White Paper on the contribution of the GFCS to Agenda 2030
... agriculture, climate variability and change have a major impact on food security and sustainable agriculture. The overall availability of food is affected by changes in agricultural yields (impacted by climate and weather) as well as changes in arable land. Changes in food production, together with ...
... agriculture, climate variability and change have a major impact on food security and sustainable agriculture. The overall availability of food is affected by changes in agricultural yields (impacted by climate and weather) as well as changes in arable land. Changes in food production, together with ...
Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies
... variability. Climate change has the potential to alter and increase such risks, through changing the frequency and/or intensity of weather extremes or climate variability phenomena and by adding new risks such as accelerated sea-level rise. The impacts of these climate events especially affect land- ...
... variability. Climate change has the potential to alter and increase such risks, through changing the frequency and/or intensity of weather extremes or climate variability phenomena and by adding new risks such as accelerated sea-level rise. The impacts of these climate events especially affect land- ...
Federal Decision-Making on the Uncertain Impacts of Climate Change
... associated with the information currently available for decisions that can have either minor or significant climate implications. The paper draws a clear distinction between policies with incremental climate effects and those with larger impacts that are designed to manage climate change. The pap ...
... associated with the information currently available for decisions that can have either minor or significant climate implications. The paper draws a clear distinction between policies with incremental climate effects and those with larger impacts that are designed to manage climate change. The pap ...
Climate Change and Variability in the Sahel Region
... fforts to address climate change have so far focused on two response strategies: mitigation and adaptation. This has been strongly stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Mitigation seeks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to avoid f ...
... fforts to address climate change have so far focused on two response strategies: mitigation and adaptation. This has been strongly stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Mitigation seeks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to avoid f ...
Chapter 12
... national policies for agriculture, energy, forestry, transport, and other sectors [12.2.3, 12.5.2]. Research has also provided new insights into adaptation policies (e.g., studies showed that crops that become less economically viable under climate change can be replaced profitably by bioenergy crop ...
... national policies for agriculture, energy, forestry, transport, and other sectors [12.2.3, 12.5.2]. Research has also provided new insights into adaptation policies (e.g., studies showed that crops that become less economically viable under climate change can be replaced profitably by bioenergy crop ...
Expect Above Average Temperatures: Identifying the Economic
... series estimates are vulnerable to a previously unappreciated omitted variables bias. Time t outcomes often depend on time t − 1 choices, many of which appear in the error term of standard time series (or panel) regressions. These time t − 1 choices in turn depend on time t − 1 weather and on time t ...
... series estimates are vulnerable to a previously unappreciated omitted variables bias. Time t outcomes often depend on time t − 1 choices, many of which appear in the error term of standard time series (or panel) regressions. These time t − 1 choices in turn depend on time t − 1 weather and on time t ...
Observed and Projected Ecological Response to Climate Change in
... resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, curr ...
... resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, curr ...
Proposed NSF Center on Climate Decision Making Carnegie Mellon
... other sector-specific information we have developed, to begin to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on the predictive information that we are likely to be able to acquire. As results become available from the work in Part 3 of the Center's research, the ...
... other sector-specific information we have developed, to begin to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on the predictive information that we are likely to be able to acquire. As results become available from the work in Part 3 of the Center's research, the ...
Northern New Hampshire
... Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 ...
... Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 ...
National Climate Change Action Plan
... Climate change is recognized as one of the most complex global environmental problems, one which presents the greatest challenges to society as a whole, including the scientific and technical community and government authorities. The greenhouse effect, a beneficial natural phenomenon that enables li ...
... Climate change is recognized as one of the most complex global environmental problems, one which presents the greatest challenges to society as a whole, including the scientific and technical community and government authorities. The greenhouse effect, a beneficial natural phenomenon that enables li ...
Climate Change in Northern New Hampshire
... Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 ...
... Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 ...
Forests and climate change after Lima: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region
... Science has yet to unearth everything about climate change, about why it is happening, and what its real impacts are going to be. But one thing however is clear – climate change is happening, and it’s already affecting our lives. Many of the changes are unprecedented, and range from warming of the a ...
... Science has yet to unearth everything about climate change, about why it is happening, and what its real impacts are going to be. But one thing however is clear – climate change is happening, and it’s already affecting our lives. Many of the changes are unprecedented, and range from warming of the a ...
When It Rains, It Pours
... recorded its second “100-year” rainfall in two years in September 2011, sending the Susquehanna River to a record-high flood level and inundating the city’s downtown for the second time in five years. ...
... recorded its second “100-year” rainfall in two years in September 2011, sending the Susquehanna River to a record-high flood level and inundating the city’s downtown for the second time in five years. ...
