Success factors for communicating climate change
... Dialogue Groups 2, Emotions, Formats, Evaluation. (Wirth & Prutsch 2013) Within this present report, a focus has been put on how to reach two special dialogue groups. For once, local administrations as mayors, members of municipal councils, staff of municipal administration (Dialogue Group 1: DG 1) ...
... Dialogue Groups 2, Emotions, Formats, Evaluation. (Wirth & Prutsch 2013) Within this present report, a focus has been put on how to reach two special dialogue groups. For once, local administrations as mayors, members of municipal councils, staff of municipal administration (Dialogue Group 1: DG 1) ...
The Short-Term Temptations and Long
... future, through some mix of genuine concern about the long-term consequences of underaddressed environmental problems, combined with a perception that catastrophic warnings are needed to stimulate the public and policymakers to take urgent action. Doomsday scenarios may indeed catalyze public and po ...
... future, through some mix of genuine concern about the long-term consequences of underaddressed environmental problems, combined with a perception that catastrophic warnings are needed to stimulate the public and policymakers to take urgent action. Doomsday scenarios may indeed catalyze public and po ...
This Changes Everything classroom guide
... conversation and further exploration of concepts and ideas after reading each chapter. Essay questions require further exploration through reading, research, and analysis. Classroom activities include individual, group, and class exercises that may require more than one day. Suggested further readin ...
... conversation and further exploration of concepts and ideas after reading each chapter. Essay questions require further exploration through reading, research, and analysis. Classroom activities include individual, group, and class exercises that may require more than one day. Suggested further readin ...
RobockEthicsOslo - Alan Robock
... Corrective justice: Considers the extent to which individuals or groups are morally deserving of impacts. Based on responsibilities for emissions, that is historical contributions to climate change, but by country or per capita? Should benefits to the worst off should be given more weight than benef ...
... Corrective justice: Considers the extent to which individuals or groups are morally deserving of impacts. Based on responsibilities for emissions, that is historical contributions to climate change, but by country or per capita? Should benefits to the worst off should be given more weight than benef ...
Recent Developments in Australian Climate Change Litigation
... 2. promoting ecologically sustainable development through conservation and sustainable use; 3. conserving biodiversity; 4. protecting and conserving heritage; 5. promoting cooperation among governments, community, landholders, and indigenous peoples; 6. implementing cooperatively Australia’s in ...
... 2. promoting ecologically sustainable development through conservation and sustainable use; 3. conserving biodiversity; 4. protecting and conserving heritage; 5. promoting cooperation among governments, community, landholders, and indigenous peoples; 6. implementing cooperatively Australia’s in ...
Summary - The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
... The ER Program MRV system will be based on the framework of the national MRV system and will integrate the tools and methods of the jurisdictional and nested program into the national system to ensure consistency. The MRV system will be designed to integrate with the Satellite Land Monitoring System ...
... The ER Program MRV system will be based on the framework of the national MRV system and will integrate the tools and methods of the jurisdictional and nested program into the national system to ensure consistency. The MRV system will be designed to integrate with the Satellite Land Monitoring System ...
Recommendations on Early Actions on Climate Change for the 44th
... • Legislation for economy-wide emissions reductions • Aggressive research and development for low-carbon energy technology • Federal planning for adaptation to climate change impacts • Enable and encourage citizens to build efficiency and conservation in their homes and communities • Re-engage ...
... • Legislation for economy-wide emissions reductions • Aggressive research and development for low-carbon energy technology • Federal planning for adaptation to climate change impacts • Enable and encourage citizens to build efficiency and conservation in their homes and communities • Re-engage ...
Choosing and Using Climate-Change Scenarios for Ecological
... Abstract: Increased concern over climate change is demonstrated by the many efforts to assess climate effects and develop adaptation strategies. Scientists, resource managers, and decision makers are increasingly expected to use climate information, but they struggle with its uncertainty. With the c ...
... Abstract: Increased concern over climate change is demonstrated by the many efforts to assess climate effects and develop adaptation strategies. Scientists, resource managers, and decision makers are increasingly expected to use climate information, but they struggle with its uncertainty. With the c ...
On the Chopping Block - Allegheny Highlands Climate Change
... and preserve critical landscapes to help endangered species find refuge from rising temperatures. Scientists can devise remedies to hold back climate-related diseases and pests. Another smart choice is to support local, national, and global policies that will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, ...
... and preserve critical landscapes to help endangered species find refuge from rising temperatures. Scientists can devise remedies to hold back climate-related diseases and pests. Another smart choice is to support local, national, and global policies that will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, ...
All developing countries where there is any ability to measure
... are many even if the set is restricted to those that accept the Kyoto approach of quantitative limits on greenhouse gas emissions at the national level accompanied by international trade in emission permits. The Kyoto targets applied only to the budget period 2008-2012, which is now upon us, and onl ...
... are many even if the set is restricted to those that accept the Kyoto approach of quantitative limits on greenhouse gas emissions at the national level accompanied by international trade in emission permits. The Kyoto targets applied only to the budget period 2008-2012, which is now upon us, and onl ...
National contributions to observed global warming
... national climate contributions due to non-CO2 gases represents a mixture of industrial and agricultural sources of emissions, with the result that current areas of extensive agricultural production in the developing world emerge as large contributors alongside more developed countries. Finally, the ...
... national climate contributions due to non-CO2 gases represents a mixture of industrial and agricultural sources of emissions, with the result that current areas of extensive agricultural production in the developing world emerge as large contributors alongside more developed countries. Finally, the ...
copyrighted material - Beck-Shop
... Upon viewing the deforested and eroded landscape near Attica, Greece in the 4th century BC, the philosopher Plato vividly described the loss: “What now remains compared with what then existed is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having wasted away, and only the bare framewo ...
