Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook MODULE 14: Financing Climate-smart agriculture
... This module addresses the issue of financing climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The first part of the module looks at how climate change affects investment needs for agricultural development to support food security, poverty reduction and economic growth. The focus of the module is on the near term – ...
... This module addresses the issue of financing climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The first part of the module looks at how climate change affects investment needs for agricultural development to support food security, poverty reduction and economic growth. The focus of the module is on the near term – ...
Blue Nile Runoff Sensitivity to Climate Change
... worst in 50 years. It is likely that more extreme events like these will be observed more frequently in future as a result of global warming [3]. In an attempt to understand climatic shifts in Africa, [4] studied both annual temperature and precipitation anomalies from the turn of the 20th Century. ...
... worst in 50 years. It is likely that more extreme events like these will be observed more frequently in future as a result of global warming [3]. In an attempt to understand climatic shifts in Africa, [4] studied both annual temperature and precipitation anomalies from the turn of the 20th Century. ...
Panama and the Specter of Climate Change
... nations and the indigenous nations of the Arctic region, may cease to exist as their habitats disappear along with their cultures, civilizations and entire way of life.'12 These nations also lack the resources to deal with storms, rising sea levels, unpredictable weather patterns and other impending ...
... nations and the indigenous nations of the Arctic region, may cease to exist as their habitats disappear along with their cultures, civilizations and entire way of life.'12 These nations also lack the resources to deal with storms, rising sea levels, unpredictable weather patterns and other impending ...
Key Adaptation Concepts and Terms
... Adaptation Assessment - The practice of identifying options to adapt to climate change and evaluating them in terms of criteria such as availability, benefits, costs, effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility.(IPCC TAR, 2001 a) The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper c ...
... Adaptation Assessment - The practice of identifying options to adapt to climate change and evaluating them in terms of criteria such as availability, benefits, costs, effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility.(IPCC TAR, 2001 a) The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper c ...
We Have Been Conned - The Science and Public Policy Institute
... politics it has abandoned the "scientific method" and replaced it with a desperate search for data and other material that might support a specific hypothesis. Its reports are not an honest assessment of climate because they omit, dismiss or distort research findings that do not conform to a certain ...
... politics it has abandoned the "scientific method" and replaced it with a desperate search for data and other material that might support a specific hypothesis. Its reports are not an honest assessment of climate because they omit, dismiss or distort research findings that do not conform to a certain ...
English - unfccc
... threatens the very existence of humankind on the earth. It is against this background, that Ghana signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in June 1992, after the Convention was adopted on 9 May 1992. The climate Convention entered ...
... threatens the very existence of humankind on the earth. It is against this background, that Ghana signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in June 1992, after the Convention was adopted on 9 May 1992. The climate Convention entered ...
English
... Social protection plays an important role in addressing some of the challenges arising from climate change within the larger, multi‐sectoral adaptation effort. If designed and executed well, SP interventions offer versatile coping mechanisms for climate shocks and natural disasters. In ...
... Social protection plays an important role in addressing some of the challenges arising from climate change within the larger, multi‐sectoral adaptation effort. If designed and executed well, SP interventions offer versatile coping mechanisms for climate shocks and natural disasters. In ...
Climate change: impacts and adaptation for agriculture in Western
... working to reduce the vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate variability and change and to increase the sector’s adaptive capacity. In 2010, DAFWA developed a ‘Climate change response strategy’ to provide strategic direction for climate change activities and to identify and prioritise a ...
... working to reduce the vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate variability and change and to increase the sector’s adaptive capacity. In 2010, DAFWA developed a ‘Climate change response strategy’ to provide strategic direction for climate change activities and to identify and prioritise a ...
Geoengineering Governance
... Scientists have observed that the addition of sulfur to the stratosphere, either through natural activity such as volcanic eruptions or through human activity that generates SO2 and other pollutants, produces a cooling effect by causing more sunlight to be reflected into space.16 Chemical and micro- ...
... Scientists have observed that the addition of sulfur to the stratosphere, either through natural activity such as volcanic eruptions or through human activity that generates SO2 and other pollutants, produces a cooling effect by causing more sunlight to be reflected into space.16 Chemical and micro- ...
Republic of Gambia, Initial National Communication
... Percentage depreciation of the Gambian Dalasi in 1999 against major international currencies ...
... Percentage depreciation of the Gambian Dalasi in 1999 against major international currencies ...
Global Warming and the Government: How
... courts must set aside these moral challenges and look at such disagreements from a strictly legal point of view. For example, what happens when a government agency, whose purpose is “to protect human health” and “safeguard the natural environment,” is given the authority to regulate certain greenhou ...
... courts must set aside these moral challenges and look at such disagreements from a strictly legal point of view. For example, what happens when a government agency, whose purpose is “to protect human health” and “safeguard the natural environment,” is given the authority to regulate certain greenhou ...
Climate Change Effects on Forest and Alpine (and Western Prairie
... biomass in arid regions where natural decomposition occurs extremely slowly.27 However, some disturbances (e.g., blowdowns, clear-cut logging) can also result in major changes in ecological communities and their successional trajectories. Climate affects the timing, magnitude, and frequency of many ...
... biomass in arid regions where natural decomposition occurs extremely slowly.27 However, some disturbances (e.g., blowdowns, clear-cut logging) can also result in major changes in ecological communities and their successional trajectories. Climate affects the timing, magnitude, and frequency of many ...
Security implications of climate change in the Sahel region
... The climate of the Sahel has always been characterised by its extreme seasonal and decadal variability of rainfall. Rainfall variability in this region is likely to be driven by complex interactions between several processes and no process in isolation appears able to explain all the observed variab ...
