Our People, Our Planet, Our Power
... pollution, toxic waste sites, the urban heat island effect, and other environmental hazards.5 Climate change exacerbates these problems and their impact on human health and well-being. Beyond greater exposure to hazards, people of color and low-income communities are also less likely to have the res ...
... pollution, toxic waste sites, the urban heat island effect, and other environmental hazards.5 Climate change exacerbates these problems and their impact on human health and well-being. Beyond greater exposure to hazards, people of color and low-income communities are also less likely to have the res ...
economics of climate change: sensitivity analysis of social cost
... Because of warming, the ability of land and oceans to absorb CO2 decreases as temperature rises. As a result, higher fraction of GHG emissions stay in the atmospheres. This is called “positive carbon cycle feedback” and it amplifies climate change. (IPCC, 2007.) There is a wide range of future risks ...
... Because of warming, the ability of land and oceans to absorb CO2 decreases as temperature rises. As a result, higher fraction of GHG emissions stay in the atmospheres. This is called “positive carbon cycle feedback” and it amplifies climate change. (IPCC, 2007.) There is a wide range of future risks ...
Discussion Paper - Economics E
... cross-section of countries in 1995. Climate-induced migration between the regions of the world also causes the population sizes to change. Immigrants are assumed to assimilate immediately and completely with the respective host population. FUND derives atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, m ...
... cross-section of countries in 1995. Climate-induced migration between the regions of the world also causes the population sizes to change. Immigrants are assumed to assimilate immediately and completely with the respective host population. FUND derives atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, m ...
ESTIMATION OF HEAT WAVE INDICES FROM CLIMATE MODEL
... agreement with observations of the present climate for a variety of key dynamic and thermodynamic climate variables. This agreement is highly encouraging, but it does not by itself mean that climate models are capable of accurately predicting the response of climate to a natural or human-induced per ...
... agreement with observations of the present climate for a variety of key dynamic and thermodynamic climate variables. This agreement is highly encouraging, but it does not by itself mean that climate models are capable of accurately predicting the response of climate to a natural or human-induced per ...
Joint Parliamentary meeting on Climate change and climate change
... the waste sector for 2.9%, the other emissions being caused by chemical solvents and non-specific combustion processes, M. whereas urgent measures are needed to tackle energy and fuel poverty, N. whereas many sectors are already making a contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and many low ...
... the waste sector for 2.9%, the other emissions being caused by chemical solvents and non-specific combustion processes, M. whereas urgent measures are needed to tackle energy and fuel poverty, N. whereas many sectors are already making a contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and many low ...
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... To address uncertainty in the future emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has developed a variety of scenarios which describe a range of future GHG emission trajectories [23]. Prior to the IPCC’s fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the IPCC had relied o ...
... To address uncertainty in the future emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has developed a variety of scenarios which describe a range of future GHG emission trajectories [23]. Prior to the IPCC’s fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the IPCC had relied o ...
Preparing for climate change guide for local government
... Some of the impacts of climate change such as increased temperature, longer growing seasons and decreased frost risk, may be beneficial for some sectors of agriculture, forestry and horticulture. These benefits may be limited by negative effects such as prolonged drought, increased flood risk, or gr ...
... Some of the impacts of climate change such as increased temperature, longer growing seasons and decreased frost risk, may be beneficial for some sectors of agriculture, forestry and horticulture. These benefits may be limited by negative effects such as prolonged drought, increased flood risk, or gr ...
Remaking suburbia:
... Suburban in relation to other forms, the urban and the rural Suburban sustained by and sustains parallel regimes: automobility/railways; childhood, women and work. ...
... Suburban in relation to other forms, the urban and the rural Suburban sustained by and sustains parallel regimes: automobility/railways; childhood, women and work. ...
Noosa Climate Action Plan
... make their own decisions. The groups from each workshop then considered the most likely impacts on their sub-region, lifestyle or business, the consequential outcomes as they saw them and how they might be overcome. With the benefit of this grass-roots approach, risk-reduction strategies can be deve ...
