Mental Health and Our Changing Climate
... of climate change have emphasized the physical health effects, while mental health has been secondary. Building upon Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change, the goal of this updated report is to increase awareness of the psychological impacts of climate change on hum ...
... of climate change have emphasized the physical health effects, while mental health has been secondary. Building upon Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change, the goal of this updated report is to increase awareness of the psychological impacts of climate change on hum ...
... What will it take to create a climate change movement that engages everyone? This report aims to provide one set of answers to that question. In doing so, the Environmental Support Center hopes to contribute to creating a more participatory, inclusive climate change movement in the United States wit ...
impacts of climate change on urban development in the uae
... The response to climate change impacts is led by the United Nations and is encouraging world states to take the responsibility of saving their environment and live in peace in their home, the earth. The response is developed through a climate change governance and the implantation responsibility lie ...
... The response to climate change impacts is led by the United Nations and is encouraging world states to take the responsibility of saving their environment and live in peace in their home, the earth. The response is developed through a climate change governance and the implantation responsibility lie ...
Assessment of Health and Climate Preparedness (PDF)
... mental health. People who are displaced from their homes and/or have property destroyed from an extreme weather event can suffer from significant financial loss and long-term mental health issues. Extreme weather events also can disrupt public health and medical services, including emergency respons ...
... mental health. People who are displaced from their homes and/or have property destroyed from an extreme weather event can suffer from significant financial loss and long-term mental health issues. Extreme weather events also can disrupt public health and medical services, including emergency respons ...
Everybody`s Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change
... What will it take to create a climate change movement that engages everyone? This report aims to provide one set of answers to that question. In doing so, the Environmental Support Center hopes to contribute to creating a more participatory, inclusive climate change movement in the United States wit ...
... What will it take to create a climate change movement that engages everyone? This report aims to provide one set of answers to that question. In doing so, the Environmental Support Center hopes to contribute to creating a more participatory, inclusive climate change movement in the United States wit ...
Special Report on Divestment at the University of
... warmest January on record. These monthly records follow the year 2015, which was itself the warmest in recorded history.2 Beyond increased average temperature, we can observe other recent changes in the Earth’s systems as well. Arctic sea ice levels have fallen to record lows for this time of year, ...
... warmest January on record. These monthly records follow the year 2015, which was itself the warmest in recorded history.2 Beyond increased average temperature, we can observe other recent changes in the Earth’s systems as well. Arctic sea ice levels have fallen to record lows for this time of year, ...
Protecting People Crossing Borders in the Context of
... where affected persons were already vulnerable before the storm and their capacity to cope was particularly low at the same time. In such situations, the occurrence of large-scale displacement will be more likely than in a situation where the resilience of people and their capacity to withstand the ...
... where affected persons were already vulnerable before the storm and their capacity to cope was particularly low at the same time. In such situations, the occurrence of large-scale displacement will be more likely than in a situation where the resilience of people and their capacity to withstand the ...
here - OHCHR
... Climate-related disasters are on the rise and will change the future of humanitarian crisis. Climate–related disasters now represent three quarters of all humanitarian natural disasters and pose a major threat for the future. Between 2008 and 2013, on average, 23.4 million people were displaced each ...
... Climate-related disasters are on the rise and will change the future of humanitarian crisis. Climate–related disasters now represent three quarters of all humanitarian natural disasters and pose a major threat for the future. Between 2008 and 2013, on average, 23.4 million people were displaced each ...
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... Anthropogenic climate change and sea level rise, which interacts with the previous factors listed, generally reinforcing their impacts. ...
... Anthropogenic climate change and sea level rise, which interacts with the previous factors listed, generally reinforcing their impacts. ...
Identifying adaptation options
... Adaptation measures will need to be fit for purpose. Ensuring that a specific measure is fit is simpler said than done. First of all, determining fitness is often only possible after the measure has been implemented and in place for some time. Additionally, the desired outcome, regardless of whether ...
... Adaptation measures will need to be fit for purpose. Ensuring that a specific measure is fit is simpler said than done. First of all, determining fitness is often only possible after the measure has been implemented and in place for some time. Additionally, the desired outcome, regardless of whether ...
Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability
... emission mitigation efforts. The Australian Government’s decision to fund the development of an adaptation strategy is therefore an important step forward. Policymakers and investors daily make decisions that have far–reaching and sometimes irreversible effects on the environment, economy and societ ...
... emission mitigation efforts. The Australian Government’s decision to fund the development of an adaptation strategy is therefore an important step forward. Policymakers and investors daily make decisions that have far–reaching and sometimes irreversible effects on the environment, economy and societ ...
5. integrated impacts on coastal areas and river flooding
... to net saltmarsh gains. However, additional saltmarsh losses could occur in both regions due to processes other than sea-level rise: increased wave action due to increased storminess is one possible driver. Under the Global Sustainability storyline and Low climate change scenario there is significan ...
