Needs, Potentials and Challenges of Integrating Air Quality
... cooling effects of PM. This masking effect is mainly caused by the sulfate and nitrate components of PM which also have adverse health impacts and contribute to acidification, as well as by the organic PM components. Reducing these air pollutants could lead to an “unmasking” that further increases g ...
... cooling effects of PM. This masking effect is mainly caused by the sulfate and nitrate components of PM which also have adverse health impacts and contribute to acidification, as well as by the organic PM components. Reducing these air pollutants could lead to an “unmasking” that further increases g ...
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 ...
A Mediterranean response to climate change
... increments and the subsequent income from forests; ...
... increments and the subsequent income from forests; ...
1 - Naturvernforbundet
... IIED report, however, warns that all estimates produced so far dramatically underestimate the real costs of adaptation. See http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/11501IIED.pdf ...
... IIED report, however, warns that all estimates produced so far dramatically underestimate the real costs of adaptation. See http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/11501IIED.pdf ...
summary - Wisconsin Sea Grant - University of Wisconsin–Madison
... • Stormwater management design is commonly based on design storms, such as the 10-year, 24-hour storm. • There is general belief that the magnitude of these storms will increase a a result of climate change. ...
... • Stormwater management design is commonly based on design storms, such as the 10-year, 24-hour storm. • There is general belief that the magnitude of these storms will increase a a result of climate change. ...
Climate Change Impact and Forced Migration
... hectares and pushing some beaches three kilometers inland. Gambia’s capital, Banjul, would be entirely submerged. In the Mediterranean, Egypt would lose at least 2 million hectares of land in the fertile Nile Delta, displacing 8–10 million people, including nearly the entire population of Alexandria ...
... hectares and pushing some beaches three kilometers inland. Gambia’s capital, Banjul, would be entirely submerged. In the Mediterranean, Egypt would lose at least 2 million hectares of land in the fertile Nile Delta, displacing 8–10 million people, including nearly the entire population of Alexandria ...
Change in crop suitability indicator
... Impacts in the AVOID programme Overview of assessment methodology Early results: global and regional scales Conclusions and implications ...
... Impacts in the AVOID programme Overview of assessment methodology Early results: global and regional scales Conclusions and implications ...
PRESS RELEASE
... of leading by example, New York has set the goal of reducing its municipal government’s carbon emissions 17% by 2030. About Swiss Re (http://www.swissre.com/ ): Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, has been involved in the climate debate for over 20 years and participated in projects ran ...
... of leading by example, New York has set the goal of reducing its municipal government’s carbon emissions 17% by 2030. About Swiss Re (http://www.swissre.com/ ): Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, has been involved in the climate debate for over 20 years and participated in projects ran ...
⢠News in Brief 1 ⢠Graduate Studies Program 3 - IMK - IFU
... Stakeholder workshops in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Accra, Ghana The scientific work of UNU-EHS and DLR in work package 5.1 focuses on a vulnerability and risk assessment in the context of climate change related hazards such as floods and droughts and climatic variability. Risk and vulnerability ...
... Stakeholder workshops in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Accra, Ghana The scientific work of UNU-EHS and DLR in work package 5.1 focuses on a vulnerability and risk assessment in the context of climate change related hazards such as floods and droughts and climatic variability. Risk and vulnerability ...
Slide 1
... THIS SCIENCE IS INDEED SETTLED: The 6 most important facts are these • Global temperature warmed slightly in the late 20th C. • 20th C warming was not unusual in either rate or magnitude • Global average temperature has declined since 1998; atmospheric CO2 has increased by 5% since 1998. • Humans h ...
... THIS SCIENCE IS INDEED SETTLED: The 6 most important facts are these • Global temperature warmed slightly in the late 20th C. • 20th C warming was not unusual in either rate or magnitude • Global average temperature has declined since 1998; atmospheric CO2 has increased by 5% since 1998. • Humans h ...
Climate Change as Threat Multiplier
... reports under the “societal” category, and defined in generally the same way. The 2015 report defines the risk as “access to appropriate quantities and quality of food and nutrition becomes inadequate, unaffordable or unreliable on a major scale.” There is growing evidence that climate change can ha ...
... reports under the “societal” category, and defined in generally the same way. The 2015 report defines the risk as “access to appropriate quantities and quality of food and nutrition becomes inadequate, unaffordable or unreliable on a major scale.” There is growing evidence that climate change can ha ...
Concept note
... housing, self-determination, culture and development. It also threats prospects for sustainable development and the rights of future generations. While the negative impact of climate change affects people everywhere, it is disproportionately borne by persons and communities already in vulnerable sit ...
... housing, self-determination, culture and development. It also threats prospects for sustainable development and the rights of future generations. While the negative impact of climate change affects people everywhere, it is disproportionately borne by persons and communities already in vulnerable sit ...
PowerPoint file - Earth and Environmental Sciences
... economy, with reductions in material intensity, and the introduction of clean and resource-efficient technologies. Global solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability, including improved equity, but without additional climate initiatives. The B2 storyline and scenario family descr ...
... economy, with reductions in material intensity, and the introduction of clean and resource-efficient technologies. Global solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability, including improved equity, but without additional climate initiatives. The B2 storyline and scenario family descr ...
Can the International Treaty System Address Climate Change?
