How can decision-makers in developing countries incorporate uncertainty about future climate risks into existing planning and policymaking processes? (424 kB) (opens in new window)
... These data illustrate that developing countries have a wide ‘adaptation deficit’ to manage today’s climate variability (Burton, 2009), but they also highlight that adaptation can have immediate and long-term benefits through reducing climate risks and supporting economic development and poverty redu ...
... These data illustrate that developing countries have a wide ‘adaptation deficit’ to manage today’s climate variability (Burton, 2009), but they also highlight that adaptation can have immediate and long-term benefits through reducing climate risks and supporting economic development and poverty redu ...
What is the Paris Agreement, and How Will It Be Implemented?
... Q&A”). The main goal of the UNFCCC was, and still is, to lower greenhouse gas emissions to a point that the emissions would not affect the weather or climate (“Climate: Get the Big Picture”). In addition, the UNFCCC prioritized achieving this goal in a timely manner so that nature would be able to n ...
... Q&A”). The main goal of the UNFCCC was, and still is, to lower greenhouse gas emissions to a point that the emissions would not affect the weather or climate (“Climate: Get the Big Picture”). In addition, the UNFCCC prioritized achieving this goal in a timely manner so that nature would be able to n ...
Joint projections of temperature and precipitation change from
... make results available from standardized, and thus comparable, experiments. With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change activities, such multimodel data repositories have grown in size both as the number of modelling centres developing GCMs increased and as the range of variables that they su ...
... make results available from standardized, and thus comparable, experiments. With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change activities, such multimodel data repositories have grown in size both as the number of modelling centres developing GCMs increased and as the range of variables that they su ...
The potential contribution of British Columbia`s forest sector to
... (Smyth et al., 2014), and on prior analyses conducted by both provincial and federal agencies, the project team will design and evaluate regionally differentiated climate change mitigation portfolios for BC’s forest sector. To enhance the likelihood of implementation of a portfolio, the design and e ...
... (Smyth et al., 2014), and on prior analyses conducted by both provincial and federal agencies, the project team will design and evaluate regionally differentiated climate change mitigation portfolios for BC’s forest sector. To enhance the likelihood of implementation of a portfolio, the design and e ...
Climatic Change --Manuscript Draft--
... both the present day and future were therefore calculated by subtracting the “non-fire PM2.5” concentrations from the “all-source” PM2.5 concentrations. Using this method, a small portion (~2%) of wildfire-specific PM2.5 concentrations were negative and were set to zero. Wildfirespecific PM2.5 was z ...
... both the present day and future were therefore calculated by subtracting the “non-fire PM2.5” concentrations from the “all-source” PM2.5 concentrations. Using this method, a small portion (~2%) of wildfire-specific PM2.5 concentrations were negative and were set to zero. Wildfirespecific PM2.5 was z ...
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... Deressa et al. (2009) show that 58 percent of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia have adapted to climate change. Results from the multinomial logit model indicate that the level of education, gender, age, and wealth of the head of household, access to extension and credit, information on climate, ...
... Deressa et al. (2009) show that 58 percent of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia have adapted to climate change. Results from the multinomial logit model indicate that the level of education, gender, age, and wealth of the head of household, access to extension and credit, information on climate, ...
Adaptation Planning In New York City
... 100 miles north of New York City (NYC DEP, 2008) would be of interest to managers of only a small but important subset of infrastructure—reservoirs and water tunnels. Such a fine-scale assessment would benefit from more complex downscaling approaches than those applied here. ...
... 100 miles north of New York City (NYC DEP, 2008) would be of interest to managers of only a small but important subset of infrastructure—reservoirs and water tunnels. Such a fine-scale assessment would benefit from more complex downscaling approaches than those applied here. ...
How Does a Regional Climate Model Modify the Projected Climate
... Harmonized Land Use Protocol 3 [42] for the period 1500–2100. For more details about the climate forcings see Giorgetta et al. [39]. In this study, we use the first realization from 1950–2005 for the downscaling experiments. The global climate change experiments are initialized with the state at the ...
... Harmonized Land Use Protocol 3 [42] for the period 1500–2100. For more details about the climate forcings see Giorgetta et al. [39]. In this study, we use the first realization from 1950–2005 for the downscaling experiments. The global climate change experiments are initialized with the state at the ...
