Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Land Use Sector
... UNFCCC, there was hope that mitigation efforts would be adequate not requiring intensive active adaptation (van Noordwijk et al. 2011). With that hope gone, there still are distinct policy streams for mitigation and adaptation in current UNFCCC negotiations. Mitigation and adaptation are still imple ...
... UNFCCC, there was hope that mitigation efforts would be adequate not requiring intensive active adaptation (van Noordwijk et al. 2011). With that hope gone, there still are distinct policy streams for mitigation and adaptation in current UNFCCC negotiations. Mitigation and adaptation are still imple ...
Sensitivity of Amazon Regional Climate to Deforestation
... land covers and convection schemes, for example Xue et al. [60] that the new vegetated dataset (changes in particular in LAI, soil properties were deemed important) produced significantly different latent heat flux’s and surface temperatures which can cause a significantly different response in rain ...
... land covers and convection schemes, for example Xue et al. [60] that the new vegetated dataset (changes in particular in LAI, soil properties were deemed important) produced significantly different latent heat flux’s and surface temperatures which can cause a significantly different response in rain ...
Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?
... that remain airborne for centuries-to-millennia. The humancaused atmospheric GHG increase will decline slowly if anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel burning decrease enough, as we illustrate below using a simplified carbon cycle model. On the other hand, if the globe warms much further, carbon ...
... that remain airborne for centuries-to-millennia. The humancaused atmospheric GHG increase will decline slowly if anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel burning decrease enough, as we illustrate below using a simplified carbon cycle model. On the other hand, if the globe warms much further, carbon ...
Everybody`s Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change
... focuses solely on the universality of global warming and its impacts can push many people away, instead of motivating them to join the cause. In addition, universal approaches to addressing climate change may exacerbate existing environmental, economic, and social inequities. Many polls show that pe ...
... focuses solely on the universality of global warming and its impacts can push many people away, instead of motivating them to join the cause. In addition, universal approaches to addressing climate change may exacerbate existing environmental, economic, and social inequities. Many polls show that pe ...
City of Tshwane Vulnerability Assessment to Climate Change
... 1961-1990, using the gridded station data of the CRUTS3.1 data set. ................................................. 32 Table 7: Air Pollutants over CoT............................................................................................................ 55 Table 8. Incidents of hailstorms in ...
... 1961-1990, using the gridded station data of the CRUTS3.1 data set. ................................................. 32 Table 7: Air Pollutants over CoT............................................................................................................ 55 Table 8. Incidents of hailstorms in ...
... focuses solely on the universality of global warming and its impacts can push many people away, instead of motivating them to join the cause. In addition, universal approaches to addressing climate change may exacerbate existing environmental, economic, and social inequities. Many polls show that pe ...
The Global Climate Observing System Programme The Global
... is a fundamental driver of the water cycle, helping to determine both availability and demand in the short- and long-term. Understanding current climate variability and future change is essential to infrastructure planning and the development of integrated water resource management systems. Most dev ...
... is a fundamental driver of the water cycle, helping to determine both availability and demand in the short- and long-term. Understanding current climate variability and future change is essential to infrastructure planning and the development of integrated water resource management systems. Most dev ...
Externship Report: Rwanda
... In VNP, uncertainties remain about climatic change and ecological systems - how regional climate will change and how species and ecological systems will respond to climate change. Until today, only a small number of studies have focused on the effects of climate change on mountain gorillas and their ...
... In VNP, uncertainties remain about climatic change and ecological systems - how regional climate will change and how species and ecological systems will respond to climate change. Until today, only a small number of studies have focused on the effects of climate change on mountain gorillas and their ...
Climate Commitments: Assessing the Options
... The nature of the climate change problem, as well as the history of international environmental cooperation more generally, suggest the need for commitments. The existence and implications of purported legal obligations, such as the duty to prevent transboundary pollution and the polluter pays prin ...
... The nature of the climate change problem, as well as the history of international environmental cooperation more generally, suggest the need for commitments. The existence and implications of purported legal obligations, such as the duty to prevent transboundary pollution and the polluter pays prin ...
Why Climate Demands Change Michael A. Taylor
... modelling, sustainable water management, and incorporating climate change into agricultural planning. Of special interest is his work on the link between climate change and dengue, through the vector mosquito. Although dengue seemed to be under control in the 1980s, increased incidence since then m ...
... modelling, sustainable water management, and incorporating climate change into agricultural planning. Of special interest is his work on the link between climate change and dengue, through the vector mosquito. Although dengue seemed to be under control in the 1980s, increased incidence since then m ...
The Rockefeller Foundation Initiative Asian Cities Climate Change
... cities a core part of the larger Building Climate Change Resilience Initiative that also includes another major component on resilience in African agriculture. 2. Urban climate change resilience represents a valuable and relevant concept for addressing urban climate change. However, it is complex a ...
... cities a core part of the larger Building Climate Change Resilience Initiative that also includes another major component on resilience in African agriculture. 2. Urban climate change resilience represents a valuable and relevant concept for addressing urban climate change. However, it is complex a ...
Introducing the Transnational Climate Impacts Index
... Government Office for Science states that “the consequences for the UK of climate change occurring in other parts of the world could be as important as climate change directly affecting these shores” (Foresight International Dimensions of Climate Change 2011, p.7). However, despite this growing evid ...
... Government Office for Science states that “the consequences for the UK of climate change occurring in other parts of the world could be as important as climate change directly affecting these shores” (Foresight International Dimensions of Climate Change 2011, p.7). However, despite this growing evid ...
Managing Physical Impacts of Climate Change: An Attentional
... referred to as a predictable surprise: ‘an event or set of events that catch an organisation offguard, despite leaders’ prior awareness of all of the information necessary to anticipate the events and their consequences’ (Bazerman, 2006, p. 180). What motivates this article is the question whether a ...
