Climate change in the Sahel
... After the droughts of the 70s and 80s, the West African countries, especially those in the Sahel, are suffering today the effects of heavy rains and devastating floods. Damage and losses related to these extreme hydro climatic events have been evaluated at several hundreds of billions of Francs. In a ...
... After the droughts of the 70s and 80s, the West African countries, especially those in the Sahel, are suffering today the effects of heavy rains and devastating floods. Damage and losses related to these extreme hydro climatic events have been evaluated at several hundreds of billions of Francs. In a ...
Cultural Circuits of Climate Change in U.K. Broadsheet Newspapers
... Newspaper production and consumption in the United Kingdom are polarized: at the national level, there are a small number of what were known until recently as “broadsheet” or “quality” newspapers characterized by extensive political and economic comment, which have relatively small but welleducated ...
... Newspaper production and consumption in the United Kingdom are polarized: at the national level, there are a small number of what were known until recently as “broadsheet” or “quality” newspapers characterized by extensive political and economic comment, which have relatively small but welleducated ...
The politics of climate change
... Very few aspects of the climate change debate are uncontroversial, and the controversies between protagonists are often intense and even bitter. Three different positions can be distinguished. First, there are the climate change sceptics, who claim the case that present-day processes of global warmi ...
... Very few aspects of the climate change debate are uncontroversial, and the controversies between protagonists are often intense and even bitter. Three different positions can be distinguished. First, there are the climate change sceptics, who claim the case that present-day processes of global warmi ...
Fact-Sheet - Hydrology and Energy
... Data and method - Climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Congo basin were assessed using the VIC macroscale hydrological model. For this analyses we used climate change projections from three different global climate models and for two different greenhouse gas emission scenarios: the “Low“ s ...
... Data and method - Climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Congo basin were assessed using the VIC macroscale hydrological model. For this analyses we used climate change projections from three different global climate models and for two different greenhouse gas emission scenarios: the “Low“ s ...
Role of Ocean in Global Warming - J
... upon the study, they conjectured that the response of surface temperature in the Southern Hemisphere should be delayed as compared to that in the Northern Hemisphere because of the inter-hemispheric difference in the fraction of the area covered by oceans. Using a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, in ...
... upon the study, they conjectured that the response of surface temperature in the Southern Hemisphere should be delayed as compared to that in the Northern Hemisphere because of the inter-hemispheric difference in the fraction of the area covered by oceans. Using a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, in ...
Fairtrade and the carbon market
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
Proposal for a poverty-adaptation-mitigation window - HAL
... al., 2011; Shepherd et al., 2013). Climate change will not only worsen the situation of the poor; it will also very likely reverse the trend of decreasing poverty (Hallegatte et al., 2014). Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming ...
... al., 2011; Shepherd et al., 2013). Climate change will not only worsen the situation of the poor; it will also very likely reverse the trend of decreasing poverty (Hallegatte et al., 2014). Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming ...
Fairtrade and the carbon market
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions
... basis for support was not gratitude (and the associated trust that support would bring further benefit) but fear: fear of the Soviet Union, fear of cancer, etc. Many will conclude that this was merely an awakening of a naive scientific community to reality, and they may well be right. However, betwe ...
... basis for support was not gratitude (and the associated trust that support would bring further benefit) but fear: fear of the Soviet Union, fear of cancer, etc. Many will conclude that this was merely an awakening of a naive scientific community to reality, and they may well be right. However, betwe ...
Assessment of fishers perception in developing
... correspondence analysis is a statistical technique that is used by social scientists and behavioural researchers to explore the relations among multivariate categorical variables (de Leeuw, 2005; Hoffman & Franke, 1986). Being a nonparametric statistical approach, the theoretical distribution cannot ...
... correspondence analysis is a statistical technique that is used by social scientists and behavioural researchers to explore the relations among multivariate categorical variables (de Leeuw, 2005; Hoffman & Franke, 1986). Being a nonparametric statistical approach, the theoretical distribution cannot ...
Proposal for the creation of a poverty-adaptation - Hal-SHS
... al., 2011; Shepherd et al., 2013). Climate change will not only worsen the situation of the poor; it will also very likely reverse the trend of decreasing poverty (Hallegatte et al., 2014). Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming ...
... al., 2011; Shepherd et al., 2013). Climate change will not only worsen the situation of the poor; it will also very likely reverse the trend of decreasing poverty (Hallegatte et al., 2014). Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming ...
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... Agriculture is the most affected sector by climate change. About 13% of GDP was derived from agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 (WDI, 2012). It has been predicted that the highest percentage losses owing to the direct impact of climate change on crops in the SubSaharan Africa region (Hertel e ...
... Agriculture is the most affected sector by climate change. About 13% of GDP was derived from agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 (WDI, 2012). It has been predicted that the highest percentage losses owing to the direct impact of climate change on crops in the SubSaharan Africa region (Hertel e ...
"The Response of Dissolved Oxygen to Climate and Other Anthropogenic Change"
... Oregon Coast, USA Upwelling increase linked to shifts in regional climate forcing: • Strong interannual changes in upwelling wind stress • Nutrient supply to California Coastal Current Severe inner-shelf hypoxia and anoxia since 2000, >32,000 km2 in 2006 ...
