- Parliament of Vanuatu
... Clause 4 provides that the Director of each Department is responsible for the administration and efficient work of this Act and must advise the Minister and the Director General on all matters relating to this Act. Clause 5 empowers the Director to delegate his or her functions to an officer of the ...
... Clause 4 provides that the Director of each Department is responsible for the administration and efficient work of this Act and must advise the Minister and the Director General on all matters relating to this Act. Clause 5 empowers the Director to delegate his or her functions to an officer of the ...
Climate Trends and Impacts in China
... and projected trends in extreme weather events, present-day climate variability, and future climate change and their impacts on China’s different regions. This summary is intended to serve as background for a series of discussion papers on climate risk management in adaptation in China. Research fin ...
... and projected trends in extreme weather events, present-day climate variability, and future climate change and their impacts on China’s different regions. This summary is intended to serve as background for a series of discussion papers on climate risk management in adaptation in China. Research fin ...
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... 2002; Tannura, Irwin, and Good, 2008). Nonetheless, developing a multiple regression model requires determining the appropriate set of weather factors affecting crop yields. Previous literature has identified the importance of temperature and precipitation (Lobell, Cahill, and Field, 2007) and their ...
... 2002; Tannura, Irwin, and Good, 2008). Nonetheless, developing a multiple regression model requires determining the appropriate set of weather factors affecting crop yields. Previous literature has identified the importance of temperature and precipitation (Lobell, Cahill, and Field, 2007) and their ...
China - Open Knowledge Repository
... and projected trends in extreme weather events, present-day climate variability, and future climate change and their impacts on China’s different regions. This summary is intended to serve as background for a series of discussion papers on climate risk management in adaptation in China. Research fin ...
... and projected trends in extreme weather events, present-day climate variability, and future climate change and their impacts on China’s different regions. This summary is intended to serve as background for a series of discussion papers on climate risk management in adaptation in China. Research fin ...
TRENDS IN INSURANCE CLAIMS
... Markwest Hydrocarbon, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. - (10th Cir. 2009) • Following an explosion, the DOT ordered insured to undertake testing and maintenance. • The policy covered “all risks of direct physical loss or damage.” • The court found maintenance and testing was not insured – only fortui ...
... Markwest Hydrocarbon, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. - (10th Cir. 2009) • Following an explosion, the DOT ordered insured to undertake testing and maintenance. • The policy covered “all risks of direct physical loss or damage.” • The court found maintenance and testing was not insured – only fortui ...
National Park Service - UAF SNAP
... result, NPS and the University of Alaska’s Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP), a research group focused on climate change modeling and adaptation, embarked on a three-year collaborative project to help Alaska NPS managers, cooperating personnel, and key stakeholders develop plau ...
... result, NPS and the University of Alaska’s Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP), a research group focused on climate change modeling and adaptation, embarked on a three-year collaborative project to help Alaska NPS managers, cooperating personnel, and key stakeholders develop plau ...
Climate Action Planning Progress in the San Diego Region
... Also significant is the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, including issuance of the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. This Rule requires large sources to report greenhouse gas data, in order to help the ...
... Also significant is the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, including issuance of the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. This Rule requires large sources to report greenhouse gas data, in order to help the ...
European atmosphere in 2050, a regional
... in European emissions over the next couple of decades. However the robustness of these optimisation tools for longerterm projections is challenged by externalities such as the global burden of pollution and the expected increase of ozone pollution with global warming referred to as “climate penalty” ...
... in European emissions over the next couple of decades. However the robustness of these optimisation tools for longerterm projections is challenged by externalities such as the global burden of pollution and the expected increase of ozone pollution with global warming referred to as “climate penalty” ...
AFWA 2002 - Nevada Department of Wildlife
... and 8. If no changes were made, the State must document and explain why no changes were necessary and what process was used to make that determination. For more details, see Section A. Once Action Plan review/revisions are approved, States are not obligated to review/revise their Action Plans for an ...
