Developing and Applying Scenarios
... evaluating future vulnerability to climate (see TAR WGIII Chapter 2). Thus, although the focus of this chapter is on the development and use of scenarios in impact and adaptation assessment, reference to scenarios that have been developed for purposes of addressing mitigation is important and ...
... evaluating future vulnerability to climate (see TAR WGIII Chapter 2). Thus, although the focus of this chapter is on the development and use of scenarios in impact and adaptation assessment, reference to scenarios that have been developed for purposes of addressing mitigation is important and ...
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... Scheme (CPRS)’. About 600 households were asked their willingness to bear extra household expenditures to support the CPRS using a single-bounded dichotomous choice (DC) elicitation format. Respondents were asked to indicate their best guess, high guess and low guess of future temperature change in ...
... Scheme (CPRS)’. About 600 households were asked their willingness to bear extra household expenditures to support the CPRS using a single-bounded dichotomous choice (DC) elicitation format. Respondents were asked to indicate their best guess, high guess and low guess of future temperature change in ...
A Warm Response, Our Climate Change Challenge
... Through the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming has emerged. Today there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities and that human-induced cl ...
... Through the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming has emerged. Today there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities and that human-induced cl ...
Volume 25, Nº1, 2011
... are far too distant to be of priority to current political regimes, and there is insufficient local data to downscale global modelling projections to yield information that can be meaningfully applied to small geographical areas. Dealing with the impacts of climate change for the pursuit of sustaina ...
... are far too distant to be of priority to current political regimes, and there is insufficient local data to downscale global modelling projections to yield information that can be meaningfully applied to small geographical areas. Dealing with the impacts of climate change for the pursuit of sustaina ...
Facing an uncertain future : how forests and people can adapt to
... international agreement is being discussed. While tropical forests are an important component of mitigation science and policy, their role in adaptation is rapidly gaining significance. Linking adaptation and tropical forests is a new frontier for science and policy: adaptation is a new frontier for ...
... international agreement is being discussed. While tropical forests are an important component of mitigation science and policy, their role in adaptation is rapidly gaining significance. Linking adaptation and tropical forests is a new frontier for science and policy: adaptation is a new frontier for ...
SECOND-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 24 Do Not Cite
... Kazakhstan could benefit from the longer growing season, warmer winters and slight increase in winter precipitation), while others could be losers (western Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, where frequent droughts could negatively affect cotton production, increase water demand for irrigation, and exacer ...
... Kazakhstan could benefit from the longer growing season, warmer winters and slight increase in winter precipitation), while others could be losers (western Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, where frequent droughts could negatively affect cotton production, increase water demand for irrigation, and exacer ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Design at the Port
... tunnel, port, airport, PATH, and associated buildings and facilities – because of the different effects of climate change impacts and potential risk management techniques associated with each. The report organizes each technique within one of three broad adaptation strategies: protect, accommodate, ...
... tunnel, port, airport, PATH, and associated buildings and facilities – because of the different effects of climate change impacts and potential risk management techniques associated with each. The report organizes each technique within one of three broad adaptation strategies: protect, accommodate, ...
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... The model used in this study is CRCM5 [29], which is based on a limited-area version of the Global Environment Multiscale (GEM) model used for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at Environment Canada [30]. GEM employs semi-Lagrangian transport and (quasi) fully implicit stepping scheme. In its fully ...
... The model used in this study is CRCM5 [29], which is based on a limited-area version of the Global Environment Multiscale (GEM) model used for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at Environment Canada [30]. GEM employs semi-Lagrangian transport and (quasi) fully implicit stepping scheme. In its fully ...
FIRST-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 4 Do Not Cite
... dominate the threats to freshwater ecosystems and many terrestrial ecosystems, with climate change becoming an increasing stress later in the century. Climate change exacerbates the other threats. In some systems, such as high altitude and latitude freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems will with hig ...
... dominate the threats to freshwater ecosystems and many terrestrial ecosystems, with climate change becoming an increasing stress later in the century. Climate change exacerbates the other threats. In some systems, such as high altitude and latitude freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems will with hig ...
Psychology and Global Climate Change
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
Psychology and Global Climate Change
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
Treeline dynamics with climate change at the central Nepal Himalaya
... and Gutiérrez, 2008; Kullman and Öberg, 2009; Leonelli et al., 2011; Kirdyanov et al., 2012). A meta-analysis of a global data set, including 166 sites for which treeline dynamics had been recorded since AD 1900, showed that the treeline either advanced (52 % of sites) or remained unchanged, while o ...
... and Gutiérrez, 2008; Kullman and Öberg, 2009; Leonelli et al., 2011; Kirdyanov et al., 2012). A meta-analysis of a global data set, including 166 sites for which treeline dynamics had been recorded since AD 1900, showed that the treeline either advanced (52 % of sites) or remained unchanged, while o ...
The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
... Impacts of climate change on the Latin American and Caribbean region assuming a 2.5°C temperature increase, second half of the twenty-first century.................................................... 23 Latin America: the farm sector and the impacts of climate change, 2011 and 2080.................. ...
... Impacts of climate change on the Latin American and Caribbean region assuming a 2.5°C temperature increase, second half of the twenty-first century.................................................... 23 Latin America: the farm sector and the impacts of climate change, 2011 and 2080.................. ...
