Local Economic Recovery in a crisis situation: a bridge between
... Evolution of GFDRR Overview of GFDRR’s operational structure Financing disaster recovery ...
... Evolution of GFDRR Overview of GFDRR’s operational structure Financing disaster recovery ...
Report - UNHCR
... Regarding the fifth channel, two observations can be made. First, the scarcity of shared resources (especially water) has often provided an incentive for transboundary cooperation. The question is how existing agreements and institutions can be reinforced so as to continue to function effectively in ...
... Regarding the fifth channel, two observations can be made. First, the scarcity of shared resources (especially water) has often provided an incentive for transboundary cooperation. The question is how existing agreements and institutions can be reinforced so as to continue to function effectively in ...
Envisioning adaptive strategies to change
... 2005) and are vulnerable to global changes including climate change (Eriksen and O'Brien 2007). For example, a 75% of dry-lands in South America, Central America and the Caribbean are seriously degraded and threatened by desertification (Scherr 1999; UNCCD 2004). In particular, in Central America re ...
... 2005) and are vulnerable to global changes including climate change (Eriksen and O'Brien 2007). For example, a 75% of dry-lands in South America, Central America and the Caribbean are seriously degraded and threatened by desertification (Scherr 1999; UNCCD 2004). In particular, in Central America re ...
The gains from trade
... consumer, reducing world demand for oil, and thereby reducing the price in nonparticipating countries. Of course there are plenty of other factors that drive energy prices as well, such as political risk, supply constraints, and world growth.) The downward influence in the world price of oil would, ...
... consumer, reducing world demand for oil, and thereby reducing the price in nonparticipating countries. Of course there are plenty of other factors that drive energy prices as well, such as political risk, supply constraints, and world growth.) The downward influence in the world price of oil would, ...
WACA-program_mauritius-conference_-sept-2016
... associated economic opportunity losses estimated to about US$ 295 million, equivalent to 2.3 percent of GDP in 2013. Source: The World Bank, 2012 UEMOA and IUCN, 2010 ...
... associated economic opportunity losses estimated to about US$ 295 million, equivalent to 2.3 percent of GDP in 2013. Source: The World Bank, 2012 UEMOA and IUCN, 2010 ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... In response, the Government of Ghana has initiated actions to develop strategies and strengthen institutional capacity in disaster risk management with increasing donor support, including for a country-wide hazard mapping covering the broad geographical distribution of disaster exposed areas for key ...
... In response, the Government of Ghana has initiated actions to develop strategies and strengthen institutional capacity in disaster risk management with increasing donor support, including for a country-wide hazard mapping covering the broad geographical distribution of disaster exposed areas for key ...
Memorandum by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee
... gain some insight into how they operate requires application of risk analysis techniques. Given the levels of uncertainty around the results of such analyses only very broad-brush guidance can be given: the bottom line is likely to be preserve as much diversity within a system as possible as we know ...
... gain some insight into how they operate requires application of risk analysis techniques. Given the levels of uncertainty around the results of such analyses only very broad-brush guidance can be given: the bottom line is likely to be preserve as much diversity within a system as possible as we know ...
The Climate Change Performance Index - Results
... Such a change of trend would be crucial, as the IEA data show that there has been an increase in global energyrelated CO2 emissions of nearly 6 Gt in the past ten years, of which four fifths correspond with the amount of China’s emissions surplus during that time. It seems as if global CO2 emissions ...
... Such a change of trend would be crucial, as the IEA data show that there has been an increase in global energyrelated CO2 emissions of nearly 6 Gt in the past ten years, of which four fifths correspond with the amount of China’s emissions surplus during that time. It seems as if global CO2 emissions ...
- Wiley Online Library
... without a past: it has sometimes been used to refer to air conditioning technologies, as opposed to the large scale climate control being considered here. The word ‘engineering’ itself may also be misleading as we are considering here methods that try to influence one aspect of a complex system rath ...
