Climate change in Australia | Central Slopes cluster report
... The global climate model (GCM) simulations presented here represent the full range of emission scenarios, as defined by the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) used by the IPCC, with a particular focus on RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The former represents a pathway consistent with low-level emissions ...
... The global climate model (GCM) simulations presented here represent the full range of emission scenarios, as defined by the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) used by the IPCC, with a particular focus on RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The former represents a pathway consistent with low-level emissions ...
ACSRI report - Columbia University
... operated private prisons on the grounds that the companies’ business prospects were linked to an increase in already historically high levels of incarceration so as to be inconsistent with the University’s mission and values. It is hard to take such a position with respect to all fossil fuels firms ...
... operated private prisons on the grounds that the companies’ business prospects were linked to an increase in already historically high levels of incarceration so as to be inconsistent with the University’s mission and values. It is hard to take such a position with respect to all fossil fuels firms ...
Slide 1
... – Mass. v. EPA endangerment determination would likely extend to nonroad vehicles as well – States cannot regulate emissions of new trains and farm / construction equipment less than 175 horsepower – For other new (and all existing) nonroad engines, CAA preempts state emission standards unless EPA w ...
... – Mass. v. EPA endangerment determination would likely extend to nonroad vehicles as well – States cannot regulate emissions of new trains and farm / construction equipment less than 175 horsepower – For other new (and all existing) nonroad engines, CAA preempts state emission standards unless EPA w ...
The National Climate Change Programme (NCCP), a unit within the
... limit the sources of funding CDM entitites. A temporary solution consists in using the project resources allocated to local contracts to partially support the functioning of the CDM offices. In the first year (2003), up to 40 percent of the total budget will be allocated to support both technical st ...
... limit the sources of funding CDM entitites. A temporary solution consists in using the project resources allocated to local contracts to partially support the functioning of the CDM offices. In the first year (2003), up to 40 percent of the total budget will be allocated to support both technical st ...
T - Climate Investment Funds
... form the backdrop for a number of lifestyle and livelihood related activities, making Jamaica a climate sensitive country. For example, Jamaica’s climate sensitivity can be found in planting and reaping cycles which are intimately bound up with Jamaica’s rainfall and temperature climatologies i.e. i ...
... form the backdrop for a number of lifestyle and livelihood related activities, making Jamaica a climate sensitive country. For example, Jamaica’s climate sensitivity can be found in planting and reaping cycles which are intimately bound up with Jamaica’s rainfall and temperature climatologies i.e. i ...
The impact of climate change and weather on transport - MOWE-IT
... transport in Norway. Differences in performance of road, rail and waterway transport systems give an indication of the potential impacts of climate change. One of the difficulties of this approach is that differences between countries are the result of a whole range of factors, where in addition to c ...
... transport in Norway. Differences in performance of road, rail and waterway transport systems give an indication of the potential impacts of climate change. One of the difficulties of this approach is that differences between countries are the result of a whole range of factors, where in addition to c ...
Climate Change is a Geographic Problem
... Science and Our Changing Climate The Medieval Warm Period (tenth to fourteenth centuries). The Little Ice Age (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). The Year without a Summer (1816). ...
... Science and Our Changing Climate The Medieval Warm Period (tenth to fourteenth centuries). The Little Ice Age (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). The Year without a Summer (1816). ...
Climate and finance systemic risks, more than an analogy?
... propagate to larger portions of territory using different channels, physical, social or financial. We develop this first approach of a systemic climate risk in part 2 in a much more detailed manner, using recent literature from the climate science field. But we cannot consider these changes affectin ...
... propagate to larger portions of territory using different channels, physical, social or financial. We develop this first approach of a systemic climate risk in part 2 in a much more detailed manner, using recent literature from the climate science field. But we cannot consider these changes affectin ...
Adaptation investments
... understanding of climate change impacts is steadily improving, there are still substantial ...
... understanding of climate change impacts is steadily improving, there are still substantial ...
CSPR Briefing CS PR B
... which is an association of municipalities, counties and regions cooperating in local climate work (Klimatkommunerna 2013). The cluster in Denmark is called “VANDPLUS” and consists of municipalities, companies, research institutes, universities and government authorities cooperating within four case ...
... which is an association of municipalities, counties and regions cooperating in local climate work (Klimatkommunerna 2013). The cluster in Denmark is called “VANDPLUS” and consists of municipalities, companies, research institutes, universities and government authorities cooperating within four case ...
4.3 Approach to CLIMATE CHANGE Scenario Development
... regional and local scale have a high degree of uncertainty. Regional scale can mean scales ranging from the sub-continental scale to country level to provincial level. Although it is likely that temperatures will rise in most regions of the world,2 changes at the regional scale in many other key var ...
... regional and local scale have a high degree of uncertainty. Regional scale can mean scales ranging from the sub-continental scale to country level to provincial level. Although it is likely that temperatures will rise in most regions of the world,2 changes at the regional scale in many other key var ...
English
... Abstract In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have to factor in climate change, and social protection is no exception. This paper sets out the case for climate‐responsive social protection and proposes a framework ...
... Abstract In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have to factor in climate change, and social protection is no exception. This paper sets out the case for climate‐responsive social protection and proposes a framework ...
