US Food Security and Climate Change
... • Increased investments in agricultural research by both private and public sector are urgently needed. • Adaptation capacity of agricultural producers is closely linked to income. Reduction in farm income will have a compounding negative impact on the ability of producers to make critical adaptatio ...
... • Increased investments in agricultural research by both private and public sector are urgently needed. • Adaptation capacity of agricultural producers is closely linked to income. Reduction in farm income will have a compounding negative impact on the ability of producers to make critical adaptatio ...
Song of the prophets: a global theology of climate
... and the promotion of sustainable development. It is very evident, in countries like this one, that climate change is not an abstract issue, but a present concern for people in every part of the community. These experiences and testimonies confirm that climate change is real and that its impact is ex ...
... and the promotion of sustainable development. It is very evident, in countries like this one, that climate change is not an abstract issue, but a present concern for people in every part of the community. These experiences and testimonies confirm that climate change is real and that its impact is ex ...
Climate adaptation: what it means for Australian consumers
... respondents to rank what they felt were the most important social issues. Results revealed that the most important social issues currently facing consumers are mainly household related, i.e. the cost of living and health. Issues such as ‘economic stability’ and ‘maintaining our way of life’ also ran ...
... respondents to rank what they felt were the most important social issues. Results revealed that the most important social issues currently facing consumers are mainly household related, i.e. the cost of living and health. Issues such as ‘economic stability’ and ‘maintaining our way of life’ also ran ...
2011 CO Basin Assessment Capacity - CLIMAS
... The authors would like to thank the Evaluating Our Capacity workshop organizers, whose contributions of time and effort led to lively dialogue on climate change assessment in the Colorado River Basin: Heather Glenn, Eric Gordon, Bill Travis, and Brad Udall (Western Water Assessment), and Dan Cayan a ...
... The authors would like to thank the Evaluating Our Capacity workshop organizers, whose contributions of time and effort led to lively dialogue on climate change assessment in the Colorado River Basin: Heather Glenn, Eric Gordon, Bill Travis, and Brad Udall (Western Water Assessment), and Dan Cayan a ...
The impacts of climate change on nuclear power stations sites
... being changed by processes of erosion and deposition), with a series of relict (no longer active) shingle ridges to the landward side that appear to have accreted progressively on a sandy foundation. There are two power stations on the site (A and B), situated side by side immediately inland from th ...
... being changed by processes of erosion and deposition), with a series of relict (no longer active) shingle ridges to the landward side that appear to have accreted progressively on a sandy foundation. There are two power stations on the site (A and B), situated side by side immediately inland from th ...
Primar y E duc ation Sect
... Climate change (CC) is one of the most critical issues facing the world today and could potentially cause massive and irreversible damage to the global environment and human society. With changing climatic conditions, small islands are particularly at risk from increasingly unpredictable weather and ...
... Climate change (CC) is one of the most critical issues facing the world today and could potentially cause massive and irreversible damage to the global environment and human society. With changing climatic conditions, small islands are particularly at risk from increasingly unpredictable weather and ...
NAP-GSP Support to Developing Countries
... Phase 1 Evaluation found that: with limited budget, project was designed with a sound regard for the international policy context and for individual countries’ national policy processes. participation of the LEG and the UNFCCC secretariat allowed for a continued maintenance of linkages between t ...
... Phase 1 Evaluation found that: with limited budget, project was designed with a sound regard for the international policy context and for individual countries’ national policy processes. participation of the LEG and the UNFCCC secretariat allowed for a continued maintenance of linkages between t ...
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... Mainstream climate change into development planning: Adaptation must be integrated into overarching developmental support. Integrating adaptation into development planning translates into far-reaching benefits and plugs into holistic, climate change approaches. Support country-driven processes: Clim ...
... Mainstream climate change into development planning: Adaptation must be integrated into overarching developmental support. Integrating adaptation into development planning translates into far-reaching benefits and plugs into holistic, climate change approaches. Support country-driven processes: Clim ...
SLAUGHTERING THE AMAZON
... Funding forest protection is key to meeting the climate challenge Brazil is clear that its ability to reach its target on reducing deforestation depends on the provision of international funding from rich countries. To this end, the government established an Amazon Fund, to which Brazil’s Minister o ...
... Funding forest protection is key to meeting the climate challenge Brazil is clear that its ability to reach its target on reducing deforestation depends on the provision of international funding from rich countries. To this end, the government established an Amazon Fund, to which Brazil’s Minister o ...
KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY
... Development Bank, 2010). Not only have such recurring weather events become more frequent, their impacts on human health, livelihoods and economic development have stretched in magnitude and extent. Responses to climate change can be divided into two aspects: Mitigation — the term used to describe t ...
... Development Bank, 2010). Not only have such recurring weather events become more frequent, their impacts on human health, livelihoods and economic development have stretched in magnitude and extent. Responses to climate change can be divided into two aspects: Mitigation — the term used to describe t ...
Adaptation behavior in the face of global climate change: Survey
... 2009; Rahmstorf et al., 2008). Social and cognitive factors in decisionmaking under uncertainty may shape how coastal communities adapt, more profoundly than direct physical impacts (Grothmann and Patt, 2005). There is increasing concern that by the time we recognize the need to prepare, on the scal ...
... 2009; Rahmstorf et al., 2008). Social and cognitive factors in decisionmaking under uncertainty may shape how coastal communities adapt, more profoundly than direct physical impacts (Grothmann and Patt, 2005). There is increasing concern that by the time we recognize the need to prepare, on the scal ...
open access
... therefore both a benefit provided by certain ecosystems and a crucial strategy for ensuring the long-term delivery of societal benefits from many ecosystems under climate change. Setting goals and managing ecosystems in transition will be among the most significant technical challenges ahead. Such c ...