... without a past: it has sometimes been used to refer to air conditioning technologies, as opposed to the large scale climate control being considered here. The word ‘engineering’ itself may also be misleading as we are considering here methods that try to influence one aspect of a complex system rath ...
Download country chapter
... Approach to Climate Change Tanzania has enacted a number of policies and legislative acts that either directly address climate change issues or indirectly support these objectives through environmental conservation in the related areas of alternative energy, protection of forest lands, and disaster ...
... Approach to Climate Change Tanzania has enacted a number of policies and legislative acts that either directly address climate change issues or indirectly support these objectives through environmental conservation in the related areas of alternative energy, protection of forest lands, and disaster ...
A Guide for Incorporating Adaptation to Climate
... Mitigation deals with reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change; adaptation deals with response to changing conditions resulting from climate change. Mitigation will not stop climate change because it is already occurring and the degree of reduction proposed under the Kyoto ...
... Mitigation deals with reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change; adaptation deals with response to changing conditions resulting from climate change. Mitigation will not stop climate change because it is already occurring and the degree of reduction proposed under the Kyoto ...
Mediterranean climate change scenarios: Impacts on the north
... from place to place- Giving a mean value is meaningless. Now the GIA rate of sea level change can be estimated (with error bars) using public domain software (SELEN 2) based on realistic models (see http://flocolleoni.free.fr/SELEN.html), ii) Late holocene RSL data from the Mediterranean are useful ...
... from place to place- Giving a mean value is meaningless. Now the GIA rate of sea level change can be estimated (with error bars) using public domain software (SELEN 2) based on realistic models (see http://flocolleoni.free.fr/SELEN.html), ii) Late holocene RSL data from the Mediterranean are useful ...
36x48 Horizontal Poster
... We consider the climatological performance of select dynamically downscaled CMIP5 GCMs by applying the CPVM methodology to analyze trends in extreme daily temperature and precipitation. Here we show the results with WRF-ECHAM6. The trends in extremes depart from the average trends shown in Fig. 2, w ...
... We consider the climatological performance of select dynamically downscaled CMIP5 GCMs by applying the CPVM methodology to analyze trends in extreme daily temperature and precipitation. Here we show the results with WRF-ECHAM6. The trends in extremes depart from the average trends shown in Fig. 2, w ...
Lending a caring hand - University of New England
... careful about extrapolating from your own backyard to the globe.” For example, while people in the East and Midwest were complaining about a cold winter this year, Redmond’s Nevada and neighboring California were having some of their warmest winter months ever. To determine what parts of the country ...
... careful about extrapolating from your own backyard to the globe.” For example, while people in the East and Midwest were complaining about a cold winter this year, Redmond’s Nevada and neighboring California were having some of their warmest winter months ever. To determine what parts of the country ...
Definitions - OAS :: Department of Conferences and Meetings
... CDM Strategy and Results Framework GOAL Regional Sustainable Development through CDM PURPOSE ‘To strengthen regional, national and community level capacity for mitigation, management, and coordinated response to natural and technological hazards, and the effects of climate change. ...
... CDM Strategy and Results Framework GOAL Regional Sustainable Development through CDM PURPOSE ‘To strengthen regional, national and community level capacity for mitigation, management, and coordinated response to natural and technological hazards, and the effects of climate change. ...
Climate Change 2007. IPCC WG2
... carbon dioxide concentrations, there are projected to be major changes in ecosystem structure and function, species’ ecological interactions, and species’ geographic ranges, with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity, and ecosystem goods and services e.g., water and food supply. ** N ...
... carbon dioxide concentrations, there are projected to be major changes in ecosystem structure and function, species’ ecological interactions, and species’ geographic ranges, with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity, and ecosystem goods and services e.g., water and food supply. ** N ...
Global Warming - Web of Creation
... the characteristics of global warming, or by adding fresh water to the sea from the melting of ice in the Arctic and in Greenland. The results of abrupt cooling would be catastrophic. In Europe, 25 percent of their heat comes for these currents. Europe is actually quite far north, Rome is even with ...
