Sharing responsibility to divest from fossil fuels
... This leads to a second limitation: If group agents are the only way to think about collective responsibility for climate change, then an individual member frustrated by the sluggish pace of her group has little other recourse aside from helping to expedite its action. A group agent meets its respons ...
... This leads to a second limitation: If group agents are the only way to think about collective responsibility for climate change, then an individual member frustrated by the sluggish pace of her group has little other recourse aside from helping to expedite its action. A group agent meets its respons ...
challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle
... while the direct radiative effect of aerosols that scatter rather than absorb sunlight does not influence the rate at which precipitation increases with warming. Figure 1 illustrates this for climate models run under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) protocol (Taylor et al. 2 ...
... while the direct radiative effect of aerosols that scatter rather than absorb sunlight does not influence the rate at which precipitation increases with warming. Figure 1 illustrates this for climate models run under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) protocol (Taylor et al. 2 ...
climate change - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... How severely climate change will affect human communities and ecosystem also depends on their vulnerability. Vulnerability has many determinants, among them the sensitivity to harm and the lack to cope and adapt. For example, marginalised and poorer people have less resources to protect themselves ...
... How severely climate change will affect human communities and ecosystem also depends on their vulnerability. Vulnerability has many determinants, among them the sensitivity to harm and the lack to cope and adapt. For example, marginalised and poorer people have less resources to protect themselves ...
Climate Change and Resource Depletion:The Challenges for Actuarie
... Will new business opportunities appear? Are actuarial risk models sufficiently robust to incorporate the new and changing environment? The authors also believe that there is a potentially important role for actuaries in contributing to the policy response to climate change and other sustainability i ...
... Will new business opportunities appear? Are actuarial risk models sufficiently robust to incorporate the new and changing environment? The authors also believe that there is a potentially important role for actuaries in contributing to the policy response to climate change and other sustainability i ...
Climate Change and Resource Depletion:The Challenges for Actuarie
... Will new business opportunities appear? Are actuarial risk models sufficiently robust to incorporate the new and changing environment? The authors also believe that there is a potentially important role for actuaries in contributing to the policy response to climate change and other sustainability i ...
... Will new business opportunities appear? Are actuarial risk models sufficiently robust to incorporate the new and changing environment? The authors also believe that there is a potentially important role for actuaries in contributing to the policy response to climate change and other sustainability i ...
Learning about climate changethe Pacific way
... Many educational resources available on climate change focus on its causes and its mitigation by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. There are very few educational resources that address adaptation measures that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of ...
... Many educational resources available on climate change focus on its causes and its mitigation by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. There are very few educational resources that address adaptation measures that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of ...
iudf urban risk draft - Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
... Disasters stand to fundamentally undermine development in South Africa. The National Development Plan (NDP) aims to reduce poverty and inequality, grow the economy and enhance government’s capacity to develop and transform society. Without actions to mitigate their effects, however, hazards such as ...
... Disasters stand to fundamentally undermine development in South Africa. The National Development Plan (NDP) aims to reduce poverty and inequality, grow the economy and enhance government’s capacity to develop and transform society. Without actions to mitigate their effects, however, hazards such as ...
View Case Study - Department of Natural Resources
... communities to choose culturally relevant and ecologically sustainable foods they obtain and consume from their ecological habitat (Kassam et al. 2010). Furthermore, hunting, distributing, and celebrating bowhead whales demonstrate community values, particularly the value of ‘sharing.’ Even if speci ...
... communities to choose culturally relevant and ecologically sustainable foods they obtain and consume from their ecological habitat (Kassam et al. 2010). Furthermore, hunting, distributing, and celebrating bowhead whales demonstrate community values, particularly the value of ‘sharing.’ Even if speci ...
Summary for Policymakers
... italics, e.g., medium confidence. For a given evidence and agreement statement, different confidence levels can be assigned, but increasing levels of evidence and degrees of agreement are correlated with increasing confidence (see Chapter 1 and Box TS.1 for more details). ...
... italics, e.g., medium confidence. For a given evidence and agreement statement, different confidence levels can be assigned, but increasing levels of evidence and degrees of agreement are correlated with increasing confidence (see Chapter 1 and Box TS.1 for more details). ...
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... 2008). Byrne at al. (2004) demonstrate that emission factors (fluxes) vary significantly for bogs (nutrient poor, ombrotrophic and oligotrophic peatlands) and fens (nutrient rich, minerotrophic, mesotrophic and eutrophic peatlands) and for different management practices. For intensive grassland site ...
... 2008). Byrne at al. (2004) demonstrate that emission factors (fluxes) vary significantly for bogs (nutrient poor, ombrotrophic and oligotrophic peatlands) and fens (nutrient rich, minerotrophic, mesotrophic and eutrophic peatlands) and for different management practices. For intensive grassland site ...
Climate Change and Whitebark Pine
... the exotic blister rust, but the blister rust-resistant survivors are also targeted by the beetles. To mitigate this loss, it is important that beetle-killed stands be planted with rust-resistant whitebark pine seedlings following one of the main principles of the range-wide restoration strategy (Ke ...
... the exotic blister rust, but the blister rust-resistant survivors are also targeted by the beetles. To mitigate this loss, it is important that beetle-killed stands be planted with rust-resistant whitebark pine seedlings following one of the main principles of the range-wide restoration strategy (Ke ...
Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering
... (IPCC) Working Group I released the Summary for Policymakers of the Fifth Assessment Report, which stated that ‘‘It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.’’ ‘‘Extremely likely’’ is defined as with a greater than 95% pr ...
... (IPCC) Working Group I released the Summary for Policymakers of the Fifth Assessment Report, which stated that ‘‘It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.’’ ‘‘Extremely likely’’ is defined as with a greater than 95% pr ...
Death by Degrees: North Carolina
... describe the specific health effects that are predicted to result from global warming over the next fifty to one hundred years. In some cases, there is a high level of certainty about the predictions. In others, the evidence is less definitive. The United States has the ability to adapt to, and prep ...
... describe the specific health effects that are predicted to result from global warming over the next fifty to one hundred years. In some cases, there is a high level of certainty about the predictions. In others, the evidence is less definitive. The United States has the ability to adapt to, and prep ...
Not just about sunburn - the ozone hole`s - Research Online
... These ozone-depleting reactions were identified in the 1970s and the chemicals responsible are now ...
... These ozone-depleting reactions were identified in the 1970s and the chemicals responsible are now ...
INSTRUCTOR GUIDE Chapter 11 Antarctica and Neogene
... This investigation introduces you to the status and role of Antarctica in Cenozoic (specifically Neogene) climate change and sets the stage for evaluating the two sediment cores retrieved from the floor of McMurdo Sound by the Antarctic Geologic Drilling Project (ANDRILL) in 2006 and 2007 (Figure 11 ...
... This investigation introduces you to the status and role of Antarctica in Cenozoic (specifically Neogene) climate change and sets the stage for evaluating the two sediment cores retrieved from the floor of McMurdo Sound by the Antarctic Geologic Drilling Project (ANDRILL) in 2006 and 2007 (Figure 11 ...
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... In part III of a three-part study on North American climate in phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) models, the authors examine projections of twenty-first-century climate in the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) emission experiments. This paper summarizes and ...
... In part III of a three-part study on North American climate in phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) models, the authors examine projections of twenty-first-century climate in the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) emission experiments. This paper summarizes and ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TEMPERATURE, HUMAN HEALTH, AND ADAPTATION:
... In terms of methodological issues, the most salient are the measurement of health, temperature exposure, and adaptation, the research design underlying the study, and its external validity. At the conceptual level, the main limitations of the existing literature is that mortality and ...
... In terms of methodological issues, the most salient are the measurement of health, temperature exposure, and adaptation, the research design underlying the study, and its external validity. At the conceptual level, the main limitations of the existing literature is that mortality and ...
Technical Summary
... II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) acknowledges the complexity of climate change and of the world in which it is unfolding. It recognizes that impacts of climate change will vary across regions and populations, through space and time, dependent on myriad factors including th ...
... II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) acknowledges the complexity of climate change and of the world in which it is unfolding. It recognizes that impacts of climate change will vary across regions and populations, through space and time, dependent on myriad factors including th ...
Full Report - A New Climate for Peace
... most vulnerable groups within those countries — are the most threatened. In places affected by fragility and conflict, people face especially challenging obstacles to successful adaptation. If they fail to adapt to the effects of climate change, the risk of instability will increase, trapping them i ...
... most vulnerable groups within those countries — are the most threatened. In places affected by fragility and conflict, people face especially challenging obstacles to successful adaptation. If they fail to adapt to the effects of climate change, the risk of instability will increase, trapping them i ...
Project Document - Deliverable Description
... the oil industry. As such, Nigeria recognises the urgent need to respond to the climate change challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in ...
... the oil industry. As such, Nigeria recognises the urgent need to respond to the climate change challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in ...
English
... developed by the Expert Group on the Impacts of Climate-related Geoengineering on Biological Diversity (“deliberate intervention in the planetary environment of a nature and scale intended to counteract anthropogenic climate change and its impacts”) Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, e.g. by at ...
... developed by the Expert Group on the Impacts of Climate-related Geoengineering on Biological Diversity (“deliberate intervention in the planetary environment of a nature and scale intended to counteract anthropogenic climate change and its impacts”) Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, e.g. by at ...
Prodoc on Territorial Approach to Climate Chnage in Delta State
... the oil industry. As such, Nigeria recognises the urgent need to respond to the climate change challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in ...
... the oil industry. As such, Nigeria recognises the urgent need to respond to the climate change challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in ...
Climate change - The Open University
... including the meaning of the term radiative forcing know something of the way various human activities are increasing emmissions of the natural greenhouse gases, and are also contributing to sulphate aerosols in the troposphere demonstrate an awareness of the difficulties involved in the detecti ...
... including the meaning of the term radiative forcing know something of the way various human activities are increasing emmissions of the natural greenhouse gases, and are also contributing to sulphate aerosols in the troposphere demonstrate an awareness of the difficulties involved in the detecti ...
American Meteorological Society Member Survey on Global
... Of the 7,197 members on the initial list, 135 were ineligible because their email addresses were invalid. The valid initial denominator of the study, therefore, was 7,062. Of these 7,062 people, 1,862 c ...
... Of the 7,197 members on the initial list, 135 were ineligible because their email addresses were invalid. The valid initial denominator of the study, therefore, was 7,062. Of these 7,062 people, 1,862 c ...