Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making:
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a big gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been ...
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a big gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been ...
Assessment of climate change impact on hydrological extremes in
... for Lake Tana catchment implies that the GCM uncertainty is more important for explaining the unclear trend than the hydrological models uncertainty. Nevertheless, to have a better understanding of future impact, hydrological models need to be verified for their credibility of simulating extreme flo ...
... for Lake Tana catchment implies that the GCM uncertainty is more important for explaining the unclear trend than the hydrological models uncertainty. Nevertheless, to have a better understanding of future impact, hydrological models need to be verified for their credibility of simulating extreme flo ...
now - Melton Borough Council
... blockages and significant power failures. There was substantial damage to infrastructure and much economic disruption, with early estimates of losses exceeding £450 million. According to a recent report from the Association of British Insurers “Climate change could increase the annual costs of flood ...
... blockages and significant power failures. There was substantial damage to infrastructure and much economic disruption, with early estimates of losses exceeding £450 million. According to a recent report from the Association of British Insurers “Climate change could increase the annual costs of flood ...
Financial Services and Climate-Resilient Value Chains: The case of
... Agona, Apok & Ngara, 2012), and that the country has experienced an increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts and floods in recent decades (USAID, 2013b). Climate projections suggest that temperatures in Uganda will continue to rise, potentially at a faster rate than experienced to date (U ...
... Agona, Apok & Ngara, 2012), and that the country has experienced an increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts and floods in recent decades (USAID, 2013b). Climate projections suggest that temperatures in Uganda will continue to rise, potentially at a faster rate than experienced to date (U ...
Is it Colonial Déjà Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice
... of domination that concerns how one society inflicts burdensome anthropogenic environmental change on another society. More specifically, settler colonialism, in the U.S. context (but also others too), very specifically targets the ecologically mobile, adaptive systems of Indigenous peoples. Settler ...
... of domination that concerns how one society inflicts burdensome anthropogenic environmental change on another society. More specifically, settler colonialism, in the U.S. context (but also others too), very specifically targets the ecologically mobile, adaptive systems of Indigenous peoples. Settler ...
climate change and insurance law
... the United States, Russia, China or India, for instance, are not included, though they are major producers of carbon emissions as well as major participants in the debates concerning climate change. This is regrettable, but due to the fact that in spite of constant efforts, AIDA still does not have ...
... the United States, Russia, China or India, for instance, are not included, though they are major producers of carbon emissions as well as major participants in the debates concerning climate change. This is regrettable, but due to the fact that in spite of constant efforts, AIDA still does not have ...
Feeling the Heat - Development and Peace
... Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing our world today. The people who are doing least to cause it are suffering the most. Those with the power to address it, including our leaders here in Canada, have so far failed us. Canadians have one of the highest carbon footprints in the worl ...
... Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing our world today. The people who are doing least to cause it are suffering the most. Those with the power to address it, including our leaders here in Canada, have so far failed us. Canadians have one of the highest carbon footprints in the worl ...
paths beyond paris
... which expand the extractivist and free-market logic, continue to be promoted as unilateral, programmatic “solutions” to mitigate climate change and address deforestation and biodiversity loss. From carbon trading to forests and biodiversity offsets, the climate crisis has been turned into a business ...
... which expand the extractivist and free-market logic, continue to be promoted as unilateral, programmatic “solutions” to mitigate climate change and address deforestation and biodiversity loss. From carbon trading to forests and biodiversity offsets, the climate crisis has been turned into a business ...
Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
... Given their small-scale and incremental nature, these individual efforts may have gone largely unnoticed by the research and policy communities concerned with global environmental issues if it had not been for the involvement of many of these pioneering municipalities in transnational networks. In t ...
... Given their small-scale and incremental nature, these individual efforts may have gone largely unnoticed by the research and policy communities concerned with global environmental issues if it had not been for the involvement of many of these pioneering municipalities in transnational networks. In t ...
Paths beyond Paris
... which expand the extractivist and free-market logic, continue to be promoted as unilateral, programmatic “solutions” to mitigate climate change and address deforestation and biodiversity loss. From carbon trading to forests and biodiversity offsets, the climate crisis has been turned into a business ...
... which expand the extractivist and free-market logic, continue to be promoted as unilateral, programmatic “solutions” to mitigate climate change and address deforestation and biodiversity loss. From carbon trading to forests and biodiversity offsets, the climate crisis has been turned into a business ...
Author`s personal copy - College of DuPage Weather
... increase in the overall frequency is depicted. Examinations of seasonal HCW changes suggest a future increase in the variability of peak-season events, indicated by a “fanning” of the cumulative frequency through the months examined (Fig. 3). This is further shown by nearly a doubling in standard de ...
... increase in the overall frequency is depicted. Examinations of seasonal HCW changes suggest a future increase in the variability of peak-season events, indicated by a “fanning” of the cumulative frequency through the months examined (Fig. 3). This is further shown by nearly a doubling in standard de ...
The Impact of Climate Change on the Agricultural Sector
... Climate change refers to changes beyond the average atmospheric condition that are caused both by natural factors such as the orbit of earth’s revolution, volcanic activities and crustal movements and by artificial factors such as the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases and aerosol. Cl ...
... Climate change refers to changes beyond the average atmospheric condition that are caused both by natural factors such as the orbit of earth’s revolution, volcanic activities and crustal movements and by artificial factors such as the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases and aerosol. Cl ...
