The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Insurance Regulation
... kind, gentle and insightful man that this white paper is dedicated. INTRODUCTION Global warming and the associated climate change represent a significant challenge for Americans. As regulators of one of the largest American industries, the insurance industry, it is essential that we assess and, to t ...
... kind, gentle and insightful man that this white paper is dedicated. INTRODUCTION Global warming and the associated climate change represent a significant challenge for Americans. As regulators of one of the largest American industries, the insurance industry, it is essential that we assess and, to t ...
Can actuaries really afford to ignore climate
... Our goal has been to make use of the most reliable and most up to date climate science available, and to avoid conclusions that are not supported by the majority of climate scientists. In order to achieve this, we have collaborated with Professor Andy Pitman, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
... Our goal has been to make use of the most reliable and most up to date climate science available, and to avoid conclusions that are not supported by the majority of climate scientists. In order to achieve this, we have collaborated with Professor Andy Pitman, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
weather and climate: engaging youth
... in the series is by a student from the Ferney-Voltaire International School, reporting on the WMO-supported “Model United Nations” event on climate change, which took place in January. WMO Members and others in the meteorology community “engage” youth as part of their mandates. Space only permits us ...
... in the series is by a student from the Ferney-Voltaire International School, reporting on the WMO-supported “Model United Nations” event on climate change, which took place in January. WMO Members and others in the meteorology community “engage” youth as part of their mandates. Space only permits us ...
New England Climate Adaptation PROJECT - NECAP
... planning and public engagement strategies going forward. Based on the stakeholder and risk assessment findings, MIT project staff wrote a role-play game tailored to each test site. In Wells, the role-play was for the fictitious town of Launton, which was given a geography and population very similar ...
... planning and public engagement strategies going forward. Based on the stakeholder and risk assessment findings, MIT project staff wrote a role-play game tailored to each test site. In Wells, the role-play was for the fictitious town of Launton, which was given a geography and population very similar ...
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... The pursuit of climate adaptation has expanded rapidly in recent years, due to increasing awareness of its potential value with respect to reducing societal and ecological vulnerability to current climate variability, while managing the risks posed by future climate change [1–4]. Whereas once adapta ...
... The pursuit of climate adaptation has expanded rapidly in recent years, due to increasing awareness of its potential value with respect to reducing societal and ecological vulnerability to current climate variability, while managing the risks posed by future climate change [1–4]. Whereas once adapta ...
potential effects of climate change on ecosystem and tree species
... that shifts in vegetation zones are not entirely determined by shifts in climate. It has been shown that soil, local topography, groundwater level, and other factors may influence plant species distributions (Talkkari and Hypen 1996, Iverson and Prasad 1998). Furthermore, under climate change the int ...
... that shifts in vegetation zones are not entirely determined by shifts in climate. It has been shown that soil, local topography, groundwater level, and other factors may influence plant species distributions (Talkkari and Hypen 1996, Iverson and Prasad 1998). Furthermore, under climate change the int ...
Selected International Legal Materials on Global Warming and
... 1. Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war. The Earth's atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful foss ...
... 1. Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war. The Earth's atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful foss ...
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... Agriculture (CIAT) in collaboration with other research centers and producer cooperatives. The sites were in 19 countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, Yemen, Indonesia ...
... Agriculture (CIAT) in collaboration with other research centers and producer cooperatives. The sites were in 19 countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, Yemen, Indonesia ...
Towards Policy Integration of Disaster Risk, Climate Adaptation, and
... Agriculture and Agrifood, Marine Department, Fisheries Department, Department of Environmental and Recreation, among others, are responsible for early warnings. ...
... Agriculture and Agrifood, Marine Department, Fisheries Department, Department of Environmental and Recreation, among others, are responsible for early warnings. ...
Small Island States
... on a seasonal and decadal time scale. It is probable that such an association may dominate over any effects attributable to global warming. Given their high vulnerability and low adaptive capacity to climate change, communities in the small island states have legitimate concerns about their future o ...
... on a seasonal and decadal time scale. It is probable that such an association may dominate over any effects attributable to global warming. Given their high vulnerability and low adaptive capacity to climate change, communities in the small island states have legitimate concerns about their future o ...
Kenya Talks Climate
... fundamental shortage of relevant, useful information for African audiences. The intensive media coverage and public awareness campaigns prevalent in much of the industrialised world have been largely absent in Africa, particularly outside major urban centres. Too often, African voices are absent fro ...
... fundamental shortage of relevant, useful information for African audiences. The intensive media coverage and public awareness campaigns prevalent in much of the industrialised world have been largely absent in Africa, particularly outside major urban centres. Too often, African voices are absent fro ...
International Legal Protection for Climate Refugees: Where Lies the
... earth, a balance exists between incoming and outgoing solar radiation.6 However, minor imbalances can cause global heating or cooling.7 Natural sources of forcing, a term used to describe interruptions in the main elements that influence the earth’s climate, “are behind geological shifts in climate ...
... earth, a balance exists between incoming and outgoing solar radiation.6 However, minor imbalances can cause global heating or cooling.7 Natural sources of forcing, a term used to describe interruptions in the main elements that influence the earth’s climate, “are behind geological shifts in climate ...
