The CC-Bio Project: Studying the Effects of Climate Change
... 2007 and called CC-Bio (an acronym for “Effects of Climate Change on Quebec Biodiversity”). The general objective of CC-Bio is to project potential effects of climate change on the distribution and abundance of a large range of Quebec’s plant and animal species, in order to develop knowledge and too ...
... 2007 and called CC-Bio (an acronym for “Effects of Climate Change on Quebec Biodiversity”). The general objective of CC-Bio is to project potential effects of climate change on the distribution and abundance of a large range of Quebec’s plant and animal species, in order to develop knowledge and too ...
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... Public policy in response to climate change was initially dominated by the discussions on mitigation (Swart and Raes, 2007). When adaptation was discussed, it was mainly in the context of developing countries, due to their greater vulnerability to impacts (Schipper, 2006). In other contexts, adaptat ...
... Public policy in response to climate change was initially dominated by the discussions on mitigation (Swart and Raes, 2007). When adaptation was discussed, it was mainly in the context of developing countries, due to their greater vulnerability to impacts (Schipper, 2006). In other contexts, adaptat ...
Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
... discusses the growing literature on adaptation. It examines the three areas of work that have dominated the field: examining policy responses to climate change in the city; seeking to explain the governance of urban responses to the issue; and assessing the reasons why the realities of urban mitigati ...
... discusses the growing literature on adaptation. It examines the three areas of work that have dominated the field: examining policy responses to climate change in the city; seeking to explain the governance of urban responses to the issue; and assessing the reasons why the realities of urban mitigati ...
Chhatra Bahadur Khadka Tribhuvan University
... research entitled “Impacts of Climate Change on Production of Cash Crops in Annapurna Conservation Area” was carried out in Lwang Ghalel V.D.C., Kaski district of Nepal with an objective to document the perception of local people towards climate change impacts and their responses, to analyse the pro ...
... research entitled “Impacts of Climate Change on Production of Cash Crops in Annapurna Conservation Area” was carried out in Lwang Ghalel V.D.C., Kaski district of Nepal with an objective to document the perception of local people towards climate change impacts and their responses, to analyse the pro ...
Dynamic Planet Exam Questions Tectonic Activity: Possible exam
... Using examples, describe how the biosphere provides people with a range of goods and services (4) Describe the value of the biosphere in providing goods and services (4) Using examples explain why the biosphere is important to people (6) Describe one function of a tropical rainforest in regu ...
... Using examples, describe how the biosphere provides people with a range of goods and services (4) Describe the value of the biosphere in providing goods and services (4) Using examples explain why the biosphere is important to people (6) Describe one function of a tropical rainforest in regu ...
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... living, and to the dangers and the opportunities they face. The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner. On average, a financial crisis lasts less than two years and results in a 3 percent loss in gross domestic product (GDP) that is later offset by more than 2 ...
... living, and to the dangers and the opportunities they face. The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner. On average, a financial crisis lasts less than two years and results in a 3 percent loss in gross domestic product (GDP) that is later offset by more than 2 ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... By adapting the knowledge of climate–society relationships held within a community, as well as within public and private institutions, the project team may be able to develop a relationship linking climate to criteria that represent a given level of vulnerability. For example, a narrative history of ...
... By adapting the knowledge of climate–society relationships held within a community, as well as within public and private institutions, the project team may be able to develop a relationship linking climate to criteria that represent a given level of vulnerability. For example, a narrative history of ...
Differential climate impacts for policy
... to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a two-headed temperature goal: “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 ◦ C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature ...
... to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a two-headed temperature goal: “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 ◦ C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature ...
report 2009 final - Inter
... In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, agencies targeted the climate change negotiations as well as international and regional conferences and raised awareness with Geneva-based Permanent Missions. The agencies coordinated their advocacy work th ...
... In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, agencies targeted the climate change negotiations as well as international and regional conferences and raised awareness with Geneva-based Permanent Missions. The agencies coordinated their advocacy work th ...
