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... 5. Minimize trade-offs and maximize benefits with development and conservation goals 6. Base EbA decisions/actions on best available science and local knowledge and foster knowledge generation and diffusion 7. Ensure any EbA intervention is participatory, transparent, accountable, culturally appr ...
... 5. Minimize trade-offs and maximize benefits with development and conservation goals 6. Base EbA decisions/actions on best available science and local knowledge and foster knowledge generation and diffusion 7. Ensure any EbA intervention is participatory, transparent, accountable, culturally appr ...
Estimation of Climate Change Impacts (Pece Ristevski
... Climate in Republic of Macedonia is influenced by several factors with different spectrum of influences: circulative, solar, physical-geographycal and anthropogenic that are local. First three types of factors were considered as primary factors while the fourth factor was considered as it was with s ...
... Climate in Republic of Macedonia is influenced by several factors with different spectrum of influences: circulative, solar, physical-geographycal and anthropogenic that are local. First three types of factors were considered as primary factors while the fourth factor was considered as it was with s ...
Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change?
... losses as if all disasters occurred in the same year, i.e. with same exposure assets. Table 1 lists the types of information for which the loss data is normalized, and whether the normalized loss record derived by the studies exhibits any trends or not. When records of insured losses are used, the r ...
... losses as if all disasters occurred in the same year, i.e. with same exposure assets. Table 1 lists the types of information for which the loss data is normalized, and whether the normalized loss record derived by the studies exhibits any trends or not. When records of insured losses are used, the r ...
The conquering of climate
... its dissolution through (uncontrollable) changes in culture rather than through an engineered mastery of the future. ...
... its dissolution through (uncontrollable) changes in culture rather than through an engineered mastery of the future. ...
Building Climate Resilience in the Blue Nile/Abay Highlands: A
... The 4th Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, projects that the global temperature of the planet’s atmosphere will likely have increased 1.1 °C to 6.4 °C by the end of this century, relative to 1980–1999 baseline data. These temperature rises are linked t ...
... The 4th Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, projects that the global temperature of the planet’s atmosphere will likely have increased 1.1 °C to 6.4 °C by the end of this century, relative to 1980–1999 baseline data. These temperature rises are linked t ...
The Met Office Hadley Centre climate modelling capability: the
... which contribute most to inter-model differences in global cloud feedback and climate sensitivity. Uncertainties in cloud feedbacks are also discussed in §4. Another major improvement in HadGEM1 is in the representation of sea ice (McLaren et al. 2006). The geographical ice extent generally agrees w ...
... which contribute most to inter-model differences in global cloud feedback and climate sensitivity. Uncertainties in cloud feedbacks are also discussed in §4. Another major improvement in HadGEM1 is in the representation of sea ice (McLaren et al. 2006). The geographical ice extent generally agrees w ...
(AGE). OPIM 319, Spring 2010 - Operations, Information and
... File: ar4_syr_spm.pdf on webCafé, ClimateChange folder. ...
... File: ar4_syr_spm.pdf on webCafé, ClimateChange folder. ...
Climate change and mammals: evolutionary
... There can be little doubt that climate has acted as a strong selective force in the past, but rapid contemporary climate change is affording evolutionary ecologists the opportunity to study its influence first hand. The scientific excitement surrounding this opportunity has prompted many to re-exami ...
... There can be little doubt that climate has acted as a strong selective force in the past, but rapid contemporary climate change is affording evolutionary ecologists the opportunity to study its influence first hand. The scientific excitement surrounding this opportunity has prompted many to re-exami ...
Climate finance briefing: the global climate finance architecture
... focused on programming that targets multiple focal areas including climate change, in thematic areas such as sustainable cities and land use and forests. The GEF also administers the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) under the guidance of the UNFCCC Con ...
... focused on programming that targets multiple focal areas including climate change, in thematic areas such as sustainable cities and land use and forests. The GEF also administers the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) under the guidance of the UNFCCC Con ...
Tales of future weather
... authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any comm ...
... authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any comm ...
Not a Problem, Someone Else`s Problem, My Problem or Our
... relief from this discomfort can choose to change their beliefs and/or behaviours, or reject the information. The latter can be the easiest choice. This is one reason why intentional climate change misinformation campaigns led by interest groups (e.g. see Oreskes and Conway 2010) have had such a powe ...
... relief from this discomfort can choose to change their beliefs and/or behaviours, or reject the information. The latter can be the easiest choice. This is one reason why intentional climate change misinformation campaigns led by interest groups (e.g. see Oreskes and Conway 2010) have had such a powe ...
FROM THE HARPOON TO THE HEATEAT
... habitat degradation; effects of fisheries; ozone depletion and UV-B radiation; Arctic issues; disease and mortality events; and the impact of noise) poses a serious threat to the viability of cetaceans. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the IWC’s efforts in the context of one of these threats ...
... habitat degradation; effects of fisheries; ozone depletion and UV-B radiation; Arctic issues; disease and mortality events; and the impact of noise) poses a serious threat to the viability of cetaceans. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the IWC’s efforts in the context of one of these threats ...
... of science and thus possibly distorted by the political goals of potential users. Thirdly, science is political in its consequences, because some benefit and others suffer as a consequence of policy options that are supported by the application of scientific understanding. Haas further explained tha ...
Copernicus Climate Change Services
... Jean-Noël THÉPAUT ECMWF Norrköping, 27 May 2015 Follow us on: Copernicus EU ...
... Jean-Noël THÉPAUT ECMWF Norrköping, 27 May 2015 Follow us on: Copernicus EU ...
Abrupt Non-Linear Climate Change, Irreversibility and
... (Environment Policy Committee). The Secretariat would like to thank the governments of Canada, Germany and the United States for providing extra-budgetary financial support for the work. This paper is issued as an authored “working paper” -- one of a series emerging from the Project. The ideas expre ...
... (Environment Policy Committee). The Secretariat would like to thank the governments of Canada, Germany and the United States for providing extra-budgetary financial support for the work. This paper is issued as an authored “working paper” -- one of a series emerging from the Project. The ideas expre ...
Future climate in the Pacific Northwest
... as well, as shown in Figs. 8, 11 and 12, but we emphasize A1B and B1. Though B1 is the lowest of the IPCC illustrative scenarios, it still produces changes in climate that many scientists call “dangerous” (Schellnhuber et al. 2006)—a threshold that a growing number of political leaders have stated t ...
... as well, as shown in Figs. 8, 11 and 12, but we emphasize A1B and B1. Though B1 is the lowest of the IPCC illustrative scenarios, it still produces changes in climate that many scientists call “dangerous” (Schellnhuber et al. 2006)—a threshold that a growing number of political leaders have stated t ...
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... nonscientists have different ways of understanding these phenomena, which makes divergence of beliefs possible. Moreover, when people apply their conventional modes of understanding to climate change, they are likely to be misled. Third, nonscientists’ views in the United States and some other count ...
... nonscientists have different ways of understanding these phenomena, which makes divergence of beliefs possible. Moreover, when people apply their conventional modes of understanding to climate change, they are likely to be misled. Third, nonscientists’ views in the United States and some other count ...
Climate Change, Adaptive Strategies and Rural Livelihoods in
... lead to years of prolonged drought or unpredictable excessive rainfall often associated with decreased agricultural productivity. The majority of the respondents (76%) had attained primary education, hence they had a broad understanding of the linkages between climate change and various livelihood i ...
... lead to years of prolonged drought or unpredictable excessive rainfall often associated with decreased agricultural productivity. The majority of the respondents (76%) had attained primary education, hence they had a broad understanding of the linkages between climate change and various livelihood i ...