Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea
... comprehensively from the available scientifically legitimate literature (e.g. peer reviewed literature, conference proceedings, reports of scientific institutes). Influence or funding from groups with a political, economical or ideological agenda will not be allowed; however, questions from such gro ...
... comprehensively from the available scientifically legitimate literature (e.g. peer reviewed literature, conference proceedings, reports of scientific institutes). Influence or funding from groups with a political, economical or ideological agenda will not be allowed; however, questions from such gro ...
Climate Action Plan
... Completing the actions in this plan will work toward building stronger communities and infrastructure, protecting critical sectors of our industry, government and natural resources and using sound science to better understand and address climate impacts. The CCAP addresses the impacts of climate cha ...
... Completing the actions in this plan will work toward building stronger communities and infrastructure, protecting critical sectors of our industry, government and natural resources and using sound science to better understand and address climate impacts. The CCAP addresses the impacts of climate cha ...
Oceans Day Bulletin
... examined options for concerted action on cross-sectoral issues and laid the groundwork for the inclusion of an oceans perspective and SIDS issues on the WSSD agenda. Since then, four more global conferences have been held. The Second Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands: Mobilizing for I ...
... examined options for concerted action on cross-sectoral issues and laid the groundwork for the inclusion of an oceans perspective and SIDS issues on the WSSD agenda. Since then, four more global conferences have been held. The Second Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands: Mobilizing for I ...
Domestic dynamics and international influence
... (2007) test the theory empirically, but rather than focusing on the formulation of policy they measure directly the impact of political factors, broadly defined, on particular environmental outcomes (greenhouse gas emissions, urban air quality and lead in petrol, respectively). The global public goo ...
... (2007) test the theory empirically, but rather than focusing on the formulation of policy they measure directly the impact of political factors, broadly defined, on particular environmental outcomes (greenhouse gas emissions, urban air quality and lead in petrol, respectively). The global public goo ...
How to read a Climate-Fact-Sheet
... system, the reason for this is to be found in certain assumptions about the future development of greenhouse gas emissions, whereby we are at present only minimally able to assess, for example, how technical or political processes will operate in the future. In addition to this, real meteorological ...
... system, the reason for this is to be found in certain assumptions about the future development of greenhouse gas emissions, whereby we are at present only minimally able to assess, for example, how technical or political processes will operate in the future. In addition to this, real meteorological ...
Climate Finance Briefing: Small Island Developing States
... of the SIDS are categorised as Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The emissions profiles also vary between the SIDS, although most produce relatively low emissions. In 2012, the SIDS combined accounted for just 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions (U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2012). Howe ...
... of the SIDS are categorised as Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The emissions profiles also vary between the SIDS, although most produce relatively low emissions. In 2012, the SIDS combined accounted for just 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions (U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2012). Howe ...
Warm Words II
... ‘turn off your lights and do your bit’ line of argument. The research highlighted the huge and at times comic disparity of scale between these two – but also their prevalence alongside each other in many climate change communications. We drew implications and recommendations for the development of c ...
... ‘turn off your lights and do your bit’ line of argument. The research highlighted the huge and at times comic disparity of scale between these two – but also their prevalence alongside each other in many climate change communications. We drew implications and recommendations for the development of c ...
Adaptation Research Program - Department of Agriculture and
... The Australian Government acting through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has exercised due care and skill in the preparation and compilation of the information and data in this publication. Notwithstanding, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, its employees an ...
... The Australian Government acting through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has exercised due care and skill in the preparation and compilation of the information and data in this publication. Notwithstanding, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, its employees an ...
How does climate change cause extinction?
... many reasons. For example, different proximate factors may call for different conservation strategies to ameliorate their effects [20]. These different proximate factors may also influence the accuracy with which the impacts of climate change are predicted and may drive populations to extinction at ...
... many reasons. For example, different proximate factors may call for different conservation strategies to ameliorate their effects [20]. These different proximate factors may also influence the accuracy with which the impacts of climate change are predicted and may drive populations to extinction at ...
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... The 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) – a consensus document produced by over 2,000 scientists representing every country in the United Nations; provided regional assessment which showed Africa to be the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate ch ...
... The 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) – a consensus document produced by over 2,000 scientists representing every country in the United Nations; provided regional assessment which showed Africa to be the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate ch ...
The ecological citizen and climate change
... metaphor would be of concern” (ibid., p. 216). In addition, it should be added that reducing an individual’s footprint in a developed country does not necessarily enable access of an individual in a developing country to any resources. In this case, even when focusing on bringing about structural ch ...
... metaphor would be of concern” (ibid., p. 216). In addition, it should be added that reducing an individual’s footprint in a developed country does not necessarily enable access of an individual in a developing country to any resources. In this case, even when focusing on bringing about structural ch ...
Zimbabwe Capacity Development Needs Assessment Report
... countries to adapt to a new climate regime through increased investments in water security The project supports 8 African countries and 5 river basins to better cope with the impacts of climate change. In Zimbabwe, WACDEP was launched April 2013 and is being coordinated through the Ministry of Envir ...
