Australia`s Sixth National Communication on Climate Change
... particular, has led to a dominance of coal-fired electricity generation and energyintensive industries. These industries make a significant contribution to economic growth, employment and regional development in Australia. Australia has one of the most naturally variable climates in the world (see F ...
... particular, has led to a dominance of coal-fired electricity generation and energyintensive industries. These industries make a significant contribution to economic growth, employment and regional development in Australia. Australia has one of the most naturally variable climates in the world (see F ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector
... The tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change. The spectacular growth of tourism provides both a challenge and an opportunity. The tourist community itself has responded to this challenge over the past few years and visibly stepped up its response to cli ...
... The tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change. The spectacular growth of tourism provides both a challenge and an opportunity. The tourist community itself has responded to this challenge over the past few years and visibly stepped up its response to cli ...
6 Assessing Transformation Pathways
... in 2100) (high confidence). The scenario literature does not systematically explore the full range of uncertainty surrounding development pathways and the possible evolution of key drivers such as population, technology, and resources. However, the baseline scenarios do nonetheless strongly suggest ...
... in 2100) (high confidence). The scenario literature does not systematically explore the full range of uncertainty surrounding development pathways and the possible evolution of key drivers such as population, technology, and resources. However, the baseline scenarios do nonetheless strongly suggest ...
Using climate information for drought planning
... users rely on data to help guide and inform their planning process. Yet, drought, a naturally occurring phenomenon, has largely been overlooked by planners as something that can be planned for, rather than simply responded to. This may be due to its relatively slow onset, or the fact that the beginn ...
... users rely on data to help guide and inform their planning process. Yet, drought, a naturally occurring phenomenon, has largely been overlooked by planners as something that can be planned for, rather than simply responded to. This may be due to its relatively slow onset, or the fact that the beginn ...
Climatic controls on diffuse groundwater
... solar radiation, vapour pressure deficit and CO2 concentration as these climate characteristics influence the vegetation water demands and water use efficiency (McCallum et al., 2010). Natural vegetation is largely adapted to local climatic conditions, and some titles of climate types reflect this ( ...
... solar radiation, vapour pressure deficit and CO2 concentration as these climate characteristics influence the vegetation water demands and water use efficiency (McCallum et al., 2010). Natural vegetation is largely adapted to local climatic conditions, and some titles of climate types reflect this ( ...
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. (2010) Adapting Institutions to Climate Change, Twenty-eighth report. David Stainforth is acknowledged in the report as a key contributor
... Recent legislation and government policy does indeed require adaptation to climate change to be addressed, but little detailed attention has been given to the central issue of this study, which focuses on capabilities of institutions – on the organisations and the institutional frameworks which regu ...
... Recent legislation and government policy does indeed require adaptation to climate change to be addressed, but little detailed attention has been given to the central issue of this study, which focuses on capabilities of institutions – on the organisations and the institutional frameworks which regu ...
- Lancaster EPrints
... et al., 2011). Globally, halogen loading peaked around 1998 (although this depends on ...
... et al., 2011). Globally, halogen loading peaked around 1998 (although this depends on ...
Eco-Fiction: Bringing Climate Change into the Imagination
... though disproportionality, to the risks associated with our planet’s changing climate. These changes are largely caused by our unabated expulsion of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Our globalized world and economic activities have largely engendered the burning of fossil fuels. The 2014 report fr ...
... though disproportionality, to the risks associated with our planet’s changing climate. These changes are largely caused by our unabated expulsion of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Our globalized world and economic activities have largely engendered the burning of fossil fuels. The 2014 report fr ...
Climate Change Effects and Adaptation Approaches in Freshwater
... Climate Change Effects in Freshwater Ecosystems Draft Final: August 2011 neighboring Gulf Islands (BC),70 as well as other areas where coastal water tables are influenced by marine systems.71 Reduced seasonal ice cover: The spatial and seasonal extent of ice cover on lakes will be reduced due to cl ...
... Climate Change Effects in Freshwater Ecosystems Draft Final: August 2011 neighboring Gulf Islands (BC),70 as well as other areas where coastal water tables are influenced by marine systems.71 Reduced seasonal ice cover: The spatial and seasonal extent of ice cover on lakes will be reduced due to cl ...
IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 18 FIRST-‐ORDER DRAFT Expert Review
... (Seung-‐Ki Min, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research) This chapter is the result of an admirable attempt to extract relevant information from all WGII chapters while these were in the Thanks, all efforts ...
... (Seung-‐Ki Min, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research) This chapter is the result of an admirable attempt to extract relevant information from all WGII chapters while these were in the Thanks, all efforts ...
Climate Change in the Midwest - Climate Adaptation Knowledge
... on the status of climate change science and impacts. The NCA informs the nation about already observed changes, the current status of the climate, and anticipated trends for the future. The NCA report process integrates scientific information from multiple sources and sectors to highlight key findin ...
... on the status of climate change science and impacts. The NCA informs the nation about already observed changes, the current status of the climate, and anticipated trends for the future. The NCA report process integrates scientific information from multiple sources and sectors to highlight key findin ...
Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba, a Model Organism - ePIC
... Within its distribution range in the Southern Ocean, Antarctic krill constitutes the largest stock of crustacean biomass in the world’s ocean. The abundance of krill is estimated to be between 100 and 500 million tonnes (SIEGEL 2005). To put this amount into perspective, annually, less than 100 mill ...
... Within its distribution range in the Southern Ocean, Antarctic krill constitutes the largest stock of crustacean biomass in the world’s ocean. The abundance of krill is estimated to be between 100 and 500 million tonnes (SIEGEL 2005). To put this amount into perspective, annually, less than 100 mill ...
Link - University of Washington
... projections for each time horizon using two greenhouse gas scenarios from the IPCC Fourth Assessment: A1B and A2 (Nakicenovic et al. 2000).3 Greenhouse gas scenarios were developed by climate modeling centers for use in modeling global and regional climate impacts. The A1B scenario is a medium em ...
... projections for each time horizon using two greenhouse gas scenarios from the IPCC Fourth Assessment: A1B and A2 (Nakicenovic et al. 2000).3 Greenhouse gas scenarios were developed by climate modeling centers for use in modeling global and regional climate impacts. The A1B scenario is a medium em ...
Narratives of Climate Change. Outline of a systematic approach to
... sociology by providing a systematic approach to narrative analysis which acknowledges cultural sociology’s paradigms and understanding of culture. The second question focuses on the empirical interest of this study, i.e. to advance our sociological understanding of climate change communication and w ...
... sociology by providing a systematic approach to narrative analysis which acknowledges cultural sociology’s paradigms and understanding of culture. The second question focuses on the empirical interest of this study, i.e. to advance our sociological understanding of climate change communication and w ...
5. Analysis of effects of the megatrends - Eionet Forum
... Emerging from this integration analysis of global megatrends are a number of key megatrends that are likely to be particularly important for Europe’s environment. Three megatrends in particular (T1, T2 and ENV1) stand out as having a medium or strong influence on Europe’s environment across all four ...
... Emerging from this integration analysis of global megatrends are a number of key megatrends that are likely to be particularly important for Europe’s environment. Three megatrends in particular (T1, T2 and ENV1) stand out as having a medium or strong influence on Europe’s environment across all four ...
The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change
... concern its potentially disastrous impacts on the prospects for development, especially for poorer populations in the global South. Earlier writings on climate change had tended to focus more on its links with biodiversity loss, spread of pathogens and diseases, land use planning, ecosystem change, ...
... concern its potentially disastrous impacts on the prospects for development, especially for poorer populations in the global South. Earlier writings on climate change had tended to focus more on its links with biodiversity loss, spread of pathogens and diseases, land use planning, ecosystem change, ...
the state of city climate finance - Cities Climate Finance Leadership
... The infrastructure planning and financing decisions made today will determine the world’s climate and development outcomes for the next century. Taken together, these decisions will lead to the building of either low-emission, climate-resilient infrastructure that increases economic opportunity or m ...
... The infrastructure planning and financing decisions made today will determine the world’s climate and development outcomes for the next century. Taken together, these decisions will lead to the building of either low-emission, climate-resilient infrastructure that increases economic opportunity or m ...
