to view Design and Implementation of a Climate Change Adaptation
... “Actions taken to help communities and ecosystems cope with changing climate condition” (UNFCCC). “Adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities” (IPCC) “A process by which .strate ...
... “Actions taken to help communities and ecosystems cope with changing climate condition” (UNFCCC). “Adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities” (IPCC) “A process by which .strate ...
The geography of global urban greenhouse gas emissions: an
... We argue that the EDGAR data, supplemented by other information, allows for analysis of urban emissions from Scopes 1 and 2 in accordance with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and World Resources Institute accounting protocol (WBCSD and WRI 2004). First, the GRUMP urban boundar ...
... We argue that the EDGAR data, supplemented by other information, allows for analysis of urban emissions from Scopes 1 and 2 in accordance with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and World Resources Institute accounting protocol (WBCSD and WRI 2004). First, the GRUMP urban boundar ...
on the front line of climate change and displacement
... in waiting to see if global warming will affect the region. Natural hazards already take an annual toll that destroys valuable property, threatens and takes lives and disrupts national economies. Any additional disasters arising from climate change will only make matters worse.”8 At this time, the s ...
... in waiting to see if global warming will affect the region. Natural hazards already take an annual toll that destroys valuable property, threatens and takes lives and disrupts national economies. Any additional disasters arising from climate change will only make matters worse.”8 At this time, the s ...
Science Communication
... The early 21st century saw a turning point in the public career of climate change. After years of scientific uncertainty regarding its causes (Doyle, 2011), anthropogenic climate change came of age as a widely recognized “global risk” demanding global action to reduce its threats (Beck, 2010). From ...
... The early 21st century saw a turning point in the public career of climate change. After years of scientific uncertainty regarding its causes (Doyle, 2011), anthropogenic climate change came of age as a widely recognized “global risk” demanding global action to reduce its threats (Beck, 2010). From ...
Where’s the Beef ? A suitability study for siting biogas... methane from cattle production for urban energy consumption
... would be looking at the point data for individual feedlots and their capacity for an analysis of the network of highly concentrated methane emission areas. This, in fact, may belie the most suitable locations for siting methane to biogas capture. In addition, a more refined vector map for natural ga ...
... would be looking at the point data for individual feedlots and their capacity for an analysis of the network of highly concentrated methane emission areas. This, in fact, may belie the most suitable locations for siting methane to biogas capture. In addition, a more refined vector map for natural ga ...
AIT In The Classroom
... flower petals waving in the breeze, and the camera backed up to reveal a terrifyinglooking creature. But wait — it’s only a closeup of a mosquito! (See photos at right.) It’s all about perspective. Distance, angles, lighting, and position all affect your perception of the image. A global perspective ...
... flower petals waving in the breeze, and the camera backed up to reveal a terrifyinglooking creature. But wait — it’s only a closeup of a mosquito! (See photos at right.) It’s all about perspective. Distance, angles, lighting, and position all affect your perception of the image. A global perspective ...
Weather and climate: changing human exposures
... Research on the potential health effects of weather, climate variability and climate change requires understanding of the exposure of interest. Although often the terms weather and climate are used interchangeably, they actually represent different parts of the same spectrum. Weather is the complex ...
... Research on the potential health effects of weather, climate variability and climate change requires understanding of the exposure of interest. Although often the terms weather and climate are used interchangeably, they actually represent different parts of the same spectrum. Weather is the complex ...
A Case for Guardians for Future Generations
... accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.” The Paris Agreement adopted in 20157 acknowledges that “climate change is a common concern of humankind” and reminds Parties to respect “intergenerational equity” when they take action to address climate c ...
... accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.” The Paris Agreement adopted in 20157 acknowledges that “climate change is a common concern of humankind” and reminds Parties to respect “intergenerational equity” when they take action to address climate c ...
COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES
... international conferences in which climate change holds increasingly high level attention, including the Global Oceans Conference (Paris, 10 May 2010), the European Commission’s European Maritime Day Stakeholder Conference (Gijon, 18-21 May 2010) and the Conference of African Ministers of Fisheries ...
... international conferences in which climate change holds increasingly high level attention, including the Global Oceans Conference (Paris, 10 May 2010), the European Commission’s European Maritime Day Stakeholder Conference (Gijon, 18-21 May 2010) and the Conference of African Ministers of Fisheries ...
