Sea-level rise impacts on transport infrastructure: the notorious case
... with populations exceeding eight million) situated on the coast (Nicholls et al., 2008) and transport infrastructure including ports, airports road and rail links all under threat. Evidence from the United States identifies the potential impacts on the transport infrastructure of Boston (e.g., Suarez ...
... with populations exceeding eight million) situated on the coast (Nicholls et al., 2008) and transport infrastructure including ports, airports road and rail links all under threat. Evidence from the United States identifies the potential impacts on the transport infrastructure of Boston (e.g., Suarez ...
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... groundbreaking Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for transportation fuels sold in California. By 2020 the standard will reduce the carbon intensity of California's passenger vehicle fuels by at least 10 percent. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is currently considering or actively working on ...
... groundbreaking Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for transportation fuels sold in California. By 2020 the standard will reduce the carbon intensity of California's passenger vehicle fuels by at least 10 percent. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is currently considering or actively working on ...
We Stand as One: Children, Young People and Climate Change
... the school that moved After a landslide tragically killed 1,100 people in 2006 in the Philippines town of Guinsangon in Southern Leyte, the Philippines Government ordered a study which found the Santa Paz National High School and its 379 students were directly in the path of a potential future lands ...
... the school that moved After a landslide tragically killed 1,100 people in 2006 in the Philippines town of Guinsangon in Southern Leyte, the Philippines Government ordered a study which found the Santa Paz National High School and its 379 students were directly in the path of a potential future lands ...
Insert Country - United Nations REDD Programme
... 3. Framework for Forest Carbon Monitoring and Reporting; 4. REDD Costs and Fiscal Transfer Options; 5. Stakeholders Engagement in PNG’s REDD Readiness Process. Status of NJP: PNG’s NJP proposal for an “initial “ assistance for the Readiness Activities scheduled to begin on 1 May 2009 – 30 April ...
... 3. Framework for Forest Carbon Monitoring and Reporting; 4. REDD Costs and Fiscal Transfer Options; 5. Stakeholders Engagement in PNG’s REDD Readiness Process. Status of NJP: PNG’s NJP proposal for an “initial “ assistance for the Readiness Activities scheduled to begin on 1 May 2009 – 30 April ...
climate variability - NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
... values are often quite vulnerable to hydrologic extremes. At the same time, efforts to preserve those values constrain traditional engineering approaches to managing variable streamflows. Thus, the significance of water resource variability is growing at a time when anticipated global climate change ...
... values are often quite vulnerable to hydrologic extremes. At the same time, efforts to preserve those values constrain traditional engineering approaches to managing variable streamflows. Thus, the significance of water resource variability is growing at a time when anticipated global climate change ...
English
... management, restoring macroeconomic stability, and developing policies and programmes to address the needs of rural women and unemployed youths. 11. In collaboration with the Government, UNDP piloted the Songhai project through South-South cooperation and replicated the model, where 165 jobs have be ...
... management, restoring macroeconomic stability, and developing policies and programmes to address the needs of rural women and unemployed youths. 11. In collaboration with the Government, UNDP piloted the Songhai project through South-South cooperation and replicated the model, where 165 jobs have be ...
Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2
... Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature1, 2 in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and seafood for all or part of their diets. The changes may reduce the amount of wild caught seafood that ca ...
... Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature1, 2 in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and seafood for all or part of their diets. The changes may reduce the amount of wild caught seafood that ca ...
Climate Change Presentation
... There is widespread awareness of the large number of recent extreme weather events (droughts, tornadoes, snowstorms, hurricanes, heat waves In 2012, there were 34,000 daily high temperature records set across the United States ...
... There is widespread awareness of the large number of recent extreme weather events (droughts, tornadoes, snowstorms, hurricanes, heat waves In 2012, there were 34,000 daily high temperature records set across the United States ...
Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World
... Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature1, 2 in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and seafood for all or part of their diets. The changes may reduce the amount of wild caught seafood that ca ...
... Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature1, 2 in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and seafood for all or part of their diets. The changes may reduce the amount of wild caught seafood that ca ...
Climate change, wine, and conservation
... vineyard managers attempt to cool grapes on the vine to reduce quality loss from heat stress and to reduce drought stress (23). Potential damage to freshwater environments is generally highest where water is already scarce (24). Climate change may bring precipitation decreases to some regions, incre ...
... vineyard managers attempt to cool grapes on the vine to reduce quality loss from heat stress and to reduce drought stress (23). Potential damage to freshwater environments is generally highest where water is already scarce (24). Climate change may bring precipitation decreases to some regions, incre ...
Bunker Fuels and the Kyoto Protocol How ICAO and the IMO Failed
... from international aviation and marine bunker fuels should be calculated as part of the national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories of Parties but should be excluded from national totals and reported separately because of their international character. This decision proved over time to weaken the ince ...
... from international aviation and marine bunker fuels should be calculated as part of the national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories of Parties but should be excluded from national totals and reported separately because of their international character. This decision proved over time to weaken the ince ...
McREDD: How McKinsey `cost-curves` are distorting - REDD
... and recommendations. We believe that use of the cost-curve could mislead decision-makers as to the choice of the most appropriate strategies for REDD and their likely costs and benefits. It could result in pressure to reduce deforestation and degradation falling disproportionately on local communiti ...
... and recommendations. We believe that use of the cost-curve could mislead decision-makers as to the choice of the most appropriate strategies for REDD and their likely costs and benefits. It could result in pressure to reduce deforestation and degradation falling disproportionately on local communiti ...
Integrated Climate Change Strategies for
... The planning approach suggested here is unique, since proposals for development of a regional climate strategy take account both of recommendations on adaptation to climate change and measures for reduction of GHG emission (Section 7). This integrated approach should lower decision-making costs in t ...
