Canadian Climate Change Risk Assessment Guide
... 3.0 Overview of the risk management process ............................................................................ 5 3.1 Step1 - Establishing the context/getting started: .................................................................... 6 3.2 Step 2 - Risk identification: .................. ...
... 3.0 Overview of the risk management process ............................................................................ 5 3.1 Step1 - Establishing the context/getting started: .................................................................... 6 3.2 Step 2 - Risk identification: .................. ...
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... – Test afforestation interest and participation rates – Obtain feedback from landowners and industry 3. Other Linkages – Develop measurement and monitoring tools – Enhance public education and outreach – Conduct economic and social impact assessments ...
... – Test afforestation interest and participation rates – Obtain feedback from landowners and industry 3. Other Linkages – Develop measurement and monitoring tools – Enhance public education and outreach – Conduct economic and social impact assessments ...
Adapting to Climate Change
... and others understand the risks of potential climate impacts and the priorities and means of managing them. The guide should also be useful for other organizations such as local industry and businesses to help understand how to anticipate and deal with a changing climate. The Guide describes a risk- ...
... and others understand the risks of potential climate impacts and the priorities and means of managing them. The guide should also be useful for other organizations such as local industry and businesses to help understand how to anticipate and deal with a changing climate. The Guide describes a risk- ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED
... the Caribbean subregion, has come to rely on tourism as an instrument of transformation of the macroeconomy. It is believed this shift in economic imperative would eventually provide the economic impetus needed to generate much needed growth and development. This assessment has shown that tourism is ...
... the Caribbean subregion, has come to rely on tourism as an instrument of transformation of the macroeconomy. It is believed this shift in economic imperative would eventually provide the economic impetus needed to generate much needed growth and development. This assessment has shown that tourism is ...
A SUCCESSOR FOR THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
... the ability to absorb and re-emit infrared radiation.6 The three main gases that are recognised as GHGs are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane; however, compounds such as tropospheric ozone and halocarbons are also considered to be GHGs.7 It is widely agreed that the naturally occurring green ...
... the ability to absorb and re-emit infrared radiation.6 The three main gases that are recognised as GHGs are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane; however, compounds such as tropospheric ozone and halocarbons are also considered to be GHGs.7 It is widely agreed that the naturally occurring green ...
Making Marine Zoning Climate-Change Adaptable Robin Kundis Craig
... ecosystems and the socio-ecological systems of which they are a part will transition to new states of being that are productive and adaptive, rather than collapsing into the equivalent of decimated marine deserts. Marine spatial planning is a widely-promoted method for achieving at least the first t ...
... ecosystems and the socio-ecological systems of which they are a part will transition to new states of being that are productive and adaptive, rather than collapsing into the equivalent of decimated marine deserts. Marine spatial planning is a widely-promoted method for achieving at least the first t ...
Representation of Extreme Precipitation Events Leading to Opposite
... (IPCC) states that mean global temperatures will likely rise between 1.1 and 6.4 °C (with a best estimate of 1.8 to 4 °C) above 1990 levels by the end of this century. However, at regional level, the magnitude of the climate change signal (of different variables such as: temperature, precipitation, ...
... (IPCC) states that mean global temperatures will likely rise between 1.1 and 6.4 °C (with a best estimate of 1.8 to 4 °C) above 1990 levels by the end of this century. However, at regional level, the magnitude of the climate change signal (of different variables such as: temperature, precipitation, ...
... across the United States share their perspectives about how their movement can contribute to climate organizing, policy, and solutions. They also speak about how their movement can be strengthened by better integrating climate issues into the content of environmental justice. While climate change h ...
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... are multiple and random, with damages driven by the economy’s polluting activity. We provide a closed-form solution and show that the optimal path is characterized by a constant growth rate of consumption and the capital stock until a shock arrives, triggering a downward jump in both variables. Opti ...
... are multiple and random, with damages driven by the economy’s polluting activity. We provide a closed-form solution and show that the optimal path is characterized by a constant growth rate of consumption and the capital stock until a shock arrives, triggering a downward jump in both variables. Opti ...
On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
... such risks can swamp all other effects on welfare, including those that arise from conventional discounting, and make willingness to pay to avoid them formally infinite. Weitzman argues that this has radical implications for the way we evaluate policies that aim to mitigate climate change, and sugge ...
... such risks can swamp all other effects on welfare, including those that arise from conventional discounting, and make willingness to pay to avoid them formally infinite. Weitzman argues that this has radical implications for the way we evaluate policies that aim to mitigate climate change, and sugge ...
Everybody`s Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change
... across the United States share their perspectives about how their movement can contribute to climate organizing, policy, and solutions. They also speak about how their movement can be strengthened by better integrating climate issues into the content of environmental justice. While climate change h ...
... across the United States share their perspectives about how their movement can contribute to climate organizing, policy, and solutions. They also speak about how their movement can be strengthened by better integrating climate issues into the content of environmental justice. While climate change h ...
Estimating Future Costs for Alaska Public Infrastructure - ISER
... ture as it wears out, in existing communities. So far we haven’t estimated how the projection is from Japan. (See back page for complete citations.) Notice that under any of the projections, temperatures around Barrow are expected to rise enough amount and location of public infrastructure might cha ...
