Impacts of thermohaline circulation shutdown in the twenty
... THC shutdown in experiment PG is initiated against a background of global warming, which is caused by rising greenhouse gas concentrations according to an IS92a scenario. Relative to this global warming the THC shutdown causes cooling of surface air temperature (‘SAT’) over the Northern Hemisphere ( ...
... THC shutdown in experiment PG is initiated against a background of global warming, which is caused by rising greenhouse gas concentrations according to an IS92a scenario. Relative to this global warming the THC shutdown causes cooling of surface air temperature (‘SAT’) over the Northern Hemisphere ( ...
A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics
... Review has corrected one of the fundamental flaws of the Kyoto Protocol, which had no such linkage. By contrast, the parallel analysis of the Bush Administration, cited in footnote 2 above, provided no support for the Bush Administration’s rejection of binding emissions constraints on greenhouse gas ...
... Review has corrected one of the fundamental flaws of the Kyoto Protocol, which had no such linkage. By contrast, the parallel analysis of the Bush Administration, cited in footnote 2 above, provided no support for the Bush Administration’s rejection of binding emissions constraints on greenhouse gas ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Guyana
... vectors through water pooling and soil erosion associated with the increased intensity of hydro events. In addition, climate change is likely to affect crop productivity in specific geographical areas through its impact on growing seasons and crop patterns, to the extent that crop varieties cannot a ...
... vectors through water pooling and soil erosion associated with the increased intensity of hydro events. In addition, climate change is likely to affect crop productivity in specific geographical areas through its impact on growing seasons and crop patterns, to the extent that crop varieties cannot a ...
Identifying adaptation options - South Florida Regional Planning
... used as an excuse for not taking appropriate action. Many decisions in business and politics are regularly made in the face of uncertainty (eg. investment decisions) and deciding on the need for, and type of, adaptation should be approached in a similar manner. This normally involves taking a risk m ...
... used as an excuse for not taking appropriate action. Many decisions in business and politics are regularly made in the face of uncertainty (eg. investment decisions) and deciding on the need for, and type of, adaptation should be approached in a similar manner. This normally involves taking a risk m ...
Commission on Geography Education, Report from 2012 and Plan
... the IGC, the Commission conducted a business meeting and two paper sessions. This IGC is considered an unprecedented success for the IGU. The numbers of delegates surpassed all expectations, as more than 2800 Geographers from more than 80 countries across the globe participated in this Congress at t ...
... the IGC, the Commission conducted a business meeting and two paper sessions. This IGC is considered an unprecedented success for the IGU. The numbers of delegates surpassed all expectations, as more than 2800 Geographers from more than 80 countries across the globe participated in this Congress at t ...
Climate Change and Its Impact on Groundwater
... Climate Change and Its Impact on Groundwater Resources the sensitivity to climate change. Climate change also may affect soil characteristics, perhaps through changes in waterlogging or cracking, which in turn may affect soil moisture storage properties. Infiltration capacity and water-holding capa ...
... Climate Change and Its Impact on Groundwater Resources the sensitivity to climate change. Climate change also may affect soil characteristics, perhaps through changes in waterlogging or cracking, which in turn may affect soil moisture storage properties. Infiltration capacity and water-holding capa ...
Existing data and knowledge gaps about air-climate inter
... Over the past years progress has been made in understanding the linkage between air pollution with climate change (Figure 1). For example, it became clear how air pollutants contribute to climate forcing (enhancing or decreasing it) and how they affect precipitation patterns through indirect radiati ...
... Over the past years progress has been made in understanding the linkage between air pollution with climate change (Figure 1). For example, it became clear how air pollutants contribute to climate forcing (enhancing or decreasing it) and how they affect precipitation patterns through indirect radiati ...
tackling the double injustice of climate change and gender inequality
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
Subglobal Regulation of the Global Commons: The Case of Climate
... contributors to the commons' degradation—to restrain despoliation of the global commons is always presumptively irrational. Our argument proceeds in several parts. First, in Part I we argue that, in general, the intuitions derived from idealized economic models (including the "tragedy of the commons ...
... contributors to the commons' degradation—to restrain despoliation of the global commons is always presumptively irrational. Our argument proceeds in several parts. First, in Part I we argue that, in general, the intuitions derived from idealized economic models (including the "tragedy of the commons ...
tackling the double injustice of climate change and gender inequality
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
United Nations Development Programme
... One of the three areas of cooperation for the UN in the country stated in the UNDAF 2010-2015 is environment protection. The UN’s support in this area responds to the national priority for strengthening national capacities for integrated environmental management and enhancing administrative capaciti ...
... One of the three areas of cooperation for the UN in the country stated in the UNDAF 2010-2015 is environment protection. The UN’s support in this area responds to the national priority for strengthening national capacities for integrated environmental management and enhancing administrative capaciti ...
Climate Change Associated Sediment Yield Changes on the Rio
... snow and is stored in the snowpack, reduce snow water equivalence in the snowpack, and lead to earlier spring melting of the snowpack. These changes may not only impact surface water flows, but the interaction between surface water and ground water as well. Warmer temperatures are anticipated to bot ...
... snow and is stored in the snowpack, reduce snow water equivalence in the snowpack, and lead to earlier spring melting of the snowpack. These changes may not only impact surface water flows, but the interaction between surface water and ground water as well. Warmer temperatures are anticipated to bot ...
PARCC Project Training Manual 2014 Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change,
... UNEP, contributory organisations or editors. The designations employed and the presentations of material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or contributory organisations, editors or publishers concerning the legal status of any country, territory ...
