Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Coastal Habitats
... including Eric Brunden, Nina Garfield, Pati Glick, and Pati Delgado. The development team is also appreciative for members of the scientific community who took time to review and provide suggestions on this guidance document including Norm Christensen, Scott Neubauer, R.E. Turner, and Mike Unger. Th ...
... including Eric Brunden, Nina Garfield, Pati Glick, and Pati Delgado. The development team is also appreciative for members of the scientific community who took time to review and provide suggestions on this guidance document including Norm Christensen, Scott Neubauer, R.E. Turner, and Mike Unger. Th ...
A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Aquatic
... Climate change vulnerability assessments provide two kinds of information: (1) they identify which resources may be most affected by changing climate conditions, and (2) they improve understanding as to why t ...
... Climate change vulnerability assessments provide two kinds of information: (1) they identify which resources may be most affected by changing climate conditions, and (2) they improve understanding as to why t ...
Atlantic National Seashores in Peril
... factors, suggest that Assateague Island, Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout, and Canaveral national seashores are in a top tier of vulnerability based on those factors, followed in order by Fire Island NS, then Cumberland Island NS, and finally Cape Cod NS, as summarized in Table ES-4 below. The six factor ...
... factors, suggest that Assateague Island, Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout, and Canaveral national seashores are in a top tier of vulnerability based on those factors, followed in order by Fire Island NS, then Cumberland Island NS, and finally Cape Cod NS, as summarized in Table ES-4 below. The six factor ...
cliMAtE chANGE ANd cANAdA`S FOREStS
... Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect and disease attacks): other less visible changes such as change in the timing of spring bud burst ar ...
... Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect and disease attacks): other less visible changes such as change in the timing of spring bud burst ar ...
Development Aid and Climate Finance: Working Paper 123 (397 kB) (opens in new window)
... This paper discusses the implications of climate change for official transfers from rich countries (the North) to poor countries (the South). The concern is no longer just about poverty alleviation (i.e. income in the South), but also about global emissions and resilience to climate risk. Another im ...
... This paper discusses the implications of climate change for official transfers from rich countries (the North) to poor countries (the South). The concern is no longer just about poverty alleviation (i.e. income in the South), but also about global emissions and resilience to climate risk. Another im ...
Climate Adaptation Plan 2014
... residents’ health and well-being. The focus of this Plan is to identify adaptation strategies within Denver City agencies and community organizations that will lead to future adaptation efforts Denver can implement. Successful implementation of the Plan supports a vibrant Denver that is resilient to ...
... residents’ health and well-being. The focus of this Plan is to identify adaptation strategies within Denver City agencies and community organizations that will lead to future adaptation efforts Denver can implement. Successful implementation of the Plan supports a vibrant Denver that is resilient to ...
CLIMATE CHANGE 2014 SYNTHESIS REPORT Longer report
... Risks from climate change impacts arise from the interaction between hazard (triggered by an event or trend related to climate change), vulnerability (susceptibility to harm), and exposure (people, assets or ecosystems at risk). Hazards include processes that range from brief events, such as severe ...
... Risks from climate change impacts arise from the interaction between hazard (triggered by an event or trend related to climate change), vulnerability (susceptibility to harm), and exposure (people, assets or ecosystems at risk). Hazards include processes that range from brief events, such as severe ...
The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A
... and storage; adaptation deals with minimizing the negative effects or exploiting potential opportunities of climate change. Because the benefits of mitigation are not immediate and because we are already committed to a certain amount of climate change, adaptation has been increasingly viewed as an e ...
... and storage; adaptation deals with minimizing the negative effects or exploiting potential opportunities of climate change. Because the benefits of mitigation are not immediate and because we are already committed to a certain amount of climate change, adaptation has been increasingly viewed as an e ...
