Implications for Australia of a 1.5°C future
... Yet countries’ near-term commitments under the Paris Agreement fall far short of the effort needed to achieve the stated goals. If we want to be reasonably confident that we can keep warming below 1.5°C or even 2°C, climate science shows our remaining “carbon budget” is extremely limited. At the cur ...
... Yet countries’ near-term commitments under the Paris Agreement fall far short of the effort needed to achieve the stated goals. If we want to be reasonably confident that we can keep warming below 1.5°C or even 2°C, climate science shows our remaining “carbon budget” is extremely limited. At the cur ...
Migration and Climate Change: How will Climate Shifts Affect
... Re-thinking climate change and mass migration Estimates of the total number of people who will be displaced by climate change range from 150-200 million (Stern 2007) to one billion (Christian Aid 2007). However, the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes suc ...
... Re-thinking climate change and mass migration Estimates of the total number of people who will be displaced by climate change range from 150-200 million (Stern 2007) to one billion (Christian Aid 2007). However, the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes suc ...
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 ...
Maldives Climate Change Policy Framework
... Practices (ESTs) in reaching of a low carbon economy. Create an enabling environment for the adoption of appropriate technologies and practices that will assist in meeting national and international commitments with respect to the causes and effects of climate change; Climate Resiliency: Recognize ...
... Practices (ESTs) in reaching of a low carbon economy. Create an enabling environment for the adoption of appropriate technologies and practices that will assist in meeting national and international commitments with respect to the causes and effects of climate change; Climate Resiliency: Recognize ...
Poverty and climate change: Natural disasters, agricultural
... overall, poverty was reduced by 2% per year. These numbers show that a relatively small change in the flows in and out of poverty has a significant effect on overall poverty dynamics. For instance, increasing the flow into poverty by 10% is enough to halve the rate of poverty reduction. Climate chan ...
... overall, poverty was reduced by 2% per year. These numbers show that a relatively small change in the flows in and out of poverty has a significant effect on overall poverty dynamics. For instance, increasing the flow into poverty by 10% is enough to halve the rate of poverty reduction. Climate chan ...
Workshop summary
... These strategies which include programs such as REDD and sustainable land and water management, advocate a range of good practices that are often also the most effective strategy to improve the resilience of food system assets to climate change. Mechanisms for regional cooperation Having identified ...
... These strategies which include programs such as REDD and sustainable land and water management, advocate a range of good practices that are often also the most effective strategy to improve the resilience of food system assets to climate change. Mechanisms for regional cooperation Having identified ...
Greenhouse warming and the 21st Century hydroclimate of
... hydrology can therefore disrupt existing systems for water supply in the summer season of high use. The likely considerable impact of changes to the hydroclimate of SWNA make it essential to determine if the model projections are correct and, if so, whether anthropogenic drying is already occurring. ...
... hydrology can therefore disrupt existing systems for water supply in the summer season of high use. The likely considerable impact of changes to the hydroclimate of SWNA make it essential to determine if the model projections are correct and, if so, whether anthropogenic drying is already occurring. ...
No. 329 December 31, 1998 LONG HOT YEAR by Patrick J. Michaels
... the United States, drought has decreased while flooding has not increased. Moreover, carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere at a rate below that of most climate-change scenarios because it is being increasingly captured by growing vegetation. The second most important human greenhouse enhanc ...
... the United States, drought has decreased while flooding has not increased. Moreover, carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere at a rate below that of most climate-change scenarios because it is being increasingly captured by growing vegetation. The second most important human greenhouse enhanc ...
Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Adaptation
... The Earth’s climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events—like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures—are already taking place. Scientists are highly confident that many of these observed changes can be linked to the cli ...
... The Earth’s climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events—like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures—are already taking place. Scientists are highly confident that many of these observed changes can be linked to the cli ...
English - unfccc
... GFDLCM20, GFDLCM21, GISS‐EH and GISS‐ER models were concordant, within an acceptable margin of uncertainty, with the climatic parameters observed in DR Congo. Furthermore, the scenarii with or without aerosols do not bring significant differences to the projected levels (2025, 2050 and 2100) ob ...
... GFDLCM20, GFDLCM21, GISS‐EH and GISS‐ER models were concordant, within an acceptable margin of uncertainty, with the climatic parameters observed in DR Congo. Furthermore, the scenarii with or without aerosols do not bring significant differences to the projected levels (2025, 2050 and 2100) ob ...
national parks in peril - Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
... A recent downpour and flooding at Mount Rainier illustrates the kinds of risks that it and other parks now face. In November 2006, 18 inches of rain fell in the park in 36 hours, washing out roads, destroying trails, severing power, telephone and sewer systems, damaging campgrounds, and, in the Park ...
... A recent downpour and flooding at Mount Rainier illustrates the kinds of risks that it and other parks now face. In November 2006, 18 inches of rain fell in the park in 36 hours, washing out roads, destroying trails, severing power, telephone and sewer systems, damaging campgrounds, and, in the Park ...
Climate Data in the NWT
... • in small communities, 50 % of protein derived from country foods • Major industries: mining, oil & gas • All season highways link southern NWT to Alberta and BC, and northern NWT to Yukon • 70 million hectares of forest land (172 million acres) ...
... • in small communities, 50 % of protein derived from country foods • Major industries: mining, oil & gas • All season highways link southern NWT to Alberta and BC, and northern NWT to Yukon • 70 million hectares of forest land (172 million acres) ...
Abrupt Climate Change: Should We Be Worried?
