Technical Summary
... Climate change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal process ...
... Climate change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal process ...
pLAnnIng fOR cLIMATE chAngE
... countries who have a basic knowledge of climate change and the desire to address it. While the guide is targeted at local government planners in particular, it recognizes that all types of planners (disaster risk reduction, civil engineers, local economic development specialists, environmental exper ...
... countries who have a basic knowledge of climate change and the desire to address it. While the guide is targeted at local government planners in particular, it recognizes that all types of planners (disaster risk reduction, civil engineers, local economic development specialists, environmental exper ...
Climate change guidelines for forest managers
... The effects of climate change and climate variability on forest ecosystems are evident around the world and further impacts are unavoidable, at least in the short to medium term. Addressing the challenges posed by climate change will require adjustments to forest policies and changes to forest manag ...
... The effects of climate change and climate variability on forest ecosystems are evident around the world and further impacts are unavoidable, at least in the short to medium term. Addressing the challenges posed by climate change will require adjustments to forest policies and changes to forest manag ...
Climate Change and Conflict - AFES
... the world's climate. In an international context, the breakthrough for the Kyoto Protocol on international climate protection was achieved at the 2001 Conferences on Climate Change held in Bonn and Marrakech. Nevertheless, this success is only a first step towards effectively combating the dangers o ...
... the world's climate. In an international context, the breakthrough for the Kyoto Protocol on international climate protection was achieved at the 2001 Conferences on Climate Change held in Bonn and Marrakech. Nevertheless, this success is only a first step towards effectively combating the dangers o ...
Adaptive Capacity Benchmarking: Handbook and Tool Kit
... This has led to two further research approaches: Action research: we have worked alongside our partners and have sought and taken account of their feedback and that of the wider group of organisations who have participated in the work. More formal testing: we have made predictions about what org ...
... This has led to two further research approaches: Action research: we