Cities and climate change - Urban Climate Change Research Network
... effective when local government is recognized as a legitimate partner in the governance structure of a country, and when financial powers to raise revenues and responsibilities to deliver services are commensurate with urban growth and expansion (McCarney, 2006). Cities are discussing this urban age ...
... effective when local government is recognized as a legitimate partner in the governance structure of a country, and when financial powers to raise revenues and responsibilities to deliver services are commensurate with urban growth and expansion (McCarney, 2006). Cities are discussing this urban age ...
Preparing for climate change guide for local government
... edition of Preparing for Climate Change supersedes the first edition published in 2004. The guide summarises the main elements of a comprehensive technical report Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment (‘the source report’). Its first edition was updated in May 2008 following the release of t ...
... edition of Preparing for Climate Change supersedes the first edition published in 2004. The guide summarises the main elements of a comprehensive technical report Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment (‘the source report’). Its first edition was updated in May 2008 following the release of t ...
ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON
... Declaration and Copyright ....................................................................................... ii ...
... Declaration and Copyright ....................................................................................... ii ...
Working Paper 171 - Steeves and Surminski 2014 (opens in new window)
... A more normative perspective considers private sector adaptation in a governance context, investigating the role of private companies in the overall quest to increase society’s resilience (Berkhout 2012, Biagini & Miller 2013, Weinhofer & Busch 2012). Climate change policy discussions have increasin ...
... A more normative perspective considers private sector adaptation in a governance context, investigating the role of private companies in the overall quest to increase society’s resilience (Berkhout 2012, Biagini & Miller 2013, Weinhofer & Busch 2012). Climate change policy discussions have increasin ...
Inuit population
... Mitigation is central to efforts to tackle climate change and lower emission futures will give Inuit and the ecosystems on which they depend more time to adapt. Indeed, “dangerous” climate change may already be occurring in Canada’s Arctic regions, or will happen soon, thereby compelling Parties to ...
... Mitigation is central to efforts to tackle climate change and lower emission futures will give Inuit and the ecosystems on which they depend more time to adapt. Indeed, “dangerous” climate change may already be occurring in Canada’s Arctic regions, or will happen soon, thereby compelling Parties to ...
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6 February 2007. This meeting[2] discussed a background
... climate change and discuss some of the preventive and corrective actions that are possible, as well as actions relating to the sharing of information and knowledge. Mindful of the various issues already covered in detail in the above-mentioned report and strategy, this policy document is principally ...
... climate change and discuss some of the preventive and corrective actions that are possible, as well as actions relating to the sharing of information and knowledge. Mindful of the various issues already covered in detail in the above-mentioned report and strategy, this policy document is principally ...
Climate change, migration and critical
... places as far apart as Shishmaref in Alaska, Cataret Islands in New Guinea and the Lake Chad region of Africa as being sites of the first climate change refugees (IRIN, 2008; Vidal, 2005; Willis, 2004; York 2010). Climate change-related migration is seen not only as a humanitarian threat, but also a ...
... places as far apart as Shishmaref in Alaska, Cataret Islands in New Guinea and the Lake Chad region of Africa as being sites of the first climate change refugees (IRIN, 2008; Vidal, 2005; Willis, 2004; York 2010). Climate change-related migration is seen not only as a humanitarian threat, but also a ...
sn c project namibia
... and education program. It is expected that a national climate change conference will be held towards the end of the project where the policy as well as the national strategy and action plan will be examined and issues related to vulnerability and adaptation presented by selected experts and ordinary ...
... and education program. It is expected that a national climate change conference will be held towards the end of the project where the policy as well as the national strategy and action plan will be examined and issues related to vulnerability and adaptation presented by selected experts and ordinary ...
Hydroclimatic Variability and Predictability: A Survey of Recent
... much broader range of research underlying the science of hydrology. Here we specifically emphasize research of a large-scale nature; we do not pretend to cover the extensive work being performed, for example, at or below the catchment scale. In this paper, for each of a number of subtopics relevant ...
... much broader range of research underlying the science of hydrology. Here we specifically emphasize research of a large-scale nature; we do not pretend to cover the extensive work being performed, for example, at or below the catchment scale. In this paper, for each of a number of subtopics relevant ...
HEAT IN THE HEARTLAND: Climate Change and Economic Risk in
... fact-based look at the potential risks facing specific sectors and regions of the national economy. As in a classic business risk assessment, we analyze not only the most likely scenarios, but also the scenarios that, while less likely, could have more significant impacts. In this report, we focus o ...
... fact-based look at the potential risks facing specific sectors and regions of the national economy. As in a classic business risk assessment, we analyze not only the most likely scenarios, but also the scenarios that, while less likely, could have more significant impacts. In this report, we focus o ...
- Macquarie University ResearchOnline
... and water availability. This situation is understood to arise because of the existence of bioclimatic limits on the distribution of taxa (Woodward 1987; Harrison et al. 2009). If these limits acted separately, they would define a volume in climate space, where the axes are provided by variables that ...
