Accommodating Climate Change Science
... announced to the mediated world “with 99 percent confidence” that global warming was a real phenomenon (U.S. Congress 1988, 39). Following Hansen’s testimony, Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund marveled: “I’ve never seen an environmental issue mature so quickly, shifting from s ...
... announced to the mediated world “with 99 percent confidence” that global warming was a real phenomenon (U.S. Congress 1988, 39). Following Hansen’s testimony, Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund marveled: “I’ve never seen an environmental issue mature so quickly, shifting from s ...
Managing Climate Risk Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations World Bank Group
... droughts in Kenya represented at least 11, 16, and 16 percent of the country’s GDP for the three consecutive years over which they occurred (Mogaka and others 2004). More generally, there is a very high correlation between rainfall variability and GDP performance. Besides direct damages and the acco ...
... droughts in Kenya represented at least 11, 16, and 16 percent of the country’s GDP for the three consecutive years over which they occurred (Mogaka and others 2004). More generally, there is a very high correlation between rainfall variability and GDP performance. Besides direct damages and the acco ...
Chapter 1: Introduction - Committee on Climate Change
... Implications of the vote to leave the European Union This chapter was written before the results of the EU Referendum were known. Leaving the European Union is unlikely to change the overall scale of current and future risks from climate change, but in some areas it may affect policies and programme ...
... Implications of the vote to leave the European Union This chapter was written before the results of the EU Referendum were known. Leaving the European Union is unlikely to change the overall scale of current and future risks from climate change, but in some areas it may affect policies and programme ...
Ethnographic Perspectives on Resilience To Climate Variability in
... these are increasing in intensity as a function of climate change, and droughts and floods are expected to increase in frequency as well.8 Successful adaptation to climate change requires understanding and enhancement of people’s strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from extreme events ...
... these are increasing in intensity as a function of climate change, and droughts and floods are expected to increase in frequency as well.8 Successful adaptation to climate change requires understanding and enhancement of people’s strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from extreme events ...
Permafrost_breakout
... equivalent calculated assuming 2.7% of total emissions is methane (Schuur et al. 2011) and a global warming potential of 33 (Shindell et al. 2009) b calculated from emission rates in the paper c not available ...
... equivalent calculated assuming 2.7% of total emissions is methane (Schuur et al. 2011) and a global warming potential of 33 (Shindell et al. 2009) b calculated from emission rates in the paper c not available ...
Preparing for climate change guide for local government
... While every effort has been made to ensure that this guide is as clear and accurate as possible, the Ministry for the Environment will not be held responsible for any action arising out of its use. This guide should not be taken as providing a definitive statement for any particular user’s circumsta ...
... While every effort has been made to ensure that this guide is as clear and accurate as possible, the Ministry for the Environment will not be held responsible for any action arising out of its use. This guide should not be taken as providing a definitive statement for any particular user’s circumsta ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Houston
... warming. Figure 2 provides a summary of the impacts of increasing temperatures. As we can see, the damaging impacts of climate change are only in their beginning stages. We recognize that this is an intense political issue for many individuals, groups, and communities. The debate surrounding climate ...
... warming. Figure 2 provides a summary of the impacts of increasing temperatures. As we can see, the damaging impacts of climate change are only in their beginning stages. We recognize that this is an intense political issue for many individuals, groups, and communities. The debate surrounding climate ...
National Capacity Self-Assessment
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
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... Research on climate change at World Heritage properties will be carried out through partnerships with and influence of those who are currently conducting or can carry out such research or who fund research programmes. It will not necessarily have to be undertaken by the managers themselves or their ...
... Research on climate change at World Heritage properties will be carried out through partnerships with and influence of those who are currently conducting or can carry out such research or who fund research programmes. It will not necessarily have to be undertaken by the managers themselves or their ...
White Paper on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
... interference with these basic rights. In this paper we seek to help clarify our duties to prevent the neglect or violation of those rights. Of course, climate change policy making raises additional ethical issues including questions about duties to protect future generations of humans, plants, anima ...
... interference with these basic rights. In this paper we seek to help clarify our duties to prevent the neglect or violation of those rights. Of course, climate change policy making raises additional ethical issues including questions about duties to protect future generations of humans, plants, anima ...
Science, Scientists, and Local Weather: Understanding Mass
... Geographic and Environmental Context. That weather could affect how individuals think about climate change makes some sense. The role of local weather has a storied history in studies of American electoral behavior, with the conventional wisdom that bad weather on Election Day decreases voter turnou ...
... Geographic and Environmental Context. That weather could affect how individuals think about climate change makes some sense. The role of local weather has a storied history in studies of American electoral behavior, with the conventional wisdom that bad weather on Election Day decreases voter turnou ...
