A Self-Assessment to Address Climate Change Readiness
... to!begin!the!conversation!of!how!and!when!to!incorporate!these!trends!into!planning!and! projects!within!our!communities.!In!order!to!cover!all!aspects!of!knowledge!in!each!community,! it!is!recommended!that!more!than!one!department!within!the!city!or!township!complete!the! section(s)!of!the!assessm ...
... to!begin!the!conversation!of!how!and!when!to!incorporate!these!trends!into!planning!and! projects!within!our!communities.!In!order!to!cover!all!aspects!of!knowledge!in!each!community,! it!is!recommended!that!more!than!one!department!within!the!city!or!township!complete!the! section(s)!of!the!assessm ...
Climate Change News 07 September 09
... to combat climate change, contribute to poverty eradication, boost food production, and provide sustainable sources of timber. According to UNEP, agriculture, deforestation and other forms of land use account for nearly one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and agricultural and environmental ...
... to combat climate change, contribute to poverty eradication, boost food production, and provide sustainable sources of timber. According to UNEP, agriculture, deforestation and other forms of land use account for nearly one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and agricultural and environmental ...
DrieD up, DrowneD out - TILZ
... We know what to do, but we seem to lack the will to do it. There is a danger that, with reduced momentum in the international negotiation process since Copenhagen, the fierce urgency of the need for action now could be lost. It is encouraging that industries and investors in many countries are keen ...
... We know what to do, but we seem to lack the will to do it. There is a danger that, with reduced momentum in the international negotiation process since Copenhagen, the fierce urgency of the need for action now could be lost. It is encouraging that industries and investors in many countries are keen ...
Climate change: the global public good
... The removal of such an uncertainty is itself a public good which fosters the efficient provision of a global public good such as climate change. Climate change is a global public good – and this is the second question and the focus of this paper – because effective controls of GHGs emissions must in ...
... The removal of such an uncertainty is itself a public good which fosters the efficient provision of a global public good such as climate change. Climate change is a global public good – and this is the second question and the focus of this paper – because effective controls of GHGs emissions must in ...
T M Target Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
... The populations of many small island states and low lying coastal nations are located below 2 meters above sea level, the results of a 2°C temperature rise from pre-industrial levels could displace millions of people from the world's coastlines, inundate a large area of the world's arable land, and ...
... The populations of many small island states and low lying coastal nations are located below 2 meters above sea level, the results of a 2°C temperature rise from pre-industrial levels could displace millions of people from the world's coastlines, inundate a large area of the world's arable land, and ...
Global Change – The IGBP Series
... Yet there were opportunities. The unease over global change was being translated, by Presidential Science Advisor D. Allan Bromley, into a ‘U.S. Global Change Program’ that offered the promise of political support. There were advances being made in trace metal clean techniques that yielded new insig ...
... Yet there were opportunities. The unease over global change was being translated, by Presidential Science Advisor D. Allan Bromley, into a ‘U.S. Global Change Program’ that offered the promise of political support. There were advances being made in trace metal clean techniques that yielded new insig ...
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... on the international policy arena. Closer attention to a broader spectrum of adaptation options is urgently needed. Approaches that go beyond words into actions with potential to informing and guiding policy practices are imperative and urgently needed. In particular Ecosystem-based Adaptation appro ...
... on the international policy arena. Closer attention to a broader spectrum of adaptation options is urgently needed. Approaches that go beyond words into actions with potential to informing and guiding policy practices are imperative and urgently needed. In particular Ecosystem-based Adaptation appro ...
Climate Change Resilient Transport, May 2011
... in southern and central Europe in summer), mean annual precipitation is forecast to increase in the North and decrease in the South, whilst flooding events and droughts will become more common. Coastal regions will be at greater risk of flooding from increased storm events and sea level rise. Safe a ...
... in southern and central Europe in summer), mean annual precipitation is forecast to increase in the North and decrease in the South, whilst flooding events and droughts will become more common. Coastal regions will be at greater risk of flooding from increased storm events and sea level rise. Safe a ...
the wmo voluntary observing ship programme
... The need to address these challenges points to four priorities for the future evolution of the VOS programme: (a) The decline in numbers of participating vessels must be arrested. To that end, the attention of shipping companies, ships’ officers, navigation schools and colleges must be drawn to the ...
