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... divest, such as the Welcome Trust and the Gates Foundation and Harvard University, often argued that active shareholders within such companies can change their practices through dialogue and constructive engagement.9 However, it does seem that shareholder engagement has achieved little with respect ...
... divest, such as the Welcome Trust and the Gates Foundation and Harvard University, often argued that active shareholders within such companies can change their practices through dialogue and constructive engagement.9 However, it does seem that shareholder engagement has achieved little with respect ...
Draft Findings of the Ad Hoc Technical expert group
... Biodiversity and associated ecosystem services have a crucial role to play and should be integrated within broader adaptation planning and practices through the use of ecosystem-based adaptation, which may be further described as the use of sustainable ecosystem management activities to support soci ...
... Biodiversity and associated ecosystem services have a crucial role to play and should be integrated within broader adaptation planning and practices through the use of ecosystem-based adaptation, which may be further described as the use of sustainable ecosystem management activities to support soci ...
Omitted Damages What`s Missing from the Social Cost of Carbon.indd
... socially contingent damages (including increases in violence and other social conflict); decreasing growth rates (including decreases in labor productivity and increases in capital depreciation); weather variability (including increased drought and in-land flooding); and catastrophic impacts (includin ...
... socially contingent damages (including increases in violence and other social conflict); decreasing growth rates (including decreases in labor productivity and increases in capital depreciation); weather variability (including increased drought and in-land flooding); and catastrophic impacts (includin ...
Climate Vulnerability in Asia`s High Mountains
... purification or filtration needs for human consumption, and degrade irrigation systems. Thus, dissecting the link between water and sediment budgets in the region is an important factor in characterizing the climate-induced water risks in the region. ...
... purification or filtration needs for human consumption, and degrade irrigation systems. Thus, dissecting the link between water and sediment budgets in the region is an important factor in characterizing the climate-induced water risks in the region. ...
Climate Vulnerability in Asia`s High Mountains
... purification or filtration needs for human consumption, and degrade irrigation systems. Thus, dissecting the link between water and sediment budgets in the region is an important factor in characterizing the climate-induced water risks in the region. ...
... purification or filtration needs for human consumption, and degrade irrigation systems. Thus, dissecting the link between water and sediment budgets in the region is an important factor in characterizing the climate-induced water risks in the region. ...
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... about production conditions, particularly for extreme events, that have no historical parallel. In addition to risk aversion, some authors argue that ambiguity aversion is a key factor hindering the adoption of new technology. In economics, the interest in unmeasurable uncertainty1 or ambiguity was ...
... about production conditions, particularly for extreme events, that have no historical parallel. In addition to risk aversion, some authors argue that ambiguity aversion is a key factor hindering the adoption of new technology. In economics, the interest in unmeasurable uncertainty1 or ambiguity was ...
SECOND-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 3 Do Not Cite
... Figure 3-1: Framework for considering the impacts of climate change on freshwater systems and society. Socioeconomic changes, such as GDP, population, and urbanization, will change the way of water managements, exposure and vulnerability of human beings against water related risks, and non-climatic ...
... Figure 3-1: Framework for considering the impacts of climate change on freshwater systems and society. Socioeconomic changes, such as GDP, population, and urbanization, will change the way of water managements, exposure and vulnerability of human beings against water related risks, and non-climatic ...
Florida on the Coast of Climate Change: Responding to
... percent of its critical salt marsh and eighty-four percent of tidal flats, as well as fourteen percent of its dry land and thirty percent of its beaches by 2100.28 Climate change in general, and sea level rise in particular, stands to devastate Florida's economy. The state's economy relies heavily o ...
... percent of its critical salt marsh and eighty-four percent of tidal flats, as well as fourteen percent of its dry land and thirty percent of its beaches by 2100.28 Climate change in general, and sea level rise in particular, stands to devastate Florida's economy. The state's economy relies heavily o ...
Climate Change Impacts on Land Use Planning and Coastal
... challenges that small island coastal ecosystems are already having to contend with. These ecosystems and fringe landforms — among them, mangroves, wetlands, coastal flood plains, forests, dunes, berms — ) serve as natural shock absorbers for protecting coastal infrastructure and land uses, such as a ...
... challenges that small island coastal ecosystems are already having to contend with. These ecosystems and fringe landforms — among them, mangroves, wetlands, coastal flood plains, forests, dunes, berms — ) serve as natural shock absorbers for protecting coastal infrastructure and land uses, such as a ...
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... modernization in which capitalism is not abandoned but re-organized in a way that it would not threaten the world ecological systems but also protect its survival. In the sphere of sub-national scales, the world cities in particular, where economic globalization had found expression, came up with ca ...
... modernization in which capitalism is not abandoned but re-organized in a way that it would not threaten the world ecological systems but also protect its survival. In the sphere of sub-national scales, the world cities in particular, where economic globalization had found expression, came up with ca ...
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... Central America: coverage and rates of municiapal water service, 2008 ............................................... Central America: irrigation and agricultural indicators ........................................................................... Central America: evolution of renewable total avai ...
... Central America: coverage and rates of municiapal water service, 2008 ............................................... Central America: irrigation and agricultural indicators ........................................................................... Central America: evolution of renewable total avai ...
climate change and food security in southern african cities
... climate change-food security nexus, the paper uses examples that illustrate linkages between the climate change and food security. Finally, it poses questions that may be useful for advancing planning and practice on issues related to urban food security in a changing climate as well as where future ...
... climate change-food security nexus, the paper uses examples that illustrate linkages between the climate change and food security. Finally, it poses questions that may be useful for advancing planning and practice on issues related to urban food security in a changing climate as well as where future ...
