The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy
... response. Climate change is likely to increase the risk of certain extreme events but the potential damages from increased severity of extreme climate events are often not included in economic analysis (IPCC, 2007b, ch19). One of the aims of the OECD project is thus to include in these local assessm ...
... response. Climate change is likely to increase the risk of certain extreme events but the potential damages from increased severity of extreme climate events are often not included in economic analysis (IPCC, 2007b, ch19). One of the aims of the OECD project is thus to include in these local assessm ...
Biological Significance, David Inouye
... – Molau, U., U. Nordenhäll, et al. (2005). "Onset of flowering and climate variability in an alpine landscape: A 10-year study from Swedish Lapland." American Journal of Botany 92(3): 422-431. – Schwartz, M. D., B. C. Reed, et al. (2002). "Assessing satellitederived start-of-season measures in the c ...
... – Molau, U., U. Nordenhäll, et al. (2005). "Onset of flowering and climate variability in an alpine landscape: A 10-year study from Swedish Lapland." American Journal of Botany 92(3): 422-431. – Schwartz, M. D., B. C. Reed, et al. (2002). "Assessing satellitederived start-of-season measures in the c ...
Adaptation planning for climate change
... mutually reinforcing (e.g. planting trees to provide additional shade in warming regions) but they can also work against each other (e.g. increasing air-conditioning powered by fossil fuels to cope with rising temperatures). There has recently been much political interest in integrating the two opti ...
... mutually reinforcing (e.g. planting trees to provide additional shade in warming regions) but they can also work against each other (e.g. increasing air-conditioning powered by fossil fuels to cope with rising temperatures). There has recently been much political interest in integrating the two opti ...
Chapter Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for
... Total anthropogenic GHG emissions have continued to increase over 1970 to 2010 with larger absolute increases between 2000 and 2010, despite a growing number of climate change mitigation policies. Anthropogenic GHG emissions in 2010 have reached 49 ± 4.5 GtCO2-eq/yr 3. Emissions of CO2 from fossil f ...
... Total anthropogenic GHG emissions have continued to increase over 1970 to 2010 with larger absolute increases between 2000 and 2010, despite a growing number of climate change mitigation policies. Anthropogenic GHG emissions in 2010 have reached 49 ± 4.5 GtCO2-eq/yr 3. Emissions of CO2 from fossil f ...
Climate Change and US National Security
... Deudney noted in a 1990 Millennium article, evoking security allows normal politics and the standard policy process to be swept aside in favor of extraordinary measures. These may be expensive and focus on parochial national interests at the expense of wider global public goods concerns. 42 Aside fr ...
... Deudney noted in a 1990 Millennium article, evoking security allows normal politics and the standard policy process to be swept aside in favor of extraordinary measures. These may be expensive and focus on parochial national interests at the expense of wider global public goods concerns. 42 Aside fr ...
Linköping University Postprint Technology obscuring equity
... ambitions of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the North, in the first commitment period, to at least on average 5% below 1990 levels (UNFCCC, 1998c, 2005a). It was intended to help achieve this by transferring cleaner technology to developing countries, which Annex 1 parties could count as certi ...
... ambitions of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the North, in the first commitment period, to at least on average 5% below 1990 levels (UNFCCC, 1998c, 2005a). It was intended to help achieve this by transferring cleaner technology to developing countries, which Annex 1 parties could count as certi ...
Impact of climate change on ozone-related mortality and morbidity in Europe
... and morbidity. Significant negative health effects have been demonstrated for different causes, mainly for respiratory and (to a lesser extent) cardiovascular diseases [14]. The majority of epidemiological studies concentrated on acute health consequences (due to short-term very high concentrations ...
... and morbidity. Significant negative health effects have been demonstrated for different causes, mainly for respiratory and (to a lesser extent) cardiovascular diseases [14]. The majority of epidemiological studies concentrated on acute health consequences (due to short-term very high concentrations ...
Chapter 2 Current Legal Challenges in Climate Change Justice
... The Kyoto Protocol has been widely criticised. Significantly, the US signed the Kyoto Protocol but never ratified it, and is thus not bound to comply with the quantified emission reduction commitments contained in Annex B.154 In addition, while larger developing countries such as Brazil, China and I ...
... The Kyoto Protocol has been widely criticised. Significantly, the US signed the Kyoto Protocol but never ratified it, and is thus not bound to comply with the quantified emission reduction commitments contained in Annex B.154 In addition, while larger developing countries such as Brazil, China and I ...
ECOSYSTEM-BASED ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE: THE
... This research project is part of the Urban Protected Areas (UPA) Network program: “Urban National Parks in Emerging Countries and Cities” (UNPEC). UNPEC is an interdisciplinary program of both basic and applied research (2012-2015) working about Cape Town, Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio and their national par ...
... This research project is part of the Urban Protected Areas (UPA) Network program: “Urban National Parks in Emerging Countries and Cities” (UNPEC). UNPEC is an interdisciplinary program of both basic and applied research (2012-2015) working about Cape Town, Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio and their national par ...
Science, Scientists, and Local Weather: Understanding Mass
... Information Environment. Because the scale of global warming transcends personal experience, public understanding of this phenomenon is reliant on a variety of information sources. The role of the media has drawn particular attention in the scholarly literature. Indeed, the mass media’s pursuit of “ ...
... Information Environment. Because the scale of global warming transcends personal experience, public understanding of this phenomenon is reliant on a variety of information sources. The role of the media has drawn particular attention in the scholarly literature. Indeed, the mass media’s pursuit of “ ...
