Co-management institutions, knowledge, and learning: Adapting to
... Institutions are important in this regard because they are pathways for knowledge development and social learning that can help reduce vulnerability, build resilience, and increase adaptive capacity (Armitage et al. 2009). Co-management institutions developing since the 1980s have the potential to c ...
... Institutions are important in this regard because they are pathways for knowledge development and social learning that can help reduce vulnerability, build resilience, and increase adaptive capacity (Armitage et al. 2009). Co-management institutions developing since the 1980s have the potential to c ...
Trillion Dollar Transformation: Fiduciary Duty, Divestment and Fossil
... as a global problem with purely global impacts, in reality climate impacts are, and will continue to be, experienced by individual companies, sectors, and communities around the world, including the financial sector. These impacts, coupled with the effects of public efforts to reduce emissions, ...
... as a global problem with purely global impacts, in reality climate impacts are, and will continue to be, experienced by individual companies, sectors, and communities around the world, including the financial sector. These impacts, coupled with the effects of public efforts to reduce emissions, ...
Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia
... threats to child survival like malaria, diarrhoea and undernutrition are highly sensitive to climatic conditions and these are expected to worsen as a result of climate change (UNICEF 2008). Children’s unique conditions of physical, cognitive and physiological immaturity mean they can be more at ris ...
... threats to child survival like malaria, diarrhoea and undernutrition are highly sensitive to climatic conditions and these are expected to worsen as a result of climate change (UNICEF 2008). Children’s unique conditions of physical, cognitive and physiological immaturity mean they can be more at ris ...
Latin America
... this basin. Any reductions in rainfall would affect not only Amazonia but also Brazil’s central-south region, where most of the country’s agriculture and silviculture are located. However, with the current rate of deforestation of no more than 10% in Amazonia as a whole, discharge observations acros ...
... this basin. Any reductions in rainfall would affect not only Amazonia but also Brazil’s central-south region, where most of the country’s agriculture and silviculture are located. However, with the current rate of deforestation of no more than 10% in Amazonia as a whole, discharge observations acros ...
climate change law: the emergence of a new legal discipline
... He headed up the Scientific Advisory Committee Panel on Environmental Pollution that, in 1965, published the first authoritative United States government report in which CO2 from fossil fuels was officially recognised as a potential global problem: see Environmental Pollution Panel, President’s Scie ...
... He headed up the Scientific Advisory Committee Panel on Environmental Pollution that, in 1965, published the first authoritative United States government report in which CO2 from fossil fuels was officially recognised as a potential global problem: see Environmental Pollution Panel, President’s Scie ...
Research Article Environmetrics
... the Hadley Centre (HadCRUT3), the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) (Table 1). The three pairs of series are more or less based on the same measurement stations around the world, in total between 4000 and 7000 stations, but the procedures for com ...
... the Hadley Centre (HadCRUT3), the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) (Table 1). The three pairs of series are more or less based on the same measurement stations around the world, in total between 4000 and 7000 stations, but the procedures for com ...
Examining climate-biome - Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
... indication that such thresholds occur disproportionately between any two particular cliomes. The distance values allow interpretation of which shifts between cliomes represent potentially profound ecological changes. However, the metric does not take into account threshold differences between cliome ...
... indication that such thresholds occur disproportionately between any two particular cliomes. The distance values allow interpretation of which shifts between cliomes represent potentially profound ecological changes. However, the metric does not take into account threshold differences between cliome ...
Mis - Center for International Environmental Law
... those that arise from the constrained demand for fossil fuel products when the current ≥4°C climate scenario changes to a 2°C climate scenario. This shift towards a 2°C climate scenario exposes fossil fuel investments to stranding and the economy as a whole to a “carbon bubble.”3 Shifting from the ≥ ...
... those that arise from the constrained demand for fossil fuel products when the current ≥4°C climate scenario changes to a 2°C climate scenario. This shift towards a 2°C climate scenario exposes fossil fuel investments to stranding and the economy as a whole to a “carbon bubble.”3 Shifting from the ≥ ...
THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND SELF-HELP HOUSING Earl Kessler
... For incremental housing, access to credit was, and remains, a necessary support program to improve and expand incremental housing families acquired as the first step to a safe, secure home. Self-help drove the process and the access to credit shortened the usually prolonged period a family required ...
... For incremental housing, access to credit was, and remains, a necessary support program to improve and expand incremental housing families acquired as the first step to a safe, secure home. Self-help drove the process and the access to credit shortened the usually prolonged period a family required ...
Background paper
... have worst impacts in Africa, South and West Asia; suggesting that developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change than developed countries.1 Left unabated, climate change threatens to reverse hard-earned developmental gains made over the decades. But timely national responses to mitigate ...
... have worst impacts in Africa, South and West Asia; suggesting that developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change than developed countries.1 Left unabated, climate change threatens to reverse hard-earned developmental gains made over the decades. But timely national responses to mitigate ...
Costly Misinformed Diagnosis
... Professor of Paediatrics and Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, London, Ontario, Canada ...
... Professor of Paediatrics and Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, London, Ontario, Canada ...
The Mediterranean: vulnerability to coastal implications of` climate
... address long-term problems and, in particular, the likelihood of climate change. Regional scale studies suggest that the Mediterranean is particularly vulnerable to increased flooding by storm surges as sea levels rise-a l-m rise in sea level would cause at least a six-fold increase in the number of ...
... address long-term problems and, in particular, the likelihood of climate change. Regional scale studies suggest that the Mediterranean is particularly vulnerable to increased flooding by storm surges as sea levels rise-a l-m rise in sea level would cause at least a six-fold increase in the number of ...
Blue Jeans, Chewing Gum, and Climate Change Litigation
... Nicola Scafetta, Climate Change and Its Causes: A Discussion About Some Key Issues, Sci. & Pub. Pol’y Institute 4–5 (Mar. 18, 2010), http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/ climate_change_cause.pdf (observing that over 30,000 scientists in the United States (among them 9,0 ...
... Nicola Scafetta, Climate Change and Its Causes: A Discussion About Some Key Issues, Sci. & Pub. Pol’y Institute 4–5 (Mar. 18, 2010), http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/ climate_change_cause.pdf (observing that over 30,000 scientists in the United States (among them 9,0 ...
CBDAMPIC
... that adaptation is now taking in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations and funding through the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It has also contributed to the increase in the awareness level of policy makers in other Pacific Island governments on the need ...
... that adaptation is now taking in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations and funding through the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It has also contributed to the increase in the awareness level of policy makers in other Pacific Island governments on the need ...
Exploring Climate Patterns Embedded in Global Climate Change
... generated by the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) for the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Report for Climate Change (IPCC). The CCSM data was available in monthly averages for both atmospheric and surface climate variables. Thirty years of monthly data for the variables of inter ...
... generated by the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) for the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Report for Climate Change (IPCC). The CCSM data was available in monthly averages for both atmospheric and surface climate variables. Thirty years of monthly data for the variables of inter ...
(mis)calculated risk and climate change
... those that arise from the constrained demand for fossil fuel products when the current ≥4°C climate scenario changes to a 2°C climate scenario. This shift towards a 2°C climate scenario exposes fossil fuel investments to stranding and the economy as a whole to a “carbon bubble.”3 Shifting from the ≥ ...
... those that arise from the constrained demand for fossil fuel products when the current ≥4°C climate scenario changes to a 2°C climate scenario. This shift towards a 2°C climate scenario exposes fossil fuel investments to stranding and the economy as a whole to a “carbon bubble.”3 Shifting from the ≥ ...
China`s National Climate Change Programme
... Foreword Climate change is a major global issue of common concern to the international community. It is an issue involving both environment and development, but it is ultimately an issue of development. As noted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred to a ...
... Foreword Climate change is a major global issue of common concern to the international community. It is an issue involving both environment and development, but it is ultimately an issue of development. As noted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred to a ...
