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Cotton and Climate Change - International Trade Centre
... One of the great development challenges is to guarantee food security for the world’s poor while also ensuring greater sustainability of food and fibre production and consumption. Cotton is an important crop for the world’s poor. Exports of the crop from developing countries reached US$ 2.8 billion ...
... One of the great development challenges is to guarantee food security for the world’s poor while also ensuring greater sustainability of food and fibre production and consumption. Cotton is an important crop for the world’s poor. Exports of the crop from developing countries reached US$ 2.8 billion ...
Learning to Live in a Changing Climate
... curb further climate change requires mitigation actions that reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere; primarily by reducing the volume of GHGs emitted into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. Large scale decarbonisation of economies is required in order to deliver the scale ...
... curb further climate change requires mitigation actions that reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere; primarily by reducing the volume of GHGs emitted into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. Large scale decarbonisation of economies is required in order to deliver the scale ...
Working Paper 170 - Doda 2014 (opens in new window)
... global investment priorities, a group of top economists convened by the Copenhagen Consensus Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references ...
... global investment priorities, a group of top economists convened by the Copenhagen Consensus Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references ...
Why is geoengineering so tempting?
... global investment priorities, a group of top economists convened by the Copenhagen Consensus Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references ...
... global investment priorities, a group of top economists convened by the Copenhagen Consensus Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references ...
Climate Change: Adaptation for Queensland Issues Paper
... responses in one sector can have positive or negative consequences in another. For example, effective land use planning for human settlements can reduce stress on emergency management systems in a natural disaster. Adaptation responses which maintain ecosystem health and function can have positive o ...
... responses in one sector can have positive or negative consequences in another. For example, effective land use planning for human settlements can reduce stress on emergency management systems in a natural disaster. Adaptation responses which maintain ecosystem health and function can have positive o ...
DISCUSSION PAPER Paving the Way for U.S. Climate
... 4. Convince other nations that if they work with the United States to advance a common vision, the United States will follow through by joining and implementing new international agreements that embody the approach. To achieve these goals cooperation between the President and Congress is essential b ...
... 4. Convince other nations that if they work with the United States to advance a common vision, the United States will follow through by joining and implementing new international agreements that embody the approach. To achieve these goals cooperation between the President and Congress is essential b ...
Aalborg Universitet Climate for Change? Wejs, Anja
... The PhD thesis is the result of a three-year PhD fellowship at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University. The subject of the research is the institutional dynamics in the processes of integrating climate change into planning at the local level in Denmark. The thesis consists o ...
... The PhD thesis is the result of a three-year PhD fellowship at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University. The subject of the research is the institutional dynamics in the processes of integrating climate change into planning at the local level in Denmark. The thesis consists o ...
Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review*
... (autonomous adaptation) and government research institutes developing new heat resistant seeds (planned adaptation): farmers’ willingness and ability to adopt the new seeds increase the marginal benefit of the research, and the availability of more varieties increases the marginal benefit for far ...
... (autonomous adaptation) and government research institutes developing new heat resistant seeds (planned adaptation): farmers’ willingness and ability to adopt the new seeds increase the marginal benefit of the research, and the availability of more varieties increases the marginal benefit for far ...
Impacts of climate change on disadvantaged UK coastal communities
... hotspots vulnerable to climate change. A range of areas was identified where future sea level rise will be particularly rapid or have greatest impact because it will be combined with an increase in storminess and increased erosion. This initial analysis identified five main vulnerable areas along th ...
... hotspots vulnerable to climate change. A range of areas was identified where future sea level rise will be particularly rapid or have greatest impact because it will be combined with an increase in storminess and increased erosion. This initial analysis identified five main vulnerable areas along th ...
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... Firstly, increasing recognition of strong climate inertia highlighted that even in the presence of strong mitigation policies some degree of climate change would have been inevitable. Thus mitigation, although essential to limiting the extent and probability of a potentially harmful climate change, ...
... Firstly, increasing recognition of strong climate inertia highlighted that even in the presence of strong mitigation policies some degree of climate change would have been inevitable. Thus mitigation, although essential to limiting the extent and probability of a potentially harmful climate change, ...
Review and Analysis of CAPA and LAPA
... accordingly. The information is expected to be useful for VDC and DDC during the plan preparation. Therefore, CAPA and LAPA were reviewed with an objective to prepare a central data set of all CAPAs and LAPAs and produce a comprehensive report comprising priority of need based interventions, identif ...
... accordingly. The information is expected to be useful for VDC and DDC during the plan preparation. Therefore, CAPA and LAPA were reviewed with an objective to prepare a central data set of all CAPAs and LAPAs and produce a comprehensive report comprising priority of need based interventions, identif ...
Impact of Climate Change on Households in the Indonesian
... Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world with 17,508 islands and around 81,000 km of coastline where 60% of the total population of 230 million live, thus it is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Rising sea levels and the resultant saltwater intrusion will affect many different sect ...
... Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world with 17,508 islands and around 81,000 km of coastline where 60% of the total population of 230 million live, thus it is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Rising sea levels and the resultant saltwater intrusion will affect many different sect ...
Local climate change adaptation planning A guide for
... and methods relevant for assessing and responding to existing and potential future climate change impacts on Victoria’s communities, natural and built assets. The process of adapting to climate change impacts is not new to most organisations. Businesses, governments and whole sectors have always man ...
... and methods relevant for assessing and responding to existing and potential future climate change impacts on Victoria’s communities, natural and built assets. The process of adapting to climate change impacts is not new to most organisations. Businesses, governments and whole sectors have always man ...
