Climate_Change_
... Climate Innovation Business Clusters 1-2% of GDP p.a. investment in Climate Innovation; some countries spend more than this. Stern recommends 2%. If 5-10 year delay in rapid progress with Climate Innovation, then 5-10% of GPD p.a. may be req’d to deal with extensive degradation within next decade Ca ...
... Climate Innovation Business Clusters 1-2% of GDP p.a. investment in Climate Innovation; some countries spend more than this. Stern recommends 2%. If 5-10 year delay in rapid progress with Climate Innovation, then 5-10% of GPD p.a. may be req’d to deal with extensive degradation within next decade Ca ...
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... consumption is impacted severely by drought, which has been and will continue to increase in intensity and frequency (due to both changes in rainfall and increasing temperatures), especially in sub-tropical and semi-arid regions. In Ethiopia temperatures have risen by approximately 1.3°C between 196 ...
... consumption is impacted severely by drought, which has been and will continue to increase in intensity and frequency (due to both changes in rainfall and increasing temperatures), especially in sub-tropical and semi-arid regions. In Ethiopia temperatures have risen by approximately 1.3°C between 196 ...
International Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate
... tools are not possible to harmonise either, as they have to be in accordance to different donor processes. “There are no blue-print-approaches” (Lorenz Petersen, GTZ). Or as another participant put it: “If you relate the harmonisation issues discussed to gender, governance, culture, etc., they would ...
... tools are not possible to harmonise either, as they have to be in accordance to different donor processes. “There are no blue-print-approaches” (Lorenz Petersen, GTZ). Or as another participant put it: “If you relate the harmonisation issues discussed to gender, governance, culture, etc., they would ...
Slide 1
... and saw sea core bed data that indicated we might be due for another ice age. The didn't know about the fact that many of the components of the milancovic cycle all needed to fall in phase for the ice age to begin. Temps decreased for about 30 years and scientists were just starting to look at clima ...
... and saw sea core bed data that indicated we might be due for another ice age. The didn't know about the fact that many of the components of the milancovic cycle all needed to fall in phase for the ice age to begin. Temps decreased for about 30 years and scientists were just starting to look at clima ...
flying blind: navigating climate change without the
... world-class capability that has taken decades to build and cannot be easily recovered. The CSIRO is a key component of Australia’s climate science capability. It provides worldclass expertise in many areas of climate science, ranging from climate modelling, climate projections for Australia, the car ...
... world-class capability that has taken decades to build and cannot be easily recovered. The CSIRO is a key component of Australia’s climate science capability. It provides worldclass expertise in many areas of climate science, ranging from climate modelling, climate projections for Australia, the car ...
Severe weather and UK food chain resilience
... implies that extreme weather occurs randomly in time and that each year is equally unlikely to experience it. However, if weather is actually clustered in time then the impacts may be compounded (e.g. a single year of drought may have little impact, but two consecutive years of drought occur, the im ...
... implies that extreme weather occurs randomly in time and that each year is equally unlikely to experience it. However, if weather is actually clustered in time then the impacts may be compounded (e.g. a single year of drought may have little impact, but two consecutive years of drought occur, the im ...
Reports of Phase 2 Activity, January 2005
... gradual decline in rainfall from 1970 to 2040 caused by global warming from the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect. Prompted by studies for the Greenhouse ’87 conference and low rainfalls dating from the early 70s, this was a highly contentious decision at the time. The institutional decision environment of ...
... gradual decline in rainfall from 1970 to 2040 caused by global warming from the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect. Prompted by studies for the Greenhouse ’87 conference and low rainfalls dating from the early 70s, this was a highly contentious decision at the time. The institutional decision environment of ...
From adaptation to climate-resilient development: the costs of climate-proofing the Millennium Development Goals in Africa (388 kB ) (opens in new window)
... The separation between “development” and “adaptation” has understandable political reasons since negotiators aim to distinguish (baseline) development finance from (additional) adaptation finance. Raising adaptation and development finance separately and keeping funds in separate “pots” therefore ma ...
... The separation between “development” and “adaptation” has understandable political reasons since negotiators aim to distinguish (baseline) development finance from (additional) adaptation finance. Raising adaptation and development finance separately and keeping funds in separate “pots” therefore ma ...
Climate change presents increased potential for
... century (1971–2000) runs. We focus on changes in the multimodel mean response (defined as the simple average of the 17 GCMs) and identify regions where the signal is robust, defined by where the multi-model mean difference between mid-21stcentury P and late-20th-century P exceeds two standard deviat ...
... century (1971–2000) runs. We focus on changes in the multimodel mean response (defined as the simple average of the 17 GCMs) and identify regions where the signal is robust, defined by where the multi-model mean difference between mid-21stcentury P and late-20th-century P exceeds two standard deviat ...
CHAPTER 6: Tropical Marine
... planned for in any contemporary conservation efforts. A variety of emergent stressors associated with climate variability and change, reviewed below, are of increasing concern to scientists and mangers. INCREASING SEA TEMPERATURES ...
... planned for in any contemporary conservation efforts. A variety of emergent stressors associated with climate variability and change, reviewed below, are of increasing concern to scientists and mangers. INCREASING SEA TEMPERATURES ...
Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Community
... wind over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. The classical period often referred to in climate change studies is 30 years (Hananh et al., 2005). Climate change is largely attributed to both natural and anthropogenic factors (IPCC, 1996, 2007b). Natural factors such as solar ...
