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... Nicaragua). The study focuses on a cross-country comparison of multi-sectoral and multi-scale policy-networks relevant for designing ecosystem-based adaptation policies. Costa Rica and Nicaragua 2008-2009. •! Systematization of “Community based adaptation to climate variability and change in agricul ...
... Nicaragua). The study focuses on a cross-country comparison of multi-sectoral and multi-scale policy-networks relevant for designing ecosystem-based adaptation policies. Costa Rica and Nicaragua 2008-2009. •! Systematization of “Community based adaptation to climate variability and change in agricul ...
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
... expected to be the main vehicle for mitigation action in developing countries under a future climate agreement, and can be policies, programs or projects implemented at national, regional, or local levels. NAMAs were created to: Ensure that developing countries can benefit from emission reduction ...
... expected to be the main vehicle for mitigation action in developing countries under a future climate agreement, and can be policies, programs or projects implemented at national, regional, or local levels. NAMAs were created to: Ensure that developing countries can benefit from emission reduction ...
Climate of the Past
... such as the categories B&C disposal program in Belgium, the methods can be more detailed and focused onto research and development uncertainties than e.g. disposal programs near to an implementation stage and dealing with shorter time frames such as the category A disposal program in Belgium. The te ...
... such as the categories B&C disposal program in Belgium, the methods can be more detailed and focused onto research and development uncertainties than e.g. disposal programs near to an implementation stage and dealing with shorter time frames such as the category A disposal program in Belgium. The te ...
GHG Market Sentiment Survey 2015
... Carbon market sentiment is on the rise for the first time in several years. IETA members who responded to our survey agree that markets remain the most effective policy instrument for tackling emissions growth. Belief that carbon markets have delivered significant reductions in GHG emissions to date ...
... Carbon market sentiment is on the rise for the first time in several years. IETA members who responded to our survey agree that markets remain the most effective policy instrument for tackling emissions growth. Belief that carbon markets have delivered significant reductions in GHG emissions to date ...
Public perceptions of unusually warm weather in the UK: impacts
... largely based on modelling studies. This paper examines the impacts of climate extremes (unusually hot summers and unusually warm winters) from the perspective of the perception of the general public. Postal surveys were conducted for 2 regions in the UK: (1) southern England and (2) central and sou ...
... largely based on modelling studies. This paper examines the impacts of climate extremes (unusually hot summers and unusually warm winters) from the perspective of the perception of the general public. Postal surveys were conducted for 2 regions in the UK: (1) southern England and (2) central and sou ...
Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in
... (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chronologies, a number that has decreased progressively in the most recent ...
... (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chronologies, a number that has decreased progressively in the most recent ...
Communicating climate change – Learning from business
... 32), any attempt to understand and interpret climate change knowledge requires a thorough ”political, economic, social, and legal debate over values and beliefs” through which social consensus emerges (Hoffman 2012: 37). Social consensus is contingent upon shared mutually constituted understandings ...
... 32), any attempt to understand and interpret climate change knowledge requires a thorough ”political, economic, social, and legal debate over values and beliefs” through which social consensus emerges (Hoffman 2012: 37). Social consensus is contingent upon shared mutually constituted understandings ...
Togo - unfccc
... country by 4 to 8 mm over its current level in 2025 and by 18 to 39 mm of rain by 2100. The associated impacts on the main sectors considered to be sensitive are: (i) Energy: a spatial analysis reveals that the savannah region, which is already facing the highest poverty rate and increasingly scarce ...
... country by 4 to 8 mm over its current level in 2025 and by 18 to 39 mm of rain by 2100. The associated impacts on the main sectors considered to be sensitive are: (i) Energy: a spatial analysis reveals that the savannah region, which is already facing the highest poverty rate and increasingly scarce ...
Health: The Human Face of Climate Change, Perspective and
... Humans have been adapting to environmental change for millennia, surviving ice ages, droughts and plagues. Over some 12,000 years of the Holocene epoch, the levels of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained relatively stable, as did Earth's temperature. But as the industrial revolu ...
... Humans have been adapting to environmental change for millennia, surviving ice ages, droughts and plagues. Over some 12,000 years of the Holocene epoch, the levels of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained relatively stable, as did Earth's temperature. But as the industrial revolu ...
Impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems: a global
... flow regimes. However, with one exception, transferable quantitative relations between flow alterations and ecological responses have not yet been derived. While discharge decreases are generally considered to be detrimental for ecosystems, the effect of future discharge increases is unclear. As a f ...
... flow regimes. However, with one exception, transferable quantitative relations between flow alterations and ecological responses have not yet been derived. While discharge decreases are generally considered to be detrimental for ecosystems, the effect of future discharge increases is unclear. As a f ...
