Promoting Climate Resilient Infrastructure in
... Since the adoption of market-oriented reforms almost two decades ago, and the opening of the economy to international trade, Vietnam has taken great strides to overcoming economic and human poverty. It is now well on its way to achieving middle-income status. The national poverty rate declined from ...
... Since the adoption of market-oriented reforms almost two decades ago, and the opening of the economy to international trade, Vietnam has taken great strides to overcoming economic and human poverty. It is now well on its way to achieving middle-income status. The national poverty rate declined from ...
State of Climate Change Science in the Great Lakes Basin
... • The consideration of impacts of climate change on the local scale, including micro-climate niches is limited. • Research is limited on the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems. • Monitoring of species and community-level changes is necessary to refine hybrid models, which could lead ...
... • The consideration of impacts of climate change on the local scale, including micro-climate niches is limited. • Research is limited on the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems. • Monitoring of species and community-level changes is necessary to refine hybrid models, which could lead ...
Climate Projections for Metro Vancouver
... scenario. Substantial and sustained reductions in GHG emissions—for example, extensive adoption of biofuels and vegetarianism, along with carbon capture and storage—would be required to achieve RCP2.6, which is the only pathway that would keep ...
... scenario. Substantial and sustained reductions in GHG emissions—for example, extensive adoption of biofuels and vegetarianism, along with carbon capture and storage—would be required to achieve RCP2.6, which is the only pathway that would keep ...
Does extreme precipitation intensity depend on the emissions
... heat flux, a fundamental constraint governing its change [e.g., Pendergrass and Hartmann, 2014b]. The change in atmospheric radiative cooling, and thus global-mean precipitation, per degree warming for any component of the forcing in isolation (GHG or aerosols) is similar across emissions scenarios. ...
... heat flux, a fundamental constraint governing its change [e.g., Pendergrass and Hartmann, 2014b]. The change in atmospheric radiative cooling, and thus global-mean precipitation, per degree warming for any component of the forcing in isolation (GHG or aerosols) is similar across emissions scenarios. ...
Effect of Erosion in Alaskan Coastal Villages
... on which the village lies is threatened by rising sea levels and coastal erosion. As of 2013, it is predicted that the island will be inundated by 2025(“Kivalina, Alaska,” n.d.). Kivalina has not historically seen significant erosion. The Kivalina spit has seen cyclic erosion and accretion, with mod ...
... on which the village lies is threatened by rising sea levels and coastal erosion. As of 2013, it is predicted that the island will be inundated by 2025(“Kivalina, Alaska,” n.d.). Kivalina has not historically seen significant erosion. The Kivalina spit has seen cyclic erosion and accretion, with mod ...
Past and future influence of climate change on spatially
... In the past analysis, raster data of 0.5° spatial resolution, which were interpolated from 2472 meteorological stations nationwide through thin plate spline (TPS) combining with 3D geospatial information by the National Climate Center of CMA, was applied to represent climate change, including annual ...
... In the past analysis, raster data of 0.5° spatial resolution, which were interpolated from 2472 meteorological stations nationwide through thin plate spline (TPS) combining with 3D geospatial information by the National Climate Center of CMA, was applied to represent climate change, including annual ...
PDF
... Adaptation refers to actions that make adjustments in natural or human systems in order to moderate potential damages from climate change or exploit beneficial opportunities. Burton (2004) argues adaptation is extremely common and as old as mankind but that it is largely to a stationary spatially or ...
... Adaptation refers to actions that make adjustments in natural or human systems in order to moderate potential damages from climate change or exploit beneficial opportunities. Burton (2004) argues adaptation is extremely common and as old as mankind but that it is largely to a stationary spatially or ...
Nunavut - Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
... Throughout these workshops, a number of recommendations, requests for more resources, increased communication and information dissemination were made. These concerns, along with current adaptive measures, are discussed further in the final section “Going Forward” which aims to define some of the way ...
... Throughout these workshops, a number of recommendations, requests for more resources, increased communication and information dissemination were made. These concerns, along with current adaptive measures, are discussed further in the final section “Going Forward” which aims to define some of the way ...
a proposal for a convention on climate change refugees
... Commissioner for Refugees (“UNHCR”), the central United Nations organ that deals with traditional refugees, reported that globally in 2006 there were fewer than ten million refugees as defined by the 1951 Refugee Convention.20 Regardless of the exact figure of those displaced by climate change, expe ...
... Commissioner for Refugees (“UNHCR”), the central United Nations organ that deals with traditional refugees, reported that globally in 2006 there were fewer than ten million refugees as defined by the 1951 Refugee Convention.20 Regardless of the exact figure of those displaced by climate change, expe ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Coffee Production in
... Several studies have determined Ethiopia to be especially prone to the impacts of climate change over the coming years. Deressa (2007) said Ethiopia will experience an increase in temperatures but a decrease in precipitation. This will strongly damage Ethiopia’s agriculture. Jaramillo et al. (2011) ...
... Several studies have determined Ethiopia to be especially prone to the impacts of climate change over the coming years. Deressa (2007) said Ethiopia will experience an increase in temperatures but a decrease in precipitation. This will strongly damage Ethiopia’s agriculture. Jaramillo et al. (2011) ...
ARTICLES CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
... reducing the apparent need for mitigation; and playing down the urgency for action. For one, ‘adaptationists’ were distrusted because their proposals seemed to undermine the 6 A premise of this Article is that the climate system is changing at anomalously rapid rates compared to historical trends, a ...
