Ranking of the World`s Cities Most Exposed to Coastal Flooding
... There are exceptions to the general relationship between wealth and protection. For example, Greater New York, despite having a larger GDP than London, Tokyo and Amsterdam, is currently only protected to a standard of roughly a 1 in 100 year flood. Shanghai, a developing country city with a lower GD ...
... There are exceptions to the general relationship between wealth and protection. For example, Greater New York, despite having a larger GDP than London, Tokyo and Amsterdam, is currently only protected to a standard of roughly a 1 in 100 year flood. Shanghai, a developing country city with a lower GD ...
“The only plausible explanation for the rise in weather
... committed us to a hotter future with more climate-related impacts over the next few decades. Many [climate-related changes] will be disruptive to society because our institutions and infrastructure have been designed for the relatively stable climate of the past, not the changing one of the present ...
... committed us to a hotter future with more climate-related impacts over the next few decades. Many [climate-related changes] will be disruptive to society because our institutions and infrastructure have been designed for the relatively stable climate of the past, not the changing one of the present ...
- Divecha Centre for Climate Change
... Resources Strategy. • Doctrine of NWP: Integration, Coordination, Decentralization, Popular Participation within good governance and equitable distribution; • IWRM as one of the principal themes. • Essentially promulgated to keep the promise made at the Rio+10 meeting in Jo’berg ...
... Resources Strategy. • Doctrine of NWP: Integration, Coordination, Decentralization, Popular Participation within good governance and equitable distribution; • IWRM as one of the principal themes. • Essentially promulgated to keep the promise made at the Rio+10 meeting in Jo’berg ...
Ten Overlooked Issues in Climate Change Science Roger A. Pielke Sr.
... 1. Past climate is a useful guide to the future - Assessing past climate conditions provides a very effective analysis tool to assess societal and environmental vulnerability to future climate, regardless of the extent the future climate is altered by human activity. Our current and future vulnerabi ...
... 1. Past climate is a useful guide to the future - Assessing past climate conditions provides a very effective analysis tool to assess societal and environmental vulnerability to future climate, regardless of the extent the future climate is altered by human activity. Our current and future vulnerabi ...
Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry d E t R h and Ecosystem Research
... Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and d Ecosystem t Research h With the overarching goal “…to provide a comprehensive understanding of, and accurate predictive capacity for, ocean responses espo ses to acce accelerating e at g g global oba c change a ge a and d the e co consequent seque t effects on ...
... Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and d Ecosystem t Research h With the overarching goal “…to provide a comprehensive understanding of, and accurate predictive capacity for, ocean responses espo ses to acce accelerating e at g g global oba c change a ge a and d the e co consequent seque t effects on ...
A summary for policymakers
... management frameworks therefore must manage and cope with both existing and increasing levels of uncertainty from climate variability and climate change impacts. While principles in the management, conservation and adaptation of water resources and ecosystems abound, there remains a lack of clear po ...
... management frameworks therefore must manage and cope with both existing and increasing levels of uncertainty from climate variability and climate change impacts. While principles in the management, conservation and adaptation of water resources and ecosystems abound, there remains a lack of clear po ...
Topic 1 – An Introduction to the Climate System and Climate Change
... Scientists and engineers use models for a wide variety of applications. Some of them are so accurate that we don’t even think of them as models. For example, we can send space probes to rendezvous with the moons of Saturn because we have a highly accurate and highly sophisticated model of the gravi ...
... Scientists and engineers use models for a wide variety of applications. Some of them are so accurate that we don’t even think of them as models. For example, we can send space probes to rendezvous with the moons of Saturn because we have a highly accurate and highly sophisticated model of the gravi ...
June 2013 ISSN 2070-4593
... investment patterns and the policies and price signals that drive them,” said Ms Figueres. In Bonn, governments also looked in greater detail at how the rules of the new agreement, which is to be decided by 2015 and come into effect in 2020, have to be designed to encourage countries to do their bes ...