IPCC report
... insolation), the technological processes (cooling), or the locations (coastal regions, floodplains) involved (robust evidence, high agreement). Gradual changes in various climate attributes (temperature, precipitation, windiness, cloudiness, etc.) and possible changes in the frequency and intensity ...
... insolation), the technological processes (cooling), or the locations (coastal regions, floodplains) involved (robust evidence, high agreement). Gradual changes in various climate attributes (temperature, precipitation, windiness, cloudiness, etc.) and possible changes in the frequency and intensity ...
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... to reduce. The methods can be seen as stepped analyses, where as the modeling begins to be complex, the detail and data requirements also do, beginning at the global scale down to small basin scale. Medellin-Azuara et al. [11] used downscaled hydrologic data in customized modeling scheme to assess t ...
... to reduce. The methods can be seen as stepped analyses, where as the modeling begins to be complex, the detail and data requirements also do, beginning at the global scale down to small basin scale. Medellin-Azuara et al. [11] used downscaled hydrologic data in customized modeling scheme to assess t ...
Chapter 11 Hunting, Herding, Fishing and Gathering
... important for personal and cultural well-being. Indigenous peoples have reported their loss of vitality, decline in health and personal well-being when they are unable to eat traditional/country foods (Wein and Freeman 1992). These problems do not only emerge when climate change denies people access ...
... important for personal and cultural well-being. Indigenous peoples have reported their loss of vitality, decline in health and personal well-being when they are unable to eat traditional/country foods (Wein and Freeman 1992). These problems do not only emerge when climate change denies people access ...
The implications of climate change for biodiversity conservation and
... conservation planning, and mainstreaming climate change into planning, rather than treating it as a separate threat to manage. The second phase would focus on conservation objectives, understanding that the choice between encouraging change, managing change, passively allowing change, or actively mi ...
... conservation planning, and mainstreaming climate change into planning, rather than treating it as a separate threat to manage. The second phase would focus on conservation objectives, understanding that the choice between encouraging change, managing change, passively allowing change, or actively mi ...
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... CDP. Our climate change, forests, supply chain and water programs draw on our unique global system, to drive transparency and accountability for business impacts across the earth’s natural capital. www.cdp.net ...
... CDP. Our climate change, forests, supply chain and water programs draw on our unique global system, to drive transparency and accountability for business impacts across the earth’s natural capital. www.cdp.net ...
Understanding pUblic perception of climate change in
... name a few. The Royal Government of Cambodia fully recognises these impacts and has put climate change high on its policy agenda, as a crosscutting issue in the National Strategic Development Plan 2014-18 and through the launch of the Cambodia Climate Change Strategic Plan 2014-23. To date, 15 key m ...
... name a few. The Royal Government of Cambodia fully recognises these impacts and has put climate change high on its policy agenda, as a crosscutting issue in the National Strategic Development Plan 2014-18 and through the launch of the Cambodia Climate Change Strategic Plan 2014-23. To date, 15 key m ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... is to continue fulfilling its statutory, regulatory and programmatic requirements. The Agency is therefore anticipating and planning for future changes in climate to ensure it continues to fulfill its mission of protecting human health and the environment even as the climate changes. In February 201 ...
... is to continue fulfilling its statutory, regulatory and programmatic requirements. The Agency is therefore anticipating and planning for future changes in climate to ensure it continues to fulfill its mission of protecting human health and the environment even as the climate changes. In February 201 ...
ities` action on climate change in South West England.
... The study finds that climate dismissal and denial present obstacles to carbon reduction initiatives and reduce the number which emerge; it also identifies the way organizational culture, including the growing dominance of financial and economic discourse, can constrain possibilities and proposals. B ...
... The study finds that climate dismissal and denial present obstacles to carbon reduction initiatives and reduce the number which emerge; it also identifies the way organizational culture, including the growing dominance of financial and economic discourse, can constrain possibilities and proposals. B ...
Climate change and natural disasters.
... In recent years, Russia has experienced several extreme weather events that have caused serious incidents. As the number and frequency of these have increased, the cause of these disasters can possibly be traced to the effects of global warming and climate change. Average temperatures in Russia, esp ...
... In recent years, Russia has experienced several extreme weather events that have caused serious incidents. As the number and frequency of these have increased, the cause of these disasters can possibly be traced to the effects of global warming and climate change. Average temperatures in Russia, esp ...
climate change adaptation plan
... Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. The Climate Action Plan laid out a series of responsible, common sense steps to prepare communities for the impacts of a changing climate. These steps included the need for the Federal government to make investments based on the most up-todate information about ...
... Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. The Climate Action Plan laid out a series of responsible, common sense steps to prepare communities for the impacts of a changing climate. These steps included the need for the Federal government to make investments based on the most up-todate information about ...
Climate Volatility and Change in Central Asia: Economic Impacts
... for Central Asia’s predominantly rural population, especially for the poor. Agricultural production, being sensitive to weather shocks and climate volatility, may suffer from climate change if no adaptive actions are taken. Taking these into account, the present study seeks to estimate the potential ...
... for Central Asia’s predominantly rural population, especially for the poor. Agricultural production, being sensitive to weather shocks and climate volatility, may suffer from climate change if no adaptive actions are taken. Taking these into account, the present study seeks to estimate the potential ...