A note on including climate change adaptation in an international
... Strictly speaking, an adaptation measure is a change in practice, decision-making, or investment, which is introduced only because of observed and projected climate change (Def 1). This definition can be extended to include responses to current climate variability: an adaptation measure can be defin ...
... Strictly speaking, an adaptation measure is a change in practice, decision-making, or investment, which is introduced only because of observed and projected climate change (Def 1). This definition can be extended to include responses to current climate variability: an adaptation measure can be defin ...
cop21 and the paris agreement
... Human influence on the climate system is clear. The impacts of climate change on humans and natural systems are already being felt on all continents, with many existing risks being amplified and new risks arising. Limiting future climate change will require substantial and sustained emissions reduct ...
... Human influence on the climate system is clear. The impacts of climate change on humans and natural systems are already being felt on all continents, with many existing risks being amplified and new risks arising. Limiting future climate change will require substantial and sustained emissions reduct ...
Good Science, Bad Policy
... • Broad consensus in policy-makers already exists-it needs to be more apparent ...
... • Broad consensus in policy-makers already exists-it needs to be more apparent ...
Barriers to Municipal Climate Adaptation: Examples From Coastal
... 2013; Zimmerman & Faris, 2011). For example, communities can prevent development in vulnerable locations, use structures and materials able to withstand storm events at future projected intensities, and increase provisions for onsite water retention in regions where rainfall patterns are likely to b ...
... 2013; Zimmerman & Faris, 2011). For example, communities can prevent development in vulnerable locations, use structures and materials able to withstand storm events at future projected intensities, and increase provisions for onsite water retention in regions where rainfall patterns are likely to b ...
S1-Meinke.pps
... Failures and risks A problem rather than a disciplinary focus will require some scientists to stop doing what comes naturally (addressing simple issues such as rainfall variability, with increasingly complex analytical tools). Instead, they need to take a broader perspective to addresses not on ...
... Failures and risks A problem rather than a disciplinary focus will require some scientists to stop doing what comes naturally (addressing simple issues such as rainfall variability, with increasingly complex analytical tools). Instead, they need to take a broader perspective to addresses not on ...
A Case for the Deep Ocean - Ocean and Climate Platform
... regulation, and thus new pressures exerted on it and its components should be a major concern. The deep sea provides many ecosystem services, such as storing heat and anthropogenic carbon emitted into the atmosphere. These services are key to sequestrating CO2 and CH4 on longer timescales, as well a ...
... regulation, and thus new pressures exerted on it and its components should be a major concern. The deep sea provides many ecosystem services, such as storing heat and anthropogenic carbon emitted into the atmosphere. These services are key to sequestrating CO2 and CH4 on longer timescales, as well a ...
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... Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Although the increase of nearsurface atmospheric temperatur ...
... Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Although the increase of nearsurface atmospheric temperatur ...
General
... dramatic melting of the large ice sheets that covered most of the world. 3. A few centuries later, temps plummeted~ 20° F (~11°C) and ice sheets readvanced. 4. About 14,000 years ago, temperatures rose rapidly, about 8° F (~4.5°C), and the ice ...
... dramatic melting of the large ice sheets that covered most of the world. 3. A few centuries later, temps plummeted~ 20° F (~11°C) and ice sheets readvanced. 4. About 14,000 years ago, temperatures rose rapidly, about 8° F (~4.5°C), and the ice ...
Climate Revanchism
... World’s Fair, part Disney’s Epcot center, it was an unofficial event, but not unrelated to the official activities in Le Bourget. Most of the people standing in line wore the familiar green lanyards and IDs that indicated official COP21 delegate or observer status. And corporate interests were at the h ...
... World’s Fair, part Disney’s Epcot center, it was an unofficial event, but not unrelated to the official activities in Le Bourget. Most of the people standing in line wore the familiar green lanyards and IDs that indicated official COP21 delegate or observer status. And corporate interests were at the h ...
