UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
... not presenting either the highest wind climatology nor the greatest wind variability among the world’s oceans. This fact also seems to indicate an important contribution of inter-annual variability for the extreme values. ...
... not presenting either the highest wind climatology nor the greatest wind variability among the world’s oceans. This fact also seems to indicate an important contribution of inter-annual variability for the extreme values. ...
Protected Areas: Buffering nature against climate change
... enough colonists to reach distant refugia. They also need stepping stones of streams or wetlands spaced so that colonists can move safely between them. Alternatively, frog eggs may be carried by water birds to new habitats. Destination refugia must also be protected with appropriate resources and na ...
... enough colonists to reach distant refugia. They also need stepping stones of streams or wetlands spaced so that colonists can move safely between them. Alternatively, frog eggs may be carried by water birds to new habitats. Destination refugia must also be protected with appropriate resources and na ...
Climate System Response to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and
... GHG forcings also have very different time histories during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The GHG forcing increases monotonically over this entire period. In contrast, stratospheric ozone forcing starts to become significant only in the 1970s, and changes sign around the year 2000 as ozo ...
... GHG forcings also have very different time histories during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The GHG forcing increases monotonically over this entire period. In contrast, stratospheric ozone forcing starts to become significant only in the 1970s, and changes sign around the year 2000 as ozo ...
Climate Change and Natural Resources Conflicts in Africa
... CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL RESOURCES CONFLICTS IN AFRICA ...
... CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL RESOURCES CONFLICTS IN AFRICA ...
IFinland`s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
... The FINSKEN project (1999 to 2002) was part of the Finnish Global Change Research Programme (FIGARE) carried out by the Academy of Finland. The FINSKEN project produced consistent global change scenarios for Finland up to the year 2100 concerning issues such as atmospheric composition, acid fallout, ...
... The FINSKEN project (1999 to 2002) was part of the Finnish Global Change Research Programme (FIGARE) carried out by the Academy of Finland. The FINSKEN project produced consistent global change scenarios for Finland up to the year 2100 concerning issues such as atmospheric composition, acid fallout, ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED
... This document has been reproduced without formal editing ...
... This document has been reproduced without formal editing ...
VIEW PDF - Virginia Journal of International Law
... levels by 2020, a more than fifteen percent reduction from today’s levels.6 Most Washington insiders and climate experts expect new legislation of this type (but not necessarily these emission numbers) by 2010 or shortly thereafter. Aligning these fast-moving domestic and international efforts will ...
... levels by 2020, a more than fifteen percent reduction from today’s levels.6 Most Washington insiders and climate experts expect new legislation of this type (but not necessarily these emission numbers) by 2010 or shortly thereafter. Aligning these fast-moving domestic and international efforts will ...
Land-Atmosphere Coupling and Drought Persistence in
... and costly due to large spatial extent and often long duration. The mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of long-term droughts are not well understood, however many drought analyses allege the importance of land-atmosphere feedbacks and speculate that these feedbacks will amplify changes in th ...
... and costly due to large spatial extent and often long duration. The mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of long-term droughts are not well understood, however many drought analyses allege the importance of land-atmosphere feedbacks and speculate that these feedbacks will amplify changes in th ...
Synthesis of Climate Change Knowledge and Planning Practices
... This report provides a synthesis of local knowledge and experiences of climate change, specifically on how this knowledge was integrated with science and planning practice. We based this synthesis on the collection and review of 47 documents provided by the four Wet Tropics Cluster regional NRM orga ...
... This report provides a synthesis of local knowledge and experiences of climate change, specifically on how this knowledge was integrated with science and planning practice. We based this synthesis on the collection and review of 47 documents provided by the four Wet Tropics Cluster regional NRM orga ...
Climate Change Induced Vulnerability to Malaria and
... Cholera is now endemic in the Lake Victoria basin, at least since the early 1970s. Thus in 1998 more than 72% of global total number of cholera cases was reported in Africa. Analyses of climate parameters (precipitation and temperatures) over the period 19782002 has been coupled with the analyses of ...
... Cholera is now endemic in the Lake Victoria basin, at least since the early 1970s. Thus in 1998 more than 72% of global total number of cholera cases was reported in Africa. Analyses of climate parameters (precipitation and temperatures) over the period 19782002 has been coupled with the analyses of ...
egypt third national communication
... All Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking into account their common but differentiated responsibilities and their specific national and regional development priorities, objectives and circumstances, need to periodically report to the Convention a Natio ...
