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Implications of land use change in tropical northern Africa under
... partitioning is not given for the underlying hydrological, as this version includes a single-bucket approach. Therefore, all plant function types (PFTs) in one grid box can access the same soil water bucket at the same time, even though these tiles are physically located apart in the real world. The ...
... partitioning is not given for the underlying hydrological, as this version includes a single-bucket approach. Therefore, all plant function types (PFTs) in one grid box can access the same soil water bucket at the same time, even though these tiles are physically located apart in the real world. The ...
Chapter 9 Climate Research and Climate Politics in Germany
... climate precaution policy (Bundesregierung 1996).” At first, its creation marked a success for the Federal Ministry for the Environment(BMU) for two reasons: first, very few issues become promoted to this formal administrative level; second, the BMU managed to claim the presidency of the board. Toda ...
... climate precaution policy (Bundesregierung 1996).” At first, its creation marked a success for the Federal Ministry for the Environment(BMU) for two reasons: first, very few issues become promoted to this formal administrative level; second, the BMU managed to claim the presidency of the board. Toda ...
Coral Reef Monitoring for Climate Change Impact Assessment and
... extreme stresses from local land-based human activities, especially when these activities are combined with the pressures caused by climate change. As little can be done to mitigate the phenomenon of climate change in the short-term, adaptation measures represent the only realistic way of reducing t ...
... extreme stresses from local land-based human activities, especially when these activities are combined with the pressures caused by climate change. As little can be done to mitigate the phenomenon of climate change in the short-term, adaptation measures represent the only realistic way of reducing t ...
Climate Change and the Monterey Bay Shoreline
... Below describes some of the more significant pieces of legislation and policy that have been enacted by the State in response to climate change. California’s first statute on climate change was enacted in 1988 when the State Legislature ordered a report on the impacts of climate change and recommend ...
... Below describes some of the more significant pieces of legislation and policy that have been enacted by the State in response to climate change. California’s first statute on climate change was enacted in 1988 when the State Legislature ordered a report on the impacts of climate change and recommend ...
HFA 2 Priorities from Nepal National and local governments, NGOs
... the risk is currently higher than this. ...
... the risk is currently higher than this. ...
S TAT E O F T H E WO R... Into a Warming World 2 0
... techniques, and the pollution of water around coral reefs in South Asia have made them more vulnerable to cyclones and warmer sea temperatures. In this sense, social resilience to climate change may sometimes be at odds with ecological resilience: human adaptive strategies for socioeconomic developm ...
... techniques, and the pollution of water around coral reefs in South Asia have made them more vulnerable to cyclones and warmer sea temperatures. In this sense, social resilience to climate change may sometimes be at odds with ecological resilience: human adaptive strategies for socioeconomic developm ...
11.2MB - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... under the IPCC indicates that it is unlikely that stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations above 550 ppmv CO2 equivalent would be consistent with meeting the 2°C long-term objective ... ... and that in order to have a reasonable chance to limit global warming to no more than 2°C, stabilisation ...
... under the IPCC indicates that it is unlikely that stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations above 550 ppmv CO2 equivalent would be consistent with meeting the 2°C long-term objective ... ... and that in order to have a reasonable chance to limit global warming to no more than 2°C, stabilisation ...
What Are Climate Forcings?
... sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm. Ice sheet and ocean inertia provides only moderate delay to ice sheet disintegration and a burst of added global warming. Recent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of ...
... sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm. Ice sheet and ocean inertia provides only moderate delay to ice sheet disintegration and a burst of added global warming. Recent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of ...
Biosphere feedbacks and climate change
... Earth system models (ESMs) are enhanced general circulation models that include some chemical and biological processes. All Earth system models include a representation of the carbon cycle, that is, carbon dioxide exchanges between ocean, atmosphere and land carbon stores and the response of these e ...
