Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change
... been focused on climate change mitigation, the issue of adapting to the impacts of climate change has increasingly become important, both in the policy and research arena. Although adaptation is now regarded as being of equal importance as mitigation, there are still considerable challenges in imple ...
... been focused on climate change mitigation, the issue of adapting to the impacts of climate change has increasingly become important, both in the policy and research arena. Although adaptation is now regarded as being of equal importance as mitigation, there are still considerable challenges in imple ...
THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION
... U.S. and abroad, to drive significant local change that improves the quality of life for local people and others far distant, in the countless networks to which they are also attached. The health of a child in rural China or in the American Grainbelt is intimately connected to the industrial pattern ...
... U.S. and abroad, to drive significant local change that improves the quality of life for local people and others far distant, in the countless networks to which they are also attached. The health of a child in rural China or in the American Grainbelt is intimately connected to the industrial pattern ...
IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 4 SECOND
... evolutionary response species are going to undertake, and by simply falling into the trap of writing more about species dispersal (as there are more papers on it) misses something. The authors may wish to consider including a section about what is missing around understanding these other adaptive st ...
... evolutionary response species are going to undertake, and by simply falling into the trap of writing more about species dispersal (as there are more papers on it) misses something. The authors may wish to consider including a section about what is missing around understanding these other adaptive st ...
Boreal forest soil carbon: distribution, function
... Increasing accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere has led to calls for terrestrial mechanisms for CO2 abatement and given that soils represent the largest terrestrial body of C on Earth, there is a great deal of interest in soils as a sink for atmospheric C. This emphasis on sequestration in boreal f ...
... Increasing accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere has led to calls for terrestrial mechanisms for CO2 abatement and given that soils represent the largest terrestrial body of C on Earth, there is a great deal of interest in soils as a sink for atmospheric C. This emphasis on sequestration in boreal f ...
Kerala State Action Plan on Climate Change
... 4. Deploying appropriate technologies both for adaptation and mitigation of GHG emissions extensively as well as at an accelerated pace. ...
... 4. Deploying appropriate technologies both for adaptation and mitigation of GHG emissions extensively as well as at an accelerated pace. ...
DISCUSSION PAPER Paving the Way for U.S. Climate
... Kyoto Protocol expires at the end of 2012 and new arrangements are urgently needed. This new round of climate talks provides a real chance for all nations to ensure strong, equitable action by major greenhouse gas–emitting countries—including the United States, China, and India—which have, in the pa ...
... Kyoto Protocol expires at the end of 2012 and new arrangements are urgently needed. This new round of climate talks provides a real chance for all nations to ensure strong, equitable action by major greenhouse gas–emitting countries—including the United States, China, and India—which have, in the pa ...
Resilience to natural hazards: How useful is this concept?
... adaptive capacities than developing countries. For example, Bangladesh and The Netherlands share a similar physical susceptibility to sea-level rise, but Bangladesh lacks the economic resources, technology, and infrastructure that The Netherlands can call on to respond to the potential impacts. On t ...
... adaptive capacities than developing countries. For example, Bangladesh and The Netherlands share a similar physical susceptibility to sea-level rise, but Bangladesh lacks the economic resources, technology, and infrastructure that The Netherlands can call on to respond to the potential impacts. On t ...
The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: vegetation change in eastern
... warmed the North Atlantic sea-surface. On both the site-specific scale and the continental-scale, vegetation changed only gradually during the millennia before (15,000–13,000 cal yr B.P.) and after (11,000–9000 cal yr B.P.) the YDC, but climate changes ca 12,900 and 11,600 cal yr B.P. altered the veg ...
... warmed the North Atlantic sea-surface. On both the site-specific scale and the continental-scale, vegetation changed only gradually during the millennia before (15,000–13,000 cal yr B.P.) and after (11,000–9000 cal yr B.P.) the YDC, but climate changes ca 12,900 and 11,600 cal yr B.P. altered the veg ...
Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
... (EACC) study has been a large, multiyear undertaking managed by a core team of the World Bank’s Environment Department led by Sergio Margulis (Task Team Leader) and comprising Urvashi Narain, Kiran Pandey, Laurent Cretegny, Ana Bucher, Robert Schneider, Gordon Hughes, and Timothy Essam. Robin Mearns ...
... (EACC) study has been a large, multiyear undertaking managed by a core team of the World Bank’s Environment Department led by Sergio Margulis (Task Team Leader) and comprising Urvashi Narain, Kiran Pandey, Laurent Cretegny, Ana Bucher, Robert Schneider, Gordon Hughes, and Timothy Essam. Robin Mearns ...
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Human Intervention in the Earth`s Climate: The Governance of
... scenario describes a world in which negotia- for keeping global warming below the 2°C tions at the United Nations Framework threshold. With global greenhouse-gas emisConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) sions still rising, climate change continues to be fail to reach a binding global agreement on p ...
