using sustainable land management practices to adapt to and
... initial change. Whilst there is much synergy between the range SLM practices in providing co-benefits, the rate of return may often mean individual small-scale subsistence farmers may not see the short term benefits, particularly from mitigation. Therefore, public and private investments are vital p ...
... initial change. Whilst there is much synergy between the range SLM practices in providing co-benefits, the rate of return may often mean individual small-scale subsistence farmers may not see the short term benefits, particularly from mitigation. Therefore, public and private investments are vital p ...
Guardians of the Amazon - Environmental Defense Fund
... oil-and-gas producers. The rules will cut volatile organic air pollution that causes smog and methane emissions by well over 100,000 tons each year. They’ll also include the nation’s first-ever direct controls on methane. That’s important because one third of the warming in the next couple of decade ...
... oil-and-gas producers. The rules will cut volatile organic air pollution that causes smog and methane emissions by well over 100,000 tons each year. They’ll also include the nation’s first-ever direct controls on methane. That’s important because one third of the warming in the next couple of decade ...
Queensland`s biodiversity under climate change:
... red boxes are shown in (Figure 20). Data used with permission, Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management. .......................................................................... 58 Figure 20: Coastal Plan regions for southern Queensland showing coastal zones that could be inund ...
... red boxes are shown in (Figure 20). Data used with permission, Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management. .......................................................................... 58 Figure 20: Coastal Plan regions for southern Queensland showing coastal zones that could be inund ...
CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES
... At the time of launching the project very few people in Finland knew about climate equity. The project wanted to introduce the concept and some basics especially to the people working on climate issues: government officials, politicians, journalists, NGO representatives and businessmen and women. Th ...
... At the time of launching the project very few people in Finland knew about climate equity. The project wanted to introduce the concept and some basics especially to the people working on climate issues: government officials, politicians, journalists, NGO representatives and businessmen and women. Th ...
Post-2015 consultation key messages - Republic
... Levels of awareness and understanding of the RFA and HFA were limited. Only about 1/3 of participants had heard of the frameworks and only those working directly in the DRM field (NDMO staff) had more detailed knowledge of them. There was however a greater level of awareness as well as conceptual un ...
... Levels of awareness and understanding of the RFA and HFA were limited. Only about 1/3 of participants had heard of the frameworks and only those working directly in the DRM field (NDMO staff) had more detailed knowledge of them. There was however a greater level of awareness as well as conceptual un ...
Climate Change Impacts in Alpine Environments
... distribution limit of the alpine zone worldwide (Körner and Paulsen 2004). However, there is a large variability with respect to altitude (air density), water availability, and seasonality across the globe (Figure 2). Accordingly, alpine is a rather broad term that encompasses a number of designati ...
... distribution limit of the alpine zone worldwide (Körner and Paulsen 2004). However, there is a large variability with respect to altitude (air density), water availability, and seasonality across the globe (Figure 2). Accordingly, alpine is a rather broad term that encompasses a number of designati ...
Projected river discharge in the Euphrates Tigris Basin
... point of international contention among the countries in the Middle East, and disputes are expected to intensify in the future as a result of climate change impacts on the region. For instance, in a very recent study, Gleick (2014) assessed the ongoing conflict in Syria and its possible connections ...
... point of international contention among the countries in the Middle East, and disputes are expected to intensify in the future as a result of climate change impacts on the region. For instance, in a very recent study, Gleick (2014) assessed the ongoing conflict in Syria and its possible connections ...
Safeguarding the Arctic - Center for American Progress
... 80 percent of coal reserves.36 Experts conclude that nations could achieve the emission reductions needed to stay below the 2 degrees threshold by widely implementing a handful of affordable policies through 2030—ranging from adopting better efficiency standards for vehicles and eliminating fossil-f ...
... 80 percent of coal reserves.36 Experts conclude that nations could achieve the emission reductions needed to stay below the 2 degrees threshold by widely implementing a handful of affordable policies through 2030—ranging from adopting better efficiency standards for vehicles and eliminating fossil-f ...
