Conference Proceedings, 2011 Low Impact Development
... storage and infiltration in an effort to protect downstream aquatic habitat, maintain groundwater recharge, and reduce peak discharges and runoff volumes to receiving waters. Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) represent major water quality threats to hundreds of U.S. cities and communities. Traditional ...
... storage and infiltration in an effort to protect downstream aquatic habitat, maintain groundwater recharge, and reduce peak discharges and runoff volumes to receiving waters. Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) represent major water quality threats to hundreds of U.S. cities and communities. Traditional ...
Green Finance Solves - UMKC Summer Debate Institute
... different economic and political systems, so the same financing solutions will not always apply in both nations. However, China and the United States have enough in common that both would benefit from the exchange of best practices and lessons learned as they relate to clean energy finance. Clarify ...
... different economic and political systems, so the same financing solutions will not always apply in both nations. However, China and the United States have enough in common that both would benefit from the exchange of best practices and lessons learned as they relate to clean energy finance. Clarify ...
Climate Scientists Respond
... Corals came into being during eras of high CO2, therefore high CO2 is not damaging. Assertion 3 and Responses............................................................................................................................ 7 A high CO2 concentration is beneficial. Assertion 4 and Response ...
... Corals came into being during eras of high CO2, therefore high CO2 is not damaging. Assertion 3 and Responses............................................................................................................................ 7 A high CO2 concentration is beneficial. Assertion 4 and Response ...
ocean-climate.org - Plateforme Océan et Climat
... For decades, climate change negotiations did not take the ocean into consideration. The following texts reveals a change in mindset and that this planetary environment has finally been given the importance it deserves in climate issues. This document addresses concerns such as the part the ocean pla ...
... For decades, climate change negotiations did not take the ocean into consideration. The following texts reveals a change in mindset and that this planetary environment has finally been given the importance it deserves in climate issues. This document addresses concerns such as the part the ocean pla ...
Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change
... with several other studies from the tropical Andes. Seltzer (1994) reported basal radiocarbon dates from a morainedammed lake in a cirque in the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz Bolivia of ∼20,000 cal yr BP. These dates require deglaciation before this time, and a maximum glacial ELA lowering of <500 m, far l ...
... with several other studies from the tropical Andes. Seltzer (1994) reported basal radiocarbon dates from a morainedammed lake in a cirque in the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz Bolivia of ∼20,000 cal yr BP. These dates require deglaciation before this time, and a maximum glacial ELA lowering of <500 m, far l ...
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... of insured losses annually (Compton and McAneney, 2008). The most recent IPCC AR5 WG2 report states with high confidence that ―existing environmental stresses will interact with, and in many cases be exacerbated by, shifts in mean climatic conditions and associated change in the frequency or intensi ...
... of insured losses annually (Compton and McAneney, 2008). The most recent IPCC AR5 WG2 report states with high confidence that ―existing environmental stresses will interact with, and in many cases be exacerbated by, shifts in mean climatic conditions and associated change in the frequency or intensi ...
Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation in Climate and Land Use
... and adaptation are taken into account in policy formulation. The paper is based on a systematic content analysis of major federal level climate change and land use policies. The results indicate a stronger focus on climate change mitigation compared to adaptation in all land uses. Integrated approac ...
... and adaptation are taken into account in policy formulation. The paper is based on a systematic content analysis of major federal level climate change and land use policies. The results indicate a stronger focus on climate change mitigation compared to adaptation in all land uses. Integrated approac ...
A Situation Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives in
... vulnerable areas, should be provided support to enhance their analytical capacity to develop and apply their own climate change integrated development plans. Avoid too much experimentation: Institutional arrangements for managing climate change program portfolios have been ad-hoc and experimental in ...
... vulnerable areas, should be provided support to enhance their analytical capacity to develop and apply their own climate change integrated development plans. Avoid too much experimentation: Institutional arrangements for managing climate change program portfolios have been ad-hoc and experimental in ...
