Loss and damage in a changing climate, Games for learning and
... at the global level to the local communities most directly impacted by climate-related disasters. As a result, the prospect of engaging very different stakeholders in learning and dialogue using unconventional participatory tools merits further consideration; some of these tools, such as serious gam ...
... at the global level to the local communities most directly impacted by climate-related disasters. As a result, the prospect of engaging very different stakeholders in learning and dialogue using unconventional participatory tools merits further consideration; some of these tools, such as serious gam ...
Assessment of global warming on the island of Tenerife, Canary
... unfamiliarity on a regional scale, particularly regarding oceanic islands, where there are only a few climate studies that include a wide variety of temperature data, for example Yue and Hashino (2003), Giambelluca et al. (2008) and Trueman and d’Ozouville (2010), among others. However, islands are ...
... unfamiliarity on a regional scale, particularly regarding oceanic islands, where there are only a few climate studies that include a wide variety of temperature data, for example Yue and Hashino (2003), Giambelluca et al. (2008) and Trueman and d’Ozouville (2010), among others. However, islands are ...
IPCC Sea level rise AR 5 SLR etc
... It provides important tools for smart decision making when both uncertainties and consequences are large. ...
... It provides important tools for smart decision making when both uncertainties and consequences are large. ...
Adapting to change – forming new habits
... supplies, water reuse) are central to the region’s adaptation strategy. These actions are (a) consistent with the region’s requirements as its population grows in the coming 30 years and (b) will also assist with other key sectors in the Region that were not specifically addressed in this Plan (beca ...
... supplies, water reuse) are central to the region’s adaptation strategy. These actions are (a) consistent with the region’s requirements as its population grows in the coming 30 years and (b) will also assist with other key sectors in the Region that were not specifically addressed in this Plan (beca ...
Adaptation Planning – What Other States are Doing
... While governments act to mitigate future climate change, they must also plan and act to address the impacts. This preparation includes risk assessments, prioritization of projects, funding and allocation of both financial and human resources, solution development and implementation, and rapid deploy ...
... While governments act to mitigate future climate change, they must also plan and act to address the impacts. This preparation includes risk assessments, prioritization of projects, funding and allocation of both financial and human resources, solution development and implementation, and rapid deploy ...
Energy Theme Breakdown - Learning for a Sustainable Future
... primary mechanism keeping the air warm in a real greenhouse is the suppression of convection (the exchange of air between the inside and outside). Thus, a real greenhouse does act like a blanket to prevent bubbles of warm air from being carried away from the surface. As we have seen, this is not how ...
... primary mechanism keeping the air warm in a real greenhouse is the suppression of convection (the exchange of air between the inside and outside). Thus, a real greenhouse does act like a blanket to prevent bubbles of warm air from being carried away from the surface. As we have seen, this is not how ...
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... public good and also the crowding out may be quite different. We will be giving this argument a closer scrutiny and model a risk-averse population, which is represented by a benevolent government. The government decides on the amount of mitigation efforts and thus influences the global public good ’ ...
... public good and also the crowding out may be quite different. We will be giving this argument a closer scrutiny and model a risk-averse population, which is represented by a benevolent government. The government decides on the amount of mitigation efforts and thus influences the global public good ’ ...
An overlook between the relationship of global climate change and
... The climate of the Earth is a constantly changing phenomenon that has dictated the lives and behaviors of animals since the planets conception. The complicated mixture of temperature, pressure, water, wind, and other variables has created patterns of warming and cooling the Earth’s atmosphere. This ...
... The climate of the Earth is a constantly changing phenomenon that has dictated the lives and behaviors of animals since the planets conception. The complicated mixture of temperature, pressure, water, wind, and other variables has created patterns of warming and cooling the Earth’s atmosphere. This ...
The role of expertise in governance processes
... was probably right, because he believed in it’ (Author interview with James Lovelock, 30 May 1995). A problem arises for the scientific advocates: they are accused of betraying the ideals of science. Their public role entails ‘popularising’ scientific findings, taking sides in a political controvers ...
