Southern Benguela fisheries sector
... • Engage with key stakeholders on current and future challenges in the small scale fisheries sector and the fishery for small pelagics • Encourage and support DAFF in implementation of small-scale fisheries policies, taking into account a changing climate • Encourage and support the building of capa ...
... • Engage with key stakeholders on current and future challenges in the small scale fisheries sector and the fishery for small pelagics • Encourage and support DAFF in implementation of small-scale fisheries policies, taking into account a changing climate • Encourage and support the building of capa ...
Slide 1
... 1500 Mha available, of which about 500 Mha is by conventional GRS • Deep debt/ distress of producer communities (60% population) • Climate change, Ecological degradation pollution of air, water and soil • Alienates producers from the earth systems ...
... 1500 Mha available, of which about 500 Mha is by conventional GRS • Deep debt/ distress of producer communities (60% population) • Climate change, Ecological degradation pollution of air, water and soil • Alienates producers from the earth systems ...
ACTING NOW OR MORE SUFFERING LATER?
... In rural communities women are largely dependent on natural resources and agriculture for their livelihood. Climate change will mean that the supply of natural resources will be threatened. Agriculture may become less viable. As it is, in many regions of South Africa farming activities take place on ...
... In rural communities women are largely dependent on natural resources and agriculture for their livelihood. Climate change will mean that the supply of natural resources will be threatened. Agriculture may become less viable. As it is, in many regions of South Africa farming activities take place on ...
PowerPoint-Präsentation
... http://ingeniouspursuits.blogspot.pt/2014/06/consensus-in-science-revisited.html ...
... http://ingeniouspursuits.blogspot.pt/2014/06/consensus-in-science-revisited.html ...
Why Focus On Climate Change - 1 - PowerPoint
... Figure SPM.1: Observed globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature anomaly 1850-2012 Graphic Source IPCC, 2013: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Pan ...
... Figure SPM.1: Observed globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature anomaly 1850-2012 Graphic Source IPCC, 2013: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Pan ...
Mockrin SES Climate Change Impacts
... with an emphasis on linkages, feedbacks, and thresholds among components. • Response to classic utilitarian approaches that considered resources in isolation ▫ e.g., harvesting fisheries with a fixed species-specific quota ▫ Classical approach assumed scientific knowledge/human control could result ...
... with an emphasis on linkages, feedbacks, and thresholds among components. • Response to classic utilitarian approaches that considered resources in isolation ▫ e.g., harvesting fisheries with a fixed species-specific quota ▫ Classical approach assumed scientific knowledge/human control could result ...
Climate Change - The Phenomenon and its Impacts by Safia
... for understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation IPCC does not carry out research nor monitor climate related data or other ...
... for understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation IPCC does not carry out research nor monitor climate related data or other ...
unit_6_climate_change
... moisture- requiring more irrigation Location (i.e. elevation and altitude) where certain crops can be grown may have to change ...
... moisture- requiring more irrigation Location (i.e. elevation and altitude) where certain crops can be grown may have to change ...
Tropical-Rainy
... tropical wet and dry climate type, but are not generally considered to be a climax community. Instead, savannas develop in regions where the climax community should be some form of seasonal forest or woodland, but continuous disturbances, such as drought or flooding, prevent the establishment of tho ...
... tropical wet and dry climate type, but are not generally considered to be a climax community. Instead, savannas develop in regions where the climax community should be some form of seasonal forest or woodland, but continuous disturbances, such as drought or flooding, prevent the establishment of tho ...
Environment SPC 24th June 2015 New Climate Change Strategy
... Identify further adaptation and mitigation measures to face the challenges of Climate change Energy: - reduce energy consumption and find alternative renewable sources for energy and transportation to reduce CO2 contributions. ...
... Identify further adaptation and mitigation measures to face the challenges of Climate change Energy: - reduce energy consumption and find alternative renewable sources for energy and transportation to reduce CO2 contributions. ...
“Climate Change” as one of the TOP
... …. There is also a large discrepancy between the immediate time horizon employed by most business and political leaders and the long-term approach required to tackle risks on a global scale…. ...
... …. There is also a large discrepancy between the immediate time horizon employed by most business and political leaders and the long-term approach required to tackle risks on a global scale…. ...
Climate Science Lecture 2
... (2) Rate – millions of years ii) Earth’s orbital changes – variations in Earth’s position relative to the Sun (1) Causes changes in the radiation received and absorbed by Earth (2) Rate - 10s to 100s of thousands of years iii) Variations in the Sun’s energy output (1) The Sun has slowing strengthene ...
... (2) Rate – millions of years ii) Earth’s orbital changes – variations in Earth’s position relative to the Sun (1) Causes changes in the radiation received and absorbed by Earth (2) Rate - 10s to 100s of thousands of years iii) Variations in the Sun’s energy output (1) The Sun has slowing strengthene ...
View Publication - Earth Innovation Institute
... from climate change as well as local stressors such as logging and forest fire (9). Brazil has shown leadership by slowing down Amazon deforestation by 70% (16), and by creating the largest protected area (PA) network in the world. Yet these successes are now being partially undermined by major infr ...
