The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project
... et al., 2010). This research is key for our understanding of anthropogenic climate change, as evidenced by a dedicated chapter in every assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since the first report published in 1990. Over this time the resources available to this a ...
... et al., 2010). This research is key for our understanding of anthropogenic climate change, as evidenced by a dedicated chapter in every assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since the first report published in 1990. Over this time the resources available to this a ...
Aviation`s Contribution to Climate Change
... In 2006, IPCC issued its guidelines for the national greenhouse gas inventories (2006 IPCC guidelines ) 8 in order to assist countries in compiling complete, national inventories of greenhouse gases, including those from aviation. According to the guidelines, emissions from international and domesti ...
... In 2006, IPCC issued its guidelines for the national greenhouse gas inventories (2006 IPCC guidelines ) 8 in order to assist countries in compiling complete, national inventories of greenhouse gases, including those from aviation. According to the guidelines, emissions from international and domesti ...
Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
... In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group One, a panel of experts established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, issued its updated, Fourth Assessment Report, forecasts. The Report was commissioned at great cost in orde ...
... In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group One, a panel of experts established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, issued its updated, Fourth Assessment Report, forecasts. The Report was commissioned at great cost in orde ...
Climate Change and Variability in the Sahel Region
... fforts to address climate change have so far focused on two response strategies: mitigation and adaptation. This has been strongly stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Mitigation seeks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to avoid f ...
... fforts to address climate change have so far focused on two response strategies: mitigation and adaptation. This has been strongly stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Mitigation seeks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to avoid f ...
- Europa.eu
... atural disasters and climate change are among the greatest threats to development.1 Although natural disasters have always presented risks, climate change increases those risks and compounds them by adding a greater level of uncertainty. As a result of their increased frequency, the economic and soc ...
... atural disasters and climate change are among the greatest threats to development.1 Although natural disasters have always presented risks, climate change increases those risks and compounds them by adding a greater level of uncertainty. As a result of their increased frequency, the economic and soc ...
does adaptation to climate change provide food security?
... developing countries where one meteorological station is set to cover a wide geographic area. To address this issue we employ household specific rainfall and temperature data generated by the Thin Plate Spline method of spatial interpolation. This method imputes the farm specific values using latitu ...
... developing countries where one meteorological station is set to cover a wide geographic area. To address this issue we employ household specific rainfall and temperature data generated by the Thin Plate Spline method of spatial interpolation. This method imputes the farm specific values using latitu ...
The Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on Net Primary
... However, human activity and its effect on vegetation dynamics under the impact of climate change should not be ignored [20], as the vegetation often serves as the primary source of livelihood in many regions [21]. Population expansion and overgrazing may be the cause of the variation in vegetation. ...
... However, human activity and its effect on vegetation dynamics under the impact of climate change should not be ignored [20], as the vegetation often serves as the primary source of livelihood in many regions [21]. Population expansion and overgrazing may be the cause of the variation in vegetation. ...
Simulated Global-Mean Sea Level Changes over
... their sum falls short of the observed rate of sea level rise. This discrepancy has been discussed by previous authors; a completely satisfactory explanation of twentieth-century sea level rise is lacking. The model suggests that the apparent onset of sea level rise and glacier retreat during the fir ...
... their sum falls short of the observed rate of sea level rise. This discrepancy has been discussed by previous authors; a completely satisfactory explanation of twentieth-century sea level rise is lacking. The model suggests that the apparent onset of sea level rise and glacier retreat during the fir ...
ADAPTool - International Institute for Sustainable Development
... International Institute for Sustainable Development The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural a ...
... International Institute for Sustainable Development The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural a ...
Projected responses of North American grassland - ace
... Canada, the continental United States, and Alaska for 15 grassland songbird species routinely observed in the northern Great Plains (Table 1). The compiled data came primarily from two sources: roadside point counts conducted as part of the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) (Sauer et al. 201 ...
