Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small
... accomplished on the mitigation front. To prepare Canada’s communities for this challenge, CIP has completed a series of pilot climate change adaptation plans. This document “Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small Canadian Communities”, referred to throughout as the Handbook, is a r ...
... accomplished on the mitigation front. To prepare Canada’s communities for this challenge, CIP has completed a series of pilot climate change adaptation plans. This document “Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small Canadian Communities”, referred to throughout as the Handbook, is a r ...
full - School of GeoSciences
... Gondwanan and Laurentide glaciations, Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 9217-9226. ...
... Gondwanan and Laurentide glaciations, Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 9217-9226. ...
Changing Climate, Changing Forests: The Impacts of Climate Change on
... and land use change are driving up concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The emissions of these gases, which are accelerating, are trapping heat and altering the Earth’s climate. Our climate shapes our basic living conditions. It controls the growth of agricu ...
... and land use change are driving up concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The emissions of these gases, which are accelerating, are trapping heat and altering the Earth’s climate. Our climate shapes our basic living conditions. It controls the growth of agricu ...
National Survey of Canada`s Infrastructure Engineers about Climate
... Three out of four engineers believe that reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will mitigate future climate change, however a smaller proportion of engineers believe this in 2012 than in 2007; a greater proportion of engineers in 2012 strongly believe that reduced GHG emissions will mitigat ...
... Three out of four engineers believe that reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will mitigate future climate change, however a smaller proportion of engineers believe this in 2012 than in 2007; a greater proportion of engineers in 2012 strongly believe that reduced GHG emissions will mitigat ...
Eric Gordon and Lisa Dilling - Initiative on Climate Adaptation
... Few papers in the climate change adaptation literature attempt to craft a definition of successful adaptation, and even fewer spend a significant amount of time exploring the concept. In a report for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Easterling and his colleagues (2004) offered the following ...
... Few papers in the climate change adaptation literature attempt to craft a definition of successful adaptation, and even fewer spend a significant amount of time exploring the concept. In a report for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Easterling and his colleagues (2004) offered the following ...
INDC technical report
... climate change adaptation plan has been drafted for the health sector for the period of 20122016 (DoH, 2012). This adaptation plan focuses on nine health and environmental risks that include, heat stress, natural disasters, housing and settlements, communicable diseases, exposure to air pollution an ...
... climate change adaptation plan has been drafted for the health sector for the period of 20122016 (DoH, 2012). This adaptation plan focuses on nine health and environmental risks that include, heat stress, natural disasters, housing and settlements, communicable diseases, exposure to air pollution an ...
Great Barrier Reef - Garnaut Climate Change Review
... Climate change is the most significant environmental, economic and social issue of our time. It is also one of the most supported scientific ideas, receiving the attention of thousands of scientists who have defined it, argued for and against it, and have built up one of the most significant bodies ...
... Climate change is the most significant environmental, economic and social issue of our time. It is also one of the most supported scientific ideas, receiving the attention of thousands of scientists who have defined it, argued for and against it, and have built up one of the most significant bodies ...
Appendix 3: Climate Science Supplement
... 5. Past emissions of heat-trapping gases have already committed the world to a certain amount of future climate change. How much more the climate will change depends on future emissions and the sensitivity of the climate system to those emissions. 6. Different kinds of physical and stat ...
... 5. Past emissions of heat-trapping gases have already committed the world to a certain amount of future climate change. How much more the climate will change depends on future emissions and the sensitivity of the climate system to those emissions. 6. Different kinds of physical and stat ...
Assessing Vulnerabilities to the Effects of Global Change: An Eight
... vulnerability perspective is such a promising and innovative research direction, then how does one do it? The two specific purposes of this paper are to specify what is novel about global change vulnerability assessments, and to propose a common methodology for conducting such assessments, for a bro ...
... vulnerability perspective is such a promising and innovative research direction, then how does one do it? The two specific purposes of this paper are to specify what is novel about global change vulnerability assessments, and to propose a common methodology for conducting such assessments, for a bro ...
climate change law: the emergence of a new legal discipline
... climate change and the importance of taking actions to address the problem. In Australia, for example, the former federal government led by John Howard gave up its long-professed scepticism over climate change in 2007. The then Prime Minister announced a raft of measures in July 2007, including the ...
... climate change and the importance of taking actions to address the problem. In Australia, for example, the former federal government led by John Howard gave up its long-professed scepticism over climate change in 2007. The then Prime Minister announced a raft of measures in July 2007, including the ...
Chapter 2 Current Legal Challenges in Climate Change Justice
... targets through national measures to reduce GHG emissions. The Kyoto Protocol also permits Annex B parties to participate in GHG emissions trading for the purpose of fulfilling commitments under Article 3 of the UNFCCC.150 In addition, the Kyoto Protocol established two other market-based mechanisms ...
... targets through national measures to reduce GHG emissions. The Kyoto Protocol also permits Annex B parties to participate in GHG emissions trading for the purpose of fulfilling commitments under Article 3 of the UNFCCC.150 In addition, the Kyoto Protocol established two other market-based mechanisms ...