Regional Summaries - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... Sub-Saharan Africa is a rapidly developing region of over 800 million people, with 49 countries,1 and great ecological, climatic, and cultural diversity. By 2050, its population is projected to approach 1.5–1.9 billion people. With a 4°C global warming by the end of the century, sea level is proj ...
... Sub-Saharan Africa is a rapidly developing region of over 800 million people, with 49 countries,1 and great ecological, climatic, and cultural diversity. By 2050, its population is projected to approach 1.5–1.9 billion people. With a 4°C global warming by the end of the century, sea level is proj ...
We Stand as One: Children, Young People and Climate Change
... the school that moved After a landslide tragically killed 1,100 people in 2006 in the Philippines town of Guinsangon in Southern Leyte, the Philippines Government ordered a study which found the Santa Paz National High School and its 379 students were directly in the path of a potential future lands ...
... the school that moved After a landslide tragically killed 1,100 people in 2006 in the Philippines town of Guinsangon in Southern Leyte, the Philippines Government ordered a study which found the Santa Paz National High School and its 379 students were directly in the path of a potential future lands ...
Let`s Talk Health and Climate
... 83% agree that clean air is a personal right that should be available to all people.17 However, Americans are not making the connection between climate and health. ...
... 83% agree that clean air is a personal right that should be available to all people.17 However, Americans are not making the connection between climate and health. ...
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... World Food Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products in this publication does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended ...
... World Food Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products in this publication does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended ...
Hydro_CC_0729 - University of Washington
... spatial patterns based on observations (i.e. GHCN P and NCAR P) bear a considerable resemblance to each other with positive change over the United States, southeastern South America and Western Australia and negative change over large part of Siberia and Africa. There are large regional differences, ...
... spatial patterns based on observations (i.e. GHCN P and NCAR P) bear a considerable resemblance to each other with positive change over the United States, southeastern South America and Western Australia and negative change over large part of Siberia and Africa. There are large regional differences, ...
How does climate mitigation policy affect adaptation? An empirical
... landscape change under both climate change and climate policy scenarios. Since forest replanting only occurs upon harvest, the simulation generates the share of forestland harvested and subsequently replanted in repeated 10-year intervals. For example, we simulate harvest and replanting in the 2020’ ...
... landscape change under both climate change and climate policy scenarios. Since forest replanting only occurs upon harvest, the simulation generates the share of forestland harvested and subsequently replanted in repeated 10-year intervals. For example, we simulate harvest and replanting in the 2020’ ...
Building bridges: Supporting adaptation in industry VCCAR think
... productivity is maintained and that key industry sectors continue to grow. Understanding how this can be achieved on a sector-by-sector basis, requires an appreciation of the changing threats and opportunities the economy is likely to face in a changing climate. With the exception of a few sectors s ...
... productivity is maintained and that key industry sectors continue to grow. Understanding how this can be achieved on a sector-by-sector basis, requires an appreciation of the changing threats and opportunities the economy is likely to face in a changing climate. With the exception of a few sectors s ...
Assessment of impacts of agricultural and climate change scenarios
... fects of historical land use change due to the influence of Chinese government programs (Zuo et al., 2016; G. H. Liu et al., 2015; W. Liu et al., 2015) and scenarios that reflect hypothetical shifts between various percentages of urban, forest, agricultural and other land use (Zhang et al., 2015, 20 ...
... fects of historical land use change due to the influence of Chinese government programs (Zuo et al., 2016; G. H. Liu et al., 2015; W. Liu et al., 2015) and scenarios that reflect hypothetical shifts between various percentages of urban, forest, agricultural and other land use (Zhang et al., 2015, 20 ...
General Law on Climate Change Mexico
... XVII. Establish the foundations and instruments required to strengthen institutional and sectorial mitigation capacities; XVIII. Establish the foundations and instruments required to promote and sustain the competitiveness of the productive sectors, by moving towards a sustainable and low-carbon emi ...
... XVII. Establish the foundations and instruments required to strengthen institutional and sectorial mitigation capacities; XVIII. Establish the foundations and instruments required to promote and sustain the competitiveness of the productive sectors, by moving towards a sustainable and low-carbon emi ...
Guidance to the interaction between POPs and climate change and
... impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher health risks both for human populations and the environment from hazardous substances. To s ...
... impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher health risks both for human populations and the environment from hazardous substances. To s ...
Northern Hemisphere glaciation and the evolution of Plio
... Received 29 July 2009; revised 3 December 2009; accepted 20 January 2010; published 4 August 2010. ...
... Received 29 July 2009; revised 3 December 2009; accepted 20 January 2010; published 4 August 2010. ...
Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change
... be built into development planning from the start.3 For every dollar invested in disaster risk reduction and preparedness, roughly seven dollars are saved in disaster response.4 In signing the Hyogo Declaration in 2005, 168 Governments acknowledged that working to reduce disaster risks, especially a ...
... be built into development planning from the start.3 For every dollar invested in disaster risk reduction and preparedness, roughly seven dollars are saved in disaster response.4 In signing the Hyogo Declaration in 2005, 168 Governments acknowledged that working to reduce disaster risks, especially a ...