Current models broadly neglect specific needs of under climate change
... Given the typically large scales associated with climatic change and species distributions, it seems reasonable to focus on more than a single protected area. However, in order to understand mechanisms of local species and community dynamics it is necessary to also examine specific protected areas o ...
... Given the typically large scales associated with climatic change and species distributions, it seems reasonable to focus on more than a single protected area. However, in order to understand mechanisms of local species and community dynamics it is necessary to also examine specific protected areas o ...
Migration, Environment and Climate Change
... context of environmental and climate change There is a growing recognition that migration can contribute to adaptation to environmental and climate change. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently acknowledged that migration can be an effective ada ...
... context of environmental and climate change There is a growing recognition that migration can contribute to adaptation to environmental and climate change. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently acknowledged that migration can be an effective ada ...
Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities?
... global forcing and is likely to produce non-analogue impacts. Therefore, while analogues can be extremely useful to calibrate our understanding of how the system works, they are limited by the unique and transient nature of future climate change. Nevertheless, this school of thought would argue that ...
... global forcing and is likely to produce non-analogue impacts. Therefore, while analogues can be extremely useful to calibrate our understanding of how the system works, they are limited by the unique and transient nature of future climate change. Nevertheless, this school of thought would argue that ...
Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife
... have been much disturbed. Hence, in accordance with the principles inculcated in this volume, these forms will not have been liable to much modification. If this were true, the principal ecological concern over the prospect of future climate change would be that human land-use patterns might block w ...
... have been much disturbed. Hence, in accordance with the principles inculcated in this volume, these forms will not have been liable to much modification. If this were true, the principal ecological concern over the prospect of future climate change would be that human land-use patterns might block w ...
Stakeholder mapping report - final version
... their influence over the current and future capacity of the city-region to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate. Stakeholders at these scales will be principally consulted on and informed of the project. However, regional and sub-regional stakeholders are the focus of the practical stakeholder ...
... their influence over the current and future capacity of the city-region to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate. Stakeholders at these scales will be principally consulted on and informed of the project. However, regional and sub-regional stakeholders are the focus of the practical stakeholder ...
Climate change research and policy in Portugal
... standards and fiscal instruments, and also to promote research. At that time adaptation was marginalized as a public policy issue because of an optimistic view that mitigation would be much more effective than it actually turned out to be at the global level. Presently, the EU fully recognizes the n ...
... standards and fiscal instruments, and also to promote research. At that time adaptation was marginalized as a public policy issue because of an optimistic view that mitigation would be much more effective than it actually turned out to be at the global level. Presently, the EU fully recognizes the n ...
Science or Spin? Assessing the Accuracy of Cable News Coverage
... change, although they make misleading statements far less often than do opponents of climate policy action. Established climate science is clear: human activities are largely responsible for the majority of recent warming, and climate change is already disrupting human and natural systems (IPCC 2013 ...
... change, although they make misleading statements far less often than do opponents of climate policy action. Established climate science is clear: human activities are largely responsible for the majority of recent warming, and climate change is already disrupting human and natural systems (IPCC 2013 ...
PROJECT / PROGRAMME CONCEPT NOTE GREEN CLIMATE
... communities. Sea level rise impacts are severely compromising existing housing, as well as the availability and quality of water for hygiene and drinking use, further eroding the coping capacity of poor coastal communities. The objective of the project is to strengthen the resilience of MMA communit ...
... communities. Sea level rise impacts are severely compromising existing housing, as well as the availability and quality of water for hygiene and drinking use, further eroding the coping capacity of poor coastal communities. The objective of the project is to strengthen the resilience of MMA communit ...
Regional climate change projections for Chicago and the US Great
... carbon emissions averaged 1.1% per year (Raupach et al., 2007). Post2000, the growth rate increased to over 3% per year. If recent emission growth rates continue and sufficient fossil fuel supplies exist to support that growth, CO2 emissions are on a pathway to quickly exceed any existing scenarios, ...
