
Project management
... Since the ratification of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 Georgia has achieved significant progress towards meeting its commitments to the Convention. Serious efforts have been made to set appropriate policy and legal frameworks. Since the finalization of the Second Na ...
... Since the ratification of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 Georgia has achieved significant progress towards meeting its commitments to the Convention. Serious efforts have been made to set appropriate policy and legal frameworks. Since the finalization of the Second Na ...
paper - user"s empty page at IIASA / 2013
... stabilization of global radiative forcing at 4.5 W/m2 as compared to pre-industrial times. We use the MESSAGE model for a thorough bottom-up representation of the various greenhouse gases and the corresponding mitigation technologies. This approach endogenizes energy feedback effects from mitigation ...
... stabilization of global radiative forcing at 4.5 W/m2 as compared to pre-industrial times. We use the MESSAGE model for a thorough bottom-up representation of the various greenhouse gases and the corresponding mitigation technologies. This approach endogenizes energy feedback effects from mitigation ...
IPCC WGI AR5 Chapter Template
... Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen. {1.1} Each of the last three decades has been succe ...
... Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen. {1.1} Each of the last three decades has been succe ...
Mid-Pliocene Westerlies from PlioMIP Simulations
... ues, especially at 200 hPa. This result was partly due to the fact that we calculated the latitude of the maximum wind in the whole SH or NH, revealing that the latitude of maximum wind was grid-dependent to some degree. Relative to the pre-industrial period, all seven sets of AGCM simulations showe ...
... ues, especially at 200 hPa. This result was partly due to the fact that we calculated the latitude of the maximum wind in the whole SH or NH, revealing that the latitude of maximum wind was grid-dependent to some degree. Relative to the pre-industrial period, all seven sets of AGCM simulations showe ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TEMPERATURE, HUMAN HEALTH, AND ADAPTATION:
... conceptual level, the main limitations of the existing literature is that mortality and hospitalizations are the only health outcomes that have been exclusively studied, and so little is known about the potentially large “lower‐level” effects of temperature extremes on chronic conditions and quali ...
... conceptual level, the main limitations of the existing literature is that mortality and hospitalizations are the only health outcomes that have been exclusively studied, and so little is known about the potentially large “lower‐level” effects of temperature extremes on chronic conditions and quali ...
Title Climate Change-4 - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
... inspire and guide the peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment . The major initiatives undertaken in Pakistan after the 1972 s Stockholm declaration included the establishment of Federal Ministry of Environment in 1975 and enforcement of Environmental Protect ...
... inspire and guide the peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment . The major initiatives undertaken in Pakistan after the 1972 s Stockholm declaration included the establishment of Federal Ministry of Environment in 1975 and enforcement of Environmental Protect ...
Attribution of recent climate change
Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent changes observed in the Earth's climate, commonly known as 'global warming'. The effort has focused on changes observed during the period of instrumental temperature record, when records are most reliable; particularly in the last 50 years, when human activity has grown fastest and observations of the troposphere have become available. The dominant mechanisms (to which recent climate change has been attributed) are anthropogenic, i.e., the result of human activity. They are: increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases global changes to land surface, such as deforestation increasing atmospheric concentrations of aerosols.There are also natural mechanisms for variation including climate oscillations, changes in solar activity, and volcanic activity.According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is ""extremely likely"" that human influence was the dominant cause of global warming between 1951 and 2010. The IPCC defines ""extremely likely"" as indicating a probability of 95 to 100%, based on an expert assessment of all the available evidence.Multiple lines of evidence support attribution of recent climate change to human activities: A basic physical understanding of the climate system: greenhouse gas concentrations have increased and their warming properties are well-established. Historical estimates of past climate changes suggest that the recent changes in global surface temperature are unusual. Computer-based climate models are unable to replicate the observed warming unless human greenhouse gas emissions are included. Natural forces alone (such as solar and volcanic activity) cannot explain the observed warming.The IPCC's attribution of recent global warming to human activities is a view shared by most scientists, and is also supported by 196 other scientific organizations worldwide (see also: scientific opinion on climate change).