... Earth system models (ESMs) are enhanced general circulation models that include some chemical and biological processes. All Earth system models include a representation of the carbon cycle, that is, carbon dioxide exchanges between ocean, atmosphere and land carbon stores and the response of these e ...
Petition to the World Heritage Committee
... biofuels, and biomass. It is often transported long distances by air currents. Because the darkcolored particles absorb sunlight, black carbon warms the top of the atmosphere, increasing cloud droplet concentrations, and thickening low-level clouds. When deposited on ice and snow, it reduces the al ...
... biofuels, and biomass. It is often transported long distances by air currents. Because the darkcolored particles absorb sunlight, black carbon warms the top of the atmosphere, increasing cloud droplet concentrations, and thickening low-level clouds. When deposited on ice and snow, it reduces the al ...
Beyond generic adaptive capacity: exploring the adaptation space of
... the indicators suggested by Smit et al. (2001). This assumption is based on an international comparison in which Sweden has been identified as a country with very limited vulnerability to climate change due to its high adaptive capacity (Yohe et al. 2006b, a). The Stockholm region, and by extension ...
... the indicators suggested by Smit et al. (2001). This assumption is based on an international comparison in which Sweden has been identified as a country with very limited vulnerability to climate change due to its high adaptive capacity (Yohe et al. 2006b, a). The Stockholm region, and by extension ...
Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
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... Annu. Rev. Environ. Resourc. 2010.35:229-253. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by American University - DC on 10/14/13. For personal use only. ...
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... The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is envisioned in the White Paper to play a major role in the adaptation of European agriculture. The White Paper primarily considers the CAP in its section on integrating adaptation within key policy areas, even though the CAP is clearly relevant to all of t ...
... The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is envisioned in the White Paper to play a major role in the adaptation of European agriculture. The White Paper primarily considers the CAP in its section on integrating adaptation within key policy areas, even though the CAP is clearly relevant to all of t ...
The science of climate change in Africa: impacts and
... Attempting to understand the effects of climate change on Africa is fraught with difficulties. While some things are known and relatively well understood, there is still great uncertainty about the key climatic processes and their consequences. There is also much that is simply unknown. In this repo ...
... Attempting to understand the effects of climate change on Africa is fraught with difficulties. While some things are known and relatively well understood, there is still great uncertainty about the key climatic processes and their consequences. There is also much that is simply unknown. In this repo ...
Adapting Environmental Law to the impacts of climate change
... droughts and heat waves are just some of the major effects of climate change to which man and the environment will be increasingly exposed and which will in future call for more robust preventive measures. The European Community’s white and green papers on adapting to climate change in Europe and th ...
... droughts and heat waves are just some of the major effects of climate change to which man and the environment will be increasingly exposed and which will in future call for more robust preventive measures. The European Community’s white and green papers on adapting to climate change in Europe and th ...
Changes in species` distributions during and after environmental
... change in species distribution equates to the change in location of the climate envelope. However, such an approach is only likely to have limited success for a number of reasons. One such reason is that in addition to climate change, organisms are likely to face increasing habitat degradation and f ...
... change in species distribution equates to the change in location of the climate envelope. However, such an approach is only likely to have limited success for a number of reasons. One such reason is that in addition to climate change, organisms are likely to face increasing habitat degradation and f ...
Economics of PGRFA Management for Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Selected Literature
... 2007). But the magnitude of such damage will depend on how efficiently farmers adapt to the new climates (Mendelsohn, 2000). The challenge of adapting agriculture to climate change must be placed within the wider context of needed improvements in the sector to reduce food insecurity and achieve pove ...
... 2007). But the magnitude of such damage will depend on how efficiently farmers adapt to the new climates (Mendelsohn, 2000). The challenge of adapting agriculture to climate change must be placed within the wider context of needed improvements in the sector to reduce food insecurity and achieve pove ...
WETLANDS, CARBON STORAGE, AND FUTURE CLIMATE
... destroyed; rare and endangered plants and animals will be threatened in others. See more discussion below. What climate change factors will affect wetlands? A. A number of climate change factors will affect wetlands: Increase in CO 2 . Carbon dioxide has increased 30% since pre-industrial times. A d ...
