ENABLING SMALL-SCALE FARMERS
... conservation farming), finance for adaptation (facilitating access to credit) and innovations that increase yield. Conservation farming methods, in particular, promoted through Wula Nafaa have increased farmers’ yields and sustainable land use, thereby reducing vulnerability to climate change impact ...
... conservation farming), finance for adaptation (facilitating access to credit) and innovations that increase yield. Conservation farming methods, in particular, promoted through Wula Nafaa have increased farmers’ yields and sustainable land use, thereby reducing vulnerability to climate change impact ...
Securing ocean benefits for society in the face of climate change
... affect three types of ocean benefits (food security, coastal protection, tourism and recreation). Type of impact indicated as either primarily positive (þ ), primarily negative ( ), or mixed (7 ). Solid lines indicate stronger interactions than dotted lines. Although this represents a simplified vie ...
... affect three types of ocean benefits (food security, coastal protection, tourism and recreation). Type of impact indicated as either primarily positive (þ ), primarily negative ( ), or mixed (7 ). Solid lines indicate stronger interactions than dotted lines. Although this represents a simplified vie ...
- Wiley Online Library
... [2] It is well documented that large temperature changes are likely in polar regions (where temperatures are close to, or below the freezing point) with enhanced levels of greenhouse gases [IPCC, 2001]. What have received less attention are temperature changes in mountain regions of the world, where ...
... [2] It is well documented that large temperature changes are likely in polar regions (where temperatures are close to, or below the freezing point) with enhanced levels of greenhouse gases [IPCC, 2001]. What have received less attention are temperature changes in mountain regions of the world, where ...
A Guide to Understanding Global Temperature Data
... While the El Niño and La Niña states only last a year or two, there might well be alternate climate states involving the deep ocean circulation that can last for centuries, such as we know historically happened with the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The huge r ...
... While the El Niño and La Niña states only last a year or two, there might well be alternate climate states involving the deep ocean circulation that can last for centuries, such as we know historically happened with the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The huge r ...
Climate Change, Health and Future Well
... provision of renewable energy. This will not only benefit population health in India but create a vision for other developing countries, by allowing populations to lower the rate of climate change increase and, at the same time, continue on a path towards socio-economic growth, and for societies to ...
... provision of renewable energy. This will not only benefit population health in India but create a vision for other developing countries, by allowing populations to lower the rate of climate change increase and, at the same time, continue on a path towards socio-economic growth, and for societies to ...
recent years, Brazil and the world have suffered from
... conference on climate change that will be held in December 2015 in Paris. At this conference it is expected that countries will make more ambitious and necessary commitments to reduce the risk of future climate catastrophes that could compromise the habitability of the planet. Human activity is m ...
... conference on climate change that will be held in December 2015 in Paris. At this conference it is expected that countries will make more ambitious and necessary commitments to reduce the risk of future climate catastrophes that could compromise the habitability of the planet. Human activity is m ...
Status of the project implementation in Cambodia
... Three key sectors: Energy and Transport, Forestry, and Agriculture with max GHG reduction potential of about 720,000 Gg ...
... Three key sectors: Energy and Transport, Forestry, and Agriculture with max GHG reduction potential of about 720,000 Gg ...
Novel policy tools to assess the environmental impacts of air pollutants
... GHG perspective) due to its more uniform distribution in the atmosphere resulting from its somewhat longer lifetime (~10 years) than other short-lived pollutants. However, it is important to consider impacts beyond global temperature when assessing impacts of any GHG. ...
... GHG perspective) due to its more uniform distribution in the atmosphere resulting from its somewhat longer lifetime (~10 years) than other short-lived pollutants. However, it is important to consider impacts beyond global temperature when assessing impacts of any GHG. ...
Read this first
... Global warming and climate change is one of the most extensively researched and discussed topical issues affecting the environment. Although there are enough historical evidence to support the theory that climate change is a natural phenomenon, many research scientists are widely in agreement that t ...
... Global warming and climate change is one of the most extensively researched and discussed topical issues affecting the environment. Although there are enough historical evidence to support the theory that climate change is a natural phenomenon, many research scientists are widely in agreement that t ...
DFAE-II WP Series - Addi - University of the Basque Country
... reasonably robust approximation in some circumstances. For example when the initial state of the system is under equilibrium (i.e., steady state) and that global warming follows a very slow pattern the transitional dynamics to the steady state can be neglected. However, this simplification has two i ...
... reasonably robust approximation in some circumstances. For example when the initial state of the system is under equilibrium (i.e., steady state) and that global warming follows a very slow pattern the transitional dynamics to the steady state can be neglected. However, this simplification has two i ...
An Analysis of Radiative Equilibrium, Forcings, and Feedbacks
... In 1896, Svante Arrhenius calculated that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere would produce a global temperature change of a little over 5 °C. This is likely an overestimate, but not by much. The first modern estimates were made over 30 years ago, and the same range of 1.5‐4.5°C (now 2 to 4.5 ...
... In 1896, Svante Arrhenius calculated that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere would produce a global temperature change of a little over 5 °C. This is likely an overestimate, but not by much. The first modern estimates were made over 30 years ago, and the same range of 1.5‐4.5°C (now 2 to 4.5 ...
The Annual Cycle of Atmospheric Energy Transfer
... dominates. For example, strong cancellation occurs in deep convective clouds which have cold cloud tops (relevant for how much clouds emit towards space) and are bright9. Shallow low-level cloud decks, such as stratocumulus, on the other hand, are bright but relatively warm, and thus mostly act to c ...
... dominates. For example, strong cancellation occurs in deep convective clouds which have cold cloud tops (relevant for how much clouds emit towards space) and are bright9. Shallow low-level cloud decks, such as stratocumulus, on the other hand, are bright but relatively warm, and thus mostly act to c ...
