China`s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change
... framework for coping with climate change. Their status as the kernel mechanism and leading channel should be unswervingly stick up. Other types of bilateral and multilateral cooperation should be supplementary. — To rely on the advancement, innovation of science and technology and technology transf ...
... framework for coping with climate change. Their status as the kernel mechanism and leading channel should be unswervingly stick up. Other types of bilateral and multilateral cooperation should be supplementary. — To rely on the advancement, innovation of science and technology and technology transf ...
Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Playa Lakes Joint Venture
... associations based on one or more climate models into the future. There are some habitat-specific studies for particular regions (e.g., the northeastern U.S. in Matthews et al. 2004). However, these studies are not generally useful for understanding precise species-level impacts (Pearson & Dawson 20 ...
... associations based on one or more climate models into the future. There are some habitat-specific studies for particular regions (e.g., the northeastern U.S. in Matthews et al. 2004). However, these studies are not generally useful for understanding precise species-level impacts (Pearson & Dawson 20 ...
Climate Change and Variability
... and of about 2.0°C by 2090 (relative to the temperature average from 1980 to 1999). Results averaged across 12 different IPCC climate models (spatially downscaled to show variations across the Tasman district) and over a range of (IPCC) greenhouse gas emissions scenarios project a small increase in ...
... and of about 2.0°C by 2090 (relative to the temperature average from 1980 to 1999). Results averaged across 12 different IPCC climate models (spatially downscaled to show variations across the Tasman district) and over a range of (IPCC) greenhouse gas emissions scenarios project a small increase in ...
Gary Yohe - Evaulating Adaptation Methods
... system, sector to sector and region to region. This means that it is critically important, in any assessment of adaptation, to identify immediately who is adapting to what. Moreover, the determinants of adaptive capacity include a variety of system, sector, and location specific characteristics; the ...
... system, sector to sector and region to region. This means that it is critically important, in any assessment of adaptation, to identify immediately who is adapting to what. Moreover, the determinants of adaptive capacity include a variety of system, sector, and location specific characteristics; the ...
How much disease could climate change cause?
... climate variations, it is inevitable that long-term climate change will have some effect on global population health. Climate change is likely to affect not only health but also many aspects of ecological and social systems, and will be slow and difficult (perhaps impossible) to reverse. Many theref ...
... climate variations, it is inevitable that long-term climate change will have some effect on global population health. Climate change is likely to affect not only health but also many aspects of ecological and social systems, and will be slow and difficult (perhaps impossible) to reverse. Many theref ...
PDF - Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press
... temperature could still have significant direct effects on local microzooplankton species composition, abundances, feeding activities and growth efficiencies. At present, the response of most microzooplankton species to the direct effects of temperature is poorly characterized. A dramatic, direct ef ...
... temperature could still have significant direct effects on local microzooplankton species composition, abundances, feeding activities and growth efficiencies. At present, the response of most microzooplankton species to the direct effects of temperature is poorly characterized. A dramatic, direct ef ...
Managing water in the MDB under a variable and changing climate
... Plan provisions that are of value under a changing climate into four types of action (Figure 2). The classification is a useful way of illustrating related actions that, because of its legal construct, are found in different parts of the Basin Plan. The first of these are refinements to existing act ...
... Plan provisions that are of value under a changing climate into four types of action (Figure 2). The classification is a useful way of illustrating related actions that, because of its legal construct, are found in different parts of the Basin Plan. The first of these are refinements to existing act ...
a climate change litigation precedent urgenda foundation v the state
... national governments than large fossil fuel companies is that the former have jointly adopted the IPCC reports and relied on them as points of departure during climate change conferences. As long as the claimant in a climate case bases its argumentation on the IPCC findings, there is little to nothi ...
... national governments than large fossil fuel companies is that the former have jointly adopted the IPCC reports and relied on them as points of departure during climate change conferences. As long as the claimant in a climate case bases its argumentation on the IPCC findings, there is little to nothi ...
Potential Threats from Climate Change to Human
... individual experts in collaboration with institutions that synthesised the available information on the region. A summary of the findings of the rapid assessment was published in 2009, and is being followed with a series of publication comprising the main vulnerability synthesis report and technical ...
... individual experts in collaboration with institutions that synthesised the available information on the region. A summary of the findings of the rapid assessment was published in 2009, and is being followed with a series of publication comprising the main vulnerability synthesis report and technical ...
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... water regimes that subsequently affect agricultural productivity (Kurukulasuriya and Rosenthal 2003). Analysis of our climate data for the U.S. indicates that average temperature has risen by roughly 0.04◦C per decade, and total precipitation has increased by roughly 11.5mm per decade over the perio ...
... water regimes that subsequently affect agricultural productivity (Kurukulasuriya and Rosenthal 2003). Analysis of our climate data for the U.S. indicates that average temperature has risen by roughly 0.04◦C per decade, and total precipitation has increased by roughly 11.5mm per decade over the perio ...
Is co-producing science for adaptation decision
... Impacts Programme (UKCIP) a boundary organization based at the University of Oxford in 1997, subsequent ones - UKCIP98 and UKCIP02 - have targeted a broader set of decision-makers, including key infrastructure operators, public bodies, consultants, regulators, private utility companies, and industry ...
... Impacts Programme (UKCIP) a boundary organization based at the University of Oxford in 1997, subsequent ones - UKCIP98 and UKCIP02 - have targeted a broader set of decision-makers, including key infrastructure operators, public bodies, consultants, regulators, private utility companies, and industry ...
CLIMATE CHANGE – SCOPING THE ISSUES
... future generations. Today, the time for doubt has passed. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has unequivocally affirmed the warming of our climate system, and linked it directly to human activity”. He also stated in the same address “Today, the effects of climate change are ...
