LTSER Leizpig-Halle, Germany - LTER
... The LTSER Platform Leipzig-Halle is situated in Central Germany and ranges from the Harz Mountains in the West to the city of Leipzig in the East and South and the city of Magdeburg in the North. Overall, the platform covers about 25,000 km². Basic characteristics include the gradients present in th ...
... The LTSER Platform Leipzig-Halle is situated in Central Germany and ranges from the Harz Mountains in the West to the city of Leipzig in the East and South and the city of Magdeburg in the North. Overall, the platform covers about 25,000 km². Basic characteristics include the gradients present in th ...
Linking Population, Fertility and Family Planning with
... and importantly, a high population growth rate as key underlying causes of Ethiopia’s vulnerability to climate change. The NAPA additionally proposes a prioritized list of adaptation projects, which include enhancing agricultural productivity, irrigation, early warning systems for droughts and flood ...
... and importantly, a high population growth rate as key underlying causes of Ethiopia’s vulnerability to climate change. The NAPA additionally proposes a prioritized list of adaptation projects, which include enhancing agricultural productivity, irrigation, early warning systems for droughts and flood ...
Workshop report, 22-23 April 2010
... Forests in South Africa have an important role to play in addressing the effects of climate change. They provide great opportunities for adaptation by increasing both resilience and providing favourable options for people and ecosystems. They also have significant mitigation potential, particularly ...
... Forests in South Africa have an important role to play in addressing the effects of climate change. They provide great opportunities for adaptation by increasing both resilience and providing favourable options for people and ecosystems. They also have significant mitigation potential, particularly ...
u.s.climate.US position paper
... Position of the United State of America on Climate Change with Respect to the World Heritage Convention and World Heritage Sites Page 2 of 6 List for the conservation of which major operations are necessary and for which assistance has been requested under this Convention. This list shall contain a ...
... Position of the United State of America on Climate Change with Respect to the World Heritage Convention and World Heritage Sites Page 2 of 6 List for the conservation of which major operations are necessary and for which assistance has been requested under this Convention. This list shall contain a ...
High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change: Working Paper 9 (505 kB) (opens in new window)
... global cost of 2.5°C warming is the equivalent of about 1.3% of GDP (which is the best estimate from PAGE)4, even a cubic function will lead to costs equivalent to only c. 10% of global GDP for 5°C warming, despite the fact that such warming could well trigger huge environmental changes (being for i ...
... global cost of 2.5°C warming is the equivalent of about 1.3% of GDP (which is the best estimate from PAGE)4, even a cubic function will lead to costs equivalent to only c. 10% of global GDP for 5°C warming, despite the fact that such warming could well trigger huge environmental changes (being for i ...
Likely Impacts on New Zealand Agriculture
... New Zealand primary producers face a range of challenges. Along with the effects of climate, they have to deal with an increasingly competitive global economy, an increasing requirement for environmentally friendly production methods, as well as more traditional problems of international competitive ...
... New Zealand primary producers face a range of challenges. Along with the effects of climate, they have to deal with an increasingly competitive global economy, an increasing requirement for environmentally friendly production methods, as well as more traditional problems of international competitive ...
Factors Affecting Climate Change Mitigation Policy
... development and emissions controls. I argue that only through a more localized approach, one beginning from the public level up through the national political level, will countries be able to achieve the emissions reductions they work towards in international climate conferences. To understand how a ...
... development and emissions controls. I argue that only through a more localized approach, one beginning from the public level up through the national political level, will countries be able to achieve the emissions reductions they work towards in international climate conferences. To understand how a ...
Spectral Signatures of Geospace Climate Change Martin G
... climate change. Furthermore, the timescales for natural variability and trend detection need to be more fully defined. The approach for doing this with infrared measurements has been developed by Leroy et al., [2008] and the existing SABER data can be used. We emphasize that because the infrared rad ...
... climate change. Furthermore, the timescales for natural variability and trend detection need to be more fully defined. The approach for doing this with infrared measurements has been developed by Leroy et al., [2008] and the existing SABER data can be used. We emphasize that because the infrared rad ...
Implications of the Paris Agreement for Carbon Dioxide Removal
... experience climates closer to preindustrial conditions with SRM compared to what they would experience without it (Kravitz et al., 2014). In other words, SRM may be efficacious in reducing the dimensions of climate change more broadly, not just global average surface temperature. Fourth, and finall ...
