Lake Victoria CC Readness brief No. 3 English
... the Sahel and the Horn of Africa) dependence on climate-sensitive sectors makes it more vulnerable than other regions to climate hazards. Climate-related shocks manifested by extreme weather conditions have destroyed livelihoods and exacerbated Africa’s food insecurity, resulting in a hig ...
... the Sahel and the Horn of Africa) dependence on climate-sensitive sectors makes it more vulnerable than other regions to climate hazards. Climate-related shocks manifested by extreme weather conditions have destroyed livelihoods and exacerbated Africa’s food insecurity, resulting in a hig ...
Climate Change Law in Latin America
... The Regulatory Decree N. 7390 establishes specific mitigation targets for different economic sectors in Brazil concerning land-use change, energy, industrial processes and wastes, as well as agriculture. It calls for the adoption of sectoral mitigation and adaptation plans that include targets, acti ...
... The Regulatory Decree N. 7390 establishes specific mitigation targets for different economic sectors in Brazil concerning land-use change, energy, industrial processes and wastes, as well as agriculture. It calls for the adoption of sectoral mitigation and adaptation plans that include targets, acti ...
institutional capacity and climate actions case studies
... or may jeopardize compliance should the country have already taken on expanded commitments. A preliminary evaluation of Mexico's current mitigation capacity, its institutional limitations and the requirements it would have to meet, if it is to play a more significant role in the international climat ...
... or may jeopardize compliance should the country have already taken on expanded commitments. A preliminary evaluation of Mexico's current mitigation capacity, its institutional limitations and the requirements it would have to meet, if it is to play a more significant role in the international climat ...
Climate change, Environmental Degradation and Migration, 29
... populations in terms of shelter, food, sanitation and medical attention. Furthermore, a rights-based approach to disaster response also means making adequate provisions for the most vulnerable groups and taking account of special vulnerability factors such as gender, age, ethnicity, and health (incl ...
... populations in terms of shelter, food, sanitation and medical attention. Furthermore, a rights-based approach to disaster response also means making adequate provisions for the most vulnerable groups and taking account of special vulnerability factors such as gender, age, ethnicity, and health (incl ...
Documentation Support Specialist
... The Green Climate Fund (“the Fund”) is a new multilateral fund created to make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global efforts towards attaining the goals set by the international community to combat climate change. The Fund will contribute to the achievement of the ultimate objective ...
... The Green Climate Fund (“the Fund”) is a new multilateral fund created to make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global efforts towards attaining the goals set by the international community to combat climate change. The Fund will contribute to the achievement of the ultimate objective ...
Word format - Australian Human Rights Commission
... droughts, coastal erosion due to sea level rise; and to negative human health impacts, for example through an increase in the range and spread of disease.1 The impacts of climate change are also a particular concern in the Asia Pacific region. According to the fifth report from the Working Group on ...
... droughts, coastal erosion due to sea level rise; and to negative human health impacts, for example through an increase in the range and spread of disease.1 The impacts of climate change are also a particular concern in the Asia Pacific region. According to the fifth report from the Working Group on ...
Planning and Climate Change - Greater Manchester Minerals Plan
... The simultaneous generation of usable heat and power (usually electricity) in a single process, thereby reducing wasted heat and putting to use heat that would normally be wasted to the atmosphere, rivers or seas. CHP is an efficient form of decentralised energy supply providing heating and electric ...
... The simultaneous generation of usable heat and power (usually electricity) in a single process, thereby reducing wasted heat and putting to use heat that would normally be wasted to the atmosphere, rivers or seas. CHP is an efficient form of decentralised energy supply providing heating and electric ...
Effects on Ecosystems
... important in and/semi and and infertile areas However there is great uncertainty about whethei 01 not these mechanisms operate for prolonged periods in natural ecosystems For example there are no field data from whole ecosystem studies of forests that demonstrate a ' CO2 feitilization etlect It elev ...
