Climate Adaptation Outlook
... About this report The Climate Adaptation Outlook report is the first of a structured series of reports on how well placed Australia — including its businesses, communities and institutions — is to manage the impacts of unavoidable climate change. The Productivity Commission’s recent report, Barriers ...
... About this report The Climate Adaptation Outlook report is the first of a structured series of reports on how well placed Australia — including its businesses, communities and institutions — is to manage the impacts of unavoidable climate change. The Productivity Commission’s recent report, Barriers ...
Victoria`s Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... 2010, the Victorian Government has developed a world-leading legislative framework for action on climate change. It includes a target of net zero emissions by 2050, with five-yearly interim targets to ensure we stay on track to meet the long-term target, and a pledge process to reduce emissions acro ...
... 2010, the Victorian Government has developed a world-leading legislative framework for action on climate change. It includes a target of net zero emissions by 2050, with five-yearly interim targets to ensure we stay on track to meet the long-term target, and a pledge process to reduce emissions acro ...
Chapter 3: Natural environment and natural assets
... climate change is likely to accelerate current rates of decline and loss of ecosystem function. Such combined stresses are particularly evident during extreme events when climate-related impacts are most apparent. Furthermore, evidence of longer-term shifts in species and ecosystems due to higher te ...
... climate change is likely to accelerate current rates of decline and loss of ecosystem function. Such combined stresses are particularly evident during extreme events when climate-related impacts are most apparent. Furthermore, evidence of longer-term shifts in species and ecosystems due to higher te ...
Economics, Institutions and Adaptation to Climate Change
... uncertainty (how uncertainty about future change affects costs)”. He argues that “[t]hese shortcomings are a reflection of just how difficult it is to measure and cost adaptation” (ibid.). The first major source of difficulties is intricacies in defining adaptation, and its costs and benefits. These ...
... uncertainty (how uncertainty about future change affects costs)”. He argues that “[t]hese shortcomings are a reflection of just how difficult it is to measure and cost adaptation” (ibid.). The first major source of difficulties is intricacies in defining adaptation, and its costs and benefits. These ...
Full Report - A New Climate for Peace
... Achieving a robust agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is of paramount importance. Yet the relentless momentum of change means that despite future emissions reductions, the physical impacts of anthropogenic climate change are already visible and will continue for decades to come. Climate ch ...
... Achieving a robust agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is of paramount importance. Yet the relentless momentum of change means that despite future emissions reductions, the physical impacts of anthropogenic climate change are already visible and will continue for decades to come. Climate ch ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources
... Figure 9 Change in average annual and first percentile rainfall for the ‘best’ case projections (ECHO-G GCM) and low emissions ......................................................................................... 29 Figure 10. Change in average annual and first percentile rainfall for the ‘best’ ...
... Figure 9 Change in average annual and first percentile rainfall for the ‘best’ case projections (ECHO-G GCM) and low emissions ......................................................................................... 29 Figure 10. Change in average annual and first percentile rainfall for the ‘best’ ...
Testing the Limits - University of Washington
... What factors determine where species occur, known as their geographic range limits? This classic ecological question has fascinated scientists for centuries, and is even more relevant today, in the face of anthropogenic climate change. Unfortunately, despite decades of research, we still lack a full ...
... What factors determine where species occur, known as their geographic range limits? This classic ecological question has fascinated scientists for centuries, and is even more relevant today, in the face of anthropogenic climate change. Unfortunately, despite decades of research, we still lack a full ...
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... eruption [35]. This illustrates the potential power of reducing the global temperature through the periodic and continued injection of sulfate particles, or aerosols, into the lower stratosphere. The extent to which SRM can compensate the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and the associated clim ...
... eruption [35]. This illustrates the potential power of reducing the global temperature through the periodic and continued injection of sulfate particles, or aerosols, into the lower stratosphere. The extent to which SRM can compensate the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and the associated clim ...
the role of the barents sea in the arctic climate system
... temperature) over the last decade is well known [Smedsrud et al., 2010]. This information has been used to evaluate regional and global models and to constrain the previously wide ranges [Simonsen and Haugan, 1996] in heat budgets. [4] The northward flowing Atlantic Water (AW) that keeps the BS partl ...
... temperature) over the last decade is well known [Smedsrud et al., 2010]. This information has been used to evaluate regional and global models and to constrain the previously wide ranges [Simonsen and Haugan, 1996] in heat budgets. [4] The northward flowing Atlantic Water (AW) that keeps the BS partl ...
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the
... the same as used in CBD (2012)1, and is used here without prejudice to any definition that may subsequently be agreed under the Convention. “Climate engineering” and “climate intervention” may be considered as equivalent to “climate-related geoengineering”, hereafter geoengineering. Generally, clima ...
... the same as used in CBD (2012)1, and is used here without prejudice to any definition that may subsequently be agreed under the Convention. “Climate engineering” and “climate intervention” may be considered as equivalent to “climate-related geoengineering”, hereafter geoengineering. Generally, clima ...
Climate Change and Aspen
... communities as the canary in the coal mine for global warming. Aspen’s goal: to aggressively reduce its contribution to global warming, and to engage other communities to send a clear message on the importance of this issue. Data for the past 50 years collected at Aspen’s weather station, and compil ...