Partisan Group Identity and Belief in Human
... condition. However, between the introduction (mentioning being asked about climate change and the definition) and the consensus information, the following passage appeared: As you have likely heard, the role that humans’ actions play in driving climate change has been a point of debate. Politics nea ...
... condition. However, between the introduction (mentioning being asked about climate change and the definition) and the consensus information, the following passage appeared: As you have likely heard, the role that humans’ actions play in driving climate change has been a point of debate. Politics nea ...
UK climate change policy: how does it affect competitiveness?
... Executive summary The Committee on Climate Change has recommended that setting a target to reduce UK emissions of greenhouse gases to an average of 57 per cent below their 1990 levels during the period of the fifth carbon budget (2028-2032) is consistent with a least cost path to meeting the UK’s lo ...
... Executive summary The Committee on Climate Change has recommended that setting a target to reduce UK emissions of greenhouse gases to an average of 57 per cent below their 1990 levels during the period of the fifth carbon budget (2028-2032) is consistent with a least cost path to meeting the UK’s lo ...
Climate Change and National Park Wildlife: A Survival
... program that carries the parks’ sustainability message to the general public and provides individuals with opportunities to do their part to reduce global warming pollution. ...
... program that carries the parks’ sustainability message to the general public and provides individuals with opportunities to do their part to reduce global warming pollution. ...
Challenge of Weather and Climate
... Highest sunshine hours are recorded over Snowdonia. There is generally more sunshine in the east than the west. The North Atlantic Drift has a warming effect in winter. The prevailing winds blow from the east. Built up areas such as London produce a heat island effect. Upland areas tend to record lo ...
... Highest sunshine hours are recorded over Snowdonia. There is generally more sunshine in the east than the west. The North Atlantic Drift has a warming effect in winter. The prevailing winds blow from the east. Built up areas such as London produce a heat island effect. Upland areas tend to record lo ...
Climate change and food_MULLIGAN_Accepted
... similar to their baseline levels, since it is rainfall change that we are interested in. For Africa at 1km resolution this means doing calculations over almost 78 million pixels for each map. Though challenging, this level of spatial detail is important given the complex and detailed geographical pa ...
... similar to their baseline levels, since it is rainfall change that we are interested in. For Africa at 1km resolution this means doing calculations over almost 78 million pixels for each map. Though challenging, this level of spatial detail is important given the complex and detailed geographical pa ...
Adapting social safety net programs to climate change shocks
... benefitted with SSNPs. If the SSN benefits are distributed exclusively to the poor households it would be possible to cover another 22 percent rural climate-poor households. Thus the SSN coverage to climate poor would be elevated to 69 percent nationally. Similarly such figures would rose to about 4 ...
... benefitted with SSNPs. If the SSN benefits are distributed exclusively to the poor households it would be possible to cover another 22 percent rural climate-poor households. Thus the SSN coverage to climate poor would be elevated to 69 percent nationally. Similarly such figures would rose to about 4 ...
Multi-hazard Risks and Vulnerable Populations in the Caribbean
... Rappaport (2000) constructed a database of Atlantic tropical cyclone fatalities for the 1970–99 storm seasons that identified the date, cause, and location of each fatality (65 Atlantic tropical cyclones affected the contiguous U.S. during this period; Rappaport estimated a total of 600 direct fatal ...
... Rappaport (2000) constructed a database of Atlantic tropical cyclone fatalities for the 1970–99 storm seasons that identified the date, cause, and location of each fatality (65 Atlantic tropical cyclones affected the contiguous U.S. during this period; Rappaport estimated a total of 600 direct fatal ...
Estimating the impact of traffic on the UTLS QUANTIFY
... ENSEMBLES) where available already, application for CEE (Giorgi). • WP2: To adapt and develop the very high resolution RCM (about 10 km), to perform regional time-slice nested simulations for selected GHG changes scenarios as well ...
... ENSEMBLES) where available already, application for CEE (Giorgi). • WP2: To adapt and develop the very high resolution RCM (about 10 km), to perform regional time-slice nested simulations for selected GHG changes scenarios as well ...
Developing and Implementing Climate Change Adaptation
... 2.5. Hands-On Development of Adaptation Options The webinars provided a base of information that we reviewed in the first half of a one-day workshop, allowing ample opportunity for questions, open discussion, and feedback on the ...