The Response of Precipitation Minus Evapotranspiration
... Chou and Neelin (2004)]. The dynamical contribution to precipitation changes is also important locally (Xie et al. 2010; Huang et al. 2013; Chadwick et al. 2013), but the simple thermodynamic scaling captures the planetaryscale pattern of P 2 E changes in climate-model simulations (Held and Soden 20 ...
... Chou and Neelin (2004)]. The dynamical contribution to precipitation changes is also important locally (Xie et al. 2010; Huang et al. 2013; Chadwick et al. 2013), but the simple thermodynamic scaling captures the planetaryscale pattern of P 2 E changes in climate-model simulations (Held and Soden 20 ...
Review of climate change adaptation methods and tools
... this review and would need to include a user perspective, interviewing users of different approaches and an outcome perspective evaluating of the outputs of the applied methods and tools. ...
... this review and would need to include a user perspective, interviewing users of different approaches and an outcome perspective evaluating of the outputs of the applied methods and tools. ...
R Cook Master Thesis 2010
... change regime is designed to respond to mitigation and adaptation requirements. It was created by two international treaties; the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)6 and 1997 Kyoto Protocol,7 alongside the expansive development of institutional bodies.8 The scientifi ...
... change regime is designed to respond to mitigation and adaptation requirements. It was created by two international treaties; the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)6 and 1997 Kyoto Protocol,7 alongside the expansive development of institutional bodies.8 The scientifi ...
Climate Change
... The discourse on the impact of climate change (CC) has been on-going for a while. The actions, however, to act decisively to avert triggering the tipping point have been few and overall rather uncoordinated. The latter is not surprising given the many different interests that predominant in differen ...
... The discourse on the impact of climate change (CC) has been on-going for a while. The actions, however, to act decisively to avert triggering the tipping point have been few and overall rather uncoordinated. The latter is not surprising given the many different interests that predominant in differen ...
THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON GLACIER MASS BALANCE
... retreating. By 1992 all 47 glaciers termini observed by NCGCP were retreating (Pelto, 1993). By 2004, four had disappeared: David Glacier, Lewis Glacier, Spider Glacier and Milk Lake Glacier. The NCGCP had been monitoring the terminus position of the four glaciers that disappeared and in each case ...
... retreating. By 1992 all 47 glaciers termini observed by NCGCP were retreating (Pelto, 1993). By 2004, four had disappeared: David Glacier, Lewis Glacier, Spider Glacier and Milk Lake Glacier. The NCGCP had been monitoring the terminus position of the four glaciers that disappeared and in each case ...
Auditing the Government Response to Climate Change: Guidance
... it is very likely that global warming is caused by human activity. Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet, and both mitigation and adaptation efforts will be necessary to tackle climate change. As all countr ...
... it is very likely that global warming is caused by human activity. Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet, and both mitigation and adaptation efforts will be necessary to tackle climate change. As all countr ...
Emerging approaches for responding to climate change in African
... food security highlight the importance of various ecosystem services and the finite nature of land resources. Agriculture continues to play a key role in most African countries, but this is the only region of the developing world where food production per person has not increased since the early 197 ...
... food security highlight the importance of various ecosystem services and the finite nature of land resources. Agriculture continues to play a key role in most African countries, but this is the only region of the developing world where food production per person has not increased since the early 197 ...
Migration as Societal Response to Climate Change and Land
... and linear way, since its causes, features and patterns are highly complex, dynamic and context-dependent. The challenge for empirical research is therefore to relate the multiple factors influencing migration in order to understand the specific weight of each and their interactions. Given this overa ...
... and linear way, since its causes, features and patterns are highly complex, dynamic and context-dependent. The challenge for empirical research is therefore to relate the multiple factors influencing migration in order to understand the specific weight of each and their interactions. Given this overa ...
Forest, mitigation and adaptation: Exploring evidence, synergies
... mechanism that does not support effectively smallholders, and the fact that it facilitates monocultures and in fact might support less adaptation compared to mitigation. There are aspects that relate to adaptation, but not so much synergies between adaptation and mitigation, and more importantly fin ...
