The paradox of Anthony Giddens
... without it, his eponymous paradox cannot be resolved. What sort of state do we need, and how should it progress the climate change agenda? The end of chapter 3 provides the answer, and Giddens has the leading capitalist states very much in mind. Among the ‘new concepts’ thrown at readers are the fo ...
... without it, his eponymous paradox cannot be resolved. What sort of state do we need, and how should it progress the climate change agenda? The end of chapter 3 provides the answer, and Giddens has the leading capitalist states very much in mind. Among the ‘new concepts’ thrown at readers are the fo ...
What to Do? Does Science have a Role?
... trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal • Proposed strategies for closing the wedge • Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter: 1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand” 2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies 3 ...
... trajectory and the sustainable emissions goal • Proposed strategies for closing the wedge • Traditional versus multi-agent economic models - with three examples of the latter: 1) Ginti’s model of the “invisible hand” 2) A Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model (MADIAM) of climate policies 3 ...
Climate Change and Public Health 101
... Other Impacts of Public Health Concern Vectorborne Diseases Climate changes such as warmer temperatures, increased rainfall, longer warm season and less severe winters can impact the range and incidence of vectorborne disease. Risk is also impacted by land use, population density, and human behavio ...
... Other Impacts of Public Health Concern Vectorborne Diseases Climate changes such as warmer temperatures, increased rainfall, longer warm season and less severe winters can impact the range and incidence of vectorborne disease. Risk is also impacted by land use, population density, and human behavio ...
Document
... anthropogenic alterations of the environment are responsible, notably global climate change related increases in annual sea surface temperature and occurrence of ENSO events” (n.p.). There is also anecdotal evidence from other parts of the globe. Blue mussels were found “growing on the seabed just 8 ...
... anthropogenic alterations of the environment are responsible, notably global climate change related increases in annual sea surface temperature and occurrence of ENSO events” (n.p.). There is also anecdotal evidence from other parts of the globe. Blue mussels were found “growing on the seabed just 8 ...
West and Central Africa
... One IFAD-funded project is located in the southern part of the Niger’s Maradi region, in the Aguié area, a sandy plain with annual rainfall ranging from 400 millimetres in the north to 600 millimetres in the south. Climate change is affecting the area through erratic rainfall and recurrent droughts. ...
... One IFAD-funded project is located in the southern part of the Niger’s Maradi region, in the Aguié area, a sandy plain with annual rainfall ranging from 400 millimetres in the north to 600 millimetres in the south. Climate change is affecting the area through erratic rainfall and recurrent droughts. ...
Public Health: Adapting to Climate Change
... stressor, heat, to avoid. Heat watch systems have been implemented and proven effective (Ebi and Schmier 2005). The approach involves the characterization of conditions in a particular locale that are likely to produce dangerous heat stress and trigger an aggressive protective response from publ ...
... stressor, heat, to avoid. Heat watch systems have been implemented and proven effective (Ebi and Schmier 2005). The approach involves the characterization of conditions in a particular locale that are likely to produce dangerous heat stress and trigger an aggressive protective response from publ ...
SYNTRACE2010 - International Pacific Research Center
... Numerical simulation of of the last deglaciation show that polar SH warming and sea-ice retreat started around 18ka BP, consistent with paleoevidence. No freshwater forcing was used in our simulation => AMOC shutdown and seesaw effect not the sole cause of SH warming. Our conjecture: local ins ...
... Numerical simulation of of the last deglaciation show that polar SH warming and sea-ice retreat started around 18ka BP, consistent with paleoevidence. No freshwater forcing was used in our simulation => AMOC shutdown and seesaw effect not the sole cause of SH warming. Our conjecture: local ins ...
Why Have Climate Negotiations Proved So Disappointing?
... bility 100%. This research suggests that negotiators can’t rely on science to solve their collective action problem. Even the new science of “early warning signals” won’t be able to shrink uncertainty by enough to transform the behavior of nation states. This research is helpful, I think, because it ...