Bangladesh: Climate Change Impacts and
... modelling effort estimated 10 to 15% rise in average monsoon rainfall by the year 2030. The study could not draw an inference in relation to change in sea level, however it commented that both sedimentation and subsidence were likely to complicate an expected net change in sea level along the Bangla ...
... modelling effort estimated 10 to 15% rise in average monsoon rainfall by the year 2030. The study could not draw an inference in relation to change in sea level, however it commented that both sedimentation and subsidence were likely to complicate an expected net change in sea level along the Bangla ...
26112015-Pielke-Jr-VWN presentation
... me a “climate change denialist.” Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist labeled me a “known irresponsible skeptic.” ...
... me a “climate change denialist.” Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist labeled me a “known irresponsible skeptic.” ...
Climate: Observations, projections and impacts
... cited supporting literature, were mostly based on global studies. This was to ensure consistency, whilst recognising that this might not always provide enough focus on impacts of most relevance to a particular country. Although time available for the project was short, generally all the material ava ...
... cited supporting literature, were mostly based on global studies. This was to ensure consistency, whilst recognising that this might not always provide enough focus on impacts of most relevance to a particular country. Although time available for the project was short, generally all the material ava ...
From `fearing` to `empowering` climate refugees: Governing climate
... persist’ (Holling 1973: 27). However, beyond this general consensus resilience can refer to different conceptions. The ‘father’ of the resilience concept, C. S. Holling (1973), was eager to distinguish between two types: engineering resilience (or resilience as maintenance) and ecological resilience ...
... persist’ (Holling 1973: 27). However, beyond this general consensus resilience can refer to different conceptions. The ‘father’ of the resilience concept, C. S. Holling (1973), was eager to distinguish between two types: engineering resilience (or resilience as maintenance) and ecological resilience ...
Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration
... migratory flows due to environmental degradation are made more complicated for developed countries by issues of migration from developing countries. Environmental migration is often at the origin of population displacement which can affect the stability of the hosting areas in many ways. It can indu ...
... migratory flows due to environmental degradation are made more complicated for developed countries by issues of migration from developing countries. Environmental migration is often at the origin of population displacement which can affect the stability of the hosting areas in many ways. It can indu ...
Climate change : quantifying the health impact at national
... "down-scaled" to the national or sub-national level. It also highlights where further research is likely to improve the assessment. It should therefore be useful in generating preliminary estimates of some of the health effects of climate change, and as a guide to developing more comprehensive and a ...
... "down-scaled" to the national or sub-national level. It also highlights where further research is likely to improve the assessment. It should therefore be useful in generating preliminary estimates of some of the health effects of climate change, and as a guide to developing more comprehensive and a ...
The Economic Climate: Establishing Expert Consensus on the
... Calls for Expert Consensus/Critiques of IAMs Pindyck (2015) argues that integrated assessment models (IAMs) are over-reliant on the opinion of the modeler, 4 and as a consequence, IAMs essentially represent the modeler’s informed opinion rather ...
... Calls for Expert Consensus/Critiques of IAMs Pindyck (2015) argues that integrated assessment models (IAMs) are over-reliant on the opinion of the modeler, 4 and as a consequence, IAMs essentially represent the modeler’s informed opinion rather ...
Planning for Climate Change in the West
... The scientific consensus is now clear that the climate is changing, based on long-term observations of global indicators that demonstrate increasing temperatures across the planet. An improving understanding of the processes that drive the climate system has led to the creation of global climat ...
... The scientific consensus is now clear that the climate is changing, based on long-term observations of global indicators that demonstrate increasing temperatures across the planet. An improving understanding of the processes that drive the climate system has led to the creation of global climat ...
Climate: Observations, projections and impacts: Saudi Arabia
... and impartial information, based on the best climate science now available. This new scientific material will also contribute to the next assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, we must also remember that while we can provide a lot of useful information, a great many ...
... and impartial information, based on the best climate science now available. This new scientific material will also contribute to the next assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, we must also remember that while we can provide a lot of useful information, a great many ...
Linköping University Postprint Technology obscuring equity
... been the case. For example: according to Pinguelli Rosa and others, as of 1990 the relative share of energy sector CO2 emissions for Annex 1 and non-Annex 1 parties were of the order of 75% and 25%, respectively (Pinguelli Rosa et al., 2004; also cf. Miguez, 2002, p. 19). Currently, the focus is on ...
... been the case. For example: according to Pinguelli Rosa and others, as of 1990 the relative share of energy sector CO2 emissions for Annex 1 and non-Annex 1 parties were of the order of 75% and 25%, respectively (Pinguelli Rosa et al., 2004; also cf. Miguez, 2002, p. 19). Currently, the focus is on ...
Donner Webbe Kiribati KAP 2013
... important for SIDS in the Pacific, which face the dual challenge of making decisions with long-term consequences while also building the institutional capacity—often using international assistance—to implement those decisions (Nunn 2009). Many researchers have proposed that successful adaptation is ...
... important for SIDS in the Pacific, which face the dual challenge of making decisions with long-term consequences while also building the institutional capacity—often using international assistance—to implement those decisions (Nunn 2009). Many researchers have proposed that successful adaptation is ...