... and 8. If no changes were made, the State must document and explain why no changes were necessary and what process was used to make that determination. For more details, see Section A. Once Action Plan review/revisions are approved, States are not obligated to review/revise their Action Plans for an ...
Climate Change: An Agenda for Global Collective Action
... and cause other changes to the global climate. Since 1750, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 30 percent (from 280 parts per million, or ppm, to 365 ppm), while methane has increased by more than 150 percent and nitrous oxide has increased by more than 15 percent ...
... and cause other changes to the global climate. Since 1750, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 30 percent (from 280 parts per million, or ppm, to 365 ppm), while methane has increased by more than 150 percent and nitrous oxide has increased by more than 15 percent ...
Open file
... over very long path which is almost over the ocean. The observational time is chosen as summer period of the southern hemisphere and the receiving place will be solar illuminated for 24 hours for almost couple of months. In the first attempt during 2007-2008, Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP) s ...
... over very long path which is almost over the ocean. The observational time is chosen as summer period of the southern hemisphere and the receiving place will be solar illuminated for 24 hours for almost couple of months. In the first attempt during 2007-2008, Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP) s ...
Contrasting climate change in the two polar regions
... extent occurred in 2007, which was 40% below the long-term climatological mean. In contrast, the extent of Antarctic sea ice has increased, with the greatest growth being in the autumn. There has been a large-scale warming across much of the Arctic, with a resultant loss of permafrost and a reductio ...
... extent occurred in 2007, which was 40% below the long-term climatological mean. In contrast, the extent of Antarctic sea ice has increased, with the greatest growth being in the autumn. There has been a large-scale warming across much of the Arctic, with a resultant loss of permafrost and a reductio ...
skuras
... 1.1 Definitions and the climate change framework Climate change is an issue of world importance not only because it affects the global physical environment but also because its consequences will spread through planetary economic and social mechanisms to every nation irrespective of the local severit ...
... 1.1 Definitions and the climate change framework Climate change is an issue of world importance not only because it affects the global physical environment but also because its consequences will spread through planetary economic and social mechanisms to every nation irrespective of the local severit ...
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... 1.1 Definitions and the climate change framework Climate change is an issue of world importance not only because it affects the global physical environment but also because its consequences will spread through planetary economic and social mechanisms to every nation irrespective of the local severit ...
... 1.1 Definitions and the climate change framework Climate change is an issue of world importance not only because it affects the global physical environment but also because its consequences will spread through planetary economic and social mechanisms to every nation irrespective of the local severit ...
Top-down vs bottom-up - working paper version
... A range of scholars and policy advocates have proposed formulaic (or ‘top-down’) approaches for calculating countries’ fair shares of the global effort to mitigate climate change. The practical relevance of top-down proposals has become increasingly uncertain as climate change negotiations since the ...
... A range of scholars and policy advocates have proposed formulaic (or ‘top-down’) approaches for calculating countries’ fair shares of the global effort to mitigate climate change. The practical relevance of top-down proposals has become increasingly uncertain as climate change negotiations since the ...
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... literature’ • Submissions of literature and/or text can be made to the appropriate CLA, the Co-Chairs or the TSU, for consideration IPCC Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability ...
... literature’ • Submissions of literature and/or text can be made to the appropriate CLA, the Co-Chairs or the TSU, for consideration IPCC Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability ...
Link to full document - Joint Program on the Science and Policy of
... conditions throughout the entire HUC. Daily minimum and maximum air temperature, Tmin and Tmax, respectively, are defined on a 1° × 1° scale and we adjust the interpolation accordingly. Climate projections and future time periods (henceforth referred to as eras) allow us to estimate the benefits of ...
... conditions throughout the entire HUC. Daily minimum and maximum air temperature, Tmin and Tmax, respectively, are defined on a 1° × 1° scale and we adjust the interpolation accordingly. Climate projections and future time periods (henceforth referred to as eras) allow us to estimate the benefits of ...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MINING
... The mining sector is extremely energy-intensive and therefore, one of the major emitters of greenhouse gases (Norgate and Haque 2010). In Australia, for example, mining is the fourth largest consumer of energy and recorded the largest energy consumption growth rate over a 3-decade period between 198 ...