... make their own decisions. The groups from each workshop then considered the most likely impacts on their sub-region, lifestyle or business, the consequential outcomes as they saw them and how they might be overcome. With the benefit of this grass-roots approach, risk-reduction strategies can be deve ...
UN Sustainable Development Goals Setting Agenda for
... The Outcome Document and SDGs are intended to compliment and not replace existing international agreements and commitments. Key clauses in Introduction to Outcome Document include: 10. Rio+20 recognized that each country faces specific challenges to achieve sustainable development. It underscored th ...
... The Outcome Document and SDGs are intended to compliment and not replace existing international agreements and commitments. Key clauses in Introduction to Outcome Document include: 10. Rio+20 recognized that each country faces specific challenges to achieve sustainable development. It underscored th ...
Climate change adaptation in the boardroom
... The science of climate change paints a challenging future: Recent publications show that there has been a statistical shift in extreme weather events. While the global community has agreed in principle to contain average global warming to within 2° C, many publications suggest the failure of tangibl ...
... The science of climate change paints a challenging future: Recent publications show that there has been a statistical shift in extreme weather events. While the global community has agreed in principle to contain average global warming to within 2° C, many publications suggest the failure of tangibl ...
Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration
... 2010). Timing of migration is also affected by other environmental variables such as favourable tailwinds (Alerstam 1990) or conditions at stop-over sites or wintering areas (Saino and Ambrosini 2008), which can be affected by climate change partly independently of temperature. However, in the conte ...
... 2010). Timing of migration is also affected by other environmental variables such as favourable tailwinds (Alerstam 1990) or conditions at stop-over sites or wintering areas (Saino and Ambrosini 2008), which can be affected by climate change partly independently of temperature. However, in the conte ...
Climate Change Action Plan for the Florida Reef System (2010
... Florida is exemplary in terms of marine managed areas and hosts one of the first designated marine protected areas in the world, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park established in 1963. In addition, many of Florida’s coral reefs are protected and managed within the Florida Keys National Marine San ...
... Florida is exemplary in terms of marine managed areas and hosts one of the first designated marine protected areas in the world, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park established in 1963. In addition, many of Florida’s coral reefs are protected and managed within the Florida Keys National Marine San ...
56 - University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
... fisheries dependence and adaptive capacity. It is argued that understanding how these various factors combine to influence vulnerability provides a useful starting point for directing future research and climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives (Allison et al. 2009). The authors conclude ...
... fisheries dependence and adaptive capacity. It is argued that understanding how these various factors combine to influence vulnerability provides a useful starting point for directing future research and climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives (Allison et al. 2009). The authors conclude ...
Print Version
... whole Climate Prediction family. Just as if these were children, it will take an entire community, actually several communities, together with patience and dedication, to evolve and test seasonal and decadal prediction and determine and realize their potentials. Strong and healthy prediction systems ...
... whole Climate Prediction family. Just as if these were children, it will take an entire community, actually several communities, together with patience and dedication, to evolve and test seasonal and decadal prediction and determine and realize their potentials. Strong and healthy prediction systems ...
Towards transformational change: UNDP`s work in environment
... System. UNDP also launched a new project-level Environmental and Social Screening Procedure, which provides an integrated environmental and social sustainability safeguard approach that is consistent with international best practice. ...
... System. UNDP also launched a new project-level Environmental and Social Screening Procedure, which provides an integrated environmental and social sustainability safeguard approach that is consistent with international best practice. ...
Making agriculture in Africa climate-smart
... benefits from social, environmental and economic angles. It describes farming systems that are ‘capable of maintaining their productivity and usefulness to society indefinitely. Such systems must be resource conserving, socially supportive, commercially competitive, and environmentally sound’ (Ikerd ...
... benefits from social, environmental and economic angles. It describes farming systems that are ‘capable of maintaining their productivity and usefulness to society indefinitely. Such systems must be resource conserving, socially supportive, commercially competitive, and environmentally sound’ (Ikerd ...
curriculum vitae - u.arizona.edu
... Pederson, H. Tian, L Andreu-Hayles, Past and Future Drought in Mongolia, submitted, 2017. PAGES2k Hydro2k Consortium (Smerdon, J.E., J. Luterbacher, S. Phipps, K.J. Anchukaitis et al.), Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era, in revision, Clima ...