Iyigun et al._2013_Clustering climate regions of
... In a different study in which the trends and changes in the number of frost days were investigated, Erlat and Türkeş (2012) found that the annual number of frost days has evidently decreased at most of the stations in Turkey with some observed regional differences. The decreasing trends are largest ...
... In a different study in which the trends and changes in the number of frost days were investigated, Erlat and Türkeş (2012) found that the annual number of frost days has evidently decreased at most of the stations in Turkey with some observed regional differences. The decreasing trends are largest ...
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper
... held accountable for the costs they impose on us all. The resulting environmental degradation is not currently reflected in the costs of business or the price of goods and services. Because firms face no cost from increasing emissions, the level of emissions is too high. Unless businesses and indivi ...
... held accountable for the costs they impose on us all. The resulting environmental degradation is not currently reflected in the costs of business or the price of goods and services. Because firms face no cost from increasing emissions, the level of emissions is too high. Unless businesses and indivi ...
Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation into Catchment
... such the process and conversations involved are as valuable as the identification of management actions. The CAF is divided into seven parts that are explored, discussed and ultimately assessed. The results of each assessment are summarised in a table format. The CAF offers a ‘holistic’ look at the ...
... such the process and conversations involved are as valuable as the identification of management actions. The CAF is divided into seven parts that are explored, discussed and ultimately assessed. The results of each assessment are summarised in a table format. The CAF offers a ‘holistic’ look at the ...
Whitesand First Nation Community Sustainability Initiative
... ∗ Pan-Canadian Task Force on Reducing Diesel Use in Remote Communities. ...
... ∗ Pan-Canadian Task Force on Reducing Diesel Use in Remote Communities. ...
Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
Key aspects of global climate change
... these problems planned for 2004 reach 4.5 billion dollars. The statement published on behalf of the intergovernmental group G-8 on 27 July 2003 [117] emphasizes that in the years to come, efforts will be undertaken in three directions: 1) coordination of strategies of global observations; 2) provisi ...
... these problems planned for 2004 reach 4.5 billion dollars. The statement published on behalf of the intergovernmental group G-8 on 27 July 2003 [117] emphasizes that in the years to come, efforts will be undertaken in three directions: 1) coordination of strategies of global observations; 2) provisi ...
Annex D – EEA contributors and resource planning
... adaptation policy development at the EU and national level, which builds largely on the recent EEA reports and information in Climate-ADAPT on those topics. Additionally, the sector-based chapters should include some more information on the consideration of climate change adaptation in sectoral pol ...
... adaptation policy development at the EU and national level, which builds largely on the recent EEA reports and information in Climate-ADAPT on those topics. Additionally, the sector-based chapters should include some more information on the consideration of climate change adaptation in sectoral pol ...
Climate Change Adaptation Project Report
... (CBT) to prepare for the local impacts of climate change. The CBT ‘Communities Adapting to Climate Change’ initiative supports community efforts to increase local adaptive capacity and resiliency to climate change. Climate change adaptation is preparing for and responding at the local level to poten ...
... (CBT) to prepare for the local impacts of climate change. The CBT ‘Communities Adapting to Climate Change’ initiative supports community efforts to increase local adaptive capacity and resiliency to climate change. Climate change adaptation is preparing for and responding at the local level to poten ...
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/moznc1.pdf
... Mozambique ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on August 24th, 1994 through the Assembly of the Republic and became Party in 25th August 1995. By doing so Mozambique joined other Parties of the Convention, in the common objectives of stabilizing the greenhouse gas conc ...
... Mozambique ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on August 24th, 1994 through the Assembly of the Republic and became Party in 25th August 1995. By doing so Mozambique joined other Parties of the Convention, in the common objectives of stabilizing the greenhouse gas conc ...
Human Development Report 2007/2008 Climate Change and the
... national average trends, and greatest increases seen in the northern reaches of the Tibetan Plateau. 27 At the same time, rainfall over Western China could increase by 5-25% by 2050 relative to 1961-1990 levels according to the study. Recent research by the National Development and Reform Commission ...
... national average trends, and greatest increases seen in the northern reaches of the Tibetan Plateau. 27 At the same time, rainfall over Western China could increase by 5-25% by 2050 relative to 1961-1990 levels according to the study. Recent research by the National Development and Reform Commission ...
Promoting Health While Mitigating Climate Change
... There is a very large, unrecognized potential to obtain health co-benefits from policies that reduce climate change. Moreover, many of these benefits can be enjoyed locally, by communities that adopt low-carbon development strategies. Some of the most important health benefits include: reduced risks ...
... There is a very large, unrecognized potential to obtain health co-benefits from policies that reduce climate change. Moreover, many of these benefits can be enjoyed locally, by communities that adopt low-carbon development strategies. Some of the most important health benefits include: reduced risks ...
Co Chairs Summary
... will lead to environmental degradation with reduced opportunities. The second trajectory is to recognise the changes and uncertainties ahead such as climate change and chart a course towards a sustainable ocean economy, which will ensure that the economic development of the ocean contributes to the ...
... will lead to environmental degradation with reduced opportunities. The second trajectory is to recognise the changes and uncertainties ahead such as climate change and chart a course towards a sustainable ocean economy, which will ensure that the economic development of the ocean contributes to the ...
