Has the grand idea of geoengineering as Plan B
... geoengineering was dominated by natural scientists and engineers, who were cited in 70% of articles, and that only five scientists, led by Ken Caldeira and David Keith, contributed to nearly one-fourth of the articles. As Keith himself has pointed out, the time when a small group of scientific exper ...
... geoengineering was dominated by natural scientists and engineers, who were cited in 70% of articles, and that only five scientists, led by Ken Caldeira and David Keith, contributed to nearly one-fourth of the articles. As Keith himself has pointed out, the time when a small group of scientific exper ...
Asia - IPCC
... a decline in productivity (medium confidence). {24.4.4} This is evident in the case of rice production. Most models, using a range of General Circulation Models (GCMs) and Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) scenarios, show that higher temperatures will lead to lower rice yields as a result ...
... a decline in productivity (medium confidence). {24.4.4} This is evident in the case of rice production. Most models, using a range of General Circulation Models (GCMs) and Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) scenarios, show that higher temperatures will lead to lower rice yields as a result ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Development
... ‘mitigation’). This avoids the enormous political obstacles facing initiatives to curtail the burning of fossil fuels by factories, transport and other sectors. Adaptation to climate change is considered especially relevant for developing countries, where societies are already struggling to meet the ...
... ‘mitigation’). This avoids the enormous political obstacles facing initiatives to curtail the burning of fossil fuels by factories, transport and other sectors. Adaptation to climate change is considered especially relevant for developing countries, where societies are already struggling to meet the ...
ACIA Ch01 Final - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... 1.3.The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment 1.3.1. Origins of the assessment The idea to conduct an assessment of climate and UV radiation in the Arctic grew from several initiatives in the 1990s.The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) had been engaged in climate studies since it was founded ...
... 1.3.The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment 1.3.1. Origins of the assessment The idea to conduct an assessment of climate and UV radiation in the Arctic grew from several initiatives in the 1990s.The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) had been engaged in climate studies since it was founded ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... predicted by current scientific models, foresees profound and potentially destabilizing global effects over the course of the next generation or more. Finally, the catastrophic scenario is characterized by a devastating “tipping point” in the climate system, perhaps 50 or 100 years hence. In this fu ...
... predicted by current scientific models, foresees profound and potentially destabilizing global effects over the course of the next generation or more. Finally, the catastrophic scenario is characterized by a devastating “tipping point” in the climate system, perhaps 50 or 100 years hence. In this fu ...
Proposed NSF Center on Climate Decision Making Carnegie Mellon
... Decision case studies…(Cont.) Once results from the climate science elicitation studies from Part 1 become available, we will use them, along with the other sector-specific information we have developed, to begin to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on ...
... Decision case studies…(Cont.) Once results from the climate science elicitation studies from Part 1 become available, we will use them, along with the other sector-specific information we have developed, to begin to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on ...
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... predicted by current scientific models, foresees profound and potentially destabilizing global effects over the course of the next generation or more. Finally, the catastrophic scenario is characterized by a devastating “tipping point” in the climate system, perhaps 50 or 100 years hence. In this fu ...
... predicted by current scientific models, foresees profound and potentially destabilizing global effects over the course of the next generation or more. Finally, the catastrophic scenario is characterized by a devastating “tipping point” in the climate system, perhaps 50 or 100 years hence. In this fu ...
Global warming in the American mind
... It is said that it takes a village to raise a child. In my case, it has taken several villages to raise an interdisciplinary scholar. Thank you to the Department of Geography, my focal discipline, and especially to Dr. Shaul Cohen for his invaluable advice, perspective and support. Thank you to Drs. ...
... It is said that it takes a village to raise a child. In my case, it has taken several villages to raise an interdisciplinary scholar. Thank you to the Department of Geography, my focal discipline, and especially to Dr. Shaul Cohen for his invaluable advice, perspective and support. Thank you to Drs. ...
text - Tilburg University
... does not really address the problem of climate induced displacement or avoid the existing definitional gap, which will be observed in the second chapter. The questioning of the cause-effect relationship between climate change and migration is becoming even more acute when it comes to a discussion o ...
... does not really address the problem of climate induced displacement or avoid the existing definitional gap, which will be observed in the second chapter. The questioning of the cause-effect relationship between climate change and migration is becoming even more acute when it comes to a discussion o ...
Thomas Sheffer Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of
... et al. 2010). It is also clear that decisions on how to address climate change should not be made in isolation, creating an added challenge for planners to help coordinate adaptation efforts across relevant levels of organizations, agencies and government. In fact, planners are already working exten ...
... et al. 2010). It is also clear that decisions on how to address climate change should not be made in isolation, creating an added challenge for planners to help coordinate adaptation efforts across relevant levels of organizations, agencies and government. In fact, planners are already working exten ...
North America
... events. Especially vulnerable groups include indigenous peoples and those who are socially or economically disadvantaged. Traditions and institutions in North America have encouraged a decentralised response framework where adaptation tends to be reactive, unevenly distributed, and focused on coping ...
... events. Especially vulnerable groups include indigenous peoples and those who are socially or economically disadvantaged. Traditions and institutions in North America have encouraged a decentralised response framework where adaptation tends to be reactive, unevenly distributed, and focused on coping ...
Non-paper Guidelines for Project Managers: Making vulnerable
... risk assessments and facilitate their undertaking at the national level in EU Member States. The guidelines are based on the ISO Standards and aim at greater transparency and cooperation in efforts to prevent and manage shared risks. Member States have voluntarily committed to perform national risk ...