... The planning approach suggested here is unique, since proposals for development of a regional climate strategy take account both of recommendations on adaptation to climate change and measures for reduction of GHG emission (Section 7). This integrated approach should lower decision-making costs in t ...
National Security in the 21st Century: How the National Security
... on coasts, and much of the farmland located in flood plains.39 It is clear, however, that changing precipitation patterns, increased severe weather events, and rising sea levels are all expected in the future, with negative direct implications for U.S. national security interests.40 The more complex ...
... on coasts, and much of the farmland located in flood plains.39 It is clear, however, that changing precipitation patterns, increased severe weather events, and rising sea levels are all expected in the future, with negative direct implications for U.S. national security interests.40 The more complex ...
Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol
... groups to negotiations of important treaties, especially treaties on arms control and environmental matters (US Senate, 2001). In the Kyoto negotiations, senators were relatively highly engaged. Congressional observers were present at international meetings, where they had close contact with the neg ...
... groups to negotiations of important treaties, especially treaties on arms control and environmental matters (US Senate, 2001). In the Kyoto negotiations, senators were relatively highly engaged. Congressional observers were present at international meetings, where they had close contact with the neg ...
A note on including climate change adaptation in an international
... particular, this change will require an adaptation of economic activities to maintain their productivity, or sometimes a change in activity when no adaptation measure can compensate for environmental changes. This adaptation process can reveal costly and, considering the differences among countries ...
... particular, this change will require an adaptation of economic activities to maintain their productivity, or sometimes a change in activity when no adaptation measure can compensate for environmental changes. This adaptation process can reveal costly and, considering the differences among countries ...
From `fearing` to `empowering` climate refugees: Governing climate
... resilience (or resilience as adaptation). Engineering resilience describes the degree of disturbance a system can endure and still return to its previous equilibrium. For ecological resilience, in contrast, the maintenance of equilibria is less important. For a system to be resilient, it is only nec ...
... resilience (or resilience as adaptation). Engineering resilience describes the degree of disturbance a system can endure and still return to its previous equilibrium. For ecological resilience, in contrast, the maintenance of equilibria is less important. For a system to be resilient, it is only nec ...
Influence of Climate and Land Use Change on Carbon in Agriculture
... Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch (ECORC), Ottawa, ON, Canada ...
... Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch (ECORC), Ottawa, ON, Canada ...
Climate and carbon dioxide - World Rainforest Movement
... added. Sea levels are already set to rise by 50 centimetres by 2100, and if the Western Antarctic ice mass slips into the sea, they could go up six metres. Grain yields are likely to decline dangerously in the South over the next 50 years due to climate-induced soil degradation, floods, droughts and ...
... added. Sea levels are already set to rise by 50 centimetres by 2100, and if the Western Antarctic ice mass slips into the sea, they could go up six metres. Grain yields are likely to decline dangerously in the South over the next 50 years due to climate-induced soil degradation, floods, droughts and ...
of babies and bathwater: why the clean air act`s cooperative
... entirely on cap-and-trade.30 States are equally enthusiastic; three different regional partnerships are in the process of developing cap-and-trade systems.31 Internationally, the European Union has a full-fledged trading market32 designed to help it meet its Kyoto Protocol emission target. Two state ...
... entirely on cap-and-trade.30 States are equally enthusiastic; three different regional partnerships are in the process of developing cap-and-trade systems.31 Internationally, the European Union has a full-fledged trading market32 designed to help it meet its Kyoto Protocol emission target. Two state ...
Powerpoint - Steven J Phipps
... rapid, annual layering may remain visible 10,000 years back. In Antarctica, where snow accumulation rates are small, annual layering may not even occur at ice surface. - The further back one needs time horizons, or known events in the past that leave a mark. For example volcanoes will leave an acidi ...
... rapid, annual layering may remain visible 10,000 years back. In Antarctica, where snow accumulation rates are small, annual layering may not even occur at ice surface. - The further back one needs time horizons, or known events in the past that leave a mark. For example volcanoes will leave an acidi ...
Extreme climate events and wet grasslands: plant traits for
... (2012) describe extreme climatic events as statistically rare (90th percentile or above), at the extreme end of climate variables. From an ecological perspective, climate events can be considered a disturbance that impacts plant functioning, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Globally, extreme we ...
... (2012) describe extreme climatic events as statistically rare (90th percentile or above), at the extreme end of climate variables. From an ecological perspective, climate events can be considered a disturbance that impacts plant functioning, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Globally, extreme we ...
Climate Programme for Finnish Agriculture - Maa
... also possible to increase the profitability of production. The objective is to improve energy and material efficiency and reduce emissions per litre or kilo of production. The array of technology solutions we already have available should be taken into full use, while encouraging research and busine ...
... also possible to increase the profitability of production. The objective is to improve energy and material efficiency and reduce emissions per litre or kilo of production. The array of technology solutions we already have available should be taken into full use, while encouraging research and busine ...
A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster Reduction
... climate change, disaster reduction, desertification and others. Such a framework needs to start from a clear concept that climate related risk is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate related risks are sig ...
... climate change, disaster reduction, desertification and others. Such a framework needs to start from a clear concept that climate related risk is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate related risks are sig ...
Cognitive and affective risk judgements related to climate change
... attention in the last decades. The attention is motivated by claims that GCC will cause enormous worldwide problems in the future, and that it constitutes a challenge for humanity to mitigate or adapt to (United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2007a, 2007b). Attention is ...
... attention in the last decades. The attention is motivated by claims that GCC will cause enormous worldwide problems in the future, and that it constitutes a challenge for humanity to mitigate or adapt to (United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2007a, 2007b). Attention is ...