Setting a long-term climate objective
... Members of the International Taskforce on Climate Change agreed at their meeting in Windsor UK in March 2004 that the Taskforce should make a recommendation on a global, long-term objective to guide action on climate change. The case for doing so is persuasive. Each of the countries that have ratifi ...
... Members of the International Taskforce on Climate Change agreed at their meeting in Windsor UK in March 2004 that the Taskforce should make a recommendation on a global, long-term objective to guide action on climate change. The case for doing so is persuasive. Each of the countries that have ratifi ...
Explaining Media and Congressional Attention to Global Climate
... important works on agenda setting, Jones and Baumgartner argue, like Kingdon, that relevant information surrounding an issue (including problem indicators and information feedback) is important to decision makers' attention but, so too, is the significant event that provides sudden information shock ...
... important works on agenda setting, Jones and Baumgartner argue, like Kingdon, that relevant information surrounding an issue (including problem indicators and information feedback) is important to decision makers' attention but, so too, is the significant event that provides sudden information shock ...
Planning for climate change impacts on hydropower in the Far North
... arrive in liquid form and be available earlier in the season for hydropower generation, rather than stored in the snowpack until spring melt. In the Far North, ET is a relatively small portion of the hydrologic budget and precipitation dominates (Kane et al., 1990), though ET will increase as the gr ...
... arrive in liquid form and be available earlier in the season for hydropower generation, rather than stored in the snowpack until spring melt. In the Far North, ET is a relatively small portion of the hydrologic budget and precipitation dominates (Kane et al., 1990), though ET will increase as the gr ...
Key steps in adaptation assessment for LULUCF sector
... How to scope a sector Determine specific subsectors that will be included e.g. within agriculture: crop cultivation, livestock, fishing ...
... How to scope a sector Determine specific subsectors that will be included e.g. within agriculture: crop cultivation, livestock, fishing ...
Biogeosciences
... investment horizons of 10 to 30 years. Although the deficiencies of BC are known, the effects of BC on the climate change signal and hence the consequences of BC on hydrometeorology, biogeochemistry, ecological, and agricultural estimates are still unclear. Recently, studies have attempted to quanti ...
... investment horizons of 10 to 30 years. Although the deficiencies of BC are known, the effects of BC on the climate change signal and hence the consequences of BC on hydrometeorology, biogeochemistry, ecological, and agricultural estimates are still unclear. Recently, studies have attempted to quanti ...
2.0 air quality, climate and climate change
... The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a comprehensively researched, fully referenced and independently reviewed evaluation of climate change and its impacts for the region and for the world. The Overview Report entitled “Impacts of a Warming Arctic” (November 2004) concludes that: “The Arct ...
... The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a comprehensively researched, fully referenced and independently reviewed evaluation of climate change and its impacts for the region and for the world. The Overview Report entitled “Impacts of a Warming Arctic” (November 2004) concludes that: “The Arct ...
Titel
... "The insurance industry has always played a key role in helping business and society understand new risks. We provide an early warning, if you will. Allianz believes it is already seeing signs that climate change is a serious emerging risk, and we expect it to remain a top-tier issue for the insuran ...
... "The insurance industry has always played a key role in helping business and society understand new risks. We provide an early warning, if you will. Allianz believes it is already seeing signs that climate change is a serious emerging risk, and we expect it to remain a top-tier issue for the insuran ...
Global urban land-use trends and climate impacts
... How urban areas develop — whether expansive or compact, with multifamily residential complexes or single family homes, automobile dependent or enabling multiple forms of transportation, with mixed-use or single-use zoning — affects transportation choices and travel behavior [14,15], and determines i ...
... How urban areas develop — whether expansive or compact, with multifamily residential complexes or single family homes, automobile dependent or enabling multiple forms of transportation, with mixed-use or single-use zoning — affects transportation choices and travel behavior [14,15], and determines i ...