... risk assessments and facilitate their undertaking at the national level in EU Member States. The guidelines are based on the ISO Standards and aim at greater transparency and cooperation in efforts to prevent and manage shared risks. Member States have voluntarily committed to perform national risk ...
SJmaintext
... STEP 3: Projection section), which is defined as making a well-informed inference on any future state variable such as population size or persistence based on facts, statistical evidence or causal relationships with fully specified uncertainties and contingent upon explicit scenarios for climate, la ...
... STEP 3: Projection section), which is defined as making a well-informed inference on any future state variable such as population size or persistence based on facts, statistical evidence or causal relationships with fully specified uncertainties and contingent upon explicit scenarios for climate, la ...
Climate Science, the Public and the News Media
... findings from the focus groups and a review of the relevant literature on how communication of climate science through the news media might be improved are: • Cultural factors influence the way the public assimilate and process information and these should be taken into account when designing a comm ...
... findings from the focus groups and a review of the relevant literature on how communication of climate science through the news media might be improved are: • Cultural factors influence the way the public assimilate and process information and these should be taken into account when designing a comm ...
a prediction market for climate outcomes
... severity of certain climate events, such as hurricanes or droughts, that occurred in the preceding year or some moving average of previous years. In addition to a carbon tax rate being set each year, an auction would be held each year for tradable permits to emit a ton of CO2 in separate, specific, ...
... severity of certain climate events, such as hurricanes or droughts, that occurred in the preceding year or some moving average of previous years. In addition to a carbon tax rate being set each year, an auction would be held each year for tradable permits to emit a ton of CO2 in separate, specific, ...
Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small
... accomplished on the mitigation front. To prepare Canada’s communities for this challenge, CIP has completed a series of pilot climate change adaptation plans. This document “Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small Canadian Communities”, referred to throughout as the Handbook, is a r ...
... accomplished on the mitigation front. To prepare Canada’s communities for this challenge, CIP has completed a series of pilot climate change adaptation plans. This document “Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small Canadian Communities”, referred to throughout as the Handbook, is a r ...
Global Policy Making on Climate Refugees
... implement or reverse choice. This dimension ranges from the time period of a political election cycle to a generation to the lifetime of a nation or culture. Another dimension is the cultural and political distance between parties. This can be everything from a family or a nation to cultural blocks ...
... implement or reverse choice. This dimension ranges from the time period of a political election cycle to a generation to the lifetime of a nation or culture. Another dimension is the cultural and political distance between parties. This can be everything from a family or a nation to cultural blocks ...
Chapter 3 RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: ADAPTATION
... Approaches to adaptation can vary greatly across sectors, across climate impacts, and across geographic scales. Regardless of this variability, adaptation is mostly about integrating projections of climate impacts into the development planning of a specific country, region, or city. Thus, the genera ...
... Approaches to adaptation can vary greatly across sectors, across climate impacts, and across geographic scales. Regardless of this variability, adaptation is mostly about integrating projections of climate impacts into the development planning of a specific country, region, or city. Thus, the genera ...
End of Program Report - Pacific Climate Change Science
... “It is so vital because it assists to store important data and helps me to search for data needed from people. It has improved my knowledge on how to store and output data” – Kiribati In 2011, three scientists from Samoa, Papua New Guinea and Fiji worked with PCCSP scientists for two to six weeks to ...
... “It is so vital because it assists to store important data and helps me to search for data needed from people. It has improved my knowledge on how to store and output data” – Kiribati In 2011, three scientists from Samoa, Papua New Guinea and Fiji worked with PCCSP scientists for two to six weeks to ...
Table of Content
... efforts to ensure that spending is consistent with national priorities and plans, as prescribed by the principles of the Paris Declaration, and is channelled to the relevant sectors. It could call for strengthening the capacity of both development partners and government in order to ensure efficient ...
... efforts to ensure that spending is consistent with national priorities and plans, as prescribed by the principles of the Paris Declaration, and is channelled to the relevant sectors. It could call for strengthening the capacity of both development partners and government in order to ensure efficient ...
- Open University of Tanzania Repository
... their duties they will be beneficiaries of the acquired knowledge and skills so as to be able to solve their global climate – change crisis. Improving links between climate change education curriculum and country led poverty reduction strategies. This report is the study conducted in three secondary ...
... their duties they will be beneficiaries of the acquired knowledge and skills so as to be able to solve their global climate – change crisis. Improving links between climate change education curriculum and country led poverty reduction strategies. This report is the study conducted in three secondary ...
A Practitioner`s Guide to Climate Change Adaptation
... A Changing Climate in Ontario The average annual global temperature warmed by about 0.76oC over the last century (IPCC, 2007a), but average warming across Canada was more than double the world average (Environment Canada, 2011). In the last 63 years, the average temperature in Canada has increased a ...
... A Changing Climate in Ontario The average annual global temperature warmed by about 0.76oC over the last century (IPCC, 2007a), but average warming across Canada was more than double the world average (Environment Canada, 2011). In the last 63 years, the average temperature in Canada has increased a ...
A Practitioner`s Guide to Climate Change Adaptation
... A Changing Climate in Ontario The average annual global temperature warmed by about 0.76oC over the last century (IPCC, 2007a), but average warming across Canada was more than double the world average (Environment Canada, 2011). In the last 63 years, the average temperature in Canada has increased a ...
... A Changing Climate in Ontario The average annual global temperature warmed by about 0.76oC over the last century (IPCC, 2007a), but average warming across Canada was more than double the world average (Environment Canada, 2011). In the last 63 years, the average temperature in Canada has increased a ...