Draft Note to the meeting of the Programme Committee on 28
... The structure of the ToC aims to bring together an integrated approach within Danish climate assistance (see Annex 2). Rather than developing separate theories of change for the global and poverty frames, a generic draft ToC structure has been developed that can capture both, but which can also be u ...
... The structure of the ToC aims to bring together an integrated approach within Danish climate assistance (see Annex 2). Rather than developing separate theories of change for the global and poverty frames, a generic draft ToC structure has been developed that can capture both, but which can also be u ...
Georgia`s Climate Variability vs Climate Change
... Climate change will exacerbate stresses on diverse sectors in North America, including, but not limited to, urban centers, coastal communities, human health, water resources and managed and unmanaged ecosystems. ...
... Climate change will exacerbate stresses on diverse sectors in North America, including, but not limited to, urban centers, coastal communities, human health, water resources and managed and unmanaged ecosystems. ...
NRDC: Killer Summer Heat - Projected Death Toll from Rising
... that rising temperatures can be projected to produce in the coming decades. In doing so, the authors made several choices that are key to understanding the results presented later in this brief. First, they used a sophisticated climate model from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to devel ...
... that rising temperatures can be projected to produce in the coming decades. In doing so, the authors made several choices that are key to understanding the results presented later in this brief. First, they used a sophisticated climate model from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to devel ...
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... act will have serious local and global security implications. Most solutions are readily available, but governments must now adopt policies to implement them. Not only is the economic cost of doing so manageable, tackling climate change also brings considerable benefits in other respects. The EU's o ...
... act will have serious local and global security implications. Most solutions are readily available, but governments must now adopt policies to implement them. Not only is the economic cost of doing so manageable, tackling climate change also brings considerable benefits in other respects. The EU's o ...
Do people “personally experience” global warming, and if so how
... For most people, the direct and personally observable signals of climate change should be difficult to detect amid the variability of everyday weather. Yet, previous research has shown that some people believe they have personally experienced global warming. Through four related studies, our paper sh ...
... For most people, the direct and personally observable signals of climate change should be difficult to detect amid the variability of everyday weather. Yet, previous research has shown that some people believe they have personally experienced global warming. Through four related studies, our paper sh ...
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... discount rate is low. Additional research on the consequences of different catastrophe representations would be useful. Pizer (1996) shows that when one incorporates uncertainty about key parameters in an IA model, the result is more aggressive abatement leading to an emissions path that grows more ...
... discount rate is low. Additional research on the consequences of different catastrophe representations would be useful. Pizer (1996) shows that when one incorporates uncertainty about key parameters in an IA model, the result is more aggressive abatement leading to an emissions path that grows more ...
Climate Change: The Sun`s Role
... small changes in solar irradiance or insolation. Changes in the latter, due to small quasi-periodic variations in the earth’s orbital parameters—the Milankovitch theory, are thought to be responsible for past glaciations. The difficulty some have expressed about this theory is that the climate swing ...
... small changes in solar irradiance or insolation. Changes in the latter, due to small quasi-periodic variations in the earth’s orbital parameters—the Milankovitch theory, are thought to be responsible for past glaciations. The difficulty some have expressed about this theory is that the climate swing ...
Predicting global change impacts on plant species` distributions
... human-induced environmental changes have already triggered species’ range shifts, changes in phenology and species’ extinctions, accurate projections of species’ responses to future environmental changes are more difficult to ascertain. This is problematic, since there is a growing awareness of the n ...
... human-induced environmental changes have already triggered species’ range shifts, changes in phenology and species’ extinctions, accurate projections of species’ responses to future environmental changes are more difficult to ascertain. This is problematic, since there is a growing awareness of the n ...
Climate change and European forests: What do we
... pixels, which are far too big to make a meaningful statement about the local climate relevant to single forest stands or local management decisions (Flint and Flint, 2012). Downscaling is necessary, but adds inherent uncertainty to the values obtained from such scaling exercises (Fowler et al., 2007 ...
... pixels, which are far too big to make a meaningful statement about the local climate relevant to single forest stands or local management decisions (Flint and Flint, 2012). Downscaling is necessary, but adds inherent uncertainty to the values obtained from such scaling exercises (Fowler et al., 2007 ...
Climate Change, Health and Future Well
... projections suggest that by 2050, the population of South Asia will approximate or exceed 2.2 billion people (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 2012). Despite the perception of global economic growth and rising prosperity, 45 % of the world’s poor people (living at or below $2 a d ...
... projections suggest that by 2050, the population of South Asia will approximate or exceed 2.2 billion people (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 2012). Despite the perception of global economic growth and rising prosperity, 45 % of the world’s poor people (living at or below $2 a d ...
... dependent on the impact models used. The most common variables in impact studies are surface observations of air temperature and precipitation. Some impact models require a larger set of variables as input, such as solar radiation, humidity, windspeed, soil temperature and snow cover. Certain climat ...
Air Pollution and Climate
... Net effect not yet clear, but significant impacts on radiative forcing expected for 2100 (IPCC TAR, 2001) ...
... Net effect not yet clear, but significant impacts on radiative forcing expected for 2100 (IPCC TAR, 2001) ...
Presentation
... while disturbance regimes (e.g. fire, pests and storms), or drive economic and social changes caused by climate change, such as population movements and changes in markets (e.g. increased demand for biofuels to replace fossil fuels). ...
