View/Open - Sokoine University of Agriculture
... data were obtained from the Tanzanian Meteorological Agency (http://www.meteo.go.tz/) for the corresponding 49 year period. In order to preserve important local climatic heterogeneity, four stations representing the main arabica growing regions of Tanzania were used. These include Lyamungu, Arusha a ...
... data were obtained from the Tanzanian Meteorological Agency (http://www.meteo.go.tz/) for the corresponding 49 year period. In order to preserve important local climatic heterogeneity, four stations representing the main arabica growing regions of Tanzania were used. These include Lyamungu, Arusha a ...
Diabetes and Climate Change Report
... Climate change and its rapid progression in recent decades threaten the health and survival of our planet and its ecosystems, and thus humans. There is now unequivocal evidence for humaninduced climate change. The process of industrialisation has led to widespread increases in the use of fossil fuel ...
... Climate change and its rapid progression in recent decades threaten the health and survival of our planet and its ecosystems, and thus humans. There is now unequivocal evidence for humaninduced climate change. The process of industrialisation has led to widespread increases in the use of fossil fuel ...
Programme Booklet
... These lectures will review various aspects of climate. We begin with a description of various examples of past climate with descriptions of the likely physical causes. These will include the cycles of major glaciation of the past 2 million years, the Eocene warm period, and the temperate climate of ...
... These lectures will review various aspects of climate. We begin with a description of various examples of past climate with descriptions of the likely physical causes. These will include the cycles of major glaciation of the past 2 million years, the Eocene warm period, and the temperate climate of ...
Impact analysis of climate change for an Alpine catchment using
... Global climate change affects spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation and so has a major impact on surface and subsurface water balances. While global climate models are designed to describe climate change on global or continental scales, their resolution is too coarse for them to be suitable ...
... Global climate change affects spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation and so has a major impact on surface and subsurface water balances. While global climate models are designed to describe climate change on global or continental scales, their resolution is too coarse for them to be suitable ...
Climate Change and the Skiing Industry: Impacts and Potential
... 2.2.3 Impacts of buildings and infrastructure The number of hotels in Switzerland was around 6300 in 1993. Although this number has fallen by 1800 since 1970, the amount of private accommodation not used for permanent living has more than doubled in the same period to about 300000. Private accommoda ...
... 2.2.3 Impacts of buildings and infrastructure The number of hotels in Switzerland was around 6300 in 1993. Although this number has fallen by 1800 since 1970, the amount of private accommodation not used for permanent living has more than doubled in the same period to about 300000. Private accommoda ...
NAF Public Consultation
... climate change. The Paris Agreement commits 196 countries to the mitigation goal of limiting global temperature rise to well below 2℃. According to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to achieve this 2°C objective, global greenhouse gas emissio ...
... climate change. The Paris Agreement commits 196 countries to the mitigation goal of limiting global temperature rise to well below 2℃. According to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to achieve this 2°C objective, global greenhouse gas emissio ...
Transitions in climate and energy discourse between Hurricanes Katrina and... Emily M. Cody, Jennie C. Stephens, James P. Bagrow,
... intense extreme weather events, result from increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases attributed primarily to fossil fuel burning for energy. Given probable links between the increasing ocean temperature and the severity and frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms [14, 19, 27], ex ...
... intense extreme weather events, result from increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases attributed primarily to fossil fuel burning for energy. Given probable links between the increasing ocean temperature and the severity and frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms [14, 19, 27], ex ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... improving physical, institutional, and community resilience. Challenges include ensuring that adaptation efforts are enough to truly respond to climate vulnerability, lack of coordination, and short-term thinking among business and community leaders. The importance of such an exploration is threefol ...
... improving physical, institutional, and community resilience. Challenges include ensuring that adaptation efforts are enough to truly respond to climate vulnerability, lack of coordination, and short-term thinking among business and community leaders. The importance of such an exploration is threefol ...
Science - Global Policy Lab
... who own umbrellas may use them to stay drier when an actual rainstorm occurs—a distinction that can be accounted for when examining these relationships empirically. Figure 1 depicts these two ways that climate and social outcomes are linked. Weather events (Fig. 1B) are drawn from the probability di ...
... who own umbrellas may use them to stay drier when an actual rainstorm occurs—a distinction that can be accounted for when examining these relationships empirically. Figure 1 depicts these two ways that climate and social outcomes are linked. Weather events (Fig. 1B) are drawn from the probability di ...
Climate change - Time to act
... if possible to 1.5°C. In these Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), participating countries specify their adaptation and emissions reduction targets for the period up to 2030. These NDCs will be reviewed and updated every five years, starting in 2020. The NDCs are at the heart of the Paris Cl ...
... if possible to 1.5°C. In these Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), participating countries specify their adaptation and emissions reduction targets for the period up to 2030. These NDCs will be reviewed and updated every five years, starting in 2020. The NDCs are at the heart of the Paris Cl ...
Slide 1
... • Increased no. of African cities that have developed and are implementing climate change adaptation and mitigation plans ...
... • Increased no. of African cities that have developed and are implementing climate change adaptation and mitigation plans ...
Climate Change Policy Jason Shogren and Michael Toman •
... estimates of potential impacts on market goods and services such as agricultural outputs can be made with some confidence, at least in developed countries. But cost estimates for nonmarket goods such as human and ecosystem health give rise to serious debate. Moreover, existing estimates apply almost ...