Climate Change Policy Framework and Action Plan November 2013
... Among the conclusions of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) are “that global warming since the mid-20th century was unequivocal and caused primarily by human activities and that policies enacted to date have not been substantial enough to counteract ...
... Among the conclusions of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) are “that global warming since the mid-20th century was unequivocal and caused primarily by human activities and that policies enacted to date have not been substantial enough to counteract ...
The Greatest Challenges of Our Time
... differences between various interests have become more common and deeper, even between nations that are geographically far distant from each other. Another consequence is that it is far more important that our political leaders make correct decisions, since many more nations and many more people are ...
... differences between various interests have become more common and deeper, even between nations that are geographically far distant from each other. Another consequence is that it is far more important that our political leaders make correct decisions, since many more nations and many more people are ...
Climate Change and Human Mobility in Indigenous Communities of
... the diverse reindeer-herding, hunting/gathering, and pastoralist peoples inhabiting northern Eurasia. Russian colonization of these areas began to change that essential adaptive strategy. But the historical period that had by far the most dramatic affect on northern Russia’s indigenous peoples’ mobi ...
... the diverse reindeer-herding, hunting/gathering, and pastoralist peoples inhabiting northern Eurasia. Russian colonization of these areas began to change that essential adaptive strategy. But the historical period that had by far the most dramatic affect on northern Russia’s indigenous peoples’ mobi ...
P6_TA-PROV(2009)0000 - European Parliament
... Procedure, on setting up a temporary committee on climate change1, – having regard to existing EU environmental legislation making a positive contribution to combating climate change in various policy areas (Annex A) and to its resolutions on climate change, particularly those adopted during the cur ...
... Procedure, on setting up a temporary committee on climate change1, – having regard to existing EU environmental legislation making a positive contribution to combating climate change in various policy areas (Annex A) and to its resolutions on climate change, particularly those adopted during the cur ...
Climate Change and California`s Local Public Health Agencies
... PPIC is a private, nonprofit organization. It does not take or support positions on any ballot measures or on any local, state, or federal legislation, nor does it endorse, support, or oppose any political parties or candidates for public office. PPIC was established in 1994 with an endowment from W ...
... PPIC is a private, nonprofit organization. It does not take or support positions on any ballot measures or on any local, state, or federal legislation, nor does it endorse, support, or oppose any political parties or candidates for public office. PPIC was established in 1994 with an endowment from W ...
here - Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
... Climate Change Dialogue also explores the opportunity for innovation outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. A truly robust and ambitious Paris outcome must launch a new framework for the global response to climate change that emphasizes broader “engagement” and celebrates ...
... Climate Change Dialogue also explores the opportunity for innovation outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. A truly robust and ambitious Paris outcome must launch a new framework for the global response to climate change that emphasizes broader “engagement” and celebrates ...
Adaptation
... To do what: hard vs soft adaptation On the other hand there is the need of establishing those prerequisites for a succefull adaptation i.e. of adaptive capacity building. In a loose sense => more knowledge and awareness key role of education at different levels. - In the short term: awareness rai ...
... To do what: hard vs soft adaptation On the other hand there is the need of establishing those prerequisites for a succefull adaptation i.e. of adaptive capacity building. In a loose sense => more knowledge and awareness key role of education at different levels. - In the short term: awareness rai ...
Smallholder Farmers` Perception of Climate Change and Variability
... not uniform in the country as some areas are severely impacted and hence more vulnerable to climate change than others. The impacts of climate change are expected to be more pronounced in the developing countries particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa because their livelihood is dependent on nature whic ...
... not uniform in the country as some areas are severely impacted and hence more vulnerable to climate change than others. The impacts of climate change are expected to be more pronounced in the developing countries particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa because their livelihood is dependent on nature whic ...
Scenario and modelling uncertainty in global mean temperature
... members based on the following three criteria. First, we required models with control states that had top of atmosphere radiative imbalance no greater than found in the previous atmospheric physics ensemble (Collins et al., 2011) and all 68 members passed. The second criterion rejected 10 models whe ...
... members based on the following three criteria. First, we required models with control states that had top of atmosphere radiative imbalance no greater than found in the previous atmospheric physics ensemble (Collins et al., 2011) and all 68 members passed. The second criterion rejected 10 models whe ...
Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in
... along tributaries of the Yukon River in coastal areas. St. Mary’s, Pilot Station, and Kotlik are Yup’ik communities, whereas Chevak is a Cup’ik community whose residents speak the Cup’ik dialect of the central Yup’ik language and identify as a distinct population. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, ...
... along tributaries of the Yukon River in coastal areas. St. Mary’s, Pilot Station, and Kotlik are Yup’ik communities, whereas Chevak is a Cup’ik community whose residents speak the Cup’ik dialect of the central Yup’ik language and identify as a distinct population. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, ...
Module e – Impact assessment
... ∑ CharFactcat ,subs × InventoryResult subs subs climate change 5 and 3 kg ...
... ∑ CharFactcat ,subs × InventoryResult subs subs climate change 5 and 3 kg ...
This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for examining the
... has been on inequality across countries. Thus, debates have raged and are still raging over differences across countries regarding the climate change “burden” with respect to the responsibility for causing climate change and consequently with respect to the responsibility for mitigation (and adaptat ...
... has been on inequality across countries. Thus, debates have raged and are still raging over differences across countries regarding the climate change “burden” with respect to the responsibility for causing climate change and consequently with respect to the responsibility for mitigation (and adaptat ...