3. Ranking Criteria and Examples
... study focused mainly on immediate heat abatement strategies. For example, taking a cool shower, increasing the amount of water consumed, staying out of direct sunlight, and delaying activities such as shopping etc to cooler times of the day. If residents felt unable to cope they would contact friend ...
... study focused mainly on immediate heat abatement strategies. For example, taking a cool shower, increasing the amount of water consumed, staying out of direct sunlight, and delaying activities such as shopping etc to cooler times of the day. If residents felt unable to cope they would contact friend ...
Climate Change and Poverty—An Analytical Framework
... of the number of people falling into poverty every year (i.e., an increase from 12% to 13% per year) and a reduction by less than 10% of the number of households escaping poverty (i.e., a reduction from 14% to 13% per year) would reduce the pace of poverty reduction by 50%. As to the second questio ...
... of the number of people falling into poverty every year (i.e., an increase from 12% to 13% per year) and a reduction by less than 10% of the number of households escaping poverty (i.e., a reduction from 14% to 13% per year) would reduce the pace of poverty reduction by 50%. As to the second questio ...
Climates of suspicion - Geoengineering Governance Research
... epistemological differences between conspiracy theories and other theories becomes in effect impossible, and distinguishing between a political analysis is neither ‘paranoid’ nor ‘naive’ is recognised as challenging (Coady 2006). Awareness of the indeterminate epistemological characteristics of ‘con ...
... epistemological differences between conspiracy theories and other theories becomes in effect impossible, and distinguishing between a political analysis is neither ‘paranoid’ nor ‘naive’ is recognised as challenging (Coady 2006). Awareness of the indeterminate epistemological characteristics of ‘con ...
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
... the range specified in the various reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Scaling the IPCC’s midrange computer models with observed climate changes yields a warming of approximately 2.9°F. The global average temperature since 1900 has risen about 1.4°F. The ...
... the range specified in the various reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Scaling the IPCC’s midrange computer models with observed climate changes yields a warming of approximately 2.9°F. The global average temperature since 1900 has risen about 1.4°F. The ...
Introduction. Pliocene climate, processes and problems
... would produce a radiative forcing of approximately 2.5 W mK2. This may be sufficient to explain the warmth of the Pliocene globally (depending on the chosen climate sensitivity parameter, and whether there are any significant changes in other aspects of the radiative forcing), but it has not been able ...
... would produce a radiative forcing of approximately 2.5 W mK2. This may be sufficient to explain the warmth of the Pliocene globally (depending on the chosen climate sensitivity parameter, and whether there are any significant changes in other aspects of the radiative forcing), but it has not been able ...
Occasional Paper #2 - Institute for Science Innovation and Society
... issue from a similarly theoretical perspective, analyzing the purpose, possible forms and agents of CE governance (Bodansky 2012, 4, 8+9). He finds that “[g]overnance is needed […] to ensure sufficient geoengineering and […] to avoid too much.” (Bodansky 2012, 4) Andy Parker critically examines the ...
... issue from a similarly theoretical perspective, analyzing the purpose, possible forms and agents of CE governance (Bodansky 2012, 4, 8+9). He finds that “[g]overnance is needed […] to ensure sufficient geoengineering and […] to avoid too much.” (Bodansky 2012, 4) Andy Parker critically examines the ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Framework
... vulnerabilities, the costs and benefits, and the options available and appropriate to Ireland, are key elements to inform effective adaptation planning. Much work has already been done in recent years, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others, to provide the evidence base necessary to ...
... vulnerabilities, the costs and benefits, and the options available and appropriate to Ireland, are key elements to inform effective adaptation planning. Much work has already been done in recent years, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others, to provide the evidence base necessary to ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Framework
... vulnerabilities, the costs and benefits, and the options available and appropriate to Ireland, are key elements to inform effective adaptation planning. Much work has already been done in recent years, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others, to provide the evidence base necessary to ...
... vulnerabilities, the costs and benefits, and the options available and appropriate to Ireland, are key elements to inform effective adaptation planning. Much work has already been done in recent years, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others, to provide the evidence base necessary to ...
MIGRATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: AN OVERVIEW 1
... other push or pull factors, whether of a social, political, or economic nature. Understanding the role of the environment in migration dynamics implies analysing how and why people are vulnerable to climate change, as well as an examination of the different strategies they develop to cope with (or a ...
... other push or pull factors, whether of a social, political, or economic nature. Understanding the role of the environment in migration dynamics implies analysing how and why people are vulnerable to climate change, as well as an examination of the different strategies they develop to cope with (or a ...
Co-ordination, Communication and Adaptation for Climate Change
... programme is financed by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 20072013. It is administered on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government by the Environment Protection Agency which has the statutory function of co-ordinating and promoting environme ...
... programme is financed by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 20072013. It is administered on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government by the Environment Protection Agency which has the statutory function of co-ordinating and promoting environme ...
Climate change and displacement
... org). For further information, please contact Andrew Morton at [email protected] ...
... org). For further information, please contact Andrew Morton at [email protected] ...
Local climate change adaptation planning A guide for
... process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable processes and methods relevant for assessing and responding to existing and potential future climate ...