... estimates of potential impacts on market goods and services such as agricultural outputs can be made with some confidence, at least in developed countries. But cost estimates for nonmarket goods such as human and ecosystem health give rise to serious debate. Moreover, existing estimates apply almost ...
10 IISD (17 March 2016):Arctic Council Addresses
... scientific and socio-ecological research and are based on rechecks and caution.15 In this context there was a remarkable “social turn” in the latest IPCC-assessment report which stressed, for example, “globalisation” as an aggravating factor for climate change in arctic societies: “In addition, ther ...
... scientific and socio-ecological research and are based on rechecks and caution.15 In this context there was a remarkable “social turn” in the latest IPCC-assessment report which stressed, for example, “globalisation” as an aggravating factor for climate change in arctic societies: “In addition, ther ...
Proposal for funding for the Preparation of
... The process of integrating climate change concerns into economic and social development policies and plans is still in an embryonic stage as most of the government efforts so far have been focusing on post-war rehabilitation of basic social services, infrastructure, and the economy, which were sever ...
... The process of integrating climate change concerns into economic and social development policies and plans is still in an embryonic stage as most of the government efforts so far have been focusing on post-war rehabilitation of basic social services, infrastructure, and the economy, which were sever ...
Media coverage of climate change: current trends, strengths
... for Excellence in Journalism 2006). For instance, a United States (U.S.) National Science Foundation survey of U.S. residents found that television remains the leading source of news in most households (53%), followed by newspapers (29%) (National Science Foundation 2004). In another U.S. poll that ...
... for Excellence in Journalism 2006). For instance, a United States (U.S.) National Science Foundation survey of U.S. residents found that television remains the leading source of news in most households (53%), followed by newspapers (29%) (National Science Foundation 2004). In another U.S. poll that ...
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geneva dialogues 7.4.11[1]. - Graduate Institute of International and
... Recognising the fundamental importance of mitigation and adaptation in combating climate change and its adverse effects; Acknowledging nonetheless that if, in the near future, the international community has failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and urgent action is needed to prevent catastrophi ...
... Recognising the fundamental importance of mitigation and adaptation in combating climate change and its adverse effects; Acknowledging nonetheless that if, in the near future, the international community has failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and urgent action is needed to prevent catastrophi ...
FAME
... Changes in tuna distribution and abundance of skipjack tuna may lead to changes in fishery distribution and catch rates which could have potential impacts on Pacific economies, food security and social capital. The strong interaction between environment and tuna species, necessitates the inclusion o ...
... Changes in tuna distribution and abundance of skipjack tuna may lead to changes in fishery distribution and catch rates which could have potential impacts on Pacific economies, food security and social capital. The strong interaction between environment and tuna species, necessitates the inclusion o ...
CIAS
... individual modules which may (but do not necessarily) originate from different institutions which have similar complexity but are based on different modelling paradigms or value judgements originating from the different researchers who may be based at different institutions. Thus a broad range of pe ...
... individual modules which may (but do not necessarily) originate from different institutions which have similar complexity but are based on different modelling paradigms or value judgements originating from the different researchers who may be based at different institutions. Thus a broad range of pe ...
Slide 1
... adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) in 1992. • Calls for all signatories including developing countries: – to develop their inventories of GHG emission; – formulate and implement national and regional programs related to mitigation and adaptation; – Promote and cooperat ...
... adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) in 1992. • Calls for all signatories including developing countries: – to develop their inventories of GHG emission; – formulate and implement national and regional programs related to mitigation and adaptation; – Promote and cooperat ...
Modelling risk based cost analysis of port adaptation measures to
... diverse interpretations from different stakeholders and across geographical regions. Also, most ports are under financial constraints, complicating decisions about when, how and to what extent appropriate strategies and capacity investments should be committed, in order to successfully adapt to this ...
... diverse interpretations from different stakeholders and across geographical regions. Also, most ports are under financial constraints, complicating decisions about when, how and to what extent appropriate strategies and capacity investments should be committed, in order to successfully adapt to this ...
Use of general circulation model output in the creation of climate
... (MacCracken and Luther, 1985a, b; NRC, 1985; Trabalka, 1985; Strain and Cure, 1985; White, 1985); Ramanathan, 1988; Houghton et al., 1990). These all suggest that the effects of greenhouse warming will become dominant over the natural variability of climate, including the effects of volcanic eruptio ...
... (MacCracken and Luther, 1985a, b; NRC, 1985; Trabalka, 1985; Strain and Cure, 1985; White, 1985); Ramanathan, 1988; Houghton et al., 1990). These all suggest that the effects of greenhouse warming will become dominant over the natural variability of climate, including the effects of volcanic eruptio ...
The Evangelical Debate Over Climate Change
... librarian Chip Ward has decried "zealous fundamentalist Christians" as "America's Taliban, also known as George Bush's base." 5 The prospect of evangelicals dictating public policy is threatening to such observers, even when they might agree with the policy in question. These views prompted New York ...
... librarian Chip Ward has decried "zealous fundamentalist Christians" as "America's Taliban, also known as George Bush's base." 5 The prospect of evangelicals dictating public policy is threatening to such observers, even when they might agree with the policy in question. These views prompted New York ...
Catastrophe modelling and climate change
... events. Insurers have a key interest in understanding the impact of climate change on the frequency of extreme weather events. The frequency of heat waves has increased in Europe, Asia and Australia and more regions show an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events than a decrease. It is ...
... events. Insurers have a key interest in understanding the impact of climate change on the frequency of extreme weather events. The frequency of heat waves has increased in Europe, Asia and Australia and more regions show an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events than a decrease. It is ...