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Climate change impacts and adaptation in the Southern
... Other approaches for predicting impacts ............................................................................................................. 18 Predictions for southwestern Australian biota ................................................................................................. 18 ...
... Other approaches for predicting impacts ............................................................................................................. 18 Predictions for southwestern Australian biota ................................................................................................. 18 ...
Quantifying the relative contribution of the climate and direct human
... annual total precipitation have increased during the period of 1948–1997 across the eastern United States, and the trends appear to arise primarily from the increase in autumn precipitation [Small et al., 2006]. More recently, Luce and Holden [2009] examined changes to the distribution of annual str ...
... annual total precipitation have increased during the period of 1948–1997 across the eastern United States, and the trends appear to arise primarily from the increase in autumn precipitation [Small et al., 2006]. More recently, Luce and Holden [2009] examined changes to the distribution of annual str ...
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... conditions, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to climate change. Thus, with this paper we also provide estimates of the expected impact of future climate change on migration in Ghana and Nigeria. It is important to stress that we are interested in climate — the average of ...
... conditions, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to climate change. Thus, with this paper we also provide estimates of the expected impact of future climate change on migration in Ghana and Nigeria. It is important to stress that we are interested in climate — the average of ...
Projecting future climate change: Implications of carbon cycle
... the absence of land use (preanthropogenic conditions) is specified in ISAM for comparison to DGVM results. Since the future cumulative change in carbon stocks in the terrestrial biosphere is more closely related to change in future atmospheric CO2 concentration over the next century than annual upta ...
... the absence of land use (preanthropogenic conditions) is specified in ISAM for comparison to DGVM results. Since the future cumulative change in carbon stocks in the terrestrial biosphere is more closely related to change in future atmospheric CO2 concentration over the next century than annual upta ...
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on the Built Environment
... impacts of climate change should therefore be considered in the location and design of major infrastructure projects. This Article recommends that existing procedures for environmental impact assessment (EIA) can and should be used to evaluate climate-related risks and adaptation options for such pr ...
... impacts of climate change should therefore be considered in the location and design of major infrastructure projects. This Article recommends that existing procedures for environmental impact assessment (EIA) can and should be used to evaluate climate-related risks and adaptation options for such pr ...
Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in
... United Nations (UN) agencies, are engaging in adaptation and development activities using a variety of approaches including community-based adaptation (CBA). Many of the projects demonstrate that autonomous strategies that were effective in dealing with past climate variability are becoming increasi ...
... United Nations (UN) agencies, are engaging in adaptation and development activities using a variety of approaches including community-based adaptation (CBA). Many of the projects demonstrate that autonomous strategies that were effective in dealing with past climate variability are becoming increasi ...
Word - Council of Europe
... adaptation strategies for biodiversity. Several countries and European bodies are starting to develop strategies for adaptation to climate change (Table 1). Such strategies tend to focus on technological, structural, and socio-economic developments, and linkages between biodiversity and adaptation a ...
... adaptation strategies for biodiversity. Several countries and European bodies are starting to develop strategies for adaptation to climate change (Table 1). Such strategies tend to focus on technological, structural, and socio-economic developments, and linkages between biodiversity and adaptation a ...
10 Years of Advancing Knowledge on the Global Carbon Cycle and
... The Global Carbon Project (GCP) was established in 2001 in recognition of the enormous scientific challenge and critical nature of the carbon cycle for the Earth’s sustainability. It was formed to establish a framework for international coordinated research on the global carbon cycle that advances f ...
... The Global Carbon Project (GCP) was established in 2001 in recognition of the enormous scientific challenge and critical nature of the carbon cycle for the Earth’s sustainability. It was formed to establish a framework for international coordinated research on the global carbon cycle that advances f ...
Agricultural Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation and
... Although intellectual property (IP) can also constrain technology transfer, it is almost never the most important barrier. Where IP seems to pose a problem, recent institutional and legal innovations provide a point of departure for effective remedies. ...
... Although intellectual property (IP) can also constrain technology transfer, it is almost never the most important barrier. Where IP seems to pose a problem, recent institutional and legal innovations provide a point of departure for effective remedies. ...
Low Emissions Diet
... animal agriculture. This booklet focuses on such impacts, as it is critical that we mitigate the relevant risks in an effort to avoid climate change tipping points, where a small change in human activity can lead to abrupt and significant changes in earth systems. Even in the absence of clear tippin ...
... animal agriculture. This booklet focuses on such impacts, as it is critical that we mitigate the relevant risks in an effort to avoid climate change tipping points, where a small change in human activity can lead to abrupt and significant changes in earth systems. Even in the absence of clear tippin ...
UN report: The coming financial climate
... the Inquiry’s work at both the country and international levels, harnessing the financial system to deliver climate security has emerged as a key cross-cutting issue. As a result, we are focusing this document – the Inquiry’s fourth progress report – on financial reforms that can reduce the risks of ...
... the Inquiry’s work at both the country and international levels, harnessing the financial system to deliver climate security has emerged as a key cross-cutting issue. As a result, we are focusing this document – the Inquiry’s fourth progress report – on financial reforms that can reduce the risks of ...
Sensitivity of thermohaline circulation to decadal and
... freshwater inputs with a variability of 10 and 70 years were simulated around Greenland. The length of the model run was 800 years, using initial conditions that were generated with a 1200-year spin-up run, during which no stochastic forcing was applied. The intensity of the freshwater input varied ...