... reducing the apparent need for mitigation; and playing down the urgency for action. For one, ‘adaptationists’ were distrusted because their proposals seemed to undermine the 6 A premise of this Article is that the climate system is changing at anomalously rapid rates compared to historical trends, a ...
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan Climate Change in the
... The general change of glacier extend is different in the Karakoram compared to observations for the majority of glaciers on the globe. While, in the rest of the world, glaciers are retreating dramatically (Lemke et al. 2007), a large number of glaciers in the Karakoram central ridge are stable or ev ...
... The general change of glacier extend is different in the Karakoram compared to observations for the majority of glaciers on the globe. While, in the rest of the world, glaciers are retreating dramatically (Lemke et al. 2007), a large number of glaciers in the Karakoram central ridge are stable or ev ...
Capacity Building Approach (Draft Version)
... O&M trainings for each pilot project and development of O&M plans (integration of these plans into part 2 of the LAMG) Data collection for the M&E framework (overall + pilots) Replication process documentation for pilot projects Completion of planning integration and assistance strategy (e.g ...
... O&M trainings for each pilot project and development of O&M plans (integration of these plans into part 2 of the LAMG) Data collection for the M&E framework (overall + pilots) Replication process documentation for pilot projects Completion of planning integration and assistance strategy (e.g ...
PDF
... uncertainties in the livelihoods of communities having higher dependence on weather and climate (AlHassan and Poulton, 2009; Athula and Scarborough, 2011). It is becoming a threat towards world community through increasing temperatures, reduced precipitation, frequent droughts and scarcity of water ...
... uncertainties in the livelihoods of communities having higher dependence on weather and climate (AlHassan and Poulton, 2009; Athula and Scarborough, 2011). It is becoming a threat towards world community through increasing temperatures, reduced precipitation, frequent droughts and scarcity of water ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... become increasingly significant with global temperature rise of more than 2°C, and in the worst cases to reach somewhere in the region of 25% (maize) and 75% (rice) respectively with global temperature rise of around 4-5°C.Biophysical limits on the extent to which such tolerance thresholds can be ra ...
... become increasingly significant with global temperature rise of more than 2°C, and in the worst cases to reach somewhere in the region of 25% (maize) and 75% (rice) respectively with global temperature rise of around 4-5°C.Biophysical limits on the extent to which such tolerance thresholds can be ra ...
Effects of decreasing acid deposition and climate change on acid
... of alkalinity data, and combined these with long-term chemical simulations generated using the MAGIC model. A previous study at the Afon Gwy, Wales (Robson et al., 1991; Neal et al., 1992) applied MAGIC in a two-layer mode, with the two layers representing chemical end-members of shallow soil throug ...
... of alkalinity data, and combined these with long-term chemical simulations generated using the MAGIC model. A previous study at the Afon Gwy, Wales (Robson et al., 1991; Neal et al., 1992) applied MAGIC in a two-layer mode, with the two layers representing chemical end-members of shallow soil throug ...
OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050
... National action to mitigate climate change ............................................................................................24 National action to adapt to climate change.............................................................................................38 Getting the policy mix r ...
... National action to mitigate climate change ............................................................................................24 National action to adapt to climate change.............................................................................................38 Getting the policy mix r ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... become increasingly significant with global temperature rise of more than 2°C, and in the worst cases to reach somewhere in the region of 25% (maize) and 75% (rice) respectively with global temperature rise of around 4-5°C.Biophysical limits on the extent to which such tolerance thresholds can be ra ...
... become increasingly significant with global temperature rise of more than 2°C, and in the worst cases to reach somewhere in the region of 25% (maize) and 75% (rice) respectively with global temperature rise of around 4-5°C.Biophysical limits on the extent to which such tolerance thresholds can be ra ...
PDF
... understanding of the characteristics of “vulnerability” in fisheries and aquaculture systems, as well as in a range of other contexts (Barsley, De Young and Brugère, 2013). The IPCC definition of vulnerability – decomposed as a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity – tends to be us ...
... understanding of the characteristics of “vulnerability” in fisheries and aquaculture systems, as well as in a range of other contexts (Barsley, De Young and Brugère, 2013). The IPCC definition of vulnerability – decomposed as a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity – tends to be us ...
Coastal Ecosystems Responses to Climate Change
... Climate change in the Australian coastal zone All major components of the Australian coastal climate (terrestrial, marine and sea level) have changed over the last century and are projected to change over the next century under the current projected climate change scenarios. These changes vary regio ...
... Climate change in the Australian coastal zone All major components of the Australian coastal climate (terrestrial, marine and sea level) have changed over the last century and are projected to change over the next century under the current projected climate change scenarios. These changes vary regio ...
Has the grand idea of geoengineering as Plan B
... being described as having great potential or as a necessary emergency option if climate tipping points are crossed leading to abrupt, nonlinear and irreversible climate change, or as ‘Plan B’ as an alternative if mitigation fails (e.g. Harnisch et al, 2015; Horton 2015; Huttunen et al 2014; Loukkan ...
... being described as having great potential or as a necessary emergency option if climate tipping points are crossed leading to abrupt, nonlinear and irreversible climate change, or as ‘Plan B’ as an alternative if mitigation fails (e.g. Harnisch et al, 2015; Horton 2015; Huttunen et al 2014; Loukkan ...
Kerala State Action Plan on Climate Change
... activities and programmes that will take into account state level variations, geographical specificities and socioeconomic considerations. ...
... activities and programmes that will take into account state level variations, geographical specificities and socioeconomic considerations. ...