Real Estate Investment and Climate Risk Assessment
... • Investment firms cited energy efficiency as a mechanism for improving sustainability and addressing climate change because it is financially quantifiable and represents concrete actions that firms can take to accomplish. • Climate change as a concept is more problematic for firms because of the ...
... • Investment firms cited energy efficiency as a mechanism for improving sustainability and addressing climate change because it is financially quantifiable and represents concrete actions that firms can take to accomplish. • Climate change as a concept is more problematic for firms because of the ...
Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol
... significant if emission of GHGs continues along the current path. The potential consequences associated with these tipping points may be largely irreversible and unmanageable (10) and include widespread loss of biodiversity, meters of sea level rise, and famine, which could lead to political instabi ...
... significant if emission of GHGs continues along the current path. The potential consequences associated with these tipping points may be largely irreversible and unmanageable (10) and include widespread loss of biodiversity, meters of sea level rise, and famine, which could lead to political instabi ...
Chapter 2 of Stern Review: approach to discounting
... activities including energy, industry, transport and land use. In common with many other environmental problems, human-induced climate change is at its most basic level an externality. Those who produce greenhouse-gas emissions are bringing about climate change, thereby imposing costs on the world a ...
... activities including energy, industry, transport and land use. In common with many other environmental problems, human-induced climate change is at its most basic level an externality. Those who produce greenhouse-gas emissions are bringing about climate change, thereby imposing costs on the world a ...
- Adaptation Learning Mechanism
... 39. The economic cost linked to the biophysical effects of the sea level rise is steep for Senegal. For the years 2050 and 2100 amount, economic costs are about 182 and 292 billion FCFA, respectively in relation to the Cap – Verde peninsula and with a 7cm high level of flooding. The estuary resource ...
... 39. The economic cost linked to the biophysical effects of the sea level rise is steep for Senegal. For the years 2050 and 2100 amount, economic costs are about 182 and 292 billion FCFA, respectively in relation to the Cap – Verde peninsula and with a 7cm high level of flooding. The estuary resource ...
West Dunbartonshire Council Climate Change Strategy `Tackling
... employ measures to help people adapt to the consequences of climate change – these two approaches are addressed in detail in this document. Examining future climate projections can help to illustrate the potential impacts of climate change on daily life, and plan for future measures to deal with the ...
... employ measures to help people adapt to the consequences of climate change – these two approaches are addressed in detail in this document. Examining future climate projections can help to illustrate the potential impacts of climate change on daily life, and plan for future measures to deal with the ...
The Futile Quest for Climate Control
... dishonest ways, under the justification of helping to achieve a worthy end. After all, who wouldn’t want to help to “save the Great Barrier Reef”? Improper scientific practice. Not all scientists in the climate community have maintained the dispassionate, disinterested approach that is necessary for ...
... dishonest ways, under the justification of helping to achieve a worthy end. After all, who wouldn’t want to help to “save the Great Barrier Reef”? Improper scientific practice. Not all scientists in the climate community have maintained the dispassionate, disinterested approach that is necessary for ...
Written Testimony for the House Committee on Science, Space, and... Hearing on “Examining the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
... Climate is defined here as the statistical description of all the elements in the climate system (including the atmosphere, ocean, land surface and cryosphere), including both the mean state and any variations over time. Climate change is defined as a shift in the statistical description of climate. ...
... Climate is defined here as the statistical description of all the elements in the climate system (including the atmosphere, ocean, land surface and cryosphere), including both the mean state and any variations over time. Climate change is defined as a shift in the statistical description of climate. ...
London, United Kingdom - Connecting Delta Cities
... – the southeast is already the area of the country with the least precipitation, and has been classified as “severely water stressed.” Changing climate patterns, together with regulations from the EU which mandate the preservation of minimum environmental flows, will influence the management of wate ...
