Africa Talks Climate
... at least 20 years to become an international priority. In many ways, this is because climate change was originally communicated as a scientific problem. Complex, confusing, and at times contested scientific information resulted in a slow public and political response to the climate crisis. The clima ...
... at least 20 years to become an international priority. In many ways, this is because climate change was originally communicated as a scientific problem. Complex, confusing, and at times contested scientific information resulted in a slow public and political response to the climate crisis. The clima ...
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Tanzania
... To this end, the Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework combines EbA strategies with flexible enabling mechanisms and adaptive processes. Given the high uncertainty involved in long-term planning, the Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework uses a step-based approach to explore the range of potential EbA pathways th ...
... To this end, the Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework combines EbA strategies with flexible enabling mechanisms and adaptive processes. Given the high uncertainty involved in long-term planning, the Dynamic EbA Pathways Framework uses a step-based approach to explore the range of potential EbA pathways th ...
National Park Service - UAF SNAP
... & federal personnel. The group also saw the need for increased staffing – particularly with local hire -- in fire suppression and technology innovation, and increased education efforts focused on Native life, science-based climate change information, and community presentations. Increased infrastruc ...
... & federal personnel. The group also saw the need for increased staffing – particularly with local hire -- in fire suppression and technology innovation, and increased education efforts focused on Native life, science-based climate change information, and community presentations. Increased infrastruc ...
Lea - Harvard University
... sensitivity—the surface temperature response to a prescribed radiative forcing when all feedbacks, such as water vapor and clouds, are included. But there are inherent difficulties in using the Antarctic climate to gauge global climate sensitivity, because factors unique to the ice sheet, such as el ...
... sensitivity—the surface temperature response to a prescribed radiative forcing when all feedbacks, such as water vapor and clouds, are included. But there are inherent difficulties in using the Antarctic climate to gauge global climate sensitivity, because factors unique to the ice sheet, such as el ...
US re-engagement? -
... re-engage in the Kyoto Protocol process (Tamura, 2006). In 2002, almost a year after the US withdrawal, President Bush launched the federal US policy, The Global Climate Change Initiative. A comprehensive strategy on domestic voluntary measures based on three main elements; GHG emissions intensity t ...
... re-engage in the Kyoto Protocol process (Tamura, 2006). In 2002, almost a year after the US withdrawal, President Bush launched the federal US policy, The Global Climate Change Initiative. A comprehensive strategy on domestic voluntary measures based on three main elements; GHG emissions intensity t ...
Managing Climate Risk Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations World Bank Group
... of development investments and is best treated as part of integral climate risk management. In such a climate risk management approach, the threats and opportunities arising from existing and future climate variability, including those deriving from climate change, are assessed and, where necessary, ...
... of development investments and is best treated as part of integral climate risk management. In such a climate risk management approach, the threats and opportunities arising from existing and future climate variability, including those deriving from climate change, are assessed and, where necessary, ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Commodities
... In terms of experimentation, there is a lack of knowledge of CO2 and climate responses for the majority of crops other than cereal staples such as wheat, maize and rice, including many of importance to the rural poor (e.g. root crops, millet, brassicas). In addition to the staples such as root crops ...
... In terms of experimentation, there is a lack of knowledge of CO2 and climate responses for the majority of crops other than cereal staples such as wheat, maize and rice, including many of importance to the rural poor (e.g. root crops, millet, brassicas). In addition to the staples such as root crops ...
BODY PARAGRAPHS
... climate change. But global warming is not only popular or controversial, it is a subject of considerable importance to our nation (and the world) due to the implications of ignoring it, if, as Oreskes argues, human activities are a significant contributing factor. The text is an effective argument b ...
... climate change. But global warming is not only popular or controversial, it is a subject of considerable importance to our nation (and the world) due to the implications of ignoring it, if, as Oreskes argues, human activities are a significant contributing factor. The text is an effective argument b ...
Selecting and Using Climate Change Scenarios for British Columbia
... scenarios should I use?” A climate scenario consists of a projected future climate based on a specific greenhouse gas emissions path for this century, calculated by a specific global climate model (GCM). A climate change scenario is based on the difference between the projected future and simulated ...
