IMPACT OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON COFFEE PRODUCTION
... In recent years, a number of studies conducted in Tanzania have documented that climate change and variability is having a significant impact on agriculture production. According to NAPA (2006), agriculture has been identified to be the second most vulnerable sector to the impacts of climate change, ...
... In recent years, a number of studies conducted in Tanzania have documented that climate change and variability is having a significant impact on agriculture production. According to NAPA (2006), agriculture has been identified to be the second most vulnerable sector to the impacts of climate change, ...
Climate Change Science - Stephen Schneider
... Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are ex ...
... Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are ex ...
Jessica Ayers - Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and
... the impacts of climate change is a priority. “Adaptation” has therefore emerged as a key policy response to climate change under the global framework for managing climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). However, providing support for adaptation under a glo ...
... the impacts of climate change is a priority. “Adaptation” has therefore emerged as a key policy response to climate change under the global framework for managing climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). However, providing support for adaptation under a glo ...
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
... Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are ex ...
... Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are ex ...
Regional Natural Resource Management Strategy for the Avon
... When asked what would make them not want to stay in the region, many community members felt that the absence of suitable work, medical care, schools and affordable housing would do it. “Withdrawal of services impacts on people’s ability to live in the community longterm”. For some of the farmers in ...
... When asked what would make them not want to stay in the region, many community members felt that the absence of suitable work, medical care, schools and affordable housing would do it. “Withdrawal of services impacts on people’s ability to live in the community longterm”. For some of the farmers in ...
List of maps and graphs
... Simulated time series (1860–2100) of land average maximum number of consecutive dry days for different European regions. ...
... Simulated time series (1860–2100) of land average maximum number of consecutive dry days for different European regions. ...
Climate change implications for New Zealand
... Learn more.............................................................................................................................................................22 Key risks for New Zealand......................................................................................................... ...
... Learn more.............................................................................................................................................................22 Key risks for New Zealand......................................................................................................... ...
Protecting People Displaced by Weather
... legal framework for those people who will be forced to move across international borders as a result of extreme weather, sea level rise, and other climate change-related effects, and who do not fall into the current definition of refugees under international law. 2 For instance, a major concern is t ...
... legal framework for those people who will be forced to move across international borders as a result of extreme weather, sea level rise, and other climate change-related effects, and who do not fall into the current definition of refugees under international law. 2 For instance, a major concern is t ...
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... growth of CO2 emissions needs to be halted and eventually reversed during the 21st century in order to avoid potentially catastrophic effects from global climate change. The recent much-publicized Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change notes that climate stabilization at an atmospheric conc ...
... growth of CO2 emissions needs to be halted and eventually reversed during the 21st century in order to avoid potentially catastrophic effects from global climate change. The recent much-publicized Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change notes that climate stabilization at an atmospheric conc ...
lights out for the reef
... speckled with green jewels, stretching far into the horizon. Coral cays stud crystal clear waters dusted with fringing reefs and sandy beaches. Under water, the reef teams with life. Reef fish dart through bright coral canyons. Coming face-to face with this underwater rainforest leaves one with a li ...
... speckled with green jewels, stretching far into the horizon. Coral cays stud crystal clear waters dusted with fringing reefs and sandy beaches. Under water, the reef teams with life. Reef fish dart through bright coral canyons. Coming face-to face with this underwater rainforest leaves one with a li ...
Effects of Climate Warming, North Atlantic Oscillation, and
... various species and groups, as is documented for cladocerans, copepods, and rotifers in European lakes. Furthermore, thermophile species reached higher abundance in warmer years. Obviously, the nature of responses is species specific, and depends on the detailed seasonal patterning of warming. Compl ...
... various species and groups, as is documented for cladocerans, copepods, and rotifers in European lakes. Furthermore, thermophile species reached higher abundance in warmer years. Obviously, the nature of responses is species specific, and depends on the detailed seasonal patterning of warming. Compl ...
Conference Proceeding
... livelihoods. It will continue to affect livelihoods in these basins adversely by altering water resources, impacting farm and non-farm sectors, health, and tourism finally leading to societal unrest. It is expected to remain a complex phenomenon impacting livelihoods and triggering the need for adap ...
... livelihoods. It will continue to affect livelihoods in these basins adversely by altering water resources, impacting farm and non-farm sectors, health, and tourism finally leading to societal unrest. It is expected to remain a complex phenomenon impacting livelihoods and triggering the need for adap ...
Regional temperature and precipitation changes under high
... Programme for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI; http:// www-pcmdi.llnl.gov). The models use many different horizontal grids; to facilitate comparison and analysis, all model results were transformed to the same horizontal resolution (1.875◦ longitude by 1.25◦ latitude) as the HadGE ...
... Programme for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI; http:// www-pcmdi.llnl.gov). The models use many different horizontal grids; to facilitate comparison and analysis, all model results were transformed to the same horizontal resolution (1.875◦ longitude by 1.25◦ latitude) as the HadGE ...
