Vote 30: Environmental Affairs 2014/15 Budget
... • How would the strategic objective to ensure that “biodiversity is conserved, protected and threats mitigated” be achieved, if spending focus has diminished on critical sub-programmes such as Biodiversity and Conservation Management; Biodiversity Planning and Management; and Protected Areas Systems ...
... • How would the strategic objective to ensure that “biodiversity is conserved, protected and threats mitigated” be achieved, if spending focus has diminished on critical sub-programmes such as Biodiversity and Conservation Management; Biodiversity Planning and Management; and Protected Areas Systems ...
... development. The Global Green New Deal promoted by Secretary-General of the United Nations (Jaura, 2008) provides a way forward towards a low-carbon development path in which ESCAP has taken the lead in the region. Developing countries, in particular, should be proactive in adopting similar initiati ...
abstracts - Swedish Institute at Athens
... long-term relationship between prehistoric demography, subsistence and climate. However, beyond a centuries-old but largely misleading claim that human action brought ruin to a Mediterranean Eden, what has the role of human population rise-and-fall been in the creation of the distinctive Mediterrane ...
... long-term relationship between prehistoric demography, subsistence and climate. However, beyond a centuries-old but largely misleading claim that human action brought ruin to a Mediterranean Eden, what has the role of human population rise-and-fall been in the creation of the distinctive Mediterrane ...
The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta system
... sources of coastal oods under simulations of climate change and delta plain subsidence. The rise in relative mean sea level combined with episodic extreme events (cyclones) in the Bay of Bengal leads to higher extreme water levels and hence more likelihood of ooding, unless the defences can be upg ...
... sources of coastal oods under simulations of climate change and delta plain subsidence. The rise in relative mean sea level combined with episodic extreme events (cyclones) in the Bay of Bengal leads to higher extreme water levels and hence more likelihood of ooding, unless the defences can be upg ...
References
... Cortijo E, Labeyrie L, Vidal L, Vautravers M, Chapman M, Duplessy JC, Elliot M, Arnold M, Turon JL, Auffret G (1997) Changes in sea surface hydrology associated with Heinrich event 4 in the North Atlantic Ocean between 40 degrees and 60 degrees N. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 146 (1-2):29-45 ...
... Cortijo E, Labeyrie L, Vidal L, Vautravers M, Chapman M, Duplessy JC, Elliot M, Arnold M, Turon JL, Auffret G (1997) Changes in sea surface hydrology associated with Heinrich event 4 in the North Atlantic Ocean between 40 degrees and 60 degrees N. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 146 (1-2):29-45 ...
Read the full comment letter here - Competitive Enterprise Institute
... intense heat waves, more severe wildfires, degraded air quality, more heavy downpours and flooding, increased drought, greater sea-level rise, more intense storms, harm to water resources, harm to agriculture, and harm to wildlife and ecosystems.” As the world warms, heat waves will become more freq ...
... intense heat waves, more severe wildfires, degraded air quality, more heavy downpours and flooding, increased drought, greater sea-level rise, more intense storms, harm to water resources, harm to agriculture, and harm to wildlife and ecosystems.” As the world warms, heat waves will become more freq ...
Aalborg Universitet The 7 Aarhus Statements on Climate Change
... responsibles and is a presentation of each theme statement in detail, emphasizing the current state of knowledge and how it may be used to minimize the expected negative impacts of future climate change. ...
... responsibles and is a presentation of each theme statement in detail, emphasizing the current state of knowledge and how it may be used to minimize the expected negative impacts of future climate change. ...
USA
... 2. Whether to make a commitment to reduce deforestation or to increase reforestation or afforestation. 3. How much the US will contribute, if at all, to the Green Climate Fund, which is intended to provide at least $100 billion/year by 2020 for developing countries to reduce their emissions and adap ...
... 2. Whether to make a commitment to reduce deforestation or to increase reforestation or afforestation. 3. How much the US will contribute, if at all, to the Green Climate Fund, which is intended to provide at least $100 billion/year by 2020 for developing countries to reduce their emissions and adap ...
Local knowledge - Arctic Frontiers
... links between variations in past and present sea ice, climate conditions, changing environments and human societies. Bridging cultures of knowledge the project aims to understand the environments in change through the eyes of the cultural landscapes, local knowledge, archives and together with marin ...
