document - Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change
... dialogue on climate change in the country with full participation of legislators, the industrial and insurance sectors, bankers, and other players. She highlighted the need for the country to harmonise concern on climate change, and for Africa to speak with one voice at the World Climate Change Nego ...
... dialogue on climate change in the country with full participation of legislators, the industrial and insurance sectors, bankers, and other players. She highlighted the need for the country to harmonise concern on climate change, and for Africa to speak with one voice at the World Climate Change Nego ...
Climate change adaptation: challenges and opportunities for a smart
... perspective: whereas the former generally result from international agreements, although applied at national or local levels and refer to a long-term perspective, the latter are sitespecific, generally refer to the scale of the impacted system, and the effects can be appreciated on a short-medium te ...
... perspective: whereas the former generally result from international agreements, although applied at national or local levels and refer to a long-term perspective, the latter are sitespecific, generally refer to the scale of the impacted system, and the effects can be appreciated on a short-medium te ...
Ocean of Grass: A Conservation Assessment for the Northern Great
... identities. Fertility patterns across regions converge very slowly, which results in continuously increasing global population. Economic development is primarily regionally oriented and per capita economic growth and technological change are more fragmented and slower than in other storylines. ...
... identities. Fertility patterns across regions converge very slowly, which results in continuously increasing global population. Economic development is primarily regionally oriented and per capita economic growth and technological change are more fragmented and slower than in other storylines. ...
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... and the other representing technical and economic conditions predicted for the year 2030. The impact of this climate on crop yields is captured using the EPIC model, and the direct effects of CO2 enrichment based on laboratory experiments are incorporated. Under the worst case scenario, where there ...
... and the other representing technical and economic conditions predicted for the year 2030. The impact of this climate on crop yields is captured using the EPIC model, and the direct effects of CO2 enrichment based on laboratory experiments are incorporated. Under the worst case scenario, where there ...
Time series analyses reveal possible responses by the lichen
... Local responses of lichen vegetation to regional climate change: evaluation of two ...
... Local responses of lichen vegetation to regional climate change: evaluation of two ...
Sensitivity of Potato Yield to Climate Change
... have been developed by human activity over a long period of time. Accordance of plant demands with the given climatic and environmental conditions for agricultural crops is the most important precondition for high productivity if climatic changes as projected by atmospheric scientists (IPCC) [6 ] ad ...
... have been developed by human activity over a long period of time. Accordance of plant demands with the given climatic and environmental conditions for agricultural crops is the most important precondition for high productivity if climatic changes as projected by atmospheric scientists (IPCC) [6 ] ad ...
3.7 Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change
... technical, and socioeconomic information relevant to the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts, and options for adaptation and mitigation. The IPCC estimates that the average global temperature rise by 0.3° to 4.8° Celsius during the twenty-first century (Intergovernmental Panel on ...
... technical, and socioeconomic information relevant to the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts, and options for adaptation and mitigation. The IPCC estimates that the average global temperature rise by 0.3° to 4.8° Celsius during the twenty-first century (Intergovernmental Panel on ...
Greenhouse Effect - Stephen Schneider
... may be in the air during the next century or so, we have to estimate its climatic effect. Complications arise because of interactive processes; that is, feedback mechanisms. For example, if added CO2 were to cause a temperature increase on earth, the warming would likely decrease the regions of Eart ...
... may be in the air during the next century or so, we have to estimate its climatic effect. Complications arise because of interactive processes; that is, feedback mechanisms. For example, if added CO2 were to cause a temperature increase on earth, the warming would likely decrease the regions of Eart ...
The Transnational Politics of Energy
... meet and wrangle over texts, and agree- policy.8 In the large energy-producer ments are forged. But underlying those members of the G-20–notably in Russia, overt efforts at cooperation is a problem and to some degree Saudi Arabia–substructure that almost guarantees success. stantial market-oriented ...