Climate Predictions and Projections Program
... • Global Change Research Act: This act mandates the development of a research program whose goal is to understand climate variability and its predictability • Weather Service Organic Act: Outlines NOAA’s responsibility to produce climate forecasts • Coastal Zone Management Act: Requires understandin ...
... • Global Change Research Act: This act mandates the development of a research program whose goal is to understand climate variability and its predictability • Weather Service Organic Act: Outlines NOAA’s responsibility to produce climate forecasts • Coastal Zone Management Act: Requires understandin ...
Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow
... differences, the nature and implications of which we summarize below, highlight the need for the ...
... differences, the nature and implications of which we summarize below, highlight the need for the ...
Lessons from the field: experiences of FAO climate change projects
... impacts and choose appropriate tools for adaptation and mitigation. The provision of household level data, biological field data collection, geospatial information from remote sensing and maps, and robust projections of climate change impacts is crucial to guide policies and planning for policy-make ...
... impacts and choose appropriate tools for adaptation and mitigation. The provision of household level data, biological field data collection, geospatial information from remote sensing and maps, and robust projections of climate change impacts is crucial to guide policies and planning for policy-make ...
Author`s personal copy - College of DuPage Weather
... Dynamically downscaled global reanalysis data (with an initial input horizontal grid spacing similar to many GCMs) has accurately represented HCW during the peak of the convective season (May–June; Trapp et al. 2011; Robinson et al. 2013). The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) control ...
... Dynamically downscaled global reanalysis data (with an initial input horizontal grid spacing similar to many GCMs) has accurately represented HCW during the peak of the convective season (May–June; Trapp et al. 2011; Robinson et al. 2013). The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) control ...
Background Report on ICTs and Climate Change
... The Perspective from Latin America This is the first ITU Symposium on Climate Change to take place in a developing country and the first in Latin America. Thus, this Symposium presents an occasion to focus on issues with respect to climate change that are most relevant to developing countries as wel ...
... The Perspective from Latin America This is the first ITU Symposium on Climate Change to take place in a developing country and the first in Latin America. Thus, this Symposium presents an occasion to focus on issues with respect to climate change that are most relevant to developing countries as wel ...
CSKT Climate Change Strategic Plan
... effects, that lessen harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. It includes reducing the vulnerability of people, places, and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change. ...
... effects, that lessen harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. It includes reducing the vulnerability of people, places, and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change. ...
Climate Engineering under the Paris Agreement
... “negative emissions technologies” or “NETs”) are projected to have potentially severe land use, water and biodiversity consequences, as well as uncertain ecosystem impacts. The land use impacts have implications for agriculture and food security, which carry with them human rights concerns and trade ...
... “negative emissions technologies” or “NETs”) are projected to have potentially severe land use, water and biodiversity consequences, as well as uncertain ecosystem impacts. The land use impacts have implications for agriculture and food security, which carry with them human rights concerns and trade ...
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict
... Human security, as it affects people, has a lot more to do with the totality of the welfare and well-being of the citizens than military or police protection which is more the protection and security of the state or the government. While that must not be ignored to ensure the integrity of the state, ...
... Human security, as it affects people, has a lot more to do with the totality of the welfare and well-being of the citizens than military or police protection which is more the protection and security of the state or the government. While that must not be ignored to ensure the integrity of the state, ...
Climate Change Adaptation Position Paper
... 1. Why is adaptation planning important for rail Adapting to future climate change is an important concept both on a national and global scale. Both ecosystems and society will need to adapt to the new climatic conditions that global warming will inevitably bring. Society will face significant chall ...
... 1. Why is adaptation planning important for rail Adapting to future climate change is an important concept both on a national and global scale. Both ecosystems and society will need to adapt to the new climatic conditions that global warming will inevitably bring. Society will face significant chall ...
Policy Briefings SUMERNET Research Projects Phase 2 (2010–2013) Sustainable Mekong Research Network
... researchers and 50 affiliated institutions across the region. Throughout this period, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)-Asia Centre has hosted the programme Secretariat. SUMERNET partners lead interdisciplinary, cross-national studies on major policy issues; engage with policy-makers, planne ...
