Climate Change and Security in Africa - The Africa
... learned and best practices will play important roles. The initiative fits in very much with the EU’s own recognition that climate change is a “threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability” in developing countries1. Such tensions include conflict over resources such a ...
... learned and best practices will play important roles. The initiative fits in very much with the EU’s own recognition that climate change is a “threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability” in developing countries1. Such tensions include conflict over resources such a ...
The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Insurance Regulation
... include actions to bring about emissions reductions. Coordinating measures that reduce vulnerabilities and stabilize climate changes are principles that can guide public policy, private investment, and insurance practices.1 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergo ...
... include actions to bring about emissions reductions. Coordinating measures that reduce vulnerabilities and stabilize climate changes are principles that can guide public policy, private investment, and insurance practices.1 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergo ...
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... increase in world average temperature by 2100 within the range 1·4–5·8ºC (IPCC, 2001). The increase will be greater at higher latitudes and over land. Global average annual rainfall will increase, although many mid latitude and lower latitude land regions will become drier, whereas elsewhere precipi ...
... increase in world average temperature by 2100 within the range 1·4–5·8ºC (IPCC, 2001). The increase will be greater at higher latitudes and over land. Global average annual rainfall will increase, although many mid latitude and lower latitude land regions will become drier, whereas elsewhere precipi ...
2009-PIK-Additional Study-WP1
... (PM) Office in 2007. There and then, the PM’s Council on Climate Change was launched. Since, the issue of climate change has gained importance within the national, political arena, but aspects of impacts and adaptation seem to be handled as subordinate issue, still. The national Ministry of Urban De ...
... (PM) Office in 2007. There and then, the PM’s Council on Climate Change was launched. Since, the issue of climate change has gained importance within the national, political arena, but aspects of impacts and adaptation seem to be handled as subordinate issue, still. The national Ministry of Urban De ...
Climate Finance Study Group
... business areas, and governments have tools they can use for that purpose – examples include access to finance for SMEs to limit R&D risks, breaking contracts into smaller lots, and awarding the intellectual property right to the supplier (OECD, 2016d).13 Complementary to carbon pricing and regulatio ...
... business areas, and governments have tools they can use for that purpose – examples include access to finance for SMEs to limit R&D risks, breaking contracts into smaller lots, and awarding the intellectual property right to the supplier (OECD, 2016d).13 Complementary to carbon pricing and regulatio ...
georgia - Climate Forum East
... Civil society and the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement have a major role to play in alerting decision makers and the public to the risks of climate change and motivating people to take action based on these risks. Climate Forum East is a project in the six countries of the Eastern Partnership, aimed ...
... Civil society and the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement have a major role to play in alerting decision makers and the public to the risks of climate change and motivating people to take action based on these risks. Climate Forum East is a project in the six countries of the Eastern Partnership, aimed ...
Curriculum vitae PDF
... Director, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) 10/11 – present University of Alaska, Fairbanks (www.accap.uaf.edu) Funded by the NOAA Climate Program Office, ACCAP is one of eleven Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) Programs nation-wide. ACCP’s mission is to improv ...
... Director, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) 10/11 – present University of Alaska, Fairbanks (www.accap.uaf.edu) Funded by the NOAA Climate Program Office, ACCAP is one of eleven Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) Programs nation-wide. ACCP’s mission is to improv ...
Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project
... stakeholders raised concerns as to the impacts that climate change may have on the project bridges, approach roads, and interconnecting road. While the original project feasibility study used projections of sea level rise adopted by the Government of Viet Nam, concerns were raised as to the possible ...
... stakeholders raised concerns as to the impacts that climate change may have on the project bridges, approach roads, and interconnecting road. While the original project feasibility study used projections of sea level rise adopted by the Government of Viet Nam, concerns were raised as to the possible ...
S T A ?
... directly on adaptation planning. These cases address a myriad of issues facing coastal areas: the takings implications of protective sand dunes, the inundation of the sewage system, the resiliency of the electricity grid, the deterioration of coastal waters, and the increase in flood insurance premi ...
