AFRICA`S BEST READ - Department of Environmental Affairs
... Africa. He believes that the continent’s relatively low contribution to the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, particularly owing to poverty. “In no area of law should the common interests of mankind be clearer than when addressing climate ...
... Africa. He believes that the continent’s relatively low contribution to the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, particularly owing to poverty. “In no area of law should the common interests of mankind be clearer than when addressing climate ...
Climate Impact Research in the BSR: State of the Art
... It is not a question whether, where and how large a change may be, it is only relevant that climate change comes true! On the local scale this needs an analysis of potential impacts and their associated exposure units and its vulnerability! Good policies needs a systematic analysis of decision lines ...
... It is not a question whether, where and how large a change may be, it is only relevant that climate change comes true! On the local scale this needs an analysis of potential impacts and their associated exposure units and its vulnerability! Good policies needs a systematic analysis of decision lines ...
speaking out on global warming: public attitudes toward the papal
... included questions about several other topics not included in this report. During the initial recruitment phase of the panel, randomly selected U.S. households are sampled with a known, non-zero probability of selection from the NORC National Sample Frame, and then contacted by U.S. mail, email, tel ...
... included questions about several other topics not included in this report. During the initial recruitment phase of the panel, randomly selected U.S. households are sampled with a known, non-zero probability of selection from the NORC National Sample Frame, and then contacted by U.S. mail, email, tel ...
1/ Format an contents of the « National overview…
... vulnerable key ecosystems and species is required in order to minimise climate and global change impacts. The number of marine protected areas and ecosystems should increase. Protection measures should involve participation of all coastal and marine related actors, and they should be designed and co ...
... vulnerable key ecosystems and species is required in order to minimise climate and global change impacts. The number of marine protected areas and ecosystems should increase. Protection measures should involve participation of all coastal and marine related actors, and they should be designed and co ...
Local Climate Change Governance
... in the direction of creating a low carbon society. Because both its causes and consequences are distributed around the world, climate change is generally understood to be a global problem in need of global answers. There is, however, a growing acknowledgement that locality, and local reactions to cl ...
... in the direction of creating a low carbon society. Because both its causes and consequences are distributed around the world, climate change is generally understood to be a global problem in need of global answers. There is, however, a growing acknowledgement that locality, and local reactions to cl ...
Long-term changes in environmental characteristics required by
... An expert panel convened for a structured decision process for a previous listing determination in 2005 emphasized that current trends in loss or conversion of sagebrush were unlikely to cause extinction within the next 60-100 years (USDI 2005). Consequently, climate change becomes more significant ...
... An expert panel convened for a structured decision process for a previous listing determination in 2005 emphasized that current trends in loss or conversion of sagebrush were unlikely to cause extinction within the next 60-100 years (USDI 2005). Consequently, climate change becomes more significant ...
Environmental Threats in Cold Deserts
... events, India also suffers from acute water shortages, with more and more parts of the country being rendered vulnerable to drought. The steady retreat of Himalayan glaciers as an effect of climate change will also mean disruption of the entire water system and subsequent natural threats. The death ...
... events, India also suffers from acute water shortages, with more and more parts of the country being rendered vulnerable to drought. The steady retreat of Himalayan glaciers as an effect of climate change will also mean disruption of the entire water system and subsequent natural threats. The death ...
Polar amplification as a preferred response in an idealized
... ocean, Boer (1995) found a polar amplified surface temperature response accompanied by a very modest change in total poleward atmospheric energy transport. The small change was found to occur due to a cancellation between a decrease in dry static energy transport and an increase in the latent heat t ...
... ocean, Boer (1995) found a polar amplified surface temperature response accompanied by a very modest change in total poleward atmospheric energy transport. The small change was found to occur due to a cancellation between a decrease in dry static energy transport and an increase in the latent heat t ...
How do the effects of SAE and CO 2 reduction
... geoengineering may be the social, ethical, legal and political issues associated with governance, rather than scientific and technical issues. Risks associated with specific geoengineering schemes can only be based on models that encapsulate our current knowledge and understanding of a highly comple ...
... geoengineering may be the social, ethical, legal and political issues associated with governance, rather than scientific and technical issues. Risks associated with specific geoengineering schemes can only be based on models that encapsulate our current knowledge and understanding of a highly comple ...
