Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in
... Climate change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer (IPCC, 2007). ...
... Climate change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer (IPCC, 2007). ...
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"The Ethics of Geoengineering" [Working Draft]
... are mostly responsible for the current situation and (ii) ‗this is a global problem and needs a global solution‘. The latter claim can be understood as distributing the costs across those who stand to benefit from a solution to the problem. Classically this debate is couched in terms of a broad dis ...
... are mostly responsible for the current situation and (ii) ‗this is a global problem and needs a global solution‘. The latter claim can be understood as distributing the costs across those who stand to benefit from a solution to the problem. Classically this debate is couched in terms of a broad dis ...
The Asian Monsoon
... The last chapter discusses the late Holocene monsoon variability and how this has shaped the human society and culture over Asia. The authors employ records derived from ice cores, spelothems, lakes and peat bogs to assess monsoon strengths since about 8000 y BP to the present. The monsoon strengthe ...
... The last chapter discusses the late Holocene monsoon variability and how this has shaped the human society and culture over Asia. The authors employ records derived from ice cores, spelothems, lakes and peat bogs to assess monsoon strengths since about 8000 y BP to the present. The monsoon strengthe ...
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... Second, although it is not the only exogenous factor affecting income and consumption of rural households, it is spatially covariant. As pointed out by Rosenzweig and Binswanger (1993), this feature makes it an important determinant of income variability that is most likely to influence welfare, esp ...
... Second, although it is not the only exogenous factor affecting income and consumption of rural households, it is spatially covariant. As pointed out by Rosenzweig and Binswanger (1993), this feature makes it an important determinant of income variability that is most likely to influence welfare, esp ...
SAP Highlevel presentation
... Flip-side: Ozone layer change issue has influences on climate change • Most ozone-depleting substances are also potent greenhouse gases. • MP avoided their build up and is reducing their abundance; thus, it helped reduce climate forcing. Warming emissions avoided by Ozone-Layer agreement (Montreal ...
... Flip-side: Ozone layer change issue has influences on climate change • Most ozone-depleting substances are also potent greenhouse gases. • MP avoided their build up and is reducing their abundance; thus, it helped reduce climate forcing. Warming emissions avoided by Ozone-Layer agreement (Montreal ...
Adapting portfolios to climate change
... incentives are needed to meet emissions-reduction targets. These present large investment risks and opportunities. Most countries have signed the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to less than two degrees Celsius (2°C) above pre-industrial levels — the threshold where many scientists see irrev ...
... incentives are needed to meet emissions-reduction targets. These present large investment risks and opportunities. Most countries have signed the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to less than two degrees Celsius (2°C) above pre-industrial levels — the threshold where many scientists see irrev ...
Burden Sharing and Fairness Principles in International
... requires that the relevant emission time period be defined, for instance as greenhouse gas emissions from 1900 to today. In the climate change negotiations, the developing countries have based much of their argumentation upon this principle (see, e.g., the Brazil and Brazil-RIVM proposals discussed ...
... requires that the relevant emission time period be defined, for instance as greenhouse gas emissions from 1900 to today. In the climate change negotiations, the developing countries have based much of their argumentation upon this principle (see, e.g., the Brazil and Brazil-RIVM proposals discussed ...
English
... The GEF used new methodology and updated indicators to meet the challenges of donors and recipient countries The new allocation system (STAR) is • more completed than the GEF 4 RAF • increasing the shares of allocation to the least developed countries • providing wider and more even allocations • en ...
... The GEF used new methodology and updated indicators to meet the challenges of donors and recipient countries The new allocation system (STAR) is • more completed than the GEF 4 RAF • increasing the shares of allocation to the least developed countries • providing wider and more even allocations • en ...
Assessing EU Leadership on Climate Change - Userpage
... pure form, involve a somewhat automatic “downloading” of institutional “software” simply because this is what everybody does in a given community. Which of these mechanisms are likely to come into play in diffusion—if it it exists—of ideas, policies, and institutions related to climate change from t ...
... pure form, involve a somewhat automatic “downloading” of institutional “software” simply because this is what everybody does in a given community. Which of these mechanisms are likely to come into play in diffusion—if it it exists—of ideas, policies, and institutions related to climate change from t ...
Activity 2.2: Historical Climate Cycles
... Milankovitch cycles: The Milankovitch, or astronomical theory, of climate change is an explanation for changes in the seasons that result from changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun. The theory is named for Serbian astronomer Milutin Milankovitch, who calculated the slow changes in the Earth's ...
... Milankovitch cycles: The Milankovitch, or astronomical theory, of climate change is an explanation for changes in the seasons that result from changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun. The theory is named for Serbian astronomer Milutin Milankovitch, who calculated the slow changes in the Earth's ...
What range of future scenarios should climate change policy be based on? -Modal falsificationism and its limitations
... by assigning prior pdfs to the parameters of a GCM which are then updated given observation in order to obtain a posterior probability for the parameters and, ultimately, climate sensitivity.9 I have introduced a gray shading in 3b which demarks the intervals indicated by the bars in 3a: What the SP ...
... by assigning prior pdfs to the parameters of a GCM which are then updated given observation in order to obtain a posterior probability for the parameters and, ultimately, climate sensitivity.9 I have introduced a gray shading in 3b which demarks the intervals indicated by the bars in 3a: What the SP ...
Non-paper Guidelines for Project Managers: Making vulnerable
... for Disaster Management”. The main aim of the guidelines is to provide coherency across risk assessments and facilitate their undertaking at the national level in EU Member States. The guidelines are based on the ISO Standards and aim at greater transparency and cooperation in efforts to prevent and ...
