Drought in the Sahel - Lund University Publications
... zone with precipitation values between 150 and 400 mm (Comité permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), 1999). The annual average of precipitation is 371 mm, derived from the period 1961-1990. One has to note that this 30-year period was itself a substantially dry pe ...
... zone with precipitation values between 150 and 400 mm (Comité permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), 1999). The annual average of precipitation is 371 mm, derived from the period 1961-1990. One has to note that this 30-year period was itself a substantially dry pe ...
With Speed and Violence Fred Pearce
... below. That water will not return to the surface for a thousand years. The chimney, once one of a family, pursues its lonely task in the middle of one of the coldest and most remote seas on Earth. And its swirling waters may be the switch that can turn the heat engine of the world's climate system o ...
... below. That water will not return to the surface for a thousand years. The chimney, once one of a family, pursues its lonely task in the middle of one of the coldest and most remote seas on Earth. And its swirling waters may be the switch that can turn the heat engine of the world's climate system o ...
here - OHCHR
... It is a real pleasure and honour to welcome you to this Side Event discussion on Building Climate Resilience: The rights of groups in focus, which will address one of the most pressing global challenges we face today. Literally today, as the sad news from Vanuatu reaches us and reminds us of the cha ...
... It is a real pleasure and honour to welcome you to this Side Event discussion on Building Climate Resilience: The rights of groups in focus, which will address one of the most pressing global challenges we face today. Literally today, as the sad news from Vanuatu reaches us and reminds us of the cha ...
Testing the Limits - University of Washington
... temperature (MAT), mean growing season temperature (GST, May to September), mean dormant season temperature (DST, November to March), total annual precipitation (PPT), total growing season precipitation (GPT), total dormant season precipitation (DPT), maximum size of the snowpack in snow water equiv ...
... temperature (MAT), mean growing season temperature (GST, May to September), mean dormant season temperature (DST, November to March), total annual precipitation (PPT), total growing season precipitation (GPT), total dormant season precipitation (DPT), maximum size of the snowpack in snow water equiv ...
Transformational Adaptation: Concepts, Examples, and their
... groundnuts, pearl millet sorghum and yam. In these areas, transformational responses should be in development now or in the very near future. The same study proposes that transformational adaptation will be required by the middle of the 21st century over more than 30% of the current maize and banana ...
... groundnuts, pearl millet sorghum and yam. In these areas, transformational responses should be in development now or in the very near future. The same study proposes that transformational adaptation will be required by the middle of the 21st century over more than 30% of the current maize and banana ...
PRECIS – The Hadley Centre Regional Climate Modelling system
... How will the boundary conditions for PRECIS be supplied? The boundary conditions and other Hadley Centre fields required to drive PRECIS will be supplied on tape or hard disk. Requests for these data will be made through the PRECIS web site. In order to reduce costs, Hadley Centre boundary condition ...
... How will the boundary conditions for PRECIS be supplied? The boundary conditions and other Hadley Centre fields required to drive PRECIS will be supplied on tape or hard disk. Requests for these data will be made through the PRECIS web site. In order to reduce costs, Hadley Centre boundary condition ...
MIGRATION AS AN ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 1
... This is not an exhaustive list, but it does suggest that changes in human migration patterns can be influenced by changes in climatic conditions. Whether such migration events are responses to the inherent variability of weather or climate or to manifestations of longer period climatic changes is a ...
... This is not an exhaustive list, but it does suggest that changes in human migration patterns can be influenced by changes in climatic conditions. Whether such migration events are responses to the inherent variability of weather or climate or to manifestations of longer period climatic changes is a ...
United Nations Development Programme
... targets and a preliminary list of mitigation actions (without quantifying the associated emission reductions) based on the action plan developed as part of the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC. The Cancun agreement formally recognizes the planned actions to reduce or limit greenhouse gas ...
... targets and a preliminary list of mitigation actions (without quantifying the associated emission reductions) based on the action plan developed as part of the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC. The Cancun agreement formally recognizes the planned actions to reduce or limit greenhouse gas ...
Republic of Gambia, Initial National Communication
... Table 4.3.3.1: Potential area of land to be inundated in the coastal zone of The Gambia in response to various sea level rise scenarios ...
... Table 4.3.3.1: Potential area of land to be inundated in the coastal zone of The Gambia in response to various sea level rise scenarios ...
Can Social Protection Increase Resilience to Climate Change?
... This paper examines the linkages between social protection and resilience to climate change among poor rural households. To date there is a very limited understanding of the potential role of social protection programmes in contributing to an increase in resilience of the rural poor with respect to ...
... This paper examines the linkages between social protection and resilience to climate change among poor rural households. To date there is a very limited understanding of the potential role of social protection programmes in contributing to an increase in resilience of the rural poor with respect to ...
Impacts of Climate Related Geo-engineering on Biological
... problematic. Early indications are that several of the techniques, both SRM and CDR, are unlikely to be effective at the global scale. (Section 2) Climate change and ocean acidification, and their impacts on biodiversity ...
... problematic. Early indications are that several of the techniques, both SRM and CDR, are unlikely to be effective at the global scale. (Section 2) Climate change and ocean acidification, and their impacts on biodiversity ...
Yukon Climate Change Indicators and Key
... In its most recent global assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of ...
... In its most recent global assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of ...
