Advancing adaptation through climate information services
... they usually spoke about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the reasons for focusing on climate change mitigation are manifold and convincing, it appears true that the urgent need to seriously think about, and take action on, adapting to climate change has been somewhat neglected. The relation ...
... they usually spoke about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the reasons for focusing on climate change mitigation are manifold and convincing, it appears true that the urgent need to seriously think about, and take action on, adapting to climate change has been somewhat neglected. The relation ...
`Towards a Resilient Sydney` - climate change adaptation planning
... Strategic land use planning can play an essential role to reduce the impact of climate change on communities. Matthews (2011) argues that strategic planning is well suited to embedding adaptation responses for a number of reasons: - planning tends to function at a local or regional level, and adapta ...
... Strategic land use planning can play an essential role to reduce the impact of climate change on communities. Matthews (2011) argues that strategic planning is well suited to embedding adaptation responses for a number of reasons: - planning tends to function at a local or regional level, and adapta ...
Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System
... investigator or team developing an approach, building a network and eventually moving to a systematized network, e.g., meteorological variables followed such a path and transitioned to primarily nationally operated and internationally coordinated observing enterprises by the mid-20* century. While i ...
... investigator or team developing an approach, building a network and eventually moving to a systematized network, e.g., meteorological variables followed such a path and transitioned to primarily nationally operated and internationally coordinated observing enterprises by the mid-20* century. While i ...
Print Version
... mainly unpredictable noise of more random, localized processes typically related to weather transients. The spatial scales of predictable climate signals typically increase for longer time scales, suggesting that the predictable spatial scales will be even larger for decadal variability than for sea ...
... mainly unpredictable noise of more random, localized processes typically related to weather transients. The spatial scales of predictable climate signals typically increase for longer time scales, suggesting that the predictable spatial scales will be even larger for decadal variability than for sea ...
The Role of Landscape Processes within the Climate System
... • Report global mean radiative forcing at both the surface and the top of the atmosphere in climate change assessments. • Use climate records to investigate relationships between regional radiative forcing (e.g., land use or aerosol changes) and climate response in the same region, other regions, an ...
... • Report global mean radiative forcing at both the surface and the top of the atmosphere in climate change assessments. • Use climate records to investigate relationships between regional radiative forcing (e.g., land use or aerosol changes) and climate response in the same region, other regions, an ...
concept paper 22 april DD
... or a transformative sense (in which giving value to alternative voices enables meaningful social change to occur); while Cleaver (2001) conceives of participation having both efficiency benefits and equity and empowerment benefits. Multiple experiences have pointed to the difficulties of precisely ...
... or a transformative sense (in which giving value to alternative voices enables meaningful social change to occur); while Cleaver (2001) conceives of participation having both efficiency benefits and equity and empowerment benefits. Multiple experiences have pointed to the difficulties of precisely ...
WRS-08 Presentation
... weather forecasting, disaster prediction, detection, mitigation of negative effect of disasters and data exchange and dissimilation ...
... weather forecasting, disaster prediction, detection, mitigation of negative effect of disasters and data exchange and dissimilation ...
Statistical Classification of Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems for
... which are needed for the ecological interpretation of the environmental quality in terms of ecological stability and resilience (Ruxton 1968). Contrary to species which are used to indicate single aspects of habitat quality or pollution, ecoregions are more complex indicators which comprehensively d ...
... which are needed for the ecological interpretation of the environmental quality in terms of ecological stability and resilience (Ruxton 1968). Contrary to species which are used to indicate single aspects of habitat quality or pollution, ecoregions are more complex indicators which comprehensively d ...
Images are courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center
... Over the present climate slice, the multi-model ensemble mean reproduce the regional warming around the AP associated with the SAM. When increasing GHG, warming in the neighborhoods of the AP (and decreasing of sea-ice volume in the sea-ice edge region) intensifies. This result suggests that r ...
... Over the present climate slice, the multi-model ensemble mean reproduce the regional warming around the AP associated with the SAM. When increasing GHG, warming in the neighborhoods of the AP (and decreasing of sea-ice volume in the sea-ice edge region) intensifies. This result suggests that r ...
Folie 1 - uni
... Box 3: Climate Models: How are they built and how are they applied? Comprehensive climate models are based on physical laws represented by mathematical equations that are solved using a three-dimensional grid over the globe. For climate simulation, the major components of the climate system must be ...