... Upon viewing the deforested and eroded landscape near Attica, Greece in the 4th century BC, the philosopher Plato vividly described the loss: “What now remains compared with what then existed is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having wasted away, and only the bare framewo ...
Durham Research Online
... produced using a single set of modeling equations, but with a different combination of values assigned to uncertain parameters within the equations on each run (see e.g. Frame et al. 2009; Murphy et al. 2009). In multi-model ensemble studies, by contrast, projections are produced using climate model ...
... produced using a single set of modeling equations, but with a different combination of values assigned to uncertain parameters within the equations on each run (see e.g. Frame et al. 2009; Murphy et al. 2009). In multi-model ensemble studies, by contrast, projections are produced using climate model ...
3.47 MB - Asian Development Bank
... mobilize massive landslides and mudflows. Every year these disasters destroy settlements, agricultural lands and infrastructure. In river basins where snow-melt is the main source of water, spring floods may become more frequent. The Central Asian mountains have unique landscapes and nature. The ove ...
... mobilize massive landslides and mudflows. Every year these disasters destroy settlements, agricultural lands and infrastructure. In river basins where snow-melt is the main source of water, spring floods may become more frequent. The Central Asian mountains have unique landscapes and nature. The ove ...
Chapter 5
... nificantly, apart from the Etesian winds the intensity of which is expected to increase by as ...
... nificantly, apart from the Etesian winds the intensity of which is expected to increase by as ...
A strategic approach to adaptation in Europe (628 kB) (opens in new window)
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established in 2008 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Institute brings together international expertise on economics, as well as finance, geography, the environment, international development and pol ...
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established in 2008 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Institute brings together international expertise on economics, as well as finance, geography, the environment, international development and pol ...
Climate change, phenological shifts, eco
... prey, (2) a competitor, (3) a parasite, etc. To address the cross-scale and multi-component aspect of the ecological responses to climate change, we do not advocate a mechanistic approach or a correlative approach, but instead an approach coupling the two. This is known as a strategic cyclical scali ...
... prey, (2) a competitor, (3) a parasite, etc. To address the cross-scale and multi-component aspect of the ecological responses to climate change, we do not advocate a mechanistic approach or a correlative approach, but instead an approach coupling the two. This is known as a strategic cyclical scali ...
A Focus on Climate During the Past 100 Years
... stratospheric disturbances can propagate downward and affect weather and climate at the ground (e.g., Baldwin and Dunkerton 2001). This list of research directions – data work, analyses of trends, variability, and extremes in observations and models, analyses of coupling processes and feedbacks, ana ...
... stratospheric disturbances can propagate downward and affect weather and climate at the ground (e.g., Baldwin and Dunkerton 2001). This list of research directions – data work, analyses of trends, variability, and extremes in observations and models, analyses of coupling processes and feedbacks, ana ...
Future climate in the Pacific Northwest
... as well, as shown in Figs. 8, 11 and 12, but we emphasize A1B and B1. Though B1 is the lowest of the IPCC illustrative scenarios, it still produces changes in climate that many scientists call “dangerous” (Schellnhuber et al. 2006)—a threshold that a growing number of political leaders have stated t ...
... as well, as shown in Figs. 8, 11 and 12, but we emphasize A1B and B1. Though B1 is the lowest of the IPCC illustrative scenarios, it still produces changes in climate that many scientists call “dangerous” (Schellnhuber et al. 2006)—a threshold that a growing number of political leaders have stated t ...
IOSR Journal of Mathematics (IOSR-JM) e-ISSN: 2278-5728, p-ISSN:
... standardization. If two independent variables are measured in exactly the same units, it is usually preferable since the relative importance of their respective effects on y we can be assessed easily; knowing that the larger the coefficient, the stronger the effect [5]. However, our explanatory vari ...
... standardization. If two independent variables are measured in exactly the same units, it is usually preferable since the relative importance of their respective effects on y we can be assessed easily; knowing that the larger the coefficient, the stronger the effect [5]. However, our explanatory vari ...
DOC - unece
... the increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (i.e. water vapour, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)). GHGs absorb heat reflected back from the Earth’s surface and, thus, increase the heat storage of the Earth system. Since the industrial revolution, a ...
... the increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (i.e. water vapour, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)). GHGs absorb heat reflected back from the Earth’s surface and, thus, increase the heat storage of the Earth system. Since the industrial revolution, a ...
Appealed to ITU and its Administrations to ensure the absolute
... b) In terms of technologies for reducing carbon emission, the use of radiocommunications might be considered as replacing virtually the need for Box 5: Digital broadcasting Plan GE06 reduces a physical journey. The work of ITU-R Study transmission power and may reduce the number of Groups 4, 5 and 6 ...
... b) In terms of technologies for reducing carbon emission, the use of radiocommunications might be considered as replacing virtually the need for Box 5: Digital broadcasting Plan GE06 reduces a physical journey. The work of ITU-R Study transmission power and may reduce the number of Groups 4, 5 and 6 ...
Marine boundary layer clouds at the heart of tropical cloud feedback
... into more cumuliform clouds (trade cumulus), and thus to a smaller cloud fraction and a less negative SW CRF. Such a transition can occur if the SST increase is associated with a decrease of the lower tropospheric static stability and/or with an increase of the planetary boundary-layer (PBL) decoupl ...
... into more cumuliform clouds (trade cumulus), and thus to a smaller cloud fraction and a less negative SW CRF. Such a transition can occur if the SST increase is associated with a decrease of the lower tropospheric static stability and/or with an increase of the planetary boundary-layer (PBL) decoupl ...