The Carbon Neutral Myth
... conscious behaviour and discourages waste and extravagance. In this scenario, driving an urban SUV or taking short-haul flights for frivolous reasons ...
... conscious behaviour and discourages waste and extravagance. In this scenario, driving an urban SUV or taking short-haul flights for frivolous reasons ...
The impact of climate change on growth of local white spruce
... precipitation will be modified. Over the last two decades, many studies have attempted to evaluate the potential impact of these global phenomena on forest ecosystems and more precisely on their composition, functioning and productivity (e.g., in Ontario for North American boreal forest, Papadopol, ...
... precipitation will be modified. Over the last two decades, many studies have attempted to evaluate the potential impact of these global phenomena on forest ecosystems and more precisely on their composition, functioning and productivity (e.g., in Ontario for North American boreal forest, Papadopol, ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... ranching, although some dryland cropping under irrigation also takes place. Cattle rearing is predominant in the central and northern regions of the country, while karakul sheep, goat, and ostrich farming are concentrated in the more arid southern regions. The cultivation of rainfed crops in Namibia ...
... ranching, although some dryland cropping under irrigation also takes place. Cattle rearing is predominant in the central and northern regions of the country, while karakul sheep, goat, and ostrich farming are concentrated in the more arid southern regions. The cultivation of rainfed crops in Namibia ...
SoE 08 Part 4.1 Atmos - Commissioner for Environmental
... change – by governments, business and industry and by the wider community – are currently dominating international, national and local policy debates around environmental sustainability. Those responses are important not only to address the problem of climate change but they are also relevant for ad ...
... change – by governments, business and industry and by the wider community – are currently dominating international, national and local policy debates around environmental sustainability. Those responses are important not only to address the problem of climate change but they are also relevant for ad ...
Report on Fifth Assessment Report 6
... reports: the three IPCC Working Groups dealing respectively with ‘The Physical Science Basis’, ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’, ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’ and the Synthesis Report. Each report contains its own Summary for Policymakers (SPM), which is approved in detail by all member coun ...
... reports: the three IPCC Working Groups dealing respectively with ‘The Physical Science Basis’, ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’, ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’ and the Synthesis Report. Each report contains its own Summary for Policymakers (SPM), which is approved in detail by all member coun ...
Inequality, communication, and the avoidance of disastrous climate change in a public goods game (opens in new window)
... heart of the sustainability of international climate change action (21, 22). Inequality has been studied extensively in the context of collective action problems. The presence of inequality is often found to complicate cooperation (23–25), although communication between users tends to improve the li ...
... heart of the sustainability of international climate change action (21, 22). Inequality has been studied extensively in the context of collective action problems. The presence of inequality is often found to complicate cooperation (23–25), although communication between users tends to improve the li ...
Climate Change in the Wet Tropics
... Heritage rainforests and reefs. International visitors return to their home country having made judgements about Australia’s environmental management. The environmental reputation of tourist destinations is an increasingly important factor in tourist destination planning and spending. Both the Austr ...
... Heritage rainforests and reefs. International visitors return to their home country having made judgements about Australia’s environmental management. The environmental reputation of tourist destinations is an increasingly important factor in tourist destination planning and spending. Both the Austr ...
Climate Relicts: Past, Present, Future
... tolerance limits? Which ecological and microevolutionary processes are they experiencing? What are their prospects under continued climatic change? These are highly relevant questions at a moment when global climate is warming rapidly, representing a major threat to Earth’s biodiversity. A wealth of ...
... tolerance limits? Which ecological and microevolutionary processes are they experiencing? What are their prospects under continued climatic change? These are highly relevant questions at a moment when global climate is warming rapidly, representing a major threat to Earth’s biodiversity. A wealth of ...
Climate Change: The Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Egypt
... need in the developing world to understand the threats from climate change, formulate policies that will lessen the risks and to take action (Abou-Hadid, 2006). The danger is greatest where natural systems are severely degraded and human systems are failing and therefore incapable of effective respo ...
... need in the developing world to understand the threats from climate change, formulate policies that will lessen the risks and to take action (Abou-Hadid, 2006). The danger is greatest where natural systems are severely degraded and human systems are failing and therefore incapable of effective respo ...
potential effects of climate change on ecosystem and tree species
... coverages, because the statistical power of the tests is inflated by using a very large number of highly autocorrelated observations. Also, the tests of assumptions were not strictly necessary because we were only interested in the capability of PROC DISCRIM to assign observations to groups, and we d ...
... coverages, because the statistical power of the tests is inflated by using a very large number of highly autocorrelated observations. Also, the tests of assumptions were not strictly necessary because we were only interested in the capability of PROC DISCRIM to assign observations to groups, and we d ...
