Author`s personal copy - Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
... 4.1. Mitigation and adaptation The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC, 1992) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential for Canada’s Inuit population. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally ...
... 4.1. Mitigation and adaptation The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC, 1992) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential for Canada’s Inuit population. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally ...
Regional Power Shifts and Climate Knowledge Systems: South
... tive military power and a regional power base (see Nolte 2006; Nabers forthcoming). Based on this, Daniel Flemes identifies four basic criteria to help analyze regional powers. They must: (1) be part of a geographically delimited region, (2) be ready to assume leadership, (3) possess ...
... tive military power and a regional power base (see Nolte 2006; Nabers forthcoming). Based on this, Daniel Flemes identifies four basic criteria to help analyze regional powers. They must: (1) be part of a geographically delimited region, (2) be ready to assume leadership, (3) possess ...
INTEGRATING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION INTO
... Assessment Report (AR5, 2013/2014) provides additional perspectives on biodiversity vulnerabilities. For example, using studies on the speed at which the populations of different taxonomic groups may move across a relatively flat landscape, and with unabated emissions, plants (whether trees or herba ...
... Assessment Report (AR5, 2013/2014) provides additional perspectives on biodiversity vulnerabilities. For example, using studies on the speed at which the populations of different taxonomic groups may move across a relatively flat landscape, and with unabated emissions, plants (whether trees or herba ...
Supporting decision-making for effective adaptation
... technological – in which climate change occurs. Uncertainties also surround projections of these futures. Most recently, the Shared Socio-economic Pathways, or SSPs (Ebi et al., 2013) are quantitative scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions, population and GDP, accompanied by qualitative visual ...
... technological – in which climate change occurs. Uncertainties also surround projections of these futures. Most recently, the Shared Socio-economic Pathways, or SSPs (Ebi et al., 2013) are quantitative scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions, population and GDP, accompanied by qualitative visual ...
Protecting Cultural Heritage and Adapting to Climate Change
... By analysing past hydrological structures in the city of Lund, Sweden, this paper highlights the contexts in which knowledge of the dynamic landscape in its origin, and the subsequent integration of human implementation and perception, will provide a complementary guidance to sustainable planning ...
... By analysing past hydrological structures in the city of Lund, Sweden, this paper highlights the contexts in which knowledge of the dynamic landscape in its origin, and the subsequent integration of human implementation and perception, will provide a complementary guidance to sustainable planning ...
the scientific article as a Word document here
... to be the sole motivating factor for adaptation actions in only 19% of documents, with 44% reporting climate change as a primary reason among several. Adaptation activities have, to a large extent, been purposive, reflecting explicit intent and planning for anticipated future impacts. Seventy-eight ...
... to be the sole motivating factor for adaptation actions in only 19% of documents, with 44% reporting climate change as a primary reason among several. Adaptation activities have, to a large extent, been purposive, reflecting explicit intent and planning for anticipated future impacts. Seventy-eight ...
Gregory and Forster - University of Leeds
... feedback and ocean heat uptake to be compared, since a and k have the same units. Like climate sensitivity, this formulation of ocean heat uptake is a model-based result. It is evident that its validity is restricted; it cannot be correct for steady state climate change, because N ! 0 as DT approach ...
... feedback and ocean heat uptake to be compared, since a and k have the same units. Like climate sensitivity, this formulation of ocean heat uptake is a model-based result. It is evident that its validity is restricted; it cannot be correct for steady state climate change, because N ! 0 as DT approach ...
Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System
... delivery of quality data, traceable to international standards; • enhancing observing systems wherever feasible; filling gaps in spatial coverage and in the breadth of variables measured, improving measurement accuracy and frequency, increasing use o f operational platforms for satellite sensors, mo ...
... delivery of quality data, traceable to international standards; • enhancing observing systems wherever feasible; filling gaps in spatial coverage and in the breadth of variables measured, improving measurement accuracy and frequency, increasing use o f operational platforms for satellite sensors, mo ...
The Surveyor’s Role in Monitoring, Mitigating, and Adapting to Climate Change FIG REPORT
... the FIG Task Force on Surveyors and Climate Change over the past three years. The Task Force was established at FIG’s Working Week in Marrakech, Morocco, in May 2011, to facilitate the work of the international surveying community in deliberating and better understanding how the surveying profession ...
... the FIG Task Force on Surveyors and Climate Change over the past three years. The Task Force was established at FIG’s Working Week in Marrakech, Morocco, in May 2011, to facilitate the work of the international surveying community in deliberating and better understanding how the surveying profession ...
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Manual
... I. Define your community and specify your adaptation planning area. Determine boundaries for the geographical area, or combination of areas, or otherwise define the community for which you want to develop adaptation planning. 2. Determine your motives for adaptation. What do you want to achieve? ...
... I. Define your community and specify your adaptation planning area. Determine boundaries for the geographical area, or combination of areas, or otherwise define the community for which you want to develop adaptation planning. 2. Determine your motives for adaptation. What do you want to achieve? ...
The Evangelical Debate Over Climate Change
... has God given American evangelicals such an awesome opportunity to shape public policy in ways that could contribute to the well-being of the entire world."2 Evangelicals "recognize both our opportunity and our responsibility to offer a biblically based moral witness that can help shape public polic ...
... has God given American evangelicals such an awesome opportunity to shape public policy in ways that could contribute to the well-being of the entire world."2 Evangelicals "recognize both our opportunity and our responsibility to offer a biblically based moral witness that can help shape public polic ...
