INDC technical report
... have resulted in 1969 deaths, and affected 18 456 835 people. In this example, as the effects of extreme weather events on health are difficult to quantify due to under-reporting, the plan recognised the need to improve reporting and information systems. Furthermore, the need for adequate surveillan ...
... have resulted in 1969 deaths, and affected 18 456 835 people. In this example, as the effects of extreme weather events on health are difficult to quantify due to under-reporting, the plan recognised the need to improve reporting and information systems. Furthermore, the need for adequate surveillan ...
Climate Change, Yosemite National Park, California
... Yosemite N.P. detected changes that have been attributed to human climate change. These impacts include snowpack reductions, advance of spring warrmth, tree dieback, wildfire changes, and upslope shifts of vegetation biomes and small mammal ranges. If the world does not reduce greenhouse gas emissio ...
... Yosemite N.P. detected changes that have been attributed to human climate change. These impacts include snowpack reductions, advance of spring warrmth, tree dieback, wildfire changes, and upslope shifts of vegetation biomes and small mammal ranges. If the world does not reduce greenhouse gas emissio ...
Climate Trends in the Casco Bay Region
... Tropical cyclones have generally grown more intense. Warmer air temperatures and increased water vapor, along with warmer sea-surface temperatures, provide more fuel to tropical storms, increasing their wind speeds (NASA 2015). Warming ocean temperatures could also cause more frequent high-intensity ...
... Tropical cyclones have generally grown more intense. Warmer air temperatures and increased water vapor, along with warmer sea-surface temperatures, provide more fuel to tropical storms, increasing their wind speeds (NASA 2015). Warming ocean temperatures could also cause more frequent high-intensity ...
Final Report Appendix 2d - climate change
... Since all the processes in soil, water and air are closely intermeshed, the five Jülich environmental institutes cooperate in the interdisciplinary "Department of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere". With their investigations, the environmental researchers provide findings on how the resources ...
... Since all the processes in soil, water and air are closely intermeshed, the five Jülich environmental institutes cooperate in the interdisciplinary "Department of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere". With their investigations, the environmental researchers provide findings on how the resources ...
perspectives on climate change - Canadian Institute of Planners
... one focus group was held in each of CIP’s seven Affiliate organizations. All four surveys and the focus group series led to their own reports. These reports and all supporting information are available on CIP’s website as noted in the introduction. These reports are quite detailed and stand on their ...
... one focus group was held in each of CIP’s seven Affiliate organizations. All four surveys and the focus group series led to their own reports. These reports and all supporting information are available on CIP’s website as noted in the introduction. These reports are quite detailed and stand on their ...
Land use planning tools for local adaptation to climate change
... function of local government (such as public transit or storm water management), on a sector or issue of special significance to the community (such as the development of the arts or the needs of senior citizens) or on a neighbourhood with special planning needs.11 As with official plans, these loca ...
... function of local government (such as public transit or storm water management), on a sector or issue of special significance to the community (such as the development of the arts or the needs of senior citizens) or on a neighbourhood with special planning needs.11 As with official plans, these loca ...
- White Rose Research Online
... precipitation, for instance. IPCC (2001a) provides more detail on all of these issues. ...
... precipitation, for instance. IPCC (2001a) provides more detail on all of these issues. ...
Climate Change Regulation and PRediCtion maRkets
... idea is to link the price of tradable permits to future climate outcomes so that a market is created in which accurate and credible information about future climate conditions is input into the price of permits. The market for tradable permits to emit in the future is essentially a prediction market ...
... idea is to link the price of tradable permits to future climate outcomes so that a market is created in which accurate and credible information about future climate conditions is input into the price of permits. The market for tradable permits to emit in the future is essentially a prediction market ...
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... Aircraft also emit NOx which can encourage the formation of ozone, an important contributor to global warming. ...
... Aircraft also emit NOx which can encourage the formation of ozone, an important contributor to global warming. ...
the heat marches on
... emission of greenhouse gases, is increasing global surface temperatures and worsening extreme heat events. As heatwaves across much of Australia get longer, more frequent and even hotter because of climate change, heat records will continue to be broken and the appearance of summer-like conditions e ...
... emission of greenhouse gases, is increasing global surface temperatures and worsening extreme heat events. As heatwaves across much of Australia get longer, more frequent and even hotter because of climate change, heat records will continue to be broken and the appearance of summer-like conditions e ...
CSPR Briefing CS PR B
... and storms in the near future (Stocker et al. 2013). Amongst others, these changes risk creating severe impacts on residential buildings and public health through impacts such as water leakage, rot-decay, mold, storm destruction, high indoor temperatures and urban flooding (IPCC 2012). The question ...
... and storms in the near future (Stocker et al. 2013). Amongst others, these changes risk creating severe impacts on residential buildings and public health through impacts such as water leakage, rot-decay, mold, storm destruction, high indoor temperatures and urban flooding (IPCC 2012). The question ...
Simulated dynamics of net primary productivity
... 2006); specifically it is accountable for 9% of the CO2 emissions (mainly due to deforestation), 37% of methane emissions (due to digestion of ruminants) and 65% of nitrous oxide (from manure). Livestock takes place in almost any climate and area of the world, from intensive production systems to th ...
... 2006); specifically it is accountable for 9% of the CO2 emissions (mainly due to deforestation), 37% of methane emissions (due to digestion of ruminants) and 65% of nitrous oxide (from manure). Livestock takes place in almost any climate and area of the world, from intensive production systems to th ...
Hardening Australia: Climate change and
... a catastrophic event arising from natural, technological or human cause’.10 The implementation of the report’s thirty-two recommendations hasn’t occurred to any substantial degree.11 The Australian Government, in conjunction with the states is, however, developing the National Catastrophic Disaster ...