... researchers and 50 affiliated institutions across the region. Throughout this period, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)-Asia Centre has hosted the programme Secretariat. SUMERNET partners lead interdisciplinary, cross-national studies on major policy issues; engage with policy-makers, planne ...
Assessing Effects of Variation in Global Climate Data Sets on Spatial
... Editor’s Note: Dr. Kurt Johnson ([email protected]) served as the Guest Editor and invited this themed paper focused on assessing impacts and vulnerability of fish and wildlife to accelerating climate change. ...
... Editor’s Note: Dr. Kurt Johnson ([email protected]) served as the Guest Editor and invited this themed paper focused on assessing impacts and vulnerability of fish and wildlife to accelerating climate change. ...
Selecting Ensemble Members to Provide Regional Climate Change
... of consensus on an appropriate approach or criteria for weighting or ‘‘culling’’ is a strong argument for an inclusive ‘‘one model, one vote’’ approach to combining projections from multiple models. However, while it may be difficult to identify a clear subset of models that perform better at global ...
... of consensus on an appropriate approach or criteria for weighting or ‘‘culling’’ is a strong argument for an inclusive ‘‘one model, one vote’’ approach to combining projections from multiple models. However, while it may be difficult to identify a clear subset of models that perform better at global ...
Future climate warming and changes to mountain permafrost in the
... conditions (Haeberli and Beniston 1998; Kääb et al. 2007). Here, the cryosphere acts as an important hydrological buffer, providing reliable stores of water for tens of millions of people, yet future security of supply for regions reliant on these features cannot be guaranteed. Permafrost is defined ...
... conditions (Haeberli and Beniston 1998; Kääb et al. 2007). Here, the cryosphere acts as an important hydrological buffer, providing reliable stores of water for tens of millions of people, yet future security of supply for regions reliant on these features cannot be guaranteed. Permafrost is defined ...
Guidance for making the case for climate change adaptation in the
... temperatures increases and energy costs increase. A study by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and Arup8 found that many existing buildings are already failing to meet comfort criteria of not exceeding 28°C for more than 1% of occupied hours. The UK Climate Change Risk ...
... temperatures increases and energy costs increase. A study by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and Arup8 found that many existing buildings are already failing to meet comfort criteria of not exceeding 28°C for more than 1% of occupied hours. The UK Climate Change Risk ...
The EU and the progressive alliance negotiating in Durban
... be agreed on by 2015. It also remains unclear to what extent resources can be generated for adaptation to climate change effects, potentially jeopardising longer-term cooperation between the EU and the LDCs and AOSIS. This paper acknowledges the difficulties involved in agreeing to collective action ...
... be agreed on by 2015. It also remains unclear to what extent resources can be generated for adaptation to climate change effects, potentially jeopardising longer-term cooperation between the EU and the LDCs and AOSIS. This paper acknowledges the difficulties involved in agreeing to collective action ...
Assessment of climate change impact on hydrological extremes in
... immense pressure due to various competitive uses as well as social, political and legislative conditions. Further, previous studies show that many parts of the Nile basin are sensitive to climatic variations (Conway and Hulme, 1996; Yates and Strzepek 1996, 1998a, b; Conway, 2005; Kim et al., 2008; ...
... immense pressure due to various competitive uses as well as social, political and legislative conditions. Further, previous studies show that many parts of the Nile basin are sensitive to climatic variations (Conway and Hulme, 1996; Yates and Strzepek 1996, 1998a, b; Conway, 2005; Kim et al., 2008; ...
Attribution of extreme weather and climate
... nthropogenic climate change provides a key challenge for mankind. The Fifth Assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that ‘human influence on the climate system is clear’ and that ‘changes in many extreme weather and climate events have been observed s ...
... nthropogenic climate change provides a key challenge for mankind. The Fifth Assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that ‘human influence on the climate system is clear’ and that ‘changes in many extreme weather and climate events have been observed s ...