Climate Change and Social Protection in Bangladesh: Are Existing
... crops and livestock, in turn imposing long-term effects on food security and livelihoods. For example, more than 1.2 million metric tonnes of rice crops were damaged by cyclone Sidr (Raihan et al., 2007), and embankments were breached by cyclone Aila, leading to damage from saline-water inundation o ...
... crops and livestock, in turn imposing long-term effects on food security and livelihoods. For example, more than 1.2 million metric tonnes of rice crops were damaged by cyclone Sidr (Raihan et al., 2007), and embankments were breached by cyclone Aila, leading to damage from saline-water inundation o ...
Poverty - International Policy Centre for inclusive Growth
... Ghana and Zambia among the newest Middle Income Countries, an estimated 800 million people still live in low-income countries. Of these, half live in just five countries, three of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. In these least-developed countries (LDCs), conflict, disaster and broader human insecur ...
... Ghana and Zambia among the newest Middle Income Countries, an estimated 800 million people still live in low-income countries. Of these, half live in just five countries, three of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. In these least-developed countries (LDCs), conflict, disaster and broader human insecur ...
adaptation planning developing resilience to climate change in the
... Our climate is changing and the associated transformation could have critical implications for our planet and way of life. While there is still a degree of uncertainty about the level and extent of the likely impacts, an exacerbation of existing vulnerabilities is to be expected. The impacts of clim ...
... Our climate is changing and the associated transformation could have critical implications for our planet and way of life. While there is still a degree of uncertainty about the level and extent of the likely impacts, an exacerbation of existing vulnerabilities is to be expected. The impacts of clim ...
International Progress on Kyoto - Law Associates Ltd Consultants
... agreements, what has been happening recently and some prospects and issues around potential new agreements. I am not talking about the science or how New Zealand might comply with a reduced emission regime, or about domestic mechanisms such as the Emissions Trading Scheme. Reading the literature inv ...
... agreements, what has been happening recently and some prospects and issues around potential new agreements. I am not talking about the science or how New Zealand might comply with a reduced emission regime, or about domestic mechanisms such as the Emissions Trading Scheme. Reading the literature inv ...
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Tanzania
... conservation of natural capital to enhance multi-scale benefits from ecosystems that help social-ecological systems adapt to changing and multiple stressors, including climate change. To this end, the Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework combines EbA strategies with flexible enabling mechanisms and adapti ...
... conservation of natural capital to enhance multi-scale benefits from ecosystems that help social-ecological systems adapt to changing and multiple stressors, including climate change. To this end, the Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework combines EbA strategies with flexible enabling mechanisms and adapti ...
FFEIpolicyworkshop-InfoPackage
... Large landscape-scale disturbances continued to occur more often in the 21st century, starting with the MPB outbreak back in 2000-2015, then the spruce beetle outbreaks in the north in the 2020s, followed by a series of bad fire years in the 2030s, similar to that seen 100 years earlier. As well, th ...
... Large landscape-scale disturbances continued to occur more often in the 21st century, starting with the MPB outbreak back in 2000-2015, then the spruce beetle outbreaks in the north in the 2020s, followed by a series of bad fire years in the 2030s, similar to that seen 100 years earlier. As well, th ...
Letter from Peter Lilley to Bob Ward, 2 January 2013
... Your failure to address this crucial point is very telling. 4. Sacrificing today's poor for tomorrow's rich. Stern’s strategy involves this comparatively poor generation making sacrifices to make generations centuries hence, who (even if we do nothing to mitigate global warming) will be many times b ...
... Your failure to address this crucial point is very telling. 4. Sacrificing today's poor for tomorrow's rich. Stern’s strategy involves this comparatively poor generation making sacrifices to make generations centuries hence, who (even if we do nothing to mitigate global warming) will be many times b ...
Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification
... attention to our existing knowledge and opportunities for further progress. In this article we synthesize the findings of 21 papers on the current state of global capability for agricultural GHG quantification and visions for its improvement. We address the three themes around which the articles were ...
... attention to our existing knowledge and opportunities for further progress. In this article we synthesize the findings of 21 papers on the current state of global capability for agricultural GHG quantification and visions for its improvement. We address the three themes around which the articles were ...
Vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: A case study from Arctic
... climate change. For Inuit hunters in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, climate change has meant that their traditional knowledge, which underpins safe and successful hunting, is less dependable (Ford and Smit, 2004). In the small Inuit community of Kugluktuk, for example, unusual ice conditions have been ...