... freshwater inputs with a variability of 10 and 70 years were simulated around Greenland. The length of the model run was 800 years, using initial conditions that were generated with a 1200-year spin-up run, during which no stochastic forcing was applied. The intensity of the freshwater input varied ...
Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse
... distribution data, and the option to automatically batch process using command line scripts – a critical characteristic given our need to construct models for three climate scenarios per species and to then project each of these models to nine time periods in the future. A potential problem with pro ...
... distribution data, and the option to automatically batch process using command line scripts – a critical characteristic given our need to construct models for three climate scenarios per species and to then project each of these models to nine time periods in the future. A potential problem with pro ...
From Impacts Assessment to Adaptation Priorities: the Shaping of
... Abstract Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adaptation has recently gained importance, yet adaptation is much less developed than mitigation as a policy response. Adaptation research has been used to help answer to related but distinct questions. (1) To what ex ...
... Abstract Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adaptation has recently gained importance, yet adaptation is much less developed than mitigation as a policy response. Adaptation research has been used to help answer to related but distinct questions. (1) To what ex ...
INDC technical report
... To successfully integrate adaptation planning into South Africa’s development objectives, a general context within which this should take place needs to be developed. This context is provided by the long term vision of the country, policies and sectoral strategies. In addition to these, the context ...
... To successfully integrate adaptation planning into South Africa’s development objectives, a general context within which this should take place needs to be developed. This context is provided by the long term vision of the country, policies and sectoral strategies. In addition to these, the context ...
On the Climate Crisis, It`s Donald Trump the World
... Let us choose to be clean and active today for the sake all of humanity, not toxic and reactive tomorrow, against nature.” Source: Yale University / United Nations http://fore.yale.edu/news/item/evo-morales-united-thedeveloping-countries-can-save-the-world1/ ...
... Let us choose to be clean and active today for the sake all of humanity, not toxic and reactive tomorrow, against nature.” Source: Yale University / United Nations http://fore.yale.edu/news/item/evo-morales-united-thedeveloping-countries-can-save-the-world1/ ...
Climate: Observations, projections and impacts
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
Regional climate change experiments over southern South America
... large scale forcing at the lateral boundaries, and are thus not shown. The changes in DJF are largely similar between the two scenario simulations showing a cell of increasing pressure centered in the southern Atlantic Ocean and a slight decrease in SLP over tropical and subtropical latitudes. In re ...
... large scale forcing at the lateral boundaries, and are thus not shown. The changes in DJF are largely similar between the two scenario simulations showing a cell of increasing pressure centered in the southern Atlantic Ocean and a slight decrease in SLP over tropical and subtropical latitudes. In re ...
Carbon Geography: The Political Economy of Congressional
... voters in each area. We document that counties with high carbon emissions per-capita are more likely to be poorer and represented by a conservative (based on voting records). Assuming that counties with high carbon emissions will have the most trouble in substituting away from carbon, these areas wi ...
... voters in each area. We document that counties with high carbon emissions per-capita are more likely to be poorer and represented by a conservative (based on voting records). Assuming that counties with high carbon emissions will have the most trouble in substituting away from carbon, these areas wi ...
Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Temperatures, Worsening
... industry sources with no uncertainty range presented. Over the same time period, VOC emissions decreased by 57 percent. These reductions are for anthropogenic sources and do not account for natural emissions. The decreases in precursor emissions coincide with a 30 percent decrease in eight‐hour a ...
... industry sources with no uncertainty range presented. Over the same time period, VOC emissions decreased by 57 percent. These reductions are for anthropogenic sources and do not account for natural emissions. The decreases in precursor emissions coincide with a 30 percent decrease in eight‐hour a ...
Sensitivity of thermohaline circulation to decadal
... freshwater inputs with a variability of 10 and 70 years were simulated around Greenland. The length of the model run was 800 years, using initial conditions that were generated with a 1200-year spin-up run, during which no stochastic forcing was applied. The intensity of the freshwater input varied ...
... freshwater inputs with a variability of 10 and 70 years were simulated around Greenland. The length of the model run was 800 years, using initial conditions that were generated with a 1200-year spin-up run, during which no stochastic forcing was applied. The intensity of the freshwater input varied ...
The Role of Regional SST Warming Variations in the - NCAR-RAL
... third phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) feature an intensified reduction of precipitation over the Meso-America (MA) region. While the drying is consistent with an amplification of the subtropical high pressure cells and an equatorward contraction of convective regions due t ...
... third phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) feature an intensified reduction of precipitation over the Meso-America (MA) region. While the drying is consistent with an amplification of the subtropical high pressure cells and an equatorward contraction of convective regions due t ...
Financing the Response to Climate Change
... Once its capital base is established, the fund could begin issuing highly-rated (and hence, low-cost) “green bonds” that could be sold to private investors as well as official holders— including, for instance, sovereign wealth funds. As a result, the Green Fund would be able to mobilize a multiple o ...
... Once its capital base is established, the fund could begin issuing highly-rated (and hence, low-cost) “green bonds” that could be sold to private investors as well as official holders— including, for instance, sovereign wealth funds. As a result, the Green Fund would be able to mobilize a multiple o ...
Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism
... of (i) removing sensitivity to the interests of the present if the present is better off than the future and (ii) relaxing to the set of non-decreasing streams the property that the trade-off between wellbeing in the first two periods be separable from the remainder of the stream. Regarding (i), th ...
... of (i) removing sensitivity to the interests of the present if the present is better off than the future and (ii) relaxing to the set of non-decreasing streams the property that the trade-off between wellbeing in the first two periods be separable from the remainder of the stream. Regarding (i), th ...