... The climate of the Sahel has always been characterised by its extreme seasonal and decadal variability of rainfall. Rainfall variability in this region is likely to be driven by complex interactions between several processes and no process in isolation appears able to explain all the observed variab ...
An Inconvenient Trial - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
STRIVE Ireland in a Warmer Report Series No.27
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
RESIN-D1.3-Conceptual Framework
... ‘A city’, according to complexity theorists, may be ‘represented as a set of interacting subsystems or their elements’ (Batty 2009: 1042). The RCF takes such a systems perspective, focusing on climate risk and resilience processes and outcomes in urban systems. Urban systems are complex, and display ...
... ‘A city’, according to complexity theorists, may be ‘represented as a set of interacting subsystems or their elements’ (Batty 2009: 1042). The RCF takes such a systems perspective, focusing on climate risk and resilience processes and outcomes in urban systems. Urban systems are complex, and display ...
Stern i in. (2012) How does climate change in fl uence arctic mercury?
... • the Hg cycle is linked to the organic carbon cycle both by affinity in transport and by methylating processes, and change in the cryosphere will lead to change in the organic carbon cycle; • the natural Hg cycle is now widely encumbered by direct and indirect emissions from human activities during ...
... • the Hg cycle is linked to the organic carbon cycle both by affinity in transport and by methylating processes, and change in the cryosphere will lead to change in the organic carbon cycle; • the natural Hg cycle is now widely encumbered by direct and indirect emissions from human activities during ...
How does climate change influence arctic mercury?
... • the Hg cycle is linked to the organic carbon cycle both by affinity in transport and by methylating processes, and change in the cryosphere will lead to change in the organic carbon cycle; • the natural Hg cycle is now widely encumbered by direct and indirect emissions from human activities during ...
... • the Hg cycle is linked to the organic carbon cycle both by affinity in transport and by methylating processes, and change in the cryosphere will lead to change in the organic carbon cycle; • the natural Hg cycle is now widely encumbered by direct and indirect emissions from human activities during ...
Vulnerability of Fraser River Sockeye salmon to climate change
... Fraser River sockeye salmon are the basis for a major commercial fishery shared by Canada and the United States, and an important cultural foundation for many aboriginal groups; they are also of huge ecological significance throughout the Fraser Basin. The potential for altered aquatic habitat and t ...
... Fraser River sockeye salmon are the basis for a major commercial fishery shared by Canada and the United States, and an important cultural foundation for many aboriginal groups; they are also of huge ecological significance throughout the Fraser Basin. The potential for altered aquatic habitat and t ...
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... 2. Effects of climate change on agricultural risk and yield distributions There are two main ways in which the emissions of greenhouse gases may be relevant for agriculture. First, increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations can have a direct effect on the growth rate of crop plants and weeds. Secondly ...
... 2. Effects of climate change on agricultural risk and yield distributions There are two main ways in which the emissions of greenhouse gases may be relevant for agriculture. First, increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations can have a direct effect on the growth rate of crop plants and weeds. Secondly ...
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... development planning process. The Director, Technical Assistance in External Resources Department will be the Senior Supplier and Director, Global Affairs Division in MOE will be the main beneficiary. Assistant Resident Representative of UNDP will provide project assurance. National Project Coordina ...
... development planning process. The Director, Technical Assistance in External Resources Department will be the Senior Supplier and Director, Global Affairs Division in MOE will be the main beneficiary. Assistant Resident Representative of UNDP will provide project assurance. National Project Coordina ...
3. The role of Sustainable Land Management in Sub
... These changes are predicted to reduce the area of land suitable for rainfed agriculture by 6% (averaged across several projections), and reduce total agricultural GDP in Africa by 2 to 9%. Agricultural losses are expected to be as much as 50% in southern Africa during drought years. These problems c ...
... These changes are predicted to reduce the area of land suitable for rainfed agriculture by 6% (averaged across several projections), and reduce total agricultural GDP in Africa by 2 to 9%. Agricultural losses are expected to be as much as 50% in southern Africa during drought years. These problems c ...
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... In dryland wheat production, rainfall is a key determinant of grain yield. Hence, it may be anticipated that a decline in annual, and more particularly growing season rainfall, caused by climate change would lessen grain yield. However, other features of the future climate scenario, such as higher c ...
... In dryland wheat production, rainfall is a key determinant of grain yield. Hence, it may be anticipated that a decline in annual, and more particularly growing season rainfall, caused by climate change would lessen grain yield. However, other features of the future climate scenario, such as higher c ...
Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern
... compiled observational records of SAT longer than 55 years as well as proxy records for SAT, SST and sea ice, extracted from annually to multi-annually resolved ice and marine sediment cores, spanning the past 200 years (see Supplementary Table 1 for details of the datasets used, and Supplementary M ...
... compiled observational records of SAT longer than 55 years as well as proxy records for SAT, SST and sea ice, extracted from annually to multi-annually resolved ice and marine sediment cores, spanning the past 200 years (see Supplementary Table 1 for details of the datasets used, and Supplementary M ...
Regional Climate Projections
... Central and South America: The annual mean warming is likely to be similar to the global mean warming in southern South America but larger than the global mean warming in the rest of the area. Annual precipitation is likely to decrease in most of Central America and in the southern Andes, although c ...
... Central and South America: The annual mean warming is likely to be similar to the global mean warming in southern South America but larger than the global mean warming in the rest of the area. Annual precipitation is likely to decrease in most of Central America and in the southern Andes, although c ...
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.