... investment patterns and the policies and price signals that drive them,” said Ms Figueres. In Bonn, governments also looked in greater detail at how the rules of the new agreement, which is to be decided by 2015 and come into effect in 2020, have to be designed to encourage countries to do their bes ...
Extreme event: Heat waves and hot days
... Climate change is making hots days and heat waves more frequent and severe with the number of record hot days in Australia doubling since the 1960s. For Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra the annual number of hot days is increasing more quickly than expected, and is already at the level ...
... Climate change is making hots days and heat waves more frequent and severe with the number of record hot days in Australia doubling since the 1960s. For Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra the annual number of hot days is increasing more quickly than expected, and is already at the level ...
Climate Change
... to food insecurity. The likelihood of the nations of the world being able to meet the 2°C target of maximal average temperature rise set by the UNFCCC negotiations in Cancun is diminishing with time. If negotiations for global climate policies fail, temperature rises of the order of 4°C by the end o ...
... to food insecurity. The likelihood of the nations of the world being able to meet the 2°C target of maximal average temperature rise set by the UNFCCC negotiations in Cancun is diminishing with time. If negotiations for global climate policies fail, temperature rises of the order of 4°C by the end o ...
Climate financing for a low carbon tomorrow
... Biso na Bino SARL is a bottom of the pyramid business which aims at significantly reducing wood fuel consumption of Congolese households by providing them with affordable improved cook stoves (ICS) to replace low-efficiency cook stoves by marketing efficient cooking solutions tailored to their speci ...
... Biso na Bino SARL is a bottom of the pyramid business which aims at significantly reducing wood fuel consumption of Congolese households by providing them with affordable improved cook stoves (ICS) to replace low-efficiency cook stoves by marketing efficient cooking solutions tailored to their speci ...
National Adaptation to Climate Change
... related to the NAPA process, Decision 29/CP.7 set up an LDC Expert Group (LEG) to provide guidance and advice on the preparation and implementation strategy for NAPAs. The focus of NAPA is to identify the urgent and immediate needs of the country to address the impact o ...
... related to the NAPA process, Decision 29/CP.7 set up an LDC Expert Group (LEG) to provide guidance and advice on the preparation and implementation strategy for NAPAs. The focus of NAPA is to identify the urgent and immediate needs of the country to address the impact o ...
Framing Document - American Physical Society
... Section D.1 of the AR5 WG1 SPM discusses this shortfall (greater detail can be found in the citations to the WG1 report): The observed reduction in surface warming trend over the period 1998–2012 as compared to the period 1951–2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a reduced trend in radiative for ...
... Section D.1 of the AR5 WG1 SPM discusses this shortfall (greater detail can be found in the citations to the WG1 report): The observed reduction in surface warming trend over the period 1998–2012 as compared to the period 1951–2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a reduced trend in radiative for ...
occasional paper 9 - Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
... and further research and development will be required to support decision-making. While a few studies are emerging from a handful of countries, most of these studies are based on generalities and on broad large-scale analyses. Among the challenges, there is a critical need for research to fill in th ...
... and further research and development will be required to support decision-making. While a few studies are emerging from a handful of countries, most of these studies are based on generalities and on broad large-scale analyses. Among the challenges, there is a critical need for research to fill in th ...
Climate Change, Health and Future Well
... risk of these catastrophic outcomes is real and must be taken into consideration in cost-benefit analyses and when planning adaptation responses (Weitzman 2009). Avoiding a ‘catastrophic’ outcome is also central to the most recent Lancet commission on climate change (Watts et al. 2015). ...
... risk of these catastrophic outcomes is real and must be taken into consideration in cost-benefit analyses and when planning adaptation responses (Weitzman 2009). Avoiding a ‘catastrophic’ outcome is also central to the most recent Lancet commission on climate change (Watts et al. 2015). ...
Expanding the Concept of Human - Caused Climate
... 1. Past climate is a useful guide to the future - Assessing past climate conditions provides a very effective analysis tool to assess societal and environmental vulnerability to future climate, regardless of the extent the future climate is altered by human activity. Our current and future vulnerabi ...