... directly on adaptation planning. These cases address a myriad of issues facing coastal areas: the takings implications of protective sand dunes, the inundation of the sewage system, the resiliency of the electricity grid, the deterioration of coastal waters, and the increase in flood insurance premi ...
Cognitive and Behavioral Challenges in Responding to Climate Change P R
... reason, in addition to being a major environmental problem, global climate change is a highly significant issue of global environmental justice (Athanasiou and Baer 2002, Baer et al. 2000, Agarwal and Narain 1991, Donohoe 2003, Roberts 2001, Roberts and Parks, 2007, Pettit 2004). Furthermore, indus ...
... reason, in addition to being a major environmental problem, global climate change is a highly significant issue of global environmental justice (Athanasiou and Baer 2002, Baer et al. 2000, Agarwal and Narain 1991, Donohoe 2003, Roberts 2001, Roberts and Parks, 2007, Pettit 2004). Furthermore, indus ...
Research Article Environmetrics
... The dependency between global temperature and radiative forcing is highly complex and is yet not fully understood (Knutti and Hegerl, 2008; Roe and Baker, 2007; Stainforth et al., 2005). The most detailed and complex climate models, the so called Atmospheric Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) ...
... The dependency between global temperature and radiative forcing is highly complex and is yet not fully understood (Knutti and Hegerl, 2008; Roe and Baker, 2007; Stainforth et al., 2005). The most detailed and complex climate models, the so called Atmospheric Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) ...
Minutes - Transcript - Appendix 1
... for climate science to understand going forward where it will be and where those storms will go. I would like to put it into a little bit of context though, that it is normal for London to have extreme weather. Being such an ancient city we have great records and we can find the largest storm that h ...
... for climate science to understand going forward where it will be and where those storms will go. I would like to put it into a little bit of context though, that it is normal for London to have extreme weather. Being such an ancient city we have great records and we can find the largest storm that h ...
A Climate Change Exposure Summary for Species and
... Earth’s atmosphere is undergoing unusual changes that may be altering the global climate (Jacobson et al. 2009). Over the last decade and a half, scientific consensus has emerged that climate change is occurring, and at a faster rate than was originally predicted (Parmesan and Galbraith 2004). Globa ...
... Earth’s atmosphere is undergoing unusual changes that may be altering the global climate (Jacobson et al. 2009). Over the last decade and a half, scientific consensus has emerged that climate change is occurring, and at a faster rate than was originally predicted (Parmesan and Galbraith 2004). Globa ...
The role of biospheric feedbacks in the simulation of the... historical land cover change on the Australian January climate
... through the surface water and energy balance. We find no evidence that the biospheric feedback affects precipitation (not shown). The biospheric feedback does affect temperature (Figure 1c). Over south eastern Australia, biospheric feedbacks reduce the warming caused by LCC by 0.1– 0.3C (Figures 1c ...
... through the surface water and energy balance. We find no evidence that the biospheric feedback affects precipitation (not shown). The biospheric feedback does affect temperature (Figure 1c). Over south eastern Australia, biospheric feedbacks reduce the warming caused by LCC by 0.1– 0.3C (Figures 1c ...
Dis full and final - University of Otago
... discussion. At this conference, the Paris Agreement1 was drafted; an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change2 (UNFCCC), aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global warming.3 While France’s foreign minister Laurant Fabius stated that this agreement ...
... discussion. At this conference, the Paris Agreement1 was drafted; an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change2 (UNFCCC), aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global warming.3 While France’s foreign minister Laurant Fabius stated that this agreement ...
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Conservation
... effectiveness, efficiency, equity and legitimacy are important in judging success in terms of the sustainability of development pathways into an uncertain future. We further argue that each of these elements of decision-making is implicit within presently formulated scenarios of socio-economic futur ...
... effectiveness, efficiency, equity and legitimacy are important in judging success in terms of the sustainability of development pathways into an uncertain future. We further argue that each of these elements of decision-making is implicit within presently formulated scenarios of socio-economic futur ...