... The mining sector is extremely energy-intensive and therefore, one of the major emitters of greenhouse gases (Norgate and Haque 2010). In Australia, for example, mining is the fourth largest consumer of energy and recorded the largest energy consumption growth rate over a 3-decade period between 198 ...
Overview and significance of a 250 ka paleoclimate record from El
... Without question, the polar regions play a major role in the global climate system, balancing the input of solar energy to the tropics thereby influencing both oceanic and atmospheric circulation through strong feedback interactions involving ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, and terrestrial processes ...
... Without question, the polar regions play a major role in the global climate system, balancing the input of solar energy to the tropics thereby influencing both oceanic and atmospheric circulation through strong feedback interactions involving ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, and terrestrial processes ...
How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to - PIM
... evidence that a combination of heat stress and salinity stress leads to additional physiological effects over and above the effects that each stress has in isolation. In general, much is unknown about how stresses may combine in agricultural and aquacultural systems in the face of climate change. Th ...
... evidence that a combination of heat stress and salinity stress leads to additional physiological effects over and above the effects that each stress has in isolation. In general, much is unknown about how stresses may combine in agricultural and aquacultural systems in the face of climate change. Th ...
The Vulnerability of Biodiversity to Rapid Climate Change
... While we cannot with any certainty anticipate geographic details regarding the sign or size of these effects, the very character of regional climates may likely be altered over the next decades in some generalizable but crucial ways. These entail: Multivariate change—including in, but not restrict ...
... While we cannot with any certainty anticipate geographic details regarding the sign or size of these effects, the very character of regional climates may likely be altered over the next decades in some generalizable but crucial ways. These entail: Multivariate change—including in, but not restrict ...
100568 - Climate Change Adaptation NEW CS3.indd
... There is common scientific consensus that the climate is changing. Climate change may pose potential risks to the economic activity and standards of living within Croydon; it is essential for local authorities and communities to act now to reduce carbon dioxide emissions if these risks are to be min ...
... There is common scientific consensus that the climate is changing. Climate change may pose potential risks to the economic activity and standards of living within Croydon; it is essential for local authorities and communities to act now to reduce carbon dioxide emissions if these risks are to be min ...
UN-Water | Coordinating the UN`s work on water and sanitation
... water supply and its effect on competing uses. Climate change threatens to increase this variability, shifting and intensifying extreme weather patterns, and introducing greater uncertainty in the quantity and quality of water supply over the long term. Adaptation to the current climate variability, ...
... water supply and its effect on competing uses. Climate change threatens to increase this variability, shifting and intensifying extreme weather patterns, and introducing greater uncertainty in the quantity and quality of water supply over the long term. Adaptation to the current climate variability, ...
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE
... This is a new output. Part of this output and associated accountability indicators were previously reported under Output 1.1 ‘Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water’ in the Supplementary Budget Papers for the 2008-09 Appropriation Act (No. 2). This measure was previously reported under Output ...
... This is a new output. Part of this output and associated accountability indicators were previously reported under Output 1.1 ‘Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water’ in the Supplementary Budget Papers for the 2008-09 Appropriation Act (No. 2). This measure was previously reported under Output ...
PETITION FOR RULEMAKING SEEKING THE REGULATION OF GREENHOUSE GAS
... problems and adversely impact human health by increasing heat stress and related deaths;" •"[R]ising sea levels threaten California's 1,100 miles of valuable coastal real estate and natural habitats;" and •"[T]he combined effects of an increase in temperatures and diminished water supply and quality ...
... problems and adversely impact human health by increasing heat stress and related deaths;" •"[R]ising sea levels threaten California's 1,100 miles of valuable coastal real estate and natural habitats;" and •"[T]he combined effects of an increase in temperatures and diminished water supply and quality ...