... therefore both a benefit provided by certain ecosystems and a crucial strategy for ensuring the long-term delivery of societal benefits from many ecosystems under climate change. Setting goals and managing ecosystems in transition will be among the most significant technical challenges ahead. Such c ...
Overlooked and Neglected Issues in Climate Change Studies: The Need for a
... Norris: Speaking of multilateralism, do you notice, as many have suggested, that there's an increasing unilateralist bent in the United States government? Blix: Yeah. On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the ...
... Norris: Speaking of multilateralism, do you notice, as many have suggested, that there's an increasing unilateralist bent in the United States government? Blix: Yeah. On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the ...
Sahelian climate
... Afica has been identified as a “hot spot” where the land-atmosphere coupling could play an important role, through the recycling of precipitation and the modulation of dry and moist static energy (Douville et al, 2007). There is a growing concern on the future climate of West Africa, as the anthropo ...
... Afica has been identified as a “hot spot” where the land-atmosphere coupling could play an important role, through the recycling of precipitation and the modulation of dry and moist static energy (Douville et al, 2007). There is a growing concern on the future climate of West Africa, as the anthropo ...
Report
... and mitigate the impacts of a warming planet. The bill seeks to reduce United States carbon emissions through the use of a carbon tax, which would concurrently fund the research and development of sustainable technology as well as accompanying efforts to adapt industry and labor in a steady transiti ...
... and mitigate the impacts of a warming planet. The bill seeks to reduce United States carbon emissions through the use of a carbon tax, which would concurrently fund the research and development of sustainable technology as well as accompanying efforts to adapt industry and labor in a steady transiti ...
climate and construction - Development Alternatives
... sustainable design because of the extensive scope for impacting sustainability by reducing the embodied energy of the building materials during their extraction, processing, transportation, utilization, and even thereafter. This section explores the links between climate change and construction glob ...
... sustainable design because of the extensive scope for impacting sustainability by reducing the embodied energy of the building materials during their extraction, processing, transportation, utilization, and even thereafter. This section explores the links between climate change and construction glob ...
All developing countries where there is any ability to measure
... Equity - - regarding developing countries. They point out that: it was the industrialized countries, not they, who created the problem of Global Climate Change (having contributed only about 20 percent of the carbon dioxide that has accumulated in the atmosphere from industrial activity over the pas ...
... Equity - - regarding developing countries. They point out that: it was the industrialized countries, not they, who created the problem of Global Climate Change (having contributed only about 20 percent of the carbon dioxide that has accumulated in the atmosphere from industrial activity over the pas ...
impact of global warming on biodiversity
... significance of living and non-living natural resources have been identified in religion, art and literature from ancient history (Sen, 2008). Natural resources are referred to the naturally occurring substances which are considered precious in their relatively unmodified condition. It serve as the ...
... significance of living and non-living natural resources have been identified in religion, art and literature from ancient history (Sen, 2008). Natural resources are referred to the naturally occurring substances which are considered precious in their relatively unmodified condition. It serve as the ...
... is responsible for many observed climate changes, but noted that use of this knowledge to support decision making, manage risks and engage stakeholders is inadequate. The nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 1 contribute less than 1% to global GHG emissions (approximately 0.33%2; World Resou ...
Building a Resilient Energy Gulf Coast: Executive Report
... Driving a “practical” solution that takes Gulf Coast “resilience” to the next level represents an optimal solution to balance cost requirements with risks that impact of the Gulf Coast • There are several key “no regrets” options for adaptation that have low investment needs, high reduction potenti ...
... Driving a “practical” solution that takes Gulf Coast “resilience” to the next level represents an optimal solution to balance cost requirements with risks that impact of the Gulf Coast • There are several key “no regrets” options for adaptation that have low investment needs, high reduction potenti ...
MC1113 Hope in God`s Future - The Methodist Church in Britain
... get more data from a wider range of Methodists would be possible, but the resources required would result in delaying the final redrafting significantly, and the document could be brought to Conference only in 2012. Alternatively, the Council may suggest that the minimal response to the online consu ...
... get more data from a wider range of Methodists would be possible, but the resources required would result in delaying the final redrafting significantly, and the document could be brought to Conference only in 2012. Alternatively, the Council may suggest that the minimal response to the online consu ...
Problems with making and governing global kinds of knowledge
... truths, these assert themselves as the unassailable view from everywhere. Such claims in turn lend support to managerial instincts that seek to centralise political power and social control (Scott, 1998). But such outcomes may not necessarily be selfevident public ‘goods’ and they certainly raise qu ...
... truths, these assert themselves as the unassailable view from everywhere. Such claims in turn lend support to managerial instincts that seek to centralise political power and social control (Scott, 1998). But such outcomes may not necessarily be selfevident public ‘goods’ and they certainly raise qu ...
- Sierra Club
... And swerving requires such a radical departure from the kind of political and economic system we have right now that we pretty much have to change everything. We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our cu ...
... And swerving requires such a radical departure from the kind of political and economic system we have right now that we pretty much have to change everything. We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our cu ...
Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
... In addition to being included in the CCAC, HFCs are addressed in the Rio + 20 declaration, The Future We Want, where leaders supported phasing down HFC production and use.10 Such a phase down can be achieved through the Montreal Protocol, while simultaneously improving the energy efficiency of refri ...
... In addition to being included in the CCAC, HFCs are addressed in the Rio + 20 declaration, The Future We Want, where leaders supported phasing down HFC production and use.10 Such a phase down can be achieved through the Montreal Protocol, while simultaneously improving the energy efficiency of refri ...