... experience climates closer to preindustrial conditions with SRM compared to what they would experience without it (Kravitz et al., 2014). In other words, SRM may be efficacious in reducing the dimensions of climate change more broadly, not just global average surface temperature. Fourth, and finall ...
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE
... During discussion, it was felt that there was a need to involve more PAGES scientists in PMIP studies. Prof. Valdes commented that the main requirement the PAGES community could help meet was data input. However, a challenge remains on how to carry out the model-data synthesis. Prof. Briffa commente ...
... During discussion, it was felt that there was a need to involve more PAGES scientists in PMIP studies. Prof. Valdes commented that the main requirement the PAGES community could help meet was data input. However, a challenge remains on how to carry out the model-data synthesis. Prof. Briffa commente ...
NSW and ACT Regional Climate Model: Project scope
... This summarizes the steps to be taken in performing the downscaling for this project. The aim of the methodology is to produce a high resolution regional climate ensemble that samples the uncertainty of future climate found in the CMIP3 GCM ensemble [Meehl et al., 2007] and in the dynamical downscal ...
... This summarizes the steps to be taken in performing the downscaling for this project. The aim of the methodology is to produce a high resolution regional climate ensemble that samples the uncertainty of future climate found in the CMIP3 GCM ensemble [Meehl et al., 2007] and in the dynamical downscal ...
6. Whatever the weather. Media attitudes to reporting
... main international forum for defining the problem of climate change and finding solutions. Its scientific arm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, brings together experts from around the world to focus minds on the problem. The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated under the convention mainly to ...
... main international forum for defining the problem of climate change and finding solutions. Its scientific arm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, brings together experts from around the world to focus minds on the problem. The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated under the convention mainly to ...
1. COUNTRY PROFILE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY
... Burkina Faso’s population has doubled over the past 25 years. In 2006 , the population was estimated at 13.7 million inhabitants, with a 2.3 percent annual growth rate. This strong population growth puts pressure on natural resources and induces (i) an extensive agriculture, (ii) increased deforesta ...
... Burkina Faso’s population has doubled over the past 25 years. In 2006 , the population was estimated at 13.7 million inhabitants, with a 2.3 percent annual growth rate. This strong population growth puts pressure on natural resources and induces (i) an extensive agriculture, (ii) increased deforesta ...
Technical Description of Climate Change Research Programme (CCRP) Call for Fellowships
... Protocol. The fellowship should also address areas of soil process modelling and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. Background Reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sinks related to Land Use and Land Use Change and Forestry in Ireland is currently based on IPCC Good Practice Guidelines. It is ...
... Protocol. The fellowship should also address areas of soil process modelling and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. Background Reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sinks related to Land Use and Land Use Change and Forestry in Ireland is currently based on IPCC Good Practice Guidelines. It is ...
the Climate Change Report here…
... Is this change natural? Studies into past conditions have revealed that the climate is not fixed and has changed before. Could the change we are seeing now just be part of a natural cycle rather than a result of man's actions? The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was f ...
... Is this change natural? Studies into past conditions have revealed that the climate is not fixed and has changed before. Could the change we are seeing now just be part of a natural cycle rather than a result of man's actions? The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was f ...
VSO and Climate Change
... existing programmes VSO has a number of existing thematic areas of work and climate change has the potential to undermine progress in each of them. For example, climate change hazards add further complexity to the range of factors that create vulnerability for poor people’s livelihoods, particularly ...
... existing programmes VSO has a number of existing thematic areas of work and climate change has the potential to undermine progress in each of them. For example, climate change hazards add further complexity to the range of factors that create vulnerability for poor people’s livelihoods, particularly ...
http://germanwatch.org/en/download/8551.pdf
... year for the second year in a row. Pakistan, which had already suffered severe floodings in 2010 and 2011, was struck again by a rough monsoon season killing over 650 people. The year 2012 was also an extreme year for Russia, where the worst floods in recent decades hit the region of Krasnodar, caus ...
... year for the second year in a row. Pakistan, which had already suffered severe floodings in 2010 and 2011, was struck again by a rough monsoon season killing over 650 people. The year 2012 was also an extreme year for Russia, where the worst floods in recent decades hit the region of Krasnodar, caus ...
