Low-carbon resilient development in the least developed countries
... Low-carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate policy; it is an agenda that tackles reducing carbon emissions while simultaneously building climate resilience and supporting development in a supposed win-win policy agenda. Although least developed countries (LDCs) are responsible for l ...
... Low-carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate policy; it is an agenda that tackles reducing carbon emissions while simultaneously building climate resilience and supporting development in a supposed win-win policy agenda. Although least developed countries (LDCs) are responsible for l ...
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... relevant research (Petticrew, 2006, The Cochrane Collaboration, 2008). This approach, while common in the health sciences, has not been extensively applied to environmental and climate change studies but offers considerable promise in a field characterized by an exploding body of research but seemin ...
... relevant research (Petticrew, 2006, The Cochrane Collaboration, 2008). This approach, while common in the health sciences, has not been extensively applied to environmental and climate change studies but offers considerable promise in a field characterized by an exploding body of research but seemin ...
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... where fire puts populations at risk (Moritz et al., 2014). However, research on climate change and wildfire risk also indicates that ‘the broad-scale increase in wildfire frequency across the western United States has been driven primarily by sensitivity of fire regimes to recent changes in climate over ...
... where fire puts populations at risk (Moritz et al., 2014). However, research on climate change and wildfire risk also indicates that ‘the broad-scale increase in wildfire frequency across the western United States has been driven primarily by sensitivity of fire regimes to recent changes in climate over ...
Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and
... projected climate change in units of °C per year by the rate of spatial climate variability, i.e. the temperature differential of adjacent grid cells, measured in °C km 1. The division cancels the °C units, while units of kilometre in the denominator and the units of year in the numerator swap posit ...
... projected climate change in units of °C per year by the rate of spatial climate variability, i.e. the temperature differential of adjacent grid cells, measured in °C km 1. The division cancels the °C units, while units of kilometre in the denominator and the units of year in the numerator swap posit ...
Submission from the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
... welcomed an independent review of the GCOS programme, requested by its four sponsoring organizations WMO, IOC of UNESCO, UNEP and ICSU, and appreciated the willingness of WMO to take the lead. New developments in the Earth observing programme community have required a review of the ...
... welcomed an independent review of the GCOS programme, requested by its four sponsoring organizations WMO, IOC of UNESCO, UNEP and ICSU, and appreciated the willingness of WMO to take the lead. New developments in the Earth observing programme community have required a review of the ...
Draft Final Report - South Tyneside Council
... 11. The interim conclusions of the Review were published in a report in December 2007, and views were sought through an extensive consultation exercise lasting three months. Conferences were held in every region, with well over 1,000 professionals from relevant fields attending to share their views. ...
... 11. The interim conclusions of the Review were published in a report in December 2007, and views were sought through an extensive consultation exercise lasting three months. Conferences were held in every region, with well over 1,000 professionals from relevant fields attending to share their views. ...
Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
... of existing coping measures and those of longer term, deliberately planned actions to adapt to the defined risks, leading to a stronger business case for adaptation action. This research aims to support adaptation decision-making in the Canadian mining sector by assessing the economic impact of clim ...
... of existing coping measures and those of longer term, deliberately planned actions to adapt to the defined risks, leading to a stronger business case for adaptation action. This research aims to support adaptation decision-making in the Canadian mining sector by assessing the economic impact of clim ...
Ville Kumpu A climate for reduction? Futures imagined in
... the effort of the MediaClimate network to explore and compare the coverage of climate summits across the world [29,20,30,31]. Connected to this effort the coverage of HS and IS was analyzed using a coding scheme that classified the genre, size, location of the stories and people quoted in the storie ...
... the effort of the MediaClimate network to explore and compare the coverage of climate summits across the world [29,20,30,31]. Connected to this effort the coverage of HS and IS was analyzed using a coding scheme that classified the genre, size, location of the stories and people quoted in the storie ...
- White Rose Research Online
... change communication from environmental communication in general: 1) The cause of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, is mainly invisible, 2) at least in the Western world, most people perceive the impacts as temporally and geographically distant, 3) modern society has been insulated from its ...
... change communication from environmental communication in general: 1) The cause of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, is mainly invisible, 2) at least in the Western world, most people perceive the impacts as temporally and geographically distant, 3) modern society has been insulated from its ...
The Emergence of Climate Change Mitigation Action by Society: An
... exploration on uncertainties pertaining to the system have been used to construct two internally consistent and plausible narratives on the pathways of the emergence of mitigation action, which, as we argue, are a reasonable summary of the uncertainty space. The first narrative highlights how and wh ...
... exploration on uncertainties pertaining to the system have been used to construct two internally consistent and plausible narratives on the pathways of the emergence of mitigation action, which, as we argue, are a reasonable summary of the uncertainty space. The first narrative highlights how and wh ...
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... Climate physics predicts that the intensity of natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change. We present a stochastic model of a growing economy where natural disasters are multiple and random, with damages driven by the economy’s polluting activity. We provide a closed-form so ...
... Climate physics predicts that the intensity of natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change. We present a stochastic model of a growing economy where natural disasters are multiple and random, with damages driven by the economy’s polluting activity. We provide a closed-form so ...
On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
... that such fat-tailed risks are an inescapable consequence of bayesian statistics, and our ‘structural’ uncertainty about the response of the climate system to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations. It argues that such risks can swamp all other effects on welfare, including those that arise from ...
... that such fat-tailed risks are an inescapable consequence of bayesian statistics, and our ‘structural’ uncertainty about the response of the climate system to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations. It argues that such risks can swamp all other effects on welfare, including those that arise from ...
