Climate Change Adaptation for Natural World Heritage Sites A
... The impact of climate change on World Heritage natural and cultural properties was brought to the attention of the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2005 by a group of concerned organizations and individuals. The Committee requested the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in collaboration wi ...
... The impact of climate change on World Heritage natural and cultural properties was brought to the attention of the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2005 by a group of concerned organizations and individuals. The Committee requested the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in collaboration wi ...
Asian Aerosols: Current and Year 2030 Distributions and
... as areas with high open biomass burning such as Southeast Asian countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia. BC emissions over Pacific and Indian Oceans are from shipping and aviation. One source of error in the emissions used in the simulations is that due to annual changes in anthropogenic emiss ...
... as areas with high open biomass burning such as Southeast Asian countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia. BC emissions over Pacific and Indian Oceans are from shipping and aviation. One source of error in the emissions used in the simulations is that due to annual changes in anthropogenic emiss ...
Climate change and changes in global precipitation patterns: What
... precipitation separate from ENSO and other modes (patterns) of climate variability. 2.1.1. Mid- and high latitudes Over the 20th century, annual zonally averaged precipitation increased by between 7% and 12% for the zones 30-N to 85-N and by about 2% between 0-S and 55-S. The increase in the Norther ...
... precipitation separate from ENSO and other modes (patterns) of climate variability. 2.1.1. Mid- and high latitudes Over the 20th century, annual zonally averaged precipitation increased by between 7% and 12% for the zones 30-N to 85-N and by about 2% between 0-S and 55-S. The increase in the Norther ...
Climate change and the northern Russian treeline zone
... the availability of nitrogen and decrease growth. Shading by trees can accentuate soil cooling and serve as a negative feedback to forest development on cold sites. Prolonged minimum temperatures greater than 68C are generally required for bud formation and other aspects of reproductive development. ...
... the availability of nitrogen and decrease growth. Shading by trees can accentuate soil cooling and serve as a negative feedback to forest development on cold sites. Prolonged minimum temperatures greater than 68C are generally required for bud formation and other aspects of reproductive development. ...
Chapter 1: The climate of the Eastern
... developments in the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions. The increase in temperature is expected to be greater at higher latitudes and in continental regions as opposed to the oceans (IPCC, 2007). Global warming is expected to cause a decline in sea and land ice cover, and an increase in the m ...
... developments in the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions. The increase in temperature is expected to be greater at higher latitudes and in continental regions as opposed to the oceans (IPCC, 2007). Global warming is expected to cause a decline in sea and land ice cover, and an increase in the m ...
Death and Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events Indur M. Goklany
... events through, among other things, intensification of the hydrological cycle, hurricanes and other storms, and, thereby, raise deaths and death rates globally as well as in the United States (see, e.g., IPCC 2001: Table SPM-1; Patz 2004; MacMichael and Woodruff 2004; Schiermeier 2003, 2005; Trenber ...
... events through, among other things, intensification of the hydrological cycle, hurricanes and other storms, and, thereby, raise deaths and death rates globally as well as in the United States (see, e.g., IPCC 2001: Table SPM-1; Patz 2004; MacMichael and Woodruff 2004; Schiermeier 2003, 2005; Trenber ...
Gauteng Climate Change Risk and vulnerability assessment
... Table 10 Results of the participatory impacts and risk and vulnerability assessment activity of the Gauteng stakeholder workshop, for the Disaster Risk Management sector ............... 51 Table 11 Results of the participatory impacts and risk and vulnerability assessment activity of the Gauteng sta ...
... Table 10 Results of the participatory impacts and risk and vulnerability assessment activity of the Gauteng stakeholder workshop, for the Disaster Risk Management sector ............... 51 Table 11 Results of the participatory impacts and risk and vulnerability assessment activity of the Gauteng sta ...
FAO, forests and climate change
... Forests support the livelihoods of more than a billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide and provide paid employment for over 100 million people. They are home to more than 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and help protect watersheds that are critical for the supply of cl ...
