... acclimatization to new temperature regimes [26]. Vigotti et al. [29] suggest that acclimatization to a new climate regime can may not occur in a lifetime, as they found that an adult’s heat tolerance is influenced by the climate of their birthplace. Previous studies in industrialized countries have ...
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... carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes (see, e.g., review by Bovenberg and Goulder, 2002). Expanding upon these …ndings, this paper studies the implications of the …scal setting for the optimal policy mix between both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Speci…cally, I …rst theoretically cha ...
... carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes (see, e.g., review by Bovenberg and Goulder, 2002). Expanding upon these …ndings, this paper studies the implications of the …scal setting for the optimal policy mix between both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Speci…cally, I …rst theoretically cha ...
PROJECT / PROGRAMME CONCEPT NOTE GREEN CLIMATE
... and social aspirations of MMA coastal communities, if no risks reduction measures are immediately taken. Recognizing the above issues, reducing climate change risks in costal zones has been retained by Liberia as the most urgent adaptation intervention in the NAPA (2007), the INC (2013) and the INDC ...
... and social aspirations of MMA coastal communities, if no risks reduction measures are immediately taken. Recognizing the above issues, reducing climate change risks in costal zones has been retained by Liberia as the most urgent adaptation intervention in the NAPA (2007), the INC (2013) and the INDC ...
Australia`s Biodiversity in a changing climate
... Preventing extinction: Australia has more animal species than any of the 16 other ‘mega-diverse’ countries, which together hold two thirds of all species known on earth. Thousands of native plant and animal species are at risk: 55 animal and 48 plant species are already extinct and another 371 anima ...
... Preventing extinction: Australia has more animal species than any of the 16 other ‘mega-diverse’ countries, which together hold two thirds of all species known on earth. Thousands of native plant and animal species are at risk: 55 animal and 48 plant species are already extinct and another 371 anima ...
Draft Cars Model Story Line - Tufts Office of Sustainability
... atmosphere to stabilize under 450 ppm? How to get the blue line to fall to here? ...
... atmosphere to stabilize under 450 ppm? How to get the blue line to fall to here? ...
Understanding future risks to ports in Australia
... critical infrastructure in the face of multiple stressors over the coming years and decades. This includes concern that climate change will pose increasing challenges to the continuing successful operation of Australia’s seaports. In response, this report documents the activity and findings of resea ...
... critical infrastructure in the face of multiple stressors over the coming years and decades. This includes concern that climate change will pose increasing challenges to the continuing successful operation of Australia’s seaports. In response, this report documents the activity and findings of resea ...
Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate
... quality and lowering water availability), and it can profoundly alter key ecological and hydrological qualities (for example, altering fundamental flow regime qualities). Climate change is now beginning to shift from its current role as an “intensifier” to a widespread fundamental driver of changes ...
... quality and lowering water availability), and it can profoundly alter key ecological and hydrological qualities (for example, altering fundamental flow regime qualities). Climate change is now beginning to shift from its current role as an “intensifier” to a widespread fundamental driver of changes ...
What is Climate Change and How it will effect Bangladesh?
... The world‟s climate has always been changing between hotter and cooler periods due to various factors. However, for the first time in the earth‟s history it has now been firmly established that its human inhabitants are altering the climate through global warming as a result of greenhouse gas emissi ...
... The world‟s climate has always been changing between hotter and cooler periods due to various factors. However, for the first time in the earth‟s history it has now been firmly established that its human inhabitants are altering the climate through global warming as a result of greenhouse gas emissi ...
Competition for land in the global bioeconomy
... options. Rose et al. (2012) summarize the findings from these IAMs with regard to the long-run allocation of the world’s land resources between biofuels, agriculture, and forests. They find that land-based mitigation options could contribute anywhere between 15% and 40% of the total mitigation requi ...
... options. Rose et al. (2012) summarize the findings from these IAMs with regard to the long-run allocation of the world’s land resources between biofuels, agriculture, and forests. They find that land-based mitigation options could contribute anywhere between 15% and 40% of the total mitigation requi ...