... scenarios should I use?” A climate scenario consists of a projected future climate based on a specific greenhouse gas emissions path for this century, calculated by a specific global climate model (GCM). A climate change scenario is based on the difference between the projected future and simulated ...
Scenario
... of which have yet to be quantified, the results of these impacts assessment are subject to potentially large systematic errors which tend to substantially overstate negative impacts while simultaneously understating positive impacts of climate change. These systematic errors are due to the fact that ...
... of which have yet to be quantified, the results of these impacts assessment are subject to potentially large systematic errors which tend to substantially overstate negative impacts while simultaneously understating positive impacts of climate change. These systematic errors are due to the fact that ...
Individual-scale inference to anticipate climate
... is that individual risk depends on combinations of inputs; vulnerability is most directly assessed from an individual’s capacity to predict a risk factor based on its full response vector yi,t. We term this approach DIP. ‘Weak tracking’ represented by bias or large predictive variance means that an ...
... is that individual risk depends on combinations of inputs; vulnerability is most directly assessed from an individual’s capacity to predict a risk factor based on its full response vector yi,t. We term this approach DIP. ‘Weak tracking’ represented by bias or large predictive variance means that an ...
Works Cited - Institute for Domestic and International Affairs, Inc.
... and Africa are most effected; at the same time, these nations need tourism the most enliven in their economies. The progressive use of technology is needed not to control the weather, but help countries adapt to it. For example, in island-nations and countries along the coast, “effects of climate ch ...
... and Africa are most effected; at the same time, these nations need tourism the most enliven in their economies. The progressive use of technology is needed not to control the weather, but help countries adapt to it. For example, in island-nations and countries along the coast, “effects of climate ch ...
RI Climate Change Commission 2012 report
... assets upon which tourism and boating industries rely.4 Scientists are studying the relationship between ocean acidification and carbon dioxide (C02) emissions. Many of these climatological, oceanographic, ecological, and economic changes and transformations are occurring more rapidly than anticipat ...
... assets upon which tourism and boating industries rely.4 Scientists are studying the relationship between ocean acidification and carbon dioxide (C02) emissions. Many of these climatological, oceanographic, ecological, and economic changes and transformations are occurring more rapidly than anticipat ...
Pluralising climate change solutions? Views held and voiced by
... Naghmeh Nasiritousi a,⁎, Mattias Hjerpe a, Katarina Buhr a,b a ...
... Naghmeh Nasiritousi a,⁎, Mattias Hjerpe a, Katarina Buhr a,b a ...
nd-gain_technical_document_2015_do_not_print
... Focus on sectors and components that have impacts on human well-being, including biophysical impacts of climate change on a country's society, and the socioeconomic factors that either amplify or reduce such impacts. ...
... Focus on sectors and components that have impacts on human well-being, including biophysical impacts of climate change on a country's society, and the socioeconomic factors that either amplify or reduce such impacts. ...
Safeguarding Washington`s Fish and Wildlife in an Era of Climate
... the development of an on-line Climate Change Sensitivity Database that includes detailed information on climate-change sensitivities for a number of species and ecological systems across the region. The database, which is available at http:// climatechangesensitivity.org, is currently maintained by ...
... the development of an on-line Climate Change Sensitivity Database that includes detailed information on climate-change sensitivities for a number of species and ecological systems across the region. The database, which is available at http:// climatechangesensitivity.org, is currently maintained by ...
2014 DOE Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... average sea level, and more frequent severe weather events. 1 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognizes that changes in the global climate system could have a profound impact on the Department’s mission activities. DOE is committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigating clima ...
... average sea level, and more frequent severe weather events. 1 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognizes that changes in the global climate system could have a profound impact on the Department’s mission activities. DOE is committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigating clima ...
Alberto Montanari - University of Bologna
... estimates by 2100 of from 1.1 to 2.9 deg. C (low emissions) to 2.4 to 6.4 deg. C (high emissions).. Direct surface warming from 2xCO2 is only 0.6 deg C (about 1 deg. F) Thus, climate models have net POSITIVE feedbacks (they respond to a warming tendency with changes that amplify the 1 deg. F CO2-onl ...