... Forests support the livelihoods of more than a billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide and provide paid employment for over 100 million people. They are home to more than 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and help protect watersheds that are critical for the supply of cl ...
2015 Annual Highlights
... their management actions. It will facilitate landscape understanding of the value of lands, waters, and wildlife resources that may be affected by management actions. Products will include: • Shared set of conservation priorities for the ecoregion. • Maps of priority places for species and habitat ...
... their management actions. It will facilitate landscape understanding of the value of lands, waters, and wildlife resources that may be affected by management actions. Products will include: • Shared set of conservation priorities for the ecoregion. • Maps of priority places for species and habitat ...
Understanding public complacency about climate
... the delay arises from the time required to build the public and political support needed to pass legislation and ratify international agreements. Some arises from inertia in the economy and energy system: even after policies to promote energy efficiency and non-carbon energy sources are implemented, ...
... the delay arises from the time required to build the public and political support needed to pass legislation and ratify international agreements. Some arises from inertia in the economy and energy system: even after policies to promote energy efficiency and non-carbon energy sources are implemented, ...
Establishing Links between Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate
... Both disasters – be they climate-induced or otherwise created – and climate change impacts negatively affect development outcomes (Schipper and Pelling, 2006; IPCC, 2012). Similarly, the most effective disaster risk reduction and adaptation approaches are those that promote development by increasing ...
... Both disasters – be they climate-induced or otherwise created – and climate change impacts negatively affect development outcomes (Schipper and Pelling, 2006; IPCC, 2012). Similarly, the most effective disaster risk reduction and adaptation approaches are those that promote development by increasing ...
Projection of Climate Change Scenarios in Different Temperature
... According to the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is no doubt that the temperature has increased during the past century. From 1880 to 2012, the global surface air temperature has increased by 0.85 ◦ C. The warming trends will continue in this ce ...
... According to the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is no doubt that the temperature has increased during the past century. From 1880 to 2012, the global surface air temperature has increased by 0.85 ◦ C. The warming trends will continue in this ce ...
Trends of mean temperatures and warm extremes in northern
... the mean ± 4 standard deviations (SD) from the climatological daily mean. Daily means and SD have been computed for each station on a 5 day running window using available entries from 1961 to 2014. Our analyses are based either on counts of hot days and warm nights or indices based on the 90th perce ...
... the mean ± 4 standard deviations (SD) from the climatological daily mean. Daily means and SD have been computed for each station on a 5 day running window using available entries from 1961 to 2014. Our analyses are based either on counts of hot days and warm nights or indices based on the 90th perce ...
Uganda National Adaptation Programmes of Action
... The Second World Climate Conference, organized by the World Meteorological Organization and held in November 1990 in Geneva, Switzerland attracted a wide spectrum of participants, including, planners, policy makers and decision makers. This was the beginning of a lifetime relationship between climat ...
... The Second World Climate Conference, organized by the World Meteorological Organization and held in November 1990 in Geneva, Switzerland attracted a wide spectrum of participants, including, planners, policy makers and decision makers. This was the beginning of a lifetime relationship between climat ...
Local Strategies for Addressing Climate Change
... While this may seem like an overwhelming charge, there are many things that coastal resource managers around the country are already doing that are specifically or indirectly addressing the effects of climate change. The purpose of this document, which contains articles that previously ran in the Na ...
... While this may seem like an overwhelming charge, there are many things that coastal resource managers around the country are already doing that are specifically or indirectly addressing the effects of climate change. The purpose of this document, which contains articles that previously ran in the Na ...
Climate Change and Renewable Energy - Minnesota DNR - MN-dnr
... challenge, they have become immediate. Just look at northern Minnesota, where average annual temperature have increased by more than 2° F over the past century. Our mandate comes from legislation and the Governor himself. Minnesota’s Next Generation Energy Act of 2007 requires the state to reduce fo ...
