Development finance and climate finance - IIED
... origin. The vast bulk of renewable energy investments in developing countries are happening in MICs with China, India and South Africa making up 72 per cent of the developing world total of US$93 billion. This is particularly the case with China, which is now the world’s largest renewable energy inv ...
... origin. The vast bulk of renewable energy investments in developing countries are happening in MICs with China, India and South Africa making up 72 per cent of the developing world total of US$93 billion. This is particularly the case with China, which is now the world’s largest renewable energy inv ...
World Bank Document
... approach, vulnerability is a residual of climate change impacts after adaptation; therefore, it is the net impact of climate change (Ribot, 1995; Clark et al, 2000; Luers, 2003). Most index vulnerability assessments have applied the “endpoint” approach looking at historic climatic variability, witho ...
... approach, vulnerability is a residual of climate change impacts after adaptation; therefore, it is the net impact of climate change (Ribot, 1995; Clark et al, 2000; Luers, 2003). Most index vulnerability assessments have applied the “endpoint” approach looking at historic climatic variability, witho ...
Sensitivity of Northern Peatland Carbon
... suitable for long-term peat C accumulation is the result of various thermal-moisture associations and precipitation seasonality. In the same way, climate histories and temperature and precipitation associations in the past were likely also very different between regions. As a result, a regional pers ...
... suitable for long-term peat C accumulation is the result of various thermal-moisture associations and precipitation seasonality. In the same way, climate histories and temperature and precipitation associations in the past were likely also very different between regions. As a result, a regional pers ...
Climate Satellites Affirmative - NDI - 2011
... sustained or exceeded for any extended period of time (see Science: CO2 levels haven’t been this high for 15 million years, when it was 5° to 10°F warmer and seas were 75 to 120 feet higher). Hansen and Sato go further, saying we’re actually at or very near the highest temperatures of the current Ho ...
... sustained or exceeded for any extended period of time (see Science: CO2 levels haven’t been this high for 15 million years, when it was 5° to 10°F warmer and seas were 75 to 120 feet higher). Hansen and Sato go further, saying we’re actually at or very near the highest temperatures of the current Ho ...
Executive Summary - Forest Watch
... Make Difficult Decisions in the Face of Uncertainties – While there are uncertainties associated with climate change issues, there is still a great deal of consensus among the scientific community regarding these issues. The uncertainties should not lead to inaction. Rather, rational steps should be ...
... Make Difficult Decisions in the Face of Uncertainties – While there are uncertainties associated with climate change issues, there is still a great deal of consensus among the scientific community regarding these issues. The uncertainties should not lead to inaction. Rather, rational steps should be ...
German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change - BMUB
... (IPCC) and, as far as the changes expected in the various regions of Germany are concerned, on a comparative analysis of the latest findings of the available regional models. The findings of these models are subject to substantial uncertainties. However, where the various models come to similar find ...
... (IPCC) and, as far as the changes expected in the various regions of Germany are concerned, on a comparative analysis of the latest findings of the available regional models. The findings of these models are subject to substantial uncertainties. However, where the various models come to similar find ...
Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review*
... changing to new seeds. On the other hand, if autonomous adaptation reduces the need for planned adaptation and vice versa, then they are substitutes. There are plenty of examples of this type of relationship. For instance, if the government, in anticipation of increased variability of precipitati ...
... changing to new seeds. On the other hand, if autonomous adaptation reduces the need for planned adaptation and vice versa, then they are substitutes. There are plenty of examples of this type of relationship. For instance, if the government, in anticipation of increased variability of precipitati ...
Impacts of climate change on disadvantaged UK coastal communities
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
climate change in the courts
... period. These cases are almost entirely concentrated in five jurisdictions, with no climate change litigation in the vast majority of countries worldwide. After the U.S., the country with the largest volume of climate litigation is Australia. Climate litigation there is dominated by disputes about t ...
... period. These cases are almost entirely concentrated in five jurisdictions, with no climate change litigation in the vast majority of countries worldwide. After the U.S., the country with the largest volume of climate litigation is Australia. Climate litigation there is dominated by disputes about t ...
Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature
... The mean monthly maximum and minimum tem- DTRfrom both of these regions. Meanwhile,work from peratures are derived from an average of the daily another data exchange agreement, a bilateral agreemaximum and minimum temperatures. The mean ment between the UnitedStates and the former USSR monthly diurn ...