WP83: The emerging geographies of climate justice
... Environmental justice, development processes and the politics of scale: what can we learn for conceptualising climate justice? The terms climate justice or equity (broadly used in the debate to mean distributive justice) have entered the public discourse through a concerted effort on the part of gov ...
... Environmental justice, development processes and the politics of scale: what can we learn for conceptualising climate justice? The terms climate justice or equity (broadly used in the debate to mean distributive justice) have entered the public discourse through a concerted effort on the part of gov ...
Adaptation Planning – What Other States are Doing
... or other especially vulnerable regions, while other states may not yet attribute these impacts to climate change. The exceptions are Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Washington, all of which have adaptation planning efforts in progress [Figure 1 – Stat ...
... or other especially vulnerable regions, while other states may not yet attribute these impacts to climate change. The exceptions are Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Washington, all of which have adaptation planning efforts in progress [Figure 1 – Stat ...
changing risks in changing climate
... Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). RCPs are not linked to any socio-economic scenarios, but each of them is consistent with many socio-economic storylines because different socio-economic futures could lead to similar changes in atmospheric GHGs concentrations. Future impact can be shape ...
... Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). RCPs are not linked to any socio-economic scenarios, but each of them is consistent with many socio-economic storylines because different socio-economic futures could lead to similar changes in atmospheric GHGs concentrations. Future impact can be shape ...
Strengthening Sovereignty
... Climate change of a moderating nature, that is, climate change that increases the availability of habitable land and natural resources, may strengthen states, but no state is certain to derive only benefit from climate change. Competition for resources will likely increase and intensify. The benefit ...
... Climate change of a moderating nature, that is, climate change that increases the availability of habitable land and natural resources, may strengthen states, but no state is certain to derive only benefit from climate change. Competition for resources will likely increase and intensify. The benefit ...
Review of relevant assessment processes and their theoretical
... For example, indicators of weather and climate – and thus of climate change over time – employed by indigenous and traditional communities may include dates of germination or flowering, timing of migrations, location of nests, rainfall patterns, volumes of melt water and so on. These are indicators ...
... For example, indicators of weather and climate – and thus of climate change over time – employed by indigenous and traditional communities may include dates of germination or flowering, timing of migrations, location of nests, rainfall patterns, volumes of melt water and so on. These are indicators ...
Regional Climate Change Adaptation Framework for the
... Cooperation Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. Additionally, the Mediterranean countries’ communications to the UNFCCC were reviewed as well as major publications from UN Environment and international institutions and initiatives such as the IPCC, the European Environment Agency, the World Bank, th ...
... Cooperation Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. Additionally, the Mediterranean countries’ communications to the UNFCCC were reviewed as well as major publications from UN Environment and international institutions and initiatives such as the IPCC, the European Environment Agency, the World Bank, th ...
FAQs - A Convention For Persons Displaced By Climate Change
... likely numbers of displaced people; figures range from 50 million to 1 billion. The most cited estimate, that of Myers, is 200 million climate change migrants by 2050, or one person in every forty-‐ ...
... likely numbers of displaced people; figures range from 50 million to 1 billion. The most cited estimate, that of Myers, is 200 million climate change migrants by 2050, or one person in every forty-‐ ...
Lecture 2 FINAL DRAFT
... success of policy proposals are deeply influenced by a host of socio-economic and political factors. More and better science and technology, alone, will not lead to optimal climate policies. Climate change policy makers face many challenges. They must deal with considerable and irreducible uncertain ...
... success of policy proposals are deeply influenced by a host of socio-economic and political factors. More and better science and technology, alone, will not lead to optimal climate policies. Climate change policy makers face many challenges. They must deal with considerable and irreducible uncertain ...
Advancing adaptation through climate information services
... from sixty financial service providers, through a survey conducted by the UNEP Finance Initiative, and the Sustainable Business Institute (SBI), Germany. To be able to manage climatic risks affecting their business portfolios, financial institutions need information – in the form of predictions, ana ...
... from sixty financial service providers, through a survey conducted by the UNEP Finance Initiative, and the Sustainable Business Institute (SBI), Germany. To be able to manage climatic risks affecting their business portfolios, financial institutions need information – in the form of predictions, ana ...
Adapting to a changing climate
... South Island. Conversely, the north and east are predicted to receive less rainfall, and be particularly dry in summer and autumn; thus, there would be less rain in the north and east of the North Island, and in coastal Canterbury and coastal Marlborough in the South Island. Climate change is also p ...
... South Island. Conversely, the north and east are predicted to receive less rainfall, and be particularly dry in summer and autumn; thus, there would be less rain in the north and east of the North Island, and in coastal Canterbury and coastal Marlborough in the South Island. Climate change is also p ...
Financing climate change - Department of Environmental Affairs
... for climate related programmes and projects in Southern Africa. Building on these three studies, this synthesis report proposes an appropriate institutional model suited to South Africa for climate finance flows and provides broad policy recommendations for climate finance in general and specific re ...
... for climate related programmes and projects in Southern Africa. Building on these three studies, this synthesis report proposes an appropriate institutional model suited to South Africa for climate finance flows and provides broad policy recommendations for climate finance in general and specific re ...
14 Climate change: science and the precautionary principle
... vagaries of climate variability and weather extremes. In contrast, poor people who use little fossil fuels ...
... vagaries of climate variability and weather extremes. In contrast, poor people who use little fossil fuels ...