Global Policy Making on Climate Refugees
... implement or reverse choice. This dimension ranges from the time period of a political election cycle to a generation to the lifetime of a nation or culture. Another dimension is the cultural and political distance between parties. This can be everything from a family or a nation to cultural blocks ...
... implement or reverse choice. This dimension ranges from the time period of a political election cycle to a generation to the lifetime of a nation or culture. Another dimension is the cultural and political distance between parties. This can be everything from a family or a nation to cultural blocks ...
IFinland`s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
... change and its impacts, other experts and representatives of different sectors were involved in the preparation process. The comments sent by stakeholders were also taken into account in finalising the strategy. The increase in the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere leads to global warmin ...
... change and its impacts, other experts and representatives of different sectors were involved in the preparation process. The comments sent by stakeholders were also taken into account in finalising the strategy. The increase in the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere leads to global warmin ...
The Urban Physical Environment: Temperature and Urban Heat
... expanded greatly in the last two decades spurred on by a series of successful international conferences. Despite considerable research, many questions about UHI effects remain unanswered. For example, it is still not clear what portion of the long-term trends of increasing temperatures at standard w ...
... expanded greatly in the last two decades spurred on by a series of successful international conferences. Despite considerable research, many questions about UHI effects remain unanswered. For example, it is still not clear what portion of the long-term trends of increasing temperatures at standard w ...
The ocean carbon sink – impacts, vulnerabilities and challenges
... Revised: 30 April 2015 – Accepted: 14 May 2015 – Published: 9 June 2015 ...
... Revised: 30 April 2015 – Accepted: 14 May 2015 – Published: 9 June 2015 ...
Climate Change in Latin America
... Climate Change was one of the most important issues on the agenda of the Lima EU-LAC Summit of May 2008 during which the firm commitment was made to jointly tackle this challenge. The aim of the EUrocLima Programme, identified in the Lima Declaration, is to promote knowledge sharing, fostering struc ...
... Climate Change was one of the most important issues on the agenda of the Lima EU-LAC Summit of May 2008 during which the firm commitment was made to jointly tackle this challenge. The aim of the EUrocLima Programme, identified in the Lima Declaration, is to promote knowledge sharing, fostering struc ...
Climate Change Impacts on the Water Resources of the Cooper
... climate model tuned to a number of complex models with a range of climate sensitivities. Also for comparison, following the same method, results are shown for IS92a. The darker shading represents the envelope of the full set of thirty-five SRES scenarios using the average of the models results. The ...
... climate model tuned to a number of complex models with a range of climate sensitivities. Also for comparison, following the same method, results are shown for IS92a. The darker shading represents the envelope of the full set of thirty-five SRES scenarios using the average of the models results. The ...
Climate Change Issues and Impacts in the Wet Tropics
... cases there is a fair amount of uncertainty associated with the key messages and they should be understood as best estimates based on expert opinion. Much of the uncertainty about potential impacts is due to the climate model uncertainty about changes in rainfall amount and timing that are critical ...
... cases there is a fair amount of uncertainty associated with the key messages and they should be understood as best estimates based on expert opinion. Much of the uncertainty about potential impacts is due to the climate model uncertainty about changes in rainfall amount and timing that are critical ...
Ch12 Pre-Release - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... chapter are several detailed case studies based on extensive research with indigenous communities in a number of arctic settings.These case studies discuss past, present, and potential impacts of climate change on specific activities and livelihoods. It is not possible to provide circumpolar coverag ...
... chapter are several detailed case studies based on extensive research with indigenous communities in a number of arctic settings.These case studies discuss past, present, and potential impacts of climate change on specific activities and livelihoods. It is not possible to provide circumpolar coverag ...
Can Social Protection Increase Resilience to Climate Change?
... Béné et al. 2014). Risk and vulnerability are therefore framed as an external source located in the ecological system, rather than taking an integrated view that includes social dimensions of vulnerability (Gaillard 2010; Miller et al. 2010). From a development perspective this means that there may ...
... Béné et al. 2014). Risk and vulnerability are therefore framed as an external source located in the ecological system, rather than taking an integrated view that includes social dimensions of vulnerability (Gaillard 2010; Miller et al. 2010). From a development perspective this means that there may ...
Fossil Fuel Divestment: Implications For The Future Of Sustainability
... struggling to contribute meaningfully to it (Calder and Clugston 2003, Su and Chang 2010, Tilbury 2011, Jones 2012, Jones 2015a). The mission of universities to educate future leaders carries an onus to equip graduates to tackle the interconnected challenges of climate change, global inequality, and ...