Combating Climate Change - The German Adaptation Strategy
... the risks from which they are designed to protect us. Furthermore, they should not be developed in isolation, but should wherever possible pursue other meaningful objectives at the same time. After all, “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”. For this reason, all measures must constantly bear in m ...
... the risks from which they are designed to protect us. Furthermore, they should not be developed in isolation, but should wherever possible pursue other meaningful objectives at the same time. After all, “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”. For this reason, all measures must constantly bear in m ...
Increasing the influence of LDC climate diplomacy
... Addressing a special session of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) — the dialogue initiated by President Barak Obama in 2009 to facilitate discussion among the world’s largest economies — Kerry stated: “[L]ast year, I invited many of you and your counterparts to join me for a spec ...
... Addressing a special session of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) — the dialogue initiated by President Barak Obama in 2009 to facilitate discussion among the world’s largest economies — Kerry stated: “[L]ast year, I invited many of you and your counterparts to join me for a spec ...
Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict
... U.S. national security policy is increasingly integrating thinking about nonstate actors and nontraditional sources of conflict and instability, for example in the fight against Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups. Climate change is among these newly visible issues sparking conflict. But because the ...
... U.S. national security policy is increasingly integrating thinking about nonstate actors and nontraditional sources of conflict and instability, for example in the fight against Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups. Climate change is among these newly visible issues sparking conflict. But because the ...
Brown, Lessons Learned From The Climate Change Disinformation
... Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources. Sept. 2005 to June 2006: Senior Research Scientist, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University. Sept. 1995 to May 1998: Program Manager, United Nations Organizations, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Internati ...
... Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources. Sept. 2005 to June 2006: Senior Research Scientist, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University. Sept. 1995 to May 1998: Program Manager, United Nations Organizations, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Internati ...
Biodiversity and Climate Change in Ireland
... Therefore the commissioning of a briefing paper on the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in Ireland is timely, not least since the Biodiversity Forum concludes that climate change is having and will continue to have a huge bearing on biodiversity in Ireland. A knowledge review will also help ...
... Therefore the commissioning of a briefing paper on the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in Ireland is timely, not least since the Biodiversity Forum concludes that climate change is having and will continue to have a huge bearing on biodiversity in Ireland. A knowledge review will also help ...
Climate Change Law in Latin America
... Originally inspired by the 1787 United States Constitution, the 1812 Spanish Constitution from Cadiz and the French civil codes, legal systems in Latin America were designed as presidential democracies with a balanced distribution of powers. In practice, they often have, however, strong presidencies ...
... Originally inspired by the 1787 United States Constitution, the 1812 Spanish Constitution from Cadiz and the French civil codes, legal systems in Latin America were designed as presidential democracies with a balanced distribution of powers. In practice, they often have, however, strong presidencies ...
Climate Change Impacts on Wetlands in Victoria and Implications for
... ecosystems, freshwater aquatic ecosystems appear to have the highest proportion of species at risk of extinction by climate change (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Not least because of their higher sensitivity to climate change and limited capacity for adaptation (Carpenter et al. 1992; Firth ...
... ecosystems, freshwater aquatic ecosystems appear to have the highest proportion of species at risk of extinction by climate change (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Not least because of their higher sensitivity to climate change and limited capacity for adaptation (Carpenter et al. 1992; Firth ...
Final Report Climate change and Wetlands.doc
... ecosystems, freshwater aquatic ecosystems appear to have the highest proportion of species at risk of extinction by climate change (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Not least because of their higher sensitivity to climate change and limited capacity for adaptation (Carpenter et al. 1992; Firth ...
... ecosystems, freshwater aquatic ecosystems appear to have the highest proportion of species at risk of extinction by climate change (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Not least because of their higher sensitivity to climate change and limited capacity for adaptation (Carpenter et al. 1992; Firth ...
NRCan/CIP Projects and Initiatives on climate
... Sources of scientific data 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A body of the United Nations, the IPCC provides decision-makers with an objective source of the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic information about climate change, and is generally considered the authority o ...
... Sources of scientific data 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A body of the United Nations, the IPCC provides decision-makers with an objective source of the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic information about climate change, and is generally considered the authority o ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... tem, climate drivers may include accumulated rainfall and evaporation, if supply is being addressed, or rainfall intensity and duration, if flooding is being addressed. On a coastline, climate variables contributing to storm surge, tidal regimes and sea level anomalies may be linked to thresholds re ...
... tem, climate drivers may include accumulated rainfall and evaporation, if supply is being addressed, or rainfall intensity and duration, if flooding is being addressed. On a coastline, climate variables contributing to storm surge, tidal regimes and sea level anomalies may be linked to thresholds re ...