Climate Change: Portfolio Analysis
... Portfolio Analysis. The world is facing two critical challenges. As the global population steadily grows, the continued development of emerging economies depends on access to affordable energy. At the same time, limiting climate change requires the global average temperature increase to remain below ...
... Portfolio Analysis. The world is facing two critical challenges. As the global population steadily grows, the continued development of emerging economies depends on access to affordable energy. At the same time, limiting climate change requires the global average temperature increase to remain below ...
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... salinity and temperature will provide almost continuous information related to the ocean’s carbon, nutrient (nitrate, in particular) and oxygen content, both at the surface and deep beneath it. According to Sarmiento, these floats are revolutionary and will increase monthly data coming out of the So ...
... salinity and temperature will provide almost continuous information related to the ocean’s carbon, nutrient (nitrate, in particular) and oxygen content, both at the surface and deep beneath it. According to Sarmiento, these floats are revolutionary and will increase monthly data coming out of the So ...
Impact of weather on commuter cyclist behaviour and implications
... (Nankervis, 1999; Richardson, 2000; Aultman-Hall et al, 2009). Higher level analysis usually focuses on development of a statistical model to explore the relationship between a range of explanatory variables and a dependent variable (usually ridership volume). Models which have been employed include ...
... (Nankervis, 1999; Richardson, 2000; Aultman-Hall et al, 2009). Higher level analysis usually focuses on development of a statistical model to explore the relationship between a range of explanatory variables and a dependent variable (usually ridership volume). Models which have been employed include ...
Draft Resolution X
... has established climate change as a Priority Area for Interdisciplinary Action, in order to assist countries in developing cross-sectoral policies to address the negative impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture; has organized the “High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Ch ...
... has established climate change as a Priority Area for Interdisciplinary Action, in order to assist countries in developing cross-sectoral policies to address the negative impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture; has organized the “High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Ch ...
Carbon Dynamics in the Future Forest: the Importance
... C A R B O N D Y N A M I C S I N T H E F U T U R E F O R E S T 3503 as a significant cause of increasing tree mortality (Van Mantgem et al., 2009). Climate projections for California, suggest little change in annual total precipitation, although there are discrepancies among models (Lenihan et al., ...
... C A R B O N D Y N A M I C S I N T H E F U T U R E F O R E S T 3503 as a significant cause of increasing tree mortality (Van Mantgem et al., 2009). Climate projections for California, suggest little change in annual total precipitation, although there are discrepancies among models (Lenihan et al., ...
GCOS - WMO
... GCOS will ensure data needs are met, as far as possible, by existing operational and scientific observing, data management and information distribution systems, and through further enhancements of these systems, as well as through encouraging new systems to be established. GCOS will be implemented t ...
... GCOS will ensure data needs are met, as far as possible, by existing operational and scientific observing, data management and information distribution systems, and through further enhancements of these systems, as well as through encouraging new systems to be established. GCOS will be implemented t ...
Global food security under climate change
... improvements will be less pronounced and are expected to set in later. Over the next 15 years, for instance, the prevalence of undernourishment will decline less than in other regions, from ⬇33% to a still worrisome 21%, as significant constraints (soil nutrients, water, infrastructure, etc.) will l ...
... improvements will be less pronounced and are expected to set in later. Over the next 15 years, for instance, the prevalence of undernourishment will decline less than in other regions, from ⬇33% to a still worrisome 21%, as significant constraints (soil nutrients, water, infrastructure, etc.) will l ...
Climate extremes and ozone pollution: a growing threat to China`s
... controls on crop productivity. The majority of existing assessments have focused on physical climate variables (i.e., mean temperature and precipitation), but less on the increasing climate extremes (e.g., drought) and their interactions with increasing levels of tropospheric ozone (O3). Here we qua ...
... controls on crop productivity. The majority of existing assessments have focused on physical climate variables (i.e., mean temperature and precipitation), but less on the increasing climate extremes (e.g., drought) and their interactions with increasing levels of tropospheric ozone (O3). Here we qua ...
A climate change perspective
... villages. The scores were subjected to further analysis for constructing the relative vulnerability profiles of different villages by adopting a slightly modified form of the model used by Patnaik and Narayanan (2005). Szlafsztein and Sterr (2007) formulated an index combining a number of separate v ...
... villages. The scores were subjected to further analysis for constructing the relative vulnerability profiles of different villages by adopting a slightly modified form of the model used by Patnaik and Narayanan (2005). Szlafsztein and Sterr (2007) formulated an index combining a number of separate v ...
