II. Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability: Technical Summary
... in some physical and biological systems to the anthropogenic component of warming by comparing observed trends with modelled trends in which the natural and anthropogenic forcings are explicitly separated [1.4]. 2. Observed changes in many physical and biological systems are consistent with a warmin ...
... in some physical and biological systems to the anthropogenic component of warming by comparing observed trends with modelled trends in which the natural and anthropogenic forcings are explicitly separated [1.4]. 2. Observed changes in many physical and biological systems are consistent with a warmin ...
Documentation Support Specialist
... The Green Climate Fund (“the Fund”) is a new multilateral fund created to make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global efforts towards attaining the goals set by the international community to combat climate change. The Fund will contribute to the achievement of the ultimate objective ...
... The Green Climate Fund (“the Fund”) is a new multilateral fund created to make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global efforts towards attaining the goals set by the international community to combat climate change. The Fund will contribute to the achievement of the ultimate objective ...
Ealing Borough Climate Change Strategy 2008-2011
... People have become more aware about the links between their everyday behaviour and the climate. With the United Kingdom economy at risk of recession and the cost of essentials such as petrol, energy and food increasing, changing your everyday behaviour will not only help the environment but also cou ...
... People have become more aware about the links between their everyday behaviour and the climate. With the United Kingdom economy at risk of recession and the cost of essentials such as petrol, energy and food increasing, changing your everyday behaviour will not only help the environment but also cou ...
Hedonic Pricing of Climate Change Impacts to
... Abstract This study investigates the amenity value of climate to British households. By using the hedonic price approach, the marginal willingness to pay for small changes in climate variables, specified as averages and ranges, is derived. The estimates suggest that British people would typically pr ...
... Abstract This study investigates the amenity value of climate to British households. By using the hedonic price approach, the marginal willingness to pay for small changes in climate variables, specified as averages and ranges, is derived. The estimates suggest that British people would typically pr ...
Dissemination of information on climate change: a case study KwaNgwanase in KwaZulu-Natal
... a weather forecasting service to those who would benefit from it. Urgent SMSs could be sent via mobile phones to alert people to the likelihood of, for instance, floods, to prepare them to evacuate dangerous areas, and thus potentially contribute to their safety. Efforts have been made in Southern A ...
... a weather forecasting service to those who would benefit from it. Urgent SMSs could be sent via mobile phones to alert people to the likelihood of, for instance, floods, to prepare them to evacuate dangerous areas, and thus potentially contribute to their safety. Efforts have been made in Southern A ...
Projected changes in mean and extreme precipitation in Africa
... precipitation taken over sufficiently long periods (100 or 150 years in this study) meet this requirement from the central limit theorem. To fulfill this requirement in the case of extreme quantiles, the first step involved estimating the GPD parameters from maximum likelihood. After checking for m ...
... precipitation taken over sufficiently long periods (100 or 150 years in this study) meet this requirement from the central limit theorem. To fulfill this requirement in the case of extreme quantiles, the first step involved estimating the GPD parameters from maximum likelihood. After checking for m ...
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
... Change,” Vitousek wrote, “ultimately, climate change probably has the greatest potential to alter the functioning of the Earth system . . . . nevertheless, the major effects of climate change are mostly in the future while most of the others are already with us.” Individual authors in that volume te ...
... Change,” Vitousek wrote, “ultimately, climate change probably has the greatest potential to alter the functioning of the Earth system . . . . nevertheless, the major effects of climate change are mostly in the future while most of the others are already with us.” Individual authors in that volume te ...
Climate change and the Antarctic marine ecosystem: an essay on
... also been linked with the very rapid warming seen over land on the west coast of the Peninsula (Turner et al. 2009b), and how over this century the ozone hole is expected to heal, allowing the full effects of greenhouse gas increases to be felt across the Antarctic, with a predicted warming of about ...
... also been linked with the very rapid warming seen over land on the west coast of the Peninsula (Turner et al. 2009b), and how over this century the ozone hole is expected to heal, allowing the full effects of greenhouse gas increases to be felt across the Antarctic, with a predicted warming of about ...
