Resilient Midwestern Cities - Neighborhood Solutions Inc.
... crime rates, failing schools, high unemployment, and limited access to healthy food and other essential services.39 As average temperatures rise, experts suggest that Chicago’s heat waves and heavy rainfall—the city’s two leading climate change risks—are becoming more frequent and intense.40 The dis ...
... crime rates, failing schools, high unemployment, and limited access to healthy food and other essential services.39 As average temperatures rise, experts suggest that Chicago’s heat waves and heavy rainfall—the city’s two leading climate change risks—are becoming more frequent and intense.40 The dis ...
White Paper on the contribution of the GFCS to Agenda 2030
... construction, operation, and maintenance. For example, climate services will play a major role in mapping new sources of energy. Impacts on energy supply and demand are the most intuitive but there are also direct effects on energy resource endowment, infrastructure, and transportation, and indirect ...
... construction, operation, and maintenance. For example, climate services will play a major role in mapping new sources of energy. Impacts on energy supply and demand are the most intuitive but there are also direct effects on energy resource endowment, infrastructure, and transportation, and indirect ...
Preserving the Ocean Circulation: Implications for Climate Policy
... gases. One benefit of this method is that the choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level is motivated by a threshold response in the natural system. This choice is likely more efficient in the sense of an optimal growth model than an arbitrary choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level. This app ...
... gases. One benefit of this method is that the choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level is motivated by a threshold response in the natural system. This choice is likely more efficient in the sense of an optimal growth model than an arbitrary choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level. This app ...
Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic
... Climate is the context for life on earth. Global climate change and the ripples of that change will affect every aspect of life, from municipal budgets for snowplowing to the spread of disease. Climate is already changing, and quite rapidly. With rare unanimity, the scientific community warns of mor ...
... Climate is the context for life on earth. Global climate change and the ripples of that change will affect every aspect of life, from municipal budgets for snowplowing to the spread of disease. Climate is already changing, and quite rapidly. With rare unanimity, the scientific community warns of mor ...
4 Framework for ICTs` integration in cities climate change
... Setting the basis: Observation and understanding: City planners should consider the role of ICTs in climate change adaptation as a new alternative in their local adaptation plans. They should take stock of existing measures, opportunities and challenges on the integration of ICTs in climate change a ...
... Setting the basis: Observation and understanding: City planners should consider the role of ICTs in climate change adaptation as a new alternative in their local adaptation plans. They should take stock of existing measures, opportunities and challenges on the integration of ICTs in climate change a ...
Impacts of climate change on disadvantaged UK coastal communities
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
Trees and Climate Change
... warmer and drier summers, accompanied by milder but wetter winters. There will also be more extreme weather events. But it doesn’t feel warmer! It is often difficult to reconcile the recent cold, wet summers with the fact that the ten warmest years on record have all occurred since 1994. However, wh ...
... warmer and drier summers, accompanied by milder but wetter winters. There will also be more extreme weather events. But it doesn’t feel warmer! It is often difficult to reconcile the recent cold, wet summers with the fact that the ten warmest years on record have all occurred since 1994. However, wh ...
Malaysia`s First National Communication
... countries need further economic development through industrialisation and this will certainly cause an increase in GHG emissions in the future. It therefore becomes imperative for the international community to honour their commitments, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibil ...
... countries need further economic development through industrialisation and this will certainly cause an increase in GHG emissions in the future. It therefore becomes imperative for the international community to honour their commitments, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibil ...
Malawi`s Strategy on Climate Change Learning
... comprising human and institutional capacity building, financing, and cross-cutting issues. These pillars are critical to the promotion of awareness about climate change in Malawi and also essential for the development of appropriate anticipatory adaptation and mitigation options to avert adverse imp ...
... comprising human and institutional capacity building, financing, and cross-cutting issues. These pillars are critical to the promotion of awareness about climate change in Malawi and also essential for the development of appropriate anticipatory adaptation and mitigation options to avert adverse imp ...
Climate Change and China`s Agricultural Sector
... sector under the A2 scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assumes a heterogeneous world with continuous population growth and regionally-oriented economic growth. Depending on the assumptions used related to CO2 fertilization, in 2030 the projected impacts ...
... sector under the A2 scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assumes a heterogeneous world with continuous population growth and regionally-oriented economic growth. Depending on the assumptions used related to CO2 fertilization, in 2030 the projected impacts ...
Relationship with United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
... Adaptation Committee and the Technology Executive Committee, as well as with other relevant UNFCCC thematic bodies, and to define linkages between the Fund and these bodies, as appropriate.1 ...
... Adaptation Committee and the Technology Executive Committee, as well as with other relevant UNFCCC thematic bodies, and to define linkages between the Fund and these bodies, as appropriate.1 ...
Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent
... century (Fig. 1A). It is a generic property of a time series consisting of a natural oscillatory part and a downward trend that the minimum is most likely to occur toward the end of the time period when the negative influence of the trend is greatest and when the oscillation is also at a minimum. Th ...
... century (Fig. 1A). It is a generic property of a time series consisting of a natural oscillatory part and a downward trend that the minimum is most likely to occur toward the end of the time period when the negative influence of the trend is greatest and when the oscillation is also at a minimum. Th ...