NGOs in Economic Diplomacy
... end of the spectrum. For the purpose of this discussion, we will use a fairly restricted definition: organizations that pursue some wider social aim that has political aspects, but that are not overtly political organizations such as political parties. But however blurred their definition, NGOs have ...
... end of the spectrum. For the purpose of this discussion, we will use a fairly restricted definition: organizations that pursue some wider social aim that has political aspects, but that are not overtly political organizations such as political parties. But however blurred their definition, NGOs have ...
a guide for tribal leaders on us climate change programs
... Climate Change and the Coquille Indian Tribe: Planning for the Effects of Climate Change and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions .. 16 First Foods and Climate Change........................................................................................................................................ ...
... Climate Change and the Coquille Indian Tribe: Planning for the Effects of Climate Change and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions .. 16 First Foods and Climate Change........................................................................................................................................ ...
Enhancement of the albedo of low stratus marine clouds
... Anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases has become widely accepted as the primary cause of global warming. With increasing rate of emissions, warming is set to continue and baring a drastic change in mitigation policies the rate of warming is also likely to increase. In the fourth assessment repor ...
... Anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases has become widely accepted as the primary cause of global warming. With increasing rate of emissions, warming is set to continue and baring a drastic change in mitigation policies the rate of warming is also likely to increase. In the fourth assessment repor ...
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... endogenous repercussions of the likely exogenous evolutions. However, such point estimates are not ideal comparative tools for evaluating competing policies, as there are no explicit confidence intervals to evaluate whether one scenario's impacts are significantly different from another. Integrating ...
... endogenous repercussions of the likely exogenous evolutions. However, such point estimates are not ideal comparative tools for evaluating competing policies, as there are no explicit confidence intervals to evaluate whether one scenario's impacts are significantly different from another. Integrating ...
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... Climate has always varied. However, the prospect of continuing global and regional climate change beyond that of normal climatic variation, due to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is now a real possibility.This has potentially serious implications, and possibly some benefits, for th ...
... Climate has always varied. However, the prospect of continuing global and regional climate change beyond that of normal climatic variation, due to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is now a real possibility.This has potentially serious implications, and possibly some benefits, for th ...
Inuit population
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential to climate policy in Canada’s Inuit regions. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally obligates parties to “ ...
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential to climate policy in Canada’s Inuit regions. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally obligates parties to “ ...
institutional capacity and climate actions case studies
... or may jeopardize compliance should the country have already taken on expanded commitments. A preliminary evaluation of Mexico's current mitigation capacity, its institutional limitations and the requirements it would have to meet, if it is to play a more significant role in the international climat ...
... or may jeopardize compliance should the country have already taken on expanded commitments. A preliminary evaluation of Mexico's current mitigation capacity, its institutional limitations and the requirements it would have to meet, if it is to play a more significant role in the international climat ...
Extreme climate events and wet grasslands: plant traits for
... Most climate change science has focussed upon longterm trends, averages and gradual changes. Consequently, while the effects of climate trends on many ecosystems have been assessed (e.g. Ramsar, 2002; IPCC, 2013) similar heightened understanding of extreme climate events caused by climate change is ...
... Most climate change science has focussed upon longterm trends, averages and gradual changes. Consequently, while the effects of climate trends on many ecosystems have been assessed (e.g. Ramsar, 2002; IPCC, 2013) similar heightened understanding of extreme climate events caused by climate change is ...
Task 4.2 Calculation of metrics - Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
... Task 3.2 Simulations for idealised forcing perturbations ........................................................... 12 Task 3.3 Simulations for realistic forcings ................................................................................. 15 WP 4 Existing metrics ............................. ...
... Task 3.2 Simulations for idealised forcing perturbations ........................................................... 12 Task 3.3 Simulations for realistic forcings ................................................................................. 15 WP 4 Existing metrics ............................. ...
STRUCTURE OF THE INDC
... Risk Management (KJIP) (2014) (comparable to NAPA required under UNFCCC) which defines priority adaptation measures to address current and ongoing risks from climate change. Similarly, the Kiribati Adaptation Project III (KAP), initiated by the World Bank, is currently ongoing. The need for Kiribati ...
... Risk Management (KJIP) (2014) (comparable to NAPA required under UNFCCC) which defines priority adaptation measures to address current and ongoing risks from climate change. Similarly, the Kiribati Adaptation Project III (KAP), initiated by the World Bank, is currently ongoing. The need for Kiribati ...