... carbon emissions averaged 1.1% per year (Raupach et al., 2007). Post2000, the growth rate increased to over 3% per year. If recent emission growth rates continue and sufficient fossil fuel supplies exist to support that growth, CO2 emissions are on a pathway to quickly exceed any existing scenarios, ...
Climate Action Planning Progress in the San Diego Region
... community pride and protection of our region’s clean air and water, natural lands and quality of life. But our region faces challenges, like all others throughout the world, from climate change and its impact on our natural resources and the health and well-being of our people and our future generat ...
... community pride and protection of our region’s clean air and water, natural lands and quality of life. But our region faces challenges, like all others throughout the world, from climate change and its impact on our natural resources and the health and well-being of our people and our future generat ...
Extreme Events
... All climate model simulations contain biases. Biases are errors that typically occur consistently and predictably. Often these biases are caused by the model’s resolution. For example, the 10 km resolution of the Climate Futures for Tasmania simulations means that steep ridgelines may not be capture ...
... All climate model simulations contain biases. Biases are errors that typically occur consistently and predictably. Often these biases are caused by the model’s resolution. For example, the 10 km resolution of the Climate Futures for Tasmania simulations means that steep ridgelines may not be capture ...
Behavioral dimensions of climate change
... according to its actual impact, rather than merely sum them as equals. This mismatch between self-reports and objective environmental impact is problematic because studies that fail to recognize the mismatch may produce flawed conclusions about how to facilitate proclimate behavior. ...
... according to its actual impact, rather than merely sum them as equals. This mismatch between self-reports and objective environmental impact is problematic because studies that fail to recognize the mismatch may produce flawed conclusions about how to facilitate proclimate behavior. ...
student advisee presentations
... 2. Ng, A.K.Y., Yang, Z., Cahoon, S., Chen, S., Becker, A., Fischer, M. (2013), “Analyzing risk posed by climate change on ports using a fuzzy approach.” Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Conference, Marseille, France, 3-5 July, 2013. 1. Ng, A.K.Y., Becker, A. ...
... 2. Ng, A.K.Y., Yang, Z., Cahoon, S., Chen, S., Becker, A., Fischer, M. (2013), “Analyzing risk posed by climate change on ports using a fuzzy approach.” Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Conference, Marseille, France, 3-5 July, 2013. 1. Ng, A.K.Y., Becker, A. ...
Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of
... conceptualize, particularly in the context of climate change. It is likely that most of those who migrate will be individuals or families who decide that conditions are such that it is time to leave their homes and communities. They will make decisions on the basis of the perceived risk of staying w ...
... conceptualize, particularly in the context of climate change. It is likely that most of those who migrate will be individuals or families who decide that conditions are such that it is time to leave their homes and communities. They will make decisions on the basis of the perceived risk of staying w ...
Eric Gordon and Lisa Dilling - Initiative on Climate Adaptation
... Abstract Discussions and debates over the definition of adaptation and related terms including vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity are common throughout the literature. Yet relatively little scholarship focuses on what constitutes successful climate adaptation or how to empirically disc ...
... Abstract Discussions and debates over the definition of adaptation and related terms including vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity are common throughout the literature. Yet relatively little scholarship focuses on what constitutes successful climate adaptation or how to empirically disc ...
Climate change as a driver of change in the Great Lakes St
... on Lakes Michigan and Huron. The International Upper Great Lakes Study (2012) identified shifts in the hydro-climatic regime for the period 1948–2008. Evaporation from the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin has increased since 1948 but a corresponding increase in overlake precipitation has offset t ...
... on Lakes Michigan and Huron. The International Upper Great Lakes Study (2012) identified shifts in the hydro-climatic regime for the period 1948–2008. Evaporation from the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin has increased since 1948 but a corresponding increase in overlake precipitation has offset t ...