Spatial Planning in Coastal Regions
... This report highlights the core issues of coastal adaptation to climate change and discusses the impacts of climate change on spatial planning in coastal regions. It outlines the objectives of the working group 8.4 and its achievements over the past four years. It also draws members’ attention to FI ...
... This report highlights the core issues of coastal adaptation to climate change and discusses the impacts of climate change on spatial planning in coastal regions. It outlines the objectives of the working group 8.4 and its achievements over the past four years. It also draws members’ attention to FI ...
Vulnerability of coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef to
... 2900 coral reefs and 900 coral cays that cover approximately 20,000 km2 of the total 345,000 km2 area of the GBR Marine Park. As a consequence of unusually high summer sea surface temperatures, between 42 to 60 percent of the reefs of the GBR experienced mass coral bleaching in 19988. Bleaching was ...
... 2900 coral reefs and 900 coral cays that cover approximately 20,000 km2 of the total 345,000 km2 area of the GBR Marine Park. As a consequence of unusually high summer sea surface temperatures, between 42 to 60 percent of the reefs of the GBR experienced mass coral bleaching in 19988. Bleaching was ...
Arctic Regions: Concerns, Threats and Potential Challenges
... Norway, Russia, Sweden and United States (Alaska), Figure 3. The main portion of its entire region is oceanic of which one-third is occupied by land, another one-third consists of offshore continental shelves located in less than 500 meters or Arctic Ocean water and the other one-third is under Arct ...
... Norway, Russia, Sweden and United States (Alaska), Figure 3. The main portion of its entire region is oceanic of which one-third is occupied by land, another one-third consists of offshore continental shelves located in less than 500 meters or Arctic Ocean water and the other one-third is under Arct ...
Draft Guidelines on Climate Change and Natura 2000
... vulnerable to climate change. For many of the invertebrates, not much is known of their response to climate change due to limited knowledge about their ecology or their present distribution. The Mediterranean and Alpine regions show the highest number of vulnerable species. The negative effects of c ...
... vulnerable to climate change. For many of the invertebrates, not much is known of their response to climate change due to limited knowledge about their ecology or their present distribution. The Mediterranean and Alpine regions show the highest number of vulnerable species. The negative effects of c ...
INTERPRETING INDCs - World Resources Institute
... less critical to interpreting and estimating a Party’s emissions trajectory and target, may be discussed in the text, but are excluded here. “All IPCC sectors” includes energy; industrial processes and product use; agriculture; waste; and land use, land-use change, and forestry. “All Kyoto GHGs” inc ...
... less critical to interpreting and estimating a Party’s emissions trajectory and target, may be discussed in the text, but are excluded here. “All IPCC sectors” includes energy; industrial processes and product use; agriculture; waste; and land use, land-use change, and forestry. “All Kyoto GHGs” inc ...
Global warming
Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Although the increase of near-surface atmospheric temperature is the measure of global warming often reported in the popular press, most of the additional energy stored in the climate system since 1970 has gone into ocean warming. The remainder has melted ice, and warmed the continents and atmosphere. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia.Scientific understanding of global warming is increasing. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in 2014 that scientists were more than 95% certain that most of global warming is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and other human (anthropogenic) activities. Climate model projections summarized in the report indicated that during the 21st century the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 0.3 to 1.7 °C (0.5 to 3.1 °F) for their lowest emissions scenario using stringent mitigation and 2.6 to 4.8 °C (4.7 to 8.6 °F) for their highest. These findings have been recognized by the national science academies of the major industrialized nations.Future climate change and associated impacts will differ from region to region around the globe. Anticipated effects include warming global temperature, rising sea levels, changing precipitation, and expansion of deserts in the subtropics. Warming is expected to be greatest in the Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events including heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall, and heavy snowfall; ocean acidification; and species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes. Effects significant to humans include the threat to food security from decreasing crop yields and the abandonment of populated areas due to flooding.Possible societal responses to global warming include mitigation by emissions reduction, adaptation to its effects, building systems resilient to its effects, and possible future climate engineering. Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),whose ultimate objective is to prevent dangerous anthropogenic climate change. The UNFCCC have adopted a range of policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to assist in adaptation to global warming. Parties to the UNFCCC have agreed that deep cuts in emissions are required, and that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level.