Chapter 14 Environmental Hazards and Human Health
... Chapter 15 Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion ...
... Chapter 15 Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion ...
Chapter 3: Changing Arctic: Indigenous Perspectives
... convey the sense of how climate change is seen, not in the form of aggregate statistics or general trends, but in specific terms for particular individuals and communities.The case studies provide the basis for a discussion of resilience, or protecting options to increase the capacity of arctic soci ...
... convey the sense of how climate change is seen, not in the form of aggregate statistics or general trends, but in specific terms for particular individuals and communities.The case studies provide the basis for a discussion of resilience, or protecting options to increase the capacity of arctic soci ...
Presentation pack - The Global Calculator
... 1. The world could eat well, travel more and live in more comfortable homes and prevent dangerous climate change 2. But to do so, we need to transform the technologies and fuels we use 3. We also need to make smarter use of our limited land resources and expand forests by around 5-15% by ...
... 1. The world could eat well, travel more and live in more comfortable homes and prevent dangerous climate change 2. But to do so, we need to transform the technologies and fuels we use 3. We also need to make smarter use of our limited land resources and expand forests by around 5-15% by ...
Climate change and natural disasters.
... Many hazards that lead to disasters cannot be prevented, but their consequences can be limited. Hazards may be natural or technical in origin, but it is the way in which societies develop that causes them to become disasters.3 Measures are needed at all levels to prevent disasters, reduce exposure t ...
... Many hazards that lead to disasters cannot be prevented, but their consequences can be limited. Hazards may be natural or technical in origin, but it is the way in which societies develop that causes them to become disasters.3 Measures are needed at all levels to prevent disasters, reduce exposure t ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007). More precisely, we asked for their WTP to reduce the level of CO2 emissions by 30%, 60%, and 85% by the year 2050. While there is an existing literature on WTP estimates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding the consequences of ...
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007). More precisely, we asked for their WTP to reduce the level of CO2 emissions by 30%, 60%, and 85% by the year 2050. While there is an existing literature on WTP estimates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding the consequences of ...
Intensification of winter transatlantic aviation turbulence in response
... is well populated. The results are shown in Table 1. Twenty of the 21 diagnostics show an increase in the frequency of occurrence of moderate-or-greater clear-air turbulence in the doubled-CO2 integration. For 16 of the diagnostics, the increase is between 40 and 170%. Many of the increases cluster ...
... is well populated. The results are shown in Table 1. Twenty of the 21 diagnostics show an increase in the frequency of occurrence of moderate-or-greater clear-air turbulence in the doubled-CO2 integration. For 16 of the diagnostics, the increase is between 40 and 170%. Many of the increases cluster ...
Climate change scenarios
... This project has identified key adapations that may be necessary to be offset the impacts of climate change in the agricultural industry. It has focussed on the responses for single crops, which have been chosen to represent economically important production systems in England and Wales. The commodi ...
... This project has identified key adapations that may be necessary to be offset the impacts of climate change in the agricultural industry. It has focussed on the responses for single crops, which have been chosen to represent economically important production systems in England and Wales. The commodi ...
Potential climate-change impacts on the Chesapeake Bay
... stations throughout the mainstem Bay since 1984. The correspondence between the pier data and the Bay-average data during the period of overlap indicates that the longer time series measured at the piers reflect mean Bay temperature quite well. Numerous studies have documented a positive correlation ...
... stations throughout the mainstem Bay since 1984. The correspondence between the pier data and the Bay-average data during the period of overlap indicates that the longer time series measured at the piers reflect mean Bay temperature quite well. Numerous studies have documented a positive correlation ...
The Fate of the Kyoto Protocol under the Bush Administration
... As a result of these scientific discoveries, debate centered on mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide. The first steps in the creation of a global regime of climate control were taken at the inaugural Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. 6 At the summit, which was att ...
... As a result of these scientific discoveries, debate centered on mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide. The first steps in the creation of a global regime of climate control were taken at the inaugural Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. 6 At the summit, which was att ...
Future changes in Mekong River hydrology
... 2008; Lamberts and Koponen, 2008; Mekong River Commission, 2010c), riverine transport (Kummu et al., 2006), and freshwater supply. The flow changes are also expected to have an impact on agriculture, including irrigation as well as more traditional agricultural practices such as recession rice (Meko ...
... 2008; Lamberts and Koponen, 2008; Mekong River Commission, 2010c), riverine transport (Kummu et al., 2006), and freshwater supply. The flow changes are also expected to have an impact on agriculture, including irrigation as well as more traditional agricultural practices such as recession rice (Meko ...
Cusk (Brosme brosme) and climate change: assessing the threat to
... Introduction To protect against declines in global biodiversity, there is a growing recognition of the need to include climate information in determinations of whether a species is threatened or endangered (Ruhl, 2008; Sommer, 2009). There are a number of international agreements and national legisl ...
... Introduction To protect against declines in global biodiversity, there is a growing recognition of the need to include climate information in determinations of whether a species is threatened or endangered (Ruhl, 2008; Sommer, 2009). There are a number of international agreements and national legisl ...
RANGE MARGINS AND CLIMATE
... Much of the evidence for a role of climate in limiting species’ distributions comes from the observation that species shift their distributions in response to climate change. If a species’ distribution is limited by climate, it can respond in one of three ways to changes in climatic conditions over ...
... Much of the evidence for a role of climate in limiting species’ distributions comes from the observation that species shift their distributions in response to climate change. If a species’ distribution is limited by climate, it can respond in one of three ways to changes in climatic conditions over ...