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 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 ...
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. ...
Mesoamerica and and the Caribbean regional assessment
... and La Niña phenomena. These lead to economic and social elements that have an impact on the different degrees of vulnerability of the countries; b. Generating more effective policies and regulations in matters of natural resources, risk management and climate change, so that emerging challenges ca ...
... and La Niña phenomena. These lead to economic and social elements that have an impact on the different degrees of vulnerability of the countries; b. Generating more effective policies and regulations in matters of natural resources, risk management and climate change, so that emerging challenges ca ...
Ted Hamilton∗ - Vermont Journal of Environmental Law
... article divides the law of climate change into legal action that takes place at its “core” and at its “periphery.” The climate core is where global warming’s causes and effects are directly confronted, in the sense that the science, economics, and politics of climate change provide the factual mater ...
... article divides the law of climate change into legal action that takes place at its “core” and at its “periphery.” The climate core is where global warming’s causes and effects are directly confronted, in the sense that the science, economics, and politics of climate change provide the factual mater ...
Smith et al. 2008
... slopes and caves within forested and/or boreal habitat. The availability of rock shelters is likely a much more limiting resource than the plant community present (Smith, 1997). Because of thermal constraints, N. cinerea is restricted to progressively higher elevations in the southern portions of it ...
... slopes and caves within forested and/or boreal habitat. The availability of rock shelters is likely a much more limiting resource than the plant community present (Smith, 1997). Because of thermal constraints, N. cinerea is restricted to progressively higher elevations in the southern portions of it ...
After which threshold do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
... linearity of the relationship as the correlation between temperature and anthropogenic forcings is not necessarily linear in its parameters. Intuitively, this suggests that anthropogenic forcings may have an influence on temperature only after a threshold value, or more generally that the correlati ...
... linearity of the relationship as the correlation between temperature and anthropogenic forcings is not necessarily linear in its parameters. Intuitively, this suggests that anthropogenic forcings may have an influence on temperature only after a threshold value, or more generally that the correlati ...
One-Fifth of Coral Reefs Lost, Rest Threatened
... bout one-fifth of the world’s coral reefs have already been lost or severely damaged, while another 35 percent could be lost within 10–40 years, according to the latest review by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.1 The review contained mixed news: the number of coral reefs considered at low r ...
... bout one-fifth of the world’s coral reefs have already been lost or severely damaged, while another 35 percent could be lost within 10–40 years, according to the latest review by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.1 The review contained mixed news: the number of coral reefs considered at low r ...
Contribution of oceanic and vegetation feedbacks to Holocene
... continents and oceans and the related land-sea temperature and pressure gradients. Their strength and the location of major monsoon precipitation, however, are also largely influenced by moist processes (Webster et al., 1998). Thus, each modification that has an impact on the hydrological cycle, ene ...
... continents and oceans and the related land-sea temperature and pressure gradients. Their strength and the location of major monsoon precipitation, however, are also largely influenced by moist processes (Webster et al., 1998). Thus, each modification that has an impact on the hydrological cycle, ene ...
Simulating Picea schrenkiana forest productivity under climatic
... Fischlin (1996) have suggested that the first response of forests to climate change and atmospheric CO2 concentration increase will likely be an increase in productivity. Although there is a long history of forest net primary productivity (NPP) studies, it is not yet clear how forest NPP will respon ...
... Fischlin (1996) have suggested that the first response of forests to climate change and atmospheric CO2 concentration increase will likely be an increase in productivity. Although there is a long history of forest net primary productivity (NPP) studies, it is not yet clear how forest NPP will respon ...
Robust Adaptation to Climate Change in the Water Sector in
... involving over 100 companies who are major generators of carbon dioxide in Ireland. ...
... involving over 100 companies who are major generators of carbon dioxide in Ireland. ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED
... sustainable economic development. Because of the failure of export agriculture over the last several decades, to provide the economic stimuli needed to promote economic growth and development, Jamaica, like many other island states in the Caribbean subregion, has come to rely on tourism as an instru ...
... sustainable economic development. Because of the failure of export agriculture over the last several decades, to provide the economic stimuli needed to promote economic growth and development, Jamaica, like many other island states in the Caribbean subregion, has come to rely on tourism as an instru ...
Document
... • Adaptation is not solved overnight – It takes persistence – Effective governance on adaptation can take a decade to build ...
... • Adaptation is not solved overnight – It takes persistence – Effective governance on adaptation can take a decade to build ...
View PDF - Hofstra Law
... climate scientists, and environmental policy-makers—successfully defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the ...
... climate scientists, and environmental policy-makers—successfully defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the ...
Dr Tam - Climate Change and Beekeeping
... Promulgate policies to protect the honeybees and floral sources; regulations for using pesticides, beekeeping preservation, good beekeeping practice, quality standards for bee products and equipment Enhance capacity of lab to control quality Support for training courses, beekeeping extension, market ...
