Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and
... signals are particularly valuable when physical adaptation measures are also available, such as ‡ood defenses or choice of location. So, although the primary impetus for climate research was to inform and in‡uence high-level negotiations on collective action, knowing more about the likelihood of fut ...
... signals are particularly valuable when physical adaptation measures are also available, such as ‡ood defenses or choice of location. So, although the primary impetus for climate research was to inform and in‡uence high-level negotiations on collective action, knowing more about the likelihood of fut ...
Stern Review: robust methodology of its modelling in Chapter 6
... over a century or more as the effects appear with long lags and are very long-lived. The limitations to our ability to model over such a time scale demand caution in interpreting results, but projections can illustrate the risks involved – and policy here is about the economics of risk and uncertain ...
... over a century or more as the effects appear with long lags and are very long-lived. The limitations to our ability to model over such a time scale demand caution in interpreting results, but projections can illustrate the risks involved – and policy here is about the economics of risk and uncertain ...
Sensitivity of Crop Water Need to 2071–95
... and such studies generally support predictions of a warmer, drier Caribbean climate in the future (Nurse and Sem 2001). Peterson et al. (Peterson et al. 2002), for example, report a statistically significant warming trend over the Caribbean since the late 1950s. Long-term changes in rainfall are les ...
... and such studies generally support predictions of a warmer, drier Caribbean climate in the future (Nurse and Sem 2001). Peterson et al. (Peterson et al. 2002), for example, report a statistically significant warming trend over the Caribbean since the late 1950s. Long-term changes in rainfall are les ...
Climate Smart Agriculture
... agriculture will, in a business as usual scenario, exceed the global limits of what is sustainably available by 2030. Also, productive farmland in areas close to the market is in scarce supply, and land degradation is an important issue. ...
... agriculture will, in a business as usual scenario, exceed the global limits of what is sustainably available by 2030. Also, productive farmland in areas close to the market is in scarce supply, and land degradation is an important issue. ...
Protecting Cultural Heritage and Adapting to Climate Change
... By analysing past hydrological structures in the city of Lund, Sweden, this paper highlights the contexts in which knowledge of the dynamic landscape in its origin, and the subsequent integration of human implementation and perception, will provide a complementary guidance to sustainable planning ...
... By analysing past hydrological structures in the city of Lund, Sweden, this paper highlights the contexts in which knowledge of the dynamic landscape in its origin, and the subsequent integration of human implementation and perception, will provide a complementary guidance to sustainable planning ...
REGULATING GREENHOUSE GASES UNDER THE CLEAN AIR
... The world has attempted to find a unified approach to address climate change over the past few decades with the United Nations leading the effort, but these efforts have generally have failed to make any lasting progress. On March 21, 1994, the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (U ...
... The world has attempted to find a unified approach to address climate change over the past few decades with the United Nations leading the effort, but these efforts have generally have failed to make any lasting progress. On March 21, 1994, the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (U ...
Global Environmental Change Issues in the Western Indian Ocean
... Forecasting the potential regional and local impacts of global warming is not a trivial problem. General circulatio n models presently do not provide the necessary finescale resolutio n required for ascertaining such smaller-scale effects. In addition , there is little agreement between the forecast ...
... Forecasting the potential regional and local impacts of global warming is not a trivial problem. General circulatio n models presently do not provide the necessary finescale resolutio n required for ascertaining such smaller-scale effects. In addition , there is little agreement between the forecast ...
multiannual indicative regional programme for latin america
... sides have progressively built up a broad-based relationship of equals, founded on mutual respect and open dialogue. A bi-regional Strategic Partnership, culminating in periodic Summits, was established in 19991. The EU has concluded an extensive web of association and other agreements with individu ...
... sides have progressively built up a broad-based relationship of equals, founded on mutual respect and open dialogue. A bi-regional Strategic Partnership, culminating in periodic Summits, was established in 19991. The EU has concluded an extensive web of association and other agreements with individu ...
The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production
... important to look carefully at these variations and implement appropriate and specifically tailored adaptation measures. The adaptation policy should also cover the possibility that at some point there may have to wholesale change to the agrarian specializations of the regions, their land-use and cr ...
... important to look carefully at these variations and implement appropriate and specifically tailored adaptation measures. The adaptation policy should also cover the possibility that at some point there may have to wholesale change to the agrarian specializations of the regions, their land-use and cr ...
