UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Climate Change
... INTERVIEW with Patricia Espinosa (UNFCCC): 'Climate change is really about the wellbeing of people' (17 August 2016): http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54696 Shifting from climate change reaction to prevention saves lives for healthier, sustainable future, Secretary-General says, in messa ...
... INTERVIEW with Patricia Espinosa (UNFCCC): 'Climate change is really about the wellbeing of people' (17 August 2016): http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54696 Shifting from climate change reaction to prevention saves lives for healthier, sustainable future, Secretary-General says, in messa ...
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... suffer more from climate change. This is then reflected on the overall environmental objective of the coalition as well as in the distribution of the effort. The WITCH model analysis assumes a non-cooperative, simultaneous, open membership, Nash game with non-orthogonal free-riding, and allows for t ...
... suffer more from climate change. This is then reflected on the overall environmental objective of the coalition as well as in the distribution of the effort. The WITCH model analysis assumes a non-cooperative, simultaneous, open membership, Nash game with non-orthogonal free-riding, and allows for t ...
... products; coastal systems and low lying areas; industry, settlement and society; and health. Decision-makers and resource managers require information regarding future changes in climate average and variability to better anticipate potential impacts of climate change. However, future climate pattern ...
Climate change and urbanization: effects and implications for urban
... more than 5 million inhabitants fall in this zone, at least partly. Low-income and lower-middle-income nations have a higher proportion of their urban population in this zone than high-income nations. The least developed nations, on average, have nearly twice the proportion of their urban population ...
... more than 5 million inhabitants fall in this zone, at least partly. Low-income and lower-middle-income nations have a higher proportion of their urban population in this zone than high-income nations. The least developed nations, on average, have nearly twice the proportion of their urban population ...
Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate
... Migration is but one possible form of adaptation within a broader set of potential adaptive responses that individuals and households make when sensitive systems are exposed to stressed or changing environmental conditions.6–8 Certain types of socioeconomic systems are inherently more sensitive to c ...
... Migration is but one possible form of adaptation within a broader set of potential adaptive responses that individuals and households make when sensitive systems are exposed to stressed or changing environmental conditions.6–8 Certain types of socioeconomic systems are inherently more sensitive to c ...
FORTY-FOURTH SESSION OF THE IPCC Bangkok, Thailand, 17
... Participants were invited to discuss all aspects of the scope, outline, and contents of the report. A pre-defined structure for the report was purposely not provided to the participants and the SSC encouraged participants to think beyond the contents of the background document, to think "outside of ...
... Participants were invited to discuss all aspects of the scope, outline, and contents of the report. A pre-defined structure for the report was purposely not provided to the participants and the SSC encouraged participants to think beyond the contents of the background document, to think "outside of ...
case study: weyerhaeuser - Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
... the forest regenerate under changing climate conditions. Through Weyerhaeuser’s tree improvement program, the company is developing tree varieties with genetic characteristics that will, for example, allow seedlings to withstand summers with slightly less water. In 2011, Weyerhaeuser spent $21.5 mil ...
... the forest regenerate under changing climate conditions. Through Weyerhaeuser’s tree improvement program, the company is developing tree varieties with genetic characteristics that will, for example, allow seedlings to withstand summers with slightly less water. In 2011, Weyerhaeuser spent $21.5 mil ...
Climate Change Report for Gulf of the Farallones and
... Sea Level Rise: Intertidal organisms will respond to sea level rise by shifting their distributions to keep pace with rising sea level. It has been suggested that all but the slowest growing organisms will be able to keep pace with rising sea level (Harley et al. 2006) but few studies have thoroughl ...
... Sea Level Rise: Intertidal organisms will respond to sea level rise by shifting their distributions to keep pace with rising sea level. It has been suggested that all but the slowest growing organisms will be able to keep pace with rising sea level (Harley et al. 2006) but few studies have thoroughl ...
Applying the VFM framework to business case design and appraisal
... climate smart agriculture and water management. These options are often well suited to costbenefit analysis (although this can be more challenging where non-market sectors such as health are involved). These investments may often generate immediate economic returns by improving productivity and effi ...
