module 1 - National Open University of Nigeria
... result from human activities. By far, the most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapour, which reaches the atmosphere through evaporation from oceans, lakes and rivers. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone all occur naturally in the environment, but they are being produced at record leve ...
... result from human activities. By far, the most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapour, which reaches the atmosphere through evaporation from oceans, lakes and rivers. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone all occur naturally in the environment, but they are being produced at record leve ...
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... discount rate. Because the potential benefits from mitigation accrue many centuries into the future, even small changes in the discount rate can have a large effect on the appropriate emissions price. We approach climate change as a standard asset pricing problem. Carbon in the atmosphere is an ‘ass ...
... discount rate. Because the potential benefits from mitigation accrue many centuries into the future, even small changes in the discount rate can have a large effect on the appropriate emissions price. We approach climate change as a standard asset pricing problem. Carbon in the atmosphere is an ‘ass ...
The Surveyor’s Role in Monitoring, Mitigating, and Adapting to Climate Change FIG REPORT
... data vital to understanding the impacts of climate change, but also to grasp many of the complex human, political and physical interactions that arise in dealing with climate change issues. Understanding the full extent of the complex interactions that are part of climate change science requires not ...
... data vital to understanding the impacts of climate change, but also to grasp many of the complex human, political and physical interactions that arise in dealing with climate change issues. Understanding the full extent of the complex interactions that are part of climate change science requires not ...
this paper
... calibration drift and sampling of ice-covered regions present major limitations. 3.5 Detection of an anthropogenic influence on climate The subsurface ocean temperature is shaped by both “external” climate forcings (e.g. changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar variations) and the inherent, unfo ...
... calibration drift and sampling of ice-covered regions present major limitations. 3.5 Detection of an anthropogenic influence on climate The subsurface ocean temperature is shaped by both “external” climate forcings (e.g. changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar variations) and the inherent, unfo ...
2015 Global Climate Legislation Study - summary for policymakers (English) (opens in new window)
... Parliamentary Hearings on the INDCs to ensure that pledges by governments are subjected to parliamentary scrutiny in advance of COP21. It is important that these pledges must be aligned with national development objectives and that they result in raised, not lowered, national ambition on climate act ...
... Parliamentary Hearings on the INDCs to ensure that pledges by governments are subjected to parliamentary scrutiny in advance of COP21. It is important that these pledges must be aligned with national development objectives and that they result in raised, not lowered, national ambition on climate act ...
Climate Change and Nutrition Security
... Climate change instils greater urgency to find more sustainable, resilient and efficient ways of producing, trading, distributing and consuming food. Producing more food does not necessarily lead to a better access to food or to an improved nutritional status of those who need it most30. In Kenya and ...
... Climate change instils greater urgency to find more sustainable, resilient and efficient ways of producing, trading, distributing and consuming food. Producing more food does not necessarily lead to a better access to food or to an improved nutritional status of those who need it most30. In Kenya and ...
an analysis of factors affecting climate change adaptation strategies
... food security are highly vulnerable to these climatic change (Kurukulakusuriya and Rosenthal, 2003). ...
... food security are highly vulnerable to these climatic change (Kurukulakusuriya and Rosenthal, 2003). ...
Projected responses of North American grassland - ace
... attributed to agricultural intensification. Understanding the potential interactions between the impacts of climate change on the future distributions of these species and the availability of suitable vegetation for nesting can support improved risk assessments and conservation planning for this gro ...
... attributed to agricultural intensification. Understanding the potential interactions between the impacts of climate change on the future distributions of these species and the availability of suitable vegetation for nesting can support improved risk assessments and conservation planning for this gro ...
CSKT Climate Change Strategic Plan
... precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period of time (decades or longer). Climate change may result from natural factors and processes and from human activities that change the atmosphere’s composition and land surface. ...
... precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period of time (decades or longer). Climate change may result from natural factors and processes and from human activities that change the atmosphere’s composition and land surface. ...
Hydrologic Sensitivity to Climate and Land Use Changes in the
... considered. When adding the effect of the two land use scenarios to the climate change scenarios, the relationship between temperature and runoff depths is far weaker (Table 4). However, while the strength of the relationship is similar between December and August for the scenario with no land use c ...
... considered. When adding the effect of the two land use scenarios to the climate change scenarios, the relationship between temperature and runoff depths is far weaker (Table 4). However, while the strength of the relationship is similar between December and August for the scenario with no land use c ...