... and water availability. This situation is understood to arise because of the existence of bioclimatic limits on the distribution of taxa (Woodward 1987; Harrison et al. 2009). If these limits acted separately, they would define a volume in climate space, where the axes are provided by variables that ...
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... B.A New Approach to Valuing Climate Change In this paper we propose an alternative strategy to estimate the effects of climate change. We use a county-level panel data file constructed from the Censuses of Agriculture to estimate the effect of weather on agricultural profits, conditional on county a ...
... B.A New Approach to Valuing Climate Change In this paper we propose an alternative strategy to estimate the effects of climate change. We use a county-level panel data file constructed from the Censuses of Agriculture to estimate the effect of weather on agricultural profits, conditional on county a ...
Fors..a og baks..a - Arctic Portal Library
... vegetation. The ITEX research model combines long-term and short-term experimentation with monitoring, and is designed to examine the effects of temperature change by carrying out similar experiments at multiple sites. Participation in the network is flexible and at different levels of complexity an ...
... vegetation. The ITEX research model combines long-term and short-term experimentation with monitoring, and is designed to examine the effects of temperature change by carrying out similar experiments at multiple sites. Participation in the network is flexible and at different levels of complexity an ...
Municipal Climate Change Action Plan Guidebook
... they manage their capital assets and operations. In the past few years there has been a remarkable increase in the level of awareness associated with climate change. From the municipal perspective, this awareness is focused toward understanding how these changes impact communities. It is the combina ...
... they manage their capital assets and operations. In the past few years there has been a remarkable increase in the level of awareness associated with climate change. From the municipal perspective, this awareness is focused toward understanding how these changes impact communities. It is the combina ...
International Legal Protection for Climate Refugees: Where Lies the
... Rising levels of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, have warmed the earth and are the driving force behind the changes in the earth’s climate.9 Carbon dioxide concentrations amount to about 80 per cent of the total caused by greenhouse gases.10 Carbon dioxide emissions are ...
... Rising levels of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, have warmed the earth and are the driving force behind the changes in the earth’s climate.9 Carbon dioxide concentrations amount to about 80 per cent of the total caused by greenhouse gases.10 Carbon dioxide emissions are ...
Combating Climate Change - The German Adaptation Strategy
... “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”. For this reason, all measures must constantly bear in mind that they may also have impacts on other areas of life and economic activity. The ideal result of timely dialogue is a solution that is good for all, or at least not actually bad for anybody. ...
... “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”. For this reason, all measures must constantly bear in mind that they may also have impacts on other areas of life and economic activity. The ideal result of timely dialogue is a solution that is good for all, or at least not actually bad for anybody. ...
Climate Change Assessment for the San Juan Mountain Regions
... This report is a synthesis of the state of the science regarding the physical and biological aspects of climate change that are important for evaluating impacts to the water resources, ecosystems, and human communities in southwestern Colorado. The scientific findings in this report are presented to ...
... This report is a synthesis of the state of the science regarding the physical and biological aspects of climate change that are important for evaluating impacts to the water resources, ecosystems, and human communities in southwestern Colorado. The scientific findings in this report are presented to ...
Target Atmospheric CO : Where Should Humanity Aim?
... lose its ice sheets. This long-term climate sensitivity is relevant to GHGs that remain airborne for centuries-to-millennia. The humancaused atmospheric GHG increase will decline slowly if anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel burning decrease enough, as we illustrate below using a simplified car ...
... lose its ice sheets. This long-term climate sensitivity is relevant to GHGs that remain airborne for centuries-to-millennia. The humancaused atmospheric GHG increase will decline slowly if anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel burning decrease enough, as we illustrate below using a simplified car ...
Local Strategies for Addressing Climate Change Vol 2
... From the Director Coastal resource managers are on the front lines of climate change. Flooding and erosion from rising sea levels, more intense wind and waves from coastal storms, worsening water quality—many impacts of climate change will be felt in coastal areas first. In fact, many coastal area ...
... From the Director Coastal resource managers are on the front lines of climate change. Flooding and erosion from rising sea levels, more intense wind and waves from coastal storms, worsening water quality—many impacts of climate change will be felt in coastal areas first. In fact, many coastal area ...
CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS FOR MACEDONIA
... The difference is probably related to the fact that IS92 emission scenarios, proposed by IPCC in 1995, were more optimistic that SRES scenarios proposed in 2001. This can be seen also in global temperature change projections based on IS92 emission scenarios w ...
... The difference is probably related to the fact that IS92 emission scenarios, proposed by IPCC in 1995, were more optimistic that SRES scenarios proposed in 2001. This can be seen also in global temperature change projections based on IS92 emission scenarios w ...
National Park Service - UAF SNAP
... efforts organized around each of the four Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) networks. The Climate Change Scenario Planning project began in August 2010, when the NPS Climate Change Response Program partnered with Jonathan Star of the Global Business Network (GBN) to initiate a series of scenario planni ...
... efforts organized around each of the four Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) networks. The Climate Change Scenario Planning project began in August 2010, when the NPS Climate Change Response Program partnered with Jonathan Star of the Global Business Network (GBN) to initiate a series of scenario planni ...
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.