The added complications of climate change
... Figure 1a highlights four pathways illustrating how a single climatic change and a single stressor can affect species, populations, or ecosystems. Figure 1b illustrates these pathways in the example of native salmon populations affected by the climatic stressor of temperature increases and the exist ...
... Figure 1a highlights four pathways illustrating how a single climatic change and a single stressor can affect species, populations, or ecosystems. Figure 1b illustrates these pathways in the example of native salmon populations affected by the climatic stressor of temperature increases and the exist ...
Climate vulnerability of biophysical systems in
... precipitation and temperature from global climate change (Nicholson et al. 2000, Lewis 2005, IPCC 2007). Climate projections suggested that tropical most forests of West Africa had been facing declining trends of rainfall by 20–40% for the period between 1931–60 and 1968–90. The same declining tren ...
... precipitation and temperature from global climate change (Nicholson et al. 2000, Lewis 2005, IPCC 2007). Climate projections suggested that tropical most forests of West Africa had been facing declining trends of rainfall by 20–40% for the period between 1931–60 and 1968–90. The same declining tren ...
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... growth, many studies rely on simulation methods. There is a lack of empirical study on how climate changes affect sector-wide productivity. ...
... growth, many studies rely on simulation methods. There is a lack of empirical study on how climate changes affect sector-wide productivity. ...
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... Abstract: Increasingly, empirical evidences are substantiating the effects of climate change on agricultural production is a reality. In the early part of the 20th century many were skeptical about the so-called climate change that is due to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha ...
... Abstract: Increasingly, empirical evidences are substantiating the effects of climate change on agricultural production is a reality. In the early part of the 20th century many were skeptical about the so-called climate change that is due to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha ...
workshop on human settlements` response to climate change
... • Stimulate cross-national understanding of the policy and research priorities for Climate Change action in built environment, • Kindle exchanges amongst academic staff and students around the concept of Climate Change, and • Initiate research collaboration between researchers and institutions in th ...
... • Stimulate cross-national understanding of the policy and research priorities for Climate Change action in built environment, • Kindle exchanges amongst academic staff and students around the concept of Climate Change, and • Initiate research collaboration between researchers and institutions in th ...
The Use of New Economic Decision- Support Tools for - circle-2
... (Lempert et al, 2003: Groves and Lempert, 2007) and XLRM framework . Test across thousands or even millions of computer-generated future states ...
... (Lempert et al, 2003: Groves and Lempert, 2007) and XLRM framework . Test across thousands or even millions of computer-generated future states ...
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... give the correct economic incentive for reducing current emissions. The SCC can be computed using large‐scale computational Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) that obtain this value by optimizing current emissions in a model for the global carbon cycle with temperature dynamics connected ...
... give the correct economic incentive for reducing current emissions. The SCC can be computed using large‐scale computational Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) that obtain this value by optimizing current emissions in a model for the global carbon cycle with temperature dynamics connected ...
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... http://www.g-8.de/nn_94646/Content/EN/Artikel/__g8-summit/2007-06-07-g8-klimaschutz__en.html The European Union, for example, has identified both its long term target (a temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius) and the short term target consistent with the former (i.e. a reduction of 2020 emiss ...
... http://www.g-8.de/nn_94646/Content/EN/Artikel/__g8-summit/2007-06-07-g8-klimaschutz__en.html The European Union, for example, has identified both its long term target (a temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius) and the short term target consistent with the former (i.e. a reduction of 2020 emiss ...
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... innovation and low carbon technologies in China and compare them to the ones prescribed by a foresight strategy. Finally, we investigate the role of an international carbon market as a way to provide economic incentives for participation. We show that the role of policy anticipation should be taken ...
... innovation and low carbon technologies in China and compare them to the ones prescribed by a foresight strategy. Finally, we investigate the role of an international carbon market as a way to provide economic incentives for participation. We show that the role of policy anticipation should be taken ...
“Duck Factory” of North America - American Meteorological Society
... changes in temperature and precipitation that were spatially and temporally uniform rather than actual projections of climate models. Climate change will nevertheless vary spatially and by season, and ducks make use of the wetlands on a seasonal basis. These considerations motivate the current study ...
... changes in temperature and precipitation that were spatially and temporally uniform rather than actual projections of climate models. Climate change will nevertheless vary spatially and by season, and ducks make use of the wetlands on a seasonal basis. These considerations motivate the current study ...