The Recent Trend and Variance Increase of the
... consecutive seasons, and the interannual variance of this time series, that is, the variance of the winter-mean values, must arise from intraseasonal fluctuations. In this study, I examine the extent to which the picture in Fig. 2, that is, intraseasonal fluctuations accounting for interannual varia ...
... consecutive seasons, and the interannual variance of this time series, that is, the variance of the winter-mean values, must arise from intraseasonal fluctuations. In this study, I examine the extent to which the picture in Fig. 2, that is, intraseasonal fluctuations accounting for interannual varia ...
Expect Above Average Temperatures: Identifying the Economic
... the climate has changed. They therefore focus on mapping uncertainty about future climate change into the variance of the weather. ...
... the climate has changed. They therefore focus on mapping uncertainty about future climate change into the variance of the weather. ...
Latin America
... by the year 2050. Because most Latin American countries’ economies depend on agricultural productivity, the issue of regional variation in crop yields is very relevant for the region. The area of the Latin American region is approximately 19.93 million km 2—double that of Europe, but smaller than th ...
... by the year 2050. Because most Latin American countries’ economies depend on agricultural productivity, the issue of regional variation in crop yields is very relevant for the region. The area of the Latin American region is approximately 19.93 million km 2—double that of Europe, but smaller than th ...
AN ABSTRACT OF THE PROJECT OF
... There are several scales at which to carry out an investigation of the vulnerability of fisheries to climate change. Different impacts on fisheries occur at the international, national, regional or community levels, each comprising different variables. “At the regional and local scales, impact and v ...
... There are several scales at which to carry out an investigation of the vulnerability of fisheries to climate change. Different impacts on fisheries occur at the international, national, regional or community levels, each comprising different variables. “At the regional and local scales, impact and v ...
climate induced migration and displacement in mesoamerica
... available land served as pull factors to attract migration towards the Petén (Bilsborrow, 2002). Migration induced by environmental changes is usually considered as a type of forced mobility, as the push factors are typically stronger than the pull factors. Hugo (1996) suggested that the various typ ...
... available land served as pull factors to attract migration towards the Petén (Bilsborrow, 2002). Migration induced by environmental changes is usually considered as a type of forced mobility, as the push factors are typically stronger than the pull factors. Hugo (1996) suggested that the various typ ...
terms of reference
... Mobilize and coordinate outreach efforts to international NGO’s to engage with and create opportunities for children and young people to be actively involved in a social movement to combat climate change by: o Raising awareness; o Creating or adapting innovative “glocal” solutions and/or scaling u ...
... Mobilize and coordinate outreach efforts to international NGO’s to engage with and create opportunities for children and young people to be actively involved in a social movement to combat climate change by: o Raising awareness; o Creating or adapting innovative “glocal” solutions and/or scaling u ...
Whangarei District Climate Change Constraints Report
... Climate change has long been perceived as a threat to the environment, but in recent years this threat perception has expanded to include social, cultural, security, and economic concerns. The theory underpinning anthropogenic climate change, put very simplistically, is that increased emissions of s ...
... Climate change has long been perceived as a threat to the environment, but in recent years this threat perception has expanded to include social, cultural, security, and economic concerns. The theory underpinning anthropogenic climate change, put very simplistically, is that increased emissions of s ...
Vector-Borne Diseases: Impact of Climate
... Meteorological and hydrological observations demonstrate that during the last decade the climate has changed. As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001), a mean increase of temperature by 0.09 K per decade was observed globally from 1951 to 1989. Up to now, 2006, this ...
... Meteorological and hydrological observations demonstrate that during the last decade the climate has changed. As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001), a mean increase of temperature by 0.09 K per decade was observed globally from 1951 to 1989. Up to now, 2006, this ...
Greening of the Earth and its drivers
... elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2 ), regional climate change (temperature, precipitation and radiation), and varying rates of nitrogen deposition. Land-use-related drivers involve changes in land cover and in land management intensity, including fertilization, irrigation, forestry and gra ...
... elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2 ), regional climate change (temperature, precipitation and radiation), and varying rates of nitrogen deposition. Land-use-related drivers involve changes in land cover and in land management intensity, including fertilization, irrigation, forestry and gra ...