Predicting regional climate change: living with uncertainty
... (UN/FCCC) (Hecht and Tirpak, 1995) with the following objective: ‘Stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system’ (UN/FCCC Article 2). The scientific evidence that prompted countries to sign and ratify the UN/ ...
... (UN/FCCC) (Hecht and Tirpak, 1995) with the following objective: ‘Stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system’ (UN/FCCC Article 2). The scientific evidence that prompted countries to sign and ratify the UN/ ...
climate changes and adaptation policies in the baltic and the adriatic
... Starting in 1992, most countries world-wide made together an international treaty called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to cooperatively negotiate what they might do to limit the average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change as well as to f ...
... Starting in 1992, most countries world-wide made together an international treaty called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to cooperatively negotiate what they might do to limit the average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change as well as to f ...
A Framework for the Development of New Socio
... Concurrently, the climate impacts community has used the outputs from General Circulation Models (GCMs) as the raw material for climate scenarios, from which studies of potential impacts have been derived. Such climate scenarios may be taken directly from GCMs, or may be downscaled through a wide va ...
... Concurrently, the climate impacts community has used the outputs from General Circulation Models (GCMs) as the raw material for climate scenarios, from which studies of potential impacts have been derived. Such climate scenarios may be taken directly from GCMs, or may be downscaled through a wide va ...
The Relevance of the No-Harm Principle to Climate Change Law
... An intended contribution of this article is to suggest a more realistic interpretation of the noharm principle and of the obligations of states that follow from a breach of this principle in the context of climate change. In particular, it appears that the remedial obligation of responsible states d ...
... An intended contribution of this article is to suggest a more realistic interpretation of the noharm principle and of the obligations of states that follow from a breach of this principle in the context of climate change. In particular, it appears that the remedial obligation of responsible states d ...
Growing Together in a Changing Climate
... people of ways in which they can engage with their peers and with the United Nations to address climate change. For the United Nations family, it is intended as a means to share information and as a source of inspiration for future partnerships with young people on climate change issues. For negotia ...
... people of ways in which they can engage with their peers and with the United Nations to address climate change. For the United Nations family, it is intended as a means to share information and as a source of inspiration for future partnerships with young people on climate change issues. For negotia ...
Climate Change Action Plan Assessment Report
... Turkey faces extreme climate events more than ever. While 2010 was the hottest year for Turkey, 2012 became the third hottest year. Only in 2012, a total of 166 heat waves occurred in 66 centres and more than once in most of them. ...
... Turkey faces extreme climate events more than ever. While 2010 was the hottest year for Turkey, 2012 became the third hottest year. Only in 2012, a total of 166 heat waves occurred in 66 centres and more than once in most of them. ...
Presenters
... models after the IPCC AR4 Session 6: Extreme events and regional climate change (part 2); Decadal A Nesting strategy ECHAM5-RegCM3 over West Africa to prediction and climate variability investigate regional climate change Session 6: Extreme events and regional climate change (part 2); Decadal Future ...
... models after the IPCC AR4 Session 6: Extreme events and regional climate change (part 2); Decadal A Nesting strategy ECHAM5-RegCM3 over West Africa to prediction and climate variability investigate regional climate change Session 6: Extreme events and regional climate change (part 2); Decadal Future ...
Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white
... Integrating the insights from identity-protective cognition and system-justification tendencies, we offer two complementary reasons for expecting conservative white males to be more likely than other adults to endorse climate change denial. On a specific level, conservative white male elites in the co ...
... Integrating the insights from identity-protective cognition and system-justification tendencies, we offer two complementary reasons for expecting conservative white males to be more likely than other adults to endorse climate change denial. On a specific level, conservative white male elites in the co ...
Climate Change and Hazard Mitigation Planning
... patterns”. This brief comment is insufficient to know whether the hazard officers studied the effects of climate change on hurricane patterns and determined that Alabama’s hurricane pattern was unlikely to change, or whether the potential effect of climate change on hurricanes was dismissed. Similar ...
... patterns”. This brief comment is insufficient to know whether the hazard officers studied the effects of climate change on hurricane patterns and determined that Alabama’s hurricane pattern was unlikely to change, or whether the potential effect of climate change on hurricanes was dismissed. Similar ...
From science to policy: developing responses to climate change
... decision-makers’ specific questions must be produced so that they coincide with decision points. Decisions will be made, including decisions to do nothing, whether or not the science is complete and the scientific community is prepared to provide input (2). Decisions made today might influence futur ...
... decision-makers’ specific questions must be produced so that they coincide with decision points. Decisions will be made, including decisions to do nothing, whether or not the science is complete and the scientific community is prepared to provide input (2). Decisions made today might influence futur ...
International Climate Policy, National Positions, and Their Domestic
... Bernauer, 2009). Some scholars agree that liberal political systems encourage the attention on high-quality, rigorous public policy (Congleton, 1992; Bueno de Mesquita et al., 2001; Andonova et al., 2007). Still, the causal link between democracy and environmental standards is relatively blurry (Sc ...
... Bernauer, 2009). Some scholars agree that liberal political systems encourage the attention on high-quality, rigorous public policy (Congleton, 1992; Bueno de Mesquita et al., 2001; Andonova et al., 2007). Still, the causal link between democracy and environmental standards is relatively blurry (Sc ...
