The Optimal and Equitable Climate Finance Gap.
... 7. International environmental negotiations 8. Modelling and decision making 9. Private sector adaptation, risk and insurance More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
... 7. International environmental negotiations 8. Modelling and decision making 9. Private sector adaptation, risk and insurance More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... 4. In Australia there are current collaborative climate change projects between researchers and indigenous communities, most notably on sea level rise in the Torres Straits (Green 2006a; 2006b; Green et al 2009a) and fire abatement in Western Arnhem Land (Barnsley and NAILSMA 2009). Review of the cu ...
... 4. In Australia there are current collaborative climate change projects between researchers and indigenous communities, most notably on sea level rise in the Torres Straits (Green 2006a; 2006b; Green et al 2009a) and fire abatement in Western Arnhem Land (Barnsley and NAILSMA 2009). Review of the cu ...
Osman-Elasha_IPCC_5AR_Adaptation needs
... these will not be sufficient to address long-term impacts of climate change (high confidence). In all regions of the continent, national governments are initiating governance systems for adaptation and responding to climate change, but evolving institutional frameworks cannot yet effectively co-ordi ...
... these will not be sufficient to address long-term impacts of climate change (high confidence). In all regions of the continent, national governments are initiating governance systems for adaptation and responding to climate change, but evolving institutional frameworks cannot yet effectively co-ordi ...
Resurrection ecology and global climate change research in
... 4. Methods problems associated with field studies limit our ability to attribute observed changes unambiguously to global warming. Variables other than climate can easily confound the effects of climate change (Hughes 2000). The degree of certainty with which we can predict how biological systems in ...
... 4. Methods problems associated with field studies limit our ability to attribute observed changes unambiguously to global warming. Variables other than climate can easily confound the effects of climate change (Hughes 2000). The degree of certainty with which we can predict how biological systems in ...
Republic Act 9729
... affected community or society to cope using its own resources. (h) “Disaster risk reduction” refers to the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters, including through reduced exposure to hazards, lessened vulnera ...
... affected community or society to cope using its own resources. (h) “Disaster risk reduction” refers to the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters, including through reduced exposure to hazards, lessened vulnera ...
GEF COUNTRY EXPERIENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES
... maximize and wise utilization of CSP fund pipeline projects under GEF are being explored to support the ff: – capacity building on program strategizing and prioritization – database building ...
... maximize and wise utilization of CSP fund pipeline projects under GEF are being explored to support the ff: – capacity building on program strategizing and prioritization – database building ...
freshwater ecosystems
... (139). Surprises include floods, droughts, and thermal extremes that cause abrupt change in ecosystem process rates or populations of key species. Such changes have substantial ecological significance because rhythms of temporal variability in streams and lakes are entrained by cycles of hydrology a ...
... (139). Surprises include floods, droughts, and thermal extremes that cause abrupt change in ecosystem process rates or populations of key species. Such changes have substantial ecological significance because rhythms of temporal variability in streams and lakes are entrained by cycles of hydrology a ...
Public Health: Adapting to Climate Change
... deaths have identified those who need to be protected during heat waves, and there is a single stressor, heat, to avoid. Heat watch systems have been implemented and proven effective (Ebi and Schmier 2005). The approach involves the characterization of conditions in a particular locale that are l ...
... deaths have identified those who need to be protected during heat waves, and there is a single stressor, heat, to avoid. Heat watch systems have been implemented and proven effective (Ebi and Schmier 2005). The approach involves the characterization of conditions in a particular locale that are l ...
Green Resilience: Climate Adaptation + Mitigation Synergies
... policy and is the only independent, nonprofit think tank working exclusively on those issues at the local, national and international levels. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CCAP helps policy-makers around the world develop, promote and implement innovative, market-based solutions to major climat ...
... policy and is the only independent, nonprofit think tank working exclusively on those issues at the local, national and international levels. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CCAP helps policy-makers around the world develop, promote and implement innovative, market-based solutions to major climat ...
Tall tales and Fat tails: The science and economics of extreme
... butions. Many distributions have been published (see figure 2), along with a number of review and meta-analysis papers utilizing collections of distributions (Meinshausen et al., 2009). From this literature three stylized facts emerge. First, there are differences—at times large—between the various ...
... butions. Many distributions have been published (see figure 2), along with a number of review and meta-analysis papers utilizing collections of distributions (Meinshausen et al., 2009). From this literature three stylized facts emerge. First, there are differences—at times large—between the various ...
Chapter 2 of Stern Review: approach to discounting
... discounting (some further technical details are provided in the appendix to the chapter). Sections 2.5 and 2.6 consider how economic analysis can get to grips with a problem that is uncertain and involves a serious risk of large losses of wellbeing, due to deaths, extinctions of species and heavy ec ...
... discounting (some further technical details are provided in the appendix to the chapter). Sections 2.5 and 2.6 consider how economic analysis can get to grips with a problem that is uncertain and involves a serious risk of large losses of wellbeing, due to deaths, extinctions of species and heavy ec ...
Republic Act No. 9729
... impacts which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. (h) “Disaster risk reduction” refers to the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters, including through reduc ...
... impacts which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. (h) “Disaster risk reduction” refers to the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters, including through reduc ...
changing patterns of rain or power? how an idea of
... for a critical assessment of the power dynamics within which the social construction of (adaptation to) climate change takes place in concrete places (Pettenger 2007; for notable exceptions see: Weisser et al. 2014; Eguavoen et al. 2013). This void in the research agenda becomes all the more strikin ...
