Applying the VFM framework to business case design and appraisal
... in the context of uncertainty associated with future climate change. However, the guidance does not provide ex-ante advice to design teams on what type of resilience interventions might provide early socio-economic returns prior to their appraisal. In response, DFID more recently commissioned work t ...
... in the context of uncertainty associated with future climate change. However, the guidance does not provide ex-ante advice to design teams on what type of resilience interventions might provide early socio-economic returns prior to their appraisal. In response, DFID more recently commissioned work t ...
Read and the brochure here
... Standardised high-precision observations of greenhouse gases enable scientists to support the societies in their efforts to mitigate climate change. Knowledge on greenhouse gases requires a wide span of methods and instruments covering in-situ observations, satellites, data integration and modeling. ...
... Standardised high-precision observations of greenhouse gases enable scientists to support the societies in their efforts to mitigate climate change. Knowledge on greenhouse gases requires a wide span of methods and instruments covering in-situ observations, satellites, data integration and modeling. ...
Call for proposals - Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
... understand the impacts of such solutions and draw lessons for scaling them up. It will gather and disseminate evidence in appropriate forms to key audiences, with a view to strengthening the capacity of farmers and stakeholders to develop, identify and adopt policies and practices that help agricul ...
... understand the impacts of such solutions and draw lessons for scaling them up. It will gather and disseminate evidence in appropriate forms to key audiences, with a view to strengthening the capacity of farmers and stakeholders to develop, identify and adopt policies and practices that help agricul ...
Mechanisms of the African monsoon: new insights from
... a scientific community focused on West Africa and around the issues concerning the monsoon and its impacts. Future plans therefore envisage the effective use of AMMA data around the linking themes Societies-Environment-Climate, maintenance of a strong mobilization of the international community gear ...
... a scientific community focused on West Africa and around the issues concerning the monsoon and its impacts. Future plans therefore envisage the effective use of AMMA data around the linking themes Societies-Environment-Climate, maintenance of a strong mobilization of the international community gear ...
Interannual variability and expected regional climate change over
... Until recently, climate change research concentrated particularly on long-term changes despite user needs becoming increasingly focused on shorter terms. The reason for this dissonance between users and scientists was usually stated in the following way: in the short term, climate variability would ...
... Until recently, climate change research concentrated particularly on long-term changes despite user needs becoming increasingly focused on shorter terms. The reason for this dissonance between users and scientists was usually stated in the following way: in the short term, climate variability would ...
The Effects of Climate Change on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights
... enjoyment of a broad range of human rights. The United Nations Human Rights Council has stated that “climate change poses an immediate and far-reaching threat to people and communities around the world and has adverse implications for the full enjoyment of human rights.”1 In October 2014, 27 special ...
... enjoyment of a broad range of human rights. The United Nations Human Rights Council has stated that “climate change poses an immediate and far-reaching threat to people and communities around the world and has adverse implications for the full enjoyment of human rights.”1 In October 2014, 27 special ...
674_0 - Global Environment Facility
... Obligations cover a wide scope of issues that have mixed facets from environmental, social and economic considerations. These are of the sustainable development pillars at a macro-level perspective, and can be seen as being supported by any climate change issues based on the provisions of the UNFCCC ...
... Obligations cover a wide scope of issues that have mixed facets from environmental, social and economic considerations. These are of the sustainable development pillars at a macro-level perspective, and can be seen as being supported by any climate change issues based on the provisions of the UNFCCC ...
The science of climate change in Africa: impacts and
... Resilience is important at national, regional and local levels, and involves not only technologies, but also appropriate economic policies and institutional arrangements. It is the poor who will be most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. To some extent the process of development itself may ...
... Resilience is important at national, regional and local levels, and involves not only technologies, but also appropriate economic policies and institutional arrangements. It is the poor who will be most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. To some extent the process of development itself may ...
