Regional breakdown for IPCC AR5 WGII
... climate, livelihood and demography and three-quarter to one million of this number will be children under five. Further, projections to 2025 suggest approximately 250,000 more children will suffer stunting, nearly 200,000 more will be malnourished, and over 100,000 more will become anemic, assuming ...
... climate, livelihood and demography and three-quarter to one million of this number will be children under five. Further, projections to 2025 suggest approximately 250,000 more children will suffer stunting, nearly 200,000 more will be malnourished, and over 100,000 more will become anemic, assuming ...
Consequences of Climate Change and Variability in the for a Vulnerability Assessment
... Change (USNA) - in which we were involved-did not attempt to provide regional or even national predictions of climate change.” Later in the letter in Nature, they conclude with, “We strongly agree that much more reliable regional climate simulations and analyses are needed. However, at present,...su ...
... Change (USNA) - in which we were involved-did not attempt to provide regional or even national predictions of climate change.” Later in the letter in Nature, they conclude with, “We strongly agree that much more reliable regional climate simulations and analyses are needed. However, at present,...su ...
Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events
... Over the past 130 years, the mean temperature of the Earth's surface has risen between 0.3 and 0.6oC, as reported by IPCC, 1995 (see figure 1). More recent analysis, including the temperature record up to 1999, indicates that the global average temperature has now risen by about 0.6oC over the whole ...
... Over the past 130 years, the mean temperature of the Earth's surface has risen between 0.3 and 0.6oC, as reported by IPCC, 1995 (see figure 1). More recent analysis, including the temperature record up to 1999, indicates that the global average temperature has now risen by about 0.6oC over the whole ...
Philippine N ational Grassroots C onferenc e on Climate C hange
... poverty incidence and increasing gap between the rich and the poor remain high, and where climate change is expected to bring about more extreme weather events and other related adverse impacts, the Philippines and its poor communities in both rural and urban areas are expected to bear the brunt of ...
... poverty incidence and increasing gap between the rich and the poor remain high, and where climate change is expected to bring about more extreme weather events and other related adverse impacts, the Philippines and its poor communities in both rural and urban areas are expected to bear the brunt of ...
Mekong River flow and hydrological extremes under climate change
... al. (2010) modelled the Mekong’s flow regimes under several climate change scenarios and suggested a likely intensification of the hydrological cycle, resulting in increases in annual and seasonal river discharges. Consequently, they also suggest increasing flood risks during the wet season in the C ...
... al. (2010) modelled the Mekong’s flow regimes under several climate change scenarios and suggested a likely intensification of the hydrological cycle, resulting in increases in annual and seasonal river discharges. Consequently, they also suggest increasing flood risks during the wet season in the C ...
Climate Change Law in Latin America
... sectors in Brazil concerning land-use change, energy, industrial processes and wastes, as well as agriculture. It calls for the adoption of sectoral mitigation and adaptation plans that include targets, actions to be implemented, policy instruments and incentives, as well as sectoral competitiveness ...
... sectors in Brazil concerning land-use change, energy, industrial processes and wastes, as well as agriculture. It calls for the adoption of sectoral mitigation and adaptation plans that include targets, actions to be implemented, policy instruments and incentives, as well as sectoral competitiveness ...
Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the
... model correctly predicts the highly disjunct distribution of blanket bog worldwide. This finding suggests that climate, rather than land-use history, controls blanket-bog distribution in the UK and everywhere else. We set out to test this hypothesis for blanket bogs in the UK using bioclimate envelo ...
... model correctly predicts the highly disjunct distribution of blanket bog worldwide. This finding suggests that climate, rather than land-use history, controls blanket-bog distribution in the UK and everywhere else. We set out to test this hypothesis for blanket bogs in the UK using bioclimate envelo ...
PDD W P
... The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted as United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1 in 2015 and its Goal 13 recognizes that taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts is one of the key measures to transform our world and achieve sustainable development ...
... The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted as United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1 in 2015 and its Goal 13 recognizes that taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts is one of the key measures to transform our world and achieve sustainable development ...
NRCan/CIP Projects and Initiatives on climate
... Sources of scientific data 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A body of the United Nations, the IPCC provides decision-makers with an objective source of the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic information about climate change, and is generally considered the authority o ...
... Sources of scientific data 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A body of the United Nations, the IPCC provides decision-makers with an objective source of the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic information about climate change, and is generally considered the authority o ...
Four Case Studies in the United States
... Foreword Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change In 2007, the science of climate change achieved an unfortunate milestone: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reached a consensus position that human-induced global warming is already causing physical and biological ...
... Foreword Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change In 2007, the science of climate change achieved an unfortunate milestone: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reached a consensus position that human-induced global warming is already causing physical and biological ...
Follow-up Report - Ministry of Tourism
... presentation. Some of the key questions raised and a summary of responses from the panel and presenters are provided below: Q: Can you please provide an example of [regulatory] disincentives to climate change adaptation? A: Fisheries regulations allow fishing from house reefs, including those of res ...