... for a critical assessment of the power dynamics within which the social construction of (adaptation to) climate change takes place in concrete places (Pettenger 2007; for notable exceptions see: Weisser et al. 2014; Eguavoen et al. 2013). This void in the research agenda becomes all the more strikin ...
Centre for Earth System Dynamics
... • Exciting possibility of helping set up major new initiative • Knew that there were several good researchers in climate change and carbon cycle active in Scotland • Attracted by idea of multi-institution, multi-disciplinary collaboration rather than competition and focus on particular disciplines. ...
... • Exciting possibility of helping set up major new initiative • Knew that there were several good researchers in climate change and carbon cycle active in Scotland • Attracted by idea of multi-institution, multi-disciplinary collaboration rather than competition and focus on particular disciplines. ...
Climate Finance Briefing: Small Island Developing States
... less than 7% of global climate finance for all regions across these funds. SIDS remain poorly funded, and approved finance fulfils only a small part of actual needs. With the majority of finance focused on adaptation, the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) and the Least Developed Countries ...
... less than 7% of global climate finance for all regions across these funds. SIDS remain poorly funded, and approved finance fulfils only a small part of actual needs. With the majority of finance focused on adaptation, the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) and the Least Developed Countries ...
Current Extreme Weather and Climate Change
... events further away from normal, in the flatter ends of the curve. For instance, a small increase in temperature shifts the entire curve toward hotter high temperatures. The rarest and most extreme record heat events become even more severe and much more frequent. Precipitation does not follow quite ...
... events further away from normal, in the flatter ends of the curve. For instance, a small increase in temperature shifts the entire curve toward hotter high temperatures. The rarest and most extreme record heat events become even more severe and much more frequent. Precipitation does not follow quite ...
Decision X/33 Biodiversity and climate change
... ecosystem connectivity and resilience across the sea and landscape thereby maintaining essential ecosystem services and supporting biodiversity–based livelihoods in the face of climate change; Ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation (j) Recognizing that ecosystems can be managed to limit climate c ...
... ecosystem connectivity and resilience across the sea and landscape thereby maintaining essential ecosystem services and supporting biodiversity–based livelihoods in the face of climate change; Ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation (j) Recognizing that ecosystems can be managed to limit climate c ...
Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega
... decisions in this context. The deep uncertainty does require, however, focused analysis of the robustness and flexibility of options in addition to the anticipated benefits and costs. It also requires confronting the real possibility that for various reasons related to the nature of megacatastrophes ...
... decisions in this context. The deep uncertainty does require, however, focused analysis of the robustness and flexibility of options in addition to the anticipated benefits and costs. It also requires confronting the real possibility that for various reasons related to the nature of megacatastrophes ...
FINAL TEXT PAGES - Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
... Because regional-scale climate changes will determine societal impacts, fingerprint studies are increasingly shifting their focus from global to regional scales.59 Such regional studies face a number of challenges. One problem is that the noise of natural internal climate variability typically becom ...
... Because regional-scale climate changes will determine societal impacts, fingerprint studies are increasingly shifting their focus from global to regional scales.59 Such regional studies face a number of challenges. One problem is that the noise of natural internal climate variability typically becom ...
Events | Climate Action
... political dialogue with partners The magnitude, complexity and level of threats posed by climate change are understood by a wide range of countries as requiring a joint global response. Climate challenges will impact on the life of all humanity, but the biggest problems will be faced by those alread ...
... political dialogue with partners The magnitude, complexity and level of threats posed by climate change are understood by a wide range of countries as requiring a joint global response. Climate challenges will impact on the life of all humanity, but the biggest problems will be faced by those alread ...
Climate finance briefing: the global climate finance architecture
... The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) established in 2008 are administered by the World Bank, but operate in partnership with regional development banks including: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and th ...
... The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) established in 2008 are administered by the World Bank, but operate in partnership with regional development banks including: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and th ...
- The University of Liverpool Repository
... need to power our cities as they are currently organised, while climate change means we can’t continue to emit as many greenhouse gasses as we do. Any urban progressive urban strategy advocated by the social movements would understand this. The second problem is one of scale. Which initiatives at an ...
... need to power our cities as they are currently organised, while climate change means we can’t continue to emit as many greenhouse gasses as we do. Any urban progressive urban strategy advocated by the social movements would understand this. The second problem is one of scale. Which initiatives at an ...
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... change issues takes place in a moral and ethical context in which religious groups have significant influence. Such “issues cannot be solved by simply calculating an ‘optimal solution’. Rather, they invoke fundamental questions on how we ought to live and how humans should value and relate to each o ...
... change issues takes place in a moral and ethical context in which religious groups have significant influence. Such “issues cannot be solved by simply calculating an ‘optimal solution’. Rather, they invoke fundamental questions on how we ought to live and how humans should value and relate to each o ...
WP4.2 - NCAS
... Study the mechanisms to assess the regional features of climate change, including changes that may result from a modification of the patterns of natural variability. In collaboration with RT5, research will be carried out to advance understanding of the mechanisms that govern modes of natural climat ...
... Study the mechanisms to assess the regional features of climate change, including changes that may result from a modification of the patterns of natural variability. In collaboration with RT5, research will be carried out to advance understanding of the mechanisms that govern modes of natural climat ...