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... from 1980 to 1999. According to the data, the range of temperature variation in Quy Nhon (absolute value) in the winter is much higher than in the summer, however the variation does not change notably over each year. However, calculating the decadal variation of monthly mean temperature shows that t ...
... from 1980 to 1999. According to the data, the range of temperature variation in Quy Nhon (absolute value) in the winter is much higher than in the summer, however the variation does not change notably over each year. However, calculating the decadal variation of monthly mean temperature shows that t ...
Climate Change and The Insurance Sector
... This presentation is made by KPMG Kenya, a member firm of the KPMG network of independent firms affiliated with KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative. KPMG International provides no client services. No member firm has any authority to obligate or bind KPMG International or any other member firm vi ...
... This presentation is made by KPMG Kenya, a member firm of the KPMG network of independent firms affiliated with KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative. KPMG International provides no client services. No member firm has any authority to obligate or bind KPMG International or any other member firm vi ...
Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines in Coastal Management and
... with a particular decision or solution and hence to ask the correct questions in gathering data, designing monitoring programs, preparing consulting briefs or evaluating a particular option. A coastal manager must presently make decisions relating to both minor development approvals and major new in ...
... with a particular decision or solution and hence to ask the correct questions in gathering data, designing monitoring programs, preparing consulting briefs or evaluating a particular option. A coastal manager must presently make decisions relating to both minor development approvals and major new in ...
Playing the Climate Dominoes: Tipping Points and the Cost of
... We integrate three tipping points into the DICE integrated assessment model [14, 15]. DICE combines an economic growth model with a simplified climate module (Schematic 1, left). The policymaker decides how to allocate output between consumption, investment in capital, and emission reductions. Unaba ...
... We integrate three tipping points into the DICE integrated assessment model [14, 15]. DICE combines an economic growth model with a simplified climate module (Schematic 1, left). The policymaker decides how to allocate output between consumption, investment in capital, and emission reductions. Unaba ...
AAR-Ch11 - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
... to hold more moisture which increases the greenhouse effect, adding to the temperature increase. Of course, actual processes of climate change are not so simple and data analyses reveal conflicting trends in climate and temperature. Other subtle systemic feedback mechanisms which could offset the pr ...
... to hold more moisture which increases the greenhouse effect, adding to the temperature increase. Of course, actual processes of climate change are not so simple and data analyses reveal conflicting trends in climate and temperature. Other subtle systemic feedback mechanisms which could offset the pr ...
An Analysis of Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change
... might be substantial if no immediate global action is undertaken. Even if all radiative forcing agents were held constant at the 2000 level, a further warming would be observed due to the inertia of oceans (IPCC, 2007). According to the main IPCC scenarios, world-average temperature is likely to inc ...
... might be substantial if no immediate global action is undertaken. Even if all radiative forcing agents were held constant at the 2000 level, a further warming would be observed due to the inertia of oceans (IPCC, 2007). According to the main IPCC scenarios, world-average temperature is likely to inc ...
Climate-Induced Population Movement: The Issue
... The migration crisis that today’s world is immersed in is rooted not only in wars, poverty and globalization, but climate change will also play a role. The case of people induced to relocate, internally or externally, due to the impacts of climate change (such as sea-level rise, increasing intensity ...
... The migration crisis that today’s world is immersed in is rooted not only in wars, poverty and globalization, but climate change will also play a role. The case of people induced to relocate, internally or externally, due to the impacts of climate change (such as sea-level rise, increasing intensity ...
climate change and the south african commercial forestry sector
... suitable area occurring when both temperature and rainfall are increased. The same pattern, although with greater fluctuations, is evident in the Eastern Cape. In Mpumalanga province, however, the climatically optimum area for A. mearnsii increases when the temperature is increased by 1°C and 2°C, p ...
... suitable area occurring when both temperature and rainfall are increased. The same pattern, although with greater fluctuations, is evident in the Eastern Cape. In Mpumalanga province, however, the climatically optimum area for A. mearnsii increases when the temperature is increased by 1°C and 2°C, p ...
International Law-Making Process in the United Nations
... 9. Even though the interaction between international instruments so created and custom poses an interesting phenomena in international law-making process, this topic will not be dealt with in the present study. Also, the present article mainly focuses on the process of international lawmaking in the ...
... 9. Even though the interaction between international instruments so created and custom poses an interesting phenomena in international law-making process, this topic will not be dealt with in the present study. Also, the present article mainly focuses on the process of international lawmaking in the ...
Academic paper: Vulnerability: A generally applicable conceptual
... feeding the rivers of this arid region are expected to have disappeared by that time whereas an assessment focussing on current risks might regard Florida as more vulnerable because it already suffers substantial damage from hurricanes at present. ...
... feeding the rivers of this arid region are expected to have disappeared by that time whereas an assessment focussing on current risks might regard Florida as more vulnerable because it already suffers substantial damage from hurricanes at present. ...
8 — Urban Areas - Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report
... Urban climate change risks, vulnerabilities, and impacts are increasing across the world in urban centers of all sizes, economic conditions, and site characteristics. {8.2} Urban climate change-related risks are increasing (including rising sea levels and storm surges, heat stress, extreme precipita ...
... Urban climate change risks, vulnerabilities, and impacts are increasing across the world in urban centers of all sizes, economic conditions, and site characteristics. {8.2} Urban climate change-related risks are increasing (including rising sea levels and storm surges, heat stress, extreme precipita ...
In The Greenhouse
... convection air movement carrying away the heat as well as by radiation, climate change indicators greenhouse gases climate - greenhouse gases from human activities are the most significant driver of observed climate change since the mid 20 th century 1 the indicators in this chapter, greenhouse mega ...