... climate change. For Inuit hunters in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, climate change has meant that their traditional knowledge, which underpins safe and successful hunting, is less dependable (Ford and Smit, 2004). In the small Inuit community of Kugluktuk, for example, unusual ice conditions have been ...
chisoro elizabeth - Midlands State University
... parts of the word. In view of climate change and gender it can be noted that it has contributed immensely to change in carrying out of masculine livelihood strategies by men in rural communities. This is so because most men are usually bread winners of families, and the effects are more pronounced i ...
... parts of the word. In view of climate change and gender it can be noted that it has contributed immensely to change in carrying out of masculine livelihood strategies by men in rural communities. This is so because most men are usually bread winners of families, and the effects are more pronounced i ...
A history of climate activities
... practices for more than 70 years, especially, since 1929, through its Commission for Climatology, which was re-established as an intergovernmental body by WMO in 1951 and has been maintained, albeit with a brief change of name to enhance its focus on applications, to the present day. Many of the Nat ...
... practices for more than 70 years, especially, since 1929, through its Commission for Climatology, which was re-established as an intergovernmental body by WMO in 1951 and has been maintained, albeit with a brief change of name to enhance its focus on applications, to the present day. Many of the Nat ...
Projections of precipitation, air temperature and potential
... hardships in many countries of the region. There is evidence that future climate change may lead to a change in the frequency or severity of such extreme weather events, potentially worsening these impacts. In addition, future climate change will lead to increases in average mean temperature, and ch ...
... hardships in many countries of the region. There is evidence that future climate change may lead to a change in the frequency or severity of such extreme weather events, potentially worsening these impacts. In addition, future climate change will lead to increases in average mean temperature, and ch ...
Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the
... of Fig. 2B). Thus, for each climate model, we calculated the SIE threshold that produced a frequency of w! o " 0.18 over the observation period; these thresholds range from $0.32 for model IPSL-CM4 to $0.02 for model UKMO-HadGEM1, with 50% of the threshold values falling in the range [$0.14,$0.07]. ...
... of Fig. 2B). Thus, for each climate model, we calculated the SIE threshold that produced a frequency of w! o " 0.18 over the observation period; these thresholds range from $0.32 for model IPSL-CM4 to $0.02 for model UKMO-HadGEM1, with 50% of the threshold values falling in the range [$0.14,$0.07]. ...
Curriculum Vitae: Lisa Goddard
... Goddard, L., A. Kumar, A. G. Barnston and M. P. Hoerling. 2006. Diagnosis of anomalous winter temperatures over the eastern United States during the 2002/03 El Niño. J. Climate, 19: 5624-5636. Goddard, L. and M. Dilley, 2006. Reply to Comments on “El Niño: Catastrophe or Opportunity”. J. Climate, 19 ...
... Goddard, L., A. Kumar, A. G. Barnston and M. P. Hoerling. 2006. Diagnosis of anomalous winter temperatures over the eastern United States during the 2002/03 El Niño. J. Climate, 19: 5624-5636. Goddard, L. and M. Dilley, 2006. Reply to Comments on “El Niño: Catastrophe or Opportunity”. J. Climate, 19 ...
Climate Change Quarterly: Fall 2016
... States. We analyzed spatially detailed data on extreme weather frequencies during the historical period (1950–2005) and under different scenarios of future climate change by mid- and late-21st century. We found that all wildlife refuges will likely experience substantial changes in the frequencies o ...
... States. We analyzed spatially detailed data on extreme weather frequencies during the historical period (1950–2005) and under different scenarios of future climate change by mid- and late-21st century. We found that all wildlife refuges will likely experience substantial changes in the frequencies o ...
2 Echoes of 1983 `Weather Alert` report
... development, DRR and climate change adaptation, and therefore to more accurately assess the financial costs climate change will impose. Fundamentally, the world has an immediate responsibility to stem the increase in climate-related hazards. Above all, that means tackling climate change by drastica ...
... development, DRR and climate change adaptation, and therefore to more accurately assess the financial costs climate change will impose. Fundamentally, the world has an immediate responsibility to stem the increase in climate-related hazards. Above all, that means tackling climate change by drastica ...
Climate Change and Invasive Alien Species
... Adaptive strategies need to involve international co-operation and include research and development on monitoring, prediction, outbreak triggers, risk assessment and management strategies. Such approaches need to be developed at the regional scale CABI’s farmer field schools encourage uptake of indi ...
