Polisdigitocracy
... Cities are increasingly taking a leading role in delivering climate action. The Climate Action in Megacities 3.01 (CAM 3.0) report shows that since 2011 C40 cities have taken 9,831 actions to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change. In 2015, 51% of these actions are occurring on a city wide sca ...
... Cities are increasingly taking a leading role in delivering climate action. The Climate Action in Megacities 3.01 (CAM 3.0) report shows that since 2011 C40 cities have taken 9,831 actions to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change. In 2015, 51% of these actions are occurring on a city wide sca ...
English
... sustainable development and viable food production goals for all Pacific island countries, while threatening the very existence of many of them. Ocean warming and acidification, spatial changes in precipitation patterns and frequent cyclones are projected to have devastating effects on the food sect ...
... sustainable development and viable food production goals for all Pacific island countries, while threatening the very existence of many of them. Ocean warming and acidification, spatial changes in precipitation patterns and frequent cyclones are projected to have devastating effects on the food sect ...
Original scientific paper TEMPERATURE ALTITUDE
... mean annual global temperature stagnates till the end of 20th century, which does not correspond with climate models. Some investigations indicate that the cause of global temperature increase is not exclusively the consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse effects, but that it is caused by natural fa ...
... mean annual global temperature stagnates till the end of 20th century, which does not correspond with climate models. Some investigations indicate that the cause of global temperature increase is not exclusively the consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse effects, but that it is caused by natural fa ...
Annex I Annex D in the Convention
... In the review of new POPs regional differences in climate change as observed and projected by IPCC should be taken into account. Climate change is predicted by the UNEP/AMAP expert group (2011) to increase the transport of POPs to the Arctic and other remote regions. Climate change is also predicted ...
... In the review of new POPs regional differences in climate change as observed and projected by IPCC should be taken into account. Climate change is predicted by the UNEP/AMAP expert group (2011) to increase the transport of POPs to the Arctic and other remote regions. Climate change is also predicted ...
Guide to Climate Change Convention
... While the world’s climate has always varied naturally, the vast majority of scientists now believe that rising concentrations of “greenhouse gases” in the earth’s atmosphere, resulting from economic and demographic growth over the last two centuries since the industrial revolution, are overriding th ...
... While the world’s climate has always varied naturally, the vast majority of scientists now believe that rising concentrations of “greenhouse gases” in the earth’s atmosphere, resulting from economic and demographic growth over the last two centuries since the industrial revolution, are overriding th ...
Subglobal Regulation of the Global Commons: The Case of Climate
... ("[flailing back to national-scale intervention... invites free riding, holdouts, and inefficient spending of limited resources—and thus structural regulatory failure.... At least from a theoretical viewpoint, inherently global problems demand concerted worldwide action"); Sean T. Fox, Responding to ...
... ("[flailing back to national-scale intervention... invites free riding, holdouts, and inefficient spending of limited resources—and thus structural regulatory failure.... At least from a theoretical viewpoint, inherently global problems demand concerted worldwide action"); Sean T. Fox, Responding to ...
How to engage with National Adaptation Plans Guidance for National Red Cross and
... certain conditions the climate will develop in particular way several decades to centuries in the future. In contrast to predictions, projections allow to vary influential factors – such as the global amount of greenhouse gas emissions – in order to understand how the future climate might develop un ...
... certain conditions the climate will develop in particular way several decades to centuries in the future. In contrast to predictions, projections allow to vary influential factors – such as the global amount of greenhouse gas emissions – in order to understand how the future climate might develop un ...
REPORTS A CLIMATIC DRIVER FOR ABRUPT MID-HOLOCENE VEGETATION D
... The period 5500–3000 cal. yr BP is characterized by geographically consistent changes in vegetation across southern New England, USA (Figs. 1 and 2). The hemlock decline is (a) abrupt at all sites, (b) proportional to its pre-decline abundance, and (c) apparently synchronous and chronologically cons ...
