The Virgin Islands Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of the
... APPENDIX 4 - INITIAL PLANS FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE CANE GARDEN BAY BEACH COMMUNITY ........................................................................................................................ 265 APPENDIX 5 - SUMMARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS RELEVANT TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION & MIT ...
... APPENDIX 4 - INITIAL PLANS FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE CANE GARDEN BAY BEACH COMMUNITY ........................................................................................................................ 265 APPENDIX 5 - SUMMARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS RELEVANT TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION & MIT ...
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... One of the possible solutions to this problem is to downscale a GCM by nesting inside it a high resolution Regional Climate Model (RCM), which will run in a more limited area with boundary conditions provided by the “surrounding” GCM. In this way a coherent, from a physical point of view, simulation ...
... One of the possible solutions to this problem is to downscale a GCM by nesting inside it a high resolution Regional Climate Model (RCM), which will run in a more limited area with boundary conditions provided by the “surrounding” GCM. In this way a coherent, from a physical point of view, simulation ...
THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION
... dynamic organizations which are leaders in public education on energy and climate. These include journalists filming how most of today’s energy is really made and paid for – and by whom – and journalists working closely with scientists to accurately convey – in print and video – climate science in p ...
... dynamic organizations which are leaders in public education on energy and climate. These include journalists filming how most of today’s energy is really made and paid for – and by whom – and journalists working closely with scientists to accurately convey – in print and video – climate science in p ...
Trends in Extreme Precipitation Events for the Northeastern United
... Trend Analysis For all of our measures of extreme precipitation, we have calculated trends over time in units of change-per-decade over the period of record. To account for a trend’s sensitivity to the start and end year of the time-series, we calculate the mean of the decadal rate of change, or ave ...
... Trend Analysis For all of our measures of extreme precipitation, we have calculated trends over time in units of change-per-decade over the period of record. To account for a trend’s sensitivity to the start and end year of the time-series, we calculate the mean of the decadal rate of change, or ave ...
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and the Highway System
... reshape transportation priorities and needs. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials established the NCHRP Project 20-83 research series to examine global and domestic long-range strategic issues and their implications for departments of transportation (DOTs) to help p ...
... reshape transportation priorities and needs. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials established the NCHRP Project 20-83 research series to examine global and domestic long-range strategic issues and their implications for departments of transportation (DOTs) to help p ...
TowARD ReSiLienCe
... principles for effective programming and advocacy to build resilience in each sector. Chapter 5 explains the value of incorporating measures to reduce disaster and climate change risk in interventions in four challenging contexts for development and humanitarian work: conflict settings; early recove ...
... principles for effective programming and advocacy to build resilience in each sector. Chapter 5 explains the value of incorporating measures to reduce disaster and climate change risk in interventions in four challenging contexts for development and humanitarian work: conflict settings; early recove ...
Global Carbon Pricing - Carbon
... 2015, she appears to have decided that self-interest, the antithesis of altruism, is the “most powerful driving force” motivating nations, and warns that this may surprise us. It is a radical departure from the ambition narrative. As she also explains, the pledges for the Paris Conference of 2015 no ...
... 2015, she appears to have decided that self-interest, the antithesis of altruism, is the “most powerful driving force” motivating nations, and warns that this may surprise us. It is a radical departure from the ambition narrative. As she also explains, the pledges for the Paris Conference of 2015 no ...
Colorado Climate Preparedness Project Final Report
... • The outdoor recreation sector includes a diverse set of government agencies and private actors, although no state agency has overarching regulatory authority over the sector. State Parks manages state-owned recreational resources and has taken the lead on statewide comprehensive outdoor recreatio ...
... • The outdoor recreation sector includes a diverse set of government agencies and private actors, although no state agency has overarching regulatory authority over the sector. State Parks manages state-owned recreational resources and has taken the lead on statewide comprehensive outdoor recreatio ...
shaping our future
... us firmly on the road towards a low carbon Britain. It is a road well worth travelling. A low carbon future holds out the promise of new economic opportunities, sustainable jobs in cleaner industries and greater energy security. There has never been a greater need to act together on such an importan ...
