RPS-Report template (standard) - University of Technology Sydney
... • transferable embedding products (toolkits, checklists, systems, processes and other resources) that could be adopted or adapted for use within a council. The key objective of this manual is to enable more and better adaptation activity for a ‘step change’ in how councils manage climate risk in Aus ...
... • transferable embedding products (toolkits, checklists, systems, processes and other resources) that could be adopted or adapted for use within a council. The key objective of this manual is to enable more and better adaptation activity for a ‘step change’ in how councils manage climate risk in Aus ...
CLIMATE CHANGE, MIGRATION, AND THE PUGET SOUND REGION
... These changes will create challenges for human, natural, and economic systems in Pacific Northwest communities, very likely requiring public service managers to make significant changes in how systems are designed and managed in order to deal with these impacts. Despite the challenges that Northwest ...
... These changes will create challenges for human, natural, and economic systems in Pacific Northwest communities, very likely requiring public service managers to make significant changes in how systems are designed and managed in order to deal with these impacts. Despite the challenges that Northwest ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Framework
... Even if the world succeeds in limiting and then reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, our planet will continue to respond to the historic accumulation of GHG in the atmosphere. These now exceed levels experienced for more than 250,000 years. We are all vulnerable to further chang ...
... Even if the world succeeds in limiting and then reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, our planet will continue to respond to the historic accumulation of GHG in the atmosphere. These now exceed levels experienced for more than 250,000 years. We are all vulnerable to further chang ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Framework
... Even if the world succeeds in limiting and then reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, our planet will continue to respond to the historic accumulation of GHG in the atmosphere. These now exceed levels experienced for more than 250,000 years. We are all vulnerable to further chang ...
... Even if the world succeeds in limiting and then reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, our planet will continue to respond to the historic accumulation of GHG in the atmosphere. These now exceed levels experienced for more than 250,000 years. We are all vulnerable to further chang ...
Local climate change adaptation planning A guide for
... Rainfall totals in Victoria have decreased over the past decade and annual averages are expected to decrease further in the future. The best estimate (50th percentile) rainfall projections show a decrease of between 6 and 11 per cent by 2070, under low and high emissions scenarios. Rainfall reductio ...
... Rainfall totals in Victoria have decreased over the past decade and annual averages are expected to decrease further in the future. The best estimate (50th percentile) rainfall projections show a decrease of between 6 and 11 per cent by 2070, under low and high emissions scenarios. Rainfall reductio ...
Pension Fund Trustees and Climate Change Research report 106
... I hope that this timely report will act as a wake-up call to trustees to put climate change, resource efficiency and social sustainability at the heart of their investment practices. Pension funds need an economic recovery that lasts. To achieve this, they must take greater responsibility as asset o ...
... I hope that this timely report will act as a wake-up call to trustees to put climate change, resource efficiency and social sustainability at the heart of their investment practices. Pension funds need an economic recovery that lasts. To achieve this, they must take greater responsibility as asset o ...
Psychology and Global Climate Change
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
An Analysis of Methane Mitigation as a Response
... Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon according to the latest IPCC report. Thus, CH4 contributes si ...
... Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon according to the latest IPCC report. Thus, CH4 contributes si ...
Psychology and Global Climate Change
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
... responses. Individual and cultural variation influences all aspects of the process, providing context, world views, values, concerns, resilience, and vulnerability. Section 5: Which psychological barriers limit climate change action? Many structural and psychological barriers stand in the way of beh ...
Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review*
... (autonomous adaptation) and government research institutes developing new heat resistant seeds (planned adaptation): farmers’ willingness and ability to adopt the new seeds increase the marginal benefit of the research, and the availability of more varieties increases the marginal benefit for far ...
... (autonomous adaptation) and government research institutes developing new heat resistant seeds (planned adaptation): farmers’ willingness and ability to adopt the new seeds increase the marginal benefit of the research, and the availability of more varieties increases the marginal benefit for far ...
Climate change adaptation in the boardroom
... people, resources and goods. Although aviation and weather are inextricably linked, this desktop study has shown that very little is known about the ramifications of climate change on the Australian industry. Further research is urgently required to explore and manage the potential for considerable ...
... people, resources and goods. Although aviation and weather are inextricably linked, this desktop study has shown that very little is known about the ramifications of climate change on the Australian industry. Further research is urgently required to explore and manage the potential for considerable ...
A Review of Downscaling Methods for Climate
... Land-sea contrast: Difference in pressure and other atmospheric characteristics that arises between the land and ocean, caused by the difference in the rate of cooling/warming of their respective surfaces. Large-scale climate information: Atmospheric characteristics (e.g., temperature, precipitation ...
... Land-sea contrast: Difference in pressure and other atmospheric characteristics that arises between the land and ocean, caused by the difference in the rate of cooling/warming of their respective surfaces. Large-scale climate information: Atmospheric characteristics (e.g., temperature, precipitation ...
Economics, Institutions and Adaptation to Climate Change
... A first branch of this literature attempts to quantify the costs and benefits of adaptation (e.g., World Bank 2006; Stern 2006; UNFCCC 2007; UNDP 2007; ECAWG 2009; World Bank 2010). The gross benefit of adaptation consists of both reduced harmful climate impacts, i.e. the difference between the pote ...
... A first branch of this literature attempts to quantify the costs and benefits of adaptation (e.g., World Bank 2006; Stern 2006; UNFCCC 2007; UNDP 2007; ECAWG 2009; World Bank 2010). The gross benefit of adaptation consists of both reduced harmful climate impacts, i.e. the difference between the pote ...
Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Climate Change
... households, which were coping well had either an employed spouse or children or their spouses had other income generating projects. This also points to gender imbalances in decision-making at household level. The household questionnaire participants and focus group discussants both confirmed that de ...
... households, which were coping well had either an employed spouse or children or their spouses had other income generating projects. This also points to gender imbalances in decision-making at household level. The household questionnaire participants and focus group discussants both confirmed that de ...
Chapter 18: Inter-Relationships Between Adaptation and
... assessment modelling by studying the factors and processes that determine if and when adaptation and mitigation can be synergistic in climate policy. Owing to it being a new research field, the amount of literature is still small, although it is growing fast. At the same time, the literature is very ...
... assessment modelling by studying the factors and processes that determine if and when adaptation and mitigation can be synergistic in climate policy. Owing to it being a new research field, the amount of literature is still small, although it is growing fast. At the same time, the literature is very ...
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... adjustments in both behaviour and in resources and technologies (Adger et al., 2007). Recent literature emphasiz- Figure 2. The basic role of adaptive capacity in es the importance of socio-economic influencing vulnerability factors for the adaptive capacity of Source: Engle (2011). a system, especi ...
... adjustments in both behaviour and in resources and technologies (Adger et al., 2007). Recent literature emphasiz- Figure 2. The basic role of adaptive capacity in es the importance of socio-economic influencing vulnerability factors for the adaptive capacity of Source: Engle (2011). a system, especi ...
Estimating Future Costs for Alaska Public Infrastructure - ISER
... To start our analysis, we needed to know what experts see for the future. In 2000, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, which laid out a range of climate scenarios, each with specific assumptions about future levels of greenhouse gas em ...
... To start our analysis, we needed to know what experts see for the future. In 2000, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, which laid out a range of climate scenarios, each with specific assumptions about future levels of greenhouse gas em ...
V0.17 (February 12, 2015) - Mitigation and Adaptation Research
... government actors, MARI would be well-situated geographically to “jump start” practice-relevant research and actionable solutions. This document articulates both the strategies and tactics regarding how such an institute could be implemented at ODU, taking into account the limitations and challenges ...
... government actors, MARI would be well-situated geographically to “jump start” practice-relevant research and actionable solutions. This document articulates both the strategies and tactics regarding how such an institute could be implemented at ODU, taking into account the limitations and challenges ...
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... is largely to a stationary spatially or temporally varying climate without considering future climate change. Carter et al. (1994) classifies adaptation as autonomous and planned as do all of the subsequent IPCC reports and the most recent ones like UNFCCC (2010), Parry et al. (2009) and World Bank ...
... is largely to a stationary spatially or temporally varying climate without considering future climate change. Carter et al. (1994) classifies adaptation as autonomous and planned as do all of the subsequent IPCC reports and the most recent ones like UNFCCC (2010), Parry et al. (2009) and World Bank ...
Working Paper 205 - Watkiss (opens in new window)
... has identified some key findings. First, while the information base has expanded significantly, it is concentrated in some sectors (notably coasts, agriculture and water): important gaps remain in areas such as ecosystems. Second, in line with the findings above, the methods for identifying options ...
... has identified some key findings. First, while the information base has expanded significantly, it is concentrated in some sectors (notably coasts, agriculture and water): important gaps remain in areas such as ecosystems. Second, in line with the findings above, the methods for identifying options ...
Adaptation benefits and costs – measurement and
... For an economist, these two pieces of information have interesting implications for the stability of the current system of global climate governance. If, as an analytical exercise, one chooses to maximize the global benefits of emissions reductions, then two important first-order conditions that flo ...
... For an economist, these two pieces of information have interesting implications for the stability of the current system of global climate governance. If, as an analytical exercise, one chooses to maximize the global benefits of emissions reductions, then two important first-order conditions that flo ...
Scoping Study: Reviewing the Coverage of Economic Impacts in the
... economic costs are likely, which may be of a similar order of magnitude to direct effects. At the same time, there is also the potential for some dampening effects from autonomous market driven adaptation that have the effect of reducing aggregate economic costs measured by GDP. o ...
... economic costs are likely, which may be of a similar order of magnitude to direct effects. At the same time, there is also the potential for some dampening effects from autonomous market driven adaptation that have the effect of reducing aggregate economic costs measured by GDP. o ...
International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the
... about its impacts, and beliefs about personal and wider responsibilities for addressing it.15–17 For some time now, a majority of people worldwide have been of the view that climate change is a serious problem, and that people are already being harmed by it.18 Such wide-ranging public concern and aw ...
... about its impacts, and beliefs about personal and wider responsibilities for addressing it.15–17 For some time now, a majority of people worldwide have been of the view that climate change is a serious problem, and that people are already being harmed by it.18 Such wide-ranging public concern and aw ...
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 ...
Evaluation, characterization, and communication of uncertainty by
... reports) asserted that “Responding to climate change involves an iterative risk management process that includes both adaptation and mitigation and takes into account climate change damages, co-benefits, sustainability, equity, and attitudes toward risk” (IPCC 2007b, pg 22). Indeed, Mastrandrea et a ...
... reports) asserted that “Responding to climate change involves an iterative risk management process that includes both adaptation and mitigation and takes into account climate change damages, co-benefits, sustainability, equity, and attitudes toward risk” (IPCC 2007b, pg 22). Indeed, Mastrandrea et a ...