Sea-level Rise, Storm Surges, and Extreme Precipitation in Coastal
... transfer of land water storage to the oceans are each responsible for about 10%. These results indicate that loss of land based ice has provided a greater contribution to global sea-level rise compared to thermal expansion over the past two decades. There are scores of recent papers published in the ...
... transfer of land water storage to the oceans are each responsible for about 10%. These results indicate that loss of land based ice has provided a greater contribution to global sea-level rise compared to thermal expansion over the past two decades. There are scores of recent papers published in the ...
The climate of the UK and recent trends
... scale. This is done here for temperature and sea level, based on the most recent, fourth, assessment from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC, 2007, referred to hereafter as IPCC AR4-WG1. This can also be seen at http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html) ...
... scale. This is done here for temperature and sea level, based on the most recent, fourth, assessment from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC, 2007, referred to hereafter as IPCC AR4-WG1. This can also be seen at http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html) ...
Hydropower Vulnerability and Climate Change
... The main purpose of this study is to assess how climate change will impact global hydroelectric production. This assessment was carried out through an extensive literature review that investigated current trends in hydropower as well climate change effects predicted to influence hydroelectric produc ...
... The main purpose of this study is to assess how climate change will impact global hydroelectric production. This assessment was carried out through an extensive literature review that investigated current trends in hydropower as well climate change effects predicted to influence hydroelectric produc ...
Impact of Climate Change on Households in the Indonesian
... stall the already challenging poverty reduction efforts and negatively affect Indonesia’s attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A research paper by Pierre van der Eng found that food production and distribution of food supplies across Indonesia have long been subject to geographic a ...
... stall the already challenging poverty reduction efforts and negatively affect Indonesia’s attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A research paper by Pierre van der Eng found that food production and distribution of food supplies across Indonesia have long been subject to geographic a ...
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. (2010) Adapting Institutions to Climate Change, Twenty-eighth report
... greenhouse gas emissions ceased today the science suggests the planet is already locked into a temperature increase of more than 1.4°C.6 One of the aims of the Copenhagen Accord is to limit global warming rises to 2°C.7 Even if temperature increas ...
... greenhouse gas emissions ceased today the science suggests the planet is already locked into a temperature increase of more than 1.4°C.6 One of the aims of the Copenhagen Accord is to limit global warming rises to 2°C.7 Even if temperature increas ...
Cotton and Climate Change - International Trade Centre
... increases in temperatures could favour cotton plant growth and lengthen the cotton growing season. Limited increases in atmospheric CO2 could also favour cotton yields. The impacts of climate change on rainfall will likely be positive in the Yellow River area (China), in India, the south-eastern Uni ...
... increases in temperatures could favour cotton plant growth and lengthen the cotton growing season. Limited increases in atmospheric CO2 could also favour cotton yields. The impacts of climate change on rainfall will likely be positive in the Yellow River area (China), in India, the south-eastern Uni ...
Technology Needs Assessment For Climate Change Adaptation
... on Technology Transfer was adopted as a step towards scaling up the level of investment in technology transfer in order to help developing countries address their needs for environmentally sound technologies. As part of this programme, in 2010, on behalf of Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Uni ...
... on Technology Transfer was adopted as a step towards scaling up the level of investment in technology transfer in order to help developing countries address their needs for environmentally sound technologies. As part of this programme, in 2010, on behalf of Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Uni ...
The Response of Precipitation Minus Evapotranspiration
... simple thermodynamic scaling captures the planetaryscale pattern of P 2 E changes in climate-model simulations (Held and Soden 2006). The resulting amplification of the spatial pattern of P 2 E over ocean is consistent with observed salinity changes over recent decades, although the rate of amplific ...
... simple thermodynamic scaling captures the planetaryscale pattern of P 2 E changes in climate-model simulations (Held and Soden 2006). The resulting amplification of the spatial pattern of P 2 E over ocean is consistent with observed salinity changes over recent decades, although the rate of amplific ...
Behavioural Climate Change Mitigation Options
... non-CO2 GHG emissions would increase by 76% as compared to the baseline scenario. However in the ‘decreased meat scenario’, where the demand for meat would be assumed to drop by 25% per a decade, global non-CO2 emissions would decrease by 51% as compared to the baseline. Carlsson-Kanyama (1998) stud ...