The tipping point trend in climate change communication
... social referents, a potential conflation introduced by Gladwell’s (2000) interpretation of epidemiological perspectives. Is the notion appropriate as a description of the way physical components of the climate system change, or as a means of understanding social behavior, or both? Is it intended as a ...
... social referents, a potential conflation introduced by Gladwell’s (2000) interpretation of epidemiological perspectives. Is the notion appropriate as a description of the way physical components of the climate system change, or as a means of understanding social behavior, or both? Is it intended as a ...
Cities and climate change - Urban Climate Change Research Network
... Cities and local governments that have no binding obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for international treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol are nevertheless trying to tackle global climate change. In addition, these cities and municipal governments have formed cooperative networks to work ...
... Cities and local governments that have no binding obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for international treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol are nevertheless trying to tackle global climate change. In addition, these cities and municipal governments have formed cooperative networks to work ...
Chapter 2: International Legal Approaches: Treaties and Non
... which are also referred to as treaties. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties defines a treaty as “an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever ...
... which are also referred to as treaties. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties defines a treaty as “an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever ...
sn c project namibia
... development planning process and is also the basis of the formulation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). The CCA is built around the Triple Threat (HIV/AIDS pandemic, deepening food insecurity, and a lack of capacity at national, community and household levels), and iden ...
... development planning process and is also the basis of the formulation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). The CCA is built around the Triple Threat (HIV/AIDS pandemic, deepening food insecurity, and a lack of capacity at national, community and household levels), and iden ...
National Capacity Self-Assessment
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
No. 63, JANUARY 2010 Norbert P. Psuty, Editor
... ensuring vibrant coasts. The Conference will bring timely national attention to the challenges and opportunities for restoration and will bring together a unique blend of people involved in policy, science, strategy, business, and on-the-ground restoration work. The Conference will be held November ...
... ensuring vibrant coasts. The Conference will bring timely national attention to the challenges and opportunities for restoration and will bring together a unique blend of people involved in policy, science, strategy, business, and on-the-ground restoration work. The Conference will be held November ...
SDSM-a decision support tool for the assessment of regional
... Even if global climate models in the future are run at high resolution there will remain the need to ‘downscale’ the results from such models to individual sites or localities for impact studies (Department of the Environment, 1996; p. 34) ...
... Even if global climate models in the future are run at high resolution there will remain the need to ‘downscale’ the results from such models to individual sites or localities for impact studies (Department of the Environment, 1996; p. 34) ...
a Climate of Conflict
... more serious and far-reaching than in previous reports. The evidence and arguments of the international scientific body will be neither queried nor extended in this report. Our starting point is the IPCC’s finding that climate change and its consequences are not topics for the long-term future alone ...
... more serious and far-reaching than in previous reports. The evidence and arguments of the international scientific body will be neither queried nor extended in this report. Our starting point is the IPCC’s finding that climate change and its consequences are not topics for the long-term future alone ...
Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in
... synchrony patterns in Siberia and Spain are statistically independent (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chron ...
... synchrony patterns in Siberia and Spain are statistically independent (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chron ...
Future climate in world regions - the IPCC Data Distribution Centre
... to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Without concerted actions to cut emissions, global climate change is expected to accelerate in the future. The IPCC presented climate change projections based on the new IPCC emissions scenarios (Nakicenovic et al., 2000 – see Box on the nex ...
... to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Without concerted actions to cut emissions, global climate change is expected to accelerate in the future. The IPCC presented climate change projections based on the new IPCC emissions scenarios (Nakicenovic et al., 2000 – see Box on the nex ...
First Greenhouse Gas Inventory
... that climate change warrants a global effort in finding a solution to its adverse effects. It gives me great satisfaction that Bhutan has acknowledged the magnitude of the challenges posed by climate change and had ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during th ...
... that climate change warrants a global effort in finding a solution to its adverse effects. It gives me great satisfaction that Bhutan has acknowledged the magnitude of the challenges posed by climate change and had ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during th ...
Pandas` Bamboo Food May Be Lost to Climate Change
... The researchers used various climate-change models to project the future for three bamboo species relied on by pandas in the Qinling Mountain region of China, which represents about a quarter of the total remaining panda habitat. These models varied in their specific predictions, but each forecasted ...
... The researchers used various climate-change models to project the future for three bamboo species relied on by pandas in the Qinling Mountain region of China, which represents about a quarter of the total remaining panda habitat. These models varied in their specific predictions, but each forecasted ...
Using the UKCP09 probabilistic scenarios to model the amplified
... model is event based (driven by an hourly rainfall record) but in previous studies climate changes have been represented very simply by only increasing or decreasing the magnitude of the rainfall record. Thirdly, channel based models focus solely on how erosion and deposition within channels affects ...
... model is event based (driven by an hourly rainfall record) but in previous studies climate changes have been represented very simply by only increasing or decreasing the magnitude of the rainfall record. Thirdly, channel based models focus solely on how erosion and deposition within channels affects ...
- White Rose Research Online
... We aimed to recruit a diverse community sample through advertisements that were posted at a wide range of local community organizations, as well as online advertisements targeting the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Individuals were eligible if they were of age 18 or older, and had been living ...
... We aimed to recruit a diverse community sample through advertisements that were posted at a wide range of local community organizations, as well as online advertisements targeting the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Individuals were eligible if they were of age 18 or older, and had been living ...