Federal Decision-Making on the Uncertain Impacts of Climate Change
... energy, climate, and species protection, as well as the international negotiations process. While each decision called for information on impacts, the type and threshold of information required differed. This paper decomposes and defines the climate change impacts information needs of federal dec ...
... energy, climate, and species protection, as well as the international negotiations process. While each decision called for information on impacts, the type and threshold of information required differed. This paper decomposes and defines the climate change impacts information needs of federal dec ...
Synthesis paper: Perspectives on Loss and Damage
... this is due to socio‐economic change, e.g. higher population, greater assets at risk, and increased vulnerability through, for example, developing on flood plains. ...
... this is due to socio‐economic change, e.g. higher population, greater assets at risk, and increased vulnerability through, for example, developing on flood plains. ...
How can decision-makers in developing countries incorporate uncertainty about future climate risks into existing planning and policymaking processes? (424 kB) (opens in new window)
... adaptation can have immediate and long-term benefits through reducing climate risks and supporting economic development and poverty reduction. However, adaptation may also present greater challenges in developing countries, due in part to the lower adaptive capacity (e.g. Parry et al. 2007, World Ba ...
... adaptation can have immediate and long-term benefits through reducing climate risks and supporting economic development and poverty reduction. However, adaptation may also present greater challenges in developing countries, due in part to the lower adaptive capacity (e.g. Parry et al. 2007, World Ba ...
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... surrounding climate change. In such a procedure uncertainty only exists right before the model is run and before a policy has to be passed. Once the model is initiated all uncertainty is resolved and taxes are set optimally under full certainty. The procedure only gives an estimate for an ex-ante pr ...
... surrounding climate change. In such a procedure uncertainty only exists right before the model is run and before a policy has to be passed. Once the model is initiated all uncertainty is resolved and taxes are set optimally under full certainty. The procedure only gives an estimate for an ex-ante pr ...
A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept
... populated by reference scenarios that project socioeconomic developments and emissions in the absence of climate policy and are based purely on the SSPs, although the extent and pattern of climate change could affect development pathways such that the SSPs may need to be modified when creating a sce ...
... populated by reference scenarios that project socioeconomic developments and emissions in the absence of climate policy and are based purely on the SSPs, although the extent and pattern of climate change could affect development pathways such that the SSPs may need to be modified when creating a sce ...
A strategic approach to adaptation in Europe (628 kB) (opens in new window)
... vulnerability to climate change. A broad sense of the main vulnerabilities will help policy makers to set the right sector and geographic priorities. Developing this sense of key vulnerabilities is not the same as adopting a traditional science-first approach to adaptation (Ranger et al. 2010). Scie ...
... vulnerability to climate change. A broad sense of the main vulnerabilities will help policy makers to set the right sector and geographic priorities. Developing this sense of key vulnerabilities is not the same as adopting a traditional science-first approach to adaptation (Ranger et al. 2010). Scie ...
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... Climate change is one of the major global policy issues and has been on the policy agenda for more than two decades. The consensus view nowadays predicts an average increase in global temperature of at least 4 degrees centigrade up to 6 degrees centigrade until the end of this century, if no measure ...
... Climate change is one of the major global policy issues and has been on the policy agenda for more than two decades. The consensus view nowadays predicts an average increase in global temperature of at least 4 degrees centigrade up to 6 degrees centigrade until the end of this century, if no measure ...
Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States
... readily available to everyone from an early age. Decisions based on personal experience with the outcomes of actions (e.g., touching a hot stove or losing money in the stock market) involve associative and affective processes that are fast and automatic (Weber, Shafir, & Blais, 2004). However, learn ...
... readily available to everyone from an early age. Decisions based on personal experience with the outcomes of actions (e.g., touching a hot stove or losing money in the stock market) involve associative and affective processes that are fast and automatic (Weber, Shafir, & Blais, 2004). However, learn ...
Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States
... readily available to everyone from an early age. Decisions based on personal experience with the outcomes of actions (e.g., touching a hot stove or losing money in the stock market) involve associative and affective processes that are fast and automatic (Weber, Shafir, & Blais, 2004). However, learn ...
... readily available to everyone from an early age. Decisions based on personal experience with the outcomes of actions (e.g., touching a hot stove or losing money in the stock market) involve associative and affective processes that are fast and automatic (Weber, Shafir, & Blais, 2004). However, learn ...
Changing Risk Perceptions Policy Brief
... acceptance of the magnitude and urgency of needed changes, new policy action is likely to be met with considerable public resistance. Human-induced climate change is a reality, and its influence on the world can already be seen. Its impacts and associated risks will only intensify the longer we cont ...
... acceptance of the magnitude and urgency of needed changes, new policy action is likely to be met with considerable public resistance. Human-induced climate change is a reality, and its influence on the world can already be seen. Its impacts and associated risks will only intensify the longer we cont ...
Australians` views of climate change
... Belief in climate change and its anthropogenic drivers has waned in recent years, reflecting trends in other Western countries. ...
... Belief in climate change and its anthropogenic drivers has waned in recent years, reflecting trends in other Western countries. ...
A Summary of the Assessment Process of the Intergovernmental
... individual reviewers and 25 government reviews. Note that the IPCC does not have information on the number of individual experts involved in the reviews coordinated by governments. In these two formal reviews over 31,000 separate comments were received by WG I. The relevant authors provided a writte ...
... individual reviewers and 25 government reviews. Note that the IPCC does not have information on the number of individual experts involved in the reviews coordinated by governments. In these two formal reviews over 31,000 separate comments were received by WG I. The relevant authors provided a writte ...