... wind over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. The classical period often referred to in climate change studies is 30 years (Hananh et al., 2005). Climate change is largely attributed to both natural and anthropogenic factors (IPCC, 1996, 2007b). Natural factors such as solar ...
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change
... estimates do not account for the full range of compensatory responses to changes in weather made by profit-maximizing farmers. For example, in response to a change in climate, farmers may alter their use of fertilizers, change their mix of crops, or even decide to use their farmland for another acti ...
... estimates do not account for the full range of compensatory responses to changes in weather made by profit-maximizing farmers. For example, in response to a change in climate, farmers may alter their use of fertilizers, change their mix of crops, or even decide to use their farmland for another acti ...
Article - Biogeosciences
... parameters of a modified light response model fitted to NEE in each year, as much as 55 % of the variation could be attributed to the biotic responses at an annual time scale. In contrast, the effect of functional changes were found to be much lower in a peatland (Teklemariam et al., 2010). Both the ...
... parameters of a modified light response model fitted to NEE in each year, as much as 55 % of the variation could be attributed to the biotic responses at an annual time scale. In contrast, the effect of functional changes were found to be much lower in a peatland (Teklemariam et al., 2010). Both the ...
Future directions in adaptation research
... must be reviewed to include adaptation by mid-2014 How can the uncertainties of climate impact ...
... must be reviewed to include adaptation by mid-2014 How can the uncertainties of climate impact ...
The Perspectives of Climate Scientists on Global Climate Change
... Fifteen years ago Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at MIT, observed, “Unfortunately, the way current [climate] models handle factors such as clouds and water vapor is disturbingly Climate models adequately arbitrary. In many instances the underlying deal with clouds. physics is simply not k ...
... Fifteen years ago Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at MIT, observed, “Unfortunately, the way current [climate] models handle factors such as clouds and water vapor is disturbingly Climate models adequately arbitrary. In many instances the underlying deal with clouds. physics is simply not k ...
Discussion Paper - LEDS Global Partnership
... hinder action because it is uncertain what adaptation strategies would be most beneficial. Furthermore, these projections are often on long-term time scales, whereas decision-making is often based on short-term information. These levels of uncertainty can often lead to disagreement among stakeholder ...
... hinder action because it is uncertain what adaptation strategies would be most beneficial. Furthermore, these projections are often on long-term time scales, whereas decision-making is often based on short-term information. These levels of uncertainty can often lead to disagreement among stakeholder ...
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... was to apply the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) crop modelling software (Jones et al., 2003) to climate model data, to see how crop yields of major crops would be affected by climate change, not accounting for market effects, technological changes or adaptation. The seco ...
... was to apply the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) crop modelling software (Jones et al., 2003) to climate model data, to see how crop yields of major crops would be affected by climate change, not accounting for market effects, technological changes or adaptation. The seco ...
Resilience
... adaptive strategies. We deal with the adaptation of the integrated social-ecological system, and we analyze change through the lens of resilience. To clarify our terminology, we use the term “adaptive” in the usual evolutionary ecological sense to mean any response that increases a population's prob ...
... adaptive strategies. We deal with the adaptation of the integrated social-ecological system, and we analyze change through the lens of resilience. To clarify our terminology, we use the term “adaptive” in the usual evolutionary ecological sense to mean any response that increases a population's prob ...
Climate Change Effects on North American Inland Fish Populations
... freeze and breakup dates of lake ice in the Northern Hemisphere have become later and earlier, respectively, and interannual variability in ice dynamics has increased over the past 150 years (Magnuson et al. 2000). Broadscale warming trends in lake epilimnetic temperatures and water-level fluctuatio ...
... freeze and breakup dates of lake ice in the Northern Hemisphere have become later and earlier, respectively, and interannual variability in ice dynamics has increased over the past 150 years (Magnuson et al. 2000). Broadscale warming trends in lake epilimnetic temperatures and water-level fluctuatio ...
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... factors, there is a weak linkage between policy actions over time and the climate change likely to be avoided (Jacoby, 2004, Webster et al., 2003). Some studies have attempted to estimate the value of the benefits of climate change mitigation. While Stern (2006) estimates the cost of climate change, ...
... factors, there is a weak linkage between policy actions over time and the climate change likely to be avoided (Jacoby, 2004, Webster et al., 2003). Some studies have attempted to estimate the value of the benefits of climate change mitigation. While Stern (2006) estimates the cost of climate change, ...
Climate change, the environment and armed con
... http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_wg1_report_the_p hysical_science_basis.htm (last accessed 12th August 2009). ...
... http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_wg1_report_the_p hysical_science_basis.htm (last accessed 12th August 2009). ...
Climate change and global water resources: SRES emissions and
... river beds or wetlands). Second, it does not include a glacier component, so river flows in a cell do not include any net melt from upstream glaciers. Climate change must be seen in the context of multidecadal variability, which will lead to different amounts of water being available over different t ...
... river beds or wetlands). Second, it does not include a glacier component, so river flows in a cell do not include any net melt from upstream glaciers. Climate change must be seen in the context of multidecadal variability, which will lead to different amounts of water being available over different t ...
Human Development Report 2007/2008 Climate Change and the
... A) Global Climate Change: The tipping point A.1. Current and future impacts of climate change According to recent findings from the 2007 sessions of the UN Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ten of the warmest years in recorded history have occurred since 1990, leading to more freque ...
... A) Global Climate Change: The tipping point A.1. Current and future impacts of climate change According to recent findings from the 2007 sessions of the UN Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ten of the warmest years in recorded history have occurred since 1990, leading to more freque ...