... challenge, they have become immediate. Just look at northern Minnesota, where average annual temperature have increased by more than 2° F over the past century. Our mandate comes from legislation and the Governor himself. Minnesota’s Next Generation Energy Act of 2007 requires the state to reduce fo ...
Impact of climate change on the dairy industry in temperate zones
... influenced by global warming. Thus, these changes will continue to affect the dairy industry directly and indirectly. The most significant indirect effect is expected to result from cruel reduction in worldwide grains (concentrate feedstuffs) production. This change will impose need to tradeoff betwee ...
... influenced by global warming. Thus, these changes will continue to affect the dairy industry directly and indirectly. The most significant indirect effect is expected to result from cruel reduction in worldwide grains (concentrate feedstuffs) production. This change will impose need to tradeoff betwee ...
Improving Societal Outcomes of Extreme Weather in a Changing
... and the impacts of extreme weather can vary significantly across time, space, and populations. For example, hot temperatures affect crops differently depending on when they occur relative to the plants’ stage of development (26). The temperature threshold for a heat wave is lower in a colder climate ...
... and the impacts of extreme weather can vary significantly across time, space, and populations. For example, hot temperatures affect crops differently depending on when they occur relative to the plants’ stage of development (26). The temperature threshold for a heat wave is lower in a colder climate ...
Protecting People Crossing Borders in the Context of
... activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to other natural climate variability that has been observed over comparable time periods’.2 This definition has been expanded by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which refers to any change of c ...
... activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to other natural climate variability that has been observed over comparable time periods’.2 This definition has been expanded by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which refers to any change of c ...
Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives
... OVERVIEW OVERVIEW The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) states unequivocally that the world is warming. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. There is increasing concern about the ...
... OVERVIEW OVERVIEW The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) states unequivocally that the world is warming. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. There is increasing concern about the ...
Klimatologie & Hydrologie II
... “There was nothing similar to this on the territory of Russia during the last one thousand years." ...
... “There was nothing similar to this on the territory of Russia during the last one thousand years." ...
Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK, Department of Health
... UK to advise on the likely effects of climate change on health in the United Kingdom (UK). This report presents the Group’s findings.The available evidence has been examined and it has been concluded that climate change will have a significant effect on health in the UK. The various features of the ...
... UK to advise on the likely effects of climate change on health in the United Kingdom (UK). This report presents the Group’s findings.The available evidence has been examined and it has been concluded that climate change will have a significant effect on health in the UK. The various features of the ...
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... Climate change is expected to affect the agricultural sector in many respects (Parry et al., 2007) and thus influences agricultural vulnerability (Fellmann, 2012). The latter can be interpreted in various ways as there exists a plurality of definitions, concepts and methodologies to assess vulnerabi ...
... Climate change is expected to affect the agricultural sector in many respects (Parry et al., 2007) and thus influences agricultural vulnerability (Fellmann, 2012). The latter can be interpreted in various ways as there exists a plurality of definitions, concepts and methodologies to assess vulnerabi ...
Consistent increase in Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability
... monsoon rainfall in a homogeneous region over central India shows no significant long-term trend during the past few decades (Goswami et al., 2006). Even though the frequency and magnitude of extreme events show a rising trend over central India (Rajeevan et al., 2006; Goswami et al., 2006), a signi ...
... monsoon rainfall in a homogeneous region over central India shows no significant long-term trend during the past few decades (Goswami et al., 2006). Even though the frequency and magnitude of extreme events show a rising trend over central India (Rajeevan et al., 2006; Goswami et al., 2006), a signi ...
Chapter 10 - Graduate Institute of International and Development
... the Protocol.) These targets apply, not on a yearly basis, but to the fiveyear, 2008–2012 commitment period, and apply to a basket of six greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and three trace gases or groups of gases). Both in the FCCC and the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, develop ...
... the Protocol.) These targets apply, not on a yearly basis, but to the fiveyear, 2008–2012 commitment period, and apply to a basket of six greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and three trace gases or groups of gases). Both in the FCCC and the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, develop ...
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).