The millennial atmospheric lifetime of anthropogenic CO2
... At about the same time as the first accurate pCO2 measurements, Revelle and Suess (1957) showed that the uptake of CO2 into seawater is enhanced by carbonate buffer chemistry, but only one tenth as strongly as might be naively inferred from the relative concentrations of carbon in the air and in the ...
... At about the same time as the first accurate pCO2 measurements, Revelle and Suess (1957) showed that the uptake of CO2 into seawater is enhanced by carbonate buffer chemistry, but only one tenth as strongly as might be naively inferred from the relative concentrations of carbon in the air and in the ...
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... These shifts have led to new land use patterns and increased combustion of fossil fuel for energy, which in turn have resulted in a significant increase in the emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. The accumulation of these gases in the atmosphere has altered the Earth’s ...
... These shifts have led to new land use patterns and increased combustion of fossil fuel for energy, which in turn have resulted in a significant increase in the emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. The accumulation of these gases in the atmosphere has altered the Earth’s ...
The Extinction of the Woolley Mammoth
... The warming of the climate was believed to have caused the extinction of the woolly mammals. However, these species that are adaptable to the cold climates were able to survive the warmer Periods. Therefore, many researchers deduced that it was more human-factor that pushed the Extinction. (Miller e ...
... The warming of the climate was believed to have caused the extinction of the woolly mammals. However, these species that are adaptable to the cold climates were able to survive the warmer Periods. Therefore, many researchers deduced that it was more human-factor that pushed the Extinction. (Miller e ...
10-054a - Victorian Legislation
... A decision of the Government of Victoria in response to climate change should complement any actions of the Commonwealth Government relating to climate change including, but not limited to, an emissions trading scheme and any targets or caps on greenhouse emissions fixed by the Commonwealth Governme ...
... A decision of the Government of Victoria in response to climate change should complement any actions of the Commonwealth Government relating to climate change including, but not limited to, an emissions trading scheme and any targets or caps on greenhouse emissions fixed by the Commonwealth Governme ...
Applied Energy - Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford
... to 2!C, assuming other sectors play their part, no new investment in fossil electricity infrastructure (without carbon capture) is feasible from 2017 at the latest, unless energy policy leads to early stranding of polluting assets or large scale carbon capture deployment. If other sectors remain on ...
... to 2!C, assuming other sectors play their part, no new investment in fossil electricity infrastructure (without carbon capture) is feasible from 2017 at the latest, unless energy policy leads to early stranding of polluting assets or large scale carbon capture deployment. If other sectors remain on ...
What is Climate Change and How it will effect
... The world’s climate has always been changing between hotter and cooler periods due to various factors. However, for the first time in the earth’s history it has now been firmly established that its human inhabitants are altering the climate through global warming as a result of greenhouse gas emissi ...
... The world’s climate has always been changing between hotter and cooler periods due to various factors. However, for the first time in the earth’s history it has now been firmly established that its human inhabitants are altering the climate through global warming as a result of greenhouse gas emissi ...
Background Report: Integrated Ecological Impact Assessment
... showing increases in annual precipitation, with drying trends in the summer in the south and summer increases in the north. Extreme weather events seem to be increasing. All these factors will influence ecological, and therefore social and economic values into the future. Potential climate futures ...
... showing increases in annual precipitation, with drying trends in the summer in the south and summer increases in the north. Extreme weather events seem to be increasing. All these factors will influence ecological, and therefore social and economic values into the future. Potential climate futures ...
Center for Global Environmental Research
... The Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER) at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) was established in October 1990. CGER’s main objectives are to contribute to the scientific understanding of global change and to identify solutions for pressing environmental problems. CGE ...
... The Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER) at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) was established in October 1990. CGER’s main objectives are to contribute to the scientific understanding of global change and to identify solutions for pressing environmental problems. CGE ...