... from large emitters in the developing world were essential to meeting global climate reduction goals. The issue of developing countries “graduating” to commitments as they become richer is a major chasm between developing countries wishing to avoid mandatory action on emissions (or differentiated re ...
... from large emitters in the developing world were essential to meeting global climate reduction goals. The issue of developing countries “graduating” to commitments as they become richer is a major chasm between developing countries wishing to avoid mandatory action on emissions (or differentiated re ...
Global Climate Change and National Security
... is being written, England is experiencing floods such as it has not seen in years. The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina are still fresh in the minds of local, state, and federal governments. These events stretched the capabilities of even the most developed countries to respond. The potentia ...
... is being written, England is experiencing floods such as it has not seen in years. The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina are still fresh in the minds of local, state, and federal governments. These events stretched the capabilities of even the most developed countries to respond. The potentia ...
WHAT‘S UP Make the change – show that you care
... Climate change threatens our lives, our families and our future. We, the youth delegates from 44 countries attending the Children’s Climate Forum 2009, will not sit back and watch. We already face the effects of climate change. Our communities are deprived of clean drinking water, denied access to e ...
... Climate change threatens our lives, our families and our future. We, the youth delegates from 44 countries attending the Children’s Climate Forum 2009, will not sit back and watch. We already face the effects of climate change. Our communities are deprived of clean drinking water, denied access to e ...
PDF
... and expanded (I &E) model, based on the assumption that irrigation water from aquifers within the WVB is used as an adaptation strategy to bring yields levels up to 95% of their baseline values, is tested as an adaptation strategy under a third scenario. In all three scenarios, we test a recommended ...
... and expanded (I &E) model, based on the assumption that irrigation water from aquifers within the WVB is used as an adaptation strategy to bring yields levels up to 95% of their baseline values, is tested as an adaptation strategy under a third scenario. In all three scenarios, we test a recommended ...
Make room for the climate! - Climate changes Spatial Planning
... This memorandum has been drawn up for a round of policy discussions. The Dutch Cabinet will incorporate the results of this consultation process when they draw up the National Adaptation Strategy this autumn. Over the coming months, the strategy will be worked out in more detail and will also take i ...
... This memorandum has been drawn up for a round of policy discussions. The Dutch Cabinet will incorporate the results of this consultation process when they draw up the National Adaptation Strategy this autumn. Over the coming months, the strategy will be worked out in more detail and will also take i ...
Polar Voices: Relaying the Science and Story of Polar Climate Change
... The main goal of Polar Voices is to increase knowledge and awareness of climate change in adult listeners from a broad range of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. For listeners with limited initial knowledge of climate change, we present scientific information in simple and concise language. ...
... The main goal of Polar Voices is to increase knowledge and awareness of climate change in adult listeners from a broad range of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. For listeners with limited initial knowledge of climate change, we present scientific information in simple and concise language. ...
United Nations – Framework Convention for Climate Change
... • Around 75% of global carbon emissions had been caused by the developed countries (the “Annex 1 Countries” of the Kyoto Protocol) • Annex 1 countries responsible to cut back carbon emissions, and to provide assistance to non Annex 1 to sustainably develop and mitigate suffering from the adverse imp ...
... • Around 75% of global carbon emissions had been caused by the developed countries (the “Annex 1 Countries” of the Kyoto Protocol) • Annex 1 countries responsible to cut back carbon emissions, and to provide assistance to non Annex 1 to sustainably develop and mitigate suffering from the adverse imp ...
Exploring the impacts of climate change on water resources
... PRECIS. Scenarios for water demands have been developed for the present and future based on socioeconomic data from various publicly available sources and local water management plans. The comparison of water demands with supply using spatial-temporal distributed water availability indices enables a ...
... PRECIS. Scenarios for water demands have been developed for the present and future based on socioeconomic data from various publicly available sources and local water management plans. The comparison of water demands with supply using spatial-temporal distributed water availability indices enables a ...
Integration of Climate Change Into Watershed Management
... inclusive ecosystem-based management frameworks, developed to date. Now, it must expand again to address Climate Change, and must do so with respect to natural science, mitigation, and adaptation, terms which will be explained in more detail below. Managing on an ecosystem basis involves the recogni ...
... inclusive ecosystem-based management frameworks, developed to date. Now, it must expand again to address Climate Change, and must do so with respect to natural science, mitigation, and adaptation, terms which will be explained in more detail below. Managing on an ecosystem basis involves the recogni ...
Multiplying Carbon Neutral Neighborhood Discussions (CNNDs) for
... summit in Sydney, Australia Mr. Hu Jintao maintained that “the United Nations Framework convention remain the main channel for the international efforts” to address climate change (The Hindu, September 7, 2007). The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), wh ...
... summit in Sydney, Australia Mr. Hu Jintao maintained that “the United Nations Framework convention remain the main channel for the international efforts” to address climate change (The Hindu, September 7, 2007). The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), wh ...
Download: The Road to Copenhagen: a global deal on climate change (pdf)
... change to no more than two degrees of warming. That means a deal which will ensure that global emissions peak by 2020 at the latest. This would be a historic result because it would be the first time in the industrial history of the world that we have reversed the inexorable rise in emissions. In th ...
... change to no more than two degrees of warming. That means a deal which will ensure that global emissions peak by 2020 at the latest. This would be a historic result because it would be the first time in the industrial history of the world that we have reversed the inexorable rise in emissions. In th ...