... 2.5. Hands-On Development of Adaptation Options The webinars provided a base of information that we reviewed in the first half of a one-day workshop, allowing ample opportunity for questions, open discussion, and feedback on the ...
Results Report - World Wide Views on Climate and Energy
... issues at stake in the ongoing, international discussions and negotiations about how to deal with climate change. They received balanced information about climate change and energy, discussed the issues with fellow citizens and voted individually on the questions presented to them. They did so at da ...
... issues at stake in the ongoing, international discussions and negotiations about how to deal with climate change. They received balanced information about climate change and energy, discussed the issues with fellow citizens and voted individually on the questions presented to them. They did so at da ...
How Climate Change Will Affect People Around the World
... Extreme weather events. Climate change is likely to increase the costs imposed by extreme weather, both by shifting the probability distribution upwards (more heatwaves, but fewer coldsnaps) and by intensifying the water cycle, so that severe floods, droughts and storms occur more often (Chapter 1). ...
... Extreme weather events. Climate change is likely to increase the costs imposed by extreme weather, both by shifting the probability distribution upwards (more heatwaves, but fewer coldsnaps) and by intensifying the water cycle, so that severe floods, droughts and storms occur more often (Chapter 1). ...
Greenhouse Gangsters vs. Climate Justice
... “competitive” in a global economy they themselves have helped shape, the Greenhouse Gangsters are cutting costs at home. To do so they are undermining worker health and safety, and shedding jobs. They are also merging with one another to form a group of “super major” companies—oil behemoths of a sca ...
... “competitive” in a global economy they themselves have helped shape, the Greenhouse Gangsters are cutting costs at home. To do so they are undermining worker health and safety, and shedding jobs. They are also merging with one another to form a group of “super major” companies—oil behemoths of a sca ...
Reducing the Impact of Global Warming on Wildlife
... effectively, we must act now to reduce the primary cause of human-induced global warming: the greenhouse gases emitted when we burn fossil fuels. However, even with immediate action, it will still be too late to prevent the extinction of some species, and others will edge closer to extinction as the ...
... effectively, we must act now to reduce the primary cause of human-induced global warming: the greenhouse gases emitted when we burn fossil fuels. However, even with immediate action, it will still be too late to prevent the extinction of some species, and others will edge closer to extinction as the ...
Increasing Atmospheric Poleward Energy Transport with Global
... are not needed to understand the differences among models, and there is no compelling evidence for a change in atmospheric diffusivity with warming. It is important to note, however, that many of the climate components which we prescribe in the EBM are likely influenced by changes in circulation. Fo ...
... are not needed to understand the differences among models, and there is no compelling evidence for a change in atmospheric diffusivity with warming. It is important to note, however, that many of the climate components which we prescribe in the EBM are likely influenced by changes in circulation. Fo ...
Tutorial: Microsoft Office Excel Basics
... The Standard Deviation of a set of data is a statistical measure of how widely the data varies, for example a very similar set of numbers would have a small standard deviation, whereas a very diverse set of numbers would have a large standard deviation. To highlight how important the standard deviat ...
... The Standard Deviation of a set of data is a statistical measure of how widely the data varies, for example a very similar set of numbers would have a small standard deviation, whereas a very diverse set of numbers would have a large standard deviation. To highlight how important the standard deviat ...
Climate change, food, water and population health in China
... associated with heatwaves.46 In terms of the heatwave-associated mortality, certain groups, particularly individuals with cardiovascular, cerebrovascular or respiratory disease, the elderly and females, were found to be particularly vulnerable. As well as full-blown heatwaves, climate change is also ...
... associated with heatwaves.46 In terms of the heatwave-associated mortality, certain groups, particularly individuals with cardiovascular, cerebrovascular or respiratory disease, the elderly and females, were found to be particularly vulnerable. As well as full-blown heatwaves, climate change is also ...
Innovation in the realm of institutional complexity
... was not mainly due to capacity as such, but because of an obstacle in the culvert and an unfortunate combination of several factors. The incident has triggered a thorough evaluation and a third party has been engaged to write a report since there are disputes over who is responsible and who should p ...
... was not mainly due to capacity as such, but because of an obstacle in the culvert and an unfortunate combination of several factors. The incident has triggered a thorough evaluation and a third party has been engaged to write a report since there are disputes over who is responsible and who should p ...