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... destination matrices of trade flows (Atkinson and others, 2010), which is very useful information in the context of international climate negotiations. ...
... destination matrices of trade flows (Atkinson and others, 2010), which is very useful information in the context of international climate negotiations. ...
Economics, Institutions and Adaptation to Climate Change
... how individuals, organizations and societies can adapt to unmitigated climate change. Despite the growing importance of climate adaptation economic frameworks of this challenge are rarely articulated and discussed explicitly. However, the potential benefits of such a framework-level discourse are ma ...
... how individuals, organizations and societies can adapt to unmitigated climate change. Despite the growing importance of climate adaptation economic frameworks of this challenge are rarely articulated and discussed explicitly. However, the potential benefits of such a framework-level discourse are ma ...
File - The Building Blocks For Learning
... expected to intensify, as they have in recent decades. Upwelling winds are controlled by ocean high-pressure systems, which may strengthen with global warming–induced shifts in the global atmospheric circulation. Major modes of climate variability, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, also exer ...
... expected to intensify, as they have in recent decades. Upwelling winds are controlled by ocean high-pressure systems, which may strengthen with global warming–induced shifts in the global atmospheric circulation. Major modes of climate variability, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, also exer ...
Colloquium on Environmental Aspects of Aviation
... should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.” “The Parties should take precautionary measures ... Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures…” April 2001 ...
... should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.” “The Parties should take precautionary measures ... Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures…” April 2001 ...
O 3 Environmental Advocacy in the Obama Years
... could have been identified in stark moral terms, which might have led to greater public backing. But environmentalists instead focused on trying to generate public support for cap-and-trade legislation, which tended to push the public to see the issue through the technical lens of science and econom ...
... could have been identified in stark moral terms, which might have led to greater public backing. But environmentalists instead focused on trying to generate public support for cap-and-trade legislation, which tended to push the public to see the issue through the technical lens of science and econom ...
Climate Change or Land Use Dynamics: Do We Know Miguel Clavero *
... latitude of the distribution of bird species present at local communities. We used multiple regression models to relate the variation in climate change indicators to: i) environmental temperature; and ii) three landscape gradients reflecting important current land use change processes (land abandonm ...
... latitude of the distribution of bird species present at local communities. We used multiple regression models to relate the variation in climate change indicators to: i) environmental temperature; and ii) three landscape gradients reflecting important current land use change processes (land abandonm ...
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... change data under climate change scenarios are taken from the BIOMA (Biophysical Models Application) simulation environment. We employ CAPRI modelling framework to identify the EU aggregate economic effects as well as regional impacts. We take into account supply and market price adjustments of the ...
... change data under climate change scenarios are taken from the BIOMA (Biophysical Models Application) simulation environment. We employ CAPRI modelling framework to identify the EU aggregate economic effects as well as regional impacts. We take into account supply and market price adjustments of the ...
Aerosol exposure versus aerosol cooling of climate
... fined as the net alteration in irradiance (W m−2 ) since 1750 at “top of the atmosphere”, which is similar to the height of the tropopause. According to IPCC (2007) it is “virtually certain” (i.e. >99% probability) that anthropogenic emissions of aerosols result in a total cooling effect on the glob ...
... fined as the net alteration in irradiance (W m−2 ) since 1750 at “top of the atmosphere”, which is similar to the height of the tropopause. According to IPCC (2007) it is “virtually certain” (i.e. >99% probability) that anthropogenic emissions of aerosols result in a total cooling effect on the glob ...
PDF - sudan academy of sciences
... gently sloping plain, with the exception of Jebel Marra Masssif, Red Sea Hills, and Nuba Mountains. Mean annual temperatures vary between 26 oC and 32oC across the country. The northern part is almost desert and semi-desert, with average annual temperature and annual rainfall around 30 oC and 150 mm ...