... Canada, the continental United States, and Alaska for 15 grassland songbird species routinely observed in the northern Great Plains (Table 1). The compiled data came primarily from two sources: roadside point counts conducted as part of the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) (Sauer et al. 201 ...
Climate change in the Arctic: current and future
... current adaptive capacity). This involves (1) identification of climatic conditions that represent risks to community members; (2) characterisation of how communities manage and experience these risks; and (3) identification of those processes and conditions that influence exposure to climatic risks ...
... current adaptive capacity). This involves (1) identification of climatic conditions that represent risks to community members; (2) characterisation of how communities manage and experience these risks; and (3) identification of those processes and conditions that influence exposure to climatic risks ...
divest riverside! - Riverside Church
... greenhouse gases (GHGs) in our atmosphere 40% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. GHGs—which absorb infra-red heat emitted by the Earth—are key to our survival when they are in the right proportions: Earth's average temperature would be well below freezing without them! The problem, ho ...
... greenhouse gases (GHGs) in our atmosphere 40% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. GHGs—which absorb infra-red heat emitted by the Earth—are key to our survival when they are in the right proportions: Earth's average temperature would be well below freezing without them! The problem, ho ...
Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Rising Seas
... are worsening with a warming climate (Office of Atmospheric Programs 2015; IPCC 2014a; Melillo, Richmond, and Yohe 2014; Spanger-Siegfried, Fitzpatrick, and Dahl 2014; The Risky Business Project 2014; Burkett and Davidson 2012; ...
... are worsening with a warming climate (Office of Atmospheric Programs 2015; IPCC 2014a; Melillo, Richmond, and Yohe 2014; Spanger-Siegfried, Fitzpatrick, and Dahl 2014; The Risky Business Project 2014; Burkett and Davidson 2012; ...
Mexico`s Climate Change Mid-Century Strategy
... public and private sectors that interact, make decisions, and ultimately drive climate change mitigation and adaptation in the country. The country envisioned by the Strategy considers that society sectors such as non-governmental organizations or interest-based groups, together with private sector ...
... public and private sectors that interact, make decisions, and ultimately drive climate change mitigation and adaptation in the country. The country envisioned by the Strategy considers that society sectors such as non-governmental organizations or interest-based groups, together with private sector ...
In Pursuit of a Sustainable World
... Our commitment to ensuring customer satisfaction involves offering the best-possible value, and this has meant unavoidable reductions in staff numbers. This was not a decision we took easily. It is always sad to have to restructure in this way, but we do so in the knowledge that making these difficu ...
... Our commitment to ensuring customer satisfaction involves offering the best-possible value, and this has meant unavoidable reductions in staff numbers. This was not a decision we took easily. It is always sad to have to restructure in this way, but we do so in the knowledge that making these difficu ...
SUBSTITUTION OF NATURAL GAS FOR COAL: CLIMATIC
... potentials, for example), here the unit pulse of each substance decays over the background concentrations resulting from the A1b emissions scenario (IPCC, 2000). Using the changing atmospheric composition modeled from the A1b emissions scenario as background is a more realistic approach than a const ...
... potentials, for example), here the unit pulse of each substance decays over the background concentrations resulting from the A1b emissions scenario (IPCC, 2000). Using the changing atmospheric composition modeled from the A1b emissions scenario as background is a more realistic approach than a const ...
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Tanzania
... adaptation requires that they be managed as components of a larger landscape of which human activities are part. The Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework is a conceptual framework based on an adaptive management approach to enhance and maintain ecological processes and ecosystem services at the landscape ...
... adaptation requires that they be managed as components of a larger landscape of which human activities are part. The Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework is a conceptual framework based on an adaptive management approach to enhance and maintain ecological processes and ecosystem services at the landscape ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... Research Volume Title: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and...
... usage. The earliest impacts papers adopt this simulation approach and suggest that global warming will significantly increase energy consumption. Cline (1992) provides the earliest study on the impacts of climate change in his seminal book The Economics of Climate Change. The section dealing with th ...