... us firmly on the road towards a low carbon Britain. It is a road well worth travelling. A low carbon future holds out the promise of new economic opportunities, sustainable jobs in cleaner industries and greater energy security. There has never been a greater need to act together on such an importan ...
Extreme flood events in changing climate for a long-term
... events are then estimated from the simulated time series for particular watershed. Successful applications of this approach on the catchment scale include numerous studies using physically-based rainfall-runoff models (Veijalainen et al., 2010; Lawrence et al., 2011). Also the large-scale rainfall-r ...
... events are then estimated from the simulated time series for particular watershed. Successful applications of this approach on the catchment scale include numerous studies using physically-based rainfall-runoff models (Veijalainen et al., 2010; Lawrence et al., 2011). Also the large-scale rainfall-r ...
A Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
... planning process is particularly helpful. This explanation includes the methods and models for climate change vulnerability and risk assessments of planning areas, as well as direction for planning area prioritization (Center for Science in the Earth System (The Climate Impacts Group), Joint Institu ...
... planning process is particularly helpful. This explanation includes the methods and models for climate change vulnerability and risk assessments of planning areas, as well as direction for planning area prioritization (Center for Science in the Earth System (The Climate Impacts Group), Joint Institu ...
The Climate-Environment-Society Nexus in the
... ka10 and it is the generally held view that glacials are arid and interglacials humid. However, determining the effects of Pleistocene11 climate change on the Sahara is problematic due to the paucity of organic deposits. Organic remains, such as palaeolake sediments, provide important information re ...
... ka10 and it is the generally held view that glacials are arid and interglacials humid. However, determining the effects of Pleistocene11 climate change on the Sahara is problematic due to the paucity of organic deposits. Organic remains, such as palaeolake sediments, provide important information re ...
Climate Change and Buildings in Nigeria: A Search for Mitigation
... A sustainable design guide has a huge potential to enhance the sustainability of the built environment. This thesis investigates the potentials of a sustainable residential design guide and develops a framework for its actualization in the three climatic regions in Nigeria. These regions are; Highla ...
... A sustainable design guide has a huge potential to enhance the sustainability of the built environment. This thesis investigates the potentials of a sustainable residential design guide and develops a framework for its actualization in the three climatic regions in Nigeria. These regions are; Highla ...
Climate Factsheets - Public Interest Research Centre
... before (take a look at the graphic below).48 Longterm, the trend is still on average 0.15-0.2ºC warming per decade;49,50 each of the last three decades have been warmer than the last (for more info see bit.ly/temperaturetrends).51 ...
... before (take a look at the graphic below).48 Longterm, the trend is still on average 0.15-0.2ºC warming per decade;49,50 each of the last three decades have been warmer than the last (for more info see bit.ly/temperaturetrends).51 ...
FORESTS, LAND MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURE Chapter 13
... organic matter (dry measure) is accumulated. Under scenario conditions, water deficits are very likely to increase or appear in most of the boreal region, the main exceptions being portions of eastern Canada, Iceland, and western Scandinavia, which experience the strongest maritime influence on thei ...
... organic matter (dry measure) is accumulated. Under scenario conditions, water deficits are very likely to increase or appear in most of the boreal region, the main exceptions being portions of eastern Canada, Iceland, and western Scandinavia, which experience the strongest maritime influence on thei ...
Discursive Constructions of Climate Change Engagement
... Climate change is one of the most pressing sustainability issues of the modern era affecting individuals, organisations and societies. Climate change poses physical threats to our survival and challenges the way we view ourselves and the economic and political systems. Today, business organisations ...
... Climate change is one of the most pressing sustainability issues of the modern era affecting individuals, organisations and societies. Climate change poses physical threats to our survival and challenges the way we view ourselves and the economic and political systems. Today, business organisations ...
