natural resource use and adaptation to climate
... Felix Olorunfemi (NISER), Mayowa Fasona (UNILAG), Grace Oloukoi (LCU), Peter Elias (UNILAG), Vide Adedayo (UNILAG) ...
... Felix Olorunfemi (NISER), Mayowa Fasona (UNILAG), Grace Oloukoi (LCU), Peter Elias (UNILAG), Vide Adedayo (UNILAG) ...
From the Washington Post, 10-12-09
... strategic research and analysis which serves to influence policy debate and bridge the gap between Military and Academia." This is from a public document, cleared for release from the Strategic Studies Institute United States Army War College http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/displa ...
... strategic research and analysis which serves to influence policy debate and bridge the gap between Military and Academia." This is from a public document, cleared for release from the Strategic Studies Institute United States Army War College http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/displa ...
Managing the business risks and opportunities of a changing climate
... All companies with physical operations face some degree of risk from a changing climate. Entergy, a Gulf coast energy provider, paid US $1.5 billion to put its system back together after damage inflicted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Since that time, Entergy has worked with Swiss Re to assess the ...
... All companies with physical operations face some degree of risk from a changing climate. Entergy, a Gulf coast energy provider, paid US $1.5 billion to put its system back together after damage inflicted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Since that time, Entergy has worked with Swiss Re to assess the ...
From Words to Facts: Acting on climate change
... famines, massive migratory movements and tremendous economic, social and political crisis Droughts can also be caused by climatic phenomenon such as El Niño, [hich is accompanied by lack of rain in various parts of the [orld ...
... famines, massive migratory movements and tremendous economic, social and political crisis Droughts can also be caused by climatic phenomenon such as El Niño, [hich is accompanied by lack of rain in various parts of the [orld ...
Presentation on Climate Safeguards System
... The CSS brings additional analysis on climate risks, aiming at increasing the consideration of climate change in project design and minimizing the impacts of climate change on projects This contributes also to incorporate best practices on adaptation into SESA process. The current exercise will be c ...
... The CSS brings additional analysis on climate risks, aiming at increasing the consideration of climate change in project design and minimizing the impacts of climate change on projects This contributes also to incorporate best practices on adaptation into SESA process. The current exercise will be c ...
Publication - European Commission
... 0.85°C since the late 19th century and is expected to rise even higher over the next century. It may not sound much, but consider this: Most of this warming happened in recent decades so the temperature rise is speeding up; ...
... 0.85°C since the late 19th century and is expected to rise even higher over the next century. It may not sound much, but consider this: Most of this warming happened in recent decades so the temperature rise is speeding up; ...
CCRIF’s Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) Initiative Study
... scenarios. The assessment of the future risk baseline is based on the concept of total climate risk, i.e., the total future risk that could arise from adding the effects of climate change and economic growth to the current risk level An assessment of adaptation measures that could be taken, includin ...
... scenarios. The assessment of the future risk baseline is based on the concept of total climate risk, i.e., the total future risk that could arise from adding the effects of climate change and economic growth to the current risk level An assessment of adaptation measures that could be taken, includin ...
Climate Change and Potatoes
... The full impacts of climate change on land suitability are clearly more complex than the basic maps shown here, but the results agree well with qualitative judgement. For example, based on PCL data, the cost of production would not be covered by the crop value when maincrop yields fall below 30 t/ha ...
... The full impacts of climate change on land suitability are clearly more complex than the basic maps shown here, but the results agree well with qualitative judgement. For example, based on PCL data, the cost of production would not be covered by the crop value when maincrop yields fall below 30 t/ha ...
Smith et al (2009
... important than any other; nor did they conclude what level of impacts or what atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases would constitute DAI, a value judgment that would be policy prescriptive. Here, we describe revisions of the sensitivities of the RFCs to increases in GMT and a more thorough ...
... important than any other; nor did they conclude what level of impacts or what atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases would constitute DAI, a value judgment that would be policy prescriptive. Here, we describe revisions of the sensitivities of the RFCs to increases in GMT and a more thorough ...
Dividing climate change: global warming in the Indian mass media
... Unlike in many other emerging economies, almost all of the mass media in India are independent of state control; just 0.42% of newspapers sold in 2004/2005 were published by a government-owned media house (IndiaStat 2007). Newspapers are published in over 30 languages, with Hindi and English the mos ...
... Unlike in many other emerging economies, almost all of the mass media in India are independent of state control; just 0.42% of newspapers sold in 2004/2005 were published by a government-owned media house (IndiaStat 2007). Newspapers are published in over 30 languages, with Hindi and English the mos ...
Dividing climate change: global warming in the Indian mass media
... Unlike in many other emerging economies, almost all of the mass media in India are independent of state control; just 0.42% of newspapers sold in 2004/2005 were published by a government-owned media house (IndiaStat 2007). Newspapers are published in over 30 languages, with Hindi and English the mos ...
... Unlike in many other emerging economies, almost all of the mass media in India are independent of state control; just 0.42% of newspapers sold in 2004/2005 were published by a government-owned media house (IndiaStat 2007). Newspapers are published in over 30 languages, with Hindi and English the mos ...
Canada`s Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate – Chapter 1
... Although adaptation and mitigation (the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and enhancement of greenhouse gas sinks) are sometimes portrayed as distinct responses to climate change, they are inextricably linked. The success of mitigation directly affects the need for adaptation, as well as the via ...
... Although adaptation and mitigation (the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and enhancement of greenhouse gas sinks) are sometimes portrayed as distinct responses to climate change, they are inextricably linked. The success of mitigation directly affects the need for adaptation, as well as the via ...