... bility 100%. This research suggests that negotiators can’t rely on science to solve their collective action problem. Even the new science of “early warning signals” won’t be able to shrink uncertainty by enough to transform the behavior of nation states. This research is helpful, I think, because it ...
Building Place-Based Climate Change Education
... places and activities people love, so by using cherished places as common ground, and by using place-based climate change messages that address impacts on a local level, parks and refuges can spur visitors to confront climate issues. This research revealed several valuable approaches that could help ...
... places and activities people love, so by using cherished places as common ground, and by using place-based climate change messages that address impacts on a local level, parks and refuges can spur visitors to confront climate issues. This research revealed several valuable approaches that could help ...
Understanding the Challenges of Climate Change on Business: A Study on RMG Sector in Bangladesh:
... assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has observed that increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20 century due to increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations, and that the warming of the climate system has been unequivocal. (Ziauddin, 2010). Dawson(2009) ...
... assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has observed that increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20 century due to increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations, and that the warming of the climate system has been unequivocal. (Ziauddin, 2010). Dawson(2009) ...
Climate Change Negotiations: The United Nations Framework
... since 1880, and the last decade was the warmest on the instrumental record. 13 The exact degree to which emissions would have to be reduced to prevent dangerous interference in the climate system has been an important point of contention in international negotiations. Considerable scientific and pol ...
... since 1880, and the last decade was the warmest on the instrumental record. 13 The exact degree to which emissions would have to be reduced to prevent dangerous interference in the climate system has been an important point of contention in international negotiations. Considerable scientific and pol ...
An NPS Framework for Addressing Climate Change with Cultural
... the resource. An integrated vulnerability assessment—addressing vulnerabilities of both cultural and natural resources in the same park—was conducted for Badlands National Park (Amberg et al. 2012), although this may not be appropriate in all places. Monitoring techniques track climate impacts, and ...
... the resource. An integrated vulnerability assessment—addressing vulnerabilities of both cultural and natural resources in the same park—was conducted for Badlands National Park (Amberg et al. 2012), although this may not be appropriate in all places. Monitoring techniques track climate impacts, and ...
Summary of the Garnaut Climate Change Review Final Report
... have fallen significantly in the southern regions of Australia. This has occurred earliest and most severely in south-west Western Australia. Some of the observed changes in the Australian climate have been attributed by the mainstream science to human-induced global warming. This includes the obse ...
... have fallen significantly in the southern regions of Australia. This has occurred earliest and most severely in south-west Western Australia. Some of the observed changes in the Australian climate have been attributed by the mainstream science to human-induced global warming. This includes the obse ...
Fairtrade and the carbon market
... the hardest. The most vulnerable are those living in rural areas in developing countries. They include small scale farmers and their communities, many of whom we rely on to grow our food.1 ...
... the hardest. The most vulnerable are those living in rural areas in developing countries. They include small scale farmers and their communities, many of whom we rely on to grow our food.1 ...
Fairtrade and the carbon market
... the hardest. The most vulnerable are those living in rural areas in developing countries. They include small scale farmers and their communities, many of whom we rely on to grow our food.1 ...
... the hardest. The most vulnerable are those living in rural areas in developing countries. They include small scale farmers and their communities, many of whom we rely on to grow our food.1 ...
Power Point Summary
... risks and damages to species, ecosystems, human infrastructure, and societies in the future unless the warming is reduced. By reducing the greenhouse gas emissions it lowers the temperature. To determine whether it is dangerous or not to the environment affects the rate, timing, and scale of emissio ...
... risks and damages to species, ecosystems, human infrastructure, and societies in the future unless the warming is reduced. By reducing the greenhouse gas emissions it lowers the temperature. To determine whether it is dangerous or not to the environment affects the rate, timing, and scale of emissio ...
Slide 1
... centennial timescales, and the human impact on climate are inherently probabilistic due to uncertainties in: initial conditions representation of key processes within models climatic forcing factors Reliable forecasts and estimates of climatic risk can only be made through ensemble integration ...
