When Science and Ideology Collide: Explaining
... this alternative hypothesis by assessing the interactive effects of news reception on global warming opinions before elites became so sharply divided about climate change science in the United States. If, as the prior hypotheses suggest, reception of elite discourse is responsible for the unique po ...
... this alternative hypothesis by assessing the interactive effects of news reception on global warming opinions before elites became so sharply divided about climate change science in the United States. If, as the prior hypotheses suggest, reception of elite discourse is responsible for the unique po ...
Climate Change, Migration, and Displacement | Greenpeace
... due to sudden disasters are significantly better than data on migration due to gradual changes in the environment. Since 2008, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) has been compiling, evaluating and publishing data from around the world on the group of environmental migrants responding ...
... due to sudden disasters are significantly better than data on migration due to gradual changes in the environment. Since 2008, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) has been compiling, evaluating and publishing data from around the world on the group of environmental migrants responding ...
migratory species and climate change
... sea level rise in Asia and the Pacific, hurricanes in the Caribbean, and rising temperatures in polar regions are just a few of the most problematic changes which we are expecting already. Most of these effects cannot be prevented or reversed in a short time. It is necessary, therefore, to improve t ...
... sea level rise in Asia and the Pacific, hurricanes in the Caribbean, and rising temperatures in polar regions are just a few of the most problematic changes which we are expecting already. Most of these effects cannot be prevented or reversed in a short time. It is necessary, therefore, to improve t ...
Climate Change in Kiana, Alaska - Alaska Native Tribal Health
... Potential adaptation: improve local weather observations and capacity for climate analysis. ...
... Potential adaptation: improve local weather observations and capacity for climate analysis. ...
Preventing El Niño Southern Oscillation Episodes from Becoming
... weather threatened to overwhelm even the most proactive countries, tipping the scales toward economic loss and humanitarian need. They identified that a purely humanitarian response would not be sufficient to address the underlying vulnerability linked to the recurring and predictable ENSO phenomeno ...
... weather threatened to overwhelm even the most proactive countries, tipping the scales toward economic loss and humanitarian need. They identified that a purely humanitarian response would not be sufficient to address the underlying vulnerability linked to the recurring and predictable ENSO phenomeno ...
The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
... Most people living in our age of space travel probably think of themselves as passengers on planet Earth. The more environmentally conscious of us likely share poet Archibald MacLeish’s vision of being riders on a fragile, blue marble in space, utterly dependent on the life-support systems provided ...
... Most people living in our age of space travel probably think of themselves as passengers on planet Earth. The more environmentally conscious of us likely share poet Archibald MacLeish’s vision of being riders on a fragile, blue marble in space, utterly dependent on the life-support systems provided ...
Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia
... Children are particularly affected by climate change, for example, many of the main threats to child survival like malaria, diarrhoea and undernutrition are highly sensitive to climatic conditions and these are expected to worsen as a result of climate change (UNICEF 2008). Children’s unique conditi ...
... Children are particularly affected by climate change, for example, many of the main threats to child survival like malaria, diarrhoea and undernutrition are highly sensitive to climatic conditions and these are expected to worsen as a result of climate change (UNICEF 2008). Children’s unique conditi ...
Australia – Vietnam Climate Change Delivery Strategy 2011
... of safety nets that take account of weather and climate change impacts. ...
... of safety nets that take account of weather and climate change impacts. ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... To support informed decision making, the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, in collaboration with the Arctic Council‘s Arctic Monitoring Assessment Program (AMAP) have prepared a systematic and authoritative global review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persist ...
... To support informed decision making, the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, in collaboration with the Arctic Council‘s Arctic Monitoring Assessment Program (AMAP) have prepared a systematic and authoritative global review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persist ...
Chapter 3 RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: ADAPTATION
... Approaches to adaptation can vary greatly across sectors, across climate impacts, and across geographic scales. Regardless of this variability, adaptation is mostly about integrating projections of climate impacts into the development planning of a specific country, region, or city. Thus, the genera ...
... Approaches to adaptation can vary greatly across sectors, across climate impacts, and across geographic scales. Regardless of this variability, adaptation is mostly about integrating projections of climate impacts into the development planning of a specific country, region, or city. Thus, the genera ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook MODULE 14: Financing Climate-smart agriculture
... growth adapted to specific contexts, as well as poor agricultural value chains (McCarthy et al., 2011). Thus, a key role of public sector finance is to create the conditions and incentives for farmers to make needed investments. However, recent research indicates that public sector investments in ag ...
... growth adapted to specific contexts, as well as poor agricultural value chains (McCarthy et al., 2011). Thus, a key role of public sector finance is to create the conditions and incentives for farmers to make needed investments. However, recent research indicates that public sector investments in ag ...
Climate change and the outbreak ranges of two North American
... drought' and that a surfeit of water may also render pines more suitable for bark beetles. As a result of many of these direct and indirect factors, climate change may also simply allow bark beetles to move northward or higher in elevation into other ranges of their host species or the ranges of new ...