Ethical Anxieties About Geoengineering
... By far the preferred way to resolve the policy makers‘ dilemma is to lower the emissions of the greenhouse gases. However, so far, attempts in that direction have been grossly unsuccessful.2 The essential starting point for any consideration of the ethics of geoengineering is the failure of the worl ...
... By far the preferred way to resolve the policy makers‘ dilemma is to lower the emissions of the greenhouse gases. However, so far, attempts in that direction have been grossly unsuccessful.2 The essential starting point for any consideration of the ethics of geoengineering is the failure of the worl ...
Business Responses to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A
... Carbon Disclosure Project 2011, instigated by 551 institutional investors with assets of US $71 trillion, CDP sent the more than 6,100 questionnaires to the world’s largest corporations requesting information on GHG emissions. There were 3,375 corporations in some 60 countries from mostly developed ...
... Carbon Disclosure Project 2011, instigated by 551 institutional investors with assets of US $71 trillion, CDP sent the more than 6,100 questionnaires to the world’s largest corporations requesting information on GHG emissions. There were 3,375 corporations in some 60 countries from mostly developed ...
Political Economy of Climate Change Policy
... Given the scale of emission reductions the world needs to achieve to keep global warming in check, it is important for policymakers and academics to focus on how future emission reductions will be brought about. However, this is a public goods problem, so voluntary reductions are unli ...
... Given the scale of emission reductions the world needs to achieve to keep global warming in check, it is important for policymakers and academics to focus on how future emission reductions will be brought about. However, this is a public goods problem, so voluntary reductions are unli ...
Systems thinking methodology in researching the impacts of climate
... climate change and livestock industry is not only the effects of changing climate on animal production (e.g. lost live weight, heat stress or compromise reproduction ability), or how livestock sector contributes to climate change in terms of greenhouse gases emission. It is also related to other sec ...
... climate change and livestock industry is not only the effects of changing climate on animal production (e.g. lost live weight, heat stress or compromise reproduction ability), or how livestock sector contributes to climate change in terms of greenhouse gases emission. It is also related to other sec ...
THE COST OF DELAYING ACTION TO STEM CLIMATE CHANGE
... the oceans (USGCRP 2014). Beyond the sorts of gradual changes we have already experienced, global warming raises additional threats of large-scale changes, either changes to the global climate system, such as the disappearance of late-summer Arctic sea ice and the melting of large glacial ice sheets ...
... the oceans (USGCRP 2014). Beyond the sorts of gradual changes we have already experienced, global warming raises additional threats of large-scale changes, either changes to the global climate system, such as the disappearance of late-summer Arctic sea ice and the melting of large glacial ice sheets ...
Using the IPCC`s Assessment Report data and climate change
... • Given that MEDCs have passed through their industrial phase of development without regard for the environment is it now their duty to assist NICs/LEDCs or by dictating terms in global agreements is this some form of climate-colonialism? • Scale of response • Difficulty of getting politicians on bo ...
... • Given that MEDCs have passed through their industrial phase of development without regard for the environment is it now their duty to assist NICs/LEDCs or by dictating terms in global agreements is this some form of climate-colonialism? • Scale of response • Difficulty of getting politicians on bo ...
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... cope with the negative consequences of climate change. The policy focus is now gradually moving from mitigation only to mitigation and adaptation (Carraro and Sgobbi, 2008), as highlighted also by many recent international and national initiatives, such as for example the European White Paper on cli ...
... cope with the negative consequences of climate change. The policy focus is now gradually moving from mitigation only to mitigation and adaptation (Carraro and Sgobbi, 2008), as highlighted also by many recent international and national initiatives, such as for example the European White Paper on cli ...
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... modelled for the mild, moderate, and severe climate change scenarios as explained in the introduction and shown in Table 1. The modelled changes in inflows influence water availability in the two states in our analysis (Victoria and South Australia) differently as a result of dam water storage sharing ...
... modelled for the mild, moderate, and severe climate change scenarios as explained in the introduction and shown in Table 1. The modelled changes in inflows influence water availability in the two states in our analysis (Victoria and South Australia) differently as a result of dam water storage sharing ...
The impact of climate change on rainfall runoff statistics in the
... more frequent, it is not yet clear whether an increase is to be expected for all rainfall and runoff related features. In addition to a former study concerning extreme rainfall statistics, in this paper the rainfall patterns of dry and wet spells are analysed. On the runoff side the trends for vario ...
... more frequent, it is not yet clear whether an increase is to be expected for all rainfall and runoff related features. In addition to a former study concerning extreme rainfall statistics, in this paper the rainfall patterns of dry and wet spells are analysed. On the runoff side the trends for vario ...
Introduction: How Can Behavior Analysts Help Save the Planet
... and those who practice it can and must do much more (Geller, this issue; Heward & Chance, 2010). None of the applications of behavior principles to increase this or that environmentally friendly behavior published to date is the answer to the complex problems posed by climate change. Much research i ...
... and those who practice it can and must do much more (Geller, this issue; Heward & Chance, 2010). None of the applications of behavior principles to increase this or that environmentally friendly behavior published to date is the answer to the complex problems posed by climate change. Much research i ...