Background Paper
... build consensus among states on the potential elements of a Protection Agenda, which may include standards of treatment. Its outcomes may be taken up at domestic, regional and global levels and lead to new laws, soft law instruments or binding agreements. By now, all South Asian countries have natio ...
... build consensus among states on the potential elements of a Protection Agenda, which may include standards of treatment. Its outcomes may be taken up at domestic, regional and global levels and lead to new laws, soft law instruments or binding agreements. By now, all South Asian countries have natio ...
After which threshold do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
... Terasvirta, David Hendry, Nektarios Aslanidis and the participants at the Econometric Models for Climate Change conference. In addition, we would like to thank Yaniv Reingewertz and Nathan Paldor for generously providing their data. ...
... Terasvirta, David Hendry, Nektarios Aslanidis and the participants at the Econometric Models for Climate Change conference. In addition, we would like to thank Yaniv Reingewertz and Nathan Paldor for generously providing their data. ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LIFE David Albouy
... Every day, climate influences human activity, including diet, chores, recreation, and conversation. Households spend considerable amounts on housing, energy, clothing, and travel to protect themselves from extreme climates and to enjoy comfortable moderation. Geographically, climate impacts the desi ...
... Every day, climate influences human activity, including diet, chores, recreation, and conversation. Households spend considerable amounts on housing, energy, clothing, and travel to protect themselves from extreme climates and to enjoy comfortable moderation. Geographically, climate impacts the desi ...
Modelling the Response of Mountain Glacier Discharge
... catchment area, and affects adjacent lowlands far beyond the limits of mountain ranges. The main impact occurs because glaciers temporarily store water as snow and ice on many different time scales (Jansson et al. 2003), the release from storage being controlled by both climate and internal drainage ...
... catchment area, and affects adjacent lowlands far beyond the limits of mountain ranges. The main impact occurs because glaciers temporarily store water as snow and ice on many different time scales (Jansson et al. 2003), the release from storage being controlled by both climate and internal drainage ...
P U S - Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
... Downloaded from pus.sagepub.com at UNIV OF COLORADO LIBRARIES on June 2, 2013 ...
... Downloaded from pus.sagepub.com at UNIV OF COLORADO LIBRARIES on June 2, 2013 ...
Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change
... The information should be both prospective and historical: Implicit in any vulnerability assessment is an important role for both historical and prospective analyses. However, in global change research, when the historical component is thorough, the prospective component is often under-developed, or ...
... The information should be both prospective and historical: Implicit in any vulnerability assessment is an important role for both historical and prospective analyses. However, in global change research, when the historical component is thorough, the prospective component is often under-developed, or ...
Royal Government of Cambodia Climate Change
... the guidance from the Council of Ministers and from the National Council for Sustainable Development. As a country highly vulnerable to climate change, the investment on an effective response to the challenges posed by a changing climate is crucial to Cambodia’s continued sustainable development. Cl ...
... the guidance from the Council of Ministers and from the National Council for Sustainable Development. As a country highly vulnerable to climate change, the investment on an effective response to the challenges posed by a changing climate is crucial to Cambodia’s continued sustainable development. Cl ...
Scholarly networks on resilience, vulnerability
... Relevant papers that did not use the keywords given in Table 1 or did not cite the seeds listed in Table 2 were not retrieved. In sum, while we aimed for the best and most complete set of relevant publications, we might have missed important contributions. Still, we believe we have a comprehensive d ...
... Relevant papers that did not use the keywords given in Table 1 or did not cite the seeds listed in Table 2 were not retrieved. In sum, while we aimed for the best and most complete set of relevant publications, we might have missed important contributions. Still, we believe we have a comprehensive d ...
Entering Uncharted Waters
... humanitarian system. The strongest El Niño in recent times occurred in 1997–1998. This brought record global temperatures and droughts, floods and massive forest fires. It caused 2000 deaths and at least $33bn in property damage. Scientists say that this year’s event is likely to be at least on a pa ...
... humanitarian system. The strongest El Niño in recent times occurred in 1997–1998. This brought record global temperatures and droughts, floods and massive forest fires. It caused 2000 deaths and at least $33bn in property damage. Scientists say that this year’s event is likely to be at least on a pa ...
challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle
... by the energy budget, both through evaporation and the ability of the atmosphere to radiate away the latent heat released when precipitation forms (e.g., Trenberth 2011; O’Gorman et al. 2012). This largely explains why global-mean precipitation increases by only 2%–3% K–1 of warming in climate model ...
... by the energy budget, both through evaporation and the ability of the atmosphere to radiate away the latent heat released when precipitation forms (e.g., Trenberth 2011; O’Gorman et al. 2012). This largely explains why global-mean precipitation increases by only 2%–3% K–1 of warming in climate model ...
Assessments of moisture fluxes east of the Andes in South America
... changes in the temperature and rainfall as well as extreme climate events for the end of the 21st century from the scenarios of low and high emissions of greenhouse gases A2 and B2 of IPCC, respectively. However, these studies do not analyze the behaviour of the meridional moisture transport on the ...
... changes in the temperature and rainfall as well as extreme climate events for the end of the 21st century from the scenarios of low and high emissions of greenhouse gases A2 and B2 of IPCC, respectively. However, these studies do not analyze the behaviour of the meridional moisture transport on the ...
Global Change Impact Assessment for Himalayan Mountain Regions
... ecology, declared the year 2002 as the International Year of the Mountain (IYM) for promoting the conservation of mountain ecosystem and sustainable development in the mountain regions. Having received a good response of the celebration of IYM and the need to further reinforce the commitment, United ...