... 1. Past climate is a useful guide to the future - Assessing past climate conditions provides a very effective analysis tool to assess societal and environmental vulnerability to future climate, regardless of the extent the future climate is altered by human activity. Our current and future vulnerabi ...
Global Environmental Issues
... emissions. But according to the United Nations, countries exempted from the agreement will create 76% of total greenhouse gas emissions over the next 50 years. The exemptions in the Kyoto agreement (which must be approved by 55 nations but as of this writing has not been submitted to the U.S. Senate ...
... emissions. But according to the United Nations, countries exempted from the agreement will create 76% of total greenhouse gas emissions over the next 50 years. The exemptions in the Kyoto agreement (which must be approved by 55 nations but as of this writing has not been submitted to the U.S. Senate ...
Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Diseases
... growth may occur due to climate warming. The earlier onset of higher temperatures may lead to greater risks of fungal infections with a tendency to cause epidemic outbreaks and increased usage of fungicides [11]. Humidity can affect the microorganisms in different ways. Some of them tend to be more ...
... growth may occur due to climate warming. The earlier onset of higher temperatures may lead to greater risks of fungal infections with a tendency to cause epidemic outbreaks and increased usage of fungicides [11]. Humidity can affect the microorganisms in different ways. Some of them tend to be more ...
Managing biodiversity in the light of climate change
... Summit in 1997, dozens of eminent scientists issued a World Scientists’ Call of Action. They stated, ‘Climate change will accelerate the appalling pace at which species are now being extirpated, especially in vulnerable ecosystems. One-fourth of the known species of mammals are threatened, and half ...
... Summit in 1997, dozens of eminent scientists issued a World Scientists’ Call of Action. They stated, ‘Climate change will accelerate the appalling pace at which species are now being extirpated, especially in vulnerable ecosystems. One-fourth of the known species of mammals are threatened, and half ...
The Role of International Project Offices (IPOs) in
... 6. Air, water and soil pollution, and effects on human health ...
... 6. Air, water and soil pollution, and effects on human health ...
Altizer et al. 2013 climate disease
... Scientists have long predicted large-scale responses of infectious diseases to climate change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for which socioeconomic drivers and control measures can limit the detection of climate-mediated changes. Climate change has alread ...
... Scientists have long predicted large-scale responses of infectious diseases to climate change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for which socioeconomic drivers and control measures can limit the detection of climate-mediated changes. Climate change has alread ...
The Small Print: What the Royal Society left out
... A fuller picture: Not so: basic physics implies that increasing levels of carbon dioxide will lead to increased cooling in the stratosphere. This is quite separate from the greenhouse impact in the troposphere of increased carbon dioxide. However, measurements in the stratosphere indicate that altho ...
... A fuller picture: Not so: basic physics implies that increasing levels of carbon dioxide will lead to increased cooling in the stratosphere. This is quite separate from the greenhouse impact in the troposphere of increased carbon dioxide. However, measurements in the stratosphere indicate that altho ...
Technology Transfer for Climate Change
... technologies with lower greenhouse gas emissions in order to reduce start-up costs and to develop markets. The GEF, for instance, has pioneered support for such new technologies as the pairing of concentrating solar power (CSP) with a natural gas turbine, biomassintegrated gasification combined-cycl ...
... technologies with lower greenhouse gas emissions in order to reduce start-up costs and to develop markets. The GEF, for instance, has pioneered support for such new technologies as the pairing of concentrating solar power (CSP) with a natural gas turbine, biomassintegrated gasification combined-cycl ...
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE Should We Be Worried? www.whoi.edu Robert B. Gagosian
... in the past decade.4 The new data show that since the mid-1960s, the subpolar seas feeding the North Atlantic have steadily and noticeably become less salty to depths of 1,000 to 4,000 meters. This is the largest and most dramatic oceanic change ever measured in the era of modern instruments. At pre ...
... in the past decade.4 The new data show that since the mid-1960s, the subpolar seas feeding the North Atlantic have steadily and noticeably become less salty to depths of 1,000 to 4,000 meters. This is the largest and most dramatic oceanic change ever measured in the era of modern instruments. At pre ...