Sample Chapter - Brookings Institution
... in the atmosphere and have fostered temperature levels in recent centuries conducive to staggering rates of agricultural and economic productivity as well as population growth. Many of these gases are familiar to the most basic science student, largely “natural” in origin, as opposed to such convent ...
... in the atmosphere and have fostered temperature levels in recent centuries conducive to staggering rates of agricultural and economic productivity as well as population growth. Many of these gases are familiar to the most basic science student, largely “natural” in origin, as opposed to such convent ...
Impacts of climate change on land-based sectors and
... Opinion-based surveys of this kind have their limitations because they involve a degree of subjectivity and represent one point in time. Another way to gauge the mainstream consensus is to identify what leading scientific institutions have advised their governments and the communities about climate ...
... Opinion-based surveys of this kind have their limitations because they involve a degree of subjectivity and represent one point in time. Another way to gauge the mainstream consensus is to identify what leading scientific institutions have advised their governments and the communities about climate ...
Cry of the earth, of the poor, and of the spirit. Physical, ethical
... spirit. These three cries are attempts to look at the ecological predicament from three different angles – physical, moral and religious – with a view to gain an in-depth and a more complete view of the crisis. 2. The PHYSICAL dimension of the ecological crisis The physical understanding of the cris ...
... spirit. These three cries are attempts to look at the ecological predicament from three different angles – physical, moral and religious – with a view to gain an in-depth and a more complete view of the crisis. 2. The PHYSICAL dimension of the ecological crisis The physical understanding of the cris ...
Social Representations Theory
... affects everyday life. It is everybody’s concern. And we do not want the weather to be too hot, or too cold, or too stormy, etc. Words as “threat”, “alarm”, “hot” or “catastrophe” brings in a dramatic dimension and anchors the issue in well-known media discourses of threat, catastrophe and alarm rep ...
... affects everyday life. It is everybody’s concern. And we do not want the weather to be too hot, or too cold, or too stormy, etc. Words as “threat”, “alarm”, “hot” or “catastrophe” brings in a dramatic dimension and anchors the issue in well-known media discourses of threat, catastrophe and alarm rep ...
The theme of slow onset impact
... The operative provisions of the Convention begin by defining both the ‘adverse effects of climate change’ as well as the term ‘climate change’ itself. Adverse effects of climate change are …changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change which have significant deleterious ...
... The operative provisions of the Convention begin by defining both the ‘adverse effects of climate change’ as well as the term ‘climate change’ itself. Adverse effects of climate change are …changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change which have significant deleterious ...
Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for
... While scientific tests of weather data are clearly necessary for policy analysis, they are insufficient for two main reasons. First, they cannot be replicated in many countries—particularly developing countries—where historical data are sparse. Second, even where such assessments are possible, thei ...
... While scientific tests of weather data are clearly necessary for policy analysis, they are insufficient for two main reasons. First, they cannot be replicated in many countries—particularly developing countries—where historical data are sparse. Second, even where such assessments are possible, thei ...
Development of a metamodel tool for regional integrated climate
... The main output from the RegIS2 project is the Regional Impact Simulator, a user friendly tool which allows the impacts and interactions of future climate or socio-economic change to be assessed by stakeholders across the agricultural, hydrological, biodiversity and coastal sectors. The Regional Im ...
... The main output from the RegIS2 project is the Regional Impact Simulator, a user friendly tool which allows the impacts and interactions of future climate or socio-economic change to be assessed by stakeholders across the agricultural, hydrological, biodiversity and coastal sectors. The Regional Im ...
Estimating Effects of Tidal Power Projects and Climate Change on
... species through climate change and ocean acidification (hereafter grouped under the term climate change) (IPCC 2007; NRC 2010). To meet growing energy needs without increasing carbon emissions, utility companies are turning to renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, tidal, and wave energy. T ...
... species through climate change and ocean acidification (hereafter grouped under the term climate change) (IPCC 2007; NRC 2010). To meet growing energy needs without increasing carbon emissions, utility companies are turning to renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, tidal, and wave energy. T ...
