climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaption in northwest
... Over centuries, the Inupiaq of northwestern Alaska have proven themselves to be highly adaptive, flexible, and resilient to the extreme climate conditions and variability of the Arctic. Yet the current pace of global warming is especially rapid in the Arctic and is projected to accelerate further o ...
... Over centuries, the Inupiaq of northwestern Alaska have proven themselves to be highly adaptive, flexible, and resilient to the extreme climate conditions and variability of the Arctic. Yet the current pace of global warming is especially rapid in the Arctic and is projected to accelerate further o ...
climate change: health impacts and opportunities
... for the substantial multi-annual variability in the rate of warming, including periods that have exhibited almost no linear trend in rising temperatures. They also explained how the widely reported recent reduction in was due to natural changes to the pattern of ocean circulation which transferred h ...
... for the substantial multi-annual variability in the rate of warming, including periods that have exhibited almost no linear trend in rising temperatures. They also explained how the widely reported recent reduction in was due to natural changes to the pattern of ocean circulation which transferred h ...
Wildlife - Province of British Columbia
... The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) estimates that 20-30% of animals and plants will be at risk of extinction if temperatures rise 1.5° to 2.5° C above current conditions (i.e., 1980 to 1999 baseline). While translating global estimates to the provincial scale is problematic, BC’s ...
... The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) estimates that 20-30% of animals and plants will be at risk of extinction if temperatures rise 1.5° to 2.5° C above current conditions (i.e., 1980 to 1999 baseline). While translating global estimates to the provincial scale is problematic, BC’s ...
Efforts on Climate Change in Malaysia: A Preliminary Assessment
... change factors impinge on the sustainable development that rely on climate-sensitive sectors as it compounds the pressures on and alter the distribution and quality of food, natural resources and the environment associated with urbanisation, industrialisation, and economic development. Insights into ...
... change factors impinge on the sustainable development that rely on climate-sensitive sectors as it compounds the pressures on and alter the distribution and quality of food, natural resources and the environment associated with urbanisation, industrialisation, and economic development. Insights into ...
Addressing Climate Change Challenges in Ireland (07-CCRP-3.1) CCRP Report
... international market for climate products and services. Given current government fiscal constraints, attention needs to focus on mobilising private finance for international climate actions as part of the US$100bn commitment. This could also have entrepreneurial benefits for Ireland, e.g. adding fur ...
... international market for climate products and services. Given current government fiscal constraints, attention needs to focus on mobilising private finance for international climate actions as part of the US$100bn commitment. This could also have entrepreneurial benefits for Ireland, e.g. adding fur ...
ITU and Early Warning
... the way for Internet access from remote areas and allows to apply paperless working methods, switch from physical distribution DVDs and CDs to online delivery. ...
... the way for Internet access from remote areas and allows to apply paperless working methods, switch from physical distribution DVDs and CDs to online delivery. ...
Options for support to
... people suffering from chronic hunger has increased from under 800 million in 1996 to over a billion (FAO, 2009a). Most of the world’s hungry are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. These regions have large rural populations, widespread poverty and extensive areas of low agricultural productivity d ...
... people suffering from chronic hunger has increased from under 800 million in 1996 to over a billion (FAO, 2009a). Most of the world’s hungry are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. These regions have large rural populations, widespread poverty and extensive areas of low agricultural productivity d ...
China, the United States and the European Union: Multiple
... bill that had passed the House. Based on an economy-wide cap and trade approach, the bill eventually failed to be taken up in the Senate.12 Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, representing China in Copenhagen, pledged that China would reduce carbon intensity by 40 to 45% by 2020. The conference was unable to ...
... bill that had passed the House. Based on an economy-wide cap and trade approach, the bill eventually failed to be taken up in the Senate.12 Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, representing China in Copenhagen, pledged that China would reduce carbon intensity by 40 to 45% by 2020. The conference was unable to ...
Impact of nitrogen and climate change interactions on ambient air
... sources (e.g., mobile and industrial sources). While anthropogenic VOC emissions dominate in most cities, more than 50 % of VOCs for some areas of the US, such as in the Southeast, are produced by vegetation (SOS, Southern Oxidants Study 2004). The interactions of NOx and VOCs in the formation of O3 ...
... sources (e.g., mobile and industrial sources). While anthropogenic VOC emissions dominate in most cities, more than 50 % of VOCs for some areas of the US, such as in the Southeast, are produced by vegetation (SOS, Southern Oxidants Study 2004). The interactions of NOx and VOCs in the formation of O3 ...
ENG - UN CC:Learn
... The IPCC www.ipcc.ch is the leading body for the assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possib ...
... The IPCC www.ipcc.ch is the leading body for the assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possib ...
Death by Degrees: The health crisis of climate change in Maine
... Nina G, Asthma, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicasaurusrex/4410815851/in/photolist-7HLzTa-5mh6r6-5ptoyy-8cnHhs-5CCLL3 Jacobson, G.L., I.J. Fernandez, P.A. Mayewski, and C.V. Schmitt (editors). 2009. Maine’s Climate Future: An Initial Assessment. Orono, ME: University of Maine, http://www.climatecha ...
... Nina G, Asthma, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicasaurusrex/4410815851/in/photolist-7HLzTa-5mh6r6-5ptoyy-8cnHhs-5CCLL3 Jacobson, G.L., I.J. Fernandez, P.A. Mayewski, and C.V. Schmitt (editors). 2009. Maine’s Climate Future: An Initial Assessment. Orono, ME: University of Maine, http://www.climatecha ...
Dubuque, Iowa Greenhouse Gas Inventory
... to have decreased slightly from 2003 to 2007, which follows national air quality improvements resulting largely from advances in industrial and emissions technologies. ...