... scenario describes a world in which negotia- for keeping global warming below the 2°C tions at the United Nations Framework threshold. With global greenhouse-gas emisConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) sions still rising, climate change continues to be fail to reach a binding global agreement on p ...
pLAnnIng fOR cLIMATE chAngE
... 1. The primary audience for this guide is city planners working in cities in low and middle-income countries who have a basic knowledge of climate change and the desire to address it. While the guide is targeted at local government planners in particular, it recognizes that all types of planners (d ...
... 1. The primary audience for this guide is city planners working in cities in low and middle-income countries who have a basic knowledge of climate change and the desire to address it. While the guide is targeted at local government planners in particular, it recognizes that all types of planners (d ...
IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 18 FIRST-‐ORDER DRAFT Expert Review
... General comment: I think that it is an important chapter but it should be done after the other chapters are completed as it is fed by We agree, but the AR5 schedule does not allow for suggest ...
... General comment: I think that it is an important chapter but it should be done after the other chapters are completed as it is fed by We agree, but the AR5 schedule does not allow for suggest ...
The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A
... technological resources, creating new or enhancing existing policies, and developing adaptation plans, among others. Adaptation examples are presented and organized by the following geographic regions: Arctic Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Eastern Canada and Northeast USA (New Bruns ...
... technological resources, creating new or enhancing existing policies, and developing adaptation plans, among others. Adaptation examples are presented and organized by the following geographic regions: Arctic Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Eastern Canada and Northeast USA (New Bruns ...
Primary impacts of climate change on the cryosphere
... changes. This paper was prepared by the European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change (UBA-D) in close cooperation with the Department of Geography of the University of Zuerich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Davos (SLF) with important contributions by several experts across ...
... changes. This paper was prepared by the European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change (UBA-D) in close cooperation with the Department of Geography of the University of Zuerich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Davos (SLF) with important contributions by several experts across ...
GDI 12 – Warming Core
... unconvinced scientists (eg - skeptics) is around half the number by scientists convinced by the evidence. Not only is there a vast difference in the number of convinced versus unconvinced scientists, there is also a considerable gap in expertise between the two groups. An alternative measure of the ...
... unconvinced scientists (eg - skeptics) is around half the number by scientists convinced by the evidence. Not only is there a vast difference in the number of convinced versus unconvinced scientists, there is also a considerable gap in expertise between the two groups. An alternative measure of the ...
Modeling of Ecological Processes
... Washington DC has traditionally had a Cherry Blossom Festival during the first t two weeks k in i A April, il culminating l i ti iin mid id April with a parade. Over the past few decades, the cherryy trees have been blooming earlier and earlier, so that peak bloom is now at the beginning, rather tha ...
... Washington DC has traditionally had a Cherry Blossom Festival during the first t two weeks k in i A April, il culminating l i ti iin mid id April with a parade. Over the past few decades, the cherryy trees have been blooming earlier and earlier, so that peak bloom is now at the beginning, rather tha ...
A hydrogeologic framework for characterizing summer streamflow
... (e.g., rain-dominated, mixture of rain and snow, and snowdominated), sensitivity validation was primarily driven by the snow-dominated watersheds, which are subjected to a wider range of change in recharge timing and magnitude as a result of increased temperature. Overall, two patterns emerge from t ...
... (e.g., rain-dominated, mixture of rain and snow, and snowdominated), sensitivity validation was primarily driven by the snow-dominated watersheds, which are subjected to a wider range of change in recharge timing and magnitude as a result of increased temperature. Overall, two patterns emerge from t ...
Australia`s country towns 2050: What will a climate
... the year 2050 .............................................................................................................. 59 Figure 6: Distribution of vulnerability to climate change for UCLs in New South Wales, Australia, for the year 2050 ........................................................ ...
... the year 2050 .............................................................................................................. 59 Figure 6: Distribution of vulnerability to climate change for UCLs in New South Wales, Australia, for the year 2050 ........................................................ ...
TEM simulated monthly net methane emissions
... Eurasia from 1971 to 2100. Multiple model simulations using various wetland extent datasets and climate change scenarios were conducted to assess the uncertainty of CH4 fluxes, including emissions and consumption. On the basis of these simulations we estimate the current net emissions in the region ...
... Eurasia from 1971 to 2100. Multiple model simulations using various wetland extent datasets and climate change scenarios were conducted to assess the uncertainty of CH4 fluxes, including emissions and consumption. On the basis of these simulations we estimate the current net emissions in the region ...
G. NAPA Team - Global Environment Facility
... Various institutions (Annex 1) in the country are potential players/actors in the formulation and implementation of the country’s National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA). Although their participation in the preparation and promotion of the NAPA will be valuable, their specific levels of involv ...
... Various institutions (Annex 1) in the country are potential players/actors in the formulation and implementation of the country’s National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA). Although their participation in the preparation and promotion of the NAPA will be valuable, their specific levels of involv ...
Demand reduction is key
... biofuels…While Europeans maintain their lifestyle based on automobile culture, the population of Southern countries will have less and less land for food crops and will loose its food sovereignty…We are therefore appealing to the governments and people of the European Union countries to seek solutio ...
... biofuels…While Europeans maintain their lifestyle based on automobile culture, the population of Southern countries will have less and less land for food crops and will loose its food sovereignty…We are therefore appealing to the governments and people of the European Union countries to seek solutio ...