Global mechanisms for sustaining and enhancing PES schemes ⁎ Josh Farley
... benefits involved. In complex ecological–economic systems, elements of this challenge include uncertainty and systemic ignorance regarding ecological outcomes and technological progress (Faber et al., 1998), potentially incommensurable values (Martinez-Alier et al., 1998), and the difficulties in comp ...
... benefits involved. In complex ecological–economic systems, elements of this challenge include uncertainty and systemic ignorance regarding ecological outcomes and technological progress (Faber et al., 1998), potentially incommensurable values (Martinez-Alier et al., 1998), and the difficulties in comp ...
What do stakeholders need to manage for climate change
... context of planning for future resource management in the face of change at multiple timescales. As we will describe next, data and information needs were often expressed in terms informing warning systems, evaluating impacts or planning for uncertain or very different, unpredictable futures. Second ...
... context of planning for future resource management in the face of change at multiple timescales. As we will describe next, data and information needs were often expressed in terms informing warning systems, evaluating impacts or planning for uncertain or very different, unpredictable futures. Second ...
In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change
... emissions that drive global warming. Scientific findings suggest that climatic changes are accelerating.1 Now, however, it is clear that emissions reductions efforts have been too little, too late. Therefore, the challenges and complex politics of adaptation are joining those of mitigation at the ce ...
... emissions that drive global warming. Scientific findings suggest that climatic changes are accelerating.1 Now, however, it is clear that emissions reductions efforts have been too little, too late. Therefore, the challenges and complex politics of adaptation are joining those of mitigation at the ce ...
water: impacts, Risks, and Adaptation
... • Data collection, monitoring, and modeling to support both science and management are critical as the water cycle changes (WestFAST 2010). (high confidence) ...
... • Data collection, monitoring, and modeling to support both science and management are critical as the water cycle changes (WestFAST 2010). (high confidence) ...
Good Living for Whom? Bolivia`s Climate Justice Movement and the
... work of reconstituting the ayllu. The THOA movement, under the leadership of Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (1987), calls for the recognition of the original colonial territorial bounds in order to reclaim rights to land, community, and to the reestablishment of traditional Andean forms ...
... work of reconstituting the ayllu. The THOA movement, under the leadership of Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (1987), calls for the recognition of the original colonial territorial bounds in order to reclaim rights to land, community, and to the reestablishment of traditional Andean forms ...
climate in change nature and society challanges for the barents
... also become considerable thinner. Melting of sea ice do not result in rising of the sea level, but an ice free polar sea will absorb more radiation and contribute to an increase of the global warming. However melting of the ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica has increased the sea level by 0,4 mm ...
... also become considerable thinner. Melting of sea ice do not result in rising of the sea level, but an ice free polar sea will absorb more radiation and contribute to an increase of the global warming. However melting of the ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica has increased the sea level by 0,4 mm ...
spline models of contemporary, 2030, 2060 and 2090 climates for
... was constructed using outputs from three general circulation models (GCMs: Canadian, Hadley and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics) from two emission scenarios (A “pessimistic” and B “optimistic”). Mean annual temperature (MAT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), annual degree days > 5 °C (DD5), and annual ar ...
... was constructed using outputs from three general circulation models (GCMs: Canadian, Hadley and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics) from two emission scenarios (A “pessimistic” and B “optimistic”). Mean annual temperature (MAT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), annual degree days > 5 °C (DD5), and annual ar ...
Climate-human-environment interactions: resolving our - HAL-Insu
... that can offer sustainable management policies in the face of changing climate and social change. At this scale, two sets of questions about vulnerability and adaptation can be applied to all locations on earth: – How sensitive or resilient are modern ecosystems and socio-ecological systems to incre ...
... that can offer sustainable management policies in the face of changing climate and social change. At this scale, two sets of questions about vulnerability and adaptation can be applied to all locations on earth: – How sensitive or resilient are modern ecosystems and socio-ecological systems to incre ...
