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... 3 steps are required to count project activities as adaptation: Setting out the climate vulnerability context of the project. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate change and variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity M ...
... 3 steps are required to count project activities as adaptation: Setting out the climate vulnerability context of the project. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate change and variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity M ...
The Impact of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Haze Occurrences in Malaysia/Southeast Asia
... 2. Haze episodes in the Southeast Asia region There have been several haze episodes since the early 1980s including 1982/83, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and this year’s 2009 episode (e.g. Nicol 1997; Heil and Goldammer 2001). Field et al. (2009) described the occurrence of haze ep ...
... 2. Haze episodes in the Southeast Asia region There have been several haze episodes since the early 1980s including 1982/83, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and this year’s 2009 episode (e.g. Nicol 1997; Heil and Goldammer 2001). Field et al. (2009) described the occurrence of haze ep ...
600 words - School of Psychology
... We focus here on the UK, which has taken the lead at a national level in setting mitigation targets. The UK Climate Change Bill calls for an 80% GHG emissions reduction by 2050 relative to 1990 (HM Government, 2008). This level of response to climate change has profound implications for individual c ...
... We focus here on the UK, which has taken the lead at a national level in setting mitigation targets. The UK Climate Change Bill calls for an 80% GHG emissions reduction by 2050 relative to 1990 (HM Government, 2008). This level of response to climate change has profound implications for individual c ...
Effects of climate change on agriculture - Deltaproof
... The probability increases of insufficient fresh water supply, via the main water system, to the polders (reclaimed land) that are vulnerable with regard to salinity. In areas of intensive horticulture, the financial damage could turn out to be considerable. Effects of climate change on disease and p ...
... The probability increases of insufficient fresh water supply, via the main water system, to the polders (reclaimed land) that are vulnerable with regard to salinity. In areas of intensive horticulture, the financial damage could turn out to be considerable. Effects of climate change on disease and p ...
A critical exploration of the concept of `climate stabilization`
... in the paper, but most of our critiques apply to both concepts. Climate stabilization has become an important approach to climate policy, and this paper provides a historical context to this approach and outlines points of critique. None of this is to denigrate the importance of climate mitigation, ...
... in the paper, but most of our critiques apply to both concepts. Climate stabilization has become an important approach to climate policy, and this paper provides a historical context to this approach and outlines points of critique. None of this is to denigrate the importance of climate mitigation, ...
Review of the consensus and asymmetric quality of research on
... that global temperatures had increased in the past 100 years (Farnsworth and Lichter, 2012). 84% agreed that human-induced warming was occurring while 5% disagreed. Multivariate analysis found that whether scientists worked for government or industry had no influence on their climate opinions. Howev ...
... that global temperatures had increased in the past 100 years (Farnsworth and Lichter, 2012). 84% agreed that human-induced warming was occurring while 5% disagreed. Multivariate analysis found that whether scientists worked for government or industry had no influence on their climate opinions. Howev ...
and the new Industrial Revolution
... Adviser. He first became involved in climate change issues when seconded as lead economist to the Stern Review of the economics of climate change. His research interests include the design of public policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ‘green’ growth and the macroeconomic and labour-market a ...
... Adviser. He first became involved in climate change issues when seconded as lead economist to the Stern Review of the economics of climate change. His research interests include the design of public policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ‘green’ growth and the macroeconomic and labour-market a ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CLIMATE ECONOMICS: A META-REVIEW AND SOME SUGGESTIONS Geoffrey Heal
... topic: we have probably seen more economics papers on climate change in the last year than in all preceding history, including an entire issue of The Economists’Voice and a large collection in World Economics.1 And many of them were by very distinguished colleagues, so the Stern Review provoked not ...
... topic: we have probably seen more economics papers on climate change in the last year than in all preceding history, including an entire issue of The Economists’Voice and a large collection in World Economics.1 And many of them were by very distinguished colleagues, so the Stern Review provoked not ...
A Structural Land-Use Analysis of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate
... yet with possible correlation across bundle equations. This equation is thus linear in bundleprofitability elements (gross profits and explicit management costs per land unit), and can be easily estimated through a multiple-equation estimation procedure. Note that being representative of farmers’ ex ...
... yet with possible correlation across bundle equations. This equation is thus linear in bundleprofitability elements (gross profits and explicit management costs per land unit), and can be easily estimated through a multiple-equation estimation procedure. Note that being representative of farmers’ ex ...
THAILAND`S NEWSPAPERS COVERAGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
... Media as Partners in ESD: A Training and Resource Kit. “Climate change” is a more accurate term than “global warming”, because although the average global temperature is rising, some parts of the world may in fact become colder. A study by Boykoffs (2007, 1191) about climate change and journalistic ...
... Media as Partners in ESD: A Training and Resource Kit. “Climate change” is a more accurate term than “global warming”, because although the average global temperature is rising, some parts of the world may in fact become colder. A study by Boykoffs (2007, 1191) about climate change and journalistic ...
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... iv. Biological Indicators of Climate Change: Butterfly Emergence and Hummingbird Arrival Times Along with shifts in the timing of plant phenological events, scientists have observed significant shifts in the timing of animal phenological events such as migration, insect emergence, and mating associ ...
... iv. Biological Indicators of Climate Change: Butterfly Emergence and Hummingbird Arrival Times Along with shifts in the timing of plant phenological events, scientists have observed significant shifts in the timing of animal phenological events such as migration, insect emergence, and mating associ ...
Individual consumers and climate change: searching for a new moral compass - Working Paper 81 (358 kB) (opens in new window)
... she doesn’t know what to believe. He proposes that, in some circumstances, the first two types of ignorance may be excusable; the third type, he argues, is never excusable. To illustrate, consider the example of Tom, who lives in the 1950s, has bought a car, and drives it around. He is completely i ...
