national climate change policy
... Furthermore, extensive consultations with provincial and federal ministries, institutions and civil society provided valuable inputs to the policy document. In view of Pakistan’s high vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, in particular extreme events, adaptation effort is the focus ...
... Furthermore, extensive consultations with provincial and federal ministries, institutions and civil society provided valuable inputs to the policy document. In view of Pakistan’s high vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, in particular extreme events, adaptation effort is the focus ...
Climate change projections of precipitation and
... statistically downscaled and compared with a current climate, defined as the period 2000–2009. Besides precipitation only this study also focuses on change in water demand by vegetation reference evapotranspiration (ETref). It was found that for both future periods the annual precipitation sum will ...
... statistically downscaled and compared with a current climate, defined as the period 2000–2009. Besides precipitation only this study also focuses on change in water demand by vegetation reference evapotranspiration (ETref). It was found that for both future periods the annual precipitation sum will ...
Global Temperature in 2016
... summary are available from Makiko Sato on the latter web site.) For the second year in a row the prior record was broken by a substantial margin. 2015 and 2016 annual temperatures were, in part, boosted by the 2015-16 El Niño. Because of the delayed global response to the natural El Niño/La Niña var ...
... summary are available from Makiko Sato on the latter web site.) For the second year in a row the prior record was broken by a substantial margin. 2015 and 2016 annual temperatures were, in part, boosted by the 2015-16 El Niño. Because of the delayed global response to the natural El Niño/La Niña var ...
Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the
... Newtonian laws. This model suggests that manipulating greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere can precisely control global temperature. By contrast, the biological, ecological, and complexity sciences present a nonlinear, indefinite, and volatile image of the climate embedded within the bios ...
... Newtonian laws. This model suggests that manipulating greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere can precisely control global temperature. By contrast, the biological, ecological, and complexity sciences present a nonlinear, indefinite, and volatile image of the climate embedded within the bios ...
Winter 2016
... The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) was founded in 1955, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United States. The first signs of the feasibility of numerical weather prediction began accumulating in the 1950’s, in large part the result of work conducted by a group of scientists ...
... The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) was founded in 1955, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United States. The first signs of the feasibility of numerical weather prediction began accumulating in the 1950’s, in large part the result of work conducted by a group of scientists ...
Climate Change in Southeast Asia
... people are at great risk from the impacts of climate change. The region’s aggressive economic development plans in turn could further exacerbate the problems. Energy-related emissions, though currently low, are expected to more than double by 2030. Sprawling megacities and spreading agricultural lan ...
... people are at great risk from the impacts of climate change. The region’s aggressive economic development plans in turn could further exacerbate the problems. Energy-related emissions, though currently low, are expected to more than double by 2030. Sprawling megacities and spreading agricultural lan ...
How does climate warming affect plant
... to temporal mismatch. They showed that specialized pollinators were most likely to be left with no food plants, but that generalist pollinators could also experience considerable diet reductions following phenological shifts. The variation across species in phenological responses to climate warming ...
... to temporal mismatch. They showed that specialized pollinators were most likely to be left with no food plants, but that generalist pollinators could also experience considerable diet reductions following phenological shifts. The variation across species in phenological responses to climate warming ...
IFC`s Definitions and Metrics for Climate
... emissions currently being emitted, lower emissions as a result the project than those of a credible business-as-usual alternative, or sequestration of emissions currently in the atmosphere. The ability to calculate, report, and verify this mitigation is a prerequisite for this project category. GHG ...
... emissions currently being emitted, lower emissions as a result the project than those of a credible business-as-usual alternative, or sequestration of emissions currently in the atmosphere. The ability to calculate, report, and verify this mitigation is a prerequisite for this project category. GHG ...
CLIMATE CHANGE Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change: Outlook for Knowledge,Tools and Action
... already problematic, and is perhaps humanity’s most pressing challenge as we seek to nourish nine billion people by 2050 (Godfray et al., 2010). ...