... meet and wrangle over texts, and agree- policy.8 In the large energy-producer ments are forged. But underlying those members of the G-20–notably in Russia, overt efforts at cooperation is a problem and to some degree Saudi Arabia–substructure that almost guarantees success. stantial market-oriented ...
A Review of The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
... time profile by imposing discounting at a bare-minimum rate of interest. Global climate change unfolds over a time scale of centuries and, through the power of compound interest, what to do now is hugely sensitive to the discount rate that is postulated. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say tha ...
... time profile by imposing discounting at a bare-minimum rate of interest. Global climate change unfolds over a time scale of centuries and, through the power of compound interest, what to do now is hugely sensitive to the discount rate that is postulated. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say tha ...
Victoria`s Climate Change Framework
... keep the rise in global temperatures to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels, and to work towards limiting the rise to 1.5°C.i Global greenhouse gas emissions will need to reach net zero in the second half of the century to achieve this commitment. Victorians want to play their part in global e ...
... keep the rise in global temperatures to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels, and to work towards limiting the rise to 1.5°C.i Global greenhouse gas emissions will need to reach net zero in the second half of the century to achieve this commitment. Victorians want to play their part in global e ...
From a “Green Farce” to a Green Future
... for the environment but are intentionally misleading and dangerously misinformed. They present Americans with a false choice between achieving fair and humane immigration reform and climate legislation that will respect the environment and lead our country to a clean and prosperous energy future. Im ...
... for the environment but are intentionally misleading and dangerously misinformed. They present Americans with a false choice between achieving fair and humane immigration reform and climate legislation that will respect the environment and lead our country to a clean and prosperous energy future. Im ...
05.04 Air Quality - Cambria Community Services District
... a toxic air contaminant, but determined that there was not sufficient available scientific evidence to support the identification of a threshold exposure level. This action allows the implementation of health-protective control measures at levels below the 0.010 ppm ambient concentration specified i ...
... a toxic air contaminant, but determined that there was not sufficient available scientific evidence to support the identification of a threshold exposure level. This action allows the implementation of health-protective control measures at levels below the 0.010 ppm ambient concentration specified i ...
Climate change and ecosystems of the Mid
... Freshwater resources have multiple, sometimes conflicting, values. These include fishing, swimming, boating, water supply, beauty, flood control, navigation and transportation, and hydropower. Freshwater ecosystems support aquatic plants and animals, as well as organisms in wetland and terrestrial e ...
... Freshwater resources have multiple, sometimes conflicting, values. These include fishing, swimming, boating, water supply, beauty, flood control, navigation and transportation, and hydropower. Freshwater ecosystems support aquatic plants and animals, as well as organisms in wetland and terrestrial e ...
CGE Training Materials for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
... decline in run-off than to the effect of higher temperatures on crop yields. It is important for policy makers and other stakeholders to understand how a sector, community, region or nation could be affected in total by climate change, and what the total impact may be. This can be useful to understa ...
... decline in run-off than to the effect of higher temperatures on crop yields. It is important for policy makers and other stakeholders to understand how a sector, community, region or nation could be affected in total by climate change, and what the total impact may be. This can be useful to understa ...
Climate change and agriculture - NSW Department of Primary
... future economics of dairy production. These impacts will arise both through direct effects on the biology of forage species, through the availability of irrigation water on which the industry is critically dependent in most areas, and on the availability and price of grain which has now become an in ...
... future economics of dairy production. These impacts will arise both through direct effects on the biology of forage species, through the availability of irrigation water on which the industry is critically dependent in most areas, and on the availability and price of grain which has now become an in ...
Observed coherent changes in climatic
... measuring air frosts, would sample the winter halfyear in all extra-tropical regions, particularly the beginning and end of the cold season in many continental and high latitude climates. The intra-annual extreme temperature range (ETR) would span the most extreme high-temperature event of the summe ...
... measuring air frosts, would sample the winter halfyear in all extra-tropical regions, particularly the beginning and end of the cold season in many continental and high latitude climates. The intra-annual extreme temperature range (ETR) would span the most extreme high-temperature event of the summe ...