... the characteristics of global warming, or by adding fresh water to the sea from the melting of ice in the Arctic and in Greenland. The results of abrupt cooling would be catastrophic. In Europe, 25 percent of their heat comes for these currents. Europe is actually quite far north, Rome is even with ...
Tall tales and fat tails: the science and economics of extreme warming
... about the effective heat capacity of the system. To evaluate the net economic benefits of mitigation, we conduct a typical comparison between a business-as-usual emissions scenario and a scenario in which there is intervention in the economy to abate emissions. The business-as-usual scenario is as s ...
... about the effective heat capacity of the system. To evaluate the net economic benefits of mitigation, we conduct a typical comparison between a business-as-usual emissions scenario and a scenario in which there is intervention in the economy to abate emissions. The business-as-usual scenario is as s ...
S1_Ammann_WIPS_Modeling – ppt
... Open questions could provide a platform for enhanced interaction and collaboration providing very important constraints and predictions for decision making 4. There is an urgent need for a constructive dialogue to address the “Great Global Challenge” between Energy Needs and Climate Change Golden, M ...
... Open questions could provide a platform for enhanced interaction and collaboration providing very important constraints and predictions for decision making 4. There is an urgent need for a constructive dialogue to address the “Great Global Challenge” between Energy Needs and Climate Change Golden, M ...
Smith et al (2009
... evidence since the TAR of observed impacts of climate change on unique and threatened systems (such as polar and high mountain communities and ecosystems), with increasing levels of adverse impacts as temperatures increase further. An increasing risk of species extinction and coral reef damage is pr ...
... evidence since the TAR of observed impacts of climate change on unique and threatened systems (such as polar and high mountain communities and ecosystems), with increasing levels of adverse impacts as temperatures increase further. An increasing risk of species extinction and coral reef damage is pr ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... Research Volume Title: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and...
... argue that an additive form, in which welfare is the difference between the utility of consumption and a quadratic disutility- loss function of temperature change, may make just as much sense for evaluating extreme climate damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifica ...
... argue that an additive form, in which welfare is the difference between the utility of consumption and a quadratic disutility- loss function of temperature change, may make just as much sense for evaluating extreme climate damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifica ...
Impact of climate change on the hydrologic cycle and implications
... melting, changes in space-time distribution of rainfall, changes in ecosystems, earthquakes, fire hazards, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, heat waves, extreme cold weather, wind storms and health epidemics, to climate change? This question often comes up when we review the burgeoning literature on ...
... melting, changes in space-time distribution of rainfall, changes in ecosystems, earthquakes, fire hazards, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, heat waves, extreme cold weather, wind storms and health epidemics, to climate change? This question often comes up when we review the burgeoning literature on ...
An Economic Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol
... Protocol states many of these emission reduction scientific validity. Kyoto cannot possibly achieve its mechanisms in very vague terms and limits the use of ultimate goal of reversing the global climate change these alternative methods. Regardless of varying MC trend. of reduction, international eff ...
... Protocol states many of these emission reduction scientific validity. Kyoto cannot possibly achieve its mechanisms in very vague terms and limits the use of ultimate goal of reversing the global climate change these alternative methods. Regardless of varying MC trend. of reduction, international eff ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... as a whole, as well as for Ethiopia, from a suite of GCMs used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Specific projections through 2050 are based on the ISP2a emissions scenario. Mean annual temperature is projected to increase by 1.1 to 3.1°C by the 2060s, and 1.5 to 5.1°C by the 2090s. ...
... as a whole, as well as for Ethiopia, from a suite of GCMs used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Specific projections through 2050 are based on the ISP2a emissions scenario. Mean annual temperature is projected to increase by 1.1 to 3.1°C by the 2060s, and 1.5 to 5.1°C by the 2090s. ...