Economic Analysis of Large-Scale Upstream River Basin
... the average annual runoff in the basin. The total installed capacity at design head would be 5,570 MW of power, about 2.5 times the potential of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, and capable of providing electricity to millions of homes. This would be an impressive upgrade over the existing 529 MW of hyd ...
... the average annual runoff in the basin. The total installed capacity at design head would be 5,570 MW of power, about 2.5 times the potential of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, and capable of providing electricity to millions of homes. This would be an impressive upgrade over the existing 529 MW of hyd ...
Strengthening southern Africa`s response to global change
... conference is Working together! Saving tomorrow today! To be sure, the impact of global change on our climate will not be managed or mitigated by any single stakeholder. It requires a society that is aware of the implications of its actions for the way we live; it requires business and industry to i ...
... conference is Working together! Saving tomorrow today! To be sure, the impact of global change on our climate will not be managed or mitigated by any single stakeholder. It requires a society that is aware of the implications of its actions for the way we live; it requires business and industry to i ...
Implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change in
... conduct preliminary actions in order to minimize “adverse effects of climate change". This means changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change which have significant deleterious effects on both, natural and managed ecosystems, which in their turn lead to climate change. ...
... conduct preliminary actions in order to minimize “adverse effects of climate change". This means changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change which have significant deleterious effects on both, natural and managed ecosystems, which in their turn lead to climate change. ...
Precipitation and temperature regime over Cyprus as a result of
... calculated to illustrate their seasonal cycles, as represented by both model and observational datasets. Figure 1, shows some representative examples of the reproduced annual cycle of maximum (left panels), minimum (middle panels) temperature and precipitation (right panels) for three selected stati ...
... calculated to illustrate their seasonal cycles, as represented by both model and observational datasets. Figure 1, shows some representative examples of the reproduced annual cycle of maximum (left panels), minimum (middle panels) temperature and precipitation (right panels) for three selected stati ...
on Clean Growth and Climate Change
... been early leaders in the fight against climate change and have taken proactive steps, such as adopting carbon pricing mechanisms, placing caps on emissions, involvement in international partnerships with other states and regions, closing coal plants, carbon capture and storage projects, renewable e ...
... been early leaders in the fight against climate change and have taken proactive steps, such as adopting carbon pricing mechanisms, placing caps on emissions, involvement in international partnerships with other states and regions, closing coal plants, carbon capture and storage projects, renewable e ...
Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change
... been early leaders in the fight against climate change and have taken proactive steps, such as adopting carbon pricing mechanisms, placing caps on emissions, involvement in international partnerships with other states and regions, closing coal plants, carbon capture and storage projects, renewable e ...
... been early leaders in the fight against climate change and have taken proactive steps, such as adopting carbon pricing mechanisms, placing caps on emissions, involvement in international partnerships with other states and regions, closing coal plants, carbon capture and storage projects, renewable e ...
Properly designed emissions trading schemes do work!: Working
... The Munich Re Programme is evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector. It is a comprehensive research programme that focuses on the assessment of the risks from climate change and on the appropriate responses, to inform decision-making in the private and publ ...
... The Munich Re Programme is evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector. It is a comprehensive research programme that focuses on the assessment of the risks from climate change and on the appropriate responses, to inform decision-making in the private and publ ...
The millennial atmospheric lifetime of anthropogenic CO2
... At about the same time as the first accurate pCO2 measurements, Revelle and Suess (1957) showed that the uptake of CO2 into seawater is enhanced by carbonate buffer chemistry, but only one tenth as strongly as might be naively inferred from the relative concentrations of carbon in the air and in the ...
... At about the same time as the first accurate pCO2 measurements, Revelle and Suess (1957) showed that the uptake of CO2 into seawater is enhanced by carbonate buffer chemistry, but only one tenth as strongly as might be naively inferred from the relative concentrations of carbon in the air and in the ...
States Should Think Twice Before Refusing Any Response to EPA`s
... number limiting the total carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.14 Many have argued that, in setting this standard, EPA lacks legal authority to consider sources, alternatives, or demand reductions that originate outside the power plants themselves, i.e. that are "outside the fence" of the plan ...
... number limiting the total carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.14 Many have argued that, in setting this standard, EPA lacks legal authority to consider sources, alternatives, or demand reductions that originate outside the power plants themselves, i.e. that are "outside the fence" of the plan ...
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... agriculture and the more general economy of and employment in the basin; studies for the Proposed Plan are compiled and summarised in MDBA (2011b). Several analyses suggest that the impact on irrigated agriculture and the basin economy is likely to be small overall, but some communities could bear m ...
... agriculture and the more general economy of and employment in the basin; studies for the Proposed Plan are compiled and summarised in MDBA (2011b). Several analyses suggest that the impact on irrigated agriculture and the basin economy is likely to be small overall, but some communities could bear m ...
Abstract Book The Human Side of Climate Change Bergen 16
... Reflecting on the ‘unusual’: Climate change narratives in decision-making about the future The experience of an extreme event can serve to open up spaces for reflection upon the nature of the event, the underpinning causes, the immediate responses and effects on longer-term decision making. Extreme ...
... Reflecting on the ‘unusual’: Climate change narratives in decision-making about the future The experience of an extreme event can serve to open up spaces for reflection upon the nature of the event, the underpinning causes, the immediate responses and effects on longer-term decision making. Extreme ...
Discourse analysis of media coverage of climate change
... awareness of the interaction of humanity with the environment. At the same time, enhancements in computer technology allowed the increased use of computer modeling of the environment by scientists (Lynch, 2008), allowing them to observe and predict climate changes as well as measure the anthropogen ...