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... used as a potting medium. On the contrary, Long coriander (Eryngium foetidum) is more beneficial and average benefit-cost ratio in this treatment is 4.74 after using the soil and water hyacinth mixture as a potting medium. According to indigenous knowledge, these results could be developed from diff ...
... used as a potting medium. On the contrary, Long coriander (Eryngium foetidum) is more beneficial and average benefit-cost ratio in this treatment is 4.74 after using the soil and water hyacinth mixture as a potting medium. According to indigenous knowledge, these results could be developed from diff ...
mobilising climate finance
... adaptation and resilience activities to decelerate climate change. It will not be easy, as climate finance is arguably the most difficult part of meeting the climate change challenge. The money mobilised thus far is inadequate. Constrained by today’s slow economic growth and the need to rebuild frag ...
... adaptation and resilience activities to decelerate climate change. It will not be easy, as climate finance is arguably the most difficult part of meeting the climate change challenge. The money mobilised thus far is inadequate. Constrained by today’s slow economic growth and the need to rebuild frag ...
skepticism-ce-footnotes
... years old, although religious behavior may be far older: ‘Yet, since religious conceptions are not always bound to material objects, and since there is evidence that truly human beings existed even during early Paleolithic times, it is inadmissible to infer that earliest man had no religion from the ...
... years old, although religious behavior may be far older: ‘Yet, since religious conceptions are not always bound to material objects, and since there is evidence that truly human beings existed even during early Paleolithic times, it is inadmissible to infer that earliest man had no religion from the ...
Climate Change Legal Roadmap: A Snapshot of Alberta`s Climate
... Leadership Plan”) which is a policy document based upon the recommendations made in the Climate Change Advisory Panel Report (the “Report”). 1 The Climate Leadership Plan focuses on four key areas for further development: ● implementing a new carbon price on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, ● phasing ...
... Leadership Plan”) which is a policy document based upon the recommendations made in the Climate Change Advisory Panel Report (the “Report”). 1 The Climate Leadership Plan focuses on four key areas for further development: ● implementing a new carbon price on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, ● phasing ...
Why economics matters for understanding the effects of climate
... for example, fishing in one location vs. another, or fishing more intensively at the beginning than at the end of a season. Economists have put a great deal of effort into modelling fishing fleet behaviour (e.g. Bockstael and Opaluch, 1983; Eales and Wilen, 1986; Holland and Sutinen, 2000; Smith and ...
... for example, fishing in one location vs. another, or fishing more intensively at the beginning than at the end of a season. Economists have put a great deal of effort into modelling fishing fleet behaviour (e.g. Bockstael and Opaluch, 1983; Eales and Wilen, 1986; Holland and Sutinen, 2000; Smith and ...
Response to consultation on Climate Change Bill Scotland
... 10. How many years in advance should emissions budget periods be set in order to provide sufficient time to develop infrastructure? Future budget periods will be set anyway as a result of year on year 3% year on year targets. The detail and timing of future infrastructure developments should be out ...
... 10. How many years in advance should emissions budget periods be set in order to provide sufficient time to develop infrastructure? Future budget periods will be set anyway as a result of year on year 3% year on year targets. The detail and timing of future infrastructure developments should be out ...
Atmospheric Rivers State of Knowledge Report
... a reported reduction in the loss of human life. These measures indicate that forecasters and emergency managers have become better able to remove human communities from harm’s way despite increased damages to property. In addition to the partners who are directly involved with forecasting and respon ...
... a reported reduction in the loss of human life. These measures indicate that forecasters and emergency managers have become better able to remove human communities from harm’s way despite increased damages to property. In addition to the partners who are directly involved with forecasting and respon ...
Climate Change - The Right Insight
... The major overhaul of the global energy economy would involve enormous cost. I have estimated that the US investment alone would be approximately $30 trillion; and, global investment would approach $150 trillion. All residential, commercial, institutional, industrial and electric utility fossil fue ...
... The major overhaul of the global energy economy would involve enormous cost. I have estimated that the US investment alone would be approximately $30 trillion; and, global investment would approach $150 trillion. All residential, commercial, institutional, industrial and electric utility fossil fue ...