... non-CO2 GHG emissions would increase by 76% as compared to the baseline scenario. However in the ‘decreased meat scenario’, where the demand for meat would be assumed to drop by 25% per a decade, global non-CO2 emissions would decrease by 51% as compared to the baseline. Carlsson-Kanyama (1998) stud ...
CDP Cities 2016 Guidance for responding city governments Version
... demonstrated leadership, policies and regulations, as well as strategies and programs, sometimes they can only make changes to the facilities and operations under their direct control. As such, separate but parallel inventories are needed. As a responding city you have the opportunity to report one ...
... demonstrated leadership, policies and regulations, as well as strategies and programs, sometimes they can only make changes to the facilities and operations under their direct control. As such, separate but parallel inventories are needed. As a responding city you have the opportunity to report one ...
UNFCCC NAPA Maldives
... shocks. Sustainable societies are those that have devised mechanisms to help reduce or mitigate risk and cope with the effects of shock. The focus of the adaptation framework is on climate ...
... shocks. Sustainable societies are those that have devised mechanisms to help reduce or mitigate risk and cope with the effects of shock. The focus of the adaptation framework is on climate ...
Alberta`s Natural Subregions Under a Changing Climate
... experience. The warm climate of the Hypsithermal period (4,000-8,000 years ago) is of particular interest because the ecological patterns of that time can be reconstructed using sediments from lakes and ponds across the province. Most studies suggest that Hypsithermal summer temperatures in Alberta ...
... experience. The warm climate of the Hypsithermal period (4,000-8,000 years ago) is of particular interest because the ecological patterns of that time can be reconstructed using sediments from lakes and ponds across the province. Most studies suggest that Hypsithermal summer temperatures in Alberta ...
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... Framework. The Framework commits federal, provincial and territorial governments to work with producers and others to address environmental concerns by helping farmers adopt environmentally sustainable practices. ...
... Framework. The Framework commits federal, provincial and territorial governments to work with producers and others to address environmental concerns by helping farmers adopt environmentally sustainable practices. ...
Monitoring and Evaluating The 100 Billion Green Climate Fund: A
... (M&E) framework for the GCF and how this can be set up in practice. With the GCF Board meeting for the first time in August 2012, reflecting on an M&E framework at this point may be thought to be premature; however, due to increasing domestic budgetary pressures and with the desire to ensure good go ...
... (M&E) framework for the GCF and how this can be set up in practice. With the GCF Board meeting for the first time in August 2012, reflecting on an M&E framework at this point may be thought to be premature; however, due to increasing domestic budgetary pressures and with the desire to ensure good go ...
Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas - C
... Framework. The Framework commits federal, provincial and territorial governments to work with producers and others to address environmental concerns by helping farmers adopt environmentally sustainable practices. ...
... Framework. The Framework commits federal, provincial and territorial governments to work with producers and others to address environmental concerns by helping farmers adopt environmentally sustainable practices. ...
2015 Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment Update
... Pennsylvania will be about 3 °C (5.4°F) warmer than it was at the end of the 20th century. The corresponding annual precipitation increase is expected to be 8%, with a winter increase of 14%. The likelihood for meteorological drought is expected to decrease while months with above-normal precipitati ...
... Pennsylvania will be about 3 °C (5.4°F) warmer than it was at the end of the 20th century. The corresponding annual precipitation increase is expected to be 8%, with a winter increase of 14%. The likelihood for meteorological drought is expected to decrease while months with above-normal precipitati ...
cliMAtE chANGE ANd cANAdA`S FOREStS
... storms, and damaging insect and disease attacks): other less visible changes such as change in the timing of spring bud burst are also underway. One of the consequences of future climate change will be further increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and disturbances. Change ...
... storms, and damaging insect and disease attacks): other less visible changes such as change in the timing of spring bud burst are also underway. One of the consequences of future climate change will be further increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and disturbances. Change ...
Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate
... This is an evaluation of estimates of the costs of adaptation made by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2007 and by some preceding studies (UNFCCC, 2007; Stern, 2006; World Bank, 2006; Oxfam, 2007; UNDP, 2007). The costs have been used as the basis for discussion ...
... This is an evaluation of estimates of the costs of adaptation made by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2007 and by some preceding studies (UNFCCC, 2007; Stern, 2006; World Bank, 2006; Oxfam, 2007; UNDP, 2007). The costs have been used as the basis for discussion ...
Climate Change as Metaphor & Catalyst
... campaigns, nearly three–quarters of Americans still see scientists – and science related organizations – as the most trusted sources of information about global warming. Yet, in the midst of the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, a solid majority of Americans remain committed to ...
... campaigns, nearly three–quarters of Americans still see scientists – and science related organizations – as the most trusted sources of information about global warming. Yet, in the midst of the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, a solid majority of Americans remain committed to ...
A Technological Solution for Climate Change? Storage
... Carbon Capture and Storage (hereafter CCS), increasingly being framed as part of innovation for a low carbon energy future (Markusson et al., 2012) 1.2 DISCOURSES OF ENGAGEMENT Public engagement with discussions on climate change mitigation options is important (Leiserowitz, 2007) as it may lead to ...
... Carbon Capture and Storage (hereafter CCS), increasingly being framed as part of innovation for a low carbon energy future (Markusson et al., 2012) 1.2 DISCOURSES OF ENGAGEMENT Public engagement with discussions on climate change mitigation options is important (Leiserowitz, 2007) as it may lead to ...
Impact Assessment Part 2 - European Commission
... The E1 scenario was developed within the ENSEMBLES project as an attempt to match the European Union target of keeping global anthropogenic warming below 2°C above preindustrial levels. The E1 scenario was derived by using an "Integrated Assessment Model" which includes the energy system, land use, ...
... The E1 scenario was developed within the ENSEMBLES project as an attempt to match the European Union target of keeping global anthropogenic warming below 2°C above preindustrial levels. The E1 scenario was derived by using an "Integrated Assessment Model" which includes the energy system, land use, ...
Changes in ecosystem services and their drivers across the scenarios
... with this land (genetic resources, wood production, habitat for fauna and flora). Water use will increase in poorer countries (with high certainty), and this is likely to be accompanied by a deterioration of water quality and the loss of the ecosystem services provided by clean freshwater systems (g ...
... with this land (genetic resources, wood production, habitat for fauna and flora). Water use will increase in poorer countries (with high certainty), and this is likely to be accompanied by a deterioration of water quality and the loss of the ecosystem services provided by clean freshwater systems (g ...
Complex coastlines responding to climate change
... highly oblique angles, causing shoreline undulations to grow (Ashton et al., 2001; Falqués and Calvete, 2005). Their value from an academic perspective notwithstanding, our interest in these particular morphologies extends beyond their fascinating self-organized complexity. These morphologies are th ...
... highly oblique angles, causing shoreline undulations to grow (Ashton et al., 2001; Falqués and Calvete, 2005). Their value from an academic perspective notwithstanding, our interest in these particular morphologies extends beyond their fascinating self-organized complexity. These morphologies are th ...
A Unified Sea Level Rise Projection for Southeast Florida April 2011
... climate concerns in the region. As expressed by the SE FL Compact Steering Committee, the Climate Compact Counties recognized the critical need to unify the existing local SLR projections to create a single regional SLR projection. Key participants in developing the existing projections and other lo ...
... climate concerns in the region. As expressed by the SE FL Compact Steering Committee, the Climate Compact Counties recognized the critical need to unify the existing local SLR projections to create a single regional SLR projection. Key participants in developing the existing projections and other lo ...
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Nature’s Prophet:
... McKibben was deeply skeptical of technological approaches to the problem. The only possible path towards survival, he argued, was through a fundamental reconsideration of our worldviews, aspirations, and life goals, a new consciousness that would dramatically re-organize society, ending our addictio ...
... McKibben was deeply skeptical of technological approaches to the problem. The only possible path towards survival, he argued, was through a fundamental reconsideration of our worldviews, aspirations, and life goals, a new consciousness that would dramatically re-organize society, ending our addictio ...