Modelling the Response of Mountain Glacier Discharge
... promoted by hydroelectric power schemes, but have rarely been assessed from a broader water resources aspect. Only very few glaciers are subject to simultaneous mass balance and discharge monitoring programmes. This may partly be due to practical difficulties associated with measuring stream discharg ...
... promoted by hydroelectric power schemes, but have rarely been assessed from a broader water resources aspect. Only very few glaciers are subject to simultaneous mass balance and discharge monitoring programmes. This may partly be due to practical difficulties associated with measuring stream discharg ...
Celebrating 20 years of The Montreal Protocol
... Mobilizing public opinion is the sine qua non of environmental negotiation. The framework Vienna Convention was agreed in a climate of only mild interest: neither the NGOs nor the media had drawn enough attention to the ozone problem to arouse the public. But when reputable scientists reported that ...
... Mobilizing public opinion is the sine qua non of environmental negotiation. The framework Vienna Convention was agreed in a climate of only mild interest: neither the NGOs nor the media had drawn enough attention to the ozone problem to arouse the public. But when reputable scientists reported that ...
Opportunities to Reduce Tasmania`s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... following its Australia first whole-of-government emissions audit, and with the help now of a network of climate change champions across each of the Agencies. Early reports on those efforts are now available on the TCCO website. Over its first year of operation, the TCAC has focused on providing the ...
... following its Australia first whole-of-government emissions audit, and with the help now of a network of climate change champions across each of the Agencies. Early reports on those efforts are now available on the TCCO website. Over its first year of operation, the TCAC has focused on providing the ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
... tourism workers; and (5) revising policies related to financing national tourism offices to accommodate the new climatic realities. All adaptation options considered are quite justifiable in national terms; each had benefit-cost ratios greater than 1. ...
... tourism workers; and (5) revising policies related to financing national tourism offices to accommodate the new climatic realities. All adaptation options considered are quite justifiable in national terms; each had benefit-cost ratios greater than 1. ...
Australia`s 21 Century Carbon Budget
... period. The emission limitations that are prescribed for the Annex B countries under the Kyoto Protocol are a type of carbon budget. An obvious deficiency of these budgets is that they only constrain emissions over the period 2008 – 2012; there are no limits on Annex B country emissions prior to thi ...
... period. The emission limitations that are prescribed for the Annex B countries under the Kyoto Protocol are a type of carbon budget. An obvious deficiency of these budgets is that they only constrain emissions over the period 2008 – 2012; there are no limits on Annex B country emissions prior to thi ...
Climate finance in the Pacific: An overview of flows to the region`s
... makes it difficult to know how much is being delivered or how it is used. Several studies and reports have provided some information, but it varies in depth, coverage and quality, making it difficult to identify patterns in the mobilization or use of funding. This information gap makes it difficult ...
... makes it difficult to know how much is being delivered or how it is used. Several studies and reports have provided some information, but it varies in depth, coverage and quality, making it difficult to identify patterns in the mobilization or use of funding. This information gap makes it difficult ...
disaster related human mobility within relevant pacific regional laws
... coupled with ongoing development challenges, are becoming increasingly visible in particular parts of the Pacific region today. The climate change impacts faced by Pacific islanders span across all sectors and geographic scales, for example, from the development of national government policy on clim ...
... coupled with ongoing development challenges, are becoming increasingly visible in particular parts of the Pacific region today. The climate change impacts faced by Pacific islanders span across all sectors and geographic scales, for example, from the development of national government policy on clim ...
information - Refugee Studies Centre
... abandonment of rural areas, declining health and physical resilience, unsustainable agricultural and production systems, difficulties in building effective governance systems and the effects of migrants on source and destination communities and ecosystems. Focus on the generalised potential of clima ...
... abandonment of rural areas, declining health and physical resilience, unsustainable agricultural and production systems, difficulties in building effective governance systems and the effects of migrants on source and destination communities and ecosystems. Focus on the generalised potential of clima ...
