U.S. Senate Report
... Additionally, these scientists hail from prestigious institutions worldwide, including: Harvard University; NASA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the UN IPCC; the Danish National Sp ...
... Additionally, these scientists hail from prestigious institutions worldwide, including: Harvard University; NASA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the UN IPCC; the Danish National Sp ...
UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Synthesis Report
... sustained rainfall are consistent with projections of climate change. The Paris Agreement is a significant step forward. 195 nations including the UK will “pursue efforts” to prevent more than a 1.5°C increase in global temperatures. Current commitments to reduce emissions however, even if fully imp ...
... sustained rainfall are consistent with projections of climate change. The Paris Agreement is a significant step forward. 195 nations including the UK will “pursue efforts” to prevent more than a 1.5°C increase in global temperatures. Current commitments to reduce emissions however, even if fully imp ...
CLIMATE CHANGE, MIGRATION, AND THE PUGET SOUND REGION
... warming. However, the scientific consensus is that limiting global warming “will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.” (IPCC 2013, p. 19). Regardless of future climate scenarios, communities all over the world are coping with the effects of climate change upon th ...
... warming. However, the scientific consensus is that limiting global warming “will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.” (IPCC 2013, p. 19). Regardless of future climate scenarios, communities all over the world are coping with the effects of climate change upon th ...
a proposal for a convention on climate change refugees
... with climate change refugees,7 this Article presents several advances. It provides a more in-depth examination of a climate change refugee legal instrument that draws on multiple areas of the law, including human rights, humanitarian, and international environmental law. It looks to legal precedent ...
... with climate change refugees,7 this Article presents several advances. It provides a more in-depth examination of a climate change refugee legal instrument that draws on multiple areas of the law, including human rights, humanitarian, and international environmental law. It looks to legal precedent ...
Climate Scenario Development
... conform to sets of circumstances or constraints within which they occur (Hammond, 1996). The true purpose of scenarios is to illuminate uncertainty, as they help in determining the possible ramifications of an issue (in this case, climate change) along one or more plausible (but indeterminate) paths ...
... conform to sets of circumstances or constraints within which they occur (Hammond, 1996). The true purpose of scenarios is to illuminate uncertainty, as they help in determining the possible ramifications of an issue (in this case, climate change) along one or more plausible (but indeterminate) paths ...
V0.17 (February 12, 2015) - Mitigation and Adaptation Research
... communities in Hampton Roads and beyond need to cope with the unprecedented challenges posed by changing climate and rising sea levels as well as the threats of extreme weather events. Hampton Roads is experiencing one of the highest sea-level rise rates in the U.S. This implies that problems will ...
... communities in Hampton Roads and beyond need to cope with the unprecedented challenges posed by changing climate and rising sea levels as well as the threats of extreme weather events. Hampton Roads is experiencing one of the highest sea-level rise rates in the U.S. This implies that problems will ...
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Reasons for
... It does not appear to be possible to combine the different reasons for concern into a unified reason for concern that has meaning and is credible. However, we can review the relationship between impacts and temperature for each reason for concern and draw some preliminary conclusions about the poten ...
... It does not appear to be possible to combine the different reasons for concern into a unified reason for concern that has meaning and is credible. However, we can review the relationship between impacts and temperature for each reason for concern and draw some preliminary conclusions about the poten ...
Environment, Climate Change and International Relations
... world will find themselves, more needs to be done to understand the relations between climate change and international governance. It is this need that this collection takes as its starting point. In doing so, it follows in a rich line of literature. From Paul R. Ehrlich (1971) and Garret Hardin (19 ...
... world will find themselves, more needs to be done to understand the relations between climate change and international governance. It is this need that this collection takes as its starting point. In doing so, it follows in a rich line of literature. From Paul R. Ehrlich (1971) and Garret Hardin (19 ...
National Climate Change Strategy
... negative impacts of climate change and climate variability on the country’s social, economic and physical environment. Its overall aim is to enhance the technical, institutional and individual capacity of the country to address the impacts of climate change. The Strategy covers adaptation, mitigatio ...
... negative impacts of climate change and climate variability on the country’s social, economic and physical environment. Its overall aim is to enhance the technical, institutional and individual capacity of the country to address the impacts of climate change. The Strategy covers adaptation, mitigatio ...
Aalborg Universitet Climate for Change? Wejs, Anja
... The first time I became familiar with climate change as a phenomenon was when I as a 15 year-old in 1997 was ice climbing in a five metre wide meltwater channel on a glacier in Norway. Locals said the channel went all the way to the bedrock beneath the glacier, and these vertical meltwater channels ...
... The first time I became familiar with climate change as a phenomenon was when I as a 15 year-old in 1997 was ice climbing in a five metre wide meltwater channel on a glacier in Norway. Locals said the channel went all the way to the bedrock beneath the glacier, and these vertical meltwater channels ...
Glantz 2004 - Ilan Kelman
... composition and workings of the atmosphere, from the local to the global level. As a result, an increasing number of government, individual, community, and corporate decisions are being made for which an improved knowledge of climate affairs would be advantageous. Consequently, there is a growing aw ...
