2nd Joint International Workshop – June 21st 2004
... Merylyn Hedger, Environment Agency – How will you connect with the need for everyone to reduce greenhouse gases, how are you going to cover mitigation in your campaign? I’m also interested in your point about a lack of leadership in national policy by the UK Government - hopefully things will be cle ...
... Merylyn Hedger, Environment Agency – How will you connect with the need for everyone to reduce greenhouse gases, how are you going to cover mitigation in your campaign? I’m also interested in your point about a lack of leadership in national policy by the UK Government - hopefully things will be cle ...
GSA presentation 2012
... significant risks for – and in many cases is already affecting – a broad range of human and natural systems.” ...
... significant risks for – and in many cases is already affecting – a broad range of human and natural systems.” ...
The Perils of Modelling How Migration Responds to Climate Change
... assumed that migration will continue based on past trends regardless of how climate change alters the attractiveness of destinations and origins. Technological development, government policy, and improving relative climate conditions in other parts of the country are all factors that could impact ho ...
... assumed that migration will continue based on past trends regardless of how climate change alters the attractiveness of destinations and origins. Technological development, government policy, and improving relative climate conditions in other parts of the country are all factors that could impact ho ...
Comments on EPA/NHTSA proposed rule on tailpipe standards [get
... particular, the software and model relationships are often less decisive than the data inputs in shaping the results. Extensive experiments with DICE by a range of researchers have shown that with small, reasonable changes to the basic data, DICE can yield very different projections (my own contribu ...
... particular, the software and model relationships are often less decisive than the data inputs in shaping the results. Extensive experiments with DICE by a range of researchers have shown that with small, reasonable changes to the basic data, DICE can yield very different projections (my own contribu ...
Climate Finance Briefing: Small Island Developing States
... Most SIDS are middle-income countries, but their economies are often small and gross national income varies widely. Nine ...
... Most SIDS are middle-income countries, but their economies are often small and gross national income varies widely. Nine ...
Bohensky CV Dec 2015
... [email protected] ATSIP Building, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia Biography Dr. Erin Bohensky conducts research on public perceptions and engagement with social and environmental change. Over the past eight years her work on knowledge integration and adaptation through par ...
... [email protected] ATSIP Building, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia Biography Dr. Erin Bohensky conducts research on public perceptions and engagement with social and environmental change. Over the past eight years her work on knowledge integration and adaptation through par ...
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... intentionally setting up a “seed” of climate cooperators with the intention of making it grow by letting additional members join. Leadership can be understood in different ways. It is often associated with the authority to coerce others in some way. Since countries’ ability for coercing other countr ...
... intentionally setting up a “seed” of climate cooperators with the intention of making it grow by letting additional members join. Leadership can be understood in different ways. It is often associated with the authority to coerce others in some way. Since countries’ ability for coercing other countr ...
DISCUSSION PAPER Climate Policy in the United States
... Each panel included ample time for questions, answers, and discussion. Participants debated, for example, whether U.S. climate technology policy is really sustainable, given its multi-billion dollar annual cost and current budget deficits, as well as different perspectives on widely acclaimed volunt ...
... Each panel included ample time for questions, answers, and discussion. Participants debated, for example, whether U.S. climate technology policy is really sustainable, given its multi-billion dollar annual cost and current budget deficits, as well as different perspectives on widely acclaimed volunt ...
3.3 Evidence of temperature changes in the study regions
... Sampling involved the stratification of households into different wealth groups, based on local perceptions of wealth, and a random sample was then surveyed. Individual households were evaluated at the time of the questionnaire survey. To ensure representation of the various wealth groups, key info ...
... Sampling involved the stratification of households into different wealth groups, based on local perceptions of wealth, and a random sample was then surveyed. Individual households were evaluated at the time of the questionnaire survey. To ensure representation of the various wealth groups, key info ...
Climate modelling in Bangladesh
... devastation on the lives of its people. Climate change will only intensify such threats. Indeed, the Bangladesh government believes that the effects of climate change are already being experienced in the country. The need for Bangladesh to develop adaptation strategies to cope with climate change is ...
... devastation on the lives of its people. Climate change will only intensify such threats. Indeed, the Bangladesh government believes that the effects of climate change are already being experienced in the country. The need for Bangladesh to develop adaptation strategies to cope with climate change is ...
LEARN ABOUT… Climate change and ozone depletion
... degree of confidence, the greenhouse effect due to CO2 of anthropogenic origin to be about 1.5 W/m2 (of radiative energy redirected toward the earth's surface). This effect is the result of the budget of radiation emitted and absorbed by CO2, integrated over the height of the atmosphere. However, th ...
... degree of confidence, the greenhouse effect due to CO2 of anthropogenic origin to be about 1.5 W/m2 (of radiative energy redirected toward the earth's surface). This effect is the result of the budget of radiation emitted and absorbed by CO2, integrated over the height of the atmosphere. However, th ...
Author's personal copy
... Received 4 December 2009 Received in revised form 9 November 2010 Accepted 23 November 2010 Available online 28 December 2010 ...
... Received 4 December 2009 Received in revised form 9 November 2010 Accepted 23 November 2010 Available online 28 December 2010 ...
Guidance on CC Adaptation Measures for Waterbirds (20-08
... Existing legal and policy frameworks should be used to enable effective action now while working with policy-makers to remedy any potential shortcomings. Principle 2: Maintain and increase ecological resilience Increasing the resilience of ecosystems to the impacts of climate change, will help the w ...
... Existing legal and policy frameworks should be used to enable effective action now while working with policy-makers to remedy any potential shortcomings. Principle 2: Maintain and increase ecological resilience Increasing the resilience of ecosystems to the impacts of climate change, will help the w ...