REPORT - BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change
... studying the causes and consequences of climate change and the best ways of addressing it. Given the vast range of the topic, BC3 was designed to focus on the socio-economic aspects of climate change, albeit within an interdisciplinary framework that includes the natural as well as social sciences. ...
... studying the causes and consequences of climate change and the best ways of addressing it. Given the vast range of the topic, BC3 was designed to focus on the socio-economic aspects of climate change, albeit within an interdisciplinary framework that includes the natural as well as social sciences. ...
General Law on Climate Change Mexico
... IV. Develop and implement their own climate change programs, by promoting public participation, listening, and responding to the public and private sectors, and society in general; V. Establish criteria and procedures for evaluating and overseeing compliance with the state program in this field, as ...
... IV. Develop and implement their own climate change programs, by promoting public participation, listening, and responding to the public and private sectors, and society in general; V. Establish criteria and procedures for evaluating and overseeing compliance with the state program in this field, as ...
In Cook et al., the definition of consensus hypothesis that comes
... dozen commonest logical fallacies in human discourse. Al-Haytham, the astronomer and philosopher of science in 11th-century Iraq who is recognized as the father of the scientific method, wrote that “the seeker after truth” – his phrase for the scientist – does not place his faith in any mere consens ...
... dozen commonest logical fallacies in human discourse. Al-Haytham, the astronomer and philosopher of science in 11th-century Iraq who is recognized as the father of the scientific method, wrote that “the seeker after truth” – his phrase for the scientist – does not place his faith in any mere consens ...
Initial NationalCommunication St. Kitts-Nevis
... Temperatures average approximately 270 Celsius. Seasonal and diurnal variations in temperature are small. 1.2.4 Hurricanes and Other Natural Hazards (a) Hurricanes The Federation is particularly vulnerable to damage from tropical storms. Since 1989, eight storms have affected the country - Hugo, Fel ...
... Temperatures average approximately 270 Celsius. Seasonal and diurnal variations in temperature are small. 1.2.4 Hurricanes and Other Natural Hazards (a) Hurricanes The Federation is particularly vulnerable to damage from tropical storms. Since 1989, eight storms have affected the country - Hugo, Fel ...
cape verde_cida_prodoc_final
... Cape Verde archipelago is characterized by a dry topical climate. Geo-climatic conditions of the archipelago result in great spatio-temporal variability in rainfall, with frequent drought events and the presence of micro-climates. In addition, the strong North-East winds lead to contrasting agricult ...
... Cape Verde archipelago is characterized by a dry topical climate. Geo-climatic conditions of the archipelago result in great spatio-temporal variability in rainfall, with frequent drought events and the presence of micro-climates. In addition, the strong North-East winds lead to contrasting agricult ...
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... progress towards accomplishing the DRR targets will only be possible if substantial efforts are put in improving risk assessments and disaster impacts’ records. The SFDRR advocates multi-hazard, inclusive, science-based and risk-informed decision-making for which it is necessary to collect and share ...
... progress towards accomplishing the DRR targets will only be possible if substantial efforts are put in improving risk assessments and disaster impacts’ records. The SFDRR advocates multi-hazard, inclusive, science-based and risk-informed decision-making for which it is necessary to collect and share ...
Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and
... ecosystem services over the twenty-first century could be far greater than was previously predicted. We identify key policy and management opportunities at regional to global scales to avoid these shifts. Keywords: biodiversity change, human–environment interactions, tipping points, South America, S ...
... ecosystem services over the twenty-first century could be far greater than was previously predicted. We identify key policy and management opportunities at regional to global scales to avoid these shifts. Keywords: biodiversity change, human–environment interactions, tipping points, South America, S ...
How Do Recent Population Trends Matter to Climate Change?
... change, and how population policies could make differences for climate change mitigation and adaptation. ...
... change, and how population policies could make differences for climate change mitigation and adaptation. ...