... communities as the canary in the coal mine for global warming. Aspen’s goal: to aggressively reduce its contribution to global warming, and to engage other communities to send a clear message on the importance of this issue. Data for the past 50 years collected at Aspen’s weather station, and compil ...
global forum on food security and nutrition
... 1. Christian Häberli, World Trade Institute, Switzerland Ad Q 1) What are the main issues for policy-makers to consider when linking climate change on the one hand and food security and nutrition on the other? Even/because this is a fiendishly complex issue, focus is essential. I suggest a focus on ...
... 1. Christian Häberli, World Trade Institute, Switzerland Ad Q 1) What are the main issues for policy-makers to consider when linking climate change on the one hand and food security and nutrition on the other? Even/because this is a fiendishly complex issue, focus is essential. I suggest a focus on ...
America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Research Council
... ackling climate change promises to be one of the most significant social and technological challenges of the 21st century. Since the industrial revolution, the atmosphere has been one of the world’s principal waste repositories because it has offered an easy and inexpensive means of managing unwante ...
... ackling climate change promises to be one of the most significant social and technological challenges of the 21st century. Since the industrial revolution, the atmosphere has been one of the world’s principal waste repositories because it has offered an easy and inexpensive means of managing unwante ...
LCCARL299_en.pdf
... The following symbols have been used in this study: A full stop (.) is used to indicate decimals n.a. is used to indicated that data are not available The use of a hyphen (-) between years, for example, 2010-2019, signifies an annual average for the calendar years involved, including the beginning a ...
... The following symbols have been used in this study: A full stop (.) is used to indicate decimals n.a. is used to indicated that data are not available The use of a hyphen (-) between years, for example, 2010-2019, signifies an annual average for the calendar years involved, including the beginning a ...
Mapping South African Farming
... increasing importance within the global change research community in recent years. Vulnerability is conceptualized in different ways across different disciplines. Liverman (1990) noted that vulnerability has been equated to concepts such as resilience, risk, marginality, adaptability, and exposure. ...
... increasing importance within the global change research community in recent years. Vulnerability is conceptualized in different ways across different disciplines. Liverman (1990) noted that vulnerability has been equated to concepts such as resilience, risk, marginality, adaptability, and exposure. ...
Climate Change and Conflict: Findings and Lessons Learned from
... pastoralist regions, Niger’s arid zones, Burkina Faso’s high-demand land areas, the low-lying slums of coastal West Africa, and the water-stressed Andes of Peru without taking into account the impact of climate change would result in an incomplete and flawed analysis. Climate-related impacts are dir ...
... pastoralist regions, Niger’s arid zones, Burkina Faso’s high-demand land areas, the low-lying slums of coastal West Africa, and the water-stressed Andes of Peru without taking into account the impact of climate change would result in an incomplete and flawed analysis. Climate-related impacts are dir ...
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... reducing emissions or capturing carbon. Adaptation involves adjusting behaviour and infrastructure to better fit the new climate, thereby reducing the damages from climate change or increasing the benefits of climate change. To set optimal policies, Integrated Assessments Models (IAMs) have been dev ...
... reducing emissions or capturing carbon. Adaptation involves adjusting behaviour and infrastructure to better fit the new climate, thereby reducing the damages from climate change or increasing the benefits of climate change. To set optimal policies, Integrated Assessments Models (IAMs) have been dev ...
Climate Guide - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
... planet in the form of heat (long-wave radiation, or infrared). On its way out through the atmosphere, this heat is absorbed by greenhouse gases that act as a blanket over the earth, keeping it warmer. We should be grateful for this effect because it makes life on earth possible. Carbon dioxide and m ...
... planet in the form of heat (long-wave radiation, or infrared). On its way out through the atmosphere, this heat is absorbed by greenhouse gases that act as a blanket over the earth, keeping it warmer. We should be grateful for this effect because it makes life on earth possible. Carbon dioxide and m ...
Foreword - Cap-Net
... rainfall, and floods and droughts. Undoubtedly changes in one of our most important resources will affect people, economies and the environment, perhaps in a dramatic way. As we look at our current knowledge of climate change it is clear that we are still in a state of uncertainty. For most countrie ...
... rainfall, and floods and droughts. Undoubtedly changes in one of our most important resources will affect people, economies and the environment, perhaps in a dramatic way. As we look at our current knowledge of climate change it is clear that we are still in a state of uncertainty. For most countrie ...
Climate Change: Adaptation for Queensland Issues Paper
... At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Cancun in December 2010 the world agreed to take action to limit global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Even with only 2°C global warming there are serious risks to Queensland from the impacts of climate change, a ...
... At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Cancun in December 2010 the world agreed to take action to limit global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Even with only 2°C global warming there are serious risks to Queensland from the impacts of climate change, a ...
A regional climate change decision framework for natural resource
... The authors wish to thank the many people within the Adelaide-Mount Lofty region and the natural resources management community more specifically, who assisted them during the development of the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management (AMLR NRM) climate change project. This proj ...
... The authors wish to thank the many people within the Adelaide-Mount Lofty region and the natural resources management community more specifically, who assisted them during the development of the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management (AMLR NRM) climate change project. This proj ...
www.epa.ie Report No. 164 w.epa.ie
... Sophisticated computer modelling of the projected impacts of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere has been undertaken, and this has been calibrated against the observed changes in climate over the last century. These models suggest that increases in energy-trapping g ...
... Sophisticated computer modelling of the projected impacts of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere has been undertaken, and this has been calibrated against the observed changes in climate over the last century. These models suggest that increases in energy-trapping g ...
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.