Desertification-Climate Change Interactions
... population growth. While proximate causes include the expansion of agriculture, overgrazing and infrastructure development. Climate variability represented by meteorological phenomena acts concomitantly and synergistic with other drivers. magnitude of storms or duration of droughts can also be drive ...
... population growth. While proximate causes include the expansion of agriculture, overgrazing and infrastructure development. Climate variability represented by meteorological phenomena acts concomitantly and synergistic with other drivers. magnitude of storms or duration of droughts can also be drive ...
1 - QUBES Hub
... Climate change as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is clear in both climatological and biological data. Global temperatures have increased by 0.74°C ± 0.18°C over the past 100 years (1906-2005), although some regions experience locally greater warming (IPCC 2007). Along with ...
... Climate change as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is clear in both climatological and biological data. Global temperatures have increased by 0.74°C ± 0.18°C over the past 100 years (1906-2005), although some regions experience locally greater warming (IPCC 2007). Along with ...
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... and Capacity building in public and private sectors by encouraging services to be used by the private sector. ...
... and Capacity building in public and private sectors by encouraging services to be used by the private sector. ...
Climate Choices for a Sustainable Southwest
... options and decisions. In the context of climate change, risk reduction includes: reducing global GHG emissions to limit global changes; limiting activities locally or regionally (e.g. land use choices) that increase unwanted local or regional climatic changes; taking action now to accommodate and a ...
... options and decisions. In the context of climate change, risk reduction includes: reducing global GHG emissions to limit global changes; limiting activities locally or regionally (e.g. land use choices) that increase unwanted local or regional climatic changes; taking action now to accommodate and a ...
Author`s personal copy
... ‘‘worst-case scenario’’ has in fact been realized (Allison et al., 2009, p. 9; see also Nakicenovic et al., 2000), for the decade before the global financial disruption. Some people have pointed out that the emissions projections were not meant to be reliable in the short term, but it is interesting ...
... ‘‘worst-case scenario’’ has in fact been realized (Allison et al., 2009, p. 9; see also Nakicenovic et al., 2000), for the decade before the global financial disruption. Some people have pointed out that the emissions projections were not meant to be reliable in the short term, but it is interesting ...
1 - MEDiterranean PROspects
... The first step of this assessment consists in estimating the relationship between water availability and crops productivity in main MED11 regions for major crops. This relationship will be investigated by IAMB and UPM. The research will potentially integrate data from two sources. If possible, infor ...
... The first step of this assessment consists in estimating the relationship between water availability and crops productivity in main MED11 regions for major crops. This relationship will be investigated by IAMB and UPM. The research will potentially integrate data from two sources. If possible, infor ...
`Towards a Resilient Sydney` - climate change adaptation planning
... impacts can be incorporated in cost benefit analysis, economic assessments, or design analyses. Also research products can be developed to support adaptation responses in different levels of strategic plans. An example of how new types information can be incorporated into evidence based studies is t ...
... impacts can be incorporated in cost benefit analysis, economic assessments, or design analyses. Also research products can be developed to support adaptation responses in different levels of strategic plans. An example of how new types information can be incorporated into evidence based studies is t ...
600 words - School of Psychology
... Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.011 ...
... Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.011 ...
Ideological cultures and media discourses on
... 2. Science, ideology and the media Studies of the relation of science and the media were for long dominated by a “transmissional” notion of communication. The “canonical view,” typically conceptualizing science communication as “popularization,” was centered on issues of quantity and rigor: how much ...
... 2. Science, ideology and the media Studies of the relation of science and the media were for long dominated by a “transmissional” notion of communication. The “canonical view,” typically conceptualizing science communication as “popularization,” was centered on issues of quantity and rigor: how much ...
Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Extreme Events
... What is often lacking is a fully informed and timely response based on the best available science that enables the public and decision makers to put such events into the context of both natural variability and climate change. Ideally one would wish such assessments to be issued regularly as in the c ...
... What is often lacking is a fully informed and timely response based on the best available science that enables the public and decision makers to put such events into the context of both natural variability and climate change. Ideally one would wish such assessments to be issued regularly as in the c ...
Carbon Credits Program - Southern Section Air & Waste
... Development Mechanism Executive Board, a project must be approved by all involved parties, demonstrate a measurable and long-term ability to reduce emissions, and provide reductions that would be additional to any that would otherwise occur. ...
... Development Mechanism Executive Board, a project must be approved by all involved parties, demonstrate a measurable and long-term ability to reduce emissions, and provide reductions that would be additional to any that would otherwise occur. ...
A Tale of Two Carbon Sinks - Scholarly Commons @ FAMU Law
... Any post-Kyoto climate change treaty regime must seek to fully engage the use of carbon sinks to complement emissions reduction measures in order to comply with the treaty's mandates. The Kyoto Protocol did not include avoided deforestation as a mechanism for earning emission reduction credits. Howe ...
... Any post-Kyoto climate change treaty regime must seek to fully engage the use of carbon sinks to complement emissions reduction measures in order to comply with the treaty's mandates. The Kyoto Protocol did not include avoided deforestation as a mechanism for earning emission reduction credits. Howe ...
On the Chopping Block - Allegheny Highlands Climate Change
... and flooding, periodic drought, rain replacing snow, the loss of historic forests and changing weather patterns, extirpation of high-value sporting species like the brook trout – these impacts threaten the Highlands's distinctive outdoor recreation and hospitality industry. The Pennsylvania Climate ...
... and flooding, periodic drought, rain replacing snow, the loss of historic forests and changing weather patterns, extirpation of high-value sporting species like the brook trout – these impacts threaten the Highlands's distinctive outdoor recreation and hospitality industry. The Pennsylvania Climate ...