... process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable processes and methods relevant for assessing and responding to existing and potential future climate ...
Guidelines on Analysis of extremes in a changing climate in support
... Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) for more than a decade in order to improve climate risk management capabilities among nations (Zhai and others, 2005). To this effect, NMHSs should be adequately equipped and prepared to continuously monitor, assess and provide information on the stat ...
... Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) for more than a decade in order to improve climate risk management capabilities among nations (Zhai and others, 2005). To this effect, NMHSs should be adequately equipped and prepared to continuously monitor, assess and provide information on the stat ...
Development finance and climate finance - IIED
... aid in 2013) should not be counted as official development assistance (ODA) as it is now. This will limit any crowding out or diversion of ODA money from core SDG provision, and provide a more accurate picture of development-related finance. Other attempts to resolve this debate over ‘new and additi ...
... aid in 2013) should not be counted as official development assistance (ODA) as it is now. This will limit any crowding out or diversion of ODA money from core SDG provision, and provide a more accurate picture of development-related finance. Other attempts to resolve this debate over ‘new and additi ...
Climate Change and Agriculture in Jamaica
... at 5.2 percent – this sector absorbs 20 percent of the country’s employed labour force. The agricultural economy is dualistic, comprising large-scale commercial plantations that produce primarily for the export market under a system of monoculture, and small-scale mixed farms that produce for househ ...
... at 5.2 percent – this sector absorbs 20 percent of the country’s employed labour force. The agricultural economy is dualistic, comprising large-scale commercial plantations that produce primarily for the export market under a system of monoculture, and small-scale mixed farms that produce for househ ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... When the Committee considers elements related to "Hazard Assessment for the endpoints of concern" (Annex E (b)) the evaluation of the interactions between climate change and POPs will be particularly relevant. This also applies for the considerations of "environmental fate" in Annex E(c) ,” which in ...
... When the Committee considers elements related to "Hazard Assessment for the endpoints of concern" (Annex E (b)) the evaluation of the interactions between climate change and POPs will be particularly relevant. This also applies for the considerations of "environmental fate" in Annex E(c) ,” which in ...
The Geopolitics of Climate Change
... Because of the rapid growth in the body of available knowledge, writing about climate change today is more difficult than shooting at a moving target. In fact it is more like analysing a constantly mutating entity. From the perspective of the scientific community this is a good thing since our knowl ...
... Because of the rapid growth in the body of available knowledge, writing about climate change today is more difficult than shooting at a moving target. In fact it is more like analysing a constantly mutating entity. From the perspective of the scientific community this is a good thing since our knowl ...
Mesozoic Climates. - Return to Home Page
... and matter in the atmosphere, an understanding which is required to investigate the causes (and effects) of climatic change. Having stressed the interconnectedness of the elements that make up climate system, it might therefore seem inappropriate to divide a discussion on the climate system into sep ...
... and matter in the atmosphere, an understanding which is required to investigate the causes (and effects) of climatic change. Having stressed the interconnectedness of the elements that make up climate system, it might therefore seem inappropriate to divide a discussion on the climate system into sep ...
A Review of Downscaling Methods for Climate
... datasets provide projected climate impacts at spatial and temporal scales much finer than those at which the projections are made. It is important to recognize the variety of assumptions behind the techniques used to derive such information and the limitations they impose on the results. The main to ...
... datasets provide projected climate impacts at spatial and temporal scales much finer than those at which the projections are made. It is important to recognize the variety of assumptions behind the techniques used to derive such information and the limitations they impose on the results. The main to ...
Quantifying non-cooperative climate engineering
... The slow progress in climate change abatement policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions is in stark contrast with the estimated impacts of a warmer world. On the one hand, international climate policy has produced little in terms of emission reductions. The Paris climate agreement has been ...
... The slow progress in climate change abatement policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions is in stark contrast with the estimated impacts of a warmer world. On the one hand, international climate policy has produced little in terms of emission reductions. The Paris climate agreement has been ...
Namakwa District Municipality
... Figure 46: the area of NDM under commonage (prepared for CSA by Mandla Dlamini at SANBI). .... 63 Figure 47: the most vulnerable groups in the Namakwa District, based on information collected in a workshop conducted by CSA in Springbok in march 2012. ................................................. ...
... Figure 46: the area of NDM under commonage (prepared for CSA by Mandla Dlamini at SANBI). .... 63 Figure 47: the most vulnerable groups in the Namakwa District, based on information collected in a workshop conducted by CSA in Springbok in march 2012. ................................................. ...
The Geopolitics of Climate Change
... Because of the rapid growth in the body of available knowledge, writing about climate change today is more difficult than shooting at a moving target. In fact it is more like analysing a constantly mutating entity. From the perspective of the scientific community this is a good thing since our knowl ...
... Because of the rapid growth in the body of available knowledge, writing about climate change today is more difficult than shooting at a moving target. In fact it is more like analysing a constantly mutating entity. From the perspective of the scientific community this is a good thing since our knowl ...
Target Atmospheric CO : Where Should Humanity Aim?
... lose its ice sheets. This long-term climate sensitivity is relevant to GHGs 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 car ...
... lose its ice sheets. This long-term climate sensitivity is relevant to GHGs 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 car ...