... gently sloping plain, with the exception of Jebel Marra Masssif, Red Sea Hills, and Nuba Mountains. Mean annual temperatures vary between 26 oC and 32oC across the country. The northern part is almost desert and semi-desert, with average annual temperature and annual rainfall around 30 oC and 150 mm ...
Community Adaptation Plan Port Antonio, Jamaica
... 5.2 Goal 2: To improve livelihood opportunities by using local community resources to create new or diversified businesses and by strengthening local infrastructure .................................................... 31 5.3 Goal 3: Engage in, or encourage, activities that aid in habitat restoration ...
... 5.2 Goal 2: To improve livelihood opportunities by using local community resources to create new or diversified businesses and by strengthening local infrastructure .................................................... 31 5.3 Goal 3: Engage in, or encourage, activities that aid in habitat restoration ...
Alpine strategy for adaptation to climate change in the field of natural
... change to these events is rather unclear in many cases, it must be assumed that the intensity and frequency of extreme events and natural hazards is likely to increase in future. However, due to the technical limitations in climate change modelling, the lack of regional / local scenarios and the res ...
... change to these events is rather unclear in many cases, it must be assumed that the intensity and frequency of extreme events and natural hazards is likely to increase in future. However, due to the technical limitations in climate change modelling, the lack of regional / local scenarios and the res ...
Internalizing Climate Change—Scientific Resource Management and the Climate Change Challenges
... that the CALFED Science Program—which serves here as an important and illustrative example from among the many current scientific resource- and ecosystemmanagement programs—and the scientific and publicpolicy communities in central California, in general, may need to pursue. Recommended strategies i ...
... that the CALFED Science Program—which serves here as an important and illustrative example from among the many current scientific resource- and ecosystemmanagement programs—and the scientific and publicpolicy communities in central California, in general, may need to pursue. Recommended strategies i ...
The Social Cost of Carbon
... can be used to assess the economic benefits of climate change policy. The Social Cost of Carbon is usually estimated as the net present value of climate change impacts over the next 100 years (or longer) of one additional tonne of carbon emitted to the atmosphere today. It is the marginal global dam ...
... can be used to assess the economic benefits of climate change policy. The Social Cost of Carbon is usually estimated as the net present value of climate change impacts over the next 100 years (or longer) of one additional tonne of carbon emitted to the atmosphere today. It is the marginal global dam ...
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... Farrow, 1998). This is fine if in a national context (if compensation indeed works). It is fine in the case of many sovereign actors, with compensation and if the baseline/no policy case is agreeable. In climate change, neither of these conditions are met. Essentially, the Pareto superiority criteri ...
... Farrow, 1998). This is fine if in a national context (if compensation indeed works). It is fine in the case of many sovereign actors, with compensation and if the baseline/no policy case is agreeable. In climate change, neither of these conditions are met. Essentially, the Pareto superiority criteri ...
Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions
... transfers that are likely to be necessary for a globally affordable transformation of the world’s energy system.7 Poor nations, of course, generally refuse to allocate any of their own resources to the climate problem, in part because they generally have trouble finding the resources to solve enviro ...
... transfers that are likely to be necessary for a globally affordable transformation of the world’s energy system.7 Poor nations, of course, generally refuse to allocate any of their own resources to the climate problem, in part because they generally have trouble finding the resources to solve enviro ...
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... Source: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (2012). In India, over 60 percent of crops are rain-fed, which makes these agricultural areas very vulnerable to changes in precipitation due to climate change (World Bank, 2013a). It was calculated that a 2°C rise in ...
... Source: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (2012). In India, over 60 percent of crops are rain-fed, which makes these agricultural areas very vulnerable to changes in precipitation due to climate change (World Bank, 2013a). It was calculated that a 2°C rise in ...
Melting of Polar Icecaps – Impact on Fisheries
... ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland over this period is not well established and is the subject of conflicting assessments, but it is generally thought that it could account for around one third of the present rate of sea level rise which is estimated in the region of 2 mm per annum. Icecap melt ...
... ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland over this period is not well established and is the subject of conflicting assessments, but it is generally thought that it could account for around one third of the present rate of sea level rise which is estimated in the region of 2 mm per annum. Icecap melt ...
Climate Change and Variability over Malaysia
... is 4.0°C with an upper range of 6.4°C. The corresponding projected sea level rise (SLR) range by 2100, also relative to 1980-1999, is 0.28 – 0.59 m (IPCC 2007a). Such multi-fold increase of temperature and sea level can have disastrous impacts on various sectors. Malaysia will very likely be affecte ...
... is 4.0°C with an upper range of 6.4°C. The corresponding projected sea level rise (SLR) range by 2100, also relative to 1980-1999, is 0.28 – 0.59 m (IPCC 2007a). Such multi-fold increase of temperature and sea level can have disastrous impacts on various sectors. Malaysia will very likely be affecte ...
DFAE-II WP Series - Addi - University of the Basque Country
... the steady state. In the case of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus), the population likely is affected by various environmental conditions. The spawning stock biomass (SSB) has declined since 2006 due to the lack of strong recruitments in recent years. As a result, SSB in 2011 was 67% below t ...
... the steady state. In the case of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus), the population likely is affected by various environmental conditions. The spawning stock biomass (SSB) has declined since 2006 due to the lack of strong recruitments in recent years. As a result, SSB in 2011 was 67% below t ...
Cairo Roadmap
... policies as part of the ongoing dialogue on climate change within international organizations such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Seeking ways to integrate ICT policies within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), encouraging national, regional ...
... policies as part of the ongoing dialogue on climate change within international organizations such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Seeking ways to integrate ICT policies within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), encouraging national, regional ...
CWC Advisory Board May 3 1,2 - Office of Academic Affairs
... Amazon hydrology, and wetland carbon fluxes, and requires a team-based approach that integrates these disciplines. Completion of this work will provide firm grounding for carrying out similar studies worldwide, thus generating sustained external finding. For example, this study dovetails with the Ki ...
... Amazon hydrology, and wetland carbon fluxes, and requires a team-based approach that integrates these disciplines. Completion of this work will provide firm grounding for carrying out similar studies worldwide, thus generating sustained external finding. For example, this study dovetails with the Ki ...
The Costs of Neglect of Climate Change Consequences: The Example of the Forestry Sector
... standardized statistical analysis applied by WRI did not take into account important questions of social justice in greenhouse gas emissions, concerning whether deforestation in developing countries was because of poverty and food production. Moreover, they also ...
... standardized statistical analysis applied by WRI did not take into account important questions of social justice in greenhouse gas emissions, concerning whether deforestation in developing countries was because of poverty and food production. Moreover, they also ...
Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on food
... Europe’s climate is changing rapidly due to anthropogenic activity such as extensive fossil fuel combustion and widespread alterations in land use [1,2]. Conservative projections foresee global mean air temperatures increasing by 1.8 to 4.0 °C this century, while other models suggest a range of incr ...
... Europe’s climate is changing rapidly due to anthropogenic activity such as extensive fossil fuel combustion and widespread alterations in land use [1,2]. Conservative projections foresee global mean air temperatures increasing by 1.8 to 4.0 °C this century, while other models suggest a range of incr ...
River Floods - ClimateCost
... number of E1 climate data sets, mostly focused on one climate model. Therefore, the lower damages under the stabilisation scenario are more likely to be related to the climate model choice rather than to the effect of mitigation. • The study also assessed the costs and benefits of adaptation. The a ...
... number of E1 climate data sets, mostly focused on one climate model. Therefore, the lower damages under the stabilisation scenario are more likely to be related to the climate model choice rather than to the effect of mitigation. • The study also assessed the costs and benefits of adaptation. The a ...
Compilation of information contained in recently submitted national
... Lack of institutional arrangements for data collection, quality assurance and control and data sharing ...
... Lack of institutional arrangements for data collection, quality assurance and control and data sharing ...