Gunnison Basin Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
... Climate change is already changing ecosystems and affecting people in the southwestern United States. Rising temperatures have contributed to large-scale ecological impacts, affecting plants, animals, as well as ecosystem services, e.g., water supply. The climate of the Gunnison Basin, Colorado, is ...
... Climate change is already changing ecosystems and affecting people in the southwestern United States. Rising temperatures have contributed to large-scale ecological impacts, affecting plants, animals, as well as ecosystem services, e.g., water supply. The climate of the Gunnison Basin, Colorado, is ...
Jordan`s Third National
... Jordan is committed to being an active player in the international climate efforts based on the principles of the UNFCCC. The following pages will provide all interested parties and institutions with a long term, scientifically sound description of the projected impacts of Climate Change on Jordan, ...
... Jordan is committed to being an active player in the international climate efforts based on the principles of the UNFCCC. The following pages will provide all interested parties and institutions with a long term, scientifically sound description of the projected impacts of Climate Change on Jordan, ...
Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations
... decades, the range of equilibrium climate sensitivity obtained from models is roughly consistent with estimates from observations of recent and past climates. The canonical threefold range of uncertainty, 1.5 to 4.5°C, has evolved very slowly. The lower limit has been nearly unchanged over time, wit ...
... decades, the range of equilibrium climate sensitivity obtained from models is roughly consistent with estimates from observations of recent and past climates. The canonical threefold range of uncertainty, 1.5 to 4.5°C, has evolved very slowly. The lower limit has been nearly unchanged over time, wit ...
Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet
... Climate change is intensifying the hydrologic cycle and is expected to increase the frequency of extreme wet and dry years. Beyond precipitation amount, extreme wet and dry years may differ in other ways, such as the number of precipitation events, event size, and the time between events. We assesse ...
... Climate change is intensifying the hydrologic cycle and is expected to increase the frequency of extreme wet and dry years. Beyond precipitation amount, extreme wet and dry years may differ in other ways, such as the number of precipitation events, event size, and the time between events. We assesse ...
Discursive Constructions of Climate Change Engagement
... Climate change is one of the most pressing sustainability issues of the modern era affecting individuals, organisations and societies. Climate change poses physical threats to our survival and challenges the way we view ourselves and the economic and political systems. Today, business organisations ...
... Climate change is one of the most pressing sustainability issues of the modern era affecting individuals, organisations and societies. Climate change poses physical threats to our survival and challenges the way we view ourselves and the economic and political systems. Today, business organisations ...
5. Analysis of effects of the megatrends - Eionet Forum
... changing slowly and exerting considerable force that will influence a wide array of areas, including social, technological, economic, environmental and political dimensions.”2 A complementary definition notes that megatrends “...indicate a widespread trend of major impact, composed of subtrends whic ...
... changing slowly and exerting considerable force that will influence a wide array of areas, including social, technological, economic, environmental and political dimensions.”2 A complementary definition notes that megatrends “...indicate a widespread trend of major impact, composed of subtrends whic ...
Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines in Coastal Management and
... A coastal manager must presently make decisions relating to both minor development approvals and major new infrastructure. Such decisions cannot always be based on perfect information and frequently cannot be delayed until new science, research or understanding is available. However, such decisions ...
... A coastal manager must presently make decisions relating to both minor development approvals and major new infrastructure. Such decisions cannot always be based on perfect information and frequently cannot be delayed until new science, research or understanding is available. However, such decisions ...
Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate
... We are experiencing the initial impacts of climate change today. The increase in the earth’s average temperature, the decrease in snow and ice cover, the rising sea level, changes in water supply and the loss of biodiversity are effects of climate change that will increasingly impact the future of o ...
... We are experiencing the initial impacts of climate change today. The increase in the earth’s average temperature, the decrease in snow and ice cover, the rising sea level, changes in water supply and the loss of biodiversity are effects of climate change that will increasingly impact the future of o ...
Climate Change and Buildings in Nigeria: A Search for Mitigation
... instrument used. The questionnaire had 283 participants and a total of 30 interviewees were interviewed. The quantitative data from the questionnaire survey were analysed using SPSS 20 software and the NVivo 10 software was used for the qualitative analysis. Findings suggested that the impacts of cl ...
... instrument used. The questionnaire had 283 participants and a total of 30 interviewees were interviewed. The quantitative data from the questionnaire survey were analysed using SPSS 20 software and the NVivo 10 software was used for the qualitative analysis. Findings suggested that the impacts of cl ...
Coastal Hazards and Climate Change
... The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment, 2007 concluded that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. The Fourth Assessment also showed that it is likely that anthropogenic ...
... The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment, 2007 concluded that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. The Fourth Assessment also showed that it is likely that anthropogenic ...
Human Adaptation to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Its
... As part of this process, I have considered the role of risk, uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy in the translation of science to public policy, and the increasing acceptance of precaution as a guiding principle for human interaction with nature. ...
... As part of this process, I have considered the role of risk, uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy in the translation of science to public policy, and the increasing acceptance of precaution as a guiding principle for human interaction with nature. ...
1-Thesis Synthesis
... As part of this process, I have considered the role of risk, uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy in the translation of science to public policy, and the increasing acceptance of precaution as a guiding principle for human interaction with nature. ...
... As part of this process, I have considered the role of risk, uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy in the translation of science to public policy, and the increasing acceptance of precaution as a guiding principle for human interaction with nature. ...
Vulnerability Does Not Fall From the Sky
... Megan Liddle has worked as program manager with the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), where she contributed to analytical work on forest tenure, forest-based poverty alleviation, and community-based forest enterprise. Prior to joining RRI, she worked with Forest Trends, as part of the Communiti ...
