Adaptation to Climate Change in Low‐Income Countries
... adaptation in the face of ambiguity. It is one of only a handful of papers in the literature to do so. Ambiguity arises in the context of the profitability of a new technology for which there are few data on returns. Given changes in climate, the new technology potentially has higher expected return ...
... adaptation in the face of ambiguity. It is one of only a handful of papers in the literature to do so. Ambiguity arises in the context of the profitability of a new technology for which there are few data on returns. Given changes in climate, the new technology potentially has higher expected return ...
The Solar Radiation Budget, and High
... To what extent do clouds attenuate surface albedo anomalies, and hence weaken the positive feedbacks associated with the cryosphere? ...
... To what extent do clouds attenuate surface albedo anomalies, and hence weaken the positive feedbacks associated with the cryosphere? ...
costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation
... agenda (Klimaatagenda, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu, October 2013), which sketches an approach that combines climate adaptation (i.e. making society robust against climate change) and climate mitigation (i.e. reducing greenhouse gas emissions). To support policy-making on adaptation and m ...
... agenda (Klimaatagenda, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu, October 2013), which sketches an approach that combines climate adaptation (i.e. making society robust against climate change) and climate mitigation (i.e. reducing greenhouse gas emissions). To support policy-making on adaptation and m ...
From Impacts Assessment to Adaptation Priorities: the Shaping of
... and measures. While both types of research are conducted in a policy context, they differ in their character, application, and purpose. The impacts/mitigation research is orientated towards the physical and biological science of impacts and adaptation, while research on the ways and means of adaptat ...
... and measures. While both types of research are conducted in a policy context, they differ in their character, application, and purpose. The impacts/mitigation research is orientated towards the physical and biological science of impacts and adaptation, while research on the ways and means of adaptat ...
Post-2012 Climate Change Negotiation Simulation
... require that members: •Avoid making personal attacks on other group members; •Share relevant information with other group members; •Explain the reasons behind one's statements, questions, and actions; •Keep to the agenda; •Make decisions by consensus, rather than majority rule; •No private discussio ...
... require that members: •Avoid making personal attacks on other group members; •Share relevant information with other group members; •Explain the reasons behind one's statements, questions, and actions; •Keep to the agenda; •Make decisions by consensus, rather than majority rule; •No private discussio ...
Written submissions received for the Adapting to Climate Change in
... communities have different capacities to adapt to these impacts. Local government is concerned about its ability to undertake adaptation responses in these communities due to liability issues. There is also concern about the ability of key public infrastructure to cope with climate change impacts. S ...
... communities have different capacities to adapt to these impacts. Local government is concerned about its ability to undertake adaptation responses in these communities due to liability issues. There is also concern about the ability of key public infrastructure to cope with climate change impacts. S ...
A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster Reduction
... practices along with the notion that learning comes from doing are of critical importance. Integrated climate risk management Integrated climate risk management, as a concept, would address both the hazards and vulnerabilities which configure particular risk scenarios and would range in scale from a ...
... practices along with the notion that learning comes from doing are of critical importance. Integrated climate risk management Integrated climate risk management, as a concept, would address both the hazards and vulnerabilities which configure particular risk scenarios and would range in scale from a ...
11. Minutes of the 11th meeting
... - Reported on the ongoing field campaign of German GLOBEC and on the status of the planned 2nd volume of SO GLOBEC synthesis, which will have a stronger international component than the 1st volume. - Informed of the results of the IWC-SO GLOBEC workshop (Norfolk, November 2005). In discussion the fo ...
... - Reported on the ongoing field campaign of German GLOBEC and on the status of the planned 2nd volume of SO GLOBEC synthesis, which will have a stronger international component than the 1st volume. - Informed of the results of the IWC-SO GLOBEC workshop (Norfolk, November 2005). In discussion the fo ...
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... © World Health Organization 2007 All rights reserved. The Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization welcomes requests for permission to reproduce or translate its publications, in part or in full. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do ...
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... pledges and the expected pattern of emissions from LULUCF we estimate that emissions will be 17 GTon CO2-eq in the LC scenario and 16 GTon CO2-eq in the HC scenario.6 In the LC case emissions will be 12% lower than in 1990 and 7% lower than in 2005. In the HC case emissions will be 17% lower than in ...
... pledges and the expected pattern of emissions from LULUCF we estimate that emissions will be 17 GTon CO2-eq in the LC scenario and 16 GTon CO2-eq in the HC scenario.6 In the LC case emissions will be 12% lower than in 1990 and 7% lower than in 2005. In the HC case emissions will be 17% lower than in ...
Effects of Global Climate Change at the Virginia Coast Reserve
... Figure 7. Conceptual model of potential global climate change effects on beach-specific migratory shorebirds at the Virginia Coast Reserve Figure 8. Conceptual model of potential global climate change effects on seagrass at VCR Figure 9. Conceptual model of potential global climate change effects on ...
... Figure 7. Conceptual model of potential global climate change effects on beach-specific migratory shorebirds at the Virginia Coast Reserve Figure 8. Conceptual model of potential global climate change effects on seagrass at VCR Figure 9. Conceptual model of potential global climate change effects on ...
WORD - UNCTAD Virtual Institute
... 3 Climate change: The greatest market failure in human history .........................................93 3.1 The atmosphere: An open-access resource .............................................................94 3.2 Greenhouse gas emissions: A negative externality problem ........................ ...
... 3 Climate change: The greatest market failure in human history .........................................93 3.1 The atmosphere: An open-access resource .............................................................94 3.2 Greenhouse gas emissions: A negative externality problem ........................ ...