... important in and/semi and and infertile areas However there is great uncertainty about whethei 01 not these mechanisms operate for prolonged periods in natural ecosystems For example there are no field data from whole ecosystem studies of forests that demonstrate a ' CO2 feitilization etlect It elev ...
Publications
... Manabe, S., J. Ploshy, and N-C Lau, Seasonal variation of surface temperature change during the last several decades. Journal of Climate, 24, 3817-3821, 2011. Tsushima, Y., and S. Manabe, Assessment of radiative feedback in climate models using satellite observation of annual flux variation. Proceed ...
... Manabe, S., J. Ploshy, and N-C Lau, Seasonal variation of surface temperature change during the last several decades. Journal of Climate, 24, 3817-3821, 2011. Tsushima, Y., and S. Manabe, Assessment of radiative feedback in climate models using satellite observation of annual flux variation. Proceed ...
Pulse response functions are cost-e cient tools to model the link
... even for models of simple structure. A typical example of inadequate interdisciplinary collaboration found in literature is then the coupling of a complex economic model to a very poor representation of the carbon cycle to estimate the abatement and mitigation cost of climate change. Such diculties ...
... even for models of simple structure. A typical example of inadequate interdisciplinary collaboration found in literature is then the coupling of a complex economic model to a very poor representation of the carbon cycle to estimate the abatement and mitigation cost of climate change. Such diculties ...
Climate finance for cities: how can climate funds best support low
... means that municipal governments across the developing world increasingly hold the levers to delivering the key services, such as transport, waste, water and energy that are centrally implicated in the challenge of achieving low-carbon and climate resilient urban development, although they frequentl ...
... means that municipal governments across the developing world increasingly hold the levers to delivering the key services, such as transport, waste, water and energy that are centrally implicated in the challenge of achieving low-carbon and climate resilient urban development, although they frequentl ...
Impact of climate change on ozone related mortality and morbidity in
... (NOX), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), methane (CH4) and carbon monoxide (CO). Climate change can affect ozone concentrations and thus influence respiratory health [1] through a number of processes, including chemical production, dilution and deposition of ozone that are ...
... (NOX), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), methane (CH4) and carbon monoxide (CO). Climate change can affect ozone concentrations and thus influence respiratory health [1] through a number of processes, including chemical production, dilution and deposition of ozone that are ...
the Measurement Problem Advances Pol. Psych. (forthcoming) PRELIMINARY DRAFT
... general education has been understood to have the aim of imparting the capacity to recognize and use pertinent scientific information in ordinary decisionmaking—personal, professional, and civic (Baron 1993). Someone who attains this form of “ordinary science intelligence” will no doubt have acquire ...
... general education has been understood to have the aim of imparting the capacity to recognize and use pertinent scientific information in ordinary decisionmaking—personal, professional, and civic (Baron 1993). Someone who attains this form of “ordinary science intelligence” will no doubt have acquire ...
Adopted - The James Bay Advisory Committee on the Environment
... problem due to inadequate consultation of the Crees concerned. According to the same member, the 2001 James Bay Region Development and Municipal Organization Act confers new powers on James Bay Municipality (JBM), but the Municipality does not respect the requi ...
... problem due to inadequate consultation of the Crees concerned. According to the same member, the 2001 James Bay Region Development and Municipal Organization Act confers new powers on James Bay Municipality (JBM), but the Municipality does not respect the requi ...
Future deforestation in the Amazon and consequences
... precipitation predicted under conditions of extensive deforestation, ‘savannization’ is expected in Eastern Amazonia under warming scenarios associated with anthropogenic climate change (Salazar et al., 2007; Senna et al., 2009), and the Amazon basin has been shown to exhibit two stable vegetation ...
... precipitation predicted under conditions of extensive deforestation, ‘savannization’ is expected in Eastern Amazonia under warming scenarios associated with anthropogenic climate change (Salazar et al., 2007; Senna et al., 2009), and the Amazon basin has been shown to exhibit two stable vegetation ...
Supplement
... importance of stratosphere-troposphere exchange for tropospheric ozone by performing an in-depth analysis of the tropospheric ozone budget terms. Overall, the analysis is rigorous and the paper is well-written. I recommend the acceptance of this paper by ACP after the following comments have been ad ...