Abrupt intensification of ENSO forced by deglacial ice-sheet
... sheet on ENSO, to our knowledge, has not yet been studied. The retreating ice sheets since the LGM (Dyke 2004) are associated with extraordinary change in both orography and surface albedo and therefore may potentially exert significant climate impact on the coupled ocean–atmosphere system in the tr ...
... sheet on ENSO, to our knowledge, has not yet been studied. The retreating ice sheets since the LGM (Dyke 2004) are associated with extraordinary change in both orography and surface albedo and therefore may potentially exert significant climate impact on the coupled ocean–atmosphere system in the tr ...
Adaptation Finance - Center For Global Development
... 7 At the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa in December 2011, governments agreed to a Green Climate Fund with thematic windows, including one for adaptation, and established an Adaptation Committee of the UNFCCC to be made up of 16 persons to serve in their individual capacity. UNF ...
... 7 At the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa in December 2011, governments agreed to a Green Climate Fund with thematic windows, including one for adaptation, and established an Adaptation Committee of the UNFCCC to be made up of 16 persons to serve in their individual capacity. UNF ...
Public Acceptability of Climate Change Mitigation
... Recall that preferences were elicited under the assumption that non-European countries ‘comply equivalently’. ...
... Recall that preferences were elicited under the assumption that non-European countries ‘comply equivalently’. ...
follow the energy! earth`s dynamic climate system
... You are viewing the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) website from which Figure 1 was acquired. The animation that appears is composed of eight recent full-disk images from the GOES East satellite, most acquired at three-hour intervals with the latest being only a f ...
... You are viewing the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) website from which Figure 1 was acquired. The animation that appears is composed of eight recent full-disk images from the GOES East satellite, most acquired at three-hour intervals with the latest being only a f ...
League of Conservation Voters 2013
... power plants. We successfully defeated relentless attacks on clean air, clean water, and public health from an environmentally-hostile U.S. House of Representatives and made denying climate science an increasingly toxic position for politicians. Our grassroots work in the states is booming. Since 20 ...
... power plants. We successfully defeated relentless attacks on clean air, clean water, and public health from an environmentally-hostile U.S. House of Representatives and made denying climate science an increasingly toxic position for politicians. Our grassroots work in the states is booming. Since 20 ...
Global Warming and Terrestrial Biodiversity Decline: A
... permanently migrate away from increasingly less favourable climatic conditions to new areas that meet their physical, biological, and climatic needs. Unfortunately, the ability of species to migrate is generally poorly understood so it is difficult to determine just how serious the impacts of climat ...
... permanently migrate away from increasingly less favourable climatic conditions to new areas that meet their physical, biological, and climatic needs. Unfortunately, the ability of species to migrate is generally poorly understood so it is difficult to determine just how serious the impacts of climat ...
Mountain Glaciers
... • Local knowledge in the past had prevailed, the local people knew that the highlands provided much of the water and acknowledged that for the sake those downstream and the overall ecosystem it should be able to flow freely ...
... • Local knowledge in the past had prevailed, the local people knew that the highlands provided much of the water and acknowledged that for the sake those downstream and the overall ecosystem it should be able to flow freely ...
Charting A New Low-Carbon Route To Development
... A Primer on Integrated Climate Change Planning for Regional Governments This Primer introduces a set of approaches to help sub-national authorities through the whole process of designing their Integrated Territorial Climate Plan (ITCP), from setting objectives and participatory arrangements for the ...
... A Primer on Integrated Climate Change Planning for Regional Governments This Primer introduces a set of approaches to help sub-national authorities through the whole process of designing their Integrated Territorial Climate Plan (ITCP), from setting objectives and participatory arrangements for the ...
How much do precipitation extremes change in a warming
... increased water vapor could invigorate the storms. However, they didn’t give any quantitative estimate how much over the Clausius-Clapeyron rate or at what intensity of the storms. [4] An invigorated storm could remove moisture by more than 7% K 1 from the atmosphere. On the other hand, global evapo ...
