English - Global Environment Facility
... and ecosystems based on the scientific consensus that, even if the international community commits to aggressively mitigate GHG emissions, climate change impacts will continue for many decades. More scientific research is expected to further explore with increasing precision the impacts of climate c ...
... and ecosystems based on the scientific consensus that, even if the international community commits to aggressively mitigate GHG emissions, climate change impacts will continue for many decades. More scientific research is expected to further explore with increasing precision the impacts of climate c ...
Demographics and Climate Change: Future Trends And their Policy
... Thailand and Turkey likely also to undergo a migration transition in the coming decades. In turn, countries elsewhere, such as Ghana, have moved in the other direction over the second half of the 20th century, becoming net countries of emigration as economic and political events led to expulsions o ...
... Thailand and Turkey likely also to undergo a migration transition in the coming decades. In turn, countries elsewhere, such as Ghana, have moved in the other direction over the second half of the 20th century, becoming net countries of emigration as economic and political events led to expulsions o ...
56 - University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
... of vulnerability patterns (Allison et al. 2009). They can also be used to identify particularly vulnerable regions and eventually facilitate comparison of vulnerability assessments across natural resource-dependent industries, potentially providing insight into processes that cause and exacerbate vu ...
... of vulnerability patterns (Allison et al. 2009). They can also be used to identify particularly vulnerable regions and eventually facilitate comparison of vulnerability assessments across natural resource-dependent industries, potentially providing insight into processes that cause and exacerbate vu ...
Climate Impacts in Europe The JRC PESETA II Project
... Legal Notice This publication is a Science and Policy Report by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s in-house science service. It aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European policy-making process. The scientific output expressed does not imply a policy position ...
... Legal Notice This publication is a Science and Policy Report by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s in-house science service. It aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European policy-making process. The scientific output expressed does not imply a policy position ...
Psychology and Global Climate Change
... Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of behavioral changes that would help limit climate change. Many people are taking action in response to the risks of climate change, but many others are unaware of the problem, unsure of the facts or what to do, do not trust experts or bel ...
... Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of behavioral changes that would help limit climate change. Many people are taking action in response to the risks of climate change, but many others are unaware of the problem, unsure of the facts or what to do, do not trust experts or bel ...
Psychology and Global Climate Change
... Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of behavioral changes that would help limit climate change. Many people are taking action in response to the risks of climate change, but many others are unaware of the problem, unsure of the facts or what to do, do not trust experts or bel ...
... Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of behavioral changes that would help limit climate change. Many people are taking action in response to the risks of climate change, but many others are unaware of the problem, unsure of the facts or what to do, do not trust experts or bel ...
Climate change: impacts and adaptation for agriculture in Western
... future climate change means that producers will need to continue adapting to a suite of interacting climate change impacts. In addition to the climate changes outlined above, impacts include economic pressures and opportunities related to increasing human populations and changing human dietary prefe ...
... future climate change means that producers will need to continue adapting to a suite of interacting climate change impacts. In addition to the climate changes outlined above, impacts include economic pressures and opportunities related to increasing human populations and changing human dietary prefe ...
SADC Policy paper on Climate Change
... Industrialized countries have emitted the most anthropogenic CO2 (area proportional to historical CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 1900-1999). Source: WRI Changes in minimum temperature for Gaborone, Botswana (red line represents actual data for 1910 to 2000 and projection based on the IS9 ...
... Industrialized countries have emitted the most anthropogenic CO2 (area proportional to historical CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 1900-1999). Source: WRI Changes in minimum temperature for Gaborone, Botswana (red line represents actual data for 1910 to 2000 and projection based on the IS9 ...
Insights to Key Questions about Climate Change
... an adequate baseline for evaluation of climate change due to human activities. Climate measurements in Illinois since the mid-19th century document major climate swings not evident in a 50to 100-year record. Illinois is no warmer or wetter today than it has been over the last 150 years, and extreme ...
... an adequate baseline for evaluation of climate change due to human activities. Climate measurements in Illinois since the mid-19th century document major climate swings not evident in a 50to 100-year record. Illinois is no warmer or wetter today than it has been over the last 150 years, and extreme ...
the effects of climate change in the netherlands: 2012
... Spatial Adaptation to Climate Change (2006–2010) and the Delta Programme (from 2010). The present PBL study for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment provides an update of the 2005 study: What is the current situation regarding climate change in the Netherlands; what effects are now mor ...
... Spatial Adaptation to Climate Change (2006–2010) and the Delta Programme (from 2010). The present PBL study for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment provides an update of the 2005 study: What is the current situation regarding climate change in the Netherlands; what effects are now mor ...
Addressing Climate Change in National Urban Policy
... A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon and Climate-Resilient Urban Development ...
... A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon and Climate-Resilient Urban Development ...
prospects and pitfalls of the kyoto protocol to the united nations
... Change1 seeks to mitigate dangerous anthropogenic changes to the Earth’s climate by assigning to all Parties ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’2 that take into account each nation’s contributions to the greenhouse effect, as * Student of Arts/Law, The University of Melbourne. 1 Opened for ...
... Change1 seeks to mitigate dangerous anthropogenic changes to the Earth’s climate by assigning to all Parties ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’2 that take into account each nation’s contributions to the greenhouse effect, as * Student of Arts/Law, The University of Melbourne. 1 Opened for ...