... future generations. Today, the time for doubt has passed. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has unequivocally affirmed the warming of our climate system, and linked it directly to human activity”. He also stated in the same address “Today, the effects of climate change are ...
Global Climate Change and Biodiversity
... We face certainly continuing, probably accelerating and possibly unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate over the coming years and decades. These changes in such a fundamental resource for society, and in such a powerful influence on ecological, economic and cultural development, will introduce ...
... We face certainly continuing, probably accelerating and possibly unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate over the coming years and decades. These changes in such a fundamental resource for society, and in such a powerful influence on ecological, economic and cultural development, will introduce ...
Executive Report
... the future, the potential impact on the GB railway, what is already being done by the GB rail industry to respond and adapt, and what else can be done. Our analysis has been carried out on the basis that Britain's rail network is part of the country's essential infrastructure. We found unequivocal e ...
... the future, the potential impact on the GB railway, what is already being done by the GB rail industry to respond and adapt, and what else can be done. Our analysis has been carried out on the basis that Britain's rail network is part of the country's essential infrastructure. We found unequivocal e ...
Introduction The Public Trust Doctrine, Climate Change and Future Generations Table of Contents
... Such claims are geared toward isolated instances of government action, such as approvals of air permits or programs, or listing decisions under the ESA. While valuable in many other ways and worthy of pursuit, they nevertheless embrace an approach of incremental change rather than the rapid overhaul ...
... Such claims are geared toward isolated instances of government action, such as approvals of air permits or programs, or listing decisions under the ESA. While valuable in many other ways and worthy of pursuit, they nevertheless embrace an approach of incremental change rather than the rapid overhaul ...
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Water Availability
... 20% below normal. In 1952-1956, average annual precipitation across Illinois averaged 18% below normal. For that five-year period, average annual temperature was 2.1oF above normal. Average annual runoff for Illinois during the five-year period was approximately 48% below normal. This runoff estimat ...
... 20% below normal. In 1952-1956, average annual precipitation across Illinois averaged 18% below normal. For that five-year period, average annual temperature was 2.1oF above normal. Average annual runoff for Illinois during the five-year period was approximately 48% below normal. This runoff estimat ...
Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change
... seems to be more extreme and erratic, and the global mean temperature appears to be steadily rising—all consequences, scientists argue, of global climate change. One could learn this much—and also that the United States is lagging far behind other industrial nations, particularly in the European Uni ...
... seems to be more extreme and erratic, and the global mean temperature appears to be steadily rising—all consequences, scientists argue, of global climate change. One could learn this much—and also that the United States is lagging far behind other industrial nations, particularly in the European Uni ...
Climate Change - Ku-ring-gai Council
... by 0.7°C over the last century, this warming trend appears to be in excess of the natural climate variability. If global greenhouse emissions remain unchecked and continue to rise at the current rate, Australia’s average temperature is projected to increase to 0.4 - 2.0°C above 1990 levels by the ye ...
... by 0.7°C over the last century, this warming trend appears to be in excess of the natural climate variability. If global greenhouse emissions remain unchecked and continue to rise at the current rate, Australia’s average temperature is projected to increase to 0.4 - 2.0°C above 1990 levels by the ye ...
4. The response of the climate system to a
... practical reasons, it is thus generally defined as the global mean surface temperature change after the climate system has reached a new equilibrium in response to a doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. It is measured in °C and according to the most recent estimates by the IPCC (Rand ...
... practical reasons, it is thus generally defined as the global mean surface temperature change after the climate system has reached a new equilibrium in response to a doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. It is measured in °C and according to the most recent estimates by the IPCC (Rand ...
Research and systematic observation
... Over the past decade, the number of R&D personnel has grown from 40,000 to nearly 80,000. This equates to over 2 per cent of the labour force, which is the highest figure among all OECD countries. The number of doctoral degrees has also doubled in the past ten years. Climate change has become a prio ...
... Over the past decade, the number of R&D personnel has grown from 40,000 to nearly 80,000. This equates to over 2 per cent of the labour force, which is the highest figure among all OECD countries. The number of doctoral degrees has also doubled in the past ten years. Climate change has become a prio ...
Climate Change and Small Island Developing States
... Small Island Developing States (SIDS) In April 1994 in Barbados, the first Global Conference on Sustainable Development of SIDS adopted the Barbados Programme of Action (UN, 1994), updated a decade later in the Mauritius Strategy (UN, 2005). These documents consolidated the grouping of island countr ...
... Small Island Developing States (SIDS) In April 1994 in Barbados, the first Global Conference on Sustainable Development of SIDS adopted the Barbados Programme of Action (UN, 1994), updated a decade later in the Mauritius Strategy (UN, 2005). These documents consolidated the grouping of island countr ...
The Business of AdApTing To ClimATe ChAnge
... current warming trend is proceeding at an unprecedented rate. Twenty of the hottest years on record have occurred since 1987 and the ten warmest have been in the last 12 years. What’s more, many scientists are convinced that it is already too late2 to avoid further significant warming of 2-6ºC befor ...
... current warming trend is proceeding at an unprecedented rate. Twenty of the hottest years on record have occurred since 1987 and the ten warmest have been in the last 12 years. What’s more, many scientists are convinced that it is already too late2 to avoid further significant warming of 2-6ºC befor ...
Scale-dependent regional climate predictability over North America
... statistics at finer spatial and temporal scales. In the latter case, information from coarse climate models is used as boundary constraints on a finer resolution model (a regional climate model) that resolves the smaller spatiotemporal scales of interest. In either case, there is an assumption of a ...
... statistics at finer spatial and temporal scales. In the latter case, information from coarse climate models is used as boundary constraints on a finer resolution model (a regional climate model) that resolves the smaller spatiotemporal scales of interest. In either case, there is an assumption of a ...