REDD and the effort to limit global warming to 2°C
... Most REDD proposals identify global funds or emissions trading markets (or both) as preferred sources of funding.1 Market advocates cite the advantages of economic efficiency and the ability to mobilise the large amounts of capital. Advocates of funds emphasise the potential impacts of integration w ...
... Most REDD proposals identify global funds or emissions trading markets (or both) as preferred sources of funding.1 Market advocates cite the advantages of economic efficiency and the ability to mobilise the large amounts of capital. Advocates of funds emphasise the potential impacts of integration w ...
The Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on
... Figure 17: Modeled absolute changes in mean monthly mnoff depths for the RCB for the modeled baseline climate change scenario compared to the modeled baseline scenario Figure 18: Modeled absolute changes in mean seasonalmnoff depths for the RCB for the modeled baseline climate change scenario, when ...
... Figure 17: Modeled absolute changes in mean monthly mnoff depths for the RCB for the modeled baseline climate change scenario compared to the modeled baseline scenario Figure 18: Modeled absolute changes in mean seasonalmnoff depths for the RCB for the modeled baseline climate change scenario, when ...
7 Managing the Risks: International Level and Integration across Scales
... extremes. Experience in disaster risk management includes both bottom-up and top-down approaches, but most often has developed from disasters considered first as local issues, then at the national level, and only at the international level where needs exceed national capacity, especially in terms of ...
... extremes. Experience in disaster risk management includes both bottom-up and top-down approaches, but most often has developed from disasters considered first as local issues, then at the national level, and only at the international level where needs exceed national capacity, especially in terms of ...
Linking Adaptation Research and Practice
... Compiling the inventory has highlighted the difficulty of judging which actions can be classified as ‘climate change adaptations’ and of these which are really planned as adaptations to climate change. By this we mean that it is difficult to identify which adaptations are taking place as a response ...
... Compiling the inventory has highlighted the difficulty of judging which actions can be classified as ‘climate change adaptations’ and of these which are really planned as adaptations to climate change. By this we mean that it is difficult to identify which adaptations are taking place as a response ...
Climate Change in Queensland
... changes. It highlights the latest developments in international, national and Queensland research and discusses the latest observations and projections on temperature, rainfall, sea level rise and extreme events. Importantly, it outlines how the climate is likely to alter in the future for regional ...
... changes. It highlights the latest developments in international, national and Queensland research and discusses the latest observations and projections on temperature, rainfall, sea level rise and extreme events. Importantly, it outlines how the climate is likely to alter in the future for regional ...
a free PDF - E-International Relations
... understanding of how and why the international community must seek to reappraise its understanding of climate change and tactics of mitigation and adaptation. Paris is not the answer – it must only be the start. This first case above may appear anecdotal – and it most likely is. Thousands of events ...
... understanding of how and why the international community must seek to reappraise its understanding of climate change and tactics of mitigation and adaptation. Paris is not the answer – it must only be the start. This first case above may appear anecdotal – and it most likely is. Thousands of events ...
Decadal climate variability and potential predictability in the nordic
... It has also been shown by Fraedrich and Müller (1992) and by Merkel and Latif (2002) that there is a significant response of the atmosphere over the North Atlantic to ENSO-related variations in tropical Pacific SST. ENSO is a climate pattern that is related to coupled atmosphere–ocean variations: wa ...
... It has also been shown by Fraedrich and Müller (1992) and by Merkel and Latif (2002) that there is a significant response of the atmosphere over the North Atlantic to ENSO-related variations in tropical Pacific SST. ENSO is a climate pattern that is related to coupled atmosphere–ocean variations: wa ...
English - Global Environment Facility
... Rockefeller Foundation. An analytical framework, developed specifically for this study, is being applied in developing and developed countries, through a diverse set of case studies. The framework identifies where and from which type of hazard a country is most at risk, together with the magnitude o ...
... Rockefeller Foundation. An analytical framework, developed specifically for this study, is being applied in developing and developed countries, through a diverse set of case studies. The framework identifies where and from which type of hazard a country is most at risk, together with the magnitude o ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... (INC) and the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) has shown that climate change will most probably lead to significant losses in crop production. In turn, these impacts on the agriculture sector will have direct effects on food security in the country. As a follow-up project to Mali’s NAP ...
... (INC) and the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) has shown that climate change will most probably lead to significant losses in crop production. In turn, these impacts on the agriculture sector will have direct effects on food security in the country. As a follow-up project to Mali’s NAP ...
Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation
... as medium- and long-term adaptation is a proactive response, it requires development of institutional arrangements and methodologies for gathering, storing, managing, and utilizing basic information on the target regions and sectors. Discussions about global warming tend to focus on mitigation strat ...
... as medium- and long-term adaptation is a proactive response, it requires development of institutional arrangements and methodologies for gathering, storing, managing, and utilizing basic information on the target regions and sectors. Discussions about global warming tend to focus on mitigation strat ...
The Macroeconomics of Climate Change Final Report, May 2013
... model offers a consistent framework, however the model will become more difficult to use and understand as a consequence. Simple models may not provide consistent answers and this requires policy makers to interpret which results are most important, but this must be balanced with the gain in ease of ...
... model offers a consistent framework, however the model will become more difficult to use and understand as a consequence. Simple models may not provide consistent answers and this requires policy makers to interpret which results are most important, but this must be balanced with the gain in ease of ...