On connecting climate change with security and armed conflicts.
... climate change and conflicts. Thus, they have limited value in predicting what is to come in the future for security (as a result of climate change) and the parameters used are not sufficient. When future projections are made, these are primarily drawn from the IPCC’s estimation of climate change (p ...
... climate change and conflicts. Thus, they have limited value in predicting what is to come in the future for security (as a result of climate change) and the parameters used are not sufficient. When future projections are made, these are primarily drawn from the IPCC’s estimation of climate change (p ...
A Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
... especially hard to pass because the US government gives a great deal of power to the states, and many states would be affected by such legislation differently. In 1998, The National Energy Policy Act was introduced to Congress and signed into law four years later. This law called for a national ener ...
... especially hard to pass because the US government gives a great deal of power to the states, and many states would be affected by such legislation differently. In 1998, The National Energy Policy Act was introduced to Congress and signed into law four years later. This law called for a national ener ...
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Reasons for
... Vulnerability to Climate Change and Reasons for Concern: A Synthesis coherent impact of 20th-century climate changes on many physical and biological systems. Signals of regional climate change impacts may be clearer in physical and biological systems than in socioeconomic systems, which also are sim ...
... Vulnerability to Climate Change and Reasons for Concern: A Synthesis coherent impact of 20th-century climate changes on many physical and biological systems. Signals of regional climate change impacts may be clearer in physical and biological systems than in socioeconomic systems, which also are sim ...
The implications for climate sensitivity of AR5 forcing and heat...
... Use in (1) and (2) of averages over base and final periods, rather than complete time series, captures much of the available information, since internal variability is high on sub-decadal timescales and only during the last decade or two has total forcing become reasonably large relative to its unc ...
... Use in (1) and (2) of averages over base and final periods, rather than complete time series, captures much of the available information, since internal variability is high on sub-decadal timescales and only during the last decade or two has total forcing become reasonably large relative to its unc ...
AMIDST FRAGMENTATION AND COHERENCE: A
... degradation of ecosystems resulting from climate change, it is not at all irrelevant. In fact, the iconic nature and the high profile of many world heritage sites make them particularly suitable to promote public awareness of the need for action on climate change mitigation and adaptation and is lik ...
... degradation of ecosystems resulting from climate change, it is not at all irrelevant. In fact, the iconic nature and the high profile of many world heritage sites make them particularly suitable to promote public awareness of the need for action on climate change mitigation and adaptation and is lik ...
Integrating Climate Change into Northeast and Midwest State
... The Department of Interior Northeast Climate Science Center (NE CSC) conducts research that responds to the regional natural resource management community’s needs to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change. The NE CSC is supported by a consortium of partners that includes the University of ...
... The Department of Interior Northeast Climate Science Center (NE CSC) conducts research that responds to the regional natural resource management community’s needs to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change. The NE CSC is supported by a consortium of partners that includes the University of ...
Climate change reduces warming potential of nitrous oxide by an
... regarding changes in N2O emissions, while implications via atmospheric dynamics have not been taken into account. The main sink of N2O is in the stratosphere, where it is destroyed by photolysis (90%) and reaction with excited oxygen (10%). With accelerated BDC, transport of N2O from the source regi ...
... regarding changes in N2O emissions, while implications via atmospheric dynamics have not been taken into account. The main sink of N2O is in the stratosphere, where it is destroyed by photolysis (90%) and reaction with excited oxygen (10%). With accelerated BDC, transport of N2O from the source regi ...
World Climate Conference-3
... Territories owe their origins not so much to their more publicly visible role in daily weather forecasting as to their national responsibility for longterm observation, description and monitoring of climate. In planning for a new global frame work for climate service provision through World Climate ...
... Territories owe their origins not so much to their more publicly visible role in daily weather forecasting as to their national responsibility for longterm observation, description and monitoring of climate. In planning for a new global frame work for climate service provision through World Climate ...