... Box 3: Climate Models: How are they built and how are they applied? Comprehensive climate models are based on physical laws represented by mathematical equations that are solved using a three-dimensional grid over the globe. For climate simulation, the major components of the climate system must be ...
Climate finance briefing: the global climate finance architecture
... approaching USD 30 billion between 2010 and 2012. While contributor countries at the end of the fast-start finance period selfreported that these targets were exceeded (Nakhooda, Fransen et al. 2013), the Paris Agreement reiterates that developed countries should take the lead in mobilizing climate ...
... approaching USD 30 billion between 2010 and 2012. While contributor countries at the end of the fast-start finance period selfreported that these targets were exceeded (Nakhooda, Fransen et al. 2013), the Paris Agreement reiterates that developed countries should take the lead in mobilizing climate ...
Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: climate change and
... in India that are ‘‘double exposed’’; and (4) conducting case studies in selected districts. This method may be used to assess differential vulnerability for any particular sector within a nation or region, and it can serve as a basis for targeting policy interventions. We focus on India’s agricultu ...
... in India that are ‘‘double exposed’’; and (4) conducting case studies in selected districts. This method may be used to assess differential vulnerability for any particular sector within a nation or region, and it can serve as a basis for targeting policy interventions. We focus on India’s agricultu ...
Final Programme
... A serious problem observed today is the fact that because the phenomena of climate change is global in nature, many people do not believe it is related to them. Yet, most impacts of climate change are local in nature. The sooner people (especially decision-makers but also representatives from indust ...
... A serious problem observed today is the fact that because the phenomena of climate change is global in nature, many people do not believe it is related to them. Yet, most impacts of climate change are local in nature. The sooner people (especially decision-makers but also representatives from indust ...
Empathy and Climate Change
... individuals who do not yet exist and whom we shall never meet. While we are aware of some impacts of global warming today, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted act ...
... individuals who do not yet exist and whom we shall never meet. While we are aware of some impacts of global warming today, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted act ...
The Effects of Climate Change on Public Health and the Healthcare
... with unadapted architecture and limited air conditioning” (McMichael, p.58, 2003). Climatological modeling of heat wave impacts in urban populations suggests that many United States’ cities will experience, on average, several hundred extra deaths each summer. (McMichael, 2003) A relation between te ...
... with unadapted architecture and limited air conditioning” (McMichael, p.58, 2003). Climatological modeling of heat wave impacts in urban populations suggests that many United States’ cities will experience, on average, several hundred extra deaths each summer. (McMichael, 2003) A relation between te ...
A RICARDIAN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
... (IPCC, 2001a; 2007). However, there remains considerable debate about how harmful climate change will actually be (IPCC, 2001b). This paper examines the impact of climate change on agriculture in South America. Agriculture accounts for 8.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in South America (World Ban ...
... (IPCC, 2001a; 2007). However, there remains considerable debate about how harmful climate change will actually be (IPCC, 2001b). This paper examines the impact of climate change on agriculture in South America. Agriculture accounts for 8.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in South America (World Ban ...
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
... this distinction is. The social relations that science involves necessarily influence both the character of scientific understandings upstream and the particular political outcomes that may result from them downstream in legislation or administrative law rulings. Unfortunately, public representation ...
... this distinction is. The social relations that science involves necessarily influence both the character of scientific understandings upstream and the particular political outcomes that may result from them downstream in legislation or administrative law rulings. Unfortunately, public representation ...
Chapter 14 Tourism, leisure and sport
... each country having to adapt to climate effects. The parameters were assessed with different weightings and broken down into subcategories, in order to differentiate better among the countries. The time horizon is 2030. In a subsequent step countries were identified in which economic reliance on cli ...
... each country having to adapt to climate effects. The parameters were assessed with different weightings and broken down into subcategories, in order to differentiate better among the countries. The time horizon is 2030. In a subsequent step countries were identified in which economic reliance on cli ...
The Northern Edge Study Guide: Climate Change
... Conference. They defend the interests of Inuit living in Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia. Ken: What did she say? Jim: I took some notes when I read her speech. Ms.Watt-Cloutier says we are at a key moment in the history of the planet. She says the earth is melting and we must come together and ...
... Conference. They defend the interests of Inuit living in Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia. Ken: What did she say? Jim: I took some notes when I read her speech. Ms.Watt-Cloutier says we are at a key moment in the history of the planet. She says the earth is melting and we must come together and ...