... a catastrophic event arising from natural, technological or human cause’.10 The implementation of the report’s thirty-two recommendations hasn’t occurred to any substantial degree.11 The Australian Government, in conjunction with the states is, however, developing the National Catastrophic Disaster ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... Research Volume Title: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and...
... utility of consumption and a quadratic disutility- loss function of temperature change, may make just as much sense for evaluating extreme climate damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifications may seem arcane, but I explain why it can make a surprisingly signifi ...
... utility of consumption and a quadratic disutility- loss function of temperature change, may make just as much sense for evaluating extreme climate damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifications may seem arcane, but I explain why it can make a surprisingly signifi ...
How California`s Climate Shapes Water Resources
... The CMIP5 organizers created four future radiative forcing scenarios to be imposed on the GCMs. ...
... The CMIP5 organizers created four future radiative forcing scenarios to be imposed on the GCMs. ...
Evaluation of FAO's contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation - Management Response
... Identify priority organizations with whom FAO should partner based upon respective strengths and complementarities to achieve SOs and priorities determined in the CC strategy and action plan ( taking into account different types of partnerships/modalities) Strengthen selected partnerships, especiall ...
... Identify priority organizations with whom FAO should partner based upon respective strengths and complementarities to achieve SOs and priorities determined in the CC strategy and action plan ( taking into account different types of partnerships/modalities) Strengthen selected partnerships, especiall ...
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... It remains a challenge, however, to identify the relative importance of the theoretical effects described above, fairness and norms. Following the basic result, the experiments were refined in order to understand why leadership improves efficiency and in which framework it works best. Coats et al. ( ...
... It remains a challenge, however, to identify the relative importance of the theoretical effects described above, fairness and norms. Following the basic result, the experiments were refined in order to understand why leadership improves efficiency and in which framework it works best. Coats et al. ( ...
Introducing-FCFA-Brochure (opens in new window)
... supplies, social protection systems, and national vulnerability to weather extremes is rising; since planning. Decisions on where and how societies 1980, more than 420,000 people have died from build, together with changing patterns of climate-related events and direct economic damages have totalled ...
... supplies, social protection systems, and national vulnerability to weather extremes is rising; since planning. Decisions on where and how societies 1980, more than 420,000 people have died from build, together with changing patterns of climate-related events and direct economic damages have totalled ...
New Coupled Climate-carbon Simulations from the
... influenced by CO2 increase and by climate change. • Obvious need to model Carbon CycleClimate interactions. • Wide range of possible response drives the need for a better understanding of involved processes. • Observations and inversions both at global and breakdown region scale constitute the best ...
... influenced by CO2 increase and by climate change. • Obvious need to model Carbon CycleClimate interactions. • Wide range of possible response drives the need for a better understanding of involved processes. • Observations and inversions both at global and breakdown region scale constitute the best ...
Air Pollution and Climate Change - European Commission
... pollutants, such as black carbon and ozone, increase warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere, while others, such as sulfur dioxide forming light reflecting particles, have a cooling effect on the climate. Since some air pollutants clearly increase warming, there is considerable interest in unders ...
... pollutants, such as black carbon and ozone, increase warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere, while others, such as sulfur dioxide forming light reflecting particles, have a cooling effect on the climate. Since some air pollutants clearly increase warming, there is considerable interest in unders ...
“There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming
... Whilst there is some uncertainty surrounding climate change and the associated risks, this is being reduced as better information becomes available. The risk of not acting in good time is ever present. Failing to plan for the future could potentially increase risk and incur higher costs and more dis ...
... Whilst there is some uncertainty surrounding climate change and the associated risks, this is being reduced as better information becomes available. The risk of not acting in good time is ever present. Failing to plan for the future could potentially increase risk and incur higher costs and more dis ...
Water and Climate in the Pacific Northwest
... lower elevation snowpacks being the most vulnerable. Through the end of the 21st century, April 1 snow water equivalent is projected to decrease in the Willamette River Basin in two emissions scenarios using an ensemble of GCMs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 3 (CMIP3) experiment. The ...
... lower elevation snowpacks being the most vulnerable. Through the end of the 21st century, April 1 snow water equivalent is projected to decrease in the Willamette River Basin in two emissions scenarios using an ensemble of GCMs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 3 (CMIP3) experiment. The ...
Where We Are Now - Edinburgh Research Explorer
... Secondly, I am not suggesting that further work is unnecessary on those questions that are already debated at length in the collection. These include the distribution of the burdens of mitigating or adapting to climate change. In particular, more discussion is needed on whether individuals can be re ...
... Secondly, I am not suggesting that further work is unnecessary on those questions that are already debated at length in the collection. These include the distribution of the burdens of mitigating or adapting to climate change. In particular, more discussion is needed on whether individuals can be re ...
Environmental Pillar Submission on Agriculture Roadmap
... “up to 80%”. Furthermore the science is indicating that developed countries will need to have net negative emissions by then. Both agriculture and transport will now have to achieve additional measures and emission reductions very quickly if large compliance costs are to be avoided, so both sectors ...
... “up to 80%”. Furthermore the science is indicating that developed countries will need to have net negative emissions by then. Both agriculture and transport will now have to achieve additional measures and emission reductions very quickly if large compliance costs are to be avoided, so both sectors ...
Figure 1 - Proceedings of the Royal Society B
... revealed the complex trade-offs shaping thermal responses [3], but these trade-offs have seldom been invoked to explain field observations [4]. Can such trade-offs help explain why 20% of species show seasonal delays rather than advances in response to climate change [5]? In most insects and other e ...
... revealed the complex trade-offs shaping thermal responses [3], but these trade-offs have seldom been invoked to explain field observations [4]. Can such trade-offs help explain why 20% of species show seasonal delays rather than advances in response to climate change [5]? In most insects and other e ...