... UNEP, contributory organisations or editors. The designations employed and the presentations of material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or contributory organisations, editors or publishers concerning the legal status of any country, territory ...
Supply-side climate policy: the road less taken
... at least in economist circles – than Hans-Werner Sinn and his notion of a Green Paradox. Sinn (2008) holds that owners of fossil fuel resources will accelerate production when faced with the likelihood of increasingly stringent climate policies such as carbon prices or constraints. He argues that le ...
... at least in economist circles – than Hans-Werner Sinn and his notion of a Green Paradox. Sinn (2008) holds that owners of fossil fuel resources will accelerate production when faced with the likelihood of increasingly stringent climate policies such as carbon prices or constraints. He argues that le ...
Slide 1
... plants and animals confirms that many species and communities are responding as though they are experiencing rising temperatures. Yellow-bellied marmots, for example, are coming out of hibernation more than a month earlier than they used to. ...
... plants and animals confirms that many species and communities are responding as though they are experiencing rising temperatures. Yellow-bellied marmots, for example, are coming out of hibernation more than a month earlier than they used to. ...
RPS-Report template (standard) - University of Technology Sydney
... This guidance manual has been prepared by Dr Jane Inglis and Stella Whittaker from RPS, Andrew Dimitriadis from the City of Canada Bay Council (CCBC), and Stefanie Pillora from The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG). The authors would like to take this opportunity to thank ...
... This guidance manual has been prepared by Dr Jane Inglis and Stella Whittaker from RPS, Andrew Dimitriadis from the City of Canada Bay Council (CCBC), and Stefanie Pillora from The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG). The authors would like to take this opportunity to thank ...
Climate change may threaten habitat suitability of threatened plant
... China under climate change was recently assessed using projected changes in species distributions (Yu et al., 2014). As plant species are already vulnerable to extinction within nature reserves, assessing the effects of continued climate change on plant distributions is essential. Specifically, clim ...
... China under climate change was recently assessed using projected changes in species distributions (Yu et al., 2014). As plant species are already vulnerable to extinction within nature reserves, assessing the effects of continued climate change on plant distributions is essential. Specifically, clim ...
Spending adaptation money wisely: Working Paper 37 (opens in new window)
... benefits irrespective of future climate regimes. We discuss a number of operational challenges in delivering this kind of adaptation, including a preoccupation with additionality – which makes the integration of adaptation and development harder – and a preference for “concrete” and more readily vis ...
... benefits irrespective of future climate regimes. We discuss a number of operational challenges in delivering this kind of adaptation, including a preoccupation with additionality – which makes the integration of adaptation and development harder – and a preference for “concrete” and more readily vis ...
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... of a single risk-averse country – given the mitigation efforts of all other countries. We show how the contribution to the global public good varies with the wealth of a country and its exposure to climate change. And – most importantly – we show that risk considerations make the crowding-out effect ...
... of a single risk-averse country – given the mitigation efforts of all other countries. We show how the contribution to the global public good varies with the wealth of a country and its exposure to climate change. And – most importantly – we show that risk considerations make the crowding-out effect ...
Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant
... (Fig. 2b), indicating that this diverse assemblage responds to temperature change as a zone, rather than according to species-specific climate preferences. Climate models predict increases in New England summer air temperatures of 3.3–7.8 C by the end of the century (Frumhoff et al. 2007). The expe ...
... (Fig. 2b), indicating that this diverse assemblage responds to temperature change as a zone, rather than according to species-specific climate preferences. Climate models predict increases in New England summer air temperatures of 3.3–7.8 C by the end of the century (Frumhoff et al. 2007). The expe ...
Rapport (Engels)
... Climate change is high on the political agenda at all levels. In the scientific world there is general consensus that economic and social pressures are contributing to climate change. Accelerating emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the 20th centur ...
... Climate change is high on the political agenda at all levels. In the scientific world there is general consensus that economic and social pressures are contributing to climate change. Accelerating emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the 20th centur ...
Modeling climate mitigation and adaptation policies to predict their effectiveness: The limits of randomized controlled trials: Working Paper 120 (327 kB) (opens in new window)
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create ...
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create ...
PARCC Project Training Manual Module 2. Climate data
... UNEP, contributory organisations or editors. The designations employed and the presentations of material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or contributory organisations, editors or publishers concerning the legal status of any country, territory ...
... UNEP, contributory organisations or editors. The designations employed and the presentations of material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or contributory organisations, editors or publishers concerning the legal status of any country, territory ...
The Value of Linking Mitigation and Adaptation: A Case Study of
... alongside mitigation. This recognition was translated into policy at the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 7) in Marrakech in 2001 with the creation of three new funds for adaptation, including the Adaptation Fund, financed by a 2% levy on the CDM. In Bali in 2007, COP 13 finally ...
... alongside mitigation. This recognition was translated into policy at the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 7) in Marrakech in 2001 with the creation of three new funds for adaptation, including the Adaptation Fund, financed by a 2% levy on the CDM. In Bali in 2007, COP 13 finally ...
Understanding future risks to ports in Australia
... decades. This includes concern that climate change will pose increasing challenges to the continuing successful operation of Australia’s seaports. In response, this report documents the activity and findings of research that was carried out to better understand the future risks that ports need to pl ...
... decades. This includes concern that climate change will pose increasing challenges to the continuing successful operation of Australia’s seaports. In response, this report documents the activity and findings of research that was carried out to better understand the future risks that ports need to pl ...