... ecology, declared the year 2002 as the International Year of the Mountain (IYM) for promoting the conservation of mountain ecosystem and sustainable development in the mountain regions. Having received a good response of the celebration of IYM and the need to further reinforce the commitment, United ...
Chapter 13 Thermodynamic Feedbacks in the Climate System
... since water vapor in the atmosphere emits at a colder temperature than the surface. The downwelling longwave radiation flux at the surface increases with increasing water vapor amount. Climate modeling results have shown that the water vapor path increases with increasing surface temperature (dWv/dT ...
... since water vapor in the atmosphere emits at a colder temperature than the surface. The downwelling longwave radiation flux at the surface increases with increasing water vapor amount. Climate modeling results have shown that the water vapor path increases with increasing surface temperature (dWv/dT ...
Project Packet
... Weather is the condition of the atmosphere measured in short lengths of time (hours and days). Climate, however, is the average weather over decades and centuries in a specific location. We can look out our window and see how weather changes every day, but we need data that has been tracked over hun ...
... Weather is the condition of the atmosphere measured in short lengths of time (hours and days). Climate, however, is the average weather over decades and centuries in a specific location. We can look out our window and see how weather changes every day, but we need data that has been tracked over hun ...
Relationship with United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
... Summary This document provides a concept for the first annual meeting with the thematic bodies of UNFCCC, which will be held during the first week of the twenty second meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco. A draft agenda is presented in Annex I. ...
... Summary This document provides a concept for the first annual meeting with the thematic bodies of UNFCCC, which will be held during the first week of the twenty second meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco. A draft agenda is presented in Annex I. ...
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture September 30, 2013
... weather. Long run adaptations appear to have mitigated less than about half of the shortrun effects of extreme heat exposure on corn yields, and point estimates across a range of specifications suggest that long run adaptions have more likely offset none of these short run impacts. We also show limi ...
... weather. Long run adaptations appear to have mitigated less than about half of the shortrun effects of extreme heat exposure on corn yields, and point estimates across a range of specifications suggest that long run adaptions have more likely offset none of these short run impacts. We also show limi ...
A Climate Change Threshold for Forest Dieback in the African Sahel
... persist or get worse under all future scenarios that it examined. Institutional Responses to Environmental Change The death of up to a quarter of a million people following the Sahel drought of 1968-1973 highlights the grave order of the threshold that Sahel ecosystems crossed and a social threshold ...
... persist or get worse under all future scenarios that it examined. Institutional Responses to Environmental Change The death of up to a quarter of a million people following the Sahel drought of 1968-1973 highlights the grave order of the threshold that Sahel ecosystems crossed and a social threshold ...
Reenberg, A. (2009) - LaSyRe
... Seen in a long-term historical perspective, significant climate variability is a key issue (Brooks 2004). If we look back 10,000 years, the climatic situation in the Sahel was characterized by an intensified monsoon situation, and the landscape was dominated by lakes and open woodland. By 5,000 BCE a ...
... Seen in a long-term historical perspective, significant climate variability is a key issue (Brooks 2004). If we look back 10,000 years, the climatic situation in the Sahel was characterized by an intensified monsoon situation, and the landscape was dominated by lakes and open woodland. By 5,000 BCE a ...
An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on flood risk in Mumbai
... 2000). Under this scenario, PRECIS projects a 3.6◦ C increase in mean temperatures a 6.5% increase in seasonal mean rainfall across India by the 2080s. Given the uncertainties in climate, a full adaptation assessment would explore the implications of a range of model-based climate scenarios; this is ...
... 2000). Under this scenario, PRECIS projects a 3.6◦ C increase in mean temperatures a 6.5% increase in seasonal mean rainfall across India by the 2080s. Given the uncertainties in climate, a full adaptation assessment would explore the implications of a range of model-based climate scenarios; this is ...
A Case for Guardians for Future Generations
... 1. Fairness between generations – a climate justice perspective Climate justice links climate change, development and human rights to achieve a people-centred approach. Informed by the Principles of Climate Justice, this approach seeks to realise human rights for all people living now and to do so ...
... 1. Fairness between generations – a climate justice perspective Climate justice links climate change, development and human rights to achieve a people-centred approach. Informed by the Principles of Climate Justice, this approach seeks to realise human rights for all people living now and to do so ...
Innovations LIVE - Inter-American Development Bank
... better tomorrow. That is the underlying philosophy the IDB has adopted, and the work on climate is no exception. We recognize that for climate action, three main building blocks have change the way we do things. New technology, changing financing schemes and generating policy frameworks that allows ...
... better tomorrow. That is the underlying philosophy the IDB has adopted, and the work on climate is no exception. We recognize that for climate action, three main building blocks have change the way we do things. New technology, changing financing schemes and generating policy frameworks that allows ...
Desertification In The Sahel
... of the rainfall band, giving it year-to-year variability. Starting in the 1960s, the rainfall band shifted southward, drying out Central Africa and parts of South America and South Asia, the study found. At the same time, northeast Brazil and Africa's Great Lakes started to see more rain, thanks to ...
... of the rainfall band, giving it year-to-year variability. Starting in the 1960s, the rainfall band shifted southward, drying out Central Africa and parts of South America and South Asia, the study found. At the same time, northeast Brazil and Africa's Great Lakes started to see more rain, thanks to ...