... from climate change as well as local stressors such as logging and forest fire (9). Brazil has shown leadership by slowing down Amazon deforestation by 70% (16), and by creating the largest protected area (PA) network in the world. Yet these successes are now being partially undermined by major infr ...
document
... conservation of angular momentum requires that the Earth should slow down – an ever so tiny amount – to compensate for this atmospheric acceleration due to a major ENSO warming event – equatorial winds speed up and Earth slows down During sudden changes of the climate Earth could speed up or s ...
... conservation of angular momentum requires that the Earth should slow down – an ever so tiny amount – to compensate for this atmospheric acceleration due to a major ENSO warming event – equatorial winds speed up and Earth slows down During sudden changes of the climate Earth could speed up or s ...
Tropical Savannas
... tropical wet and dry climate type, but are not generally considered to be a climax community. Instead, savannas develop in regions where the climax community should be some form of seasonal forest or woodland, but continuous disturbances, such as drought or flooding, prevent the establishment of tho ...
... tropical wet and dry climate type, but are not generally considered to be a climax community. Instead, savannas develop in regions where the climax community should be some form of seasonal forest or woodland, but continuous disturbances, such as drought or flooding, prevent the establishment of tho ...
lecture33
... • All feedback mechanisms operate simultaneously. • All feedback mechanisms work in both directions. • The dominant effect is difficult to predict. • Cause and effect is very difficult to prove at the “beyond a shadow of a doubt” level. ...
... • All feedback mechanisms operate simultaneously. • All feedback mechanisms work in both directions. • The dominant effect is difficult to predict. • Cause and effect is very difficult to prove at the “beyond a shadow of a doubt” level. ...
Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region
... • Minimizing pressures on the environment by improving air quality, protecting the quality and supply of water resources, protecting habitat, and limiting sprawl. • Preparing for those impacts from global warming that cannot be avoided through better planning and emergency preparedness, adaptations ...
... • Minimizing pressures on the environment by improving air quality, protecting the quality and supply of water resources, protecting habitat, and limiting sprawl. • Preparing for those impacts from global warming that cannot be avoided through better planning and emergency preparedness, adaptations ...
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... the composition and frequency of the wildlife that depends upon those plant species for food and cover. As winter temperatures increase, insect outbreaks could spread north into the boreal forest. The response ...
... the composition and frequency of the wildlife that depends upon those plant species for food and cover. As winter temperatures increase, insect outbreaks could spread north into the boreal forest. The response ...
Presentation by Team 11
... properties and carbon storage potential in agricultural soils (AGRIchar). UMN participant in application. Not funded, but new possibilities for cooperation /application will be searched for. ...
... properties and carbon storage potential in agricultural soils (AGRIchar). UMN participant in application. Not funded, but new possibilities for cooperation /application will be searched for. ...
protect the world`s children: leave a habitable planet for posterity
... wrong when we do that.”1 And what of the future generations of children not yet born that are called posterity? Isn’t leaving a habitable planet for them to live on the ultimate act of kindness? ...
... wrong when we do that.”1 And what of the future generations of children not yet born that are called posterity? Isn’t leaving a habitable planet for them to live on the ultimate act of kindness? ...
CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE BIOSPHERE
... CITIES AND TOWNS IN STORM DAMAGED AREAS. However, insurance costs may shatter most of these dreams. For example, “North America incurred $510 billion in insured losses from weather catastrophes over the last three decades, and climate change is emerging as one of the reasons why, . . .”1 “. . . ...
... CITIES AND TOWNS IN STORM DAMAGED AREAS. However, insurance costs may shatter most of these dreams. For example, “North America incurred $510 billion in insured losses from weather catastrophes over the last three decades, and climate change is emerging as one of the reasons why, . . .”1 “. . . ...
Climate-KIC
... Four of these Regions are currently in ERRIN. Climate-KIC is also expanding its links with regions via outreach activities that will mean six more regions being associated with the Climate-KIC. Each region brings together a cluster of key innovation players – public agencies, large and small com ...
... Four of these Regions are currently in ERRIN. Climate-KIC is also expanding its links with regions via outreach activities that will mean six more regions being associated with the Climate-KIC. Each region brings together a cluster of key innovation players – public agencies, large and small com ...
Homework (Reading and summary writing) File
... decades. Isolating the influence of climatic change from all the other trends is difficult, but one recent Stanford University study found that increases in global production of maize and wheat since 1980 would have been about 5% higher were it not for climate change. All else being equal, rising ca ...
... decades. Isolating the influence of climatic change from all the other trends is difficult, but one recent Stanford University study found that increases in global production of maize and wheat since 1980 would have been about 5% higher were it not for climate change. All else being equal, rising ca ...
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... the potential for mitigation into sustainable agriculture development strategies. CSA proposes more integrated approaches to the closely linked challenges of food security, development and climate change adaptation/mitigation, to enable countries to identify options with maximum benefits and those w ...
... the potential for mitigation into sustainable agriculture development strategies. CSA proposes more integrated approaches to the closely linked challenges of food security, development and climate change adaptation/mitigation, to enable countries to identify options with maximum benefits and those w ...