... climate smart agriculture and water management. These options are often well suited to costbenefit analysis (although this can be more challenging where non-market sectors such as health are involved). These investments may often generate immediate economic returns by improving productivity and effi ...
Climate Resilient Development - EDA
... develop and integrate adaptation options. Integrating adaptation into policy and planning provides an essential opportunity to make more climate-resilient development investments. Efforts have been put at national and state level to integrate scientific understanding of the changing climate into pla ...
... develop and integrate adaptation options. Integrating adaptation into policy and planning provides an essential opportunity to make more climate-resilient development investments. Efforts have been put at national and state level to integrate scientific understanding of the changing climate into pla ...
Science Stories - ComunicaRSE | ComunicaRSE
... society – experts on translating the science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their audiences – this report asks what the IPCC process would be like if it was designed to catalyse a political and public response proportionate to the scale of the climate change challenge. F ...
... society – experts on translating the science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their audiences – this report asks what the IPCC process would be like if it was designed to catalyse a political and public response proportionate to the scale of the climate change challenge. F ...
DHM - MIS - Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment
... A core group of technical staff from each of the departments participated in working sessions and missions to the eight districts of Kathmandu, Dolakha, Achham, Banke, Myagdi, Chitwan, Panchthar and Mustang (Figure 2) where vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning exercises were conducted f ...
... A core group of technical staff from each of the departments participated in working sessions and missions to the eight districts of Kathmandu, Dolakha, Achham, Banke, Myagdi, Chitwan, Panchthar and Mustang (Figure 2) where vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning exercises were conducted f ...
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... methods are used to reduce the number of variables (Kaufmann and Snell, 1997; Tannura, Irwin, and Good, 2008). A disadvantage of statistical variable selection methods is that they exclusively lean on data while ignoring the agronomic implications of different months within a growing season; it is p ...
... methods are used to reduce the number of variables (Kaufmann and Snell, 1997; Tannura, Irwin, and Good, 2008). A disadvantage of statistical variable selection methods is that they exclusively lean on data while ignoring the agronomic implications of different months within a growing season; it is p ...
Agricultural adaptation to climatic variation
... Most impact studies employ scenarios of climatic change, usually specifying 'norms' (representing annual means over several decades) for a limited set of climatic attributes, most commonly temperature and precipitation. Two issues arise from this. First, climate is inherently variable, with or witho ...
... Most impact studies employ scenarios of climatic change, usually specifying 'norms' (representing annual means over several decades) for a limited set of climatic attributes, most commonly temperature and precipitation. Two issues arise from this. First, climate is inherently variable, with or witho ...
Analyzing Urban Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change: A
... Janus-faced character: On the one hand, cities contribute more than two-thirds of the world’s global GHG emissions; on the other hand, cities are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. For example, cities which are located in delta areas are vulnerable to natural disasters such as ...
... Janus-faced character: On the one hand, cities contribute more than two-thirds of the world’s global GHG emissions; on the other hand, cities are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. For example, cities which are located in delta areas are vulnerable to natural disasters such as ...
Climate change and energy security – global challenges and
... fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Irreversible tipping points are breached making adaptation essential but very costly. Unfortunately, few countries take adaption to climate risk seriously so they are powerless to protect their citizens. Vulnerable populations will flee particularly stric ...
... fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Irreversible tipping points are breached making adaptation essential but very costly. Unfortunately, few countries take adaption to climate risk seriously so they are powerless to protect their citizens. Vulnerable populations will flee particularly stric ...
Canada`s Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate
... sustainability and well-being of coastal communities and ecosystems. and utilized coastal resources for thousands of years, and many First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities retain very close ties to the coast. Today, about 6.5 million Canadians live near our marine coasts, and more than $400 billi ...
... sustainability and well-being of coastal communities and ecosystems. and utilized coastal resources for thousands of years, and many First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities retain very close ties to the coast. Today, about 6.5 million Canadians live near our marine coasts, and more than $400 billi ...
the future of florida and the coast - Florida Center for Environmental
... mitigation and adaptation, and integrate the concept of future sea level rise into every aspect of building and planning for our future. The goal of this meeting is not to forecast gloom and doom. As I testified to the United States Senate Committee last month, the sky is not falling, but the water ...