Climate Change Vulnerabilities: Case Studies of the Maldives and
... also notes that these migrations, forced by “quick changes” of the climate and sudden effects on the population, are likely to increase in frequency and magnitude (Reuveny 2007). Some uptick in this frequency has already been noted: “in recent decades Asia, Africa, and Latin America have both faced ...
... also notes that these migrations, forced by “quick changes” of the climate and sudden effects on the population, are likely to increase in frequency and magnitude (Reuveny 2007). Some uptick in this frequency has already been noted: “in recent decades Asia, Africa, and Latin America have both faced ...
Global Change Grand Challenge National Research Plan
... climate change, mitigation means implementing policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance sinks" (Intergovernmental Programme on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007). More generally, mitigation refers to actions taken to reduce the degree of change to which a system is exposed, such as efforts ai ...
... climate change, mitigation means implementing policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance sinks" (Intergovernmental Programme on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007). More generally, mitigation refers to actions taken to reduce the degree of change to which a system is exposed, such as efforts ai ...
Word version of course outline - Vula
... In this section, projects are presented to show examples of adaptation research, planning and practice in South Africa. The Ethekwini Municipal Climate Protection Programme (MCPP) is a good example of an adaptation response at the municipal scale that includes a focus on climate science, adaptation ...
... In this section, projects are presented to show examples of adaptation research, planning and practice in South Africa. The Ethekwini Municipal Climate Protection Programme (MCPP) is a good example of an adaptation response at the municipal scale that includes a focus on climate science, adaptation ...
Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?
... nation-states struggle to come to international agreement and take domestic action. These struggles have been particularly evident in contexts where environmental and economic interests are seen to be in conflict, such as the USA and Australia, as the recent withdrawal of support by the Bush adminis ...
... nation-states struggle to come to international agreement and take domestic action. These struggles have been particularly evident in contexts where environmental and economic interests are seen to be in conflict, such as the USA and Australia, as the recent withdrawal of support by the Bush adminis ...
Climate change - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
... opportunities. Various types of adaptation can be distinguished, including anticipatory and reactive adaptation, private and public adaptation, and autonomous and planned adaptation (Source: 5). In other words, addressing the impacts of climate change. Other definitions: Outside of the climate chang ...
... opportunities. Various types of adaptation can be distinguished, including anticipatory and reactive adaptation, private and public adaptation, and autonomous and planned adaptation (Source: 5). In other words, addressing the impacts of climate change. Other definitions: Outside of the climate chang ...
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... instruments influence resilience and adaptation; (2) a decision-making process to assess vulnerabilities to climate change and to manage adaptation responses; (3) an inter-temporal framework to assist decision-makers when to adapt; (4) a risk and simulation approach to confront the uncertainties of ...
... instruments influence resilience and adaptation; (2) a decision-making process to assess vulnerabilities to climate change and to manage adaptation responses; (3) an inter-temporal framework to assist decision-makers when to adapt; (4) a risk and simulation approach to confront the uncertainties of ...
IMOGEN: an intermediate complexity model to evaluate terrestrial
... simulations to different future pathways of greenhouse gases, including rapid first-order assessments of how the land surface and associated biogeochemical cycles might change. Evaluation of how new terrestrial process understanding influences such predictions can also be made with relative ease. ...
... simulations to different future pathways of greenhouse gases, including rapid first-order assessments of how the land surface and associated biogeochemical cycles might change. Evaluation of how new terrestrial process understanding influences such predictions can also be made with relative ease. ...
Australian rangelands and climate change – pastoral production
... requirement for conservative use of these available resources through time. Thus, various and mixed management tactics may be applied but these are underpinned by such sentiments as ‘managing for every year as though it were dry’, ‘living within one’s means’, ‘recognising and driving down the cost o ...
... requirement for conservative use of these available resources through time. Thus, various and mixed management tactics may be applied but these are underpinned by such sentiments as ‘managing for every year as though it were dry’, ‘living within one’s means’, ‘recognising and driving down the cost o ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... Costa Rica has submitted two national communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2000 and 2009 respectively, both of which outline Government actions and policy frameworks to address climate change adaption. For both communications vulnerability studies w ...
... Costa Rica has submitted two national communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2000 and 2009 respectively, both of which outline Government actions and policy frameworks to address climate change adaption. For both communications vulnerability studies w ...
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... long history of worrying about the unquantified impacts of climate change. Initially, people were worried about widespread starvation (Hohmeyer and Gaertner, 1992), about extreme sea level rise (Schneider and Chen, 1980), or about infectious diseases killing millions (Haines and Fuchs, 1991). Later ...
... long history of worrying about the unquantified impacts of climate change. Initially, people were worried about widespread starvation (Hohmeyer and Gaertner, 1992), about extreme sea level rise (Schneider and Chen, 1980), or about infectious diseases killing millions (Haines and Fuchs, 1991). Later ...
The ecological citizen and climate change
... reducing an individual’s footprint in a developed country does not necessarily enable access of an individual in a developing country to any resources. In this case, even when focusing on bringing about structural change, it would be extremely difficult to effect ...
... reducing an individual’s footprint in a developed country does not necessarily enable access of an individual in a developing country to any resources. In this case, even when focusing on bringing about structural change, it would be extremely difficult to effect ...
Extreme Weather Report 2012
... hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence. The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased' These scientific facts have not deterred climate activists from using Sandy and other storms to bolster their claims. ...
... hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence. The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased' These scientific facts have not deterred climate activists from using Sandy and other storms to bolster their claims. ...