... awareness of the interaction of humanity with the environment. At the same time, enhancements in computer technology allowed the increased use of computer modeling of the environment by scientists (Lynch, 2008), allowing them to observe and predict climate changes as well as measure the anthropogen ...
The role of nutricline depth in regulating ocean`s carbon cycle
... ‘universal distribution, local selection rule,’ the patterns depicted here for diatoms ...
... ‘universal distribution, local selection rule,’ the patterns depicted here for diatoms ...
Planning for Climate Change
... Friends of the Earth have produced a separate guide for community planning and climate change. The guidance set out here updates the Planning and Climate Change Coalition guide published in 2010, which itself was based on the draft Planning Policy Statement on climate and energy, Planning for a Low ...
... Friends of the Earth have produced a separate guide for community planning and climate change. The guidance set out here updates the Planning and Climate Change Coalition guide published in 2010, which itself was based on the draft Planning Policy Statement on climate and energy, Planning for a Low ...
Catastrophe modelling and climate change
... more regions show an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events than a decrease. It is virtually certain that since the 1970s there has been an increase in the frequency and intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin. Catastrophe modelling technology is now us ...
... more regions show an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events than a decrease. It is virtually certain that since the 1970s there has been an increase in the frequency and intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin. Catastrophe modelling technology is now us ...
Integrating biophysical models and evolutionary theory
... such as organic load in containers, and host availability, affect survival and development. Our predictions thus represent the maximum possible numbers of life-cycle completions – actual numbers would usually be lower. The container properties were taken directly from Focks et al. (1993a); we modell ...
... such as organic load in containers, and host availability, affect survival and development. Our predictions thus represent the maximum possible numbers of life-cycle completions – actual numbers would usually be lower. The container properties were taken directly from Focks et al. (1993a); we modell ...
Displacement and Migration from Climate Hot
... Bangladesh. He is involved with a number of research projects on climate change and disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh and elsewhere. S M Munjurul Hannan Khan is Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Bangladesh. He has a Masters in Development Economics from W ...
... Bangladesh. He is involved with a number of research projects on climate change and disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh and elsewhere. S M Munjurul Hannan Khan is Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Bangladesh. He has a Masters in Development Economics from W ...
Special Climate Change Program 2014-2018
... establishes the objective of cutting down emmissions 30% by the year 2020 with respect to the baseline, and 50% by 2050 compared to those registered in 2000. These objectives are ambitious, but the benefits are multiple and, in many cases, represent gains for everyone involved. Generally, they imply ...
... establishes the objective of cutting down emmissions 30% by the year 2020 with respect to the baseline, and 50% by 2050 compared to those registered in 2000. These objectives are ambitious, but the benefits are multiple and, in many cases, represent gains for everyone involved. Generally, they imply ...
Integrating biophysical models and evolutionary theory to
... such as organic load in containers, and host availability, affect survival and development. Our predictions thus represent the maximum possible numbers of life-cycle completions – actual numbers would usually be lower. The container properties were taken directly from Focks et al. (1993a); we modell ...
... such as organic load in containers, and host availability, affect survival and development. Our predictions thus represent the maximum possible numbers of life-cycle completions – actual numbers would usually be lower. The container properties were taken directly from Focks et al. (1993a); we modell ...
AIR POLLUTION CLIMATE CHANGE
... cases emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases come from the same sources. Thus, controls directed at air pollutants frequently affect greenhouse gas emissions, and vice versa. These effects can lead to ancillary benefits and thus act in the same positive direction for the environment. In ce ...
... cases emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases come from the same sources. Thus, controls directed at air pollutants frequently affect greenhouse gas emissions, and vice versa. These effects can lead to ancillary benefits and thus act in the same positive direction for the environment. In ce ...
CLIMATIC CHANGE IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS: A REVIEW OF
... The aim of IYM is to ensure the well-being of mountain and lowland communities by promoting the conservation and sustainable development of mountain regions. FAO (the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization), the lead agency for IYM, is working closely with UN and other organizations to ma ...
... The aim of IYM is to ensure the well-being of mountain and lowland communities by promoting the conservation and sustainable development of mountain regions. FAO (the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization), the lead agency for IYM, is working closely with UN and other organizations to ma ...
Climate Change Detection and Attribution: Beyond Mean
... regression model attempts to represent the observed record y, organized as a vector in space and time, from a set of n response (signal) patterns that are concatenated in a matrix X using the linear assumption y ⫽ X ⫹ u. Climate change signal patterns (also called fingerprints) are usually derived ...
... regression model attempts to represent the observed record y, organized as a vector in space and time, from a set of n response (signal) patterns that are concatenated in a matrix X using the linear assumption y ⫽ X ⫹ u. Climate change signal patterns (also called fingerprints) are usually derived ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF CLIMATE AND WEATHER FOR TOURISM
... systematic changes as projected under different climate change scenarios. For example, surface and sea temperatures are generally forecast to increase, rain patterns will change with some areas becoming wetter and others driers, and the occurrence of extreme events is likely to increase. For this re ...
... systematic changes as projected under different climate change scenarios. For example, surface and sea temperatures are generally forecast to increase, rain patterns will change with some areas becoming wetter and others driers, and the occurrence of extreme events is likely to increase. For this re ...
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... climate-carbon-cycle feedbacks that the IPCC models, could easily take us to the unmitigated catastrophe of 1000 ppm [14]. The good news is that a 2009 NOAA-led study found “Near-zero CH4 growth in the Arctic during 2008 suggests we have not yet activated strong climate feedbacks from permafrost and ...
... climate-carbon-cycle feedbacks that the IPCC models, could easily take us to the unmitigated catastrophe of 1000 ppm [14]. The good news is that a 2009 NOAA-led study found “Near-zero CH4 growth in the Arctic during 2008 suggests we have not yet activated strong climate feedbacks from permafrost and ...