... The period 5500–3000 cal. yr BP is characterized by geographically consistent changes in vegetation across southern New England, USA (Figs. 1 and 2). The hemlock decline is (a) abrupt at all sites, (b) proportional to its pre-decline abundance, and (c) apparently synchronous and chronologically cons ...
Full Report - Focus on Energy
... In this EERD-supported project, we build upon the 2011 WICCI report by applying its downscaled 21 century climate projections for Wisconsin to three sets of analyses designed to assess and summarize the potential effects of climate change on Wisconsin’s species and landscapes: 1) Climate-analog anal ...
... In this EERD-supported project, we build upon the 2011 WICCI report by applying its downscaled 21 century climate projections for Wisconsin to three sets of analyses designed to assess and summarize the potential effects of climate change on Wisconsin’s species and landscapes: 1) Climate-analog anal ...
Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block
... mitigation efforts but rather because each state will adopt national measures that fit its own conception of a fair division of global greenhouse gases. At the same time, carbon leakage undercuts nonglobal efforts to reduce levels of greenhouse gases. Because there are no purely local benefits to cl ...
... mitigation efforts but rather because each state will adopt national measures that fit its own conception of a fair division of global greenhouse gases. At the same time, carbon leakage undercuts nonglobal efforts to reduce levels of greenhouse gases. Because there are no purely local benefits to cl ...
NSW State of the Environment 2015: 20 Coastal, estuarine and
... The overall condition of individual waterways is highly variable and generally reflects their level of resilience to change and the level of disturbance locally and across their catchments. Most coastal, estuarine, and marine systems in NSW have been modified to some extent, and they continue to com ...
... The overall condition of individual waterways is highly variable and generally reflects their level of resilience to change and the level of disturbance locally and across their catchments. Most coastal, estuarine, and marine systems in NSW have been modified to some extent, and they continue to com ...
Internal and forced climate variability during the last millennium: a
... Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands ...
... Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands ...
announced their support - EDF Voices: People on the Planet
... Statements on Trump’s Rollback of the Clean Power Plan & Other Clean Air Protections On March 28, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order that directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken a range of important public heath protections, including steps to revoke the Clean Power P ...
... Statements on Trump’s Rollback of the Clean Power Plan & Other Clean Air Protections On March 28, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order that directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken a range of important public heath protections, including steps to revoke the Clean Power P ...
Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts
... will often reduce evapotranspiration and its cooling effect and thereby causes a positive local feedback on warming (e.g. Seneviratne et al., 2010; Teuling et al., 2010; Mueller & Seneviratne, 2012; Peng et al., 2014). Regional assessments clearly indicate the relevance of climate extremes on the ca ...
... will often reduce evapotranspiration and its cooling effect and thereby causes a positive local feedback on warming (e.g. Seneviratne et al., 2010; Teuling et al., 2010; Mueller & Seneviratne, 2012; Peng et al., 2014). Regional assessments clearly indicate the relevance of climate extremes on the ca ...
Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I
... polar region: microbes, zooplankton, salps, Antarctic krill, fish, cephalopods, marine mammals, seabirds, and benthos. The general prognosis for ASO marine habitats is for an overall warming and freshening, strengthening of westerly winds, with a potential pole-ward movement of those winds and the f ...
... polar region: microbes, zooplankton, salps, Antarctic krill, fish, cephalopods, marine mammals, seabirds, and benthos. The general prognosis for ASO marine habitats is for an overall warming and freshening, strengthening of westerly winds, with a potential pole-ward movement of those winds and the f ...
Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press
... about global warming’s cause and effect’’, top administration officials communicated George W. Bush’s call ‘‘for a decade of research before the government commits to anything more than voluntary measures to stem carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions’’ (Pianin, 2002, p. A8). This statemen ...
... about global warming’s cause and effect’’, top administration officials communicated George W. Bush’s call ‘‘for a decade of research before the government commits to anything more than voluntary measures to stem carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions’’ (Pianin, 2002, p. A8). This statemen ...