Asia - IPCC
... will inundate low-lying areas and will especially affect rice growing regions. Many potential adaptation strategies are being practiced and proposed but research studies on their effectiveness are still few. Terrestrial systems in many parts of Asia have responded to recent climate change with shift ...
... will inundate low-lying areas and will especially affect rice growing regions. Many potential adaptation strategies are being practiced and proposed but research studies on their effectiveness are still few. Terrestrial systems in many parts of Asia have responded to recent climate change with shift ...
SoG for Climate Applications
... climate services apart from climate monitoring via the GCOS networks (which emphasise observations of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables1 at selected high quality sites). A separate Statement of Guidance exists for these. The second purpose of the document is to emphasise the basic requirements fo ...
... climate services apart from climate monitoring via the GCOS networks (which emphasise observations of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables1 at selected high quality sites). A separate Statement of Guidance exists for these. The second purpose of the document is to emphasise the basic requirements fo ...
Future Weather
... Intense events of local precipitation have a large influence on society. They are associated with local flooding, erosion and water damage, and may have impacts on transport and safety. It is commonly expected that precipitation extremes will increase as the climate warms (see box). In an earlier st ...
... Intense events of local precipitation have a large influence on society. They are associated with local flooding, erosion and water damage, and may have impacts on transport and safety. It is commonly expected that precipitation extremes will increase as the climate warms (see box). In an earlier st ...
a discussion based on contributions from climate modeling
... it possible to accomplish multi-centennial and even millennial timescale simulations with comprehensive AOGCMs. Since these models are the ones that future climate change projections rely on most heavily, evaluation of their performance in replicating aspects of climatic states different from the pr ...
... it possible to accomplish multi-centennial and even millennial timescale simulations with comprehensive AOGCMs. Since these models are the ones that future climate change projections rely on most heavily, evaluation of their performance in replicating aspects of climatic states different from the pr ...
Background Paper
... displacement can be prevented.13 Inter-governmental Regional Consultations and Civil Society Meetings held in the Pacific, Central America, the Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia over the course of 2013 to 2015 will ensure the Nansen Initiative process is grounded in practical experience ...
... displacement can be prevented.13 Inter-governmental Regional Consultations and Civil Society Meetings held in the Pacific, Central America, the Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia over the course of 2013 to 2015 will ensure the Nansen Initiative process is grounded in practical experience ...
Background Paper Nansen Initiative South Asian Regional
... displacement can be prevented.13 Inter-governmental Regional Consultations and Civil Society Meetings held in the Pacific, Central America, the Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia over the course of 2013 to 2015 will ensure the Nansen Initiative process is grounded in practical experience ...
... displacement can be prevented.13 Inter-governmental Regional Consultations and Civil Society Meetings held in the Pacific, Central America, the Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia over the course of 2013 to 2015 will ensure the Nansen Initiative process is grounded in practical experience ...
The coupled atmosphere–chemistry–ocean model SOCOL
... The stratosphere interacts with the troposphere and plays an important role for the climate in the troposphere, at the surface, and for the oceanic circulation (e.g. Baldwin and Dunkerton, 1999; Graversen and Christiansen, 2003; Thompson et al., 2005; Reichler et al., 2012). The dynamics in the stra ...
... The stratosphere interacts with the troposphere and plays an important role for the climate in the troposphere, at the surface, and for the oceanic circulation (e.g. Baldwin and Dunkerton, 1999; Graversen and Christiansen, 2003; Thompson et al., 2005; Reichler et al., 2012). The dynamics in the stra ...
The importance of glacier and forest change in hydrological climate
... components of a catchment, due to strong interactions between soils, vegetation and the atmosphere. Therefore, hydrological climate impact studies should also integrate scenarios of associated land cover change. To reflect two severe climate-induced changes in land cover, we applied scenarios of gla ...
... components of a catchment, due to strong interactions between soils, vegetation and the atmosphere. Therefore, hydrological climate impact studies should also integrate scenarios of associated land cover change. To reflect two severe climate-induced changes in land cover, we applied scenarios of gla ...
The Global Climate Observing System Programme The Global
... cumbersome to mobilize and target effectively. Using climate ...
... cumbersome to mobilize and target effectively. Using climate ...
ACT Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
... of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Our climate is already changing and we must adapt to these unavoidable changes if we are to thrive as a sustainable community. The ACT Government has therefore prepared this ACT Climate Change Adaptation Strategy – Living with a Warming Climate (the Ada ...
... of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Our climate is already changing and we must adapt to these unavoidable changes if we are to thrive as a sustainable community. The ACT Government has therefore prepared this ACT Climate Change Adaptation Strategy – Living with a Warming Climate (the Ada ...