... countries to adapt to a new climate regime through increased investments in water security The project supports 8 African countries and 5 river basins to better cope with the impacts of climate change. In Zimbabwe, WACDEP was launched April 2013 and is being coordinated through the Ministry of Envir ...
... Despite revealing a number of areas worthy of further research, the results of this study are important because the framework utilized and the analyses undertaken have generated examples of data that are not only specifically geared for inclusion in a formal decision-making context, but are also int ...
Protecting Cultural Heritage and Adapting to Climate Change
... By analysing past hydrological structures in the city of Lund, Sweden, this paper highlights the contexts in which knowledge of the dynamic landscape in its origin, and the subsequent integration of human implementation and perception, will provide a complementary guidance to sustainable planning ...
... By analysing past hydrological structures in the city of Lund, Sweden, this paper highlights the contexts in which knowledge of the dynamic landscape in its origin, and the subsequent integration of human implementation and perception, will provide a complementary guidance to sustainable planning ...
Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World
... predictive capability. But we now know enough to recognize that there are large risks, potentially catastrophic ones, including the melting of ice-sheets on Greenland and the West Antarctic (which would place many countries under water) and changes in the course of the Gulf Stream that would bring a ...
... predictive capability. But we now know enough to recognize that there are large risks, potentially catastrophic ones, including the melting of ice-sheets on Greenland and the West Antarctic (which would place many countries under water) and changes in the course of the Gulf Stream that would bring a ...
Cooperative Federalism and Climate Change
... Representatives Dingell and Boucher present preemption as a political necessity for members of Congress who want to pass climate change legislation. They have argued that “one of the main reasons industry would contribute to the consensus in support of a national program is to avoid a patchwork of S ...
... Representatives Dingell and Boucher present preemption as a political necessity for members of Congress who want to pass climate change legislation. They have argued that “one of the main reasons industry would contribute to the consensus in support of a national program is to avoid a patchwork of S ...
The Meaning of Uncertainty: Debating Climate Change in the Gilded
... ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity exhibited in Hall’s report and in many other climaterelated articles and treatises. Historians have emphasized hucksterish theories of human-induced climate improvement, such as the well-known “rain follows the plow” theory. Writing in the 1940s, Henry Nash Smi ...
... ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity exhibited in Hall’s report and in many other climaterelated articles and treatises. Historians have emphasized hucksterish theories of human-induced climate improvement, such as the well-known “rain follows the plow” theory. Writing in the 1940s, Henry Nash Smi ...
Strategy for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Clilmate Change
... general, and for coastal and riparian communities in particular, are enormous. The sector and the aquatic environments on which it depends also have potentially important but as yet poorly defined roles in the management and mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There are significant issues co ...
... general, and for coastal and riparian communities in particular, are enormous. The sector and the aquatic environments on which it depends also have potentially important but as yet poorly defined roles in the management and mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There are significant issues co ...
Paper 10: Climate Change Impacts on Coastal
... biodiversity as the variability among living organisms from all sources, including the ecological complexes of which they are a part (UNCBD, 2000). The World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) define “climate” as the average state of the weather over ...
... biodiversity as the variability among living organisms from all sources, including the ecological complexes of which they are a part (UNCBD, 2000). The World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) define “climate” as the average state of the weather over ...
An Initial Look at DoD`s Activities Toward Climate Change Resiliency
... change on the Department’s operations and functions. Implementing DoDD 4715.21, other Departmental guidance (for example, installation master planning or integrated natural resource management guidance) and any roadmaps will require leadership, resources, knowledge and information mechanisms to ensu ...
... change on the Department’s operations and functions. Implementing DoDD 4715.21, other Departmental guidance (for example, installation master planning or integrated natural resource management guidance) and any roadmaps will require leadership, resources, knowledge and information mechanisms to ensu ...
Attribution of the record high Central England temperature of
... ‘weather@home’ setup (Massey et al 2014) which harnesses volunteers’ computers to generate tens of thousands of simulations. Examples include analyses of heavy snowfall in the Pyrennes (Añel et al 2014) and heavy rainfall in the Danube and Elbe basins (Schaller et al 2014). The model-based component ...
... ‘weather@home’ setup (Massey et al 2014) which harnesses volunteers’ computers to generate tens of thousands of simulations. Examples include analyses of heavy snowfall in the Pyrennes (Añel et al 2014) and heavy rainfall in the Danube and Elbe basins (Schaller et al 2014). The model-based component ...
Tropical reforestation and climate change
... sequestration is only one of multiple strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change through reforestation. We describe the variety of links and feedbacks between reforestation and climate change in tropical regions, consider their importance to decision-making, introduce a conceptual fram ...
... sequestration is only one of multiple strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change through reforestation. We describe the variety of links and feedbacks between reforestation and climate change in tropical regions, consider their importance to decision-making, introduce a conceptual fram ...