Disaster Risk Reduction Tools and Methods for Climate Change
... The top ten disasters of 2004, in terms of the number of people affected, were all weather and climaterelated. These types of disasters have occurred throughout history but with total damages amounting to US$130 billion from just these ten events, it is clear that the necessary steps to reduce disas ...
... The top ten disasters of 2004, in terms of the number of people affected, were all weather and climaterelated. These types of disasters have occurred throughout history but with total damages amounting to US$130 billion from just these ten events, it is clear that the necessary steps to reduce disas ...
Current and future vulnerabilities to climate change in Ireland Report Series No. 29
... Vulnerability assessment is a key aspect of anchoring the potential impacts of climate change to present ...
... Vulnerability assessment is a key aspect of anchoring the potential impacts of climate change to present ...
Chapter 4
... caused by the rest of the world’s emissions. Solving climate change thus requires international cooperation and, at least to some extent, the application of international law. International law has its own unique processes for lawmaking. As compared to national lawmaking, with its strong legislature ...
... caused by the rest of the world’s emissions. Solving climate change thus requires international cooperation and, at least to some extent, the application of international law. International law has its own unique processes for lawmaking. As compared to national lawmaking, with its strong legislature ...
Adapting To Climate Change In Pacific Island Countries: The
... Recent research shows that average sea-level across the Pacific region has been rising at 2mm per year for the last fifty years (Hay 2000). Recording of sea-level has only been carried out since 1994 so long-term trends are hard to discern. Short-term variations in sea level within the region are si ...
... Recent research shows that average sea-level across the Pacific region has been rising at 2mm per year for the last fifty years (Hay 2000). Recording of sea-level has only been carried out since 1994 so long-term trends are hard to discern. Short-term variations in sea level within the region are si ...
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... ABSTRACT: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that changes in the marine climate in the eastern Bering Sea are leading to numerical and distributional shifts in fish populations that may affect the balance of predator−prey relationships. A rapidly increasing arrowtooth flounder Atheresthes stomias po ...
... ABSTRACT: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that changes in the marine climate in the eastern Bering Sea are leading to numerical and distributional shifts in fish populations that may affect the balance of predator−prey relationships. A rapidly increasing arrowtooth flounder Atheresthes stomias po ...
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and the Highway System
... Eustatic sea level rise - A change in global average sea level brought about by an increase in the volume of the world oceans due to the melting of ice sheets and glaciers and the thermal expansion of ocean waters. Evapotranspiration - The process by which water re-enters the atmosphere through evap ...
... Eustatic sea level rise - A change in global average sea level brought about by an increase in the volume of the world oceans due to the melting of ice sheets and glaciers and the thermal expansion of ocean waters. Evapotranspiration - The process by which water re-enters the atmosphere through evap ...
Communicating climate change – Learning from business
... 32), any attempt to understand and interpret climate change knowledge requires a thorough ”political, economic, social, and legal debate over values and beliefs” through which social consensus emerges (Hoffman 2012: 37). Social consensus is contingent upon shared mutually constituted understandings ...
... 32), any attempt to understand and interpret climate change knowledge requires a thorough ”political, economic, social, and legal debate over values and beliefs” through which social consensus emerges (Hoffman 2012: 37). Social consensus is contingent upon shared mutually constituted understandings ...
Climate Action Team Report to Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature December 2010
... As the United States and international leaders work to agree on the proper policy responses to climate change, California has assembled a comprehensive strategy to address the risks climate change poses to the state’s people and resources. California’s approaches are motivated by state-specific scie ...
... As the United States and international leaders work to agree on the proper policy responses to climate change, California has assembled a comprehensive strategy to address the risks climate change poses to the state’s people and resources. California’s approaches are motivated by state-specific scie ...
Climate Change in Africa
... ing quickly enough to stem the dire economic and environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC, 2007). What this report seemed to have missed or overlooked is that Africa’s concern about climate change is not mainly in terms projections of carbon emission and future environmental dama ...
... ing quickly enough to stem the dire economic and environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC, 2007). What this report seemed to have missed or overlooked is that Africa’s concern about climate change is not mainly in terms projections of carbon emission and future environmental dama ...
Climate change impacts in the Atlantic Basin and
... For the purposes of this paper, our primary focus is on planned adaptation measures where climate change is a contributing motivator. While a wide range of measures support adaptation efforts, not all come under the title of adaptation (Gerstetter et al. 2012). Adaptation oftentimes occurs within th ...
... For the purposes of this paper, our primary focus is on planned adaptation measures where climate change is a contributing motivator. While a wide range of measures support adaptation efforts, not all come under the title of adaptation (Gerstetter et al. 2012). Adaptation oftentimes occurs within th ...
Lake Victoria CC Readness brief No. 3 English
... temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops and tend to encourage weed and pest proliferation. Greater variations in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of short-run crop failures and long-run production declines. Although there might be gains in some crops in some regions ...
... temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops and tend to encourage weed and pest proliferation. Greater variations in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of short-run crop failures and long-run production declines. Although there might be gains in some crops in some regions ...
Institutional Arrangements for Adaptation Fund: World Bank
... • Climate change impacts on developing countries are expected to increase regardless of mitigation efforts • Demand for infrastructure and agricultural/water investments that further need to adapt to climate • Adaptation links global environment issues with local development paths • Development inve ...
... • Climate change impacts on developing countries are expected to increase regardless of mitigation efforts • Demand for infrastructure and agricultural/water investments that further need to adapt to climate • Adaptation links global environment issues with local development paths • Development inve ...