Quantifying the contribution of land use change to surface
... and the urban heat island effect increases Ts by 1.25◦ . They have opposite impacts but are both significant in this region. Various changes in surface factors affect radiation and energy distribution and eventually modify Ts . It is the evaporative cooling effect that plays the most important role ...
... and the urban heat island effect increases Ts by 1.25◦ . They have opposite impacts but are both significant in this region. Various changes in surface factors affect radiation and energy distribution and eventually modify Ts . It is the evaporative cooling effect that plays the most important role ...
IOC and COP21 - UNESDOC
... ocean has absorbed more than 25% of the CO2 and 93% of excess heat generated by humans since industrialization. But its climate regulating role is threatened: warmer atmosphere and increasing concentration of greenhouse gases, pollution from land, overfishing, unsustainable coastal development and i ...
... ocean has absorbed more than 25% of the CO2 and 93% of excess heat generated by humans since industrialization. But its climate regulating role is threatened: warmer atmosphere and increasing concentration of greenhouse gases, pollution from land, overfishing, unsustainable coastal development and i ...
Miller-vita-short web version-2016 - UCAR Staff
... Tyedmers, 2001. The 1999 Pacific Salmon Agreement: A Sustainable Solution? Canadian – American Public Policy Occasional Paper, No. 47. Canadian – American Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME. Cohen, S.J. and K.A. Miller (Coordinating Lead Authors), 2001. “North America,” Ch.15, pp.733-800 in Clim ...
... Tyedmers, 2001. The 1999 Pacific Salmon Agreement: A Sustainable Solution? Canadian – American Public Policy Occasional Paper, No. 47. Canadian – American Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME. Cohen, S.J. and K.A. Miller (Coordinating Lead Authors), 2001. “North America,” Ch.15, pp.733-800 in Clim ...
Systems thinking methodology in researching the impacts of climate
... livestock sector contributes to climate change in terms of greenhouse gases emission. It is also related to other sectors such as export, domestic market, and policies. It is therefore clear that the problems under consideration should be looked through a systemic structure of impact factors. The di ...
... livestock sector contributes to climate change in terms of greenhouse gases emission. It is also related to other sectors such as export, domestic market, and policies. It is therefore clear that the problems under consideration should be looked through a systemic structure of impact factors. The di ...
Will Geoengineering With Solar Radiation Management Ever Be
... Keith, Caldeira and Shin (2011) propose periodic forcing of the climate system to conduct in situ testing at less than the full scale of implementation, but their proposal calls for large-scale manipulation of the climate system for multiple decades, which I think would also be found unacceptable. L ...
... Keith, Caldeira and Shin (2011) propose periodic forcing of the climate system to conduct in situ testing at less than the full scale of implementation, but their proposal calls for large-scale manipulation of the climate system for multiple decades, which I think would also be found unacceptable. L ...
Adaptation strategies to increase human resilience against climate
... diversify local production systems and improve the socio-economic conditions, leading to decreased out-migration and population stability. In essence, the project included both mitigation and adaptation outcomes. Measures implemented by the CBRR project include small scale irrigated vegetable garde ...
... diversify local production systems and improve the socio-economic conditions, leading to decreased out-migration and population stability. In essence, the project included both mitigation and adaptation outcomes. Measures implemented by the CBRR project include small scale irrigated vegetable garde ...
IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM)
... the Kyoto Protocol. The UNFCCC is a multilateral convention aimed at stabilising GHG concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The Kyoto Protocol came into being on 11 December 1997 at the third Conference of the Part ...
... the Kyoto Protocol. The UNFCCC is a multilateral convention aimed at stabilising GHG concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The Kyoto Protocol came into being on 11 December 1997 at the third Conference of the Part ...
Sea level Rise impact on Singapore, Solomon Island, Saint Vincent
... Based on the report of David Anthoff, et al., the sea level rise scenario is obtained from Global DEM and LOICS data, a similar consideration is made for this analysis2. The various islands that are found to be vulnerable are analysed for sea level rise of 5m and the total area of impact is determin ...
... Based on the report of David Anthoff, et al., the sea level rise scenario is obtained from Global DEM and LOICS data, a similar consideration is made for this analysis2. The various islands that are found to be vulnerable are analysed for sea level rise of 5m and the total area of impact is determin ...