... links between variations in past and present sea ice, climate conditions, changing environments and human societies. Bridging cultures of knowledge the project aims to understand the environments in change through the eyes of the cultural landscapes, local knowledge, archives and together with marin ...
Beyond long-term averages: making biological sense of a rapidly
... accurately capture limits under future, novel climatic conditions [24,25]. An explicit focus on the weather patterns likely to occur under future climate scenarios [26] coupled with knowledge of which factors most affect organisms [14] will provide insights into this dilemma. For example, many studi ...
... accurately capture limits under future, novel climatic conditions [24,25]. An explicit focus on the weather patterns likely to occur under future climate scenarios [26] coupled with knowledge of which factors most affect organisms [14] will provide insights into this dilemma. For example, many studi ...
A large ozone-circulation feedback and its implications for global
... pre-industrial ozone climatologies, there is a significant decrease in the magnitude of ...
... pre-industrial ozone climatologies, there is a significant decrease in the magnitude of ...
4 Climate change impacts in a context of full
... suited to measure important social phenomena like conflicts, mass migrations, disruption of knowledge, learning and social capital potentially triggered by climate change (Anthoff and Tol, 2013; Stern, 2013). IAMs emphasize impacts on GDP, which even disregarding its deficiency as a welfare measure, ...
... suited to measure important social phenomena like conflicts, mass migrations, disruption of knowledge, learning and social capital potentially triggered by climate change (Anthoff and Tol, 2013; Stern, 2013). IAMs emphasize impacts on GDP, which even disregarding its deficiency as a welfare measure, ...
Impacts of climate change on plant food allergens: a previously
... climate) have many significant impacts on plants. These include the impacts of climate change on aeroallergens such as pollen (Beggs 2004; Confalonieri et al. 2007; Rosenzweig et al. 2007), such as impacts on pollen amount, pollen allergenicity, pollen season, plant and pollen distribution, and othe ...
... climate) have many significant impacts on plants. These include the impacts of climate change on aeroallergens such as pollen (Beggs 2004; Confalonieri et al. 2007; Rosenzweig et al. 2007), such as impacts on pollen amount, pollen allergenicity, pollen season, plant and pollen distribution, and othe ...
Is Water Science Meeting Our Needs
... further economic modelling to be undertaken on the likely costs associated with climate risks under different emissions scenarios. Some of the climate change risks posed to Water New Zealand members are outlined here. A quantitative assessment of climate change risks under different emissions scenar ...
... further economic modelling to be undertaken on the likely costs associated with climate risks under different emissions scenarios. Some of the climate change risks posed to Water New Zealand members are outlined here. A quantitative assessment of climate change risks under different emissions scenar ...
Cooperation in higher education, Environment and climate
... “Norway’s double standards” “..Norway’s policy is not consistent with the goal of only two degrees increase (by 2100). Our emissions are several times higher than what the world can sustain to reach this goal. We are even claiming a right to continue doing the same in future. The media give the impr ...
... “Norway’s double standards” “..Norway’s policy is not consistent with the goal of only two degrees increase (by 2100). Our emissions are several times higher than what the world can sustain to reach this goal. We are even claiming a right to continue doing the same in future. The media give the impr ...
Economic Consequences of Climate Change Impacts on
... This process repeats itself to produce time paths of our major economic and transportation variables associated with the RTN over time given current and expected micro- and macroeconomic conditions. In line with the CGEM framework, eventually we receive a time path which is a set of short-run equili ...
... This process repeats itself to produce time paths of our major economic and transportation variables associated with the RTN over time given current and expected micro- and macroeconomic conditions. In line with the CGEM framework, eventually we receive a time path which is a set of short-run equili ...
Green Climate Fund - Philippine Movement for Climate Justice
... Climate negotiators, finance ministers and civil society observers from countries around the world gathered in May for a seventh round of negotiations overthe Green Climate Fund (GCF)1. Foremost on their agenda was the need to finalise a set of “essential requirements” needed to kick-start the Fund ...
... Climate negotiators, finance ministers and civil society observers from countries around the world gathered in May for a seventh round of negotiations overthe Green Climate Fund (GCF)1. Foremost on their agenda was the need to finalise a set of “essential requirements” needed to kick-start the Fund ...