... The need to address these challenges points to four priorities for the future evolution of the VOS programme: (a) The decline in numbers of participating vessels must be arrested. To that end, the attention of shipping companies, ships’ officers, navigation schools and colleges must be drawn to the ...
Assessing climate risk to improve farm business management
... program that allows analysis of climatic data for the key decision points in an agricultural system is especially valuable (Clewett 2002). White (2000) suggests that models and other decision support systems (DSS) have an important role in identifying those management strategies that are financially ...
... program that allows analysis of climatic data for the key decision points in an agricultural system is especially valuable (Clewett 2002). White (2000) suggests that models and other decision support systems (DSS) have an important role in identifying those management strategies that are financially ...
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... analysis to look at improvements over this baseline situation is tantamount to declaring that there is a right to emission greenhouse gases. Instead, one may argue that there is a right to a stable climate. In this paper, I follow Coase (1960) and investigate the implications for costbenefit analysi ...
... analysis to look at improvements over this baseline situation is tantamount to declaring that there is a right to emission greenhouse gases. Instead, one may argue that there is a right to a stable climate. In this paper, I follow Coase (1960) and investigate the implications for costbenefit analysi ...
Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change-Related Information
... Reporting along the value chain Depending on the particular sector, direct GHG emissions represent a small proportion of organisations’ overall carbon footprints. However, “other” indirect GHG emissions and value chain risks and impacts are rarely required by corporate climate change-related schemes ...
... Reporting along the value chain Depending on the particular sector, direct GHG emissions represent a small proportion of organisations’ overall carbon footprints. However, “other” indirect GHG emissions and value chain risks and impacts are rarely required by corporate climate change-related schemes ...
Chapter12_January2013 - IARC Research
... model has been coupled to a global dynamic sea ice model to assess large-scale variability of ice PP and algal biomass (Deal et al. 2011). All of these sea ice ecosystem models are based on the first ice algae model developed by Arrigo et al. (1993) for sea ice in Antarctica. Arrigo et al.’s model c ...
... model has been coupled to a global dynamic sea ice model to assess large-scale variability of ice PP and algal biomass (Deal et al. 2011). All of these sea ice ecosystem models are based on the first ice algae model developed by Arrigo et al. (1993) for sea ice in Antarctica. Arrigo et al.’s model c ...
Copernicus Climate Change Services
... "the Climate Change service shall provide information to increase the knowledge base to support adaptation and mitigation policies. It shall in particular contribute to the provision of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), climate analyses, projections and indicators at temporal and spatial scales re ...
... "the Climate Change service shall provide information to increase the knowledge base to support adaptation and mitigation policies. It shall in particular contribute to the provision of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), climate analyses, projections and indicators at temporal and spatial scales re ...
are our laws responding to the challenges posed to our
... Systems and Low-Lying Areas (2007) at 15 August 2008.
Tom Wigley, ‘The Climate Change Commitment’ (2005) 307 Science 1766; Gerald Meehl et al ‘How
Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?’ (2005) 307 Science 1769.
See IPCC, A ...
... Systems and Low-Lying Areas (2007)
Course Description - University of Montana
... 2. Weblog Entries, 25%. Write two, 500-600 word weblog entries on course events and learning. Focus either on a) the views, challenges, and priorities of a course speaker who is affected by and/or developing responses to climate change, or b) a field experience about a particular climate-related imp ...
... 2. Weblog Entries, 25%. Write two, 500-600 word weblog entries on course events and learning. Focus either on a) the views, challenges, and priorities of a course speaker who is affected by and/or developing responses to climate change, or b) a field experience about a particular climate-related imp ...
Climate Change Impacts On Rainfed Corn Production In
... and 2090s. Probability assessment of bounded range with known distributions is used to deal with the uncertainties of GCMs’ outputs. These GCMs outputs are weighted by considering the ability of each model to simulate historical records. AquaCrop, a new model developed by FAO that simulates the crop ...