... destroyed; rare and endangered plants and animals will be threatened in others. See more discussion below. What climate change factors will affect wetlands? A. A number of climate change factors will affect wetlands: Increase in CO 2 . Carbon dioxide has increased 30% since pre-industrial times. A d ...
Durham Research Online
... computers; the goal is to simulate how Earth’s climate would change if greenhouse gas emissions were to rise at particular rates in the future. But there is uncertainty about how to build these climate models in such a way that predictions of future climate change will have desired accuracy. The unc ...
... computers; the goal is to simulate how Earth’s climate would change if greenhouse gas emissions were to rise at particular rates in the future. But there is uncertainty about how to build these climate models in such a way that predictions of future climate change will have desired accuracy. The unc ...
Study Session 12 Resilience and Coping Strategies
... benefits. Ethiopia has more cattle than any other African country and is the eighthlargest producer of livestock in the world (CNFA, 2015). Yet in 2011 Ethiopia accounted for less than 1% of total global meat exports, so this is clearly an area of potential growth. Fourthly, the government is priori ...
... benefits. Ethiopia has more cattle than any other African country and is the eighthlargest producer of livestock in the world (CNFA, 2015). Yet in 2011 Ethiopia accounted for less than 1% of total global meat exports, so this is clearly an area of potential growth. Fourthly, the government is priori ...
South Africa`s climate change technology needs assessment 2007
... dangerous anthropogenic activities from interfering with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable development to proceed in a sustainable ...
... dangerous anthropogenic activities from interfering with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable development to proceed in a sustainable ...
Asset prices and climate policy - Department of Agricultural and
... climate change, they obtain additional benefit from a policy that reduces future damages.3 Temperature and atmospheric and oceanic carbon stocks change slowly, relative to capital’s depreciation rate. This difference in speed suggests that the asset price effect might be empirically unimportant, even ...
... climate change, they obtain additional benefit from a policy that reduces future damages.3 Temperature and atmospheric and oceanic carbon stocks change slowly, relative to capital’s depreciation rate. This difference in speed suggests that the asset price effect might be empirically unimportant, even ...
When Islands Drown: The Plight Of "Climate Change Refugees" And
... happened means that victim-states will have to prove not only causation, but some degree of certainty about exactly how much land will be flooded, how severe a tropical storm will be, or how many people might die. This unrealistic necessity will make pinning responsibility on other nations difficult ...
... happened means that victim-states will have to prove not only causation, but some degree of certainty about exactly how much land will be flooded, how severe a tropical storm will be, or how many people might die. This unrealistic necessity will make pinning responsibility on other nations difficult ...
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
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The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (or CPRS) was a proposed cap-and-trade system of emissions trading for anthropogenic greenhouse gases, due to be introduced in Australia in 2010 by the Rudd government, as part of its climate change policy. It marked a major change in the energy policy of Australia. The policy began when the Australian Labor Party was in opposition and the six Labor-controlled states commissioned an independent review on energy policy, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, which published a number of reports. Labor, after winning the federal election and forming a government, published a Green paper for discussion and comment. The Federal Treasury then modelled some of the financial and economic impacts of the proposed scheme.The Rudd Government published a final white paper on 15 December 2008. The Government announced that the legislation was intended to take effect in July 2010; but the legislation for the CPRS (aka ETS) failed to gain adequate support and was twice rejected creating a double dissolution election trigger. After a bitter political debate which saw former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull lose his leadership of the opposition to the anti-CPRS Tony Abbott. The Rudd government did not call an election and the CPRS lost public support. In April 2010, Labor then deferred the CPRS. A successor to the CPRS, the Carbon Pricing Mechanism (CPM) was passed into law as part of the Clean Energy Futures Package (CEF) in 2011, but was repealed in July 2014 following a change in government.