... Pederson, H. Tian, L Andreu-Hayles, Past and Future Drought in Mongolia, submitted, 2017. PAGES2k Hydro2k Consortium (Smerdon, J.E., J. Luterbacher, S. Phipps, K.J. Anchukaitis et al.), Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era, in revision, Clima ...
IPCC Asia - Climate Change and Food Security
... billion people, most of whom live in developing countries of Asia and Africa. During the 1990s, rice production and productivity in Asia grew at a much slower rate than did population. Yield deceleration of rice (the annual growth rate declined from 2.8% in the 1980s to 1.1% in the 1990s) in Asia ha ...
... billion people, most of whom live in developing countries of Asia and Africa. During the 1990s, rice production and productivity in Asia grew at a much slower rate than did population. Yield deceleration of rice (the annual growth rate declined from 2.8% in the 1980s to 1.1% in the 1990s) in Asia ha ...
Assessment of impacts of agricultural and climate change scenarios
... fects of historical land use change due to the influence of Chinese government programs (Zuo et al., 2016; G. H. Liu et al., 2015; W. Liu et al., 2015) and scenarios that reflect hypothetical shifts between various percentages of urban, forest, agricultural and other land use (Zhang et al., 2015, 20 ...
... fects of historical land use change due to the influence of Chinese government programs (Zuo et al., 2016; G. H. Liu et al., 2015; W. Liu et al., 2015) and scenarios that reflect hypothetical shifts between various percentages of urban, forest, agricultural and other land use (Zhang et al., 2015, 20 ...
Scenario and modelling uncertainty in global mean temperature
... socio-economic changes. On short lead times (10–15 yr) internal variability represents a large fraction of the total uncertainty, with the uncertainties in model response becoming more dominant as the anthropogenic signal increases through the 21st century. By the end of the century, differences in ...
... socio-economic changes. On short lead times (10–15 yr) internal variability represents a large fraction of the total uncertainty, with the uncertainties in model response becoming more dominant as the anthropogenic signal increases through the 21st century. By the end of the century, differences in ...
Greenhouse Gas Pledges by Parties to the Climate Change Jane A. Leggett
... new agreement—either an amendment creating a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol or new subsidiary agreement directly under the UNFCCC (or both)—in the 2009 Copenhagen meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP). Parties disagreed in Copenhagen over whether non-Annex I Parties shoul ...
... new agreement—either an amendment creating a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol or new subsidiary agreement directly under the UNFCCC (or both)—in the 2009 Copenhagen meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP). Parties disagreed in Copenhagen over whether non-Annex I Parties shoul ...
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... more comprehensive economic development policies, and those aimed at increasing urban sustainability, on the wake of Agenda 21 initiatives, making evident the potentialities and responsibilities of urban areas for the reduction and mitigation of global environmental impacts. Since the beginning of t ...
... more comprehensive economic development policies, and those aimed at increasing urban sustainability, on the wake of Agenda 21 initiatives, making evident the potentialities and responsibilities of urban areas for the reduction and mitigation of global environmental impacts. Since the beginning of t ...
Climate-biosphere interactions on glacial
... climate change. Typical estimates for climate sensitivity to increased CO2 would attribute about 2C of the 6 C glacial-interglacial temperature change to different greenhouse gas concentrations [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ), 2001]. The remainder of the warming was due to a de ...
... climate change. Typical estimates for climate sensitivity to increased CO2 would attribute about 2C of the 6 C glacial-interglacial temperature change to different greenhouse gas concentrations [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ), 2001]. The remainder of the warming was due to a de ...
Evaluation of FAO's contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation
... Based on their vulnerability to climate change, size of FAO’s CCAM-related portfolio and other factors, 11 member countries were visited in the regions of: Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Kenya), Asia and the Pacific (Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, Vanuatu), the Near East and North Africa (Mo ...
... Based on their vulnerability to climate change, size of FAO’s CCAM-related portfolio and other factors, 11 member countries were visited in the regions of: Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Kenya), Asia and the Pacific (Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, Vanuatu), the Near East and North Africa (Mo ...