... – the southeast is already the area of the country with the least precipitation, and has been classified as “severely water stressed.” Changing climate patterns, together with regulations from the EU which mandate the preservation of minimum environmental flows, will influence the management of wate ...
47. Global Warming Background
... the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century to the present. The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide— the main greenhouse emission resulting from human activity— varied from 260 to 320 parts per million (ppm) between the end of the glacial stage, 10,800 years ago, and the ...
... the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century to the present. The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide— the main greenhouse emission resulting from human activity— varied from 260 to 320 parts per million (ppm) between the end of the glacial stage, 10,800 years ago, and the ...
Syria Country Report
... Ministry of State for Environment Affairs (MSEA). These bear a direct responsibility in providing the legislative framework or the institutional support necessary for any environmental work. Syria was the first Arab country to establish such an independent environmental ministry and to incorporate e ...
... Ministry of State for Environment Affairs (MSEA). These bear a direct responsibility in providing the legislative framework or the institutional support necessary for any environmental work. Syria was the first Arab country to establish such an independent environmental ministry and to incorporate e ...
the PDF - Sustainablecorn.org
... demand at an all-time high, success for farmers and industry relies on a profitable cropping system while also employing measures which will protect the environment for future generations. The Midwest is a highly productive agricultural region. This is due in part to a favorable environment, which i ...
... demand at an all-time high, success for farmers and industry relies on a profitable cropping system while also employing measures which will protect the environment for future generations. The Midwest is a highly productive agricultural region. This is due in part to a favorable environment, which i ...
synthesis report - Icelandic Meteorological office
... scientists and practitioners from all five Nordic countries covered theoretical aspects as well as case studies. Abstracts and slides from the oral presentations are available at http://en.vedur.is/nonam/workshop/. The two break-out groups worked on two different cases: (a) The Horsens Fjord case fo ...
... scientists and practitioners from all five Nordic countries covered theoretical aspects as well as case studies. Abstracts and slides from the oral presentations are available at http://en.vedur.is/nonam/workshop/. The two break-out groups worked on two different cases: (a) The Horsens Fjord case fo ...
Adaptation to Climate Change
... Countries and regions that fail to adapt will contribute to global insecurity through the spread of disease, conflicts over resources, and a degradation of the economic system. Given the far-ranging adverse impacts of climate change, adaptation must be an integral component of an effective strategy ...
... Countries and regions that fail to adapt will contribute to global insecurity through the spread of disease, conflicts over resources, and a degradation of the economic system. Given the far-ranging adverse impacts of climate change, adaptation must be an integral component of an effective strategy ...
Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change: The
... forests. These risks are real and the economic costs would be huge. For that reason, the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) has strongly advocated an aggressive policy of mitigating greenhouse gases. Even with such a policy, however, we cannot avoid further warming, due to the thermal inertia of th ...
... forests. These risks are real and the economic costs would be huge. For that reason, the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) has strongly advocated an aggressive policy of mitigating greenhouse gases. Even with such a policy, however, we cannot avoid further warming, due to the thermal inertia of th ...
Climate projections for ecologists
... Climate projections produced from global climate models are now widely used in ecological studies, where they are essential tools for assessing how species and communities of plants and animals will respond to climate change. To model the impact of climate change on ecological systems, ecologists ne ...
... Climate projections produced from global climate models are now widely used in ecological studies, where they are essential tools for assessing how species and communities of plants and animals will respond to climate change. To model the impact of climate change on ecological systems, ecologists ne ...
Building capacity for transparency
... Lack of capacity while developing modalities and procedures that should address lack of capacity?! no system on which to build a new transparency framework Establishment of a new system has to both comply with MRV requirements and enhanced transparency framework needs A new system should (idea ...
... Lack of capacity while developing modalities and procedures that should address lack of capacity?! no system on which to build a new transparency framework Establishment of a new system has to both comply with MRV requirements and enhanced transparency framework needs A new system should (idea ...