New Observations Show - The Science and Public Policy Institute
... oceans are warming, "as they absorb most of the extra heat being added to the climate system from the build-up of heat-trapping gases," which contention is far from a proven fact, and is -in fact -- merely an hypothesis ... and a bad one at that, as we shall soon see. Another fault of the Report is ...
... oceans are warming, "as they absorb most of the extra heat being added to the climate system from the build-up of heat-trapping gases," which contention is far from a proven fact, and is -in fact -- merely an hypothesis ... and a bad one at that, as we shall soon see. Another fault of the Report is ...
The Political Impact of Global Warming on Developing Countries
... collectively by both developed and developing countries. This dissertation project focuses on the systematic political impacts of climate change. This project also focuses on domestic and international environmental policies that led to pervasive climate change. At the conclusion of this task, I exp ...
... collectively by both developed and developing countries. This dissertation project focuses on the systematic political impacts of climate change. This project also focuses on domestic and international environmental policies that led to pervasive climate change. At the conclusion of this task, I exp ...
Great Lakes National Parks in Peril
... levels of the Great Lakes by disrupting the current balance of water entering the lakes through inflows and precipitation and leaving through outflows and evaporation. One projection is that by before the century’s end lake levels could drop by about 10 inches with lower future emissions of heat-tra ...
... levels of the Great Lakes by disrupting the current balance of water entering the lakes through inflows and precipitation and leaving through outflows and evaporation. One projection is that by before the century’s end lake levels could drop by about 10 inches with lower future emissions of heat-tra ...
Adaptation of water resources management to climate change
... be traced back to the World Water Vision, a declaration on global water issues adopted in March 2000 during the Second World Water Forum. The Vision highlighted climate change as one of the major challenges facing water professionals over the next twenty-five years. The World Water Vision coincided ...
... be traced back to the World Water Vision, a declaration on global water issues adopted in March 2000 during the Second World Water Forum. The Vision highlighted climate change as one of the major challenges facing water professionals over the next twenty-five years. The World Water Vision coincided ...
Projected changes in US rainfall erosivity
... sion will change in the coming decades is thus necessary to plan for land stewardship and ecosystem preservation and it is made more urgent and complex by the general expectation that increases in rainfall intensity under global warming (Trenberth et al., 2003) will exacerbate erosion. There is wide ...
... sion will change in the coming decades is thus necessary to plan for land stewardship and ecosystem preservation and it is made more urgent and complex by the general expectation that increases in rainfall intensity under global warming (Trenberth et al., 2003) will exacerbate erosion. There is wide ...
Environmentally displaced people Understanding the linkages
... abandonment of rural areas, declining health and physical resilience, unsustainable agricultural and production systems, difficulties in building effective governance systems and the effects of migrants on source and destination communities and ecosystems. Focus on the generalised potential of clima ...
... abandonment of rural areas, declining health and physical resilience, unsustainable agricultural and production systems, difficulties in building effective governance systems and the effects of migrants on source and destination communities and ecosystems. Focus on the generalised potential of clima ...
7 Managing the Risks: International Level and Integration across Scales
... extremes. Experience in disaster risk management includes both bottom-up and top-down approaches, but most often has developed from disasters considered first as local issues, then at the national level, and only at the international level where needs exceed national capacity, especially in terms of ...
... extremes. Experience in disaster risk management includes both bottom-up and top-down approaches, but most often has developed from disasters considered first as local issues, then at the national level, and only at the international level where needs exceed national capacity, especially in terms of ...
Research paper: Improving Communication of Uncertainty in the
... the respondents had access to these guidelines. These results suggest that the method used by the IPCC is likely to convey levels of imprecision that are too high. We propose an alternative form of communicating uncertainty, illustrate its effectiveness, and suggest several additional ways to improv ...
... the respondents had access to these guidelines. These results suggest that the method used by the IPCC is likely to convey levels of imprecision that are too high. We propose an alternative form of communicating uncertainty, illustrate its effectiveness, and suggest several additional ways to improv ...