Valuing the Ocean: Extended Executive Summary
... humankind. While there are some marine animals and plants that appear to be unaffected, an increasing number of organisms are displaying sensitivity to ocean acidification, either in their physiology, behaviour or developmental stages. As outlined in detail in this chapter, some species have malform ...
... humankind. While there are some marine animals and plants that appear to be unaffected, an increasing number of organisms are displaying sensitivity to ocean acidification, either in their physiology, behaviour or developmental stages. As outlined in detail in this chapter, some species have malform ...
Chapter 4: Traditional Ricardian Method and
... food prices a global issue. How climate affects food prices depends on the magnitude of the gains in some regions versus the losses in others (Reilly et al. 1994). Until a reasonable global model is constructed that quantifies climate impacts across the world, it is not clear what will happen to foo ...
... food prices a global issue. How climate affects food prices depends on the magnitude of the gains in some regions versus the losses in others (Reilly et al. 1994). Until a reasonable global model is constructed that quantifies climate impacts across the world, it is not clear what will happen to foo ...
Climate Change and Its Impact on Groundwater
... likely to result in increased groundwater recharge. However, higher evaporation may mean that soil deficits persist for longer and commence earlier, offsetting an increase in total effective rainfall. Various types of aquifer will be recharged differently. The main types are unconfined and confined ...
... likely to result in increased groundwater recharge. However, higher evaporation may mean that soil deficits persist for longer and commence earlier, offsetting an increase in total effective rainfall. Various types of aquifer will be recharged differently. The main types are unconfined and confined ...
Week 7, Part 2 - Atmospheric Sciences at UNBC
... been retreating during the past decades: Syslov (1961) reports that the permafrost extent at Mezen (Russia) has retreated northward at an average rate of 400 m per year since 1837, whereas similar findings have been reported for the Mackenzie Valley of Canada. • Although permafrost is temperature de ...
... been retreating during the past decades: Syslov (1961) reports that the permafrost extent at Mezen (Russia) has retreated northward at an average rate of 400 m per year since 1837, whereas similar findings have been reported for the Mackenzie Valley of Canada. • Although permafrost is temperature de ...
Accounting for Health Impacts of Climate Change
... Organization of the United Nations. This report was prepared by Benoit Laplante, Genandrialine Peralta, and Canesio Predo under the guidance and supervision of Bartlett Edes, Director, Poverty Reduction, Gender, and Social Development Division (RSGS) of ADB’s Regional and Sustainable Development Dep ...
... Organization of the United Nations. This report was prepared by Benoit Laplante, Genandrialine Peralta, and Canesio Predo under the guidance and supervision of Bartlett Edes, Director, Poverty Reduction, Gender, and Social Development Division (RSGS) of ADB’s Regional and Sustainable Development Dep ...
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
... ice, coastal erosion and permafrost degradation are just some of the impacts being experienced. Communities, cultures, human health, livelihoods, economies, ecosystems and local wildlife are all being affected at an unprecedented rate. Arctic countries and Arctic residents are developing and enactin ...
... ice, coastal erosion and permafrost degradation are just some of the impacts being experienced. Communities, cultures, human health, livelihoods, economies, ecosystems and local wildlife are all being affected at an unprecedented rate. Arctic countries and Arctic residents are developing and enactin ...
ccaf.gc.ca
... performance expectations for these initiatives, made considerable progress in measuring and assessing their performance, and significantly increased its efforts to link changes in energy use to changes in greenhouse gas emissions. It has also provided improved performance information in its reportin ...
... performance expectations for these initiatives, made considerable progress in measuring and assessing their performance, and significantly increased its efforts to link changes in energy use to changes in greenhouse gas emissions. It has also provided improved performance information in its reportin ...
The Economic Climate: Establishing Expert Consensus on the
... Specifically, Weitzman (2001) asked: “Taking all relevant considerations into account, what real interest rate do you think should be used to discount over time the (expected) benefits and (expected) costs of projects being proposed to mitigate the possible effects of global climate change?” ...
... Specifically, Weitzman (2001) asked: “Taking all relevant considerations into account, what real interest rate do you think should be used to discount over time the (expected) benefits and (expected) costs of projects being proposed to mitigate the possible effects of global climate change?” ...
Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse
... and the statistical approach used is often an important source of uncertainty (Pearson et al., 2006). We selected MAXENT because it has several characteristics that make it particularly suitable for our study. These include a deterministic algorithm, the ability to use presence-only distribution dat ...
... and the statistical approach used is often an important source of uncertainty (Pearson et al., 2006). We selected MAXENT because it has several characteristics that make it particularly suitable for our study. These include a deterministic algorithm, the ability to use presence-only distribution dat ...
Apocalyptic Rhetoric 1NC
... much greater than humanity (let alone individual human efforts), that there seems little hope for intervention. However, some scholars argue that apocalyptic discourse is inherently ambivalent, offering the possibility to inspire human agency even within a ruinous scenario (O’Leary, 1993). Fatalisti ...
... much greater than humanity (let alone individual human efforts), that there seems little hope for intervention. However, some scholars argue that apocalyptic discourse is inherently ambivalent, offering the possibility to inspire human agency even within a ruinous scenario (O’Leary, 1993). Fatalisti ...
Making Marine Zoning Climate-Change Adaptable Robin Kundis Craig
... overlapping and sometimes contradictory zones in the Gulf of Maine that reflect the different authorities of government agencies. These include a National Marine Sanctuary established under federal law (the dark pink hatched area in Figure 2); Northern right whale critical habitat areas established ...
... overlapping and sometimes contradictory zones in the Gulf of Maine that reflect the different authorities of government agencies. These include a National Marine Sanctuary established under federal law (the dark pink hatched area in Figure 2); Northern right whale critical habitat areas established ...
5. integrated impacts on coastal areas and river flooding
... importance of climate versus socio-economic changes. In each case, standard impact models are used to evaluate the impacts of a Low and a High climate change scenario. These include spontaneous responses to climate change (such as saltmarsh accretion, or changing farmer behaviour), but exclude plann ...
... importance of climate versus socio-economic changes. In each case, standard impact models are used to evaluate the impacts of a Low and a High climate change scenario. These include spontaneous responses to climate change (such as saltmarsh accretion, or changing farmer behaviour), but exclude plann ...
Making Paris Work for Vulnerable Populations
... Climate risks endanger sustainable development, threaten the fulfilment of human rights, and push back or lock people into the poverty trap. Climate risks lead to non-economic and economic loss and damage, and this includes fatalities. Poor people are disproportionally affected: according to the ins ...
... Climate risks endanger sustainable development, threaten the fulfilment of human rights, and push back or lock people into the poverty trap. Climate risks lead to non-economic and economic loss and damage, and this includes fatalities. Poor people are disproportionally affected: according to the ins ...
Impacts of climate change at high latitudes on terrestrial plants and
... pollutants such as Noxs have increased as a result of human activities and they are still increasing. As global temperature and concentrations of atmospheric CO^ and methane have been positively correlated for some 180 000 years (Watson et al. 1990), it is likely that global temperatures will increa ...
... pollutants such as Noxs have increased as a result of human activities and they are still increasing. As global temperature and concentrations of atmospheric CO^ and methane have been positively correlated for some 180 000 years (Watson et al. 1990), it is likely that global temperatures will increa ...
Planning for an Uncertain Future: Climate Change Sensitivity
... recognized the need to understand better the range of potential impacts of climate change or variability with regard to runoff timing, volume, and severe drought in their specific water supply basins. This paper describes the investigation of these potential impacts by a collaborative effort among u ...
... recognized the need to understand better the range of potential impacts of climate change or variability with regard to runoff timing, volume, and severe drought in their specific water supply basins. This paper describes the investigation of these potential impacts by a collaborative effort among u ...
WaterfoWl and WetlandS amid Climate Change
... The predicted and observed impacts of global climate change have received wide media attention in recent years. Scientists predict that climate change will affect almost every aspect of our environment, including North America’s wetlands and waterfowl. Projections for the next 100 years indicate ext ...
... The predicted and observed impacts of global climate change have received wide media attention in recent years. Scientists predict that climate change will affect almost every aspect of our environment, including North America’s wetlands and waterfowl. Projections for the next 100 years indicate ext ...