Climate Refugees and Rebels: Who Gets to Shape the
... pressure, and not, for example, on lack of land reform or off-farm employment opportunities; it blames peasants for land degradation, obscuring the role of commercial agriculture and extractive industries; and it targets migration both as an environmental and security threat. With the waning of the ...
... pressure, and not, for example, on lack of land reform or off-farm employment opportunities; it blames peasants for land degradation, obscuring the role of commercial agriculture and extractive industries; and it targets migration both as an environmental and security threat. With the waning of the ...
Climate Change and Natural Disasters Affecting Women Peace and
... feasible (and, therefore, war more likely); it may also alter the dynamics of conflict itself by encouraging combatants to direct their activities towards securing the assets that enable them to continue to fight. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report affirms that t ...
... feasible (and, therefore, war more likely); it may also alter the dynamics of conflict itself by encouraging combatants to direct their activities towards securing the assets that enable them to continue to fight. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report affirms that t ...
Comunicación sobre el cambio climático: Mejorando la eficacia de
... causes of climate change”, “Greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of climate change”, “Climate change is due to natural causes and not to human activity”, “The increase in atmospheric temperature is due to the growing and continual use of fossil fuels (coal, petrol, etc.)” and “Global warming ...
... causes of climate change”, “Greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of climate change”, “Climate change is due to natural causes and not to human activity”, “The increase in atmospheric temperature is due to the growing and continual use of fossil fuels (coal, petrol, etc.)” and “Global warming ...
The Annotated “Take AIM at Climate Change”
... Hurricanes are powered by the heat stored in the ocean, so warmer waters may increase the intensity of hurricanes in the future. Many scientists are studying this topic and although it is not clear if the overall number of hurricanes will increase, most agree that the intensity of hurricanes will in ...
... Hurricanes are powered by the heat stored in the ocean, so warmer waters may increase the intensity of hurricanes in the future. Many scientists are studying this topic and although it is not clear if the overall number of hurricanes will increase, most agree that the intensity of hurricanes will in ...
Slide 1
... Mitigation – reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) Adaptation – preparing for the unavoidable impacts of climate change ...
... Mitigation – reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) Adaptation – preparing for the unavoidable impacts of climate change ...
Climate change in the North Atlantic has become a reality which we
... mackerel and herring now appearing in East Greenlandic waters. Exploratory fishing of pelagic species has taken place in the past two years and will continue this year. Since mackerel migrated into East Greenlandic waters in around 2011, significant changes have occurred for the Greenlandic fishing ...
... mackerel and herring now appearing in East Greenlandic waters. Exploratory fishing of pelagic species has taken place in the past two years and will continue this year. Since mackerel migrated into East Greenlandic waters in around 2011, significant changes have occurred for the Greenlandic fishing ...
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... rate of future atmospheric CO2 increases is uncertain, CO 2 is currently increasing at four to five parts per million (ppm) per year (Ramanathan). If this trend continues, as some predict, it portends dramatic changes in climatic conditions beyond any observed in historical times. Furthermore, some ...
... rate of future atmospheric CO2 increases is uncertain, CO 2 is currently increasing at four to five parts per million (ppm) per year (Ramanathan). If this trend continues, as some predict, it portends dramatic changes in climatic conditions beyond any observed in historical times. Furthermore, some ...
Curriculum Vitae - Overseas Development Institute
... Lead evaluator for ECHO La Nina resilience programme, Phases III and IV. Project lead on IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) policy analysis for Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa of the Consultative Group on International Agric ...
... Lead evaluator for ECHO La Nina resilience programme, Phases III and IV. Project lead on IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) policy analysis for Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa of the Consultative Group on International Agric ...
Global Warming- Boon or Bane
... economists because it reduces losses by allowing the market to adjust and decide the nature of cuts in CO2 emission. Thus, the cuts in fuel consumption would occur in the least essential and less productive uses of energy. According to Poterba, a tax of $100/ ton on carbon would reduce U.S. CO2 emis ...
... economists because it reduces losses by allowing the market to adjust and decide the nature of cuts in CO2 emission. Thus, the cuts in fuel consumption would occur in the least essential and less productive uses of energy. According to Poterba, a tax of $100/ ton on carbon would reduce U.S. CO2 emis ...
Science integration into US climate and ocean policy
... provides nearly two billion people with almost 20% of their intake of animal protein2. Oceans are inherently linked to economic productivity and to the vibrancy of coastal communities. The ocean and coastal economy contributed 2.8 million jobs and over $282 billion to the US gross domestic product i ...
... provides nearly two billion people with almost 20% of their intake of animal protein2. Oceans are inherently linked to economic productivity and to the vibrancy of coastal communities. The ocean and coastal economy contributed 2.8 million jobs and over $282 billion to the US gross domestic product i ...
Environmental Threats to Louisiana`s Future
... impacts, including the incidence of acute weather events, understanding risk requires an assessment of the severity of potential losses. The coast of Louisiana has a great deal at risk because it is so economically vital to the state and the country. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati ...
... impacts, including the incidence of acute weather events, understanding risk requires an assessment of the severity of potential losses. The coast of Louisiana has a great deal at risk because it is so economically vital to the state and the country. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati ...
Notes on Singer, Practical Ethics, chapters 8-10
... bombing enemy positions. In emitting high levels of greenhouse gases, the rich nations are not deliberately attacking another country, but their actions may be even more devastating than conventional forms of aggressive war. Because of what the rich nations are doing, lands that now grow crops will ...
... bombing enemy positions. In emitting high levels of greenhouse gases, the rich nations are not deliberately attacking another country, but their actions may be even more devastating than conventional forms of aggressive war. Because of what the rich nations are doing, lands that now grow crops will ...