... mitigation and adaptation, and integrate the concept of future sea level rise into every aspect of building and planning for our future. The goal of this meeting is not to forecast gloom and doom. As I testified to the United States Senate Committee last month, the sky is not falling, but the water ...
Do Americans Understand That Global Warming Is Harmful to
... open-ended questions to assess their specific awareness of the health effects of global warming and of the affected populations. The first question asked: “In your view, what health problems related to global warming are Americans currently experiencing, if any?” This was followed by the closed-ended ...
... open-ended questions to assess their specific awareness of the health effects of global warming and of the affected populations. The first question asked: “In your view, what health problems related to global warming are Americans currently experiencing, if any?” This was followed by the closed-ended ...
S08-2 Mistimed reproduction due to global climate change
... caterpillars on oak (Quercus robur) trees. We have measured caterpillar biomass there from 1985 onwards, and can thus compare changes in the date of maximum food abundance for great tits with changes in laying date. There has been a significant advance in the date of maximum biomass, but great tits ...
... caterpillars on oak (Quercus robur) trees. We have measured caterpillar biomass there from 1985 onwards, and can thus compare changes in the date of maximum food abundance for great tits with changes in laying date. There has been a significant advance in the date of maximum biomass, but great tits ...
Iyigun et al._2013_Clustering climate regions of
... Chain based on expectation-maximization (EM-MCMC). It has been concluded that the EM-MCMC method is the most appropriate one compared to the others. Depending on this result, in our study, all missing values for the nine variables were imputed by EM-MCMC method for at most 50 % missing series. The i ...
... Chain based on expectation-maximization (EM-MCMC). It has been concluded that the EM-MCMC method is the most appropriate one compared to the others. Depending on this result, in our study, all missing values for the nine variables were imputed by EM-MCMC method for at most 50 % missing series. The i ...
Potential near future runoff changes in Croatia
... Hagemann et al. (2009) analyzed runoff changes from three IPCC scenarios (Nakićenović et al. 2000) in GCM EH5OM and RCM REMO and found a significant reduction in summer runoff for the Danube catchment in the period 2071-2100 relative to 1961-1990, primarily as a consequence of the decrease in total ...
... Hagemann et al. (2009) analyzed runoff changes from three IPCC scenarios (Nakićenović et al. 2000) in GCM EH5OM and RCM REMO and found a significant reduction in summer runoff for the Danube catchment in the period 2071-2100 relative to 1961-1990, primarily as a consequence of the decrease in total ...
Here - MtnClim 2016
... identical locations to the earlier study throughout pre-burn habitat types and remaining vegetation patterns. These plots were surveyed for WGS presence using non-invasive hair sampling tubes and camera traps. In preliminary results, WGS were present at over half of the plots (58%). There was a sign ...
... identical locations to the earlier study throughout pre-burn habitat types and remaining vegetation patterns. These plots were surveyed for WGS presence using non-invasive hair sampling tubes and camera traps. In preliminary results, WGS were present at over half of the plots (58%). There was a sign ...
Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
... have access to empirical studies and other information, but they use their knowledge to make predictions without the aid of well-established forecasting principles. Thus, they could simply use the information to come up with judgmental forecasts. Alternatively, they could translate their beliefs int ...
... have access to empirical studies and other information, but they use their knowledge to make predictions without the aid of well-established forecasting principles. Thus, they could simply use the information to come up with judgmental forecasts. Alternatively, they could translate their beliefs int ...
states and cities as actors in global climate regulation: unitary vs
... reentry into serious international climate negotiations, which is prerequisite for developing an effective post-Kyoto system of global climate regulation.18 These initiatives have provided a catalyst for domestic public attention and support and enhanced the likelihood that Congress will at last act ...
... reentry into serious international climate negotiations, which is prerequisite for developing an effective post-Kyoto system of global climate regulation.18 These initiatives have provided a catalyst for domestic public attention and support and enhanced the likelihood that Congress will at last act ...