The PAGE09 Integrated Assessment Model: A Technical Description
... model abatement costs. Cost parameters in all regions except the focus region differ from the values for the focus region by a regional multiplier. This approach is clearly inferior in its form to recent continuous abatement cost curves generated by McKinsey, 2007, Bllomberg, 2010, Rose and Wei, ...
... model abatement costs. Cost parameters in all regions except the focus region differ from the values for the focus region by a regional multiplier. This approach is clearly inferior in its form to recent continuous abatement cost curves generated by McKinsey, 2007, Bllomberg, 2010, Rose and Wei, ...
North America
... • Awareness that developing adaptation responses requires a long, interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers and stakeholders, with substantial changes in institutions and infrastructure. • Recognition that adaptation strategies generally address current challenges, rather than future impacts an ...
... • Awareness that developing adaptation responses requires a long, interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers and stakeholders, with substantial changes in institutions and infrastructure. • Recognition that adaptation strategies generally address current challenges, rather than future impacts an ...
PwC Survey on Sustainable Development in Latin America
... growth while reducing the considerable risks of climate change” . It is within this context that the private sector has become a key player, both by the impact of its activities and because of its potential contribution to sustainable development. It is also extremely relevant when it comes to consi ...
... growth while reducing the considerable risks of climate change” . It is within this context that the private sector has become a key player, both by the impact of its activities and because of its potential contribution to sustainable development. It is also extremely relevant when it comes to consi ...
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... Food security will be linked to adaptation, but it is broader than household adaptation since it depends on the policies in place and the institutional environment. In developing countries in particular, adaptation is a means towards attaining a food security objective. Once prioritized according to ...
... Food security will be linked to adaptation, but it is broader than household adaptation since it depends on the policies in place and the institutional environment. In developing countries in particular, adaptation is a means towards attaining a food security objective. Once prioritized according to ...
Goal of Research
... Southern elephant seals are one of the top predators in the southern ocean. They spend most of their lives at sea but are tied to land for reproduction and for the annual molt. Elephant seals demonstrate high site fidelity with most seals returning to the same rookery every year and sometimes even t ...
... Southern elephant seals are one of the top predators in the southern ocean. They spend most of their lives at sea but are tied to land for reproduction and for the annual molt. Elephant seals demonstrate high site fidelity with most seals returning to the same rookery every year and sometimes even t ...
ADB-40253-012_Final
... Table 2. Projected changes in maximum temperature and their ranges (°C) for Koh Kong Province by 2025 relative to 1990 for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 based upon 20 year averages. FIMS: First Intermonsoon Season, SWMS: Southwest Monsoon Season, SIMS: Second Intermonsoon Season and NEMS: Northeast Monsoon Se ...
... Table 2. Projected changes in maximum temperature and their ranges (°C) for Koh Kong Province by 2025 relative to 1990 for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 based upon 20 year averages. FIMS: First Intermonsoon Season, SWMS: Southwest Monsoon Season, SIMS: Second Intermonsoon Season and NEMS: Northeast Monsoon Se ...
Present and future responses of growing degree days for
... of GDD is useful for achieving a better understanding of the flowering season development in several plant species, and for forecasting when flowering will occur (Paparrizos and Matzarakis, 2017). Temperature and GDD represent two important spatially-dynamic climatic variables, as they both play vit ...
... of GDD is useful for achieving a better understanding of the flowering season development in several plant species, and for forecasting when flowering will occur (Paparrizos and Matzarakis, 2017). Temperature and GDD represent two important spatially-dynamic climatic variables, as they both play vit ...
Public
... per year by 2030, of which half could be required by developing countries (Smith et al., 2007; Grainger-Jones, 2011, p. 6; FAO, 2010). This estimate is likely conservative; the cost of adaptation in the agricultural sector could in fact be two to three times greater (Grainger-Jones, 2011). • F or ...
... per year by 2030, of which half could be required by developing countries (Smith et al., 2007; Grainger-Jones, 2011, p. 6; FAO, 2010). This estimate is likely conservative; the cost of adaptation in the agricultural sector could in fact be two to three times greater (Grainger-Jones, 2011). • F or ...