... drought' and that a surfeit of water may also render pines more suitable for bark beetles. As a result of many of these direct and indirect factors, climate change may also simply allow bark beetles to move northward or higher in elevation into other ranges of their host species or the ranges of new ...
unlocking ambition - The Climate Group
... the way in creating a sustainable future and bring about an energy transformation in India.” ...
... the way in creating a sustainable future and bring about an energy transformation in India.” ...
factors influencing climate change adaptation
... policies should be put in place such as extension services, consider running programs on television and radios to increase awareness on climate change. These policies should address imperfections such as access to information and linking farmers with extension services and farmers groups in order to ...
... policies should be put in place such as extension services, consider running programs on television and radios to increase awareness on climate change. These policies should address imperfections such as access to information and linking farmers with extension services and farmers groups in order to ...
Environmental tipping points and food system dynamics: Main Report
... variables. These include agricultural yields for farming, or food prices, or availability for food systems. A resilient system is one where these functional variables may vary, but essentially, they remain within “normal” bounds. A farmer can cope with year-to-year variability in yields in terms of ...
... variables. These include agricultural yields for farming, or food prices, or availability for food systems. A resilient system is one where these functional variables may vary, but essentially, they remain within “normal” bounds. A farmer can cope with year-to-year variability in yields in terms of ...
the identification of a solar signal in climate records of the last 500
... mean climate and more importantly, the regional characterization of that climate. Influencing the preferred mode of decadal variability, such as North Atlantic Oscillation, solar variability alters the mean climate for northern Europe and the North Atlantic region. The global response for temperatur ...
... mean climate and more importantly, the regional characterization of that climate. Influencing the preferred mode of decadal variability, such as North Atlantic Oscillation, solar variability alters the mean climate for northern Europe and the North Atlantic region. The global response for temperatur ...
Planning and costing agricultural adaptation to climate change in
... 1.1 The agricultural sector and its significance The Tanzanian agriculture sector accounts for 27 per cent of GDP, 30 per cent of export earnings, and 65 per cent of raw material for domestic industries (URT 2006a). The sector is predominantly rainfed crop-based, and provides a livelihood to over 80 ...
... 1.1 The agricultural sector and its significance The Tanzanian agriculture sector accounts for 27 per cent of GDP, 30 per cent of export earnings, and 65 per cent of raw material for domestic industries (URT 2006a). The sector is predominantly rainfed crop-based, and provides a livelihood to over 80 ...
IOSR Journal Of Environmental Science, Toxicology And Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT)
... Climate change will have far-reaching consequences for livestock production, mainly arising from its impact on grassland and rangeland productivity. In Southern Africa, climate change has already begun impacting on ecosystems, mostly to their detriment. Changes in a variety of ecosystems are already ...
... Climate change will have far-reaching consequences for livestock production, mainly arising from its impact on grassland and rangeland productivity. In Southern Africa, climate change has already begun impacting on ecosystems, mostly to their detriment. Changes in a variety of ecosystems are already ...
Chapter 8: Cross-cutting issues
... Understanding how risks interact is critical for assessing the overall costs and benefits of policy intervention. This understanding enables policy makers to achieve desired outcomes at least cost and avoid unintended consequences (see Section 8.4). The first CCRA undertook a detailed and systematic ...
... Understanding how risks interact is critical for assessing the overall costs and benefits of policy intervention. This understanding enables policy makers to achieve desired outcomes at least cost and avoid unintended consequences (see Section 8.4). The first CCRA undertook a detailed and systematic ...
Predictability and Correlation in Human Metrology
... To perform prediction for an unknown measurement, say X , we involve only the measurements that share some edge with X in the correlation graph, i.e., the members in the subset XCG = {Y |τ < |ρXY |}, where τ is the threshold. The second approach would be to use those measurements that minimize the e ...
... To perform prediction for an unknown measurement, say X , we involve only the measurements that share some edge with X in the correlation graph, i.e., the members in the subset XCG = {Y |τ < |ρXY |}, where τ is the threshold. The second approach would be to use those measurements that minimize the e ...
Annex D – EEA contributors and resource planning
... EEA reports and information in Climate-ADAPT on those topics. Additionally, the sector-based chapters should include some more information on the consideration of climate change adaptation in sectoral policy-making than was done in 2012, also building on information available in Climate-ADAPT. 2. Re ...
... EEA reports and information in Climate-ADAPT on those topics. Additionally, the sector-based chapters should include some more information on the consideration of climate change adaptation in sectoral policy-making than was done in 2012, also building on information available in Climate-ADAPT. 2. Re ...
Appendix A: Eight Steps of Scenario Building SCENARIO BUILDING
... efficacy of alternative strategies across the suite of scenarios. ...
... efficacy of alternative strategies across the suite of scenarios. ...
Climate change and Ontario`s provincial parks
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario ...
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario ...
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... necessarily immediately, more realistically after a “grace” period – meant that any attempts from developed countries to contain temperature increases to safe levels would have been in vain. Third, fast-growing developing countries are reluctant to take on any legally binding commitment, citing that ...
... necessarily immediately, more realistically after a “grace” period – meant that any attempts from developed countries to contain temperature increases to safe levels would have been in vain. Third, fast-growing developing countries are reluctant to take on any legally binding commitment, citing that ...