... struggling to contribute meaningfully to it (Calder and Clugston 2003, Su and Chang 2010, Tilbury 2011, Jones 2012, Jones 2015a). The mission of universities to educate future leaders carries an onus to equip graduates to tackle the interconnected challenges of climate change, global inequality, and ...
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper
... the hottest and driest nations and more at risk than other developed countries. The science of climate change presented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 paints a clear picture. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as evident from a wide range of measurements. Numerous other chan ...
... the hottest and driest nations and more at risk than other developed countries. The science of climate change presented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 paints a clear picture. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as evident from a wide range of measurements. Numerous other chan ...
Malawi`s Strategy on Climate Change Learning
... situation, and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Evidence of Malawi’s commitment to both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the Kyoto Protocol include the various measures undertaken towards the fulfilment of ...
... situation, and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Evidence of Malawi’s commitment to both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the Kyoto Protocol include the various measures undertaken towards the fulfilment of ...
the student presentation
... Ice cap growth should precede Sea level fall has not begun Interglacial will last more than several kyrs From Broecker and Stocker (2006) ...
... Ice cap growth should precede Sea level fall has not begun Interglacial will last more than several kyrs From Broecker and Stocker (2006) ...
Tree Species Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
... Vulnerability can be assessed in the context of either current or future climate scenarios. Adaptation measures can then be proposed that may reduce vulnerability by reducing potential negative impacts and by improving adaptive capacity. In this report we focus on the impacts of climate change at th ...
... Vulnerability can be assessed in the context of either current or future climate scenarios. Adaptation measures can then be proposed that may reduce vulnerability by reducing potential negative impacts and by improving adaptive capacity. In this report we focus on the impacts of climate change at th ...
Addressing Climate Change in National Urban Policy
... in order to allow researchers to have a clear idea what is the ultimate goal of the project and how their data will contribute. Below is an outline of the research design of this project, but leaving room for consultants, as specialists, to give their own input. It begins with the formulation of res ...
... in order to allow researchers to have a clear idea what is the ultimate goal of the project and how their data will contribute. Below is an outline of the research design of this project, but leaving room for consultants, as specialists, to give their own input. It begins with the formulation of res ...
Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines
... I. A message from the project delivery team Humanity will need to act decisively now if the global average temperature rise is to be contained within the 2°C limit agreed to by world governments in Paris. This landmark agreement furthermore called for substantial action to adapt to climate change. A ...
... I. A message from the project delivery team Humanity will need to act decisively now if the global average temperature rise is to be contained within the 2°C limit agreed to by world governments in Paris. This landmark agreement furthermore called for substantial action to adapt to climate change. A ...
Evaluating land-use related environmental impacts of biomass
... The climate impacts of energy use of boreal stemwood were found to be higher than the previous estimates suggest on forest residues and stumps. The product lifetime was found to have much higher influence on the climate impacts of wood-based value chains than the origin of stemwood either from thinni ...
... The climate impacts of energy use of boreal stemwood were found to be higher than the previous estimates suggest on forest residues and stumps. The product lifetime was found to have much higher influence on the climate impacts of wood-based value chains than the origin of stemwood either from thinni ...
Read the Adaptation Strategy
... only because emissions will continue, but also because CO2 stays in the atmosphere for a long time. Even if further GHG emissions were halted today, alterations already underway in the Earth’s climate will last for hundreds or thousands of years. If GHG emissions continue, as is currently more likel ...
... only because emissions will continue, but also because CO2 stays in the atmosphere for a long time. Even if further GHG emissions were halted today, alterations already underway in the Earth’s climate will last for hundreds or thousands of years. If GHG emissions continue, as is currently more likel ...
About this Sourcebook - Stockholm Environment Institute
... The last few decades have witnessed extensive research on potential and observed impacts of climate change and variability. Climate variability is a relatively near-term phenomenon characterized by intensification in the departure from baseline climatic trends in temperature and precipitation extrem ...
... The last few decades have witnessed extensive research on potential and observed impacts of climate change and variability. Climate variability is a relatively near-term phenomenon characterized by intensification in the departure from baseline climatic trends in temperature and precipitation extrem ...
The colour of climate: changes in peat
... et al., 1999; Lauritzen and Lundberg, 1999b; Briffa, 2000). These archives contain proxies of different types; biological, physical, chemical and lithological (Lowe and Walker, 1997) and analyses of these make it possible for the scientific community to interpret past climate changes and contribute t ...
... et al., 1999; Lauritzen and Lundberg, 1999b; Briffa, 2000). These archives contain proxies of different types; biological, physical, chemical and lithological (Lowe and Walker, 1997) and analyses of these make it possible for the scientific community to interpret past climate changes and contribute t ...
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.