A New Approach to Climate Change: A Consideration of Ancillary
... emissions permits with other Annex I countries, reduce carbon emissions in other Annex I countries in the Joint Implementation program, or invest in emissions reductions in developing countries through the Clean Development Mechanism, or CDM (Selin and VanDeveer, 2015: 13). The agreement to a transn ...
... emissions permits with other Annex I countries, reduce carbon emissions in other Annex I countries in the Joint Implementation program, or invest in emissions reductions in developing countries through the Clean Development Mechanism, or CDM (Selin and VanDeveer, 2015: 13). The agreement to a transn ...
Newsletter of the Atmospheric Sciences Section
... policy implications, I am proud to have been part of the team that warned the world of the danger of the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear winter theory led to a vigorous discussion of the direct effects of the use of nuclear weapons and a realization that the nuclear arms race was crazy and dangerous ...
... policy implications, I am proud to have been part of the team that warned the world of the danger of the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear winter theory led to a vigorous discussion of the direct effects of the use of nuclear weapons and a realization that the nuclear arms race was crazy and dangerous ...
The Denial of Global Warming
... fuels.”9 But with the war in Vietnam going badly, civil rights workers being murdered in Mississippi, and the surgeon general declaring that smoking was hazardous to your health, Johnson had more pressing things to worry about. Nor was it easy to get Richard Nixon’s focus a few years later. Nixon un ...
... fuels.”9 But with the war in Vietnam going badly, civil rights workers being murdered in Mississippi, and the surgeon general declaring that smoking was hazardous to your health, Johnson had more pressing things to worry about. Nor was it easy to get Richard Nixon’s focus a few years later. Nixon un ...
GHG Market Sentiment Survey 2015
... issues in the greenhouse gas (GHG) markets. The survey was designed to assess key dimensions of market sentiment, such as future price and policy expectations, as well as capturing market participants’ perceptions of the past 12 months and prospects for the future. The survey was conducted among IET ...
... issues in the greenhouse gas (GHG) markets. The survey was designed to assess key dimensions of market sentiment, such as future price and policy expectations, as well as capturing market participants’ perceptions of the past 12 months and prospects for the future. The survey was conducted among IET ...
Saint Kitts and Nevis
... of Climate Change are global and St. Kitts and Nevis, along with the International community are committed to addressing the adverse effects. In addition, climate change is one of the most critical issues facing the Caribbean region and it is already being experienced through rising sea levels, incr ...
... of Climate Change are global and St. Kitts and Nevis, along with the International community are committed to addressing the adverse effects. In addition, climate change is one of the most critical issues facing the Caribbean region and it is already being experienced through rising sea levels, incr ...
PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
... continents and associated reductions in continentality and seasonality, along with declining CO2, may have contributed to the summer cooling requisite for the first extensive glaciation of Antarctica in the Paleogene (DeConto and Pollard, 2003a,b; Oglesby, 1991). The polar latitudes’ sensitivity to ...
... continents and associated reductions in continentality and seasonality, along with declining CO2, may have contributed to the summer cooling requisite for the first extensive glaciation of Antarctica in the Paleogene (DeConto and Pollard, 2003a,b; Oglesby, 1991). The polar latitudes’ sensitivity to ...
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... In the last decade, HPAI has caused significant damage across the globei. Determining the factors involved in its spread and producing risk probabilities is important targeting surveillance and control measures plus ultimately in loss reduction (Paul et al. 2010) plus in planning for disease prevent ...
... In the last decade, HPAI has caused significant damage across the globei. Determining the factors involved in its spread and producing risk probabilities is important targeting surveillance and control measures plus ultimately in loss reduction (Paul et al. 2010) plus in planning for disease prevent ...
Frontline Communities lead the Climate JustiCe Fight Beyond the
... REDD+ for implementation despite continued debates on how to make forests fit into a financial carbon market regime with no real guarantee there would be progress in reducing the underlying causes of forest loss. These carbon market regimes allow for the privatization of the carbon in the forests, a ...
... REDD+ for implementation despite continued debates on how to make forests fit into a financial carbon market regime with no real guarantee there would be progress in reducing the underlying causes of forest loss. These carbon market regimes allow for the privatization of the carbon in the forests, a ...