... referred to as a predictable surprise: ‘an event or set of events that catch an organisation offguard, despite leaders’ prior awareness of all of the information necessary to anticipate the events and their consequences’ (Bazerman, 2006, p. 180). What motivates this article is the question whether a ...
desertification in africa - university of nairobi staff profiles
... causes of desertification that were noted as human induced, and also some natural hazards such as droughts. It has also been noted that desertification can have far reaching physical and socioeconomic impacts. In Africa it is strongly linked to poverty, food security, hunger, migration and conflicts ...
... causes of desertification that were noted as human induced, and also some natural hazards such as droughts. It has also been noted that desertification can have far reaching physical and socioeconomic impacts. In Africa it is strongly linked to poverty, food security, hunger, migration and conflicts ...
Vulnerability of Fraser River Sockeye salmon to climate change
... questions ( e.g. the Delphi method (Linstone and Turoff, 1975), or consensus reports derived through negotiation and review, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change process. In the present study the concern is with interactions over a wide range of variables for eight different life c ...
... questions ( e.g. the Delphi method (Linstone and Turoff, 1975), or consensus reports derived through negotiation and review, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change process. In the present study the concern is with interactions over a wide range of variables for eight different life c ...
Climate Change and Conservation: A Primer for Assessing Impacts
... future will be on adaptation strategies that benefit both nature (biodiversity) and people, the methods, tools, approaches, and resources outlined in this primer should be helpful to all conservation projects, regardless of the degree of emphasis on human well‐being. Moreover, our methods, tools, ...
... future will be on adaptation strategies that benefit both nature (biodiversity) and people, the methods, tools, approaches, and resources outlined in this primer should be helpful to all conservation projects, regardless of the degree of emphasis on human well‐being. Moreover, our methods, tools, ...
Predicting population consequences of ocean climate
... drive the upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water into the euphotic zone and stimulate phytoplankton production (Huyer, 1983). Decreases in upwelling-favorable winds and the influx of warm surface water, which occur during El Niño events, and delays in the onset of upwelling can have dramatic ecosys ...
... drive the upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water into the euphotic zone and stimulate phytoplankton production (Huyer, 1983). Decreases in upwelling-favorable winds and the influx of warm surface water, which occur during El Niño events, and delays in the onset of upwelling can have dramatic ecosys ...
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made
... sensitivity, we first make a remark about climate models and then briefly summarize Earth's recent climate history to provide specificity to the concept of climate feedbacks. Climate models, based on physical laws that describe the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, as well as proce ...
... sensitivity, we first make a remark about climate models and then briefly summarize Earth's recent climate history to provide specificity to the concept of climate feedbacks. Climate models, based on physical laws that describe the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, as well as proce ...
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... *Baseline period for sea level rise is 2000-2004. Based on 35 GCMs and two Representative Concentration Pathways. Data are from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN), Version 2 (Menne et al ...
... *Baseline period for sea level rise is 2000-2004. Based on 35 GCMs and two Representative Concentration Pathways. Data are from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN), Version 2 (Menne et al ...
White Paper on the contribution of the GFCS to Agenda 2030
... namely: Agriculture and Food Security, Disaster Risk Reduction, Health, Water and Energy; but also covering the multitude of SDGs that could benefits from enhanced availability and access to climate services. Climate Services develop and provide science-based and user-specific information relating t ...
... namely: Agriculture and Food Security, Disaster Risk Reduction, Health, Water and Energy; but also covering the multitude of SDGs that could benefits from enhanced availability and access to climate services. Climate Services develop and provide science-based and user-specific information relating t ...
the critical decade:climate change and health
... is to provide up-to-date information on the challenges to human health in a changing climate and how we can manage them. The information further reinforces the case that Australia, along with other countries, must take action to slow, and then stop, the process of human-induced climate change. ...
... is to provide up-to-date information on the challenges to human health in a changing climate and how we can manage them. The information further reinforces the case that Australia, along with other countries, must take action to slow, and then stop, the process of human-induced climate change. ...
document Lee Presentation
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". ...
Phoenix Islands Protected Area Climate Change Vulnerability
... km2 of ocean. With centuries of tradition living on remote tropical islands, the people of Kiribati have a keen sense of their relation to the environment. With human populations growing and testing the limits of island resources, climate change is now becoming the most pressing threat to the nation ...
... km2 of ocean. With centuries of tradition living on remote tropical islands, the people of Kiribati have a keen sense of their relation to the environment. With human populations growing and testing the limits of island resources, climate change is now becoming the most pressing threat to the nation ...
Antarctic nematode communities: observed and predicted
... Overall, the nematode communities of Antarctica are considered simple with few species (Wall and Virginia 1999) and show very patchy distributions (Sohlenius and Boström 2005). Within Victoria Land in eastern Antarctica, there appears to be a decrease in the species richness of nematodes with incre ...
... Overall, the nematode communities of Antarctica are considered simple with few species (Wall and Virginia 1999) and show very patchy distributions (Sohlenius and Boström 2005). Within Victoria Land in eastern Antarctica, there appears to be a decrease in the species richness of nematodes with incre ...
Accounting for Health Impacts of Climate Change
... climate change will significantly challenge the public health community at the global, national, and local levels. While all populations are vulnerable to climate-induced health risks, the most vulnerable remain those in low-income groups with little adaptive capacity, among which the elderly, child ...
... climate change will significantly challenge the public health community at the global, national, and local levels. While all populations are vulnerable to climate-induced health risks, the most vulnerable remain those in low-income groups with little adaptive capacity, among which the elderly, child ...