CHAPTER 2 OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... Largest increases are in the Midwest and Northeast. Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events are projected for all U.S. regions. 7. There have been changes in some types of extreme weather events over the last several decades. Heat waves have become more frequen ...
... Largest increases are in the Midwest and Northeast. Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events are projected for all U.S. regions. 7. There have been changes in some types of extreme weather events over the last several decades. Heat waves have become more frequen ...
Fall 2014
... half the ocean’s uptake of anthropogenic carbon from the atmosphere and the majority of its uptake of heat. Second, models indicate that upwelling in the Southern Ocean delivers nutrients to lower latitude surface waters that are critical to ocean ecosystems around the world. Third, the impacts of o ...
... half the ocean’s uptake of anthropogenic carbon from the atmosphere and the majority of its uptake of heat. Second, models indicate that upwelling in the Southern Ocean delivers nutrients to lower latitude surface waters that are critical to ocean ecosystems around the world. Third, the impacts of o ...
Climate Change and Variability in the Sahel Region
... The primary sector employs more than 60 percent of the active population and contributes 40 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region. Rainfall variability, land degradation and desertification are some of the factors that combine to make life extremely difficult in this part of the ...
... The primary sector employs more than 60 percent of the active population and contributes 40 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region. Rainfall variability, land degradation and desertification are some of the factors that combine to make life extremely difficult in this part of the ...
Climate-Driven Basin-Scale Decadal Oscillations of Oceanic
... be built from repeated synoptic observations. Existing ocean color archives are relatively short in duration, however, so the long-term trend that may result from anthropogenic warming is neither unambiguously identified nor quantified. Contradictory results have been published as to whether the glo ...
... be built from repeated synoptic observations. Existing ocean color archives are relatively short in duration, however, so the long-term trend that may result from anthropogenic warming is neither unambiguously identified nor quantified. Contradictory results have been published as to whether the glo ...
From Davos to Copenhagen and Beyond
... in contributing to the UN Millennium Development Goals, particularly the alleviation of poverty in developing countries. ...
... in contributing to the UN Millennium Development Goals, particularly the alleviation of poverty in developing countries. ...
Resilience Strategies for Communities at Risk
... overlay zones that balance the value of continuing their current use with the cost of doing so. As jurisdictions face this reality, over time it will lead to new policies, investment strategies, and outcomes that will shift investment from most high-risk areas to those less vulnerable. ...
... overlay zones that balance the value of continuing their current use with the cost of doing so. As jurisdictions face this reality, over time it will lead to new policies, investment strategies, and outcomes that will shift investment from most high-risk areas to those less vulnerable. ...
Resilience Strategies for Communities at Risk
... overlay zones that balance the value of continuing their current use with the cost of doing so. As jurisdictions face this reality, over time it will lead to new policies, investment strategies, and outcomes that will shift investment from most high-risk areas to those less vulnerable. ...
... overlay zones that balance the value of continuing their current use with the cost of doing so. As jurisdictions face this reality, over time it will lead to new policies, investment strategies, and outcomes that will shift investment from most high-risk areas to those less vulnerable. ...
Briefing_note_on_legal_synergies
... all major national GHG emissions or the most significant sources, and many contained quantified emission reduction targets in various forms.16 A number of these included HFCs17. The Paris Agreement does not indicate the specific GHGs that should or should not be included in the NDCs. While Parties ...
... all major national GHG emissions or the most significant sources, and many contained quantified emission reduction targets in various forms.16 A number of these included HFCs17. The Paris Agreement does not indicate the specific GHGs that should or should not be included in the NDCs. While Parties ...
Sea-level rise - Environmental Science Institute
... • Sea-level rise – life’s a beach, why worry? • Antarctica and sea-level rise • Getting out there • Science and policy – where next? Menu – human fingerprints on the last wilderness ...
... • Sea-level rise – life’s a beach, why worry? • Antarctica and sea-level rise • Getting out there • Science and policy – where next? Menu – human fingerprints on the last wilderness ...
Briefing_note_on_legal_synergies
... all major national GHG emissions or the most significant sources, and many contained quantified emission reduction targets in various forms.16 A number of these included HFCs17. The Paris Agreement does not indicate the specific GHGs that should or should not be included in the NDCs. While Parties ...
... all major national GHG emissions or the most significant sources, and many contained quantified emission reduction targets in various forms.16 A number of these included HFCs17. The Paris Agreement does not indicate the specific GHGs that should or should not be included in the NDCs. While Parties ...
The UK Climate Change Act 2008
... The central pillars of the legislation are legally-binding targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2020 and 2050. These correspond with climate science and international and EU commitments, and a series of five-yearly carbon budgets which set maximum UK emissions on the trajector ...
... The central pillars of the legislation are legally-binding targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2020 and 2050. These correspond with climate science and international and EU commitments, and a series of five-yearly carbon budgets which set maximum UK emissions on the trajector ...
Ho Chi Minh City Adaptation to Climate Change
... This study was done to assist Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee in adapting to and coping with climate change and variability.1 HCMC is at serious risk of flooding, both from regular and from extreme climatic events such as tropical storms and typhoons. In response to the flooding challenge ...
... This study was done to assist Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee in adapting to and coping with climate change and variability.1 HCMC is at serious risk of flooding, both from regular and from extreme climatic events such as tropical storms and typhoons. In response to the flooding challenge ...