... convection air movement carrying away the heat as well as by radiation, climate change indicators greenhouse gases climate - greenhouse gases from human activities are the most significant driver of observed climate change since the mid 20 th century 1 the indicators in this chapter, greenhouse mega ...
FARM-LEVEL VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EASTERN BAY OF PLENTY,
... production, yields and farm income and returns. It demonstrates that producers have in turn, developed a range of short- and long-term adaptive strategies in order to better manage climatic conditions. It shows that these responses are varied, and are not made in response to climatic conditions alon ...
... production, yields and farm income and returns. It demonstrates that producers have in turn, developed a range of short- and long-term adaptive strategies in order to better manage climatic conditions. It shows that these responses are varied, and are not made in response to climatic conditions alon ...
Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries
... The report and background documents are expected to provide input to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report scheduled for 2013–14, which could lead to a comprehensive treatment of the Arab countries in that document. In addition, seven IPCC leading and coordinating authors are on the Team and Advisory Pan ...
... The report and background documents are expected to provide input to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report scheduled for 2013–14, which could lead to a comprehensive treatment of the Arab countries in that document. In addition, seven IPCC leading and coordinating authors are on the Team and Advisory Pan ...
A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster
... is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate-related risks are significantly managed and reduced. The current proliferation of parallel international frameworks and programming mechanisms for addressing what i ...
... is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate-related risks are significantly managed and reduced. The current proliferation of parallel international frameworks and programming mechanisms for addressing what i ...
Wolf, J. and Susanne C. Moser (2011). Individual understandings
... interaction; NOAA-Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) Program, Pilot projects with the Hawai’i/Pacific Island and Alaska RISA centers. Adaptation Opportunities and Barriers in New England, research was part of a large multi-collaborator climate change impacts assessment for the Northe ...
... interaction; NOAA-Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) Program, Pilot projects with the Hawai’i/Pacific Island and Alaska RISA centers. Adaptation Opportunities and Barriers in New England, research was part of a large multi-collaborator climate change impacts assessment for the Northe ...
Hjermann et al. 2004 - Fisheries Acoustics Research
... processes (such as competition and trophic interactions). A marine approach to macroecology may therefore provide valuable conceptual feedback to the field of terrestrial macroecology. Furthermore, although macroecology deals with how species dynamically share the available food and space (e.g. Kend ...
... processes (such as competition and trophic interactions). A marine approach to macroecology may therefore provide valuable conceptual feedback to the field of terrestrial macroecology. Furthermore, although macroecology deals with how species dynamically share the available food and space (e.g. Kend ...
Vulnerability Does Not Fall From the Sky
... people most at risk, climate change is a crisis today. The rights, interests, and needs of those affected must take center stage as an issue of global social justice. This volume brings together the final versions of papers that were presented first at an international workshop on the social dimensi ...
... people most at risk, climate change is a crisis today. The rights, interests, and needs of those affected must take center stage as an issue of global social justice. This volume brings together the final versions of papers that were presented first at an international workshop on the social dimensi ...
Carbon to Climate Change
... at its southernmost limits, and by the time of the Holocene Optimum (5-9 ky BP), permafrost had completely disappeared from most of Europe and the continental United States, from northern Kazakhstan, and from significant portions of western Siberia in northern Eurasia (Yershov 1998). During this tim ...
... at its southernmost limits, and by the time of the Holocene Optimum (5-9 ky BP), permafrost had completely disappeared from most of Europe and the continental United States, from northern Kazakhstan, and from significant portions of western Siberia in northern Eurasia (Yershov 1998). During this tim ...
Adapting to Coastal Climate Change
... require that development planners – and the donors who assist with development – give special urgency to the task of helping to build resiliency against the impacts of climate change. The changes are many and already underway. They include rising sea level, increasingly intense cyclones, altered pre ...
... require that development planners – and the donors who assist with development – give special urgency to the task of helping to build resiliency against the impacts of climate change. The changes are many and already underway. They include rising sea level, increasingly intense cyclones, altered pre ...
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... There have already been many noted changes among numerous species in times of nesting and flowering, as well as changes in geographical distributions, population dynamics and genetics. Increased CO2 in the atmosphere has made oceans 0.1 pH unit more acid, negatively affecting tens of thousands of sp ...
... There have already been many noted changes among numerous species in times of nesting and flowering, as well as changes in geographical distributions, population dynamics and genetics. Increased CO2 in the atmosphere has made oceans 0.1 pH unit more acid, negatively affecting tens of thousands of sp ...
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... Both the UNFCCC and IPCC WGIII TAR (IPCC, 2007) stress the role of financial transfers for the sake of mitigation as well as adaptation (e.g. in the form of an adaptation fund) as policy tools that can be used to build political support for international climate action. The topic of international ad ...
... Both the UNFCCC and IPCC WGIII TAR (IPCC, 2007) stress the role of financial transfers for the sake of mitigation as well as adaptation (e.g. in the form of an adaptation fund) as policy tools that can be used to build political support for international climate action. The topic of international ad ...
Trends in Intense Precipitation in the Climate Record
... 0.3% of daily precipitation events) have been analyzed for over half of the land area of the globe. These changes have been linked to changes in intense precipitation for three transient climate model simulations, all with greenhouse gas concentrations increasing during the twentieth and twenty-firs ...
... 0.3% of daily precipitation events) have been analyzed for over half of the land area of the globe. These changes have been linked to changes in intense precipitation for three transient climate model simulations, all with greenhouse gas concentrations increasing during the twentieth and twenty-firs ...