A New Climate for Society
... of climate change. It shows how those polarities come into play at four levels of conceptual organization: community, polity, space and time. It explores what is at stake when an impersonal, apolitical, and universal imaginary of climate change, projected and endorsed by science, takes over from the ...
... of climate change. It shows how those polarities come into play at four levels of conceptual organization: community, polity, space and time. It explores what is at stake when an impersonal, apolitical, and universal imaginary of climate change, projected and endorsed by science, takes over from the ...
ITU and Early Warning
... applying the relevant practices since 80-th. Few examples: voluminous ITU-R service publications, distributed to all ITU-R Member States on weekly bases, are published on DVD and Internet, that significantly reduced the amount of paper (1 space networks data – up to 1000 pages), consumed by BR; WRCs ...
... applying the relevant practices since 80-th. Few examples: voluminous ITU-R service publications, distributed to all ITU-R Member States on weekly bases, are published on DVD and Internet, that significantly reduced the amount of paper (1 space networks data – up to 1000 pages), consumed by BR; WRCs ...
A decade of weather extremes - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
... The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in- and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming. Here, we review the evidence and argue that for some types of extreme — notably heatwaves, but also precipit ...
... The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in- and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming. Here, we review the evidence and argue that for some types of extreme — notably heatwaves, but also precipit ...
Carbon Dynamics in the Future Forest: the Importance
... C A R B O N D Y N A M I C S I N T H E F U T U R E F O R E S T 3503 as a significant cause of increasing tree mortality (Van Mantgem et al., 2009). Climate projections for California, suggest little change in annual total precipitation, although there are discrepancies among models (Lenihan et al., ...
... C A R B O N D Y N A M I C S I N T H E F U T U R E F O R E S T 3503 as a significant cause of increasing tree mortality (Van Mantgem et al., 2009). Climate projections for California, suggest little change in annual total precipitation, although there are discrepancies among models (Lenihan et al., ...
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... Although several threshold issues about climate change have been settled, scientists continue to question the adequacy of models predicting future climate changes and their impacts. In addition, many social-scientific issues remain unresolved, including questions about the nature, extent, and varia ...
... Although several threshold issues about climate change have been settled, scientists continue to question the adequacy of models predicting future climate changes and their impacts. In addition, many social-scientific issues remain unresolved, including questions about the nature, extent, and varia ...
Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement
... he ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”1. This objective can be operationalized by, for example, expressing ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference’ (DAI) in terms of a glob ...
... he ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”1. This objective can be operationalized by, for example, expressing ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference’ (DAI) in terms of a glob ...
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... equilibrium trade model, the LTEM, show clearly that while these mitigation strategies achieve the goal of GHG reduction, producer returns are also negatively affected. The value of these changes in emissions are then calculated, based on US$15/tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2), and producer returns adj ...
... equilibrium trade model, the LTEM, show clearly that while these mitigation strategies achieve the goal of GHG reduction, producer returns are also negatively affected. The value of these changes in emissions are then calculated, based on US$15/tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2), and producer returns adj ...
Earth, Climate, and Change: Observing Human Impact
... might occur slowly, with variation over months or years that obscures a definite overall trend. For example, because coral reefs grow slowly, changes to their structure or composition are difficult to observe day to day. The same slow alterations occur to polar caps, glaciers, and sea level. Over ti ...
... might occur slowly, with variation over months or years that obscures a definite overall trend. For example, because coral reefs grow slowly, changes to their structure or composition are difficult to observe day to day. The same slow alterations occur to polar caps, glaciers, and sea level. Over ti ...
Climate Change
... communities experience differences in food insecurity risks, even when they are in the same geographic region. Vulnerability to food insecurity arises both from biophysical and socio-economic reasons with both nutritional and livelihood effects. Pre-existing conditions of vulnerability make poor peo ...
... communities experience differences in food insecurity risks, even when they are in the same geographic region. Vulnerability to food insecurity arises both from biophysical and socio-economic reasons with both nutritional and livelihood effects. Pre-existing conditions of vulnerability make poor peo ...
Climate system complexity and vulnerability approach: A broader perspective on climate change
... CLIMATE change poses a big threat. I think Professor Lovelock is overcooking it slightly, but even if you look at the scientific consensus, the rate of warming is going to cause significant problems. It's bad news as it stands and it is going to cause major problems. We may get a runaway greenhouse ...
... CLIMATE change poses a big threat. I think Professor Lovelock is overcooking it slightly, but even if you look at the scientific consensus, the rate of warming is going to cause significant problems. It's bad news as it stands and it is going to cause major problems. We may get a runaway greenhouse ...
STATEMENT OF GUIDANCE FOR CLIMATE (other aspects
... avalanche, hail, fog, lightning, etc cause morbidity and mortality and reduce human well-being. If future global warming induced by increased concentrations of trace gases does occur, it has the potential to significantly affect human mortality. It is hypothesized that, if climate warming occurs, so ...
... avalanche, hail, fog, lightning, etc cause morbidity and mortality and reduce human well-being. If future global warming induced by increased concentrations of trace gases does occur, it has the potential to significantly affect human mortality. It is hypothesized that, if climate warming occurs, so ...
- CReaTE - Canterbury Christ Church University
... Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been rising since pre-industrial times, and by an average of 1.6% per year for the last 30 years (Rogner et al., 2007). Without policy interventions, they are expected to continue to rise in the future, with the likely effect of increased average glo ...
... Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been rising since pre-industrial times, and by an average of 1.6% per year for the last 30 years (Rogner et al., 2007). Without policy interventions, they are expected to continue to rise in the future, with the likely effect of increased average glo ...
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.