Adapting for a green economy updated
... actions that companies and policymakers can pursue to catalyze and scale up private sector action on adaptation. It is ultimately the responsibility of the public sector to meet the critical climate change adaptation needs of the poor and vulnerable; thus private sector engagement cannot substitute ...
... actions that companies and policymakers can pursue to catalyze and scale up private sector action on adaptation. It is ultimately the responsibility of the public sector to meet the critical climate change adaptation needs of the poor and vulnerable; thus private sector engagement cannot substitute ...
Conceptualizing urban adaptation to climate change. Findings from
... The framework is structured in a way to highlight drivers of adaptation to climate change in urban areas. Examples are drawn from the application of the framework to seven case studies: New York City (NYC), Metropolitan District of Quito (Quito), Greater London (London), Tunis, eThekwini Municipalit ...
... The framework is structured in a way to highlight drivers of adaptation to climate change in urban areas. Examples are drawn from the application of the framework to seven case studies: New York City (NYC), Metropolitan District of Quito (Quito), Greater London (London), Tunis, eThekwini Municipalit ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0994e/i0994e.pdf
... migration patterns due to changes in timing of fishing activities. Reduced livelihood options inside and outside the fishery sector will force occupational changes and may increase social pressures. Livelihood diversification is an established means of risk transfer and reduction in the face of shoc ...
... migration patterns due to changes in timing of fishing activities. Reduced livelihood options inside and outside the fishery sector will force occupational changes and may increase social pressures. Livelihood diversification is an established means of risk transfer and reduction in the face of shoc ...
Kerala State Action Plan on Climate Change
... Ghats plays a major role in the climatic conditions that prevail all along the state. The year may be divided into four seasons. The period of March to the end of May is the hot season which is the summer month and is uncomfortable due to high temperature and humidity. This is followed by South West ...
... Ghats plays a major role in the climatic conditions that prevail all along the state. The year may be divided into four seasons. The period of March to the end of May is the hot season which is the summer month and is uncomfortable due to high temperature and humidity. This is followed by South West ...
Abrupt climate change as an important agent of ecological change... Northeast U.S. throughout the past 15,000 years
... expansion of others (e.g., Jackson and Booth, 2002), enhancing selective pressure on species by rapidly culling the most susceptible individuals (e.g., Boag and Grant, 1981), and altering the long-term trajectory of vegetation change by repeatedly disturbing ecosystems before recovery from prior eve ...
... expansion of others (e.g., Jackson and Booth, 2002), enhancing selective pressure on species by rapidly culling the most susceptible individuals (e.g., Boag and Grant, 1981), and altering the long-term trajectory of vegetation change by repeatedly disturbing ecosystems before recovery from prior eve ...
Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture
... migration patterns due to changes in timing of fishing activities. Reduced livelihood options inside and outside the fishery sector will force occupational changes and may increase social pressures. Livelihood diversification is an established means of risk transfer and reduction in the face of shoc ...
... migration patterns due to changes in timing of fishing activities. Reduced livelihood options inside and outside the fishery sector will force occupational changes and may increase social pressures. Livelihood diversification is an established means of risk transfer and reduction in the face of shoc ...
The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change
... Indeed, the concern about climate change is pervasive because of the all-encompassing and multidimensional nature of climate impacts. Droughts, higher temperatures, flooding, sea-level rise, heat waves, more intense storms, and greater uncertainty in weather patterns translate into more widespread d ...
... Indeed, the concern about climate change is pervasive because of the all-encompassing and multidimensional nature of climate impacts. Droughts, higher temperatures, flooding, sea-level rise, heat waves, more intense storms, and greater uncertainty in weather patterns translate into more widespread d ...
climate change, migration and human security in southeast asia
... form of social conflict and instability. The argument in much of this literature is that climate changeinduced migration will result in tensions between those displaced within their own country and the communities into which they move, as well as between so-called climate “refugees” (those who cro ...
... form of social conflict and instability. The argument in much of this literature is that climate changeinduced migration will result in tensions between those displaced within their own country and the communities into which they move, as well as between so-called climate “refugees” (those who cro ...
Responses to Rapid Environmental Change
... This article focuses on climate controls, because sealevel fluctuations that affect the downstream portions of the longitudinal profile commonly act over longer time intervals (see Glacial-Interglacial Scale Fluvial Responses). With the exception of episodic seismic events, tectonism also concerns l ...
