At the Frontlines of Climate Change—Oceans, Coasts, and Small
... Why is an oceans and coastal focus important for the UNFCCC? The world’s oceans play a vital role in sustaining life on Earth by generating oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, regulating climate and temperature, and providing resources and services to billions of people across the ...
... Why is an oceans and coastal focus important for the UNFCCC? The world’s oceans play a vital role in sustaining life on Earth by generating oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, regulating climate and temperature, and providing resources and services to billions of people across the ...
Climate Change: Implications For Defence
... destinations, such as in poorer and highdensity parts of cities. Meanwhile, not everyone will have the resources necessary to migrate at all. The destabilising effects of climate change in developing countries could have implications for national security in the developed world. There are direct thr ...
... destinations, such as in poorer and highdensity parts of cities. Meanwhile, not everyone will have the resources necessary to migrate at all. The destabilising effects of climate change in developing countries could have implications for national security in the developed world. There are direct thr ...
Economics and the Environment_ What are the limits of
... Stern also suggests that different discount rates should be applied to distinct inter-temporal outcomes (Stern et al., 2005). It is certainly arguable that deriving an average discount rate from individual predicted discount rates fails to capture the wide disparities in uncertain inter-temporal eve ...
... Stern also suggests that different discount rates should be applied to distinct inter-temporal outcomes (Stern et al., 2005). It is certainly arguable that deriving an average discount rate from individual predicted discount rates fails to capture the wide disparities in uncertain inter-temporal eve ...
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... concentration and precipitation during the December-February season, consistent with fishers’ reports that the fog season had changed since the early 1980s. The report also noted that over the last two decades the dry season has become drier and the wet season wetter, suggesting a longer dry season ...
... concentration and precipitation during the December-February season, consistent with fishers’ reports that the fog season had changed since the early 1980s. The report also noted that over the last two decades the dry season has become drier and the wet season wetter, suggesting a longer dry season ...
Monmouth University Poll
... sea level rise will impact both inland areas and coastal communities. Residents of inland states (65%) are only slightly more likely than those living in coastal states (60%) to say that inland areas will be just as affected as coastal areas. However, coastal residents are more likely to say that th ...
... sea level rise will impact both inland areas and coastal communities. Residents of inland states (65%) are only slightly more likely than those living in coastal states (60%) to say that inland areas will be just as affected as coastal areas. However, coastal residents are more likely to say that th ...
Climate change and emerging infectious diseases
... CO2 will increase the transmission capacity of mosquitoes some 100-fold in temperate zones, and that the area capable of sustaining transmission will grow from that containing 45% of the world’s population to 60% [22, 34]; though recent statistical modeling projects less of a change [35]. Notably, a ...
... CO2 will increase the transmission capacity of mosquitoes some 100-fold in temperate zones, and that the area capable of sustaining transmission will grow from that containing 45% of the world’s population to 60% [22, 34]; though recent statistical modeling projects less of a change [35]. Notably, a ...
El Niño Southern Oscillation-Tropical Cyclones/Hurricanes and
... Secondly, will El Niño variability (the amplitude and/or the frequency of temperature swings in the equatorial Pacific) increase or decrease?. The largest changes in the amplitude of ENSO occur on decadal time-scales with increased multi-decadal modulation of the ENSO amplitude. ...
... Secondly, will El Niño variability (the amplitude and/or the frequency of temperature swings in the equatorial Pacific) increase or decrease?. The largest changes in the amplitude of ENSO occur on decadal time-scales with increased multi-decadal modulation of the ENSO amplitude. ...
II. Impact of climate change on forest genotypes, species
... Forest fragmentation is likely to increase with global warming due to increasing seasonality, dessication and higher incidence of wildfire. This could lead initially to a collapse of obligate, perhumid forest species and thus to an initial loss in genetic variability, which may recover if and when f ...
... Forest fragmentation is likely to increase with global warming due to increasing seasonality, dessication and higher incidence of wildfire. This could lead initially to a collapse of obligate, perhumid forest species and thus to an initial loss in genetic variability, which may recover if and when f ...
3. Weather patterns and climate change
... The air temperature of the warmest summer month (July) in 2009–2012 was 2.1 °C higher on average than the average of 1961–2012 and 1.5 °C higher than the average of the past four years (2005–2008). The average air temperature of all summer and spring months and the majority of autumn months of the p ...
... The air temperature of the warmest summer month (July) in 2009–2012 was 2.1 °C higher on average than the average of 1961–2012 and 1.5 °C higher than the average of the past four years (2005–2008). The average air temperature of all summer and spring months and the majority of autumn months of the p ...
post-2012 issues:developing country perspectives
... • The EU stressed that non-permanence reversals require compensation. • OTHER ISSUES: related to greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, possible approaches targeting sectoral emissions, consideration of relevant methodological issues, and spillover effects ...
... • The EU stressed that non-permanence reversals require compensation. • OTHER ISSUES: related to greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, possible approaches targeting sectoral emissions, consideration of relevant methodological issues, and spillover effects ...
... scales involved in model simulations of weather and of climate change. Climate variables such as temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture are represented as area-averaged values over model grid ceills that are typically several hundred kilometers on a side. However, because of high spatial vari ...
ADDRESSING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN
... increase their em issions reductions, but, developing countries also need to be a part o f the solution. Secondly, he noted that adaptation is a global necessity especially for the most vulnerable developing nations that require assistance in building their capacity. These strategies should be backe ...
... increase their em issions reductions, but, developing countries also need to be a part o f the solution. Secondly, he noted that adaptation is a global necessity especially for the most vulnerable developing nations that require assistance in building their capacity. These strategies should be backe ...