Climate Change and Buildings in Nigeria: A Search for Mitigation
... environment. This thesis investigates the potentials of a sustainable residential design guide and develops a framework for its actualization in the three climatic regions in Nigeria. These regions are; Highland Climate Region (HCR), Tropical Savannah (TSC) and the Tropical Rainforest Climate Region ...
... environment. This thesis investigates the potentials of a sustainable residential design guide and develops a framework for its actualization in the three climatic regions in Nigeria. These regions are; Highland Climate Region (HCR), Tropical Savannah (TSC) and the Tropical Rainforest Climate Region ...
Lake Superior Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation January 2014
... Current observations in the Lake Superior basin demonstrate that some changes in climate are already occurring, including increases in surface water and air temperatures and a decrease in the extent and duration of ice cover. Projected climate changes could have a range of future potential effects o ...
... Current observations in the Lake Superior basin demonstrate that some changes in climate are already occurring, including increases in surface water and air temperatures and a decrease in the extent and duration of ice cover. Projected climate changes could have a range of future potential effects o ...
Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
... managed by a core team of the World Bank’s Environment Department led by Sergio Margulis (Task Team Leader) and comprising Urvashi Narain, Kiran Pandey, Laurent Cretegny, Ana Bucher, Robert Schneider, Gordon Hughes, and Timothy Essam. Robin Mearns, Anne Kuriakose, and Carina Bachofen coordinated the ...
... managed by a core team of the World Bank’s Environment Department led by Sergio Margulis (Task Team Leader) and comprising Urvashi Narain, Kiran Pandey, Laurent Cretegny, Ana Bucher, Robert Schneider, Gordon Hughes, and Timothy Essam. Robin Mearns, Anne Kuriakose, and Carina Bachofen coordinated the ...
The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A
... overview of the current and projected manifestations of climate change on marine and coastal systems. We have chosen to focus on five types of marine and coastal change: changes in air and water temperatures, sea level rise, changes in precipitation patterns, altered ocean and atmospheric circulatio ...
... overview of the current and projected manifestations of climate change on marine and coastal systems. We have chosen to focus on five types of marine and coastal change: changes in air and water temperatures, sea level rise, changes in precipitation patterns, altered ocean and atmospheric circulatio ...
Adaptation to Climate Change - Global Environment Facility
... distributed around the world. Rather, evidence shows that they disproportionately affect the poorest populations in developing countries. Adaptation to the effects of climate change is therefore not only urgent, but also indispensable if the human development needs of the world’s poor are to be met, ...
... distributed around the world. Rather, evidence shows that they disproportionately affect the poorest populations in developing countries. Adaptation to the effects of climate change is therefore not only urgent, but also indispensable if the human development needs of the world’s poor are to be met, ...
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... (forthcoming), which looks at the feasibility of financing adaptation needs in developing regions through a tax on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. The second aim of this paper is therefore to study what effects adaptation transfers will have on (i) domestic adaptation and (ii) the optima ...
... (forthcoming), which looks at the feasibility of financing adaptation needs in developing regions through a tax on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. The second aim of this paper is therefore to study what effects adaptation transfers will have on (i) domestic adaptation and (ii) the optima ...
The colour of climate: changes in peat
... i.e., from hollow to hummock and back to hollow, was presented (von Post and Sernander, 1910). This and other hypothesises, such as the one on autogenic succession of peat (Osvald, 1923), led to a misconception on how ombrotrophic peatlands develop (Backéus, 1990). For many years the predominating v ...
... i.e., from hollow to hummock and back to hollow, was presented (von Post and Sernander, 1910). This and other hypothesises, such as the one on autogenic succession of peat (Osvald, 1923), led to a misconception on how ombrotrophic peatlands develop (Backéus, 1990). For many years the predominating v ...
The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis
... Even the most ambitious climate agreement will take years to slow or reverse global warming. A global carbon economy has been the basis of all productive efforts since centuries. Emissions are still steadily increasing, and the world population is set to grow by forty percent by 2050. If we do not r ...