Report on Fifth Assessment Report 6
... Policymakers (SPM), which is approved in detail by all member countries of the IPCC and represents a formally agreed statement on key findings and uncertainties (IPCC, July 2014). The SPMs for all three Working Group’s (WG) have been published over 2013-14, along with the full report for WG I in Jan ...
... Policymakers (SPM), which is approved in detail by all member countries of the IPCC and represents a formally agreed statement on key findings and uncertainties (IPCC, July 2014). The SPMs for all three Working Group’s (WG) have been published over 2013-14, along with the full report for WG I in Jan ...
Climate Change and Insecurity in the Global South
... Bangladesh is a ‘frontline state’ of climate change, predicted to be one of the first and the hardest hit countries to face the adverse impacts of warmer global temperatures. This is particularly due to its unique geographic location, dominance of floodplains, low elevation from the sea, high popula ...
... Bangladesh is a ‘frontline state’ of climate change, predicted to be one of the first and the hardest hit countries to face the adverse impacts of warmer global temperatures. This is particularly due to its unique geographic location, dominance of floodplains, low elevation from the sea, high popula ...
Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational
... level. In Europe, public spending cuts have seen renewable energy subsidies suffer, most notably in the solar power industry (Fortson, 2012). If investments in renewable technologies are crucial to address climate change then industry and policy strategies appear to be reversing direction. Subsidies ...
... level. In Europe, public spending cuts have seen renewable energy subsidies suffer, most notably in the solar power industry (Fortson, 2012). If investments in renewable technologies are crucial to address climate change then industry and policy strategies appear to be reversing direction. Subsidies ...
Beyond the Tipping Point: Understanding Perceptions of Abrupt
... b. A climate of fear The different ways in which the uncertain science and speculative impacts of abrupt climate changes are interpreted inevitably extends to the ways in which they and the risks they pose are communicated across societies. Such uncertainty is frequently deployed in climate change d ...
... b. A climate of fear The different ways in which the uncertain science and speculative impacts of abrupt climate changes are interpreted inevitably extends to the ways in which they and the risks they pose are communicated across societies. Such uncertainty is frequently deployed in climate change d ...
Climate Change Reporting Taxonomy
... Investors Signatories to the Carbon Disclosure Project BRAG ...
... Investors Signatories to the Carbon Disclosure Project BRAG ...
Simple indices of global climate variability and change: Part I
... to greenhouse forcing, the observed correlation structure of the indices is compared with forced and unforced model simulations. The instrumental observational record is short (only about 120 years of useful information) and estimates of internal, natural climate variability may be affected by contam ...
... to greenhouse forcing, the observed correlation structure of the indices is compared with forced and unforced model simulations. The instrumental observational record is short (only about 120 years of useful information) and estimates of internal, natural climate variability may be affected by contam ...
nd-gain_technical_document_2015_do_not_print
... practitioners, and global development experts. The indicators included in ND-GAIN were chosen to fit within the structure described above and to meet the following criteria: ...
... practitioners, and global development experts. The indicators included in ND-GAIN were chosen to fit within the structure described above and to meet the following criteria: ...
Climate Change and Small Island Developing States
... This paper reviews published work and projects on climate change and SIDS, covering impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation. Although only climate change is considered, the wider context of climate variability, both natural and human-caused and including extreme events, cannot be entirely separated f ...
... This paper reviews published work and projects on climate change and SIDS, covering impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation. Although only climate change is considered, the wider context of climate variability, both natural and human-caused and including extreme events, cannot be entirely separated f ...
Iyigun et al._2013_Clustering climate regions of
... Chain based on expectation-maximization (EM-MCMC). It has been concluded that the EM-MCMC method is the most appropriate one compared to the others. Depending on this result, in our study, all missing values for the nine variables were imputed by EM-MCMC method for at most 50 % missing series. The i ...
... Chain based on expectation-maximization (EM-MCMC). It has been concluded that the EM-MCMC method is the most appropriate one compared to the others. Depending on this result, in our study, all missing values for the nine variables were imputed by EM-MCMC method for at most 50 % missing series. The i ...