International Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate
... tools are not possible to harmonise either, as they have to be in accordance to different donor processes. “There are no blue-print-approaches” (Lorenz Petersen, GTZ). Or as another participant put it: “If you relate the harmonisation issues discussed to gender, governance, culture, etc., they would ...
... tools are not possible to harmonise either, as they have to be in accordance to different donor processes. “There are no blue-print-approaches” (Lorenz Petersen, GTZ). Or as another participant put it: “If you relate the harmonisation issues discussed to gender, governance, culture, etc., they would ...
Rapid climate change and no-analog vegetation in lowland Central
... Atlantic Warm Pool (AWP) exerts a further influence on Central American climate, acting as a convective source and adding to the flow of moisture and heat onto land during summer (Wang et al., 2006; Wang and Lee, 2007). Weakening (strengthening) of AMOC would be expected to reduce (expand) the geograp ...
... Atlantic Warm Pool (AWP) exerts a further influence on Central American climate, acting as a convective source and adding to the flow of moisture and heat onto land during summer (Wang et al., 2006; Wang and Lee, 2007). Weakening (strengthening) of AMOC would be expected to reduce (expand) the geograp ...
Changing probabilities of daily temperature extremes in the UK
... parameter. In order to include the effects of the climate change scenarios considered, the mean of this distribution is increased by the scenario change in temperature. This implies changes to both a and P, which have implications for the variance of this distribution (defi.ned as a p 2 ) .To pertur ...
... parameter. In order to include the effects of the climate change scenarios considered, the mean of this distribution is increased by the scenario change in temperature. This implies changes to both a and P, which have implications for the variance of this distribution (defi.ned as a p 2 ) .To pertur ...
Philippine businesses’ response to climate
... benchmarked survey results with available PwC surveys on climate change and business practices to enable us to assess how the private organisations are doing against global peers. We strive to stimulate and scale up private sector involvement and action on both adaptation and mitigation. We aim to g ...
... benchmarked survey results with available PwC surveys on climate change and business practices to enable us to assess how the private organisations are doing against global peers. We strive to stimulate and scale up private sector involvement and action on both adaptation and mitigation. We aim to g ...
When Science and Ideology Collide: Explaining
... There are several plausible explanations for why evolution attitudes are more stable than global warming opinions. First, evolution has been hotly contested for almost a century. The public’s familiarity with this issue should necessarily lead to more stable opinions. Second, Americans oftentimes ge ...
... There are several plausible explanations for why evolution attitudes are more stable than global warming opinions. First, evolution has been hotly contested for almost a century. The public’s familiarity with this issue should necessarily lead to more stable opinions. Second, Americans oftentimes ge ...
Public health and climate change in the Republic of Kiribati
... narrow strips of coral atolls rising no more than 2 meters above sea level. Global warming, climate change and rising sea levels seriously threaten the basis of our existence and we sometimes feel that our days are numbered (Tito, 2000:2). Four years later, Kribati’s then President Anote Tong, conti ...
... narrow strips of coral atolls rising no more than 2 meters above sea level. Global warming, climate change and rising sea levels seriously threaten the basis of our existence and we sometimes feel that our days are numbered (Tito, 2000:2). Four years later, Kribati’s then President Anote Tong, conti ...
Agreeing on Robust Decisions
... lifetimes, sometimes for centuries, because the long-term socioeconomic system reorganizes itself around those changes. The effect of transport infrastructure on urban forms and economic activities can for example be observed over very long timeframes, sometimes even after the infrastructure has bec ...
... lifetimes, sometimes for centuries, because the long-term socioeconomic system reorganizes itself around those changes. The effect of transport infrastructure on urban forms and economic activities can for example be observed over very long timeframes, sometimes even after the infrastructure has bec ...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics Working Paper Series
... DICE, PAGE, and FUND all take stylized, reduced-form approaches (see NRC 2009 and Nordhaus 2008). Other IAMs may better reflect the complexity of the science in their modeling frameworks but do not link physical impacts to economic damages. Underlying the three IAMs selected for this exercise are a ...
... DICE, PAGE, and FUND all take stylized, reduced-form approaches (see NRC 2009 and Nordhaus 2008). Other IAMs may better reflect the complexity of the science in their modeling frameworks but do not link physical impacts to economic damages. Underlying the three IAMs selected for this exercise are a ...
What`s In A Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change
... mean different things in the minds of many Americans. Scientists often prefer the term climate change for technical reasons, but should be aware that the two terms generate different interpretations among the general public and specific subgroups. Some issue advocates have argued that the term clima ...
... mean different things in the minds of many Americans. Scientists often prefer the term climate change for technical reasons, but should be aware that the two terms generate different interpretations among the general public and specific subgroups. Some issue advocates have argued that the term clima ...
Abstract Book The Human Side of Climate Change Bergen 16
... Reflecting on the ‘unusual’: Climate change narratives in decision-making about the future The experience of an extreme event can serve to open up spaces for reflection upon the nature of the event, the underpinning causes, the immediate responses and effects on longer-term decision making. Extreme ...
... Reflecting on the ‘unusual’: Climate change narratives in decision-making about the future The experience of an extreme event can serve to open up spaces for reflection upon the nature of the event, the underpinning causes, the immediate responses and effects on longer-term decision making. Extreme ...
world development report 2010: Development and Climate Change
... development. By century’s end, it could lead to warming of 5°C or more compared with preindustrial times and to a vastly different world from today, with more extreme weather events, most ecosystems stressed and changing, many species doomed to extinction, and whole island nations threatened by inun ...