... Oregon Coast, USA Upwelling increase linked to shifts in regional climate forcing: • Strong interannual changes in upwelling wind stress • Nutrient supply to California Coastal Current Severe inner-shelf hypoxia and anoxia since 2000, >32,000 km2 in 2006 ...
Climate Crisis`s Effect on Africa
... However the situation till now plus the scenarios if accepted for now to 2050 would mean that developing countries can in actual fact only emit 275 GtC. Thus they are under-consuming by 200 GtC. ...
... However the situation till now plus the scenarios if accepted for now to 2050 would mean that developing countries can in actual fact only emit 275 GtC. Thus they are under-consuming by 200 GtC. ...
Psychological research and global climate change
... these technologies, including cognitive and motivational factors such as values and beliefs, and social factors such as norms and public commitments, as well as features of programmes intended to influence behaviour such as the type of information and forms of financial incentive provided. Research ...
... these technologies, including cognitive and motivational factors such as values and beliefs, and social factors such as norms and public commitments, as well as features of programmes intended to influence behaviour such as the type of information and forms of financial incentive provided. Research ...
Mistreatment of the economic impacts of extreme events
... Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change is one such effort (Stern, 2007). The Stern Review has already achieved several notable successes. Among them, it has focused attention on the challenge of climate change and helped to redirect attention away from debates over science and toward ...
... Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change is one such effort (Stern, 2007). The Stern Review has already achieved several notable successes. Among them, it has focused attention on the challenge of climate change and helped to redirect attention away from debates over science and toward ...
Request for Expression of Interest Firm - World Bank E
... assessments, evaluations and studies. Strong understanding of the global issues in climate change and environmental programming, assessment and evaluation. Strong understanding of the climate finance landscape. An excellent publication record in the earlier mentioned areas. o Senior consultant(s) wi ...
... assessments, evaluations and studies. Strong understanding of the global issues in climate change and environmental programming, assessment and evaluation. Strong understanding of the climate finance landscape. An excellent publication record in the earlier mentioned areas. o Senior consultant(s) wi ...
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... The evapotranspiration can be calculated using one of these three methods: Penman-Monteith, Hargreaves and Priestley-Taylor. The Pemman-Monteith method was selected in this case because it uses more physical parameters (daily maximum and minimum temperature, wind speed, humidity and solar radiation) ...
... The evapotranspiration can be calculated using one of these three methods: Penman-Monteith, Hargreaves and Priestley-Taylor. The Pemman-Monteith method was selected in this case because it uses more physical parameters (daily maximum and minimum temperature, wind speed, humidity and solar radiation) ...
Future changes in climate, ocean circulation, ecosystems, and
... 50 years as well as with the observed warming of global surface air and sea temperatures during the last 150 years. It is applied to a simulation of the coming two millennia following a business-as-usual scenario of anthropogenic CO2 emissions (SRES A2 until year 2100 and subsequent linear decrease ...
... 50 years as well as with the observed warming of global surface air and sea temperatures during the last 150 years. It is applied to a simulation of the coming two millennia following a business-as-usual scenario of anthropogenic CO2 emissions (SRES A2 until year 2100 and subsequent linear decrease ...
An intercomparison of observed and simulated extreme rainfall and
... derived indices. The results of Rusticucci and Barrucand (2004) for Argentina Marengo and Camargo (2007) for Southern Brazil and of Rusticucci and Renom (2008) for Uruguay suggest warming in Southeastern South America, both in summer and winter and in the mean and extremes, with the warming being st ...
... derived indices. The results of Rusticucci and Barrucand (2004) for Argentina Marengo and Camargo (2007) for Southern Brazil and of Rusticucci and Renom (2008) for Uruguay suggest warming in Southeastern South America, both in summer and winter and in the mean and extremes, with the warming being st ...
evident - Mudanças Climáticas
... derived indices. The results of Rusticucci and Barrucand (2004) for Argentina Marengo and Camargo (2007) for Southern Brazil and of Rusticucci and Renom (2008) for Uruguay suggest warming in Southeastern South America, both in summer and winter and in the mean and extremes, with the warming being st ...
... derived indices. The results of Rusticucci and Barrucand (2004) for Argentina Marengo and Camargo (2007) for Southern Brazil and of Rusticucci and Renom (2008) for Uruguay suggest warming in Southeastern South America, both in summer and winter and in the mean and extremes, with the warming being st ...
MOCA- Methane Emissions from the Arctic OCean to the
... Future impact of methane emissions from the seabed (CICERO) Radiative forcing and associated temperature changes from projected future changes in atmospheric CH4 composition related to MH dissociation Focus on 2050 and 2100 scenarios Sensitivity study of climate impacts related to duration of ...
... Future impact of methane emissions from the seabed (CICERO) Radiative forcing and associated temperature changes from projected future changes in atmospheric CH4 composition related to MH dissociation Focus on 2050 and 2100 scenarios Sensitivity study of climate impacts related to duration of ...
Toward Extreme Weather and Climate Resilience in the Region of
... examples of vulnerability and risk analysis methods being used to develop actionable strategies for increasing resilience to priority impacts of climate change and extreme weather with respect to two very di ...
... examples of vulnerability and risk analysis methods being used to develop actionable strategies for increasing resilience to priority impacts of climate change and extreme weather with respect to two very di ...