Going beyond aid effectiveness to guide the delivery of climate finance
... moving towards a position of legislating its national commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI annually on aid. In contrast, there have been strong, early calls within the UNFCCC negotiations to make climate finance transfers mandatory within a legally binding global agreement. The outcome of such an agreeme ...
... moving towards a position of legislating its national commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI annually on aid. In contrast, there have been strong, early calls within the UNFCCC negotiations to make climate finance transfers mandatory within a legally binding global agreement. The outcome of such an agreeme ...
Environmental Variability and Climate Change
... search for answers will only be successful when we have developed insight into the full range of natural variability of the climate system.That range is illustrated by the events of the past, and it is only by unravelling those events that we will be able to predict the future, and our place in it, ...
... search for answers will only be successful when we have developed insight into the full range of natural variability of the climate system.That range is illustrated by the events of the past, and it is only by unravelling those events that we will be able to predict the future, and our place in it, ...
Nine Facts About Climate Change
... promises they made in 1997. But more importantly, India and China, two nations which are industrialising at historically unprecedented growth rates, and which are seen as emerging world powers, have made it clear that they will increase energy production without restraint to meet the demands of a mo ...
... promises they made in 1997. But more importantly, India and China, two nations which are industrialising at historically unprecedented growth rates, and which are seen as emerging world powers, have made it clear that they will increase energy production without restraint to meet the demands of a mo ...
SAP Highlevel presentation
... Flip-side: Ozone layer change issue has influences on climate change • Most ozone-depleting substances are also potent greenhouse gases. • MP avoided their build up and is reducing their abundance; thus, it helped reduce climate forcing. Warming emissions avoided by Ozone-Layer agreement (Montreal ...
... Flip-side: Ozone layer change issue has influences on climate change • Most ozone-depleting substances are also potent greenhouse gases. • MP avoided their build up and is reducing their abundance; thus, it helped reduce climate forcing. Warming emissions avoided by Ozone-Layer agreement (Montreal ...
EPA WasteWise Endorser
... Climate Change—The Basics At one time, all climate changes occurred naturally. During the Industrial Revolution, however, humans began altering the climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. These activities have changed the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere ...
... Climate Change—The Basics At one time, all climate changes occurred naturally. During the Industrial Revolution, however, humans began altering the climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. These activities have changed the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere ...
Toward Integrated Historical Climate Research
... Although the current availability of digital climate data (particularly daily series, which enable extremes to be assessed) is often restricted to the second half of the 20th century over many parts of the world, there have emerged in recent years a number of integrated climate initiatives that buil ...
... Although the current availability of digital climate data (particularly daily series, which enable extremes to be assessed) is often restricted to the second half of the 20th century over many parts of the world, there have emerged in recent years a number of integrated climate initiatives that buil ...
Policy Brief Series - IOM Online Bookstore
... mobility articulated by the least developed countries. While AOSIS and the G-77 had previously not officially considered the proposal, the latter is now spearheading a drive for its reinclusion in Paris negotiations. Many countries, including Mauritius, have much to gain if the international communi ...
... mobility articulated by the least developed countries. While AOSIS and the G-77 had previously not officially considered the proposal, the latter is now spearheading a drive for its reinclusion in Paris negotiations. Many countries, including Mauritius, have much to gain if the international communi ...
... vision of future climate change is wrong. Evaporation rate increases, which are a primary cause of projected increases in drought frequency, are minimized with nighttime, as opposed to daytime, warming. The growing season is also longer because that period is primarily determined by night low temper ...
Equivalence and Issue Framing Effects
... costs of addressing or mitigating its effects, or (3) as a scientific issue in which various experts offered their opinions or critiqued those of other experts. After identifying the dominant frames, an experimental design was conducted to determine the effect which exposure to these frames has on i ...
... costs of addressing or mitigating its effects, or (3) as a scientific issue in which various experts offered their opinions or critiqued those of other experts. After identifying the dominant frames, an experimental design was conducted to determine the effect which exposure to these frames has on i ...
MATCH - Status of research
... • The share of emissions of short-lived / long-lived gases. • Choosing the right indicator is ultimately a policy choice that also depends on the purpose of use of the results. • Temperate increase: use evaluation date after the attribution end ...
... • The share of emissions of short-lived / long-lived gases. • Choosing the right indicator is ultimately a policy choice that also depends on the purpose of use of the results. • Temperate increase: use evaluation date after the attribution end ...