Mainstreaming Environment and Climate Change in the
... Environmental DPLs raise new issues in the evaluation of development policy loans. In contrast to the PRS process, with its broad approach to poverty reduction, environmental DPLs are narrowly focused on improving the environment. Moreover, there are too few environmental DPLs to date for a quantita ...
... Environmental DPLs raise new issues in the evaluation of development policy loans. In contrast to the PRS process, with its broad approach to poverty reduction, environmental DPLs are narrowly focused on improving the environment. Moreover, there are too few environmental DPLs to date for a quantita ...
Climate change scenarios
... The greatest net benefit in terms of cost is given by increasing the number of passes of the crop at harvest. However, the need for this adaptation is also likely to be highly variable, since it is a response to uneven maturation of the curds due to warmer and more variable conditions. The uptake ...
... The greatest net benefit in terms of cost is given by increasing the number of passes of the crop at harvest. However, the need for this adaptation is also likely to be highly variable, since it is a response to uneven maturation of the curds due to warmer and more variable conditions. The uptake ...
Petition to the World Heritage Committee
... World Heritage sites with coral reefs and coastal lowlands. Because black carbon is a shortlived climate forcing agent, with an atmospheric lifetime of only days or weeks, reducing emissions has an immediate effect and slows global warming in the near term. This action can help maintain the universa ...
... World Heritage sites with coral reefs and coastal lowlands. Because black carbon is a shortlived climate forcing agent, with an atmospheric lifetime of only days or weeks, reducing emissions has an immediate effect and slows global warming in the near term. This action can help maintain the universa ...
Climate Projections for Metro Vancouver
... of about 3°C in our region by the 2050s. Metro Vancouver’s ability to adapt to climate change requires specific information on how changes in temperature and precipitation will play out locally, how expected changes may vary throughout the seasons, and about new climate extremes. Work has been compl ...
... of about 3°C in our region by the 2050s. Metro Vancouver’s ability to adapt to climate change requires specific information on how changes in temperature and precipitation will play out locally, how expected changes may vary throughout the seasons, and about new climate extremes. Work has been compl ...
Learning about climate changethe Pacific way
... that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of changes in air and seasurface temperature, rainfall, sea-level rise and extreme weather events on island environments, economies and people. It is vital to enhance individual and community skills to adapt to these ...
... that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of changes in air and seasurface temperature, rainfall, sea-level rise and extreme weather events on island environments, economies and people. It is vital to enhance individual and community skills to adapt to these ...
Climate change challenge badge
... change: temperatures are rising, already seeing the effects of climate g. The changes include an increase glaciers melting and sea levels are risin ghts, cyclones and flooding, in extreme weather events such as drou ...
... change: temperatures are rising, already seeing the effects of climate g. The changes include an increase glaciers melting and sea levels are risin ghts, cyclones and flooding, in extreme weather events such as drou ...
Coral Reef Habitat Response to Climate Change Scenarios
... reef ecosystems primarily because they have been shown to be the major factor behind the recent global increase in coral bleaching [5,6]. Ocean acidification has also been shown to affect coral colonies in multiple ways, including reducing the ability of coral polyps to secrete calcium carbonate ske ...
... reef ecosystems primarily because they have been shown to be the major factor behind the recent global increase in coral bleaching [5,6]. Ocean acidification has also been shown to affect coral colonies in multiple ways, including reducing the ability of coral polyps to secrete calcium carbonate ske ...
Lecture 3 CIP Module Montreal Conference Draft
... In Lecture 1, it was explained how global warming is expected to lead to changes in local climates, including changes in the average conditions, in the frequency and severity of extreme weather, in the range of variability and in water cycles, snow and ice coverage and ocean conditions. Lecture 2 ex ...
... In Lecture 1, it was explained how global warming is expected to lead to changes in local climates, including changes in the average conditions, in the frequency and severity of extreme weather, in the range of variability and in water cycles, snow and ice coverage and ocean conditions. Lecture 2 ex ...
CLIMATE CHANGE CONSERVATION OF NATURE
... Biomass and soils, the living carbon of ecosystems, remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere naturally. Adapting to and reducing the degree of climate warming demands more than reducing or replacing the use of ancient carbon, namely fossil fuels, for energy. One of the essential life supp ...
... Biomass and soils, the living carbon of ecosystems, remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere naturally. Adapting to and reducing the degree of climate warming demands more than reducing or replacing the use of ancient carbon, namely fossil fuels, for energy. One of the essential life supp ...
ACSRI report - Columbia University
... (electricity produced by fossil-fuel burning generation). Indeed, one specific action taken by the University to reduce its carbon footprint has been to substitute natural gas for heating oil. Where is the consistency in saying that divestment from large natural gas producers is required as a matter ...
... (electricity produced by fossil-fuel burning generation). Indeed, one specific action taken by the University to reduce its carbon footprint has been to substitute natural gas for heating oil. Where is the consistency in saying that divestment from large natural gas producers is required as a matter ...
Air Quality and Climate Connections - Lamont
... dominant anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG). The two main contributors to non-attainment of U.S. ambient air quality standards, ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM), interact with radiation, forcing climate change. PM warms by absorbing sunlight (e.g., black carbon) or cools by scattering sunlight ...
... dominant anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG). The two main contributors to non-attainment of U.S. ambient air quality standards, ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM), interact with radiation, forcing climate change. PM warms by absorbing sunlight (e.g., black carbon) or cools by scattering sunlight ...