2.2 Climate Change Impacts in Ghana
... Forest zones, reductions in rainfall are reported (Owusu and Waylen 2009) to be about 20% which is far larger than the 10% reduction in the Transition and Savannah to the north. The major challenge in the forest however, is that the reduction permeates the entire rainfall regime. Available data show ...
... Forest zones, reductions in rainfall are reported (Owusu and Waylen 2009) to be about 20% which is far larger than the 10% reduction in the Transition and Savannah to the north. The major challenge in the forest however, is that the reduction permeates the entire rainfall regime. Available data show ...
Interactive effects of multiple climate change variables on trophic
... not properly controlled for, could have additional effects. It has even been suggested that higher order interactions of global change drivers produce smaller magnitude responses which, if generally true, would mean that anticipated positive and negative impacts of global change might be dampened re ...
... not properly controlled for, could have additional effects. It has even been suggested that higher order interactions of global change drivers produce smaller magnitude responses which, if generally true, would mean that anticipated positive and negative impacts of global change might be dampened re ...
Climate change, the environment and armed con
... However, the link between climate change, environmental degradation and armed conflict is more complicated in reality. The Implications of Climate Change for Armed Conflict study commissioned by the World Bank for the “Social Dimensions of Climate Change” workshop [hereafter, World Bank Climate Chan ...
... However, the link between climate change, environmental degradation and armed conflict is more complicated in reality. The Implications of Climate Change for Armed Conflict study commissioned by the World Bank for the “Social Dimensions of Climate Change” workshop [hereafter, World Bank Climate Chan ...
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... diversification and (iii) maintaining existing permanent grassland. However, most studies do not take climate change impacts into account. The qualitative studies conducted by Lefebrve et al. (2012) as well as Westhoek et al. (2012) find that the greening of pillar 1 payments is likely to have only ...
... diversification and (iii) maintaining existing permanent grassland. However, most studies do not take climate change impacts into account. The qualitative studies conducted by Lefebrve et al. (2012) as well as Westhoek et al. (2012) find that the greening of pillar 1 payments is likely to have only ...
Scientific aspects - Wageningen UR E
... application/impact community. The regional climate modeling center at SMHI is one of the leading centres in Europe. DWD has a large experience in weather services, also through internet, and is now cooperating in the new Climate Services Centre in Germany. The science is internationally embedded in ...
... application/impact community. The regional climate modeling center at SMHI is one of the leading centres in Europe. DWD has a large experience in weather services, also through internet, and is now cooperating in the new Climate Services Centre in Germany. The science is internationally embedded in ...
Case Study - Sorsogon City
... support of climate change strategies. A major outcome of the initiative will be the development of a set of tools for mitigation and adaptation. This case study follows a report under the Cities and Climate Change Initiative, where four pilot cities were selected in 2009, one of which Sorsogon City, ...
... support of climate change strategies. A major outcome of the initiative will be the development of a set of tools for mitigation and adaptation. This case study follows a report under the Cities and Climate Change Initiative, where four pilot cities were selected in 2009, one of which Sorsogon City, ...
Attribution of the record high Central England temperature of
... where PHistNat and PRCP8.5 are the probabilities of a warm annual CET value (T > + 1.38 °C) in the historicalNat and RCP8.5 simulations respectively. The threshold for the FAR analysis of +1.38 °C was chosen as it is the second warmest annual CET anomaly in the observed 1659–2014 series and occurred ...
... where PHistNat and PRCP8.5 are the probabilities of a warm annual CET value (T > + 1.38 °C) in the historicalNat and RCP8.5 simulations respectively. The threshold for the FAR analysis of +1.38 °C was chosen as it is the second warmest annual CET anomaly in the observed 1659–2014 series and occurred ...
An overview of climate change impacts on European viticulture
... production underwent an upward trend over the last few years (Fig. 1B). The world’s top wine-producing countries (Table 1) are France, Italy, and Spain, while it is worth noticing that China, Chile, and New Zealand recorded the largest increases in production over the last years. Figure 2 depicts th ...
... production underwent an upward trend over the last few years (Fig. 1B). The world’s top wine-producing countries (Table 1) are France, Italy, and Spain, while it is worth noticing that China, Chile, and New Zealand recorded the largest increases in production over the last years. Figure 2 depicts th ...
(NDC) (Ulusal katkı beyanı)
... 1. This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global aver ...
... 1. This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global aver ...