... mechanism that does not support effectively smallholders, and the fact that it facilitates monocultures and in fact might support less adaptation compared to mitigation. There are aspects that relate to adaptation, but not so much synergies between adaptation and mitigation, and more importantly fin ...
Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change
... This study arises from the concern that changes in weather patterns will be one of the principal effects of climate change and with these will come extreme weather. This is of considerable consequence in Europe as it impacts on the vulnerability of communities across the continent and exposes them t ...
... This study arises from the concern that changes in weather patterns will be one of the principal effects of climate change and with these will come extreme weather. This is of considerable consequence in Europe as it impacts on the vulnerability of communities across the continent and exposes them t ...
Climate Threatens TI - northwesterndebateinstitute2012
... substantial improvements, however, the recovery is far from complete," the OECD warns. The US housing market has picked up but the large overhang of unsold homes and "the ongoing tide of foreclosures will continue to put downward pressure on house prices," according to the report.¶ Europe's economic ...
... substantial improvements, however, the recovery is far from complete," the OECD warns. The US housing market has picked up but the large overhang of unsold homes and "the ongoing tide of foreclosures will continue to put downward pressure on house prices," according to the report.¶ Europe's economic ...
FIRST-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 4 Do Not Cite
... fluxes, even under a relatively constant environment. Furthermore, attempts to restrict this intrinsic variation - or that resulting from imposed disturbances - are frequently futile, and may damage the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to changing environments (Folke et al., 2004). A related conce ...
... fluxes, even under a relatively constant environment. Furthermore, attempts to restrict this intrinsic variation - or that resulting from imposed disturbances - are frequently futile, and may damage the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to changing environments (Folke et al., 2004). A related conce ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan
... It represents the collaborative effort of the more than 25 people who attended in-person workshops, participated in online webinars and conference calls, and reviewed written outputs of this project. Their participation is directly responsible for the success of this pl ...
... It represents the collaborative effort of the more than 25 people who attended in-person workshops, participated in online webinars and conference calls, and reviewed written outputs of this project. Their participation is directly responsible for the success of this pl ...
Full English report
... in water resources sector in Egypt is closely linked with development choices and pathways for the country and the region. The uncertain changes in supply due to climate change will occur alongside the more certain demographic trends and potential abstractions by upstream riparian countries which me ...
... in water resources sector in Egypt is closely linked with development choices and pathways for the country and the region. The uncertain changes in supply due to climate change will occur alongside the more certain demographic trends and potential abstractions by upstream riparian countries which me ...
Change - UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... •Projected warming due to emission of greenhouse gases during the 21st century will continue to contribute to sea level rise for many centuries. •Sea level rise due to thermal expansion and loss of mass from ice sheets would continue for centuries even if radiative forcing were to be stabilised. ...
... •Projected warming due to emission of greenhouse gases during the 21st century will continue to contribute to sea level rise for many centuries. •Sea level rise due to thermal expansion and loss of mass from ice sheets would continue for centuries even if radiative forcing were to be stabilised. ...
State of Climate Change Science in the Great Lakes Basin
... • The consideration of impacts of climate change on the local scale, including micro-climate niches is limited. • Research is limited on the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems. • Monitoring of species and community-level changes is necessary to refine hybrid models, which could lead ...
... • The consideration of impacts of climate change on the local scale, including micro-climate niches is limited. • Research is limited on the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems. • Monitoring of species and community-level changes is necessary to refine hybrid models, which could lead ...
Primer on Hydrofluorocarbons
... The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report concludes that climate change is unequivocal, significantly caused by human activities, occurring faster than anticipated, with impacts that are more severe than predicted, and that urgent action is required to reduce climate pollutants.1 This Primer describes how ...
... The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report concludes that climate change is unequivocal, significantly caused by human activities, occurring faster than anticipated, with impacts that are more severe than predicted, and that urgent action is required to reduce climate pollutants.1 This Primer describes how ...