... development. By century’s end, it could lead to warming of 5°C or more compared with preindustrial times and to a vastly different world from today, with more extreme weather events, most ecosystems stressed and changing, many species doomed to extinction, and whole island nations threatened by inun ...
Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Community
... loss of biodiversity and changes in ecosystems. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007a), any increase in global average temperature above the range of 1.52.5°C is likely to result in significant alterations in the structure, function and geographical ranges of ecosystems, ...
... loss of biodiversity and changes in ecosystems. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007a), any increase in global average temperature above the range of 1.52.5°C is likely to result in significant alterations in the structure, function and geographical ranges of ecosystems, ...
Diurnal temperature range as an index of global
... area averaging. We then removed monthly grid boxes that did not contain any station data. Finally, the data was masked to exclude grid boxes with less than 40 years of data since 1901. The effect of missing data within any individual year for individual grid boxes had very little impact on the annua ...
... area averaging. We then removed monthly grid boxes that did not contain any station data. Finally, the data was masked to exclude grid boxes with less than 40 years of data since 1901. The effect of missing data within any individual year for individual grid boxes had very little impact on the annua ...
ICES J. Mar. Sci.-2011-McCay-1354-67
... describe the series of harvests over time. The coupling between human and natural systems is completed by inserting the harvest predicted in the economic model as a shift in the initial conditions of the population model. Therefore, the harvester observes the current population and decides the optim ...
... describe the series of harvests over time. The coupling between human and natural systems is completed by inserting the harvest predicted in the economic model as a shift in the initial conditions of the population model. Therefore, the harvester observes the current population and decides the optim ...
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... Despite the lack of immediate action flowing out of the recent climate change summit in Copenhagen, there is already significant spending underway, aimed at mitigation of GHG ...
... Despite the lack of immediate action flowing out of the recent climate change summit in Copenhagen, there is already significant spending underway, aimed at mitigation of GHG ...
The Second Annual Report
... annual report in 2012,11 providing a review of progress, with recommendations for Welsh Government. This progress report is published at a time when there is increasing evidence that the continuing rise in global greenhouse gas emissions will have an even greater effect on the severity of climate cha ...
... annual report in 2012,11 providing a review of progress, with recommendations for Welsh Government. This progress report is published at a time when there is increasing evidence that the continuing rise in global greenhouse gas emissions will have an even greater effect on the severity of climate cha ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Countries
... 2) taking climate change impacts into consideration in key EU policies; 3) employing a combination of policy instruments (market-based instruments, guidelines, public-private partnerships) to ensure effective delivery of adaptation; 4) supporting wider international efforts on adaptation by helping ...
... 2) taking climate change impacts into consideration in key EU policies; 3) employing a combination of policy instruments (market-based instruments, guidelines, public-private partnerships) to ensure effective delivery of adaptation; 4) supporting wider international efforts on adaptation by helping ...
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
... mined that they represent important issues in climate change science and could serve as a useful framework for addressing the two general questions from the White House. For the task of comparing IPCC Reports and Summaries, the committee focused its review on the work of IPCC Working Group I, which ...
... mined that they represent important issues in climate change science and could serve as a useful framework for addressing the two general questions from the White House. For the task of comparing IPCC Reports and Summaries, the committee focused its review on the work of IPCC Working Group I, which ...
Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Cities
... Over the past 150 years, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has risen 31 per cent, a value unprecedented in the last 420,000 years 18 . While the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases has risen, there is also an expanding body of evidence indicating that there has been a real and s ...
... Over the past 150 years, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has risen 31 per cent, a value unprecedented in the last 420,000 years 18 . While the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases has risen, there is also an expanding body of evidence indicating that there has been a real and s ...
CLIMATE CHANGE Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change: Outlook for Knowledge,Tools and Action
... agricultural practices and technologies, a database that would undoubtedly aid countries in strategically deploying the most promising technological adaptation options. A major challenge for the research community and policymakers is to understand not only the impacts, but also the interactions amon ...
... agricultural practices and technologies, a database that would undoubtedly aid countries in strategically deploying the most promising technological adaptation options. A major challenge for the research community and policymakers is to understand not only the impacts, but also the interactions amon ...
Key issues disproving global warming
... 1980 and 2005 would appear much smaller when compared to the various increases between 1700 and 1850 shown below. Warming indeed actually occurred much faster during the pre-industrial age, even though the IPCC and other institutions claim that the extraordinary rapid changes between 1980 and 2005 w ...
... 1980 and 2005 would appear much smaller when compared to the various increases between 1700 and 1850 shown below. Warming indeed actually occurred much faster during the pre-industrial age, even though the IPCC and other institutions claim that the extraordinary rapid changes between 1980 and 2005 w ...
Climate Change Science - Stephen Schneider
... mined that they represent important issues in climate change science and could serve as a useful framework for addressing the two general questions from the White House. For the task of comparing IPCC Reports and Summaries, the committee focused its review on the work of IPCC Working Group I, which ...
... mined that they represent important issues in climate change science and could serve as a useful framework for addressing the two general questions from the White House. For the task of comparing IPCC Reports and Summaries, the committee focused its review on the work of IPCC Working Group I, which ...