- The Kresge Foundation
... The challenge is accordingly one of selecting leverage points that will spur larger response. Investing in places, and in ways, that create the on-ramp for the re-engagement of private markets. Selecting forms of investments that invite other investors to join the effort. Extending below-market loan ...
... The challenge is accordingly one of selecting leverage points that will spur larger response. Investing in places, and in ways, that create the on-ramp for the re-engagement of private markets. Selecting forms of investments that invite other investors to join the effort. Extending below-market loan ...
Scenario building in climate science
... GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht in Germany have analysed the past history of storms and storm floods in the North Sea region, and used models to investigate future changes. Their result: human-induced climate changes will lead to higher storm surges along the German, Dutch and Danish North Sea coast ...
... GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht in Germany have analysed the past history of storms and storm floods in the North Sea region, and used models to investigate future changes. Their result: human-induced climate changes will lead to higher storm surges along the German, Dutch and Danish North Sea coast ...
good cop, bad cop: climate change after paris
... The Paris Agreement surprised many, but it was only a first, albeit important, step. Along with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it could provide the impetus for the United Nations to Deliver as One. The twenty‐first Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climat ...
... The Paris Agreement surprised many, but it was only a first, albeit important, step. Along with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it could provide the impetus for the United Nations to Deliver as One. The twenty‐first Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climat ...
Regime diagram
... Two types of climate change simulations IPCC http://www.ipcc.ch/ 3rd Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001 high-end computers ...
... Two types of climate change simulations IPCC http://www.ipcc.ch/ 3rd Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001 high-end computers ...
Thermohaline circulation changes: a question of risk
... the issue of future ocean circulation changes as an issue of risk assessment, rather than one of climate prediction. In climate prediction, the question is “What is most likely to happen?” In a risk assessment, the question is “What could go wrong, and what would the consequences be?” A major ocean ...
... the issue of future ocean circulation changes as an issue of risk assessment, rather than one of climate prediction. In climate prediction, the question is “What is most likely to happen?” In a risk assessment, the question is “What could go wrong, and what would the consequences be?” A major ocean ...
latest!climate!science!mean! - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate
... further"warming"and"changes"in"all"components"of"the"climate"system."Changes"are"projected"to"occur"in"all" regions"of"the"globe,"including"extreme"events."Most"aspects"of"climate"change"will"persist"for"many"centuries" even"if"emissions"of"CO2"are"stopped."This"represents"a"substantial"multiEcentur ...
... further"warming"and"changes"in"all"components"of"the"climate"system."Changes"are"projected"to"occur"in"all" regions"of"the"globe,"including"extreme"events."Most"aspects"of"climate"change"will"persist"for"many"centuries" even"if"emissions"of"CO2"are"stopped."This"represents"a"substantial"multiEcentur ...
3.3 Evidence of temperature changes in the study regions
... were viewed as rather defeatist and were thought to demonstrate a lack of faith in countries’ abilities to limit emissions”. However, the world will likely continue to warm at a significant rate for many decades whatever targets may be agreed to reduce emissions. Therefore, adaptation is necessary i ...
... were viewed as rather defeatist and were thought to demonstrate a lack of faith in countries’ abilities to limit emissions”. However, the world will likely continue to warm at a significant rate for many decades whatever targets may be agreed to reduce emissions. Therefore, adaptation is necessary i ...
GLOBAL WARMING
... • China strove for the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol, and participated in the negotiations under the Convention and its Protocol in an active and constructive manner. • China actively partici ...
... • China strove for the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol, and participated in the negotiations under the Convention and its Protocol in an active and constructive manner. • China actively partici ...
REDD+ coordination and mainstreaming
... undertaking the investment and technological innovation that will underpin low carbon growth, providing finance for mitigation and adaptation, adopting lower carbon production processes, and encouraging and facilitating more climate conscious REDD+. The potential of the private sector to scale up ...
... undertaking the investment and technological innovation that will underpin low carbon growth, providing finance for mitigation and adaptation, adopting lower carbon production processes, and encouraging and facilitating more climate conscious REDD+. The potential of the private sector to scale up ...
fapesp ReseaRch pRogRam on global climate change
... is a bold and ambitious initiative in this direction. The program supports research projects for up to 6 years, performed by large and multidisciplinary teams. One of its major goals is to understand the processes that control critical pieces that sustain our climate, how it is changing, and develop ...
... is a bold and ambitious initiative in this direction. The program supports research projects for up to 6 years, performed by large and multidisciplinary teams. One of its major goals is to understand the processes that control critical pieces that sustain our climate, how it is changing, and develop ...
CCI Living Planet Fellowships
... exploitation of essential climate variable (ECV) products generated by the ESA’s CCI, for improved understanding of the climate system. 2. As well as exploitation of ECV products, other themes were on cross-ECV and multiple ECV use and enhancing interactions between CCI members and other Earth Scie ...
... exploitation of essential climate variable (ECV) products generated by the ESA’s CCI, for improved understanding of the climate system. 2. As well as exploitation of ECV products, other themes were on cross-ECV and multiple ECV use and enhancing interactions between CCI members and other Earth Scie ...
effects of climate change: the global concern
... Background: Climate change which is the consequence of global warming is one of the major factors of hazards in Nepal and all over the world. Variable geo-climatic conditions, young geology, unplanned settlements, deforestation environmental degradation and increasing population are other causes of ...
... Background: Climate change which is the consequence of global warming is one of the major factors of hazards in Nepal and all over the world. Variable geo-climatic conditions, young geology, unplanned settlements, deforestation environmental degradation and increasing population are other causes of ...
Global climate change and Illinois.