... new and different patterns that can persist for decades to centuries. In addition, these climate shifts do not necessarily have universal, global effects. They can generate a counterintuitive scenario: Even as the earth as a whole continues to warm gradually, large regions may experience a precipito ...
... new and different patterns that can persist for decades to centuries. In addition, these climate shifts do not necessarily have universal, global effects. They can generate a counterintuitive scenario: Even as the earth as a whole continues to warm gradually, large regions may experience a precipito ...
Agriculture and Forestry Climate Change Impacts
... • The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere will continue to increase plant growth generally, although the amount will vary depending on other environmental variables, such as temperature and water availability. • Changing rainfall patterns, increased evaporative deman ...
... • The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere will continue to increase plant growth generally, although the amount will vary depending on other environmental variables, such as temperature and water availability. • Changing rainfall patterns, increased evaporative deman ...
Biodiversity and Climate Change - European Commission
... - facilitating the movement and dispersal of species as their ‘climate space’ moves. Facilitating nature’s adaptation to climate change also involves reducing ‘conventional’ pressures on biodiversity such as intensification of land-use, fragmentation of habitats, overexploitation, invasive alien spe ...
... - facilitating the movement and dispersal of species as their ‘climate space’ moves. Facilitating nature’s adaptation to climate change also involves reducing ‘conventional’ pressures on biodiversity such as intensification of land-use, fragmentation of habitats, overexploitation, invasive alien spe ...
Document
... Stern Review Report (Oct 2006) Former World Bank chief economist, Nicholas Stern Quantified warnings in the 1997 Economists’ Statement on Climate Change 1. Cost of climate change mitigation: 1% of annual global GDP by 2050 if we act now; 5-20% if we act later 2. Benefits of $2.5T if we act now; glob ...
... Stern Review Report (Oct 2006) Former World Bank chief economist, Nicholas Stern Quantified warnings in the 1997 Economists’ Statement on Climate Change 1. Cost of climate change mitigation: 1% of annual global GDP by 2050 if we act now; 5-20% if we act later 2. Benefits of $2.5T if we act now; glob ...
Planning in the face of uncertainty: weather and water
... throw that into the model with some plausible forcings scenarios for the natural variability that we can’t predict either, because we really don’t know what’s going to happen to the sun in the 21st century, and we don’t know how active volcanoes are going to be in the 21st century. So here are the ...
... throw that into the model with some plausible forcings scenarios for the natural variability that we can’t predict either, because we really don’t know what’s going to happen to the sun in the 21st century, and we don’t know how active volcanoes are going to be in the 21st century. So here are the ...
Climate Change and First Nations: Recommendations for Action
... In the past, most research related to climate change has either been focused on the identification of potential impacts of climate change or the development of mitigation measures to lessen the scale of predicted climate change (through measures to decrease greenhouse gas production and release). It ...
... In the past, most research related to climate change has either been focused on the identification of potential impacts of climate change or the development of mitigation measures to lessen the scale of predicted climate change (through measures to decrease greenhouse gas production and release). It ...
(Still) Disagreeing about Climate Change: What Way
... system. The future risks for society and ecology resulting from this influence are known by experts and analysts much more diffusely. I have written elsewhere about the dangers of climate reductionism (Hulme 2011), about the dangers of elevating climate as a predictor of future social and ecological ...
... system. The future risks for society and ecology resulting from this influence are known by experts and analysts much more diffusely. I have written elsewhere about the dangers of climate reductionism (Hulme 2011), about the dangers of elevating climate as a predictor of future social and ecological ...
Social Mobilization Summary Report - Pacific Institute for Climate
... 9. Explicitly address people’s values: many people are more likely to take action based on their personal values than on a technological argument, financial incentive or other forms of engagement, though these can be important support mechanisms once a community is engaged. For example, the h ...
... 9. Explicitly address people’s values: many people are more likely to take action based on their personal values than on a technological argument, financial incentive or other forms of engagement, though these can be important support mechanisms once a community is engaged. For example, the h ...
Conference Presentation
... This assumes a perfectly informed and rational market response to changing risk. ...
... This assumes a perfectly informed and rational market response to changing risk. ...
Climate Change Makes Success in U.S. Strategy Harder to Achieve
... of global economic and political trends. America’s growth rate has slowed to a mere 2 percent for long-term projections, and even though rivals like China have also suffered from slowing growth, they maintain a strong 6-plus percent rate of growth.1 Similarly, despite massive investments in weapons ...
... of global economic and political trends. America’s growth rate has slowed to a mere 2 percent for long-term projections, and even though rivals like China have also suffered from slowing growth, they maintain a strong 6-plus percent rate of growth.1 Similarly, despite massive investments in weapons ...
Effects of global climate change on agriculture: an
... improvements), changing crop mixes and cultivated acreages, and changing institutional arrangements. Such flexibility is suggestive of significant human potential to adapt to climate change (CAST 1992, Rosenberg 1992). For example, farm level adaptations can be made in planting and harvest dates, cr ...
... improvements), changing crop mixes and cultivated acreages, and changing institutional arrangements. Such flexibility is suggestive of significant human potential to adapt to climate change (CAST 1992, Rosenberg 1992). For example, farm level adaptations can be made in planting and harvest dates, cr ...
Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
... more often to support civil authorities, and provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the face of more frequent and more intense natural disasters. Our coastal installations are vulnerable to rising sea levels and increased flooding, while droughts, wildfires, and more extreme temperat ...
... more often to support civil authorities, and provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the face of more frequent and more intense natural disasters. Our coastal installations are vulnerable to rising sea levels and increased flooding, while droughts, wildfires, and more extreme temperat ...