... Even the most ambitious climate agreement will take years to slow or reverse global warming. A global carbon economy has been the basis of all productive efforts since centuries. Emissions are still steadily increasing, and the world population is set to grow by forty percent by 2050. If we do not r ...
Climate Adaptation Outlook
... being achieved. Where evidence is available, climate risks requiring long-term management continue to grow rapidly. For example, an increasing number of buildings are exposed to flood, bushfire and coastal inundation. On the other hand, there has been progress in reducing risks in some areas with wh ...
... being achieved. Where evidence is available, climate risks requiring long-term management continue to grow rapidly. For example, an increasing number of buildings are exposed to flood, bushfire and coastal inundation. On the other hand, there has been progress in reducing risks in some areas with wh ...
Sceptical Climate Part 2: Climate Science in Australian Newspapers
... media reporting of climate science. One of the first acts of the new Abbott Liberal National Party government was to abolish the Commission. A Climate Council, funded by citizens, has replaced it. When massive bushfires broke out in the Blue Mountains in NSW in late October, conflict over the repor ...
... media reporting of climate science. One of the first acts of the new Abbott Liberal National Party government was to abolish the Commission. A Climate Council, funded by citizens, has replaced it. When massive bushfires broke out in the Blue Mountains in NSW in late October, conflict over the repor ...
Climate change in Strategic Environmental Assessment
... broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning globally. The issue is now landing in the area of interplay between spatial planning and environmental science. Climate change thereby is one of the most recent fields of research within environmenta ...
... broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning globally. The issue is now landing in the area of interplay between spatial planning and environmental science. Climate change thereby is one of the most recent fields of research within environmenta ...
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. (2010) Adapting Institutions to Climate Change, Twenty-eighth report
... disappear and new alien species will arrive – for better or worse. These changes will only emerge erratically over the coming years and decades, but they require action now if society is to be prepared. There is an urgent need to address difficult questions about the design of infrastructure, ...
... disappear and new alien species will arrive – for better or worse. These changes will only emerge erratically over the coming years and decades, but they require action now if society is to be prepared. There is an urgent need to address difficult questions about the design of infrastructure, ...
Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Children in
... HIV and AIDS, management of scarce natural resources and rapid urbanisation will each interact with climate change. The results of those interactions will affect how far the effects of climate change are transmitted to children and households at the local level. With this in mind, an effective respo ...
... HIV and AIDS, management of scarce natural resources and rapid urbanisation will each interact with climate change. The results of those interactions will affect how far the effects of climate change are transmitted to children and households at the local level. With this in mind, an effective respo ...
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
... and a reasonable range of alternatives. EPCA’s fuel economy requirements, including the four EPCA factors, NHTSA must consider in determining “maximum feasible” CAFE levels – technological feasibility, economic practicability, the need to conserve energy, and the effect of other standards of the Gov ...
... and a reasonable range of alternatives. EPCA’s fuel economy requirements, including the four EPCA factors, NHTSA must consider in determining “maximum feasible” CAFE levels – technological feasibility, economic practicability, the need to conserve energy, and the effect of other standards of the Gov ...
The Virgin Islands Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of the
... Figure 2.1-8 Effect of climate change impacts on tourists’ decision to revisit The Virgin Islands. ............. 41 Figure 2.1-9. Individuals inclined to travel less due to concerns over climate change and the linkage to flight carbon emissions ....................................................... ...
... Figure 2.1-8 Effect of climate change impacts on tourists’ decision to revisit The Virgin Islands. ............. 41 Figure 2.1-9. Individuals inclined to travel less due to concerns over climate change and the linkage to flight carbon emissions ....................................................... ...
Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment
... New Zealand Ltd and Earthwise Consulting Ltd, in consultation with a range of people from local government organisations. It follows a specification prepared by the Ministry for the Environment. As explained in the report, developing projections of future climate changes is still subject to signific ...
... New Zealand Ltd and Earthwise Consulting Ltd, in consultation with a range of people from local government organisations. It follows a specification prepared by the Ministry for the Environment. As explained in the report, developing projections of future climate changes is still subject to signific ...