... was probably right, because he believed in it’ (Author interview with James Lovelock, 30 May 1995). A problem arises for the scientific advocates: they are accused of betraying the ideals of science. Their public role entails ‘popularising’ scientific findings, taking sides in a political controvers ...
Adapting to Climate Change in Ottawa
... Introduction and Overview of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Dr. David Pearson, Co-chair Ontario’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaption Dr. Pearson began the workshop with an introduction and overview of the science of climate change impacts and adaptation. Dr. Pearson began by stating that ...
... Introduction and Overview of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Dr. David Pearson, Co-chair Ontario’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaption Dr. Pearson began the workshop with an introduction and overview of the science of climate change impacts and adaptation. Dr. Pearson began by stating that ...
1 - Intro
... What is Climate? • Climate is the mean state of the environment, defined over a finite time interval, at a given location and time. - This state can be characterized by the mean values of a range of weather variables, such as wind, temperature, precipitation, humidity, cloudiness, pressure, visibil ...
... What is Climate? • Climate is the mean state of the environment, defined over a finite time interval, at a given location and time. - This state can be characterized by the mean values of a range of weather variables, such as wind, temperature, precipitation, humidity, cloudiness, pressure, visibil ...
Don`t Kill Kyoto
... framework to ensure that these targets are clearly and comparably calculated and that Parties’ performance is subject to monitoring and international verification. Furthermore the Protocol identifies agreed methods of listing gases and calculating their global warming potentials. If Kyoto were aband ...
... framework to ensure that these targets are clearly and comparably calculated and that Parties’ performance is subject to monitoring and international verification. Furthermore the Protocol identifies agreed methods of listing gases and calculating their global warming potentials. If Kyoto were aband ...
the european investment bank
... Good projects make sense (financially and/or economically) even if they do not have a climate focus, but …. …. climate can and should be an added value to any well conceived project allowing access to tailored aources of funding and making the project more ´affordable´. Focus on the preparation of g ...
... Good projects make sense (financially and/or economically) even if they do not have a climate focus, but …. …. climate can and should be an added value to any well conceived project allowing access to tailored aources of funding and making the project more ´affordable´. Focus on the preparation of g ...
United Nations Development Programme
... number of different disciplines and communities of practice. Given that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) acts as the UN’s global development network, it addresses a broad range of development issues, many of which contribute to the objectives of the loss and damage work programme. Spe ...
... number of different disciplines and communities of practice. Given that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) acts as the UN’s global development network, it addresses a broad range of development issues, many of which contribute to the objectives of the loss and damage work programme. Spe ...
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... emerge from rising investments on deepening of tubewells, increasing cost of irrigation due to diesel usage and expected yield and income losses translating into food and livelihood insecurity. The other climate factors emerge at a lower level but are strongly associated with such concerns. Despite ...
... emerge from rising investments on deepening of tubewells, increasing cost of irrigation due to diesel usage and expected yield and income losses translating into food and livelihood insecurity. The other climate factors emerge at a lower level but are strongly associated with such concerns. Despite ...
Climate change and global justice
... The Convention applies to a world characterized by extreme poverty and global inequality. Economic development can eradicate poverty but it is energy intensive. Given current technology and energy markets, the cheapest sources of energy are usually fossil fuels, coal in particular. A climate change ...
... The Convention applies to a world characterized by extreme poverty and global inequality. Economic development can eradicate poverty but it is energy intensive. Given current technology and energy markets, the cheapest sources of energy are usually fossil fuels, coal in particular. A climate change ...
Poverty and climate change: assessing impacts in developing
... emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group’s Fifth Report; Climate change 2001 : impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, predicts an average global temperature increase of 13.5ºC over the next 100 years. Taken by itself this small aggre ...
... emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group’s Fifth Report; Climate change 2001 : impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, predicts an average global temperature increase of 13.5ºC over the next 100 years. Taken by itself this small aggre ...
Mitigation and adaptation performance measurement frameworks
... Where applicable, mitigation projects/programmes that also generate adaptation results should report on adaptation indicators (and vice versa for adaptation projects/programmes with mitigation results). For example, a project that primarily intends to improve land and forest areas contributing to em ...
... Where applicable, mitigation projects/programmes that also generate adaptation results should report on adaptation indicators (and vice versa for adaptation projects/programmes with mitigation results). For example, a project that primarily intends to improve land and forest areas contributing to em ...
MATCH - Status of research
... the relative contributions of regional emissions to the historical global temperature change attribution methods, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change den Elzen, Schaeffer and Lucas (2004): Differentiating future commitments on the basis of countries' relative historical responsibi ...
... the relative contributions of regional emissions to the historical global temperature change attribution methods, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change den Elzen, Schaeffer and Lucas (2004): Differentiating future commitments on the basis of countries' relative historical responsibi ...
Climate change justice and the global policy mix
... Though a popular view among policy analysts, emissions egalitarianism faces a fierce combination of normative objections levelled at both its egalitarian ethos and per-capita operationalization. Thus, it has been argued that equalizing the per capita level of each state’s greenhouse emissions would ...
... Though a popular view among policy analysts, emissions egalitarianism faces a fierce combination of normative objections levelled at both its egalitarian ethos and per-capita operationalization. Thus, it has been argued that equalizing the per capita level of each state’s greenhouse emissions would ...
Silencing Science
... money being spent on political advertisements trying to “debunk” the science of climate change and attack politicians who support reversing the tides of climate change through legislative action. This has not only halted legislation in the U.S. Congress, but it has stopped politicians from even deba ...
... money being spent on political advertisements trying to “debunk” the science of climate change and attack politicians who support reversing the tides of climate change through legislative action. This has not only halted legislation in the U.S. Congress, but it has stopped politicians from even deba ...
Agriculture and Climate Change
... future weather conditions (e.g. weather forecasting or early warning systems) enable farmers to take pre-emptive actions to minimise the negative effects of extreme events. Training and education about changing climate conditions and the long-term viability of different agricultural practices help f ...
... future weather conditions (e.g. weather forecasting or early warning systems) enable farmers to take pre-emptive actions to minimise the negative effects of extreme events. Training and education about changing climate conditions and the long-term viability of different agricultural practices help f ...
Slide 1
... make bring AICD findings to national policy makers – Peer benchmarking of performance – Efficiency and funding gap analysis • Some 30 reports will be completed, of which 15 had in-country Road Shows ...
... make bring AICD findings to national policy makers – Peer benchmarking of performance – Efficiency and funding gap analysis • Some 30 reports will be completed, of which 15 had in-country Road Shows ...
Fine-grain modeling of species` response to climate change
... paleoecology may cause confusion. In paleoecology, microclimates are usually inferred from biological evidence (fossils of organisms or fossil pollen). Therefore, paleoecologists have often defined microrefugia as places that harbor species as surrounding climate deteriorates [20,21]. However, places ...
... paleoecology may cause confusion. In paleoecology, microclimates are usually inferred from biological evidence (fossils of organisms or fossil pollen). Therefore, paleoecologists have often defined microrefugia as places that harbor species as surrounding climate deteriorates [20,21]. However, places ...
sea-level rise
... Labri, 2009). This will pose an important challenge for international adaptation responses along contiguous coastlines under threat, as was illustrated in this report’s Ghana country study. As mentioned earlier, unsustainable resource use, such as water withdrawals that lead to subsidence or the des ...
... Labri, 2009). This will pose an important challenge for international adaptation responses along contiguous coastlines under threat, as was illustrated in this report’s Ghana country study. As mentioned earlier, unsustainable resource use, such as water withdrawals that lead to subsidence or the des ...