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... There is an increasing interest amongst governments and civil society actors in the environmental consequences of large investors´ behaviour. This can be witnessed for example with the “divest from fossil fuels” movement driving climate change up the agenda, especially in the US. Moreover, governmen ...
... There is an increasing interest amongst governments and civil society actors in the environmental consequences of large investors´ behaviour. This can be witnessed for example with the “divest from fossil fuels” movement driving climate change up the agenda, especially in the US. Moreover, governmen ...
Northern High-Latitude Heat Budget Decomposition and
... strength and the causal mechanisms are far from certain. Intermodel correlations (e.g., Holland and Bitz 2003) and heat budgets (Winton 2006) have been used to identify a number of factors that contribute to the uncertainty, such as model differences in cloud cover, ocean heat transport, sea ice sta ...
... strength and the causal mechanisms are far from certain. Intermodel correlations (e.g., Holland and Bitz 2003) and heat budgets (Winton 2006) have been used to identify a number of factors that contribute to the uncertainty, such as model differences in cloud cover, ocean heat transport, sea ice sta ...
Hybrid statistical–dynamic seasonal streamflow forecasting method
... future climate several months or years ahead. Global climate models are more complex and difficult to run but can potentially provide better forecast because they simulate the actual climate system and, unlike statistical models, do not assume stationarity in the system. A drawback, however, is that ...
... future climate several months or years ahead. Global climate models are more complex and difficult to run but can potentially provide better forecast because they simulate the actual climate system and, unlike statistical models, do not assume stationarity in the system. A drawback, however, is that ...
Global action on climate change in agriculture: Linkages to food security, markets and trade policies in developing countries
... The objective of this report is to catalyse thinking about the ways in which agriculture – which has a vital role in global food security, development and natural resources use – can and must be fully integrated into national strategies and a consensus-based multilateral framework to address the cha ...
... The objective of this report is to catalyse thinking about the ways in which agriculture – which has a vital role in global food security, development and natural resources use – can and must be fully integrated into national strategies and a consensus-based multilateral framework to address the cha ...
Participatory scenario planning for community
... associated impacts and develop a locally relevant action plan. The process allows them to effectively manage both the opportunities and risks of change thereby increasing their resilience. It is not a tool to predict or forecast the future but a gives a community a shared understanding of the possib ...
... associated impacts and develop a locally relevant action plan. The process allows them to effectively manage both the opportunities and risks of change thereby increasing their resilience. It is not a tool to predict or forecast the future but a gives a community a shared understanding of the possib ...
Emulating coupled atmosphere-ocean and carbon cycle models
... way certain processes or components (such as clouds) are “parameterized” or expressed in relatively simple terms – these parameterizations are structural components of the model. Within these parameterizations there may be a number of parameters, and parametric uncertainties arise from the uncertain ...
... way certain processes or components (such as clouds) are “parameterized” or expressed in relatively simple terms – these parameterizations are structural components of the model. Within these parameterizations there may be a number of parameters, and parametric uncertainties arise from the uncertain ...
Poland`s Climate Policy- The strategies for greenhouse gas
... The decade of the 1990s brought growing unfavourable atmospheric phenomena causing a variety of weather anomalies. The international research and development and political communities quite generally believe that the dynamics of atmospheric phenomena now to be observed may be the effect of cumulated ...
... The decade of the 1990s brought growing unfavourable atmospheric phenomena causing a variety of weather anomalies. The international research and development and political communities quite generally believe that the dynamics of atmospheric phenomena now to be observed may be the effect of cumulated ...
drainage development in a changing environment:overview
... excessive salinity buildup in crop root zones and created yield reductions or caused land abandonment in severe cases. In humid and sub-humid tropics, population pressures and the need to adopt more intensive and higher input crop husbandry have led to a sharper focus on flood control and flood alle ...
... excessive salinity buildup in crop root zones and created yield reductions or caused land abandonment in severe cases. In humid and sub-humid tropics, population pressures and the need to adopt more intensive and higher input crop husbandry have led to a sharper focus on flood control and flood alle ...