Adaptive Response Framework for Drinking Water
... runoff patterns may result in changes to water quality and availability. Uncertainty in climate change projections and difficulty in connecting these changes to local impacts poses a complex set of challenges to utilities. Increased understanding of these factors has significant implications for the ...
... runoff patterns may result in changes to water quality and availability. Uncertainty in climate change projections and difficulty in connecting these changes to local impacts poses a complex set of challenges to utilities. Increased understanding of these factors has significant implications for the ...
new mexico`s rising economic risks from climate change
... change: heart disease, stroke and chronic lower respiratory disease. 35 Higher ozone and particulate levels are reliably linked to increased mortality and morbidity from these causes.46 Asthma attacks and allergies will be exacerbated by higher air pollution levels, including ozone, particulates fro ...
... change: heart disease, stroke and chronic lower respiratory disease. 35 Higher ozone and particulate levels are reliably linked to increased mortality and morbidity from these causes.46 Asthma attacks and allergies will be exacerbated by higher air pollution levels, including ozone, particulates fro ...
Vanuatu - Pacific Climate Change Science
... low emissions (RCP2.6), low emissions (RCP4.5), medium emissions (RCP6.0) and very high emissions (RCP8.5), for four 20-year time periods centred on 2030, 2050, 2070 and 2090, relative to a 20-year period centred on 1995 (Figure 7). Since individual models give different results, the projections are ...
... low emissions (RCP2.6), low emissions (RCP4.5), medium emissions (RCP6.0) and very high emissions (RCP8.5), for four 20-year time periods centred on 2030, 2050, 2070 and 2090, relative to a 20-year period centred on 1995 (Figure 7). Since individual models give different results, the projections are ...
Climate Change and Its Impacts - National Center for Policy Analysis
... variables they include and in the assumptions they make about how those variables interact. Yet some official reports, including the U.S. National Assessment published in 2000, report only the most extreme predictions, ignoring others that project only moderate warming in the 21st century. Global war ...
... variables they include and in the assumptions they make about how those variables interact. Yet some official reports, including the U.S. National Assessment published in 2000, report only the most extreme predictions, ignoring others that project only moderate warming in the 21st century. Global war ...
The Global Climate Observing System, GCOS
... South Eastern European Virtual Climate Change Centre – SEE VCCC (http://www.seevccc.rs/) Fulfilling the needs of SEE countries for information on subregional climate change on permanent basis; Providing permanent support for capacity building of national hydrometeorological services in terms o ...
... South Eastern European Virtual Climate Change Centre – SEE VCCC (http://www.seevccc.rs/) Fulfilling the needs of SEE countries for information on subregional climate change on permanent basis; Providing permanent support for capacity building of national hydrometeorological services in terms o ...
Climate Change and the Future Governance of the Micro
... Legal Action against Polluters: This is not a reliable option. First, international legal process is extremely time-consuming and non-binding. Second, micro-states have neither the financial resources, nor the skilled manpower to pursue this option. Third, major polluting countries are unwilling to ...
... Legal Action against Polluters: This is not a reliable option. First, international legal process is extremely time-consuming and non-binding. Second, micro-states have neither the financial resources, nor the skilled manpower to pursue this option. Third, major polluting countries are unwilling to ...
Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Appendix A
... America. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Parry, Martin, Osvaldo Canziani, Jean Palutikof, Paul Van Der Linden and Clair Hanson. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge Univ ...
... America. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Parry, Martin, Osvaldo Canziani, Jean Palutikof, Paul Van Der Linden and Clair Hanson. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge Univ ...
Regional Modelling of Vegetation Distributions
... Using the ANN model, Hilbert et al. (2001) demonstrated that rainforests in Australia are highly sensitive to even small changes in climate. The distribution and extent of environments suitable for fifteen structural forest types were estimated, using the model, in ten climate scenarios that include ...
... Using the ANN model, Hilbert et al. (2001) demonstrated that rainforests in Australia are highly sensitive to even small changes in climate. The distribution and extent of environments suitable for fifteen structural forest types were estimated, using the model, in ten climate scenarios that include ...