... This article focuses on climate controls, because sealevel fluctuations that affect the downstream portions of the longitudinal profile commonly act over longer time intervals (see Glacial-Interglacial Scale Fluvial Responses). With the exception of episodic seismic events, tectonism also concerns l ...
Establishing a Climate Change Department in
... iii. Using transformational efforts to exemplify the Island State as a sustainable, resilient and a resource efficient island with low emissions and an inclusive economy that presents a replicable model for other island states. Jamaica is designated as a small island state in a hurricane belt with a ...
... iii. Using transformational efforts to exemplify the Island State as a sustainable, resilient and a resource efficient island with low emissions and an inclusive economy that presents a replicable model for other island states. Jamaica is designated as a small island state in a hurricane belt with a ...
Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change
... measures to enhance the ability of farmers in Sasumua watershed to deal with current climate extremes and variability and future climate change. Participatory approaches have been applied in the development community for years through the use of participatory rural appraisal techniques and have rece ...
... measures to enhance the ability of farmers in Sasumua watershed to deal with current climate extremes and variability and future climate change. Participatory approaches have been applied in the development community for years through the use of participatory rural appraisal techniques and have rece ...
River Basin Management in a changing climate
... bodies may be further modified by growing pressures from the direct and indirect effects of climate variability and change. ...
... bodies may be further modified by growing pressures from the direct and indirect effects of climate variability and change. ...
Climate Satellites Affirmative - NDI - 2011
... temperature, because the increased area of open water has its largest impact on surface air temperature in the cool seasons. Further, we suggest that the stability of sea level during the Holocene is a consequence of the fact that global temperature remained just below the level required to initiate ...
... temperature, because the increased area of open water has its largest impact on surface air temperature in the cool seasons. Further, we suggest that the stability of sea level during the Holocene is a consequence of the fact that global temperature remained just below the level required to initiate ...
East Midlands Sustainable Development Round Table The Potential
... Industrial Structure of the Region The Region’s Settlements in the Top 100 of the Index of Local Deprivation The Region’s Land Uses Local Environment Agency Plans and their Coverage Changes in mean annual, winter and summer temperatures (ºC) of Eastern England with respect to the 1961-90 mean for th ...
... Industrial Structure of the Region The Region’s Settlements in the Top 100 of the Index of Local Deprivation The Region’s Land Uses Local Environment Agency Plans and their Coverage Changes in mean annual, winter and summer temperatures (ºC) of Eastern England with respect to the 1961-90 mean for th ...
World Climate Conference-3
... Figure 1 — The emergence of climate as an international scientific and policy issue: the five major scientific, technological and geopolitical developments on the left converged to inspire UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 1721 (XVI) which triggered the establishment of the WMO World Weather Wat ...
... Figure 1 — The emergence of climate as an international scientific and policy issue: the five major scientific, technological and geopolitical developments on the left converged to inspire UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 1721 (XVI) which triggered the establishment of the WMO World Weather Wat ...
Linking Adaptation Research and Practice
... as ‘climate change adaptations’ and of these which are really planned as adaptations to climate change. By this we mean that it is difficult to identify which adaptations are taking place as a response to weather related (rather than risk factors) and of these, which are in response to expected futu ...
... as ‘climate change adaptations’ and of these which are really planned as adaptations to climate change. By this we mean that it is difficult to identify which adaptations are taking place as a response to weather related (rather than risk factors) and of these, which are in response to expected futu ...
Anchoring amid uncertainty - Personal Page: Prof. Dr. Jeroen van
... limits on our capacity to handle complexity, and computer limitations (these issues will be discussed in detail in chapter 5). These circumstances make the assessment of future anthropogenic climate change and its impacts an extremely difficult and partly impossible task. The scientific basis for th ...
... limits on our capacity to handle complexity, and computer limitations (these issues will be discussed in detail in chapter 5). These circumstances make the assessment of future anthropogenic climate change and its impacts an extremely difficult and partly impossible task. The scientific basis for th ...
Societal Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change and Monsoon
... that such oscillations have occurred in the past and may occur in future, potentially with large impacts on society, economy and ecosystems. There is evidence to show that gradual and smooth climate changes in the Earth’s history were interspersed with abrupt climate changes such as rapid cooling, w ...