... for Disaster Management”. The main aim of the guidelines is to provide coherency across risk assessments and facilitate their undertaking at the national level in EU Member States. The guidelines are based on the ISO Standards and aim at greater transparency and cooperation in efforts to prevent and ...
Humanists For Revolutionary Socialism
... the formation of what should be a massive response to climate change, and thus contributing to the very real danger that it could wipe out the human race. ...
... the formation of what should be a massive response to climate change, and thus contributing to the very real danger that it could wipe out the human race. ...
Response of river flow regime to various climate change scenarios
... the flood peaks are likely to shift towards earlier months and the rate of change of flows during the rising and recession of flooding would be much higher compared to current state of the river. These results also indicate the exacerbation of flooding potential in the central part of Bangladesh due ...
... the flood peaks are likely to shift towards earlier months and the rate of change of flows during the rising and recession of flooding would be much higher compared to current state of the river. These results also indicate the exacerbation of flooding potential in the central part of Bangladesh due ...
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... Since 1900, hurricanes and tropical storms (tropical cyclones) making landfall in the United States (U.S.) have resulted in over a trillion dollars in economic damage, adjusted to 2005 levels of inflation, wealth, and population distribution (Pielke et al. 2008). These natural disasters clearly have ...
... Since 1900, hurricanes and tropical storms (tropical cyclones) making landfall in the United States (U.S.) have resulted in over a trillion dollars in economic damage, adjusted to 2005 levels of inflation, wealth, and population distribution (Pielke et al. 2008). These natural disasters clearly have ...
Support for facilitating access to environmentally sound
... for undertaking collaborative research and development for enabling developing country Parties to enhance their mitigation and adaptation action pursuant to the modalities of the GCF. The benefits of research and development can help countries to address their climate and sustainable development in ...
... for undertaking collaborative research and development for enabling developing country Parties to enhance their mitigation and adaptation action pursuant to the modalities of the GCF. The benefits of research and development can help countries to address their climate and sustainable development in ...
The EU and the progressive alliance negotiating in Durban
... great influence on its international image and credibility. After Copenhagen, the EU shifted its attention (back) to its traditional allies within international climate negotiations, the least-developed country (LDC) group and the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). These countries have come to ...
... great influence on its international image and credibility. After Copenhagen, the EU shifted its attention (back) to its traditional allies within international climate negotiations, the least-developed country (LDC) group and the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). These countries have come to ...
Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of
... Climate change is expected to lead to increased human mobility in the forms of migration, displacement and planned relocation of communities as areas become uninhabitable because of the effects of global warming. While considerable attention has been directed toward the first two categories – partic ...
... Climate change is expected to lead to increased human mobility in the forms of migration, displacement and planned relocation of communities as areas become uninhabitable because of the effects of global warming. While considerable attention has been directed toward the first two categories – partic ...
First Greenhouse Gas Inventory
... that climate change warrants a global effort in finding a solution to its adverse effects. It gives me great satisfaction that Bhutan has acknowledged the magnitude of the challenges posed by climate change and had ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during th ...
... that climate change warrants a global effort in finding a solution to its adverse effects. It gives me great satisfaction that Bhutan has acknowledged the magnitude of the challenges posed by climate change and had ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during th ...
The Science of Climate Change, Questions and Answers
... as mature within the framework required to discuss climate. It is at this intersection of the disciplines where uncertainty can and will arise, both because of the yet poorly understood feedbacks between the different components of the climate system and because of the difficulty of bringing these c ...
... as mature within the framework required to discuss climate. It is at this intersection of the disciplines where uncertainty can and will arise, both because of the yet poorly understood feedbacks between the different components of the climate system and because of the difficulty of bringing these c ...
Inaugural Lecture
... • Using models and observations to establish that: – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate variability – That humans might have affected 1 ...
... • Using models and observations to establish that: – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate variability – That humans might have affected 1 ...
The United Kingdom (UK) Climate Policy
... have demonstrated leadership on climate change, and in some cases have collaborated to drive policy. For example, the Carbon Disclosure Project, established in London, is a non-profit organization that aims to put corporate climate change and water information at the heart of business, investment an ...
... have demonstrated leadership on climate change, and in some cases have collaborated to drive policy. For example, the Carbon Disclosure Project, established in London, is a non-profit organization that aims to put corporate climate change and water information at the heart of business, investment an ...
climate change and insurance law
... transferring insurance risks to the capital markets, Sigma, 2009, n° 4, 46 pp. ; MUNICH RE, MUNICH RE newables – Our Contribution to a low carbon energy supply, 2009, 52 pp. (hereinafter quoted « MUNICH RE newables ») ; C.E.A., Tackling climate change – The vital contribution of insurers, 2009, 63 p ...
... transferring insurance risks to the capital markets, Sigma, 2009, n° 4, 46 pp. ; MUNICH RE, MUNICH RE newables – Our Contribution to a low carbon energy supply, 2009, 52 pp. (hereinafter quoted « MUNICH RE newables ») ; C.E.A., Tackling climate change – The vital contribution of insurers, 2009, 63 p ...
National Climate Change Response White Paper (2011)
... notes that all Government departments and state-owned enterprises will need to review the policies, strategies, legislation, regulations and plans falling within their jurisdictions to ensure full alignment with the National Climate Change Response within two years of the publication of this policy. ...
... notes that all Government departments and state-owned enterprises will need to review the policies, strategies, legislation, regulations and plans falling within their jurisdictions to ensure full alignment with the National Climate Change Response within two years of the publication of this policy. ...