... already problematic, and is perhaps humanity’s most pressing challenge as we seek to nourish nine billion people by 2050 (Godfray et al., 2010). ...
showing AIT - Department for Education
... this guidance In recent years climate change has become an issue of global significance. It has moved from being a subject covered in science magazines to one that is approached and discussed by governments, world leaders and the United Nations. It is recognised as one of the most significant challe ...
... this guidance In recent years climate change has become an issue of global significance. It has moved from being a subject covered in science magazines to one that is approached and discussed by governments, world leaders and the United Nations. It is recognised as one of the most significant challe ...
Recognitions and Responsibilities - International Research Institute
... of general circulation models within the geosciences for framing the problem. Jasanoff states that “climate change . . . can be linked to a place, but that place is the whole Earth.” She continues, “ideas of belonging and stewardship can develop on a planetary scale: the slogan ‘think globally, act ...
... of general circulation models within the geosciences for framing the problem. Jasanoff states that “climate change . . . can be linked to a place, but that place is the whole Earth.” She continues, “ideas of belonging and stewardship can develop on a planetary scale: the slogan ‘think globally, act ...
Can terrestrial ectotherms escape the heat of climate change by
... We analyse 100 grid cells, a resolution that balances meaningful climatology and sufficient resolution for investigating the influence of topography. As a climate baseline, we use temperature averages for the late-twentieth century (1950– 2000, Climatic Research Unit CL 2.0 high-resolution) [20]. We ...
... We analyse 100 grid cells, a resolution that balances meaningful climatology and sufficient resolution for investigating the influence of topography. As a climate baseline, we use temperature averages for the late-twentieth century (1950– 2000, Climatic Research Unit CL 2.0 high-resolution) [20]. We ...
What is the Paris Agreement, and How Will It Be Implemented?
... and has since become the “foundation for the global climate effort” (“Paris Climate Agreement Q&A”). The main goal of the UNFCCC was, and still is, to lower greenhouse gas emissions to a point that the emissions would not affect the weather or climate (“Climate: Get the Big Picture”). In addition, t ...
... and has since become the “foundation for the global climate effort” (“Paris Climate Agreement Q&A”). The main goal of the UNFCCC was, and still is, to lower greenhouse gas emissions to a point that the emissions would not affect the weather or climate (“Climate: Get the Big Picture”). In addition, t ...
P R I N C E T O N ... P R I N C E T O N ... Wagner_ClimateShock_FINAL.indd 3 12/30/14 8:32 AM
... (IPCC) declared it was “more likely than not” the case that global warming was caused by human activity. By 2001, it was “likely.” By 2007, it was “very likely.” By 2013, it was “extremely likely.” There’s only one step left in official IPCC lingo: “virtually certain.” The big question is how certai ...
... (IPCC) declared it was “more likely than not” the case that global warming was caused by human activity. By 2001, it was “likely.” By 2007, it was “very likely.” By 2013, it was “extremely likely.” There’s only one step left in official IPCC lingo: “virtually certain.” The big question is how certai ...
LCARL205_en.pdf
... pace of increases in GHG emissions and subsequently the pace of rising temperature; and that the consequences of such increases demand coordinated responses by the international community. In its latest report (Fourth Assessment Report titled “Climate Change 2007”), the IPCC, made a series of conclu ...
... pace of increases in GHG emissions and subsequently the pace of rising temperature; and that the consequences of such increases demand coordinated responses by the international community. In its latest report (Fourth Assessment Report titled “Climate Change 2007”), the IPCC, made a series of conclu ...
... The consortium of ten partners agreed that the timing was right to hold a climate change scenario game. Last year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), reflecting the consensus opinion of the world’s top physical and social scientists, found with near certainty that h ...
Impact of Climate Change on the Aral Sea and Its Basin
... scenarios produced by the Atmosphere Ocean Global Climate Models (AOGCMs) used by the IPCC (Lioubimtseva et al. 2005; Lioubimtseva 2007; Lioubimtseva and Henebry 2009). Annual, seasonal and monthly AOGCM scenarios for Central Asia used in the Third and Fourth IPCC Reports (TAR IPCC 2001 and AR4 IPCC ...