... that such oscillations have occurred in the past and may occur in future, potentially with large impacts on society, economy and ecosystems. There is evidence to show that gradual and smooth climate changes in the Earth’s history were interspersed with abrupt climate changes such as rapid cooling, w ...
Modelling glacier change in the Everest region, Nepal Himalaya
... (Mount Everest), Cho Oyu, Makalu, Lhotse, and Nuptse. The Dudh Koshi River is a major contributor to the Koshi River, which contains nearly one-quarter of Nepal’s exploitable hydroelectric potential. Approximately 110 km2 , or 25 % of the total glacierized area, is classified as debris-covered (Fig. ...
... (Mount Everest), Cho Oyu, Makalu, Lhotse, and Nuptse. The Dudh Koshi River is a major contributor to the Koshi River, which contains nearly one-quarter of Nepal’s exploitable hydroelectric potential. Approximately 110 km2 , or 25 % of the total glacierized area, is classified as debris-covered (Fig. ...
Pacific Island Mangroves in a Changing Climate and Rising Sea
... Fig. 1. Pacific island coastlines are particularly ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to small sensitive to sea level rise (photo by J. Ellison). increases in sea level and other climate change effects. Many of the low islands do not exceed 4 m above current mean sea level, and even on islands w ...
... Fig. 1. Pacific island coastlines are particularly ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to small sensitive to sea level rise (photo by J. Ellison). increases in sea level and other climate change effects. Many of the low islands do not exceed 4 m above current mean sea level, and even on islands w ...
Adaptation to climate change in desert contexts
... adaptive capacity by using the current indicators. Moreover, the indicators do not discriminate between climate elements (such as temperature, rainfall, evaporation and wind) which have different individual impacts in different regions. Based on these findings, the argument is advanced that ‘measura ...
... adaptive capacity by using the current indicators. Moreover, the indicators do not discriminate between climate elements (such as temperature, rainfall, evaporation and wind) which have different individual impacts in different regions. Based on these findings, the argument is advanced that ‘measura ...
Weeds and Climate Change
... were run with data for the CSIRO Mk3.5 GCM sourced from the CliMond archive (www.climond.org/). Individual model parameters, GIS data for the projections and relevant modelling technique references are provided. We encourage readers to consult the cited primary resources to understand more about the ...
... were run with data for the CSIRO Mk3.5 GCM sourced from the CliMond archive (www.climond.org/). Individual model parameters, GIS data for the projections and relevant modelling technique references are provided. We encourage readers to consult the cited primary resources to understand more about the ...
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and the Highway System
... Major trends affecting the future of the United States and the world will dramatically reshape transportation priorities and needs. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials established the NCHRP Project 20-83 research series to examine global and domestic long-range str ...
... Major trends affecting the future of the United States and the world will dramatically reshape transportation priorities and needs. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials established the NCHRP Project 20-83 research series to examine global and domestic long-range str ...
Importance of carbon dioxide physiological forcing to future climate
... land because surface cooling from increased leaf area index offsets surface warming caused by CO2 -physiological forcing. But a study from multicentury simulations forced by increasing CO2 emissions reported a land warming of 1.4 K as a result of decreased surface albedo associated with the expansio ...
... land because surface cooling from increased leaf area index offsets surface warming caused by CO2 -physiological forcing. But a study from multicentury simulations forced by increasing CO2 emissions reported a land warming of 1.4 K as a result of decreased surface albedo associated with the expansio ...
Effects of global warming
The effects of global warming are the environmental and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases. There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and that human activities are the primary driver. Many impacts of climate change have already been observed, including glacier retreat, changes in the timing of seasonal events (e.g., earlier flowering of plants), and changes in agricultural productivity.Future effects of climate change will vary depending on climate change policies and social development. The two main policies to address climate change are reducing human greenhouse gas emissions (climate change mitigation) and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Geoengineering is another policy option.Near-term climate change policies could significantly affect long-term climate change impacts. Stringent mitigation policies might be able to limit global warming (in 2100) to around 2 °C or below, relative to pre-industrial levels. Without mitigation, increased energy demand and extensive use of fossil fuels might lead to global warming of around 4 °C. Higher magnitudes of global warming would be more difficult to adapt to, and would increase the risk of negative impacts.