... increased water vapor could invigorate the storms. However, they didn’t give any quantitative estimate how much over the Clausius-Clapeyron rate or at what intensity of the storms. [4] An invigorated storm could remove moisture by more than 7% K 1 from the atmosphere. On the other hand, global evapo ...
Text - Reading`s CentAUR
... then alter the zonal mean temperature (through radiation) and zonal wind (through thermal wind balance), which could in turn affect wave propagation and the residual circulation. Since changes in both GHGs and ODSs are required for this to happen (i.e., ozone loss in the extended region would not oc ...
... then alter the zonal mean temperature (through radiation) and zonal wind (through thermal wind balance), which could in turn affect wave propagation and the residual circulation. Since changes in both GHGs and ODSs are required for this to happen (i.e., ozone loss in the extended region would not oc ...
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... that violate the sure-thing principle in Ellsberg’s choice experiments, even when this violation is pointed out to them. This is in stark contrast to other decision theoretic ‘paradoxes’, such as the Allais paradox, where people often revert to the prescriptions of expected utility once their violat ...
... that violate the sure-thing principle in Ellsberg’s choice experiments, even when this violation is pointed out to them. This is in stark contrast to other decision theoretic ‘paradoxes’, such as the Allais paradox, where people often revert to the prescriptions of expected utility once their violat ...
Climate change in Central America and Mexico
... changing conditions in the past, current environmental changes are occurring at a much faster rate, and pose a serious threat to biodiversity. One of the most pressing issues in conservation biology is the observed global decline in amphibian populations (Stuart et al. 2004), which are particularly ...
... changing conditions in the past, current environmental changes are occurring at a much faster rate, and pose a serious threat to biodiversity. One of the most pressing issues in conservation biology is the observed global decline in amphibian populations (Stuart et al. 2004), which are particularly ...
Ambiguity and climate policy
... model of decision under ambiguity, analyze its basic properties, and derive a new and quite general condition that allows us to perform comparative statics. This condition is sufficient for an increase in ambiguity aversion to increase optimal abatement, or conversely, to decrease it. We then extend ...
... model of decision under ambiguity, analyze its basic properties, and derive a new and quite general condition that allows us to perform comparative statics. This condition is sufficient for an increase in ambiguity aversion to increase optimal abatement, or conversely, to decrease it. We then extend ...
Northern Canada
... precipitation, consistent with trends in other circumpolar regions. Increases in air temperature have resulted in many of the most extreme warm years throughout the entire Canadian North being recorded in the last decade, with the greatest temperature increases observed over the western Arctic. All ...
... precipitation, consistent with trends in other circumpolar regions. Increases in air temperature have resulted in many of the most extreme warm years throughout the entire Canadian North being recorded in the last decade, with the greatest temperature increases observed over the western Arctic. All ...
Adapting to Climate Change
... increases in GHG concentrations, it seems certain that the climate will continue to change. International efforts to reduce GHGs, such as the Kyoto Protocol, will only slow the rate of change. Most assessments of future climate change impacts have been based on greenhouse gas emissions, and atmosphe ...
... increases in GHG concentrations, it seems certain that the climate will continue to change. International efforts to reduce GHGs, such as the Kyoto Protocol, will only slow the rate of change. Most assessments of future climate change impacts have been based on greenhouse gas emissions, and atmosphe ...
Climate change and challenges for tourism in Central America
... Even if the concentrations of all GHGs and aerosols had been kept constant at year 2000 levels, a further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would be expected. Afterwards, temperature projections increasingly depend on specific emissions scenarios” (IPCC, 2007a, Synthesis Report, page 7). According t ...
... Even if the concentrations of all GHGs and aerosols had been kept constant at year 2000 levels, a further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would be expected. Afterwards, temperature projections increasingly depend on specific emissions scenarios” (IPCC, 2007a, Synthesis Report, page 7). According t ...