Climate Change - cloudfront.net
... evaluation of the adequacy of current proposals to limit global warming. If additional countries come forward with quantifiable ambitions to reduce their emissions, the projections of future warming presented here could conceivably be lowered, although only to a limited extent .¶ The issue of intere ...
... evaluation of the adequacy of current proposals to limit global warming. If additional countries come forward with quantifiable ambitions to reduce their emissions, the projections of future warming presented here could conceivably be lowered, although only to a limited extent .¶ The issue of intere ...
Communicating the risks of global warming
... George W. Bush renounced a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, and proposed national energy legislation to increase drilling for oil and natural gas, mining for coal, and build over a thousand new fossil-fuel bur ...
... George W. Bush renounced a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, and proposed national energy legislation to increase drilling for oil and natural gas, mining for coal, and build over a thousand new fossil-fuel bur ...
- Human Organization, Practicing Anthropology
... on climate change issues. These institutions are governmental and non-governmental as well as commercial in nature. While not-for-profit institutions led and implemented development projects and programs in the 20th century, recent climate change activities suggest that commercial institutions are a ...
... on climate change issues. These institutions are governmental and non-governmental as well as commercial in nature. While not-for-profit institutions led and implemented development projects and programs in the 20th century, recent climate change activities suggest that commercial institutions are a ...
Chapter 11. Adaptation and adaptive capacity in the public health
... climate change frequently is called ‘global warming’ ” which focuses attention on average global temperature change (a frequently cited IPCC number is average surface air temperature change, projected to warm 1.4 to 5.8 °C over the next century). However, a change in climate actually occurs as chang ...
... climate change frequently is called ‘global warming’ ” which focuses attention on average global temperature change (a frequently cited IPCC number is average surface air temperature change, projected to warm 1.4 to 5.8 °C over the next century). However, a change in climate actually occurs as chang ...
Bureaucratic Land Rush - Global Public Policy Institute
... (NEPA). When the Earth Summit of 1992 produced the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and thereby initiated a formalized process of international climate change negotiations, the MFA established a specialized climate change unit within its Department of Treaty and Law whi ...
... (NEPA). When the Earth Summit of 1992 produced the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and thereby initiated a formalized process of international climate change negotiations, the MFA established a specialized climate change unit within its Department of Treaty and Law whi ...
Phasing Down the Use of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
... Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are the fastest-growing type of GHG in much of the world, with emissions of HFCs increasing at a rate of 10–15% per year.1 HFCs were developed to replace chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) – ozone-depleting substances that are being phased out u ...
... Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are the fastest-growing type of GHG in much of the world, with emissions of HFCs increasing at a rate of 10–15% per year.1 HFCs were developed to replace chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) – ozone-depleting substances that are being phased out u ...
Climate Change, Emissions Trading and Indigenous Peoples
... ‘sinks’, which are essentially forests established on cleared land (reforestation), can be used to show compliance with binding emissions targets.8 As discussed in more detail below, Indigenous peoples have argued that the inclusion of forest sinks and incentives for other large-scale ‘clean’ develo ...
... ‘sinks’, which are essentially forests established on cleared land (reforestation), can be used to show compliance with binding emissions targets.8 As discussed in more detail below, Indigenous peoples have argued that the inclusion of forest sinks and incentives for other large-scale ‘clean’ develo ...
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 5th Meeting of the Parties (MOP 5) to the Kyoto Protocol. According to the Bali Road Map, a framework for climate change mitigation beyond 2012 was to be agreed there.On Friday 18 December, the final day of the conference, international media reported that the climate talks were ""in disarray"". Media also reported that in lieu of a summit collapse, only a ""weak political statement"" was anticipated at the conclusion of the conference. The Copenhagen Accord was drafted by the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa on 18 December, and judged a ""meaningful agreement"" by the United States government. It was ""taken note of"", but not ""adopted"", in a debate of all the participating countries the next day, and it was not passed unanimously. The document recognised that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the present day and that actions should be taken to keep any temperature increases to below 2 °C. The document is not legally binding and does not contain any legally binding commitments for reducing CO2 emissions.In January 2014, documents leaked by Edward Snowden and published by Dagbladet Information revealed that the US government negotiators were in receipt of information during the conference that was being obtained by spying against other conference delegations. The US National Security Agency provided US delegates with advance details other delegations' positions, including the Danish plan to ""rescue"" the talks should they flounder. Members of the Danish negotiating team said that both the US and Chinese delegations were ""peculiarly well-informed"" about closed-door discussions: ""They simply sat back, just as we had feared they would if they knew about our document.""