... tributes about 25 percent of all the trace gases raise temperatures even more, causing the released to the atmosphere, and Illinois alone global climate to warm. As trace gases accumucontributes 3 to 4 percent of all CO2 emitted. late in the atmosphere, two things happen: they permit sunlight to pas ...
... tributes about 25 percent of all the trace gases raise temperatures even more, causing the released to the atmosphere, and Illinois alone global climate to warm. As trace gases accumucontributes 3 to 4 percent of all CO2 emitted. late in the atmosphere, two things happen: they permit sunlight to pas ...
SPECIAL REPORT The VATICAN ADVISORS: An Unholy
... In 2009, Sachs addressed the annual conference of the Party of European Socialists. He described the “profound honor” of addressing the far-Left Party of European Socialists and said they were heirs and leaders of the most successful economic and political system in the world -Social Democracy. Soc ...
... In 2009, Sachs addressed the annual conference of the Party of European Socialists. He described the “profound honor” of addressing the far-Left Party of European Socialists and said they were heirs and leaders of the most successful economic and political system in the world -Social Democracy. Soc ...
copy of Innovation TIMES Issue 41 Q1 2016 - Divgi-TTS
... alarmingly melodramatic if not apocalyptic. In 2013 the IPCC reported that ‘since the 1950’s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.’ Again, in 2014 it warned unequivocally that the failure to stop the rise in carbon emissions would increase the likelihood of ‘seve ...
... alarmingly melodramatic if not apocalyptic. In 2013 the IPCC reported that ‘since the 1950’s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.’ Again, in 2014 it warned unequivocally that the failure to stop the rise in carbon emissions would increase the likelihood of ‘seve ...
Project Name
... designed to strengthen local adaptive capacity, reducing risks and contributing to the adoption of sustainable practices within current programs. Also, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) ...
... designed to strengthen local adaptive capacity, reducing risks and contributing to the adoption of sustainable practices within current programs. Also, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) ...
Word version of course outline - Vula
... This is a 4 week module that is part of a third year course called Sustainability and the Environment (EGS 3021F) in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town. The course introduces the concept of vulnerability and explores its origin, drawing on three differe ...
... This is a 4 week module that is part of a third year course called Sustainability and the Environment (EGS 3021F) in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town. The course introduces the concept of vulnerability and explores its origin, drawing on three differe ...
A PRIMER ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN THE
... Resilience refers to the capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing ...
... Resilience refers to the capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing ...
"Scientists tell policymakers...." (Science, 9 Feb 2007)
... projection “because a basis in published literature is lacking,” according to the report. That didn’t sit well with some researchers, ...
... projection “because a basis in published literature is lacking,” according to the report. That didn’t sit well with some researchers, ...
Responding to Climate Change: The Three Spheres of
... of transformation can be perceived as instrumental by some and threatening by others, leading to tradeoffs or conflicts that can result in real or perceived winners and losers at different scales. For example, a transformation of energy systems that involves the development of biofuels has been crit ...
... of transformation can be perceived as instrumental by some and threatening by others, leading to tradeoffs or conflicts that can result in real or perceived winners and losers at different scales. For example, a transformation of energy systems that involves the development of biofuels has been crit ...
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... idea of transformation can be perceived as instrumental by some and threatening by others, leading to trade-offs or conflicts that can result in real or perceived winners and losers at different scales. For example, a transformation of energy systems that involves the development of biofuels has bee ...
... idea of transformation can be perceived as instrumental by some and threatening by others, leading to trade-offs or conflicts that can result in real or perceived winners and losers at different scales. For example, a transformation of energy systems that involves the development of biofuels has bee ...
Proxy Climate Data - University of Texas at Austin
... Proxy Records of Climate • Recent times: instrumental • More recent times: historical, tree rings, ice cores • Proxies for more ancient climates are found in sediments or inferred from fossils and land forms • Can generally only resolve changes that occur over 100 years or greater ...
... Proxy Records of Climate • Recent times: instrumental • More recent times: historical, tree rings, ice cores • Proxies for more ancient climates are found in sediments or inferred from fossils and land forms • Can generally only resolve changes that occur over 100 years or greater ...
Global Climate Change - Florida International University
... the atmosphere, yet the developing world will likely be hit the hardest by the outcomes of climate change. • Concern about the rates of population growth and future industrial growth in developing nations has caused industrialized nations to demand that developing nations be bound by any agreement o ...
... the atmosphere, yet the developing world will likely be hit the hardest by the outcomes of climate change. • Concern about the rates of population growth and future industrial growth in developing nations has caused industrialized nations to demand that developing nations be bound by any agreement o ...
The Dynamics of Climate Change
... hand sustainability is grounded in the realities of the global life-support system. It encodes the constraints imposed on human enterprise by the contextual parameters of the holding environment. These are the boundaries we transgress at our peril. On the other hand sustainability refers to the main ...
... hand sustainability is grounded in the realities of the global life-support system. It encodes the constraints imposed on human enterprise by the contextual parameters of the holding environment. These are the boundaries we transgress at our peril. On the other hand sustainability refers to the main ...
Potential for Southern Hemisphere climate surprises
... which can both enhance and subdue ozone- or GHGrelated trends on decadal timescales (Schneider and Steig, 2008; Ding et al., 2011). In the future it is possible that such natural variability will produce changes that appear surprising in the context of longer-term background trends, potentially beca ...
... which can both enhance and subdue ozone- or GHGrelated trends on decadal timescales (Schneider and Steig, 2008; Ding et al., 2011). In the future it is possible that such natural variability will produce changes that appear surprising in the context of longer-term background trends, potentially beca ...