... Adaptive strategies need to involve international co-operation and include research and development on monitoring, prediction, outbreak triggers, risk assessment and management strategies. Such approaches need to be developed at the regional scale CABI’s farmer field schools encourage uptake of indi ...
5.6.2 Water temperature
... temperatures lead to changes in distribution (more northwards in Europe and higher elevation) and may even lead to extinction of some aquatic species (see further in the indicator on freshwater biodiversity, Section 5.6.4). Climate change factors other than temperature can affect water quality. In a ...
... temperatures lead to changes in distribution (more northwards in Europe and higher elevation) and may even lead to extinction of some aquatic species (see further in the indicator on freshwater biodiversity, Section 5.6.4). Climate change factors other than temperature can affect water quality. In a ...
Towards threshold-based management of freshwater ecosystems in
... et al., 2007). Global warming has been attributed with decreasing the thermal niche and habitat availability for cold water fish, such as galaxid and salmonid fishes (Carpenter et al., 2011). A 3 C change in mean annual temperature corresponds to a shift in approximately 300–400 km latitudinal and 5 ...
... et al., 2007). Global warming has been attributed with decreasing the thermal niche and habitat availability for cold water fish, such as galaxid and salmonid fishes (Carpenter et al., 2011). A 3 C change in mean annual temperature corresponds to a shift in approximately 300–400 km latitudinal and 5 ...
A New Climate for Society
... of climate change. It shows how those polarities come into play at four levels of conceptual organization: community, polity, space and time. It explores what is at stake when an impersonal, apolitical, and universal imaginary of climate change, projected and endorsed by science, takes over from the ...
... of climate change. It shows how those polarities come into play at four levels of conceptual organization: community, polity, space and time. It explores what is at stake when an impersonal, apolitical, and universal imaginary of climate change, projected and endorsed by science, takes over from the ...
CFK Final Project Report - Carbon Farming Knowledge
... and confidence to engage their grower clients in targeted topics and assist them with the decision making process. Overall, advisers indicated the project had a high level of impact on their confidence and motivation to engage clients and other producers on carbon farming. Increased confidence can l ...
... and confidence to engage their grower clients in targeted topics and assist them with the decision making process. Overall, advisers indicated the project had a high level of impact on their confidence and motivation to engage clients and other producers on carbon farming. Increased confidence can l ...
ppt
... transpiration is detected in the observational records. Other mechanisms like expanding irrigation and human water consumption could also contribute to changes in observed runoff, but cannot explain the difference between observed and climatedriven simulated runoff. ...
... transpiration is detected in the observational records. Other mechanisms like expanding irrigation and human water consumption could also contribute to changes in observed runoff, but cannot explain the difference between observed and climatedriven simulated runoff. ...
i. executive summary
... endorsed among sectoral, policy and planning, and budget agencies. The purpose of Climate Change Benefits Analysis (CCBA) is to allow Thailand to identify investments which will become significantly more important as climate change takes place, because they reduce the loss and damage from climate ch ...
... endorsed among sectoral, policy and planning, and budget agencies. The purpose of Climate Change Benefits Analysis (CCBA) is to allow Thailand to identify investments which will become significantly more important as climate change takes place, because they reduce the loss and damage from climate ch ...
Climate change going beyond dangerous
... A prerequisite of responding to the climate challenge is exposing the void between the rhetoric and the reality around efforts to reduce emissions (mitigation). There is certainly plenty of discussion of mitigation, but seldom does it focus on the actual gap between the claims we make as individuals ...
... A prerequisite of responding to the climate challenge is exposing the void between the rhetoric and the reality around efforts to reduce emissions (mitigation). There is certainly plenty of discussion of mitigation, but seldom does it focus on the actual gap between the claims we make as individuals ...
skepticism-ce-footnotes
... ‘pause’ memes have indeed spread through the Consensus and caused many adherents to make an accommodation of some kind. Hence L2015 exposes the fact that climate science is not by any means a purely factual domain, that social factors as expressed by popular memes can change the perceptions of clima ...
... ‘pause’ memes have indeed spread through the Consensus and caused many adherents to make an accommodation of some kind. Hence L2015 exposes the fact that climate science is not by any means a purely factual domain, that social factors as expressed by popular memes can change the perceptions of clima ...