... presentation. Some of the key questions raised and a summary of responses from the panel and presenters are provided below: Q: Can you please provide an example of [regulatory] disincentives to climate change adaptation? A: Fisheries regulations allow fishing from house reefs, including those of res ...
CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS: AN
... and uses them to illustrate the evolution of integrated assessments. This evolution is reflected in the following trends: – From linear to more complex chains of analysis, – From non-adaptive to perfectly adaptive to realistically adaptive agents, – From simplistic to sophisticated to pluralistic co ...
... and uses them to illustrate the evolution of integrated assessments. This evolution is reflected in the following trends: – From linear to more complex chains of analysis, – From non-adaptive to perfectly adaptive to realistically adaptive agents, – From simplistic to sophisticated to pluralistic co ...
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... and more frequent and severe floods and droughts are major concerns, especially for those who are highly dependent on natural resources, such as agriculture, for their livelihoods. In the agriculture sector, the consensus is that changes in temperature and precipitation will result in changes in lan ...
... and more frequent and severe floods and droughts are major concerns, especially for those who are highly dependent on natural resources, such as agriculture, for their livelihoods. In the agriculture sector, the consensus is that changes in temperature and precipitation will result in changes in lan ...
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... play a crucial role for society and economy. Circulation type classifications (CTCs) are widely used to examine these weather patterns. Circulation types describe similar and recurrent states of the atmosphere over a defined time interval and area (Philipp et al., 2010). Modern computers enable to u ...
... play a crucial role for society and economy. Circulation type classifications (CTCs) are widely used to examine these weather patterns. Circulation types describe similar and recurrent states of the atmosphere over a defined time interval and area (Philipp et al., 2010). Modern computers enable to u ...
National Park Service - UAF SNAP
... The climate change scenario planning process does not end with these workshops, reports, and presentations. Rather, this living process is intended to stimulate creative thinking to address changing but still undetermined future environmental and socio-political future conditions. The process should ...
... The climate change scenario planning process does not end with these workshops, reports, and presentations. Rather, this living process is intended to stimulate creative thinking to address changing but still undetermined future environmental and socio-political future conditions. The process should ...
Communication for Climate Change Multi
... The overall aim of the Communication for Climate Change MDTF is to complement World Bankfinanced operations and initiatives on climate change, by advancing the theory and practice of communication for development in support of climate change awareness. The main objectives of the MDTF are to: • Raise ...
... The overall aim of the Communication for Climate Change MDTF is to complement World Bankfinanced operations and initiatives on climate change, by advancing the theory and practice of communication for development in support of climate change awareness. The main objectives of the MDTF are to: • Raise ...
Climate Change
... greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). These gases absorb heat from the sun and tend to warm the Earth’s surface while scientific evidence indicates that the continuous accumulation of the GHGs in the atmosphere has prevented the absorbed heat f ...
... greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). These gases absorb heat from the sun and tend to warm the Earth’s surface while scientific evidence indicates that the continuous accumulation of the GHGs in the atmosphere has prevented the absorbed heat f ...
The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering
... Over the last handful of years, a set of radical ideas that have long been confined to the fringes of climate change discussions have begun to edge toward center stage. The ideas are known collectively as geoengineering proposals—sweeping technological schemes designed to counteract the effects of p ...
... Over the last handful of years, a set of radical ideas that have long been confined to the fringes of climate change discussions have begun to edge toward center stage. The ideas are known collectively as geoengineering proposals—sweeping technological schemes designed to counteract the effects of p ...
Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making: The important
... adaptation planning. However, a major gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been produced about climate change, but very little of this information is relevant to onthe-groun ...
... adaptation planning. However, a major gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been produced about climate change, but very little of this information is relevant to onthe-groun ...
Extreme Events
... the environment, impacting infrastructure, agriculture, utilities, water resources and emergency planning. ...
... the environment, impacting infrastructure, agriculture, utilities, water resources and emergency planning. ...
economics of climate change: sensitivity analysis of social cost
... Nordhaus (1977). Nordhaus estimated “shadow prices” for carbon dioxide at 20year intervals from 1980 to 2160 for different emission scenarios. In the most stringent scenario, the shadow price of carbon in year 2020 is $109 (in 1977 dollars). In 2006, British government published a study known as Ste ...
... Nordhaus (1977). Nordhaus estimated “shadow prices” for carbon dioxide at 20year intervals from 1980 to 2160 for different emission scenarios. In the most stringent scenario, the shadow price of carbon in year 2020 is $109 (in 1977 dollars). In 2006, British government published a study known as Ste ...
Ecosystem Based Adaptation
... Magaud liaised with the French Government; and Edmund Barrow provided overall support. Last but certainly not least; IUCN appreciates the support of the French Government without which this important study would not have been possible. ...
... Magaud liaised with the French Government; and Edmund Barrow provided overall support. Last but certainly not least; IUCN appreciates the support of the French Government without which this important study would not have been possible. ...