The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering
... As for the oceans, the most talked-about CDR possibility is ocean seeding. Here the idea is to take advantage of the natural process whereby phytoplankton take in carbon from the atmosphere. When these plankton die, they sink to the ocean floor. Under certain conditions the carbon they contain may r ...
... As for the oceans, the most talked-about CDR possibility is ocean seeding. Here the idea is to take advantage of the natural process whereby phytoplankton take in carbon from the atmosphere. When these plankton die, they sink to the ocean floor. Under certain conditions the carbon they contain may r ...
insects at not so low temperature
... where there exists a vast literature on insects (Danilevskii, 1965; Tauber et al., 1986; Danks, 1987; Saunders, 2002). From the insect citations, we make several generalizations about photoperiodism in temperate and more polar insect populations. 1. In general, day length provides the go/no-go cue f ...
... where there exists a vast literature on insects (Danilevskii, 1965; Tauber et al., 1986; Danks, 1987; Saunders, 2002). From the insect citations, we make several generalizations about photoperiodism in temperate and more polar insect populations. 1. In general, day length provides the go/no-go cue f ...
Unnatural disasters - International Fund for Animal Welfare
... purification. 15 In order for humans to thrive, we must protect biodiversity. Given that species are disappearing at an alarming rate due to the impacts of climate change and human activity, this need to prevent the further loss of biodiversity is greater than ever. ...
... purification. 15 In order for humans to thrive, we must protect biodiversity. Given that species are disappearing at an alarming rate due to the impacts of climate change and human activity, this need to prevent the further loss of biodiversity is greater than ever. ...
Climate change in Australia | Southern and South
... Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP, and we thank the climate modelling groups for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP the U.S. Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led d ...
... Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP, and we thank the climate modelling groups for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP the U.S. Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led d ...
A Climate Change Exposure Summary for Species and
... plants, and habitats, as well as the uncertainty of these projections. It is challenging to summarize climate change projections for Maine’s biodiversity. Though the future path of climate change mitigation remains as uncertain as it was three years ago, all likely paths lead to significant increase ...
... plants, and habitats, as well as the uncertainty of these projections. It is challenging to summarize climate change projections for Maine’s biodiversity. Though the future path of climate change mitigation remains as uncertain as it was three years ago, all likely paths lead to significant increase ...
Climate and finance systemic risks, more than an analogy?
... This leads us to the second reason why the notion of systemic risk is relevant for climate issues. Such a collective insurance of society is the equivalent of a value that society attributes to mitigation activities. The vehicle of such a value can theoretically take multiple forms. In the world of ...
... This leads us to the second reason why the notion of systemic risk is relevant for climate issues. Such a collective insurance of society is the equivalent of a value that society attributes to mitigation activities. The vehicle of such a value can theoretically take multiple forms. In the world of ...
Working Paper
... reelative to 1986–2005, for the SRES IPCC AR4 and RCPs do IPCC AR5. The number of models is indicated among brackets. The boxes on the right side of the panel show the mean and the wiskers show the standard deviation on the projected warming by 2100 (Knutti and Sedlacek 2013). Figure 8. Observed (a- ...
... reelative to 1986–2005, for the SRES IPCC AR4 and RCPs do IPCC AR5. The number of models is indicated among brackets. The boxes on the right side of the panel show the mean and the wiskers show the standard deviation on the projected warming by 2100 (Knutti and Sedlacek 2013). Figure 8. Observed (a- ...
terms of reference
... Mobilize and coordinate outreach efforts to international NGO’s to engage with and create opportunities for children and young people to be actively involved in a social movement to combat climate change by: o Raising awareness; o Creating or adapting innovative “glocal” solutions and/or scaling u ...
... Mobilize and coordinate outreach efforts to international NGO’s to engage with and create opportunities for children and young people to be actively involved in a social movement to combat climate change by: o Raising awareness; o Creating or adapting innovative “glocal” solutions and/or scaling u ...