... and 2090s. Probability assessment of bounded range with known distributions is used to deal with the uncertainties of GCMs’ outputs. These GCMs outputs are weighted by considering the ability of each model to simulate historical records. AquaCrop, a new model developed by FAO that simulates the crop ...
2012 2013 FINAL CICS Annual Report
... resolving models with new microphysics, and a non-hydrostatic limited area model. These models may, in principle, be appropriately combined to give what might be called an Earth System Model, or ESM. Such models, by definition, seek to simulate all aspects — physical, chemical and biological-of the ...
... resolving models with new microphysics, and a non-hydrostatic limited area model. These models may, in principle, be appropriately combined to give what might be called an Earth System Model, or ESM. Such models, by definition, seek to simulate all aspects — physical, chemical and biological-of the ...
- Wiley Online Library
... fundamental ecological niches (FENs) of marine invertebrates and fishes. Including depth in a conceptual model of oxygen- and capacity-limited FENs’ responses to ocean warming and deoxygenation confirms previous predictions made based solely on consideration of the latitudinal effects of ocean warmi ...
... fundamental ecological niches (FENs) of marine invertebrates and fishes. Including depth in a conceptual model of oxygen- and capacity-limited FENs’ responses to ocean warming and deoxygenation confirms previous predictions made based solely on consideration of the latitudinal effects of ocean warmi ...
Contrasting climate change in the two polar regions
... circulation of the Southern Ocean. An index of the SAM has been constructed from the pressure difference between the latitudes 40°S and 65°S (Marshall 2003), allowing its changes since 1957 to be investigated. The record can be extended further back using proxy data, such as the tree-ring record (Jo ...
... circulation of the Southern Ocean. An index of the SAM has been constructed from the pressure difference between the latitudes 40°S and 65°S (Marshall 2003), allowing its changes since 1957 to be investigated. The record can be extended further back using proxy data, such as the tree-ring record (Jo ...
climate change in brazil
... institutional, sectorial and social analyses. This discussion will be presented in two sections. Part I, “Climate change in Brazil”, deals with these topics in relation to the Brazilian context at both national and subnational policy levels, the characteristics of our emissions and the impacts of cl ...
... institutional, sectorial and social analyses. This discussion will be presented in two sections. Part I, “Climate change in Brazil”, deals with these topics in relation to the Brazilian context at both national and subnational policy levels, the characteristics of our emissions and the impacts of cl ...
Mathematical Modeling in the USMA Curriculum
... accessible to undergraduate students. Computers and calculators are natural tools to help the student in several stages of the modeling process. In both discrete and continuous dynamics, the basic concept is that the future is predicted by first understanding the present and then conjecturing the ch ...
... accessible to undergraduate students. Computers and calculators are natural tools to help the student in several stages of the modeling process. In both discrete and continuous dynamics, the basic concept is that the future is predicted by first understanding the present and then conjecturing the ch ...
HAPR 72
... also lead to increased extreme rainfall intensity and frequency. Projected buildups in greenhouse gas emissions will likely raise ocean temperatures and ocean surface water temperatures to above 26º C in the next century [29]. This could result in a greater exchange of energy and add momentum to the ...
... also lead to increased extreme rainfall intensity and frequency. Projected buildups in greenhouse gas emissions will likely raise ocean temperatures and ocean surface water temperatures to above 26º C in the next century [29]. This could result in a greater exchange of energy and add momentum to the ...
Reporting team bios, Exxon documents, related stories and more
... quickly that governments would probably take action to reduce fossil fuel consumption. They’re smart people, great scientists. And they saw the writing on the wall. TEXT: One Exxon research project outfitted an oil tanker with equipment to measure CO2 levels in the atmosphere and the ocean. ED GARV ...
... quickly that governments would probably take action to reduce fossil fuel consumption. They’re smart people, great scientists. And they saw the writing on the wall. TEXT: One Exxon research project outfitted an oil tanker with equipment to measure CO2 levels in the atmosphere and the ocean. ED GARV ...