Discussion Note
... of exploiting biomass from forests must hold to the definition, at EU level, of suitable criteria for their sustainable use, and that some of the impact of “... forest destruction lies in related socio-economic factors such as poverty and under-development ...”. The use of biomass as a renewable sou ...
... of exploiting biomass from forests must hold to the definition, at EU level, of suitable criteria for their sustainable use, and that some of the impact of “... forest destruction lies in related socio-economic factors such as poverty and under-development ...”. The use of biomass as a renewable sou ...
Climate Change and Ecosystems
... of how climate change affects organisms. Then have each student prepare a report to be presented orally to the class on how climate change could affect one of the plants or animals in the regional ecosystem. Give students some example questions to help them focus their research (See the student hand ...
... of how climate change affects organisms. Then have each student prepare a report to be presented orally to the class on how climate change could affect one of the plants or animals in the regional ecosystem. Give students some example questions to help them focus their research (See the student hand ...
Sections A-B Preamble and Definitions - 11/02/2015@0820
... priority needs of [developing countries][Parties not included annex X] and their right to equitable access to sustainable development and for achieving economic growth and the eradication of poverty,] [Also reaffirming that all [developing countries][Parties not included annex X] need access to the ...
... priority needs of [developing countries][Parties not included annex X] and their right to equitable access to sustainable development and for achieving economic growth and the eradication of poverty,] [Also reaffirming that all [developing countries][Parties not included annex X] need access to the ...
The real holes in climate science
... Even worse, climate models seemingly underestimate how much precipitation has changed already — further reducing confidence in their ability to project future changes. A 2007 study3, published too late to be included into the last IPCC report, found that precipitation changes in the twentieth centur ...
... Even worse, climate models seemingly underestimate how much precipitation has changed already — further reducing confidence in their ability to project future changes. A 2007 study3, published too late to be included into the last IPCC report, found that precipitation changes in the twentieth centur ...
CLIMATIC EXPOSURE OF FORESTS IN THE CARPATHIANS
... patterns in future climate development, which have not yet been studied in detail. We identified a remarkable trend in future development of investigated variables, increasing from the Western Carpathians towards the Eastern and Serbian Carpathians. All four regional climate models used indicated th ...
... patterns in future climate development, which have not yet been studied in detail. We identified a remarkable trend in future development of investigated variables, increasing from the Western Carpathians towards the Eastern and Serbian Carpathians. All four regional climate models used indicated th ...
173736_INTRODUCTION 12-1-11
... Europeans to have in their homes a personal “library” of the King James Bible and a singlevolume Shakespeare collection, books that for many were far more than mere mantelpiece adornments. Turn of the (20th) century middle-class people, being somewhat better educated as well as more affluent, typica ...
... Europeans to have in their homes a personal “library” of the King James Bible and a singlevolume Shakespeare collection, books that for many were far more than mere mantelpiece adornments. Turn of the (20th) century middle-class people, being somewhat better educated as well as more affluent, typica ...
PDF version
... Climate effects of US aerosol sources: aerosol trends, radiative forcing, and climate response (oral) 5th International GEOS-Chem Meeting, Harvard University: May 3, 2011 Recent and projected climate consequences of improving US air quality (oral) EPS Graduate Student and Postdoc Seminar, Harvar ...
... Climate effects of US aerosol sources: aerosol trends, radiative forcing, and climate response (oral) 5th International GEOS-Chem Meeting, Harvard University: May 3, 2011 Recent and projected climate consequences of improving US air quality (oral) EPS Graduate Student and Postdoc Seminar, Harvar ...
National Plan on Climate Change
... Global climate change is one of the most significant challenges of the present day. The National Climate Change Plan intends to encourage the undertaking of actions in Brazil that can collaborate with global attempts to face the problem and create internal conditions to confront its consequences. Gl ...
... Global climate change is one of the most significant challenges of the present day. The National Climate Change Plan intends to encourage the undertaking of actions in Brazil that can collaborate with global attempts to face the problem and create internal conditions to confront its consequences. Gl ...
Climate change means days are getting longer: Harvard University
... and market squid and lower numbers of sardines and anchovies. The impact that these changes on lower trophic levels will have on higher trophic levels has been observed to be more complicated than anticipated. For example, seabirds such as Cassin’s auklets and common murres had two failed nesting se ...
... and market squid and lower numbers of sardines and anchovies. The impact that these changes on lower trophic levels will have on higher trophic levels has been observed to be more complicated than anticipated. For example, seabirds such as Cassin’s auklets and common murres had two failed nesting se ...
To cite this version:
... is to say, an ex-post response to an observed impact of climate change. It can equally be anticipative, that is to say, planned for and put in place before adverse impacts occur, with the aim of limiting the vulnerability of existing productive, social and ecological systems. From a political point ...
... is to say, an ex-post response to an observed impact of climate change. It can equally be anticipative, that is to say, planned for and put in place before adverse impacts occur, with the aim of limiting the vulnerability of existing productive, social and ecological systems. From a political point ...
The anti-politics of the Green Climate Fund: what is left to
... only to overarching targets and goals in the investment framework and its (eventual) derivative investment contracts which will be required to be loosely referenced to the priority areas. ...
... only to overarching targets and goals in the investment framework and its (eventual) derivative investment contracts which will be required to be loosely referenced to the priority areas. ...
South criticises North for not fulfilling climate commitments
... in the second commitment period. Deeper reductions by them will provide greater opportunities for developing countries to move onto a sustainable development pathway. The group looked forward to the launch of the Adaptation Fund. Effective mitigation and adaptation policies must take account of comm ...
... in the second commitment period. Deeper reductions by them will provide greater opportunities for developing countries to move onto a sustainable development pathway. The group looked forward to the launch of the Adaptation Fund. Effective mitigation and adaptation policies must take account of comm ...