... All Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking into account their common but differentiated responsibilities and their specific national and regional development priorities, objectives and circumstances, need to periodically report to the Convention a Natio ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources
... The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources and its employees do not warrant or make any representation regarding the use, or results of the use, of the information contained herein as regards to its correctness, accuracy, reliability, currency or otherwise. The Department of Environm ...
... The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources and its employees do not warrant or make any representation regarding the use, or results of the use, of the information contained herein as regards to its correctness, accuracy, reliability, currency or otherwise. The Department of Environm ...
Equator Principles and Climate Change Issues
... to my thesis that I am proud of. I sincerely express my gratitude for all efforts that you have put forth to advise me during the course of my academic development at the University of Waterloo and my research endeavors. Thank you to my committee member, Dr. Olaf Weber, for agreeing to provide your ...
... to my thesis that I am proud of. I sincerely express my gratitude for all efforts that you have put forth to advise me during the course of my academic development at the University of Waterloo and my research endeavors. Thank you to my committee member, Dr. Olaf Weber, for agreeing to provide your ...
Climate Change and Aspen
... communities as the canary in the coal mine for global warming. Aspen’s goal: to aggressively reduce its contribution to global warming, and to engage other communities to send a clear message on the importance of this issue. Data for the past 50 years collected at Aspen’s weather station, and compil ...
... communities as the canary in the coal mine for global warming. Aspen’s goal: to aggressively reduce its contribution to global warming, and to engage other communities to send a clear message on the importance of this issue. Data for the past 50 years collected at Aspen’s weather station, and compil ...
Adaptive Capacity Benchmarking: Handbook and Tool Kit
... work on individual behaviour change that we and HCC had undertaken together. We drew on a range of expertise and wider research to set out six levels of organisational response to climate change. It described these across nine different areas, or ‘pathways’. It resulted in the publication of the rep ...
... work on individual behaviour change that we and HCC had undertaken together. We drew on a range of expertise and wider research to set out six levels of organisational response to climate change. It described these across nine different areas, or ‘pathways’. It resulted in the publication of the rep ...
Egypt`s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate
... which had never been classified as more vulnerable and threatened. A distinction was therefore made between climate change as a part of natural climatic events, and climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) ...
... which had never been classified as more vulnerable and threatened. A distinction was therefore made between climate change as a part of natural climatic events, and climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) ...
PDF free file avaible - Bioversity International
... The small-scale maize farmers in this study include both indigenous and mestizo households. They have diversified livelihoods, producing multiple crops, fruit trees and domesticated animals, producing both for self-consumption as well as for the market. Farmers also engage in non-farm activities. Ma ...
... The small-scale maize farmers in this study include both indigenous and mestizo households. They have diversified livelihoods, producing multiple crops, fruit trees and domesticated animals, producing both for self-consumption as well as for the market. Farmers also engage in non-farm activities. Ma ...
Building resilience to climate change
... their dietary and cultural needs. Targeting food security in the Pacific region is a critical action in the face of climate change, which will continue to place added pressure on existing food and water resources. The ultimate aim of the toolkit is to help ensure that Pacific Island communities contin ...
... their dietary and cultural needs. Targeting food security in the Pacific region is a critical action in the face of climate change, which will continue to place added pressure on existing food and water resources. The ultimate aim of the toolkit is to help ensure that Pacific Island communities contin ...
Enabling the Transition report
... transition needed within the next ten years. Technology isn’t the issue, as renewables can replace fossil fuels globally by 2050. Climate innovations are available, it is political will and market frameworks which are lacking. Concerted efforts from leaders in policy and business can bring jobs and ...
... transition needed within the next ten years. Technology isn’t the issue, as renewables can replace fossil fuels globally by 2050. Climate innovations are available, it is political will and market frameworks which are lacking. Concerted efforts from leaders in policy and business can bring jobs and ...
Assessing and Enhancing Adaptive Capacity
... Much of the discussion in this TP refers to human systems and the role of human behaviour in mediating adaptive capacity. However, practitioners may also be concerned with the adaptive capacity of ecological systems, or coupled social-ecological systems. For unmanaged ecological systems, adaptive ca ...
... Much of the discussion in this TP refers to human systems and the role of human behaviour in mediating adaptive capacity. However, practitioners may also be concerned with the adaptive capacity of ecological systems, or coupled social-ecological systems. For unmanaged ecological systems, adaptive ca ...