... to net saltmarsh gains. However, additional saltmarsh losses could occur in both regions due to processes other than sea-level rise: increased wave action due to increased storminess is one possible driver. Under the Global Sustainability storyline and Low climate change scenario there is significan ...
Warming up the region The impacts of climate change in the
... Figure 2-2 Pie Chart of Sectors involved in the Consultation………………………………………………………….9 Figure 3-1 Changes in Global Temperature (relative to the 1961-1990 mean) .................................................................6 Figure 3-2 Example UKCIP02 output showing 50km grid over England and Wales ...
... Figure 2-2 Pie Chart of Sectors involved in the Consultation………………………………………………………….9 Figure 3-1 Changes in Global Temperature (relative to the 1961-1990 mean) .................................................................6 Figure 3-2 Example UKCIP02 output showing 50km grid over England and Wales ...
The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America
... Impacts on coastal and marine zones caused by increased sea levels and increased sea surface temperature..............................................................................................21 Impacts derived from changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in coastal zo ...
... Impacts on coastal and marine zones caused by increased sea levels and increased sea surface temperature..............................................................................................21 Impacts derived from changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in coastal zo ...
Ocean Acidification and the UNFCCC
... There are likely to be winners and losers due to rising ocean acidity. It has been suggested that jellyfish,21 algae22 and seagrasses23 could all do better in a high CO2 world. However, these species are unlikely to support the diversity of species and ecosystems that exists in the oceans today and ...
... There are likely to be winners and losers due to rising ocean acidity. It has been suggested that jellyfish,21 algae22 and seagrasses23 could all do better in a high CO2 world. However, these species are unlikely to support the diversity of species and ecosystems that exists in the oceans today and ...
Evaluation of FAO's contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation
... top priorities over the next four years. ...
... top priorities over the next four years. ...
Carbon Capture and Sequestration
... being much cooler than the sun, radiates much of its heat energy in the infrared band. This flux of infrared energy is subject to absorption and re-radiation by the greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, leading to an overall warming of the lower atmosphere. Indeed, the warming influence of nat ...
... being much cooler than the sun, radiates much of its heat energy in the infrared band. This flux of infrared energy is subject to absorption and re-radiation by the greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, leading to an overall warming of the lower atmosphere. Indeed, the warming influence of nat ...
Climate Change and Displacement for Indigenous Communities in
... while decreasing the likelihood of forest fires (Flannigan et al., 1998). Landslides and rockfalls are likely to increase in frequency for the first few decades due to increased ground instability from saturation. Climate change is expected to have particular effects in coastal locations as a result ...
... while decreasing the likelihood of forest fires (Flannigan et al., 1998). Landslides and rockfalls are likely to increase in frequency for the first few decades due to increased ground instability from saturation. Climate change is expected to have particular effects in coastal locations as a result ...
Victoria Policy Institute- Air Pollution Costs
... cost (actual damages) and risk (possibility of future damages).7 For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which consists of hundreds of scientists, concluded, “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ...
... cost (actual damages) and risk (possibility of future damages).7 For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which consists of hundreds of scientists, concluded, “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ...
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... Increasing interagency cooperation, especially vertical integration, will be required to maximize the efficiency of adaptation at all levels. ...
... Increasing interagency cooperation, especially vertical integration, will be required to maximize the efficiency of adaptation at all levels. ...
development and climate change in egypt
... Given that Egypt’s population, land-use and agriculture, as well as its economic activity are all constrained along a narrow T-shaped strip of land along the Nile and the deltaic coast, it is extremely vulnerable to any adverse impacts on its coastal zones and water availability from the Nile. Clima ...
... Given that Egypt’s population, land-use and agriculture, as well as its economic activity are all constrained along a narrow T-shaped strip of land along the Nile and the deltaic coast, it is extremely vulnerable to any adverse impacts on its coastal zones and water availability from the Nile. Clima ...
doc - Canadian Pugwash Group
... cycles early in the 20th century as well as those late in the century. The late century global warming anomaly can only be simulated by including observed anthropogenic forcing. Current models 2 ECHAM-4 and HadCM3 have made projections to 2100. In these models, the ice extent is reduced even faster ...
... cycles early in the 20th century as well as those late in the century. The late century global warming anomaly can only be simulated by including observed anthropogenic forcing. Current models 2 ECHAM-4 and HadCM3 have made projections to 2100. In these models, the ice extent is reduced even faster ...
Publisher version
... Recognizing the imminent threat of climate change, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change launched a process in Bali to enhance implementation of the Convention. A key outcome of this process was recognition by Parties ‘that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissi ...
... Recognizing the imminent threat of climate change, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change launched a process in Bali to enhance implementation of the Convention. A key outcome of this process was recognition by Parties ‘that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissi ...
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.