Climate impacts on the health of remote northern Australian
... Climate change has already directly and indirectly impacted the health and well-being of thousands of people across Australia. However, these impacts are not spread equally across our society: vulnerability depends on a number of factors including the degree of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive cap ...
... Climate change has already directly and indirectly impacted the health and well-being of thousands of people across Australia. However, these impacts are not spread equally across our society: vulnerability depends on a number of factors including the degree of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive cap ...
Handbook on the OECD-DAC Climate Markers
... management of natural resources. For example, a sustainable forest management project can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertifica ...
... management of natural resources. For example, a sustainable forest management project can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertifica ...
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown
... of heat in these and other ocean basins (including the tropical Pacific) remains poorly constrained by measurements. Other positive outcomes of this slowdown research include better understanding of the influence of uncertainty in ocean SSTs on decadal timescale GMST trends4, and of the role of deca ...
... of heat in these and other ocean basins (including the tropical Pacific) remains poorly constrained by measurements. Other positive outcomes of this slowdown research include better understanding of the influence of uncertainty in ocean SSTs on decadal timescale GMST trends4, and of the role of deca ...
The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change
... The year 1988 is the point at which climate change and global warming emerged as a major political issue throughout the industrial countries. In the United States, Sen. Timothy Wirth (D-Colorado) had been deeply exasperated by his inability to draw public attention to the subject. When summer arriv ...
... The year 1988 is the point at which climate change and global warming emerged as a major political issue throughout the industrial countries. In the United States, Sen. Timothy Wirth (D-Colorado) had been deeply exasperated by his inability to draw public attention to the subject. When summer arriv ...
Text - Reading`s CentAUR
... for impacts of climate change, we have also calculated the change in difference between precipitation and evaporation over land (Figures 2g and 2h). This picture is more complex, and the changes are statistically significant over relatively few areas. Nevertheless, in some regions, the changes are sm ...
... for impacts of climate change, we have also calculated the change in difference between precipitation and evaporation over land (Figures 2g and 2h). This picture is more complex, and the changes are statistically significant over relatively few areas. Nevertheless, in some regions, the changes are sm ...
Chapter 10. Climate Change and California`s Water Challenges
... will decrease in subtropical and lower mid latitude areas. As a consequence of the change in precipitation, by the middle of the 21st century, annual average river runoff and freshwater availability are projected to increase at higher latitudes and decrease at subtropical and mid latitudes. Althoug ...
... will decrease in subtropical and lower mid latitude areas. As a consequence of the change in precipitation, by the middle of the 21st century, annual average river runoff and freshwater availability are projected to increase at higher latitudes and decrease at subtropical and mid latitudes. Althoug ...
AIG`s Policy and Programs on Environment and Climate Change
... Over the next eighteen to twenty-four months, AIG Global Investment Group will allocate additional private equity investments to projects, technologies or other assets that contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation. This allocation will add to investments that have already been made in ...
... Over the next eighteen to twenty-four months, AIG Global Investment Group will allocate additional private equity investments to projects, technologies or other assets that contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation. This allocation will add to investments that have already been made in ...
Biodiversity and Climate Change - European Commission
... Establishing Natura 2000 - a ‘nature infrastructure’ – is crucial, but resilience and adaptation will also require actions outside the Natura 2000 network to enhance connectivity and coherence, including through habitat restoration and creation (‘re-wilding’) - facilitating the movement and dispersa ...
... Establishing Natura 2000 - a ‘nature infrastructure’ – is crucial, but resilience and adaptation will also require actions outside the Natura 2000 network to enhance connectivity and coherence, including through habitat restoration and creation (‘re-wilding’) - facilitating the movement and dispersa ...
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... participated in the 2001 Caribbean Planning for Adaptation on Climate Change Project (CPACCP), established to improve capacity building for adaptation across the region. This was followed by The Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean (ACCC) Project, which ran between 2001 and 2004 and aimed t ...
... participated in the 2001 Caribbean Planning for Adaptation on Climate Change Project (CPACCP), established to improve capacity building for adaptation across the region. This was followed by The Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean (ACCC) Project, which ran between 2001 and 2004 and aimed t ...
Article The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish
... media attention was calculated by information space dedicated rather than by the number of pieces of information. Five extension categories of information were established, and a numerical value was adjudicated to each of them, from high to low (see Table 1). A content analysis [52, 53] was applied ...
... media attention was calculated by information space dedicated rather than by the number of pieces of information. Five extension categories of information were established, and a numerical value was adjudicated to each of them, from high to low (see Table 1). A content analysis [52, 53] was applied ...