... composition and workings of the atmosphere, from the local to the global level. As a result, an increasing number of government, individual, community, and corporate decisions are being made for which an improved knowledge of climate affairs would be advantageous. Consequently, there is a growing aw ...
Transformational Adaptation: Concepts, Examples, and their
... Examples and case studies......................................................................................................................... 16 ...
... Examples and case studies......................................................................................................................... 16 ...
Gauteng Climate Change Risk and vulnerability assessment
... probability of occurrence of hazardous events or trends multiplied by the impacts if these events or trends occur. Risk results from the interaction of vulnerability, exposure, and hazard. In this report, the term risk is used primarily to refer to the risks of climate-change impacts. ...
... probability of occurrence of hazardous events or trends multiplied by the impacts if these events or trends occur. Risk results from the interaction of vulnerability, exposure, and hazard. In this report, the term risk is used primarily to refer to the risks of climate-change impacts. ...
3 Mapping Security Implications of Climate Change
... challenges (B. Lee 2009), which may exceed the capacities of societies unless there is a radical socioeconomic shift (Welzer 2008; Leggewie/Welzer 2009). The aspect of interlocking can be exemplified at the case of biofuel production, which may provide a more carbon-friendly type of fuel, but simult ...
... challenges (B. Lee 2009), which may exceed the capacities of societies unless there is a radical socioeconomic shift (Welzer 2008; Leggewie/Welzer 2009). The aspect of interlocking can be exemplified at the case of biofuel production, which may provide a more carbon-friendly type of fuel, but simult ...
Committee on America's Climate Choices; National Research Council
... on key issues, and hear about relevant work carried out by others. Additional outside viewpoints and perspectives were obtained via public events and workshops, invited presentations at meetings, and comments and questions received through the study website http://americasclimatechoices.org. The Pan ...
... on key issues, and hear about relevant work carried out by others. Additional outside viewpoints and perspectives were obtained via public events and workshops, invited presentations at meetings, and comments and questions received through the study website http://americasclimatechoices.org. The Pan ...
Local climate change adaptation planning A guide for
... • the purpose and target audience for this guide • climate change projections for Victoria • government’s role in climate change adaptation in Victoria. ...
... • the purpose and target audience for this guide • climate change projections for Victoria • government’s role in climate change adaptation in Victoria. ...
FINAL DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 17 Subject to Final Copyedit
... Both private and public sectors have a role to play in the development and implementation of adaptation measures (high confidence). Economic theory and empirical results show that a degree of adaptation will be autonomously carried out by private parties in response to climate change. However the pr ...
... Both private and public sectors have a role to play in the development and implementation of adaptation measures (high confidence). Economic theory and empirical results show that a degree of adaptation will be autonomously carried out by private parties in response to climate change. However the pr ...
state action plan on climate change for telangana state
... consistent with the strategy outlined in National Action Plan on Climate Change. EPTRI has prepared the SAPCC for combined Andhra Pradesh, which was endorsed by National Steering Committee on Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF & CC) in2013. In view of the bifurc ...
... consistent with the strategy outlined in National Action Plan on Climate Change. EPTRI has prepared the SAPCC for combined Andhra Pradesh, which was endorsed by National Steering Committee on Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF & CC) in2013. In view of the bifurc ...
Global Climate Change: National Security Implications
... they fatally endanger freedom and prosperity.12 The U.S. administration under George W. Bush has certainly not placed climate change high on the list of priorities. As to conference participants, they agreed that the threat was a dangerous one, compounded by a context of rapid population growth, inc ...
... they fatally endanger freedom and prosperity.12 The U.S. administration under George W. Bush has certainly not placed climate change high on the list of priorities. As to conference participants, they agreed that the threat was a dangerous one, compounded by a context of rapid population growth, inc ...
Climate Change and Our Natural Resources A Report from the
... Figure 5: Egg-to-migrant survival for juvenile chinook in the Stillaguamish River under a range of annual peak flow magnitudes. Source: Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians...................................................................................................................................... ...
... Figure 5: Egg-to-migrant survival for juvenile chinook in the Stillaguamish River under a range of annual peak flow magnitudes. Source: Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians...................................................................................................................................... ...
Lecture 3 FINAL DRAFT
... adaptation planning recommended by the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP). See Figure 2. First, however, the introductory Section A examines theoretical foundations underlying the processes by which all planning occurs. Alternative frameworks for climate change plan making are set forth and CIP’s ...
... adaptation planning recommended by the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP). See Figure 2. First, however, the introductory Section A examines theoretical foundations underlying the processes by which all planning occurs. Alternative frameworks for climate change plan making are set forth and CIP’s ...
Identifying adaptation options
... legislative organisations (professional, government, and other non-governmental). In the case of adaptation, stakeholders also included those who may be effected by the introduction of a particular adaptive response (incur a potential or real benefit or negative impact). It is also recognised that s ...
... legislative organisations (professional, government, and other non-governmental). In the case of adaptation, stakeholders also included those who may be effected by the introduction of a particular adaptive response (incur a potential or real benefit or negative impact). It is also recognised that s ...