Consequences of Climate Change and Variability in the for a Vulnerability Assessment
... Change (USNA) - in which we were involved-did not attempt to provide regional or even national predictions of climate change.” Later in the letter in Nature, they conclude with, “We strongly agree that much more reliable regional climate simulations and analyses are needed. However, at present,...su ...
... Change (USNA) - in which we were involved-did not attempt to provide regional or even national predictions of climate change.” Later in the letter in Nature, they conclude with, “We strongly agree that much more reliable regional climate simulations and analyses are needed. However, at present,...su ...
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... seasonality, and extremes of temperature and precipitation. Altitude was derived from digital elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM); this was then resampled into 2.5 arc minute (,5 km) spatial resolution by using the nearest neighbor resampling technique in ArcGIS. We calc ...
... seasonality, and extremes of temperature and precipitation. Altitude was derived from digital elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM); this was then resampled into 2.5 arc minute (,5 km) spatial resolution by using the nearest neighbor resampling technique in ArcGIS. We calc ...
Earth`s Climate System
... With all the media reports about climate change, people in your community turn to you to help them figure out if it is really happening. They ask you to generate a common sense index of climate change that could be used by long-time residents (longer than 20 years) of your community. The index shoul ...
... With all the media reports about climate change, people in your community turn to you to help them figure out if it is really happening. They ask you to generate a common sense index of climate change that could be used by long-time residents (longer than 20 years) of your community. The index shoul ...
... having the potential to create potential catastrophe in Barbados. The main contributing factor is the concentration of socioeconomic infrastructure along the coastline in vulnerable areas. The A2 and B2 projections have indicated that the number of catastrophes that can be classified as great is lik ...
Argentina - Met Office
... 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 ...
Background paper
... climate change issues. With it also comes the possibility that Zambia could become part of the global REDD+ mechanism. Therefore, bringing key stakeholders together to help develop the guidelines for integrating climate change issues into national forest programmes is timely. ...
... climate change issues. With it also comes the possibility that Zambia could become part of the global REDD+ mechanism. Therefore, bringing key stakeholders together to help develop the guidelines for integrating climate change issues into national forest programmes is timely. ...
View/Open
... The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication, including in maps, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Food Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning th ...
... The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication, including in maps, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Food Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning th ...
Evolutionary and plastic responses of freshwater invertebrates to
... The three studies differ in the strength of inference with respect to the genetic nature of the changes, as well as to the degree in which global warming has been demonstrated to be the selective agent behind the shifts. While A. albopictus was kept in the laboratory for 3–14 generations before bein ...
... The three studies differ in the strength of inference with respect to the genetic nature of the changes, as well as to the degree in which global warming has been demonstrated to be the selective agent behind the shifts. While A. albopictus was kept in the laboratory for 3–14 generations before bein ...
Climate Change and Hunger - Responding to the Challenge
... The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication, including in maps, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Food Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning th ...
... The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication, including in maps, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Food Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning th ...
- The University of Liverpool Repository
... Kenya where data appears to indicate an increase in epidemic frequency due to warming temperatures, although these studies also highlighted the need to account for non-climatic factors. There has been debate regarding the attribution of these changes to anthropogenic climate change since the 2000s. ...
... Kenya where data appears to indicate an increase in epidemic frequency due to warming temperatures, although these studies also highlighted the need to account for non-climatic factors. There has been debate regarding the attribution of these changes to anthropogenic climate change since the 2000s. ...
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... mushroomed in recent years. One observer counts 118 lawsuits and petitions for government action filed on climate change issues through the end of 2008—41 lawsuits filed in 2007 alone.1 Representatives of some suing organizations and states acknowledge that a prime cause for this litigation surge wa ...
... mushroomed in recent years. One observer counts 118 lawsuits and petitions for government action filed on climate change issues through the end of 2008—41 lawsuits filed in 2007 alone.1 Representatives of some suing organizations and states acknowledge that a prime cause for this litigation surge wa ...
Impacts of climate change on hydrological regime and water
... functioning of the existing Koshi barrage and the river embankments. As a result, Koshi High Dam Project, which was envisioned in 1937 to effectively “cure” the flooding problem, has once again come forward as a revitalized issue for flood control, irrigation and hydropower generation. Koshi High Da ...
... functioning of the existing Koshi barrage and the river embankments. As a result, Koshi High Dam Project, which was envisioned in 1937 to effectively “cure” the flooding problem, has once again come forward as a revitalized issue for flood control, irrigation and hydropower generation. Koshi High Da ...