Analyzing Urban Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change: A
... The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) demonstrates in the Fourth Assessment Report of 2007 that, as global temperatures rise, several effects could be more frequent, such as extreme weather events and droughts, rapid sea level rise, breakdown of the marine food chain a ...
... The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) demonstrates in the Fourth Assessment Report of 2007 that, as global temperatures rise, several effects could be more frequent, such as extreme weather events and droughts, rapid sea level rise, breakdown of the marine food chain a ...
Global climate change scenario
... Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) was a report prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Third Assessment Report (TAR) in 2001, on future emission scenarios to be used for driving global circulation models ...
... Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) was a report prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Third Assessment Report (TAR) in 2001, on future emission scenarios to be used for driving global circulation models ...
Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change
... force to be reckoned with, making up roughly 30 percent of the American population.2 Second, and perhaps more important, the response to climate change within the evangelical community has been quite discordant, thereby offering valuable insight into the complex and oft-misunderstood group labeled “ ...
... force to be reckoned with, making up roughly 30 percent of the American population.2 Second, and perhaps more important, the response to climate change within the evangelical community has been quite discordant, thereby offering valuable insight into the complex and oft-misunderstood group labeled “ ...
Migration, Environment and Climate Change
... “This category encompasses those who move because they anticipate future threats to their lives, physical safety, health or subsistence, for example because of slow-onset processes that are beyond their control. This category includes (but is not limited to) those who live in areas that are predicte ...
... “This category encompasses those who move because they anticipate future threats to their lives, physical safety, health or subsistence, for example because of slow-onset processes that are beyond their control. This category includes (but is not limited to) those who live in areas that are predicte ...
Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project
... assessment and identifying appropriate and promising adaptation responses. This publication is an important contribution to the case study literature on adaptation. The transport sector is potentially among the most vulnerable to projected changes in climate variables, and this report illustrates th ...
... assessment and identifying appropriate and promising adaptation responses. This publication is an important contribution to the case study literature on adaptation. The transport sector is potentially among the most vulnerable to projected changes in climate variables, and this report illustrates th ...
Impact of the Kyoto Protocol on Stabilization of Carbon
... From all possible emission paths calculated as described above, we pick the ones that lead to a specified CO2 concentration. For 450 ppmv, e.g., the concentration has to be below 450 ppmv before 2100 and 450±10 ppmv in 2150 and 2200. We do not consider “overshoot” scenarios in this analysis based on ...
... From all possible emission paths calculated as described above, we pick the ones that lead to a specified CO2 concentration. For 450 ppmv, e.g., the concentration has to be below 450 ppmv before 2100 and 450±10 ppmv in 2150 and 2200. We do not consider “overshoot” scenarios in this analysis based on ...
Invited Commentary A simple framework for evaluating regional
... The potential impacts of climate change on wetland hydrology are of interest to a wide range of stakeholders from wetland managers to international policy makers. Ecohydrological models that combine climate changes, hydrological processes and ecological response provide a means of estimating what mi ...
... The potential impacts of climate change on wetland hydrology are of interest to a wide range of stakeholders from wetland managers to international policy makers. Ecohydrological models that combine climate changes, hydrological processes and ecological response provide a means of estimating what mi ...
manukan island sabah
... information. The top elevation of layer one corresponds with island land elevation. The bottom of layer two is set at an elevation of 7.0 m below the mean sea level. Model input parameters are given in Table 1. Based on groundwater data availability, one day was chosen as the time step in this study ...
... information. The top elevation of layer one corresponds with island land elevation. The bottom of layer two is set at an elevation of 7.0 m below the mean sea level. Model input parameters are given in Table 1. Based on groundwater data availability, one day was chosen as the time step in this study ...
Climate Change and the Chugach and Tongass National Forests
... important to shellfish and migratory birds, vary widely between reports and even among locations within reports, due to the complexities of local uplift from glacial melting and seismic activity (Reports A, C, D, I, K). Figures vary slightly, but Reports B, C, and K generally agree that the oceans h ...
... important to shellfish and migratory birds, vary widely between reports and even among locations within reports, due to the complexities of local uplift from glacial melting and seismic activity (Reports A, C, D, I, K). Figures vary slightly, but Reports B, C, and K generally agree that the oceans h ...
Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
... Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more extreme ...
... Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more extreme ...
by The Hon. Justice Brian J Preston Chief Judge
... Parties with obligations under an emissions trading scheme, such as the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, including the mining and energy industries, determine the most cost effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Australia is still to put in place an emissions trading scheme. ...
... Parties with obligations under an emissions trading scheme, such as the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, including the mining and energy industries, determine the most cost effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Australia is still to put in place an emissions trading scheme. ...