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The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... the present. These particular scenarios aim not to speculate centuries into the future, as some scientific models do, but to consider possible developments using a reasonable timeframe for making acquisition decisions or judgments about larger geopolitical trends. In national security planning, it g ...
... the present. These particular scenarios aim not to speculate centuries into the future, as some scientific models do, but to consider possible developments using a reasonable timeframe for making acquisition decisions or judgments about larger geopolitical trends. In national security planning, it g ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LIFE David Albouy
... the full distribution of realized daily temperatures rather than seasonal or monthly averages, allowing us to explore how households value progressively extreme temperatures. Prior research into climate amenities has ignored the importance of flexibly modeling temperature profiles, even though other ...
... the full distribution of realized daily temperatures rather than seasonal or monthly averages, allowing us to explore how households value progressively extreme temperatures. Prior research into climate amenities has ignored the importance of flexibly modeling temperature profiles, even though other ...
Climate Change and Its Causes - The Science and Public Policy
... warming since 1900 and virtually 100% of the global warming since 1970 (Appendix A). The AGWT is currently advocated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], which is the leading body for the assessment of climate change established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UN ...
... warming since 1900 and virtually 100% of the global warming since 1970 (Appendix A). The AGWT is currently advocated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], which is the leading body for the assessment of climate change established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UN ...
Framework Programme on Climate Change Adaptation
... insecurity, yet not all poverty alleviation efforts constitute effective reduction in climate vulnerability and not all adaptation will automatically lead to immediate improvements in food security. Adaptive capacity. Most ecological and social systems have built-in adaptive capacity. However, the c ...
... insecurity, yet not all poverty alleviation efforts constitute effective reduction in climate vulnerability and not all adaptation will automatically lead to immediate improvements in food security. Adaptive capacity. Most ecological and social systems have built-in adaptive capacity. However, the c ...
reportedly biased - Galileo Movement
... Media coverage of the climate change issue highlights the complete failure of organisations such as ACIJ, ACMA, APC, and MEAA to act as supposed unbiased watchdog organisations and establish a standard of journalistic integrity and professionalism to which the wider journalistic community can aspir ...
... Media coverage of the climate change issue highlights the complete failure of organisations such as ACIJ, ACMA, APC, and MEAA to act as supposed unbiased watchdog organisations and establish a standard of journalistic integrity and professionalism to which the wider journalistic community can aspir ...
Chapter 10
... to be most sensitive to climate change-induced impacts in Asia. Agricultural productivity in Asia is likely to suffer severe losses because of high temperature, severe drought, flood conditions, and soil degradation. Forest ecosystems in boreal Asia would suffer from floods and increased volume of r ...
... to be most sensitive to climate change-induced impacts in Asia. Agricultural productivity in Asia is likely to suffer severe losses because of high temperature, severe drought, flood conditions, and soil degradation. Forest ecosystems in boreal Asia would suffer from floods and increased volume of r ...
Working Paper 192 - Waldinger (opens in new window)
... disasters are not in the same position. Their government is sympathetic towards them. It is not driving them away, and they still have rights. [...] There is no such thing as an environmental refugee,” (Lubbers, 2004). The term ‘migrant’ is more general compared to ‘refugee’. The United Nations defi ...
... disasters are not in the same position. Their government is sympathetic towards them. It is not driving them away, and they still have rights. [...] There is no such thing as an environmental refugee,” (Lubbers, 2004). The term ‘migrant’ is more general compared to ‘refugee’. The United Nations defi ...
NEEDS Study LEAD and SDPI - Indus Valley School of Art
... risk of flash floods in the rivers. The dense population base which resides along these flood plains and is, subsequently, directly impacted multiplies the country’s vulnerability. All this is established scientific knowledge. Climate Change is now beginning to add a new erratic and volatile ingred ...
... risk of flash floods in the rivers. The dense population base which resides along these flood plains and is, subsequently, directly impacted multiplies the country’s vulnerability. All this is established scientific knowledge. Climate Change is now beginning to add a new erratic and volatile ingred ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... the present. These particular scenarios aim not to speculate centuries into the future, as some scientific models do, but to consider possible developments using a reasonable timeframe for making acquisition decisions or judgments about larger geopolitical trends. In national security planning, it g ...
... the present. These particular scenarios aim not to speculate centuries into the future, as some scientific models do, but to consider possible developments using a reasonable timeframe for making acquisition decisions or judgments about larger geopolitical trends. In national security planning, it g ...
The Age of Consequences - The Web site cannot be found
... the present. These particular scenarios aim not to speculate centuries into the future, as some scientific models do, but to consider possible developments using a reasonable timeframe for making acquisition decisions or judgments about larger geopolitical trends. In national security planning, it g ...
... the present. These particular scenarios aim not to speculate centuries into the future, as some scientific models do, but to consider possible developments using a reasonable timeframe for making acquisition decisions or judgments about larger geopolitical trends. In national security planning, it g ...
Suburban Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities for Small and Nimble Cities Participating in State, Regional, National, and International Networks
... fail to produce an adequate response to climate change,3 a growing number of cities—including many small suburban cities—are playing critical roles in multi-level efforts to address climate change. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson noted in a January 2012 presenta ...
... fail to produce an adequate response to climate change,3 a growing number of cities—including many small suburban cities—are playing critical roles in multi-level efforts to address climate change. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson noted in a January 2012 presenta ...
Consequences of Global Warming of 1.5 °C and 2 °C for Regional
... The world leaders gathered for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015 agreed to take steps towards limiting the global mean annual surface air temperature (GMAT) increase to well below 2˚C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts towards a target of 1.5˚C [1]. ...