... centennial timescales, and the human impact on climate are inherently probabilistic due to uncertainties in: initial conditions representation of key processes within models climatic forcing factors Reliable forecasts and estimates of climatic risk can only be made through ensemble integration ...
Does climate change knowledge really matter?
... policy changes are inevitably controversial because they threaten those who believe they benefit from existing policy frameworks, or who believe they will not benefit from the proposed changes. In the United States, major pieces of policy legislation have recently been enacted, on health care and fi ...
... policy changes are inevitably controversial because they threaten those who believe they benefit from existing policy frameworks, or who believe they will not benefit from the proposed changes. In the United States, major pieces of policy legislation have recently been enacted, on health care and fi ...
PBL website
... Sun (total solar irradiance, cosmic rays, UV) Internal variability (random variation, oscillations) Spurious warming (urban heat island effect, siting of weather stations) "?: Examples are given in brackets; these need not be exhaustive. ""Spurious warming"" refers to global mean surface temperature ...
... Sun (total solar irradiance, cosmic rays, UV) Internal variability (random variation, oscillations) Spurious warming (urban heat island effect, siting of weather stations) "?: Examples are given in brackets; these need not be exhaustive. ""Spurious warming"" refers to global mean surface temperature ...
Green infrastructure and ecosystem services to tackle climate
... climate change, can clarify how urban green spaces contribute to urban climate regulation. This approach help to evaluate and quantify the role of green infrastructure to tackle global warming and the negative effects of climate change. Green infrastructure can contribute to tackle climate change, b ...
... climate change, can clarify how urban green spaces contribute to urban climate regulation. This approach help to evaluate and quantify the role of green infrastructure to tackle global warming and the negative effects of climate change. Green infrastructure can contribute to tackle climate change, b ...
How Companies Think About Climate Change: A Global Survey.
... countries where they currently operate, regardless of the type of regulation involved. Nonetheless, 4 percent consider relocation in such circumstances very likely, while 7 percent consider it somewhat likely. For their part, C-level executives are slightly less inclined than other respondents to sa ...
... countries where they currently operate, regardless of the type of regulation involved. Nonetheless, 4 percent consider relocation in such circumstances very likely, while 7 percent consider it somewhat likely. For their part, C-level executives are slightly less inclined than other respondents to sa ...
GEF COUNTRY EXPERIENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES
... MEA FPAs and other stakeholders have yet to be fully oriented on the GEF strategies yet to expand coordination to include more NGOs need to improve the coordination system on project development of the ff. focal area: – international waters – biosafety; and – persistent organic pollutants (PO ...
... MEA FPAs and other stakeholders have yet to be fully oriented on the GEF strategies yet to expand coordination to include more NGOs need to improve the coordination system on project development of the ff. focal area: – international waters – biosafety; and – persistent organic pollutants (PO ...
IASC Consultations on the Humanitarian Impact of
... CCA can build on a solid base of EPR/DRR work ...
... CCA can build on a solid base of EPR/DRR work ...
An Uncertain Future: law enforcement, national security and climate
... sea levels. Once the full effects of glacial and ice sheet melting are also taken into account, some suggest that the average rise in sea levels could be significantly higher than the conservative IPCC predictions, potentially a metre or more by end of century.4 Just to put this in context, in Bangl ...
... sea levels. Once the full effects of glacial and ice sheet melting are also taken into account, some suggest that the average rise in sea levels could be significantly higher than the conservative IPCC predictions, potentially a metre or more by end of century.4 Just to put this in context, in Bangl ...
7. Agriculture
... essential for evaluating possible future conditions, but they do not necessarily describe the conditions that will actually occur. Nevertheless, conditions similar to the scenarios are possible, and as such they should be used to explore possible adaptive measures. Agriculture is a complex sector in ...
... essential for evaluating possible future conditions, but they do not necessarily describe the conditions that will actually occur. Nevertheless, conditions similar to the scenarios are possible, and as such they should be used to explore possible adaptive measures. Agriculture is a complex sector in ...