A trait-based approach to assess climate change sensitivity of
... above the mean Holocene temperature (Marcott et al., 2013). At high northern latitudes (north of 45° N), both summer extreme temperatures and decadal averages measured in the last 10 years were warmer than those reported since 1400 (Tingley and Huybers, 2013). This is in agreement with the notion th ...
... above the mean Holocene temperature (Marcott et al., 2013). At high northern latitudes (north of 45° N), both summer extreme temperatures and decadal averages measured in the last 10 years were warmer than those reported since 1400 (Tingley and Huybers, 2013). This is in agreement with the notion th ...
Radiative forcing of climate by historical land cover change
... address this concern, a second land cover transient run was performed using a cropland albedo value of 0.2 for all fractional cropland areas applied onto the background vegetation field. This change almost doubles the albedo forcing associated with land cover change, as not only do forest grid cells ...
... address this concern, a second land cover transient run was performed using a cropland albedo value of 0.2 for all fractional cropland areas applied onto the background vegetation field. This change almost doubles the albedo forcing associated with land cover change, as not only do forest grid cells ...
Past, present, and future summer stream temperature in the Lake
... Sustainability in a Changing Climate: An Overview of MNRF’s Climate Change Strategy (2011–2014) Climate change will affect all MNRF programs and the natural resources for which it has responsibility. This strategy confirms MNRF’s commitment to the Ontario government’s climate change initiatives suc ...
... Sustainability in a Changing Climate: An Overview of MNRF’s Climate Change Strategy (2011–2014) Climate change will affect all MNRF programs and the natural resources for which it has responsibility. This strategy confirms MNRF’s commitment to the Ontario government’s climate change initiatives suc ...
Fantasy, Oil Addiction, and the Politics of Global Warming
... climate change as an elaborate hoax. In spite of their differing politics I argue, following Loose (2011), that both fantasies are integral to an addictive “administration” of enjoyment. If “oil addiction” is indeed an addiction, and global warming its symptom, then an intervention would entail a co ...
... climate change as an elaborate hoax. In spite of their differing politics I argue, following Loose (2011), that both fantasies are integral to an addictive “administration” of enjoyment. If “oil addiction” is indeed an addiction, and global warming its symptom, then an intervention would entail a co ...
Introduction The Public Trust Doctrine, Climate Change and Future Generations Table of Contents
... foundational public trust cases, it is no great leap to recognize the atmosphere as one of the crucial assets of the public trust. Atmospheric health is essential to all facets of civilization and human survival. As such, it falls within the core of the purpose of the public trust doctrine: to prote ...
... foundational public trust cases, it is no great leap to recognize the atmosphere as one of the crucial assets of the public trust. Atmospheric health is essential to all facets of civilization and human survival. As such, it falls within the core of the purpose of the public trust doctrine: to prote ...
Changing Risk Perceptions Policy Brief
... and the winter recreation industry. The frequency and intensity of heat waves and wildfires are projected to rise, increasing the risks of heat-related deaths and the physical damage, air pollution, and suppression costs of large wildfires. Tropical diseases are projected to spread as conditions bec ...
... and the winter recreation industry. The frequency and intensity of heat waves and wildfires are projected to rise, increasing the risks of heat-related deaths and the physical damage, air pollution, and suppression costs of large wildfires. Tropical diseases are projected to spread as conditions bec ...
Responses to Climate Change and their Implications on
... Restoration of the Bay requires concerted efforts by local, state and federal governments, and funding from each. It also requires a vigorous, market-based application of advanced agricultural practices.11 Any threat to that funding or the nascent nutrients market is a threat to restoration of the ...
... Restoration of the Bay requires concerted efforts by local, state and federal governments, and funding from each. It also requires a vigorous, market-based application of advanced agricultural practices.11 Any threat to that funding or the nascent nutrients market is a threat to restoration of the ...