... The world leaders gathered for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015 agreed to take steps towards limiting the global mean annual surface air temperature (GMAT) increase to well below 2˚C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts towards a target of 1.5˚C [1]. ...
Global changes in seasonal means and extremes of precipitation
... precipitation maximum and the seasonal mean. Modeled precipitation data appear consistent with observation-based data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project. The data are split into six time periods of 25 years to get independent time series. The seasonal peaks are modeled by using the ge ...
... precipitation maximum and the seasonal mean. Modeled precipitation data appear consistent with observation-based data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project. The data are split into six time periods of 25 years to get independent time series. The seasonal peaks are modeled by using the ge ...
Feedback Dynamics, Sensitivity - Apollo-Gaia
... At its inception some seven years ago, the agenda of the Apollo-Gaia Project was focussed on two fundamental questions. Both were positioned right at the centre of concern of the climate science community. Both were subject to levels of uncertainty that jeopardised effective decision-making in the f ...
... At its inception some seven years ago, the agenda of the Apollo-Gaia Project was focussed on two fundamental questions. Both were positioned right at the centre of concern of the climate science community. Both were subject to levels of uncertainty that jeopardised effective decision-making in the f ...
A Climate Risk Report - Blue Mountains City Council
... strains on BMCC’s ability to provide other adaptive measures to support their community (for example, the advocacy for, and provision of, infrastructure for non-car based transport options). Many of the impacts or associated actions are likely to significantly increase, especially in relation to mai ...
... strains on BMCC’s ability to provide other adaptive measures to support their community (for example, the advocacy for, and provision of, infrastructure for non-car based transport options). Many of the impacts or associated actions are likely to significantly increase, especially in relation to mai ...
Polish National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
... stable socio-economic development in the face of risks posed by climate change but also with a view to use the positive impact which adaptation actions may have not only on the state of the Polish environment but also on the economic growth. Adaptation actions involve significant costs. In a global ...
... stable socio-economic development in the face of risks posed by climate change but also with a view to use the positive impact which adaptation actions may have not only on the state of the Polish environment but also on the economic growth. Adaptation actions involve significant costs. In a global ...
Vienna Convention Trust Fund Advisory Committee
... surface UV radiation are back to their original states ...
... surface UV radiation are back to their original states ...
global climate change and health – a new theme for research in
... changes linked to slow climate change. In addition, a recent study in Stockholm has shown increased mortality during periods with high summer temperatures. An increased concentration of air pollution in Sweden may be related to climate change not only in Sweden, but also in parts of Europe south of ...
... changes linked to slow climate change. In addition, a recent study in Stockholm has shown increased mortality during periods with high summer temperatures. An increased concentration of air pollution in Sweden may be related to climate change not only in Sweden, but also in parts of Europe south of ...
Economics, Institutions and Adaptation to Climate Change
... how individuals, organizations and societies can adapt to unmitigated climate change. Despite the growing importance of climate adaptation economic frameworks of this challenge are rarely articulated and discussed explicitly. However, the potential benefits of such a framework-level discourse are ma ...
... how individuals, organizations and societies can adapt to unmitigated climate change. Despite the growing importance of climate adaptation economic frameworks of this challenge are rarely articulated and discussed explicitly. However, the potential benefits of such a framework-level discourse are ma ...
3.6 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... Finding is based on Section 202(a) of the CAA, which states that the USEPA Administrator should regulate and develop standards for “emission[s] of air pollution from any class or classes of new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [its] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollutio ...
... Finding is based on Section 202(a) of the CAA, which states that the USEPA Administrator should regulate and develop standards for “emission[s] of air pollution from any class or classes of new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [its] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollutio ...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation and mitigation – good
... mitigate and help people and ecosystems adapt to climate change using ecosystem-based approaches. Through the case studies, the report shows what is being and can be done, and provides an assessment of good practice, barriers and lessons learned in Europe. The climate has changed over the last 100 y ...
... mitigate and help people and ecosystems adapt to climate change using ecosystem-based approaches. Through the case studies, the report shows what is being and can be done, and provides an assessment of good practice, barriers and lessons learned in Europe. The climate has changed over the last 100 y ...
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation and mitigation – good
... mitigate and help people and ecosystems adapt to climate change using ecosystem-based approaches. Through the case studies, the report shows what is being and can be done, and provides an assessment of good practice, barriers and lessons learned in Europe. The climate has changed over the last 100 y ...
... mitigate and help people and ecosystems adapt to climate change using ecosystem-based approaches. Through the case studies, the report shows what is being and can be done, and provides an assessment of good practice, barriers and lessons learned in Europe. The climate has changed over the last 100 y ...
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND TRADE
... so doing, such projects earn saleable Certified Emission Reduction Credits (CERs) each equivalent to one tonne of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which are then counted towards meeting the emission reduction targets envisaged in the Kyoto Protocol. ...
... so doing, such projects earn saleable Certified Emission Reduction Credits (CERs) each equivalent to one tonne of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which are then counted towards meeting the emission reduction targets envisaged in the Kyoto Protocol. ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability
... Most of the discussion on climate change has focused on mitigation measures, for example the Kyoto Protocol. Not much attention has been given to climatechange adaptation, which will be critical for many developing countries. The developing world has not yet realized that this issue needs to be on t ...
... Most of the discussion on climate change has focused on mitigation measures, for example the Kyoto Protocol. Not much attention has been given to climatechange adaptation, which will be critical for many developing countries. The developing world has not yet realized that this issue needs to be on t ...