SoG for Climate Applications
... basic requirements for observational data that apply to both GCOS and non-GCOS variables and stations alike (e.g., the need for data backups, and ongoing collaboration between observers and climate staff). Adherence to the GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles (Annex 1) is mandatory for GCOS or other s ...
... basic requirements for observational data that apply to both GCOS and non-GCOS variables and stations alike (e.g., the need for data backups, and ongoing collaboration between observers and climate staff). Adherence to the GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles (Annex 1) is mandatory for GCOS or other s ...
Climate change in Africa: a guidebook for journalists
... opportunities for African politicians, business leaders and communities to act in ways that bring benefits for all. It can create opportunities for new business models and innovations, new routes to sustainable development and new ways for ancient knowledge to have an impact at home and in the wider ...
... opportunities for African politicians, business leaders and communities to act in ways that bring benefits for all. It can create opportunities for new business models and innovations, new routes to sustainable development and new ways for ancient knowledge to have an impact at home and in the wider ...
IPCC 5: Synthesis - Summary
... decades and near zero emissions of CO2 and other long-lived GHGs by the end of the century. Implementing such reductions poses substantial technological, economic, social, and institutional challenges, which increase with delays in additional mitigation and if key technologies are not available. Lim ...
... decades and near zero emissions of CO2 and other long-lived GHGs by the end of the century. Implementing such reductions poses substantial technological, economic, social, and institutional challenges, which increase with delays in additional mitigation and if key technologies are not available. Lim ...
Climate change: impacts and adaptation for agriculture in Western
... Broadacre crop yields will be most affected by changes in rainfall, and particularly the timing of rainfall, despite increased CO2 improving plant water use efficiency. Consequently, yields are likely to decline in the drier eastern and northern areas and remain largely unchanged or increase in wett ...
... Broadacre crop yields will be most affected by changes in rainfall, and particularly the timing of rainfall, despite increased CO2 improving plant water use efficiency. Consequently, yields are likely to decline in the drier eastern and northern areas and remain largely unchanged or increase in wett ...
Extreme precipitation response to climate perturbations in an
... higher sea surface temperature and let the system equilibrate to radiative convective equilibrium, whereas Romps (2011) uses a higher CO2 concentration and a slab ocean model to obtain a future climate state. For the mid-latitudes, evidence of super-CC scaling is found in a case study of an idealize ...
... higher sea surface temperature and let the system equilibrate to radiative convective equilibrium, whereas Romps (2011) uses a higher CO2 concentration and a slab ocean model to obtain a future climate state. For the mid-latitudes, evidence of super-CC scaling is found in a case study of an idealize ...
The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering
... roofs of their buildings. At large enough a scale, such an undertaking could have a small but discernible effect on the earth’s climate.12 Moving up to the lower atmosphere, the leading idea is to increase “oceanic cloud albedo”—that is, to make clouds whiter and more reflective. This was first prop ...
... roofs of their buildings. At large enough a scale, such an undertaking could have a small but discernible effect on the earth’s climate.12 Moving up to the lower atmosphere, the leading idea is to increase “oceanic cloud albedo”—that is, to make clouds whiter and more reflective. This was first prop ...
CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES
... sea level and floods caused by storms could push huge quantities of seawater into the interior and threaten potable water resources. Salinity has been reckoned to harm agriculture in all coastal regions under five metres above sea level. (Isomäki 1996.) One-tenth of the rice cultivating lands in Sou ...
... sea level and floods caused by storms could push huge quantities of seawater into the interior and threaten potable water resources. Salinity has been reckoned to harm agriculture in all coastal regions under five metres above sea level. (Isomäki 1996.) One-tenth of the rice cultivating lands in Sou ...
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
... phenomenon may be small or large, and the understanding of it may be shared by a small or large group of people on a local, national, international or global level. The actors adhering to the discourse participate in various degrees to its production, reproduction and transformation through written ...
... phenomenon may be small or large, and the understanding of it may be shared by a small or large group of people on a local, national, international or global level. The actors adhering to the discourse participate in various degrees to its production, reproduction and transformation through written ...