Policies for Developing Country Engagement
... Report estimated that efficiency improvements in the residential and commercial building sector – which includes end-use devices such as appliances – could reduce emissions in non-OECD countries by 1.5 GtCO2 per year in 2020 at zero marginal cost (Levine et al. 2007). Meanwhile, efficiency improveme ...
... Report estimated that efficiency improvements in the residential and commercial building sector – which includes end-use devices such as appliances – could reduce emissions in non-OECD countries by 1.5 GtCO2 per year in 2020 at zero marginal cost (Levine et al. 2007). Meanwhile, efficiency improveme ...
A new role for forests and the forest sector in the EU post
... use in support of agriculture and the forest industry are accounted in the energy sector. Emissions from bioenergy are accounted in the LULUCF sector, at the time of harvest of the wood. To avoid double counting, the burning of wood is accounted as zero emissions. Therefore, the land use sector has, ...
... use in support of agriculture and the forest industry are accounted in the energy sector. Emissions from bioenergy are accounted in the LULUCF sector, at the time of harvest of the wood. To avoid double counting, the burning of wood is accounted as zero emissions. Therefore, the land use sector has, ...
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... 2004-2007 and has a budget of €1.84m A Framework for a Polycentric Metropolitan Europe, a related Action Plan, a programme of representative interregional networking activities (RINA's) and a Polycentric Practice Benchmark Purpose is to respond the challenge in the ESDP to develop a better urban bal ...
... 2004-2007 and has a budget of €1.84m A Framework for a Polycentric Metropolitan Europe, a related Action Plan, a programme of representative interregional networking activities (RINA's) and a Polycentric Practice Benchmark Purpose is to respond the challenge in the ESDP to develop a better urban bal ...
Adapting To Climate Change In Pacific Island Countries: The
... The islands of the Pacific are particularly vulnerable to climate change and accelerated sea-level rise (Brookfield 1989, Nurse et al 1998). The extent of vulnerability of Pacific Island Countries to global forces is contested (see for example Bertram and Watters 1985, Briguglio 1995, Hau’ofa 1993, ...
... The islands of the Pacific are particularly vulnerable to climate change and accelerated sea-level rise (Brookfield 1989, Nurse et al 1998). The extent of vulnerability of Pacific Island Countries to global forces is contested (see for example Bertram and Watters 1985, Briguglio 1995, Hau’ofa 1993, ...
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... al. 2007, Schlamadinger et al. 2007a). Under the current KP regulations additional managementinduced in situ C storage in existing forests can be accounted in national GHG balances (Höhne et al. 2007, Schlamadinger et al. 2007b). However, to operationally implement the climate protection function in ...
... al. 2007, Schlamadinger et al. 2007a). Under the current KP regulations additional managementinduced in situ C storage in existing forests can be accounted in national GHG balances (Höhne et al. 2007, Schlamadinger et al. 2007b). However, to operationally implement the climate protection function in ...
Considerations for Addressing Climate Change
... assessments conducted by BCMoTI and 20 risk assessments of infrastructure systems from across Canada conducted under the auspices of the Engineers Canada PIEVC initiative. Each study included in the analysis was conducted with input and guidance from expert working groups, who ensured that the asses ...
... assessments conducted by BCMoTI and 20 risk assessments of infrastructure systems from across Canada conducted under the auspices of the Engineers Canada PIEVC initiative. Each study included in the analysis was conducted with input and guidance from expert working groups, who ensured that the asses ...
Climate Change and Invasive Alien Species
... 4.2. Effects of increasing temperatures on IAS in tropical zones............................................. 18 4.3. Effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 ............................................................................. 19 4.4. More frequent and extreme weather events ............... ...
... 4.2. Effects of increasing temperatures on IAS in tropical zones............................................. 18 4.3. Effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 ............................................................................. 19 4.4. More frequent and extreme weather events ............... ...
Limits of pastoral adaptation to permafrost regions caused by
... areas. However, there are few alaas on the drier, lower elevation riverbank on the west (left) side of the Lena (Saito, 1985:73). The local people perceive the alaas and terraced riverbanks as different cultural landscapes. The terraced grassland is associated with the ethnic origin of Sakha people. ...
... areas. However, there are few alaas on the drier, lower elevation riverbank on the west (left) side of the Lena (Saito, 1985:73). The local people perceive the alaas and terraced riverbanks as different cultural landscapes. The terraced grassland is associated with the ethnic origin of Sakha people. ...