New England Climate Adaptation PROJECT - NECAP
... Introduction and Overview of NECAP The New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP) recognizes the serious threats that climate change poses to coastal communities, including an increased risk of intensified storms and flooding, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion into marshes and farmland, coasta ...
... Introduction and Overview of NECAP The New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP) recognizes the serious threats that climate change poses to coastal communities, including an increased risk of intensified storms and flooding, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion into marshes and farmland, coasta ...
Global Warming & Sea Level rise
... Global warming: sea level rise “Once the ice starts to melt at the surface, it forms lakes that empty down crevasses to the bottom of the ice. You get rivers of water underneath the ice. And the ice slides towards the ocean.” ...
... Global warming: sea level rise “Once the ice starts to melt at the surface, it forms lakes that empty down crevasses to the bottom of the ice. You get rivers of water underneath the ice. And the ice slides towards the ocean.” ...
Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change
... benefits of different alternatives. However, CBA cannot deal well with infinite (negative) expected utilities arising from low probability, catastrophic events often referred to as ‘fat tails’. CEA can generate cost estimates for stabilizing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations without having to ta ...
... benefits of different alternatives. However, CBA cannot deal well with infinite (negative) expected utilities arising from low probability, catastrophic events often referred to as ‘fat tails’. CEA can generate cost estimates for stabilizing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations without having to ta ...
Incorporating climate change and growth into the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (opens in new window)
... But, surprisingly, in many regions, losses are rising more quickly than aggregate wealth (UNISDR, 2009). This suggests that DRM is failing to keep pace with increasing exposure. It also suggests that such macro-scale trend analyses hide a much more complex reality, where local factors such as povert ...
... But, surprisingly, in many regions, losses are rising more quickly than aggregate wealth (UNISDR, 2009). This suggests that DRM is failing to keep pace with increasing exposure. It also suggests that such macro-scale trend analyses hide a much more complex reality, where local factors such as povert ...
The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Insurance Regulation
... Working intensively with their domestic insurers, regulators have an opportunity to help insurers address the challenges to insurer solvency posed by climate change. Domestic regulators should begin a dialogue on an insurer’s financial exposure to loss resulting from a catastrophe and small weather ...
... Working intensively with their domestic insurers, regulators have an opportunity to help insurers address the challenges to insurer solvency posed by climate change. Domestic regulators should begin a dialogue on an insurer’s financial exposure to loss resulting from a catastrophe and small weather ...
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... between adaptation capital investments (e.g., sea walls) and ‡ow expenditures (e.g., increased fertilizer usage). However, as discussed below, my results con…rm that I additionally need to di¤erentiate between adaptive capacity to reduce climate change impacts on production (e.g., in agriculture) an ...
... between adaptation capital investments (e.g., sea walls) and ‡ow expenditures (e.g., increased fertilizer usage). However, as discussed below, my results con…rm that I additionally need to di¤erentiate between adaptive capacity to reduce climate change impacts on production (e.g., in agriculture) an ...
Chapter 3: Natural Resources - Ressources naturelles Canada
... sectors. Climate change itself is rarely identified as a priority concern, with industry focused on other immediate stressors, such as economic drivers. Nonetheless, there are opportunities to integrate consideration of climate change into existing planning processes. Environmental assessment, risk ...
... sectors. Climate change itself is rarely identified as a priority concern, with industry focused on other immediate stressors, such as economic drivers. Nonetheless, there are opportunities to integrate consideration of climate change into existing planning processes. Environmental assessment, risk ...
White Paper on the contribution of the GFCS to Agenda 2030
... food and shelter, and the distribution and occurrence of disease. Heat and cold waves, tropical cyclones, floods and droughts claim many lives and heighten the transmission of diseases each year. Factors indirectly related to weather and climate – food security and non-communicable diseases, such as ...
... food and shelter, and the distribution and occurrence of disease. Heat and cold waves, tropical cyclones, floods and droughts claim many lives and heighten the transmission of diseases each year. Factors indirectly related to weather and climate – food security and non-communicable diseases, such as ...
Governing the future under climate change: contested visions of
... and improvement positions. They reflect increasingly ambitious goals with respect to how much change adaptation should try to achieve and, therefore, reflect different perceptions of human agency and the relationship between the present and future. The first, the “partial ...
... and improvement positions. They reflect increasingly ambitious goals with respect to how much change adaptation should try to achieve and, therefore, reflect different perceptions of human agency and the relationship between the present and future. The first, the “partial ...
Effects of global warming on arctic sea-floor
... hotspots (e.g., coral reefs, kelp forests, seagrass beds) and among the most productive and diverse in the world. From a global perspective, benthic communities support rich commercial fisheries and provide important “ecosystem goods and services” (Costanza et al. 1997). Many species of commercially ...
... hotspots (e.g., coral reefs, kelp forests, seagrass beds) and among the most productive and diverse in the world. From a global perspective, benthic communities support rich commercial fisheries and provide important “ecosystem goods and services” (Costanza et al. 1997). Many species of commercially ...
MTA Adaptations to Climate Change – A Categorical Imperative1
... The planning process will need to develop solutions for different time horizons: a shortterm horizon for the next decade or less; a mid-range horizon of several decades; and a long-range preview on the order of a century or even longer. Such long time horizons typically apply to long-lasting infrast ...
... The planning process will need to develop solutions for different time horizons: a shortterm horizon for the next decade or less; a mid-range horizon of several decades; and a long-range preview on the order of a century or even longer. Such long time horizons typically apply to long-lasting infrast ...