Reporting team bios, Exxon documents, related stories and more
... of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases are causing world temperatures to rise and that burning fossil fuels is the reason. The scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect the global climate. TEXT: But a newly uncovered trail of docu ...
... of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases are causing world temperatures to rise and that burning fossil fuels is the reason. The scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect the global climate. TEXT: But a newly uncovered trail of docu ...
Vulnerability, Resilience, & Adaptation: Societal Causes
... resilience index by the various proxies ...
... resilience index by the various proxies ...
2-3C will increase
... Malaria is of great public health concern, and seems likely to be the vector-borne disease most sensitive to long-term climate change. Malaria varies seasonally in highly endemic areas. The link between malaria and extreme climatic events has long been studied in India, for example. Early last centu ...
... Malaria is of great public health concern, and seems likely to be the vector-borne disease most sensitive to long-term climate change. Malaria varies seasonally in highly endemic areas. The link between malaria and extreme climatic events has long been studied in India, for example. Early last centu ...
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... temperature, wind patterns, and precipitation. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) NIR defines climate change as a change in the state of the climate that can be identified by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and persists for an extended period typ ...
... temperature, wind patterns, and precipitation. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) NIR defines climate change as a change in the state of the climate that can be identified by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and persists for an extended period typ ...
post-2012 issues:developing country perspectives
... parties have began an exchange of ideas and opinions on the elements of the Bali Action Plan. Discussions are still is at a general level, focused on fostering understanding of issues to be considered by the AWGLCA (a shared vision, adaptation, mitigation and financing and technology). In Accra, mor ...
... parties have began an exchange of ideas and opinions on the elements of the Bali Action Plan. Discussions are still is at a general level, focused on fostering understanding of issues to be considered by the AWGLCA (a shared vision, adaptation, mitigation and financing and technology). In Accra, mor ...
Igor A
... The course focuses on the sources of and remedies for global environmental problems at both national and international level. The main attention is paid to the problem of externalities, managing the public goods and the commons, free-ridership and social dilemmas. All these difficulties acquire nowa ...
... The course focuses on the sources of and remedies for global environmental problems at both national and international level. The main attention is paid to the problem of externalities, managing the public goods and the commons, free-ridership and social dilemmas. All these difficulties acquire nowa ...
Sustainable water management in the tropics and subtropics
... populations, areas and regions most at risk in the short, medium and long term ; Encouragement of scientific research integrated, bringing together the areas of climatology, agriculture, health, economy, demographics, etc. In order to build scenarios Brazilian impacts of clirnate change for decades ...
... populations, areas and regions most at risk in the short, medium and long term ; Encouragement of scientific research integrated, bringing together the areas of climatology, agriculture, health, economy, demographics, etc. In order to build scenarios Brazilian impacts of clirnate change for decades ...
I was interested to gauge what the Environmental NGO community... recent release of the IPCC AR5 Exec Summary and in... IEAGHG Information Paper 2014-21: NGO and Media response to IPCC...
... One different item I found was a blog by Carbon Finance on Nov. 4th that quoted the International Business’ Times as UN Climate Report 2014: the End of the IPCC? The main focus of this article is the time and effort it takes to produce these report and there is a suggestion that the IPCC should cons ...
... One different item I found was a blog by Carbon Finance on Nov. 4th that quoted the International Business’ Times as UN Climate Report 2014: the End of the IPCC? The main focus of this article is the time and effort it takes to produce these report and there is a suggestion that the IPCC should cons ...
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... Meeting of the Illinois Climate Change Advisory Group 300 West Adams St., 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL ...
... Meeting of the Illinois Climate Change Advisory Group 300 West Adams St., 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL ...
CATS Annual Report 2012-13
... Funded by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences’ Risk Prediction Initiative, this project aims to provide a platform for the open and fair comparison of a variety of different forecasts. CATS has provided for the insurance industry an evaluation of seasonal forecast skill. This has proven an inter ...
... Funded by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences’ Risk Prediction Initiative, this project aims to provide a platform for the open and fair comparison of a variety of different forecasts. CATS has provided for the insurance industry an evaluation of seasonal forecast skill. This has proven an inter ...
Endnotes - CSIRO Publishing
... upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise. Nature 453: 1090–1093. 30. Ishii M and Kimoto M (2009) Reevaluation of historical ocean heat content variations with an XBT depth bias correction. Journal of Oceanography 65: 287–299. 31. Levitus S, Antonov JI, Boyer TP, Locarnini RA, Garcia HE e ...
... upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise. Nature 453: 1090–1093. 30. Ishii M and Kimoto M (2009) Reevaluation of historical ocean heat content variations with an XBT depth bias correction. Journal of Oceanography 65: 287–299. 31. Levitus S, Antonov JI, Boyer TP, Locarnini RA, Garcia HE e ...
A Climate in Crisis: How climate change is making drought and
... during this and other droughts in the region is less definitive than the link to higher temperatures. But what is clear is that the decline in the long rains over the last three decades is ‘unprecedented in its persistence and intensity from at least 1874’.13 And it is easy to see in the data that d ...
... during this and other droughts in the region is less definitive than the link to higher temperatures. But what is clear is that the decline in the long rains over the last three decades is ‘unprecedented in its persistence and intensity from at least 1874’.13 And it is easy to see in the data that d ...
climate change
... during this and other droughts in the region is less definitive than the link to higher temperatures. But what is clear is that the decline in the long rains over the last three decades is ‘unprecedented in its persistence and intensity from at least 1874’.13 And it is easy to see in the data that d ...
... during this and other droughts in the region is less definitive than the link to higher temperatures. But what is clear is that the decline in the long rains over the last three decades is ‘unprecedented in its persistence and intensity from at least 1874’.13 And it is easy to see in the data that d ...