... scenarios produced by the Atmosphere Ocean Global Climate Models (AOGCMs) used by the IPCC (Lioubimtseva et al. 2005; Lioubimtseva 2007; Lioubimtseva and Henebry 2009). Annual, seasonal and monthly AOGCM scenarios for Central Asia used in the Third and Fourth IPCC Reports (TAR IPCC 2001 and AR4 IPCC ...
Are observed changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
... a build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Kyoto Protocol proposed by the United Nations calls for industrialized countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by five percent from 1990 levels by the year 2012. The enormity of the perceived economic consequences of this has led to intense arg ...
... a build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Kyoto Protocol proposed by the United Nations calls for industrialized countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by five percent from 1990 levels by the year 2012. The enormity of the perceived economic consequences of this has led to intense arg ...
When Environmental Issues Collide: Climate Change
... among divergent conservation and development agendas. For instance, climate change appears to be altering the terms of debate concerning the costs and benefits of constructing large dams in ways that remain little analyzed. This issue can be observed in Costa Rica, which recently initiated a major n ...
... among divergent conservation and development agendas. For instance, climate change appears to be altering the terms of debate concerning the costs and benefits of constructing large dams in ways that remain little analyzed. This issue can be observed in Costa Rica, which recently initiated a major n ...
The Kyoto Protocol
... increased by more than 0.9°C. Globally, the 1990s were the warmest decade since 1861, and the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1991. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which brings together the world's leading experts in this field, stated in its Third Assessment ...
... increased by more than 0.9°C. Globally, the 1990s were the warmest decade since 1861, and the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1991. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which brings together the world's leading experts in this field, stated in its Third Assessment ...
Does adaptation to climate change provide food security? A micro-perspective from Ethiopia: Working Paper 19 (334 kB) (opens in new window)
... implement adaptation measures are indeed getting benefits in terms of an increase in the food crop production. This is very central if adaptation measures need to be put in place. Moreover, key assumption of the Ricardian is that land markets are working properly. Under this circumstance land prices ...
... implement adaptation measures are indeed getting benefits in terms of an increase in the food crop production. This is very central if adaptation measures need to be put in place. Moreover, key assumption of the Ricardian is that land markets are working properly. Under this circumstance land prices ...
Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts
... species richness, notably for fish and invertebrates, is strongly related to environmental factors (Macpherson 2002). Also, observations and theory suggest that marine species respond to ocean warming by shifting their latitudinal range (e.g. Perry et al. 2005; Parmesan 2006; Hiddink and Hofstede 20 ...
... species richness, notably for fish and invertebrates, is strongly related to environmental factors (Macpherson 2002). Also, observations and theory suggest that marine species respond to ocean warming by shifting their latitudinal range (e.g. Perry et al. 2005; Parmesan 2006; Hiddink and Hofstede 20 ...
Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science
... continues in a business-as-usual way throughout this century. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (“tipping points”) increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are re ...
... continues in a business-as-usual way throughout this century. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (“tipping points”) increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are re ...
Potential Vegetation and Carbon Redistribution in Northern North
... the Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) was used [38,39]. This data is referred to as CRUNCEP and is a combination of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) and National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) climatologies. CRUNCEP is a global 0.5 ˆ 0.5 degree ...
... the Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) was used [38,39]. This data is referred to as CRUNCEP and is a combination of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) and National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) climatologies. CRUNCEP is a global 0.5 ˆ 0.5 degree ...
An Assessment of Sustainable Maize Production for Smallholder
... The need to improve smallholder rainfed maize production in a sustainable manner is important in South Africa as maize is a staple food. Smallholder maize production is often characterised by low yields, which are often significantly lower than the potential for the land. Sustainable maize producti ...
... The need to improve smallholder rainfed maize production in a sustainable manner is important in South Africa as maize is a staple food. Smallholder maize production is often characterised by low yields, which are often significantly lower than the potential for the land. Sustainable maize producti ...