Understanding the Forecast Second Edition David Archer d
... to answer this question by comparing the history of Earth's temperature with the history of the different reasons why temperature might have changed, what are called climate forcings. The sun is more intense at some times than others. Volcanoes occasionally blow dust or haze into the stratosphere wh ...
... to answer this question by comparing the history of Earth's temperature with the history of the different reasons why temperature might have changed, what are called climate forcings. The sun is more intense at some times than others. Volcanoes occasionally blow dust or haze into the stratosphere wh ...
Assessing the Impacts of Land Cover Change on
... and land cover on the mean and extreme climate of non-Amazonian South America by conducting modelling experiments for pre-clearing (before year 1500) and present (year 2005) land covers. It develops new data sets of changes in land surface characteristics for this period and applies a high resolutio ...
... and land cover on the mean and extreme climate of non-Amazonian South America by conducting modelling experiments for pre-clearing (before year 1500) and present (year 2005) land covers. It develops new data sets of changes in land surface characteristics for this period and applies a high resolutio ...
Working Paper 205 - Watkiss (opens in new window)
... problems with such approaches. It then reports on the key changes that have emerged in the literature over recent years in response to these challenges. ...
... problems with such approaches. It then reports on the key changes that have emerged in the literature over recent years in response to these challenges. ...
Fifth National Report of the Government of the Federal
... Activities aimed at promoting decisions by the ICAO and IMO in favour of emissions reduction .................................................................................... 116 Information on minimization of adverse effects (including adverse effects of climate change) in developing countries i ...
... Activities aimed at promoting decisions by the ICAO and IMO in favour of emissions reduction .................................................................................... 116 Information on minimization of adverse effects (including adverse effects of climate change) in developing countries i ...
Climate Change in Colorado: A Synthesis to Support Water Resources Management and Adaptation.
... • Planning approaches that explore multiple futures, rather than assuming a single future trajectory, are more compatible with climate projections and may improve preparedness for a changing climate. • The uncertainty in projections of precipitation and streamflow for Colorado should not be constr ...
... • Planning approaches that explore multiple futures, rather than assuming a single future trajectory, are more compatible with climate projections and may improve preparedness for a changing climate. • The uncertainty in projections of precipitation and streamflow for Colorado should not be constr ...
Turkey`s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and
... The universe that shelters human kind as well as all its living and non-living existence has been carefully created in a certain order and balance. But it is globally acknowledged that the life style humankind pursues for his needs in his journey of existence within the rapidly flowing time, causes ...
... The universe that shelters human kind as well as all its living and non-living existence has been carefully created in a certain order and balance. But it is globally acknowledged that the life style humankind pursues for his needs in his journey of existence within the rapidly flowing time, causes ...
Enabling Environment for Private Sector Adaptation
... ver the past years dramatic changes in climate patterns have been observed and extreme weather conditions have been experienced around the world: record temperatures, destructive floods and tropical cyclones, dramatic droughts, and raging wildfires. There is much evidence showing that climate change ...
... ver the past years dramatic changes in climate patterns have been observed and extreme weather conditions have been experienced around the world: record temperatures, destructive floods and tropical cyclones, dramatic droughts, and raging wildfires. There is much evidence showing that climate change ...
Measuring Vulnerability - global change SysTem for Analysis
... Climate change scenarios: Generated by general circulation models (GCMs) or synthetic scenarios (+/10% precipitation, 30 cm sea level rise, etc.); The output of GCMs depend on assumptions about greenhouse gas emissions, feedbacks, etc. SRES scenarios represent emissions according to different develo ...
... Climate change scenarios: Generated by general circulation models (GCMs) or synthetic scenarios (+/10% precipitation, 30 cm sea level rise, etc.); The output of GCMs depend on assumptions about greenhouse gas emissions, feedbacks, etc. SRES scenarios represent emissions according to different develo ...
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. ...
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.