... The mean monthly maximum and minimum tem- DTRfrom both of these regions. Meanwhile,work from peratures are derived from an average of the daily another data exchange agreement, a bilateral agreemaximum and minimum temperatures. The mean ment between the UnitedStates and the former USSR monthly diurn ...
PDF - Florida Climate Change Task Force
... biodiversity, and we recommend an active adaptive management framework to achieve this goal. The application of adaptive management demands that science take a leading role in management. As we outline here, the major scientific research needs are to improve predictive ecological models and their ap ...
... biodiversity, and we recommend an active adaptive management framework to achieve this goal. The application of adaptive management demands that science take a leading role in management. As we outline here, the major scientific research needs are to improve predictive ecological models and their ap ...
Chapter 12. Human Security - Center for International Earth Science
... This Chapter reviews empirical studies from the social and physical sciences using both quantitative and qualitative data. Some studies examine the interactions between environmental changes and social outcomes. Few explicitly address climate change and human security links, but provide evidence of ...
... This Chapter reviews empirical studies from the social and physical sciences using both quantitative and qualitative data. Some studies examine the interactions between environmental changes and social outcomes. Few explicitly address climate change and human security links, but provide evidence of ...
The Critical Decade 2013
... The Climate Commission brings together internationally renowned climate scientists, as well as policy and business leaders, to provide an independent and reliable source of information about climate change to the Australian public. This is the Climate Commission’s 26th publication and follows a seri ...
... The Climate Commission brings together internationally renowned climate scientists, as well as policy and business leaders, to provide an independent and reliable source of information about climate change to the Australian public. This is the Climate Commission’s 26th publication and follows a seri ...
The Paris Agreement and Beyond: International Climate Change
... The Paris Agreement is a breakthrough in multilateral efforts to address the threat of global climate change. For the first time, an international agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions includes contributions from all of the major-emitting countries—and, indeed, a large majority of the countri ...
... The Paris Agreement is a breakthrough in multilateral efforts to address the threat of global climate change. For the first time, an international agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions includes contributions from all of the major-emitting countries—and, indeed, a large majority of the countri ...
Queensland Climate Change Centre of
... Minister’s foreword Sustainability is the ultimate whole-of-government — indeed, whole of society — issue. Sustainability must be the foundation upon which we build economic strength and natural resilience. It’s the beginning and the end of any discussion about society’s future. Sustainability isn’ ...
... Minister’s foreword Sustainability is the ultimate whole-of-government — indeed, whole of society — issue. Sustainability must be the foundation upon which we build economic strength and natural resilience. It’s the beginning and the end of any discussion about society’s future. Sustainability isn’ ...
Identifying adaptation options
... make and implement the required decision(s). This normally includes appropriate representatives from the organisation considering the adaptive responses, plus representatives from relevant professional groups, additional scientific and, technical expertise, and representatives of regulatory and legi ...
... make and implement the required decision(s). This normally includes appropriate representatives from the organisation considering the adaptive responses, plus representatives from relevant professional groups, additional scientific and, technical expertise, and representatives of regulatory and legi ...
text - Tilburg University
... includes the difficulties for the decision maker to assess the nature of the alleged harm feared, and the identification of whether the source of that harm is attributable to climate change. Lastly, the decision maker would need to assess whether that harm amounts to a violation of a human right, fo ...
... includes the difficulties for the decision maker to assess the nature of the alleged harm feared, and the identification of whether the source of that harm is attributable to climate change. Lastly, the decision maker would need to assess whether that harm amounts to a violation of a human right, fo ...
Target Atmospheric CO : Where Should Humanity Aim?
... vegetation distribution, and continental shelf exposure, was 3.5 ± 1 W/m2 [14] relative to the Holocene. Additional forcing due to reduced amounts of long-lived GHGs (CO2, CH4, N2O), including the indirect effects of CH4 on tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor (Fig. S1) was -3 ± 0.5 W/m2 ...
... vegetation distribution, and continental shelf exposure, was 3.5 ± 1 W/m2 [14] relative to the Holocene. Additional forcing due to reduced amounts of long-lived GHGs (CO2, CH4, N2O), including the indirect effects of CH4 on tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor (Fig. S1) was -3 ± 0.5 W/m2 ...