... to have decreased slightly from 2003 to 2007, which follows national air quality improvements resulting largely from advances in industrial and emissions technologies. ...
2. Observed climatology and sensitivity of runoff
... GCMs can be realistic, even the best models display biases on regional scales that are large enough to confound studies of the hydrologic impacts of climate change. Many different techniques have been employed to process the raw GCM output to retain the large scale signal of the evolving climate sim ...
... GCMs can be realistic, even the best models display biases on regional scales that are large enough to confound studies of the hydrologic impacts of climate change. Many different techniques have been employed to process the raw GCM output to retain the large scale signal of the evolving climate sim ...
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... The IPCC www.ipcc.ch is the leading body for the assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possib ...
... The IPCC www.ipcc.ch is the leading body for the assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possib ...
David A. Dana Michael P. Vandenbergh Learning about Climate Change Adaptation
... Communities across the country are beginning to assess the potential impacts that climate change could have in their areas. National and international scientific organizations have warned that over the next 50 years climate change (sometimes referred to as global warming) is very likely to cause i ...
... Communities across the country are beginning to assess the potential impacts that climate change could have in their areas. National and international scientific organizations have warned that over the next 50 years climate change (sometimes referred to as global warming) is very likely to cause i ...
2014 Energy and Climate Outlook
... The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change combines cutting-edge scientific research with independent policy analysis to provide a solid foundation for the public and private decisions needed to mitigate and adapt to unavoidable global environmental changes. Being data-driven, ...
... The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change combines cutting-edge scientific research with independent policy analysis to provide a solid foundation for the public and private decisions needed to mitigate and adapt to unavoidable global environmental changes. Being data-driven, ...
Case study — Monitoring potential impacts of climate change on the
... temperatures, widespread net melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. The Fourth IPPC Assessment Report concludes that climate change will have impacts on many aspects of biodiversity and geodiversity including impacts on ecosystems, their component species and associated geneti ...
... temperatures, widespread net melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. The Fourth IPPC Assessment Report concludes that climate change will have impacts on many aspects of biodiversity and geodiversity including impacts on ecosystems, their component species and associated geneti ...
Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?
... However, there is a fair degree of confusion and ambiguity in Beck’s writing over the political consequences of reflexive modernization and the evolving ‘subpolitics’ of risk society. On the one hand, it is suggested that a ‘division of labour’ (1992) occurs so that ‘the truly political disappears i ...
... However, there is a fair degree of confusion and ambiguity in Beck’s writing over the political consequences of reflexive modernization and the evolving ‘subpolitics’ of risk society. On the one hand, it is suggested that a ‘division of labour’ (1992) occurs so that ‘the truly political disappears i ...
How Agricultural Trade Policies Fuel Climate Change
... agricultural production and distribution systems, making it far more difficult to achieve climate change goals. This fundamental contradiction is a testament to our failure to seriously integrate environmental and economic policy. Moreover, the enormous and increasing energy demands of global system ...
... agricultural production and distribution systems, making it far more difficult to achieve climate change goals. This fundamental contradiction is a testament to our failure to seriously integrate environmental and economic policy. Moreover, the enormous and increasing energy demands of global system ...
A Discussion Paper on Climate Change and Forestry in Nova Scotia
... Model Predictions and Regional Climate Change Projections: General circulation models for climate change are used to predict global and regional effects on air temperature, precipitation, and other variables. However, one must be aware of the uncertainty surrounding the use of current general circu ...
... Model Predictions and Regional Climate Change Projections: General circulation models for climate change are used to predict global and regional effects on air temperature, precipitation, and other variables. However, one must be aware of the uncertainty surrounding the use of current general circu ...
Adaptation in an era of vanishing territory – the political... of the impact of climate change versus total migration, status...
... The foregoing gap was noticeable even in the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, which was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between December 7 and December 18. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to t ...
... The foregoing gap was noticeable even in the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, which was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between December 7 and December 18. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to t ...
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... existing forests and prevent their degradation will impact on carbon storage. It estimates that the Forest Plan will result in a 60 Gt increase of carbon sequestration. The Forestry Plan has a target of planting 45m trees between 2008 and 2012 to increase CO2 storage. However, owing to budget cuts b ...
... existing forests and prevent their degradation will impact on carbon storage. It estimates that the Forest Plan will result in a 60 Gt increase of carbon sequestration. The Forestry Plan has a target of planting 45m trees between 2008 and 2012 to increase CO2 storage. However, owing to budget cuts b ...
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... consider a target of a 550 ppmv CO2 only stabilization (see IPCC, 2001 for a scientific motivation of the target), and examine the abatement pathway with and without forestry sequestration. Results show that forestry has important implications for the overall abatement strategy, and a profound effec ...
... consider a target of a 550 ppmv CO2 only stabilization (see IPCC, 2001 for a scientific motivation of the target), and examine the abatement pathway with and without forestry sequestration. Results show that forestry has important implications for the overall abatement strategy, and a profound effec ...
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... The basic DICE projection, labeled NB for Nordhaus-Boyer in our discussion below, finds that the optimal carbon price is less than $6 per ton in 1995, and less than $10 per ton in 2005, rising very gradually to only $140 per ton in 2195, some 200 years into the simulation. (All monetary amounts are ...
... The basic DICE projection, labeled NB for Nordhaus-Boyer in our discussion below, finds that the optimal carbon price is less than $6 per ton in 1995, and less than $10 per ton in 2005, rising very gradually to only $140 per ton in 2195, some 200 years into the simulation. (All monetary amounts are ...
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
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.