... she doesn’t know what to believe. He proposes that, in some circumstances, the first two types of ignorance may be excusable; the third type, he argues, is never excusable. To illustrate, consider the example of Tom, who lives in the 1950s, has bought a car, and drives it around. He is completely i ...
Farming in a Changing Climate
... A panel of agricultural producers and policy makers also offered their comments on the utility of the results presented. This book is a direct result of that workshop; it provides a review and summary of the current state of knowledge about climate change impacts and adaptation for the Canadian agri ...
... A panel of agricultural producers and policy makers also offered their comments on the utility of the results presented. This book is a direct result of that workshop; it provides a review and summary of the current state of knowledge about climate change impacts and adaptation for the Canadian agri ...
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... practices, traditional growing period and climate data in 2008 were used for the analysis and temperature and CO2 levels are controlled in the simulation model called DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer). The simulation results show that rice production varies in different lo ...
... practices, traditional growing period and climate data in 2008 were used for the analysis and temperature and CO2 levels are controlled in the simulation model called DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer). The simulation results show that rice production varies in different lo ...
Synthesis Report “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges
... are already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which contemporary society and economy have developed and thrived. These indicators include global mean surface temperature, sealevel rise, global ocean temperature, Arctic sea ice extent, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic ...
... are already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which contemporary society and economy have developed and thrived. These indicators include global mean surface temperature, sealevel rise, global ocean temperature, Arctic sea ice extent, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic ...
Tropical Hydropower is a Significant Source of Greenhouse Gas
... reservoirs when comparing the global warming impact of hydropower with other power technologies. Gross emissions has usually meant only those measured at the reservoir surface. A calculation of net emissions requires a comprehensive assessment of the dam’s impact upon the total flux of GHGs into and ...
... reservoirs when comparing the global warming impact of hydropower with other power technologies. Gross emissions has usually meant only those measured at the reservoir surface. A calculation of net emissions requires a comprehensive assessment of the dam’s impact upon the total flux of GHGs into and ...
Climate change and energy security – global challenges and
... awareness of climate change. • Professor Lord Julian Hunt of University College London (UCL) and Dr Yulia Timoshkina Honorary Research Fellow at UCL explore the relationship between climate change, natural hazards and the growth of megacities. • Professor David Crichton, Hon. Visiting Professor ...
... awareness of climate change. • Professor Lord Julian Hunt of University College London (UCL) and Dr Yulia Timoshkina Honorary Research Fellow at UCL explore the relationship between climate change, natural hazards and the growth of megacities. • Professor David Crichton, Hon. Visiting Professor ...
Use Green Taxes and Market Instruments to Reduce Greenhouse Gas
... strategy on climate change is how to create an international level playing field. From the perspective of fair international business competition, there should be no “free riders”—firms and countries that keep producing GHGs for free. In order to avoid a “race to the bottom,” major trading countries ...
... strategy on climate change is how to create an international level playing field. From the perspective of fair international business competition, there should be no “free riders”—firms and countries that keep producing GHGs for free. In order to avoid a “race to the bottom,” major trading countries ...
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... adapt to changes in these resources and services. In other words, the more people are dependent on climate sensitive forms of natural capital, and the less they rely on economic or social forms of capital, the more at risk they are from climate change. Yet environmental change does not undermine hum ...
... adapt to changes in these resources and services. In other words, the more people are dependent on climate sensitive forms of natural capital, and the less they rely on economic or social forms of capital, the more at risk they are from climate change. Yet environmental change does not undermine hum ...
Adaptation Research Program - Department of Agriculture and
... 2010 growing seasons. The results also showed that later sown wheat crops had significantly reduced growth and yield compared with wheat optimally sown early during the 2009 growing season. This stimulation is on average slightly greater than what was reported from higher yielding environments overs ...
... 2010 growing seasons. The results also showed that later sown wheat crops had significantly reduced growth and yield compared with wheat optimally sown early during the 2009 growing season. This stimulation is on average slightly greater than what was reported from higher yielding environments overs ...
4B.4 IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND WEATHER ON
... FMCSA as it pertains to how climate change could amplify some of those effects in its long-term planning horizon by increasing the frequency or intensity of severe weather. Commodities carried by CMVs are of great economic importance. Recent data indicate that trucking as a single mode, or as part o ...
... FMCSA as it pertains to how climate change could amplify some of those effects in its long-term planning horizon by increasing the frequency or intensity of severe weather. Commodities carried by CMVs are of great economic importance. Recent data indicate that trucking as a single mode, or as part o ...
Right wing populism and climate change
... The rise in right wing populism (RWP) across Europe and Anglo-phone countries poses a major challenge for climate policy. RWP parties are almost always hostile to climate policy, and their leaders, and indeed supporters, often express forms of climate scepticism in ways which place them (as on other ...
... The rise in right wing populism (RWP) across Europe and Anglo-phone countries poses a major challenge for climate policy. RWP parties are almost always hostile to climate policy, and their leaders, and indeed supporters, often express forms of climate scepticism in ways which place them (as on other ...
Climate change and respiratory disease: European Respiratory Society position statement ERS POSITION STATEMENT
... may enhance the adverse effects of these pollutants because of warmer conditions. Adverse effects of ozone have been observed specifically during the warm season [19, 30, 31], with some evidence of a synergistic effect between high temperature and ozone [32, 33]. Similarly, larger particle effects d ...
... may enhance the adverse effects of these pollutants because of warmer conditions. Adverse effects of ozone have been observed specifically during the warm season [19, 30, 31], with some evidence of a synergistic effect between high temperature and ozone [32, 33]. Similarly, larger particle effects d ...