... importance of stratosphere-troposphere exchange for tropospheric ozone by performing an in-depth analysis of the tropospheric ozone budget terms. Overall, the analysis is rigorous and the paper is well-written. I recommend the acceptance of this paper by ACP after the following comments have been ad ...
No consensus on consensus
... The IPCC scientific assessments play a primary role in legitimizing national and international policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The main practical objective of the IPCC has been to assess whether there is sufficient certainty in the science so as to trigger political action to re ...
... The IPCC scientific assessments play a primary role in legitimizing national and international policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The main practical objective of the IPCC has been to assess whether there is sufficient certainty in the science so as to trigger political action to re ...
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... infrastructure. We extend the Ricardian idea into McKinsey’s technology model, and incorporate explicit climate-technology interactions, in order to identify climate effects on the diffusion of HYVs, irrigation and multiple-cropping, and on Net Revenue to agriculture. We thus investigate whether dis ...
... infrastructure. We extend the Ricardian idea into McKinsey’s technology model, and incorporate explicit climate-technology interactions, in order to identify climate effects on the diffusion of HYVs, irrigation and multiple-cropping, and on Net Revenue to agriculture. We thus investigate whether dis ...
Effect of climate change on air quality
... as such are recognized as important climate forcing agents (Forster et al., 2007). Because of this dual role, the effect of climate change on surface air quality is often framed in the broader context of chemistry-climate interactions (Giorgi and Meleux, 2007; Gustafson and Leung, 2007), as shown di ...
... as such are recognized as important climate forcing agents (Forster et al., 2007). Because of this dual role, the effect of climate change on surface air quality is often framed in the broader context of chemistry-climate interactions (Giorgi and Meleux, 2007; Gustafson and Leung, 2007), as shown di ...
Postulated Feedbacks of Deciduous Forest Phenology on
... component. In this region, mean temperatures are 2°_3 °C warmer in April and October but nearly rc cooler in June and July, relative to a best-fitting s inusoidal function. Another feature of the climate in this region is that average precipitation is low ( 15-30 mm month-I) from October to April bu ...
... component. In this region, mean temperatures are 2°_3 °C warmer in April and October but nearly rc cooler in June and July, relative to a best-fitting s inusoidal function. Another feature of the climate in this region is that average precipitation is low ( 15-30 mm month-I) from October to April bu ...
Climate Change Adaptation Project Report
... The City of Castlegar spent nearly a year working with residents to explore potential climate change impacts on the community and what actions might be taken to maintain community life in a changed climate. The project focused on examining where the community is likely to be vulnerable to climate ch ...
... The City of Castlegar spent nearly a year working with residents to explore potential climate change impacts on the community and what actions might be taken to maintain community life in a changed climate. The project focused on examining where the community is likely to be vulnerable to climate ch ...
The Role Of Halocarbons In The Climate Change Of The
... efficiency is a radiative forcing per unit concentration, and is a measure of a halocarbons ability to alter surface temperature. Clouds absorb upwelling radiation from the surface and emit this at a cooler temperature, hence they reduce a halocarbons ability to warm the TTL. Using our cloud climato ...
... efficiency is a radiative forcing per unit concentration, and is a measure of a halocarbons ability to alter surface temperature. Clouds absorb upwelling radiation from the surface and emit this at a cooler temperature, hence they reduce a halocarbons ability to warm the TTL. Using our cloud climato ...
Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change
... offering valuable insight into the complex and oft-misunderstood group labeled “evangelical.” It is important to realize, whether from the perspective of policymakers, environmentalists, or evangelicals, that, as a group wielding significant political capital, evangelicals are currently deeply divid ...
... offering valuable insight into the complex and oft-misunderstood group labeled “evangelical.” It is important to realize, whether from the perspective of policymakers, environmentalists, or evangelicals, that, as a group wielding significant political capital, evangelicals are currently deeply divid ...