... Megan Liddle has worked as program manager with the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), where she contributed to analytical work on forest tenure, forest-based poverty alleviation, and community-based forest enterprise. Prior to joining RRI, she worked with Forest Trends, as part of the Communiti ...
Climate Adaptation Plan 2014
... These activities will allow Denver to reach its long-term vision to be one of the most recreational activities, and innovative and resilient cities in the face of climate change. The short, medium, and an environment conducive long-term activities are categorized by sectors throughout the Climate Ad ...
... These activities will allow Denver to reach its long-term vision to be one of the most recreational activities, and innovative and resilient cities in the face of climate change. The short, medium, and an environment conducive long-term activities are categorized by sectors throughout the Climate Ad ...
FARM-LEVEL VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EASTERN BAY OF PLENTY,
... and the reduction of greenhouse gases, to adaptation, and identifying the ways in which nations, communities and sectors might best respond to the reality of a changing climate. Vulnerability assessments are now being employed to identify the conditions to which socio ecological systems are exposed- ...
... and the reduction of greenhouse gases, to adaptation, and identifying the ways in which nations, communities and sectors might best respond to the reality of a changing climate. Vulnerability assessments are now being employed to identify the conditions to which socio ecological systems are exposed- ...
Climate Change, Risk and Productivity: Analyses of Chinese
... In the second study, the above method is applied to determine the effects of changing temperatures and precipitation levels as well as of changes in climatic variability on the mean yield and the yield risk in Chinese grain farming. In contrast with prior studies, which adopt variants of the Just an ...
... In the second study, the above method is applied to determine the effects of changing temperatures and precipitation levels as well as of changes in climatic variability on the mean yield and the yield risk in Chinese grain farming. In contrast with prior studies, which adopt variants of the Just an ...
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Precipitation over Lake
... atmosphere. GHGs absorb and re-emit energy radiated from the Earth's surface, leading to a warming or cooling effect and changes in the Earth’s energy balance with time. Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere leads to warming which in turn causes global atmospheric water vapor an ...
... atmosphere. GHGs absorb and re-emit energy radiated from the Earth's surface, leading to a warming or cooling effect and changes in the Earth’s energy balance with time. Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere leads to warming which in turn causes global atmospheric water vapor an ...
The making of a riskier future: How our decisions are
... atural disasters can have truly global impacts. There is evidence that approximately 75,000 years ago, after the Toba volcano erupted in Sumatra, Indonesia, a global volcanic winter may have decimated the global human population to just several thousand. Since then, natural hazards have frequently a ...
... atural disasters can have truly global impacts. There is evidence that approximately 75,000 years ago, after the Toba volcano erupted in Sumatra, Indonesia, a global volcanic winter may have decimated the global human population to just several thousand. Since then, natural hazards have frequently a ...
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the
... driver of biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services. The Paris Agreement, which strengthened international support for limiting global warming, will enter into force on November 2016 and is a positive step, especially from the point of view of conserving and sustainably using biodivers ...
... driver of biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services. The Paris Agreement, which strengthened international support for limiting global warming, will enter into force on November 2016 and is a positive step, especially from the point of view of conserving and sustainably using biodivers ...
A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster
... would address both the hazards and vulnerabilities which configure particular risk scenarios and would range in scale from actions to manage the local manifestations of global climate risk, through to global measures to reduce hazard (for example, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions) and to reduce ...
... would address both the hazards and vulnerabilities which configure particular risk scenarios and would range in scale from actions to manage the local manifestations of global climate risk, through to global measures to reduce hazard (for example, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions) and to reduce ...
Colorado Climate Preparedness Project Final Report
... resource planning process, which requires utilities to plan for long-term shifts in demand. Utilities are also accustomed to using a variety of mechanisms to accommodate significant short-term peaks in demand, although current mechanisms are relatively inefficient. Demand response and dynamic meteri ...
... resource planning process, which requires utilities to plan for long-term shifts in demand. Utilities are also accustomed to using a variety of mechanisms to accommodate significant short-term peaks in demand, although current mechanisms are relatively inefficient. Demand response and dynamic meteri ...
Review of climate change adaptation methods and tools
... decades. For developing countries, the task is particularly daunting. The process of adapting to new conditions, stresses and natural hazards that result from climate change will require additional interventions. Although most communities have some ability to respond to changes and extreme climatic ...
... decades. For developing countries, the task is particularly daunting. The process of adapting to new conditions, stresses and natural hazards that result from climate change will require additional interventions. Although most communities have some ability to respond to changes and extreme climatic ...
Preparing for a Changing Climate in Northern Ireland
... UKCIP08 scenarios is made on their publication, reviewing any changes in projections and highlighting the enhanced data available for stakeholders in Northern Ireland. It is also recommended that outputs of Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research are reviewed with respect to application ...
... UKCIP08 scenarios is made on their publication, reviewing any changes in projections and highlighting the enhanced data available for stakeholders in Northern Ireland. It is also recommended that outputs of Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research are reviewed with respect to application ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i2146e/i2146e.pdf
... GHG emissions per USD of GDP (PPP) over the GDP of different country groupings in 2000 ... 30 2.19 Share of different anthropogenic GHGs in total emissions in 2004 in terms of CO2-eq ............. 31 2.20 Steps in the EAF process ...................................................................... ...
... GHG emissions per USD of GDP (PPP) over the GDP of different country groupings in 2000 ... 30 2.19 Share of different anthropogenic GHGs in total emissions in 2004 in terms of CO2-eq ............. 31 2.20 Steps in the EAF process ...................................................................... ...
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.