... estimates by 2100 of from 1.1 to 2.9 deg. C (low emissions) to 2.4 to 6.4 deg. C (high emissions).. Direct surface warming from 2xCO2 is only 0.6 deg C (about 1 deg. F) Thus, climate models have net POSITIVE feedbacks (they respond to a warming tendency with changes that amplify the 1 deg. F CO2-onl ...
Jessica Ayers - Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and
... adaptation that addresses the vulnerability context, rather than addressing the impacts of climate change.7 To achieve a ‘development-first’ approach to adaptation, it is necessary to understand the local context of vulnerability to climate change. This in turn requires more deliberative and partici ...
... adaptation that addresses the vulnerability context, rather than addressing the impacts of climate change.7 To achieve a ‘development-first’ approach to adaptation, it is necessary to understand the local context of vulnerability to climate change. This in turn requires more deliberative and partici ...
Adapting to climate change
... The UK Climate Projections 2009 (UKCP09) are an important step forward in improving understanding of our complex climate. There are assumptions and uncertainties in any work of this kind, but these Projections represent strong and credible climate science. They begin to quantify the uncertainties we ...
... The UK Climate Projections 2009 (UKCP09) are an important step forward in improving understanding of our complex climate. There are assumptions and uncertainties in any work of this kind, but these Projections represent strong and credible climate science. They begin to quantify the uncertainties we ...
Winter 2017. - Squarespace
... climate change and climate history scholars with leading activists and journalists. The big question the workshops will seek to answer: how can scholars more effectively communicate their research to the general public? In November, we held our first major “Climate Change Conversation” at Georgetown ...
... climate change and climate history scholars with leading activists and journalists. The big question the workshops will seek to answer: how can scholars more effectively communicate their research to the general public? In November, we held our first major “Climate Change Conversation” at Georgetown ...
CURRICULUM VITAE Personal data Academic background
... November, 2008, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. •! Formulation and coordination of the Research Project “Avoiding conflicts over water resources in areas vulnerable to climate change in Costa Rica”. Funded by the IUCN trust for Environmental Policy innovation, the project focuses on the use of trandis ...
... November, 2008, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. •! Formulation and coordination of the Research Project “Avoiding conflicts over water resources in areas vulnerable to climate change in Costa Rica”. Funded by the IUCN trust for Environmental Policy innovation, the project focuses on the use of trandis ...
Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and
... of lowering or raising the probability of the severe state compared to previously held beliefs. With the signal in hand, the agent will then make her optimal micro and macro adaptation decisions.10 We analyse the utility of the better signals by comparing the agent’s pre-signal expected utility both ...
... of lowering or raising the probability of the severe state compared to previously held beliefs. With the signal in hand, the agent will then make her optimal micro and macro adaptation decisions.10 We analyse the utility of the better signals by comparing the agent’s pre-signal expected utility both ...
Regional breakdown for IPCC AR5 WGII
... African countries are experiencing some of the world’s highest urbanization rates and the urban populations in Africa are projected to triple by 2050, increasing by 0.8 billion. As a consequence, many of Africa’s evolving cities are growing without planning and therefore have inadequate housing, lac ...
... African countries are experiencing some of the world’s highest urbanization rates and the urban populations in Africa are projected to triple by 2050, increasing by 0.8 billion. As a consequence, many of Africa’s evolving cities are growing without planning and therefore have inadequate housing, lac ...
Social capital, climate change and soil conservation investment: panel data evidence from the Highlands of Ethiopia: Working Paper 115 (325 kB) (opens in new window)
... activities (Agrawal et al., 2008). Similarly, Wolf et al. (2010) suggest that strong bonding networks could potentially raise the vulnerability of elderly people in the UK to the effects of heat waves, by perpetuating the notion that waves posed a significant risk to them personally. Furthermore, N ...
... activities (Agrawal et al., 2008). Similarly, Wolf et al. (2010) suggest that strong bonding networks could potentially raise the vulnerability of elderly people in the UK to the effects of heat waves, by perpetuating the notion that waves posed a significant risk to them personally. Furthermore, N ...