... ture as it wears out, in existing communities. So far we haven’t estimated how the projection is from Japan. (See back page for complete citations.) Notice that under any of the projections, temperatures around Barrow are expected to rise enough amount and location of public infrastructure might cha ...
On multiple solutions of the atmosphere–vegetation system in
... a grid cell covered by vegetation and forest, respectively), and leaf area index (area of leaves covering 1 m2 surface area), are taken as constant with respect to time depending only on the biome type (see section on Coupling of the atmospheric and biome components). ECHAM is able to simulate the p ...
... a grid cell covered by vegetation and forest, respectively), and leaf area index (area of leaves covering 1 m2 surface area), are taken as constant with respect to time depending only on the biome type (see section on Coupling of the atmospheric and biome components). ECHAM is able to simulate the p ...
Greenhouse effect and altitude gradients over the Alps – by
... 60 nighttime and 25 daytime case studies, distributed over the year, are used with measured LDR and LUR, and MODTRAN calculated LOR that includes radiosonde profiles from Payerne, station air temperature and skin temperature inferred from LUR. Gclr versus LDR relations for Payerne (490 m a.s.l.) and ...
... 60 nighttime and 25 daytime case studies, distributed over the year, are used with measured LDR and LUR, and MODTRAN calculated LOR that includes radiosonde profiles from Payerne, station air temperature and skin temperature inferred from LUR. Gclr versus LDR relations for Payerne (490 m a.s.l.) and ...
Committee on America's Climate Choices; National Research Council
... so is that the body of scientific knowledge about climate change is growing rapidly and, as it does, so too does our understanding of the nature and severity of potential consequences. Second, unlike most previous studies, this study looks across the full range of response options and the interactio ...
... so is that the body of scientific knowledge about climate change is growing rapidly and, as it does, so too does our understanding of the nature and severity of potential consequences. Second, unlike most previous studies, this study looks across the full range of response options and the interactio ...
With Speed and Violence Fred Pearce
... the coldest and most remote seas on Earth. And its swirling waters may be the switch that can turn the heat engine of the world's climate system on and off. If anything could trigger the climatic conflagration shown in the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow, it would be the chimney. The existenc ...
... the coldest and most remote seas on Earth. And its swirling waters may be the switch that can turn the heat engine of the world's climate system on and off. If anything could trigger the climatic conflagration shown in the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow, it would be the chimney. The existenc ...
Understanding Climate Diplomacy
... dangerous climate change. Recently the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed a review to assess the adequacy of the below 2°C target in light of a possible strengthening to a ‘below 1.5°C’ goal. No country can control the climate risk it faces on its own. Climate change is more ...
... dangerous climate change. Recently the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed a review to assess the adequacy of the below 2°C target in light of a possible strengthening to a ‘below 1.5°C’ goal. No country can control the climate risk it faces on its own. Climate change is more ...
Reducing the Social and Economic Impact of Climate Change and
... For these reasons, European insurers initiate and actively support public-private partnerships that aim to encourage adequate prevention measures and improve the conditions of insurability. Such measures will improve the conditions for private insurance to develop innovative insurance solutions (or ...
... For these reasons, European insurers initiate and actively support public-private partnerships that aim to encourage adequate prevention measures and improve the conditions of insurability. Such measures will improve the conditions for private insurance to develop innovative insurance solutions (or ...
Climate Scenario Development
... to the science of impact, adaptation and vulnerability assessment, considered by Working Group II. It also has a close dependence on emissions scenarios, which are discussed by Working Group III. Methods for Constructing Scenarios Useful information about possible future climates and their impacts h ...
... to the science of impact, adaptation and vulnerability assessment, considered by Working Group II. It also has a close dependence on emissions scenarios, which are discussed by Working Group III. Methods for Constructing Scenarios Useful information about possible future climates and their impacts h ...
Observed and Projected Ecological Response to Climate Change in
... resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, curr ...
... resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, curr ...
Future changes in the supply of goods and services - Munin
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
gov commision report
... emissions will need to be reduced by 25% below the 1990 level by 2020, and 80% below the 1990 level by 2050. While the IPCC predicts that overall changes to the world’s climate will be extremely damaging, it also acknowledges that there may be some beneficial effects for some human endeavors (like t ...
... emissions will need to be reduced by 25% below the 1990 level by 2020, and 80% below the 1990 level by 2050. While the IPCC predicts that overall changes to the world’s climate will be extremely damaging, it also acknowledges that there may be some beneficial effects for some human endeavors (like t ...
Guidelines on Analysis of extremes in a changing climate in support
... in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extre ...
... in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extre ...
36 - Ecology and Society
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
Can Social Protection Increase Resilience to Climate Change?
... Nevertheless, important empirical gaps remain that might help to explain to what extent the agenda relating to social protection is compatible with plans dealing with resilience to climate ...
... Nevertheless, important empirical gaps remain that might help to explain to what extent the agenda relating to social protection is compatible with plans dealing with resilience to climate ...
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.