Science - Global Policy Lab
... that describe how global mean temperature translates into economic and social costs (10). Because these models are now used to design global policies (11, 12), much of the current empirical research summarized here is framed as providing an empirical basis for global climate policy calculations (13, ...
... that describe how global mean temperature translates into economic and social costs (10). Because these models are now used to design global policies (11, 12), much of the current empirical research summarized here is framed as providing an empirical basis for global climate policy calculations (13, ...
What`s In A Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change
... “It’s time for us to start talking about ‘climate change’ instead of global warming…‘climate change’ is less frightening than ‘global warming’. As one focus group participant noted, climate change ‘sounds like you’re going from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.’ While global warming has catastrophic co ...
... “It’s time for us to start talking about ‘climate change’ instead of global warming…‘climate change’ is less frightening than ‘global warming’. As one focus group participant noted, climate change ‘sounds like you’re going from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.’ While global warming has catastrophic co ...
APPENDIX 1 - Curriculum Education and Training Program in
... Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, USA. Available: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/spm.html (html) http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-spm ...
... Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, USA. Available: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/spm.html (html) http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-spm ...
Health Aspects of Climate Change in Cities with Mediterranean
... Since the Mediterranean climate is determined by the interaction between mid-latitude and sub-tropical circulation regimes and a complex morphology of mountain chains and land–sea contrasts, the Med-regions are vulnerable to climatic changes [7,8]. In fact, the Mediterranean ecosystems are among the ...
... Since the Mediterranean climate is determined by the interaction between mid-latitude and sub-tropical circulation regimes and a complex morphology of mountain chains and land–sea contrasts, the Med-regions are vulnerable to climatic changes [7,8]. In fact, the Mediterranean ecosystems are among the ...
Mitigation of What and by What? Adaptation by Whom and
... on the “Politics of Climate Change, Gender and Development” at the DevNet Conference on Nature, Poverty and Power at Uppsala University, Sweden, 25–26 November 2010. The views expressed in this paper should not be attributed to IPC-IG or its affiliated partners, including UNDP. ...
... on the “Politics of Climate Change, Gender and Development” at the DevNet Conference on Nature, Poverty and Power at Uppsala University, Sweden, 25–26 November 2010. The views expressed in this paper should not be attributed to IPC-IG or its affiliated partners, including UNDP. ...
adaptation to climate change: international policy options
... must deal squarely with adaptation—coping with those impacts that cannot be avoided. This is both a matter of need, as climate change is now underway, and a matter of equity, as its impacts fall disproportionately on those least able to bear them. It also may be a condition for further progress on m ...
... must deal squarely with adaptation—coping with those impacts that cannot be avoided. This is both a matter of need, as climate change is now underway, and a matter of equity, as its impacts fall disproportionately on those least able to bear them. It also may be a condition for further progress on m ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Countries
... 2030 and the National Environmental Action Plan of Estonia 2007-2013 , serving as the implementation plan of the strategy, did not specify climate change adaptation as goal or activity of the Estonian environmental policy (Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Estonia 2007 and 2008). On nat ...
... 2030 and the National Environmental Action Plan of Estonia 2007-2013 , serving as the implementation plan of the strategy, did not specify climate change adaptation as goal or activity of the Estonian environmental policy (Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Estonia 2007 and 2008). On nat ...
Cognitive and Behavioral Challenges in Responding to Climate Change P R
... and support for general environmental goals” and some measure of awareness and concern regarding global warming, they also find a widespread poor understanding of climate change in the public around the world. Similarly, Dunlap (1998) reports results from a 1992 Gallup survey conducted in Canada, t ...
... and support for general environmental goals” and some measure of awareness and concern regarding global warming, they also find a widespread poor understanding of climate change in the public around the world. Similarly, Dunlap (1998) reports results from a 1992 Gallup survey conducted in Canada, t ...
Policy makers lament women`s vulnerablity to HIV infection, yet for
... of our times. The nations that made themselves wealthy by burning fossil fuels are largely those that will, initially, suffer least from the effects of climate shift. The rise in global average temperatures is playing out differently over the poles, the tropics, the seas, and the big land masses. In ...
... of our times. The nations that made themselves wealthy by burning fossil fuels are largely those that will, initially, suffer least from the effects of climate shift. The rise in global average temperatures is playing out differently over the poles, the tropics, the seas, and the big land masses. In ...
Climate change and drought policy in Victoria: context and
... development of international responses. However, interest in the social and equity implications of climate change within Australia has only recently emerged. The weight of scientific evidence now confirms that to avert dangerous climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions will need to reduce by ...
... development of international responses. However, interest in the social and equity implications of climate change within Australia has only recently emerged. The weight of scientific evidence now confirms that to avert dangerous climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions will need to reduce by ...
climate change and eu security policy
... that are about the EU’s own institutional preparedness, not its commitments to tangible policy outputs.16 EU institutions themselves bear some blame for the lack of practical progress on climate security. Responsibilities for foreign and security policy, energy security, and climate change are split ...
... that are about the EU’s own institutional preparedness, not its commitments to tangible policy outputs.16 EU institutions themselves bear some blame for the lack of practical progress on climate security. Responsibilities for foreign and security policy, energy security, and climate change are split ...