... while disturbance regimes (e.g. fire, pests and storms), or drive economic and social changes caused by climate change, such as population movements and changes in markets (e.g. increased demand for biofuels to replace fossil fuels). ...
Air Pollution and Climate
... Net effect not yet clear, but significant impacts on radiative forcing expected for 2100 (IPCC TAR, 2001) ...
... Net effect not yet clear, but significant impacts on radiative forcing expected for 2100 (IPCC TAR, 2001) ...
Clemmitt, "Climate change"
... ia parasite does show up in temperate regions, Patz says, but it’s not a problem because the disease’s ability to spread is restricted in moderate climates. Patz says the danger comes if malaria spreads into a region that has become warmer, which some scientists say may be already happening in Afric ...
... ia parasite does show up in temperate regions, Patz says, but it’s not a problem because the disease’s ability to spread is restricted in moderate climates. Patz says the danger comes if malaria spreads into a region that has become warmer, which some scientists say may be already happening in Afric ...
From Montreal to Kyoto – can we learn some lessons?
... This paper investigates which elements of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, and the subsequent Montreal Protocol, may have led to its high degree of success and international collaboration across developed and developing nations’ boundaries. The paper then tries to identif ...
... This paper investigates which elements of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, and the subsequent Montreal Protocol, may have led to its high degree of success and international collaboration across developed and developing nations’ boundaries. The paper then tries to identif ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... and several comprehensive reviews are available on the subject. GCMs are our primary source of information about future climate (Table 1). They comprise simplified but systematically rigorous interacting mathematical descriptions of important physical and chemical processes governing climate, includ ...
... and several comprehensive reviews are available on the subject. GCMs are our primary source of information about future climate (Table 1). They comprise simplified but systematically rigorous interacting mathematical descriptions of important physical and chemical processes governing climate, includ ...
Atmospheric Concentrations of Greenhouse Gases
... common examples that represent most of the major types of these gases. The indicator also does not address certain other pollutants that can affect climate by either reflecting or absorbing energy. For example, sulfate particles can reflect sunlight away from the Earth, while black carbon aerosols ( ...
... common examples that represent most of the major types of these gases. The indicator also does not address certain other pollutants that can affect climate by either reflecting or absorbing energy. For example, sulfate particles can reflect sunlight away from the Earth, while black carbon aerosols ( ...
Lagos - Urban Climate Change Research Network
... above sea level at its northern fringes (Ogun State Government, 2005). The average population density of the city’s constituting local government areas is about 2094 per square kilometer with the minimum of 164 per square kilometer in Owode Obafemi local government area of Ogu ...
... above sea level at its northern fringes (Ogun State Government, 2005). The average population density of the city’s constituting local government areas is about 2094 per square kilometer with the minimum of 164 per square kilometer in Owode Obafemi local government area of Ogu ...
Climate change and European forests: What do we know, what are
... pixels, which are far too big to make a meaningful statement about the local climate relevant to single forest stands or local management decisions (Flint and Flint, 2012). Downscaling is necessary, but adds inherent uncertainty to the values obtained from such scaling exercises (Fowler et al., 2007 ...
... pixels, which are far too big to make a meaningful statement about the local climate relevant to single forest stands or local management decisions (Flint and Flint, 2012). Downscaling is necessary, but adds inherent uncertainty to the values obtained from such scaling exercises (Fowler et al., 2007 ...
Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
... forecast by scientists, not a scientific forecast. However, it proved to be quite influential. The report was discussed in The Global 2000 Report to the President (Carter) and at the World Climate Conference in Geneva in 1979. The methodology for climate forecasting used in the past few decades has ...
... forecast by scientists, not a scientific forecast. However, it proved to be quite influential. The report was discussed in The Global 2000 Report to the President (Carter) and at the World Climate Conference in Geneva in 1979. The methodology for climate forecasting used in the past few decades has ...
Decadal co-variability of Atlantic SSTs and western Amazon dry
... Intermediate amounts of total variance are explained by the decadal component of JASSPI (16%) and RNWL (32%) shown in Fig. 1. The correlation between the two decadal time series is 0.79, significant at P<0.01, tested using a random-phase method designed for serially correlated time series [Ebisuzaki ...
... Intermediate amounts of total variance are explained by the decadal component of JASSPI (16%) and RNWL (32%) shown in Fig. 1. The correlation between the two decadal time series is 0.79, significant at P<0.01, tested using a random-phase method designed for serially correlated time series [Ebisuzaki ...
Global Warming Primer here - National Center for Policy Analysis
... CO2 is like plant food and most plants evolved at times when CO2 levels were much higher than today. Laboratory results show that plants grow bigger and faster with increased levels of CO2, and because of certan features of plant physiology, under high CO2 conditions plants grow even faster when und ...
... CO2 is like plant food and most plants evolved at times when CO2 levels were much higher than today. Laboratory results show that plants grow bigger and faster with increased levels of CO2, and because of certan features of plant physiology, under high CO2 conditions plants grow even faster when und ...
Climate change and vulnerability: Pushing people over the
... environmental stress is adding to existing social, political and economic inequalities. Climate change is contributing to this, and if polluting greenhouse gases continue to be emitted into the atmosphere, it is likely the situation will get increasingly worse. This means life will be harder for poo ...
... environmental stress is adding to existing social, political and economic inequalities. Climate change is contributing to this, and if polluting greenhouse gases continue to be emitted into the atmosphere, it is likely the situation will get increasingly worse. This means life will be harder for poo ...