... usage. The earliest impacts papers adopt this simulation approach and suggest that global warming will significantly increase energy consumption. Cline (1992) provides the earliest study on the impacts of climate change in his seminal book The Economics of Climate Change. The section dealing with th ...
Greenwashing eco(?)tourism in New Zealand: What climate change?
... has failed to include local and indigenous communities in their list of stakeholders, or the benefits and costs that tourism adaptation measures may have on these communities. From a post-colonial perspective it seems that the UNWTO is more concerned about continuing lucrative tourism practices and ...
... has failed to include local and indigenous communities in their list of stakeholders, or the benefits and costs that tourism adaptation measures may have on these communities. From a post-colonial perspective it seems that the UNWTO is more concerned about continuing lucrative tourism practices and ...
One Million Climate Jobs - Campaign against Climate Change
... Another possibility comes from the work of the economist Thomas Piketty. The top 1% of people in the UK currently own about £2,400,000,000,000 in shares, property, bonds, pensions and the like. If the wealthiest one percent, and no one else, paid an annual tax of one pound for every two hundred poun ...
... Another possibility comes from the work of the economist Thomas Piketty. The top 1% of people in the UK currently own about £2,400,000,000,000 in shares, property, bonds, pensions and the like. If the wealthiest one percent, and no one else, paid an annual tax of one pound for every two hundred poun ...
Quaternary Vegetation Distribution
... Vegetation Processes and Dynamics At Quaternary time scales (101-105 years), vegetation dynamics are mainly forced by climate change, and plant taxa have primarily accommodated late-Quaternary climate change via local changes in abundance and regional to continental shifts in distribution (Huntley a ...
... Vegetation Processes and Dynamics At Quaternary time scales (101-105 years), vegetation dynamics are mainly forced by climate change, and plant taxa have primarily accommodated late-Quaternary climate change via local changes in abundance and regional to continental shifts in distribution (Huntley a ...
Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
... is a critical complement to adaptation strategies and to sustainable development, with the potential to provide global benefits for climate, crops, and health valued at $5.9 trillion annually, starting in 2030. In addition to supporting efforts to negotiate an agreed outcome under the UNFCCC by 2015 ...
... is a critical complement to adaptation strategies and to sustainable development, with the potential to provide global benefits for climate, crops, and health valued at $5.9 trillion annually, starting in 2030. In addition to supporting efforts to negotiate an agreed outcome under the UNFCCC by 2015 ...
A Climate Change Exposure Summary for Species and
... Earth’s atmosphere is undergoing unusual changes that may be altering the global climate (Jacobson et al. 2009). Over the last decade and a half, scientific consensus has emerged that climate change is occurring, and at a faster rate than was originally predicted (Parmesan and Galbraith 2004). Globa ...
... Earth’s atmosphere is undergoing unusual changes that may be altering the global climate (Jacobson et al. 2009). Over the last decade and a half, scientific consensus has emerged that climate change is occurring, and at a faster rate than was originally predicted (Parmesan and Galbraith 2004). Globa ...
Indicators of Canada`s Changing Climate
... some impacts of those changes are already noticeable. As citizens we need to be aware of those changes and their consequences for the world around us. That is why the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) commissioned this report. Its objective is not to predict how climate change ...
... some impacts of those changes are already noticeable. As citizens we need to be aware of those changes and their consequences for the world around us. That is why the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) commissioned this report. Its objective is not to predict how climate change ...
slides - Harvard Kennedy School
... • Features of the Kyoto Protocol worth building on -– Politics: Quantitative limits maximize national sovereignty – Economics: Market mechanisms, esp. international permit trading – Thus (2001) “You’re Getting Warmer: The Most Feasible Path for Addressing Global Climate Change Does Run Through Kyoto ...
... • Features of the Kyoto Protocol worth building on -– Politics: Quantitative limits maximize national sovereignty – Economics: Market mechanisms, esp. international permit trading – Thus (2001) “You’re Getting Warmer: The Most Feasible Path for Addressing Global Climate Change Does Run Through Kyoto ...