Reliable Science: Overcoming Public Doubts in the Climate Change
... States has been attributed to the prevalence of scientific illiteracy,23 lack of familiarity with technical problems,24 industry propaganda25 and political luddites.26 Yet, the dispute is not about the basic principles of climate change science. For example, the scientific basis for the greenhouse e ...
... States has been attributed to the prevalence of scientific illiteracy,23 lack of familiarity with technical problems,24 industry propaganda25 and political luddites.26 Yet, the dispute is not about the basic principles of climate change science. For example, the scientific basis for the greenhouse e ...
Strengthening Sovereignty
... The Arctic has oil and natural gas, and other valuable commodities, and the unparalleled-in-modern-times environmental make-over occurring there has already started a scramble for petroleum, protein, and position. Also significant is the prospect for seasonal, and perhaps one day continual, circumna ...
... The Arctic has oil and natural gas, and other valuable commodities, and the unparalleled-in-modern-times environmental make-over occurring there has already started a scramble for petroleum, protein, and position. Also significant is the prospect for seasonal, and perhaps one day continual, circumna ...
Climate Change and Justice: A Non-Welfarist Treaty Negotiation
... According to Posner and Weisbach, treaty proposals should be efficient and feasible. More specifically, they should satisfy two criteria: the economic requirement of global optimality1 and the pragmatic constraint of International Paretianism, which the authors define thus: ‘all states must believe ...
... According to Posner and Weisbach, treaty proposals should be efficient and feasible. More specifically, they should satisfy two criteria: the economic requirement of global optimality1 and the pragmatic constraint of International Paretianism, which the authors define thus: ‘all states must believe ...
countryside council for wales
... evidence that sea level rise and coastal erosion will result in greater fluxes of methane (or other greenhouse gases). However, it is possible for the adaptive response to sealevel rise to either increase or decrease GHG emissions. Greenhouse gas flux estimates have been calculated for a managed rea ...
... evidence that sea level rise and coastal erosion will result in greater fluxes of methane (or other greenhouse gases). However, it is possible for the adaptive response to sealevel rise to either increase or decrease GHG emissions. Greenhouse gas flux estimates have been calculated for a managed rea ...
Long-Term Climate Change - Ontario Power Generation
... planets in this solar system. At each of the maxima of North American ice-sheet extent, the thickness of glacial ice over Canada has approached 4 km in the most heavily glaciated regions and the southern boundary of ice-sheet extent has been located near the current US-Canada border except in the so ...
... planets in this solar system. At each of the maxima of North American ice-sheet extent, the thickness of glacial ice over Canada has approached 4 km in the most heavily glaciated regions and the southern boundary of ice-sheet extent has been located near the current US-Canada border except in the so ...
Climate engineering
Climate engineering, also referred to as geoengineering or climate intervention, is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climatic system with the aim of limiting adverse climate change. Climate engineering is an umbrella term for two types of measures: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. Carbon dioxide removal addresses the cause of climate change by removing one of the greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere. Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing the Earth to absorb less solar radiation.Climate engineering approaches are sometimes viewed as additional potential options for limiting climate change, alongside mitigation and adaptation. There is substantial agreement among scientists that climate engineering cannot substitute climate change mitigation. Some approaches might be used as accompanying measures to sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Given that all types of measures addressing climate change have economic, political or physical limitations a some climate engineering approaches might eventually be used as part of an ensemble of measures. Research on costs, benefits, and various types of risks of most climate engineering approaches is at an early stage and their understanding needs to improve to judge their adequacy and feasibility.No known large-scale climate engineering projects have taken place to date. Almost all research into solar geoengineering has consisted of computer modelling or laboratory tests, and attempts to move to real-world experimentation have proved controversial for many types of climate engineering. Some practices, such as planting of trees and whitening of surfaces as well as bio-energy with carbon capture and storage projects are underway, their scalability to effectively affect global climate is however debated. Ocean iron fertilization has been given small-scale research trials, sparking substantial controversy.Most experts and major reports advise against relying on geoengineering techniques as a simple solution to climate change, in part due to the large uncertainties over effectiveness and side effects. However, most experts also argue that the risks of such interventions must be seen in the context of risks of dangerous climate change. Interventions at large scale may run a greater risk disrupting natural systems resulting in a dilemma that those approaches that could prove highly (cost-) effective in addressing extreme climate risk, might themselves cause substantial risk. Some have suggested that the concept of geoengineering the climate presents a moral hazard because it could reduce political and public pressure for emissions reduction, which could exacerbate overall climate risks.Groups such as ETC Group and some climate researchers (such as Raymond Pierrehumbert) are in favour of a moratorium on out-of-doors testing and deployment of SRM.