EVALUATION OF LAND COVER AND CROP TYPE CHANGE: BUILDING
... field officer in Yatta District for his support during the field activities, the farmers for providing the land and labour during field experiments and Mr. Nictor Namoi my colleague for his support and assistance. I would also like to thank Mr. Ferdinand Anyika the laboratory technician at the depar ...
... field officer in Yatta District for his support during the field activities, the farmers for providing the land and labour during field experiments and Mr. Nictor Namoi my colleague for his support and assistance. I would also like to thank Mr. Ferdinand Anyika the laboratory technician at the depar ...
Adaptation made to measure
... Faced with new and rapidly expanding adaptation portfolios in most international cooperation institutions, many project managers are voicing their need for support, particularly when it comes to designing and monitoring projects which are either adaptation-related or explicit adaptation projects. Th ...
... Faced with new and rapidly expanding adaptation portfolios in most international cooperation institutions, many project managers are voicing their need for support, particularly when it comes to designing and monitoring projects which are either adaptation-related or explicit adaptation projects. Th ...
Climate Change in Queensland
... Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, the only state-based climate science research centre in Australia. I commend the scientists for their expertise and commitment to world class climate change research. Clearly, there is plenty of new data showing we have some serious issues ahead of us ...
... Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, the only state-based climate science research centre in Australia. I commend the scientists for their expertise and commitment to world class climate change research. Clearly, there is plenty of new data showing we have some serious issues ahead of us ...
S Moser Final Report 11 11 08
... processes and tools with which communities and regions can better prepare to withstand the effects of natural and human-made disasters by collaboratively developing an understanding of community resilience that is accurate, defensible, welcomed, and applicable to communities across the region and th ...
... processes and tools with which communities and regions can better prepare to withstand the effects of natural and human-made disasters by collaboratively developing an understanding of community resilience that is accurate, defensible, welcomed, and applicable to communities across the region and th ...
Great Lakes National Parks in Peril
... (See pages 36-37.) Parks should be managed to preserve their resources at risk, to adapt to coming changes, and to provide visible leadership in addressing climate change. Ultimately, of course, we need to curtail emissions of climate-changing pollutants enough to reduce their impacts, in parks and ...
... (See pages 36-37.) Parks should be managed to preserve their resources at risk, to adapt to coming changes, and to provide visible leadership in addressing climate change. Ultimately, of course, we need to curtail emissions of climate-changing pollutants enough to reduce their impacts, in parks and ...
Sensitivity of burned area in Europe to climate change, atmospheric
... by socioeconomic regions we used the parameter values associated with the region “Europe,” while the remaining biomes had only one global parameter value, which we used here (see Table S1). The biome type in SIMFIRE directly influences burned area. When SIMFIRE is coupled to LPJ-GUESS, it is computed ...
... by socioeconomic regions we used the parameter values associated with the region “Europe,” while the remaining biomes had only one global parameter value, which we used here (see Table S1). The biome type in SIMFIRE directly influences burned area. When SIMFIRE is coupled to LPJ-GUESS, it is computed ...
Economics of Climate Change Kenya
... Extreme events. Even in the absence of climate change, the economic costs of the periodic floods and droughts that affect Kenya could rise significantly in future years, due to socio-economic change (population and economic growth). The study has assessed these changes and finds that in the absence ...
... Extreme events. Even in the absence of climate change, the economic costs of the periodic floods and droughts that affect Kenya could rise significantly in future years, due to socio-economic change (population and economic growth). The study has assessed these changes and finds that in the absence ...
come heat and high water: climate risk in the southeastern us and
... reliance on energy- and emission-intensive sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, oil and gas production and mining. »»As temperatures rise and individual households and businesses increase their use of air conditioning, electricity demand across the region will rise—with a corresponding increa ...
... reliance on energy- and emission-intensive sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, oil and gas production and mining. »»As temperatures rise and individual households and businesses increase their use of air conditioning, electricity demand across the region will rise—with a corresponding increa ...
A Warm Response, Our Climate Change Challenge
... Through the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming has emerged. Today there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities and that human-induced cl ...
... Through the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming has emerged. Today there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities and that human-induced cl ...
Surviving climate change in small islands
... not seem to be succeeding after 13 years of international agreement on the need to do so (in 1992 most of the world’s governments signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change acknowledging that climate change is a problem). ii) Remove the greenhouse gases from the atmospher ...
... not seem to be succeeding after 13 years of international agreement on the need to do so (in 1992 most of the world’s governments signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change acknowledging that climate change is a problem). ii) Remove the greenhouse gases from the atmospher ...
The Secret History of Fossil Fuels
... This is not a liberal view or a conservative view; it’s a view that almost everyone holds in one form or another. Even fossil fuel companies make statements like the one the former CEO of Shell made in 2013: “We believe climate change is real and time is running out to take real action to reduce gre ...
... This is not a liberal view or a conservative view; it’s a view that almost everyone holds in one form or another. Even fossil fuel companies make statements like the one the former CEO of Shell made in 2013: “We believe climate change is real and time is running out to take real action to reduce gre ...
assam state action plan on climate change
... threat to humanity and has implications for sustainable development. Our climate is already changing. Along with continued warming of the atmosphere, erratic rainfall pattern are emerging and as result new patterns of droughts and floods are being observed, which are likely to get more frequent and ...
... threat to humanity and has implications for sustainable development. Our climate is already changing. Along with continued warming of the atmosphere, erratic rainfall pattern are emerging and as result new patterns of droughts and floods are being observed, which are likely to get more frequent and ...