THE MIGHTY OPERATIONS OF NATURE
... demonstrate the extraordinary quality, the oddness and the significance that observers associated with the event. Yet there was another side too. Americans in the Early Republic possessed an incomplete and sometimes contradictory picture of the world around them—a worldview shaped not only by scien ...
... demonstrate the extraordinary quality, the oddness and the significance that observers associated with the event. Yet there was another side too. Americans in the Early Republic possessed an incomplete and sometimes contradictory picture of the world around them—a worldview shaped not only by scien ...
Working Paper 183 - Averchenkova et al (opens in new window)
... important and involves creating the information and conditions (regulatory, institutional, and managerial) that are needed before adaptation actions can be undertaken. Not all corporations have adequate capacity to deliver adaptation to climate change for their operations or the communities in which ...
... important and involves creating the information and conditions (regulatory, institutional, and managerial) that are needed before adaptation actions can be undertaken. Not all corporations have adequate capacity to deliver adaptation to climate change for their operations or the communities in which ...
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview
... of large-scale analyses of proxy data with simulations using global climate models. This approach, requiring cooperation between palaeoclimate data specialists and climate modellers, has a history dating over 30 years. Thus the original goal of the Climate Mapping, Analysis and Prediction (CLIMAP) p ...
... of large-scale analyses of proxy data with simulations using global climate models. This approach, requiring cooperation between palaeoclimate data specialists and climate modellers, has a history dating over 30 years. Thus the original goal of the Climate Mapping, Analysis and Prediction (CLIMAP) p ...
Guidance for making the case for climate change adaptation in the
... comfort criteria of not exceeding 28°C for more than 1% of occupied hours. The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) highlights overheating and cooling energy demand as medium consequence risks in the short to medium term (2020-2050s), and high consequence risks in the long-term (2080s). Keeping ...
... comfort criteria of not exceeding 28°C for more than 1% of occupied hours. The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) highlights overheating and cooling energy demand as medium consequence risks in the short to medium term (2020-2050s), and high consequence risks in the long-term (2080s). Keeping ...
National Capacity Self-Assessment
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
From Davos to Copenhagen and Beyond
... IPCCix concluded, with very high confidence, that climate change would impede the ability of many developing nations to make progress on sustainable development by mid‐century and become a security risk that would steadily intensify, particularly under greater wa ...
... IPCCix concluded, with very high confidence, that climate change would impede the ability of many developing nations to make progress on sustainable development by mid‐century and become a security risk that would steadily intensify, particularly under greater wa ...
Safeguarding the Arctic - Center for American Progress
... 80 percent of coal reserves.36 Experts conclude that nations could achieve the emission reductions needed to stay below the 2 degrees threshold by widely implementing a handful of affordable policies through 2030—ranging from adopting better efficiency standards for vehicles and eliminating fossil-f ...
... 80 percent of coal reserves.36 Experts conclude that nations could achieve the emission reductions needed to stay below the 2 degrees threshold by widely implementing a handful of affordable policies through 2030—ranging from adopting better efficiency standards for vehicles and eliminating fossil-f ...
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... REDD+’s critics are many, and I have been among them. I have criticized how early REDD projects have been conducted, laid out a set of deeply equitable principles for REDD+ that are unlikely to be achieved, and described the daunting set of legal issues for delineating forest-carbon-as-property.31 Y ...
... REDD+’s critics are many, and I have been among them. I have criticized how early REDD projects have been conducted, laid out a set of deeply equitable principles for REDD+ that are unlikely to be achieved, and described the daunting set of legal issues for delineating forest-carbon-as-property.31 Y ...
Author`s personal copy - Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung
... changes are severe and transgress adaptive possibilities. Such considerations can be applied to larger political entities as well as to regions. The future of a region like Brandenburg is not only shaped by climatic changes but also by the developing social and economic changes at regional, national ...
... changes are severe and transgress adaptive possibilities. Such considerations can be applied to larger political entities as well as to regions. The future of a region like Brandenburg is not only shaped by climatic changes but also by the developing social and economic changes at regional, national ...
Climate and Terrestrial Ecosystem Change in the
... resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, curr ...
... resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, curr ...
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action should be taken to curb it, and if so what that action should be. In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view, though a few organizations with members in extractive industries hold non-committal positions. Disputes over the key scientific facts of global warming are now more prevalent in the popular media than in the scientific literature, where such issues are treated as resolved, and more in the United States than globally.Political and popular debate concerning the existence and cause of climate change includes the reasons for the increase seen in the instrumental temperature record, whether the warming trend exceeds normal climatic variations, and whether human activities have contributed significantly to it. Scientists have resolved many of these questions decisively in favour of the view that the current warming trend exists and is ongoing, that human activity is the primary cause, and that it is without precedent in at least 2000 years. Disputes that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), and what the consequences of global warming will be.Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, often split along party political lines, especially in the United States. Many of the largely settled scientific issues, such as the human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them – an ideological phenomenon categorised by academics and scientists as climate change denial. The sources of funding for those involved with climate science – both supporting and opposing mainstream scientific positions – have been questioned by both sides. There are debates about the best policy responses to the science, their cost-effectiveness and their urgency. Climate scientists, especially in the United States, have reported official and oil-industry pressure to censor or suppress their work and hide scientific data, with directives not to discuss the subject in public communications. Legal cases regarding global warming, its effects, and measures to reduce it have reached American courts. The fossil fuels lobby and free market think tanks have often been identified as overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.