... Promulgate policies to protect the honeybees and floral sources; regulations for using pesticides, beekeeping preservation, good beekeeping practice, quality standards for bee products and equipment Enhance capacity of lab to control quality Support for training courses, beekeeping extension, market ...
the Point of No Return report
... A sign of the world’s addiction to fossil fuels is that, even in the face of the clear option to reduce emissions provided by the rise in the impact of renewables, the fossil fuel industry is going after some of the most difficult and dangerous fossil fuels ever to be extracted. Techniques proposed ...
... A sign of the world’s addiction to fossil fuels is that, even in the face of the clear option to reduce emissions provided by the rise in the impact of renewables, the fossil fuel industry is going after some of the most difficult and dangerous fossil fuels ever to be extracted. Techniques proposed ...
- Adaptation
... Developed Countries (LDCs). Furthermore, the following LDCF criteria and priorities are thus met: § Country ownership: Burkina Faso approved and submitted its National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) in December 2007. This proposal addresses six of the 12 priorities identified in the NAPA—not ...
... Developed Countries (LDCs). Furthermore, the following LDCF criteria and priorities are thus met: § Country ownership: Burkina Faso approved and submitted its National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) in December 2007. This proposal addresses six of the 12 priorities identified in the NAPA—not ...
A mechanism for dust-induced destabilization of
... upper troposphere is partially assumed by absorption of radiation by dust (State 2) is a model for the large-scale behavior of the atmosphere during cold, dry, stadial climates. Switch-like transitions between the warm, wet, less dusty interstadial climate (State 1) and the cold, dry, dusty stadial ...
... upper troposphere is partially assumed by absorption of radiation by dust (State 2) is a model for the large-scale behavior of the atmosphere during cold, dry, stadial climates. Switch-like transitions between the warm, wet, less dusty interstadial climate (State 1) and the cold, dry, dusty stadial ...
Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth
... This report was prepared by a team led by Kathy MacKinnon (TTL), assisted by Valerie Hickey and Junu Shrestha (Biodiversity Team, ENV) with substantial material on adaptation in LAC from Walter Vergara, and contributions from Marjory‐Anne Bromhead, Christophe Crepin, Karsten Ferrugiel and Gayatr ...
... This report was prepared by a team led by Kathy MacKinnon (TTL), assisted by Valerie Hickey and Junu Shrestha (Biodiversity Team, ENV) with substantial material on adaptation in LAC from Walter Vergara, and contributions from Marjory‐Anne Bromhead, Christophe Crepin, Karsten Ferrugiel and Gayatr ...
Mainstreaming Environment and Climate Change in the
... that environmental issues be fully integrated in these strategies, as well as in the instruments that implement a country’s PRS. The World Bank’s Environment Department is engaged in an ongoing review of the extent to which environmental issues are mainstreamed in poverty reduction strategies and th ...
... that environmental issues be fully integrated in these strategies, as well as in the instruments that implement a country’s PRS. The World Bank’s Environment Department is engaged in an ongoing review of the extent to which environmental issues are mainstreamed in poverty reduction strategies and th ...
Planning for the impact of sea-level rise on U.S. national parks
... that provide greater detail regarding the state of the scientific literature along with scales of confidence. While research like Parris et al. (2012) is very useful in planning, it usually provides specific numbers only for end-of-the-century sea-level rise. The full data set has not been published, m ...
... that provide greater detail regarding the state of the scientific literature along with scales of confidence. While research like Parris et al. (2012) is very useful in planning, it usually provides specific numbers only for end-of-the-century sea-level rise. The full data set has not been published, m ...
El Niño Southern Oscillation
... to an overall reduction in the intensity of the Leeuwin Current in the future climate. In contrast, there is no consensus across AR4 models regarding changes in ENSO-event frequency or amplitude, and hence we are unable to provide any assessment of future changes in ENSO variability on Australia’s m ...
... to an overall reduction in the intensity of the Leeuwin Current in the future climate. In contrast, there is no consensus across AR4 models regarding changes in ENSO-event frequency or amplitude, and hence we are unable to provide any assessment of future changes in ENSO variability on Australia’s m ...
36 - Ecology and Society
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
Future changes in the supply of goods and services - Munin
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
... Ims 6 and Paul Eric Aspholm 14 ABSTRACT. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in ...
health, climate and economic risks of the carmichael coalmine
... Agreement was signed by 197 countries around the world and has now been ratified by more than 140 countries, including Australia (UNFCCC 2017). The Agreement aims to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2°C above the preindustrial level. It is very important for Australia that temperatures ...
... Agreement was signed by 197 countries around the world and has now been ratified by more than 140 countries, including Australia (UNFCCC 2017). The Agreement aims to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2°C above the preindustrial level. It is very important for Australia that temperatures ...