IIIS Discussion Paper Rescaling climate justice: sub-national issues and
... Climate justice is emerging as a discourse for mobilising activism around the globe. The language of justice is less explicit as a policy principle despite long standing attention to negotiating responsibilities for causing climate changes and bearing costs related to reducing climate change emissio ...
... Climate justice is emerging as a discourse for mobilising activism around the globe. The language of justice is less explicit as a policy principle despite long standing attention to negotiating responsibilities for causing climate changes and bearing costs related to reducing climate change emissio ...
Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important than Ever:
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
CHAPTER 6: Tropical Marine
... planned for in any contemporary conservation efforts. A variety of emergent stressors associated with climate variability and change, reviewed below, are of increasing concern to scientists and mangers. INCREASING SEA TEMPERATURES ...
... planned for in any contemporary conservation efforts. A variety of emergent stressors associated with climate variability and change, reviewed below, are of increasing concern to scientists and mangers. INCREASING SEA TEMPERATURES ...
Climate Change Riparian Restoration
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
... Humans influence climate primarily through fossil-fuel, industrial, agricultural, and other landuse emissions that alter atmospheric composition. Long-lived, heat-trapping greenhouse gases (CO2 , CH4 , N2 O, tropospheric ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons) warm the planet’s surface globally, whereas short ...
... Humans influence climate primarily through fossil-fuel, industrial, agricultural, and other landuse emissions that alter atmospheric composition. Long-lived, heat-trapping greenhouse gases (CO2 , CH4 , N2 O, tropospheric ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons) warm the planet’s surface globally, whereas short ...
First Nations` Governance and Climate Change
... authority to enable them to enact environmental laws, policies and other measures; a short, medium, and long-term vision of their Nation’s sustainability; and the capacity to effectively translate their authority and vision into meaningful and sustained action. 2 There are many barriers to achieving ...
... authority to enable them to enact environmental laws, policies and other measures; a short, medium, and long-term vision of their Nation’s sustainability; and the capacity to effectively translate their authority and vision into meaningful and sustained action. 2 There are many barriers to achieving ...
Potential effects of climate change and rising CO2 on ecosystem
... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) historic climate data network. This data was used in the model up to the point when measurements from on-site or nearby weather station data became available. Climate values for the initialization period from 1700 to 1900 were derived by r ...
... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) historic climate data network. This data was used in the model up to the point when measurements from on-site or nearby weather station data became available. Climate values for the initialization period from 1700 to 1900 were derived by r ...
UK climate change policy: how does it affect competitiveness?
... The UK is an international leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but is not acting alone. The UK is part of a leading group of nations that is taking ambitious policy action on climate change. Also in this group are many of the UK’s major competitors, including France, Germany, Norway, South K ...
... The UK is an international leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but is not acting alone. The UK is part of a leading group of nations that is taking ambitious policy action on climate change. Also in this group are many of the UK’s major competitors, including France, Germany, Norway, South K ...
Chicago Area Climate Change Quick Guide
... the Mayor’s office already has formed four multi-departmental working groups to consider the MWH report and other information to develop adaptation plans. The Office of Emergency Management leads an extreme heat group. The Department of Water Management is leading an extreme precipitation group, whi ...
... the Mayor’s office already has formed four multi-departmental working groups to consider the MWH report and other information to develop adaptation plans. The Office of Emergency Management leads an extreme heat group. The Department of Water Management is leading an extreme precipitation group, whi ...
Slide 1 - University of Washington
... •Optimized flood control operations to rebalance complex multiobjective reservoir systems •Incorporate more realistic effects to extreme precipitation from regional scale climate models (in progress) •Incorporate the effects of sea level rise and high flows on inundation using hydrodynamic modeling ...
... •Optimized flood control operations to rebalance complex multiobjective reservoir systems •Incorporate more realistic effects to extreme precipitation from regional scale climate models (in progress) •Incorporate the effects of sea level rise and high flows on inundation using hydrodynamic modeling ...
Historical responsibility for climate change: science and the science-policy interface
... policy-relevant mitigation issues that come before emissions in Figure 1, the literature on proportional HR starts from what has been emitted rather than emissions that have been avoided. Starting with an example at the upper end of the chain, it has been proposed that cumulative emissions could be ...
... policy-relevant mitigation issues that come before emissions in Figure 1, the literature on proportional HR starts from what has been emitted rather than emissions that have been avoided. Starting with an example at the upper end of the chain, it has been proposed that cumulative emissions could be ...
climate change climate change - Toronto District School Board
... Focus Questions that explore climate change in terms of systems. These questions may serve as a checklist for the teacher to help students develop their understanding about climate change and inform their town planning in the culminating task. Curriculum Expectations that are addressed by the Big Id ...
... Focus Questions that explore climate change in terms of systems. These questions may serve as a checklist for the teacher to help students develop their understanding about climate change and inform their town planning in the culminating task. Curriculum Expectations that are addressed by the Big Id ...
Compensation for "Meaningful Participation" in
... considerable extent on an international tradable permit regime because the distribution of permits could potentially be used to address the equity concerns of developing countries. Claussen and McNeilly w4x propose that a weighted consideration of ‘‘responsibility, standard of living, and opportunit ...
... considerable extent on an international tradable permit regime because the distribution of permits could potentially be used to address the equity concerns of developing countries. Claussen and McNeilly w4x propose that a weighted consideration of ‘‘responsibility, standard of living, and opportunit ...
Development of new parametrisations and sub - HiGEM
... emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from the surface into a 300km box, say, could have a completely different effect compared with emissions treated at higher resolution. During the coming century the atmosphere will be subjected to increased emissions of a variety of chemically and radiatively ac ...
... emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from the surface into a 300km box, say, could have a completely different effect compared with emissions treated at higher resolution. During the coming century the atmosphere will be subjected to increased emissions of a variety of chemically and radiatively ac ...
1. Climate Change and Insect Pest Distribution Range, Andrea
... range expansion. We discuss the type of evidence for the expansion, ongoing or predicted to occur, and aim to classify according to its empirical nature. ...
... range expansion. We discuss the type of evidence for the expansion, ongoing or predicted to occur, and aim to classify according to its empirical nature. ...
backgrounder - The Heritage Foundation
... dollars over the next 80 years but will have minimal real-world impact on global warming.6 Specifically, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change projects that the Paris Agreement would avert a mere 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming by the ye ...
... dollars over the next 80 years but will have minimal real-world impact on global warming.6 Specifically, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change projects that the Paris Agreement would avert a mere 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming by the ye ...
Module 2 - UNFCC related Funds - Global Climate Change Alliance
... LDCF funds the “additional cost” of adapting to climate change –projects should not include regular development activities that would take place in the absence of climate change The costs of adaptation additional to the Business-asUsual (BAU) development scenario, referring to development activi ...
... LDCF funds the “additional cost” of adapting to climate change –projects should not include regular development activities that would take place in the absence of climate change The costs of adaptation additional to the Business-asUsual (BAU) development scenario, referring to development activi ...
Climate Change and Forests in the Great Plains
... are arranged as patches throughout Single-plot gap models. Most cur- a landscape. This multiple-plot rent gap models are derived, directly model also indicated a northward or indirectly, from the FORET model shift in the border between horeal and (Shugart and West 1977), which, in temperate deciduou ...
... are arranged as patches throughout Single-plot gap models. Most cur- a landscape. This multiple-plot rent gap models are derived, directly model also indicated a northward or indirectly, from the FORET model shift in the border between horeal and (Shugart and West 1977), which, in temperate deciduou ...
Climate Change in the American Mind: Americans` Global Warming
... A growing majority of Americans believe global warming is happening. Seven in ten Americans (70%) believe global warming is happening. Relatively few – only 12 percent – believe it is not. Americans’ belief in the reality of global warming has increased by 13 percentage points over the past two and ...
... A growing majority of Americans believe global warming is happening. Seven in ten Americans (70%) believe global warming is happening. Relatively few – only 12 percent – believe it is not. Americans’ belief in the reality of global warming has increased by 13 percentage points over the past two and ...
Marine Science - Climate
... may be affected differently by changes in habitat characteristics (Petitgas et al., 2013). Moreover, in some regions, changes in temperature will be accompanied by changes in other abiotic factors. For example, expected regional changes in precipitation could lead to decreases or increases in local ...
... may be affected differently by changes in habitat characteristics (Petitgas et al., 2013). Moreover, in some regions, changes in temperature will be accompanied by changes in other abiotic factors. For example, expected regional changes in precipitation could lead to decreases or increases in local ...
CIAS
... *** Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research,,Dept. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Sliver Street,, Cambridge CB1 9EP, UK **** Imperial Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT), Dept. of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, L ...
... *** Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research,,Dept. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Sliver Street,, Cambridge CB1 9EP, UK **** Imperial Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT), Dept. of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, L ...
Climatic Impact of Volcanic Emissions
... Volcanism has long been implicated as a possible cause of weather and climate variations. Franklin [1784], Humphreys [1913, 1940] and Mitchell [1961] were pioneers in their association of volcanic eruptions with climate change. More recently, Lamb [1970, 1977, 1983], Toon and Pollack [1980], Toon [1 ...
... Volcanism has long been implicated as a possible cause of weather and climate variations. Franklin [1784], Humphreys [1913, 1940] and Mitchell [1961] were pioneers in their association of volcanic eruptions with climate change. More recently, Lamb [1970, 1977, 1983], Toon and Pollack [1980], Toon [1 ...
Marine Science
... Rykaczewski and Dunne (2010) hypothesized that decreased ventilation in upwelling zones may increase production due to increased residence times (the period where producers are retained in the high production zone) and nutrient remineralization; however, we note that these benefits could be offset b ...
... Rykaczewski and Dunne (2010) hypothesized that decreased ventilation in upwelling zones may increase production due to increased residence times (the period where producers are retained in the high production zone) and nutrient remineralization; however, we note that these benefits could be offset b ...
Increasing Atmospheric Poleward Energy Transport with Global
... change in cloud SW effect is the dominant source of uncertainty among models. The EBM with a fixed MSE diffusivity explains the spread in increasing poleward atmospheric energy transport. Variations in atmospheric dynamics in the different models are not needed to understand the differences among mo ...
... change in cloud SW effect is the dominant source of uncertainty among models. The EBM with a fixed MSE diffusivity explains the spread in increasing poleward atmospheric energy transport. Variations in atmospheric dynamics in the different models are not needed to understand the differences among mo ...
Socio-structural and psychological foundations of climate change
... core climate change beliefs—“climate change is real” and “climate change is caused by humans”. Analyses focused on four belief profiles: those who believe in the reality of climate change and its human cause (53%), those undecided (30%), the complete skeptics (10%) and those who believe the climate ...
... core climate change beliefs—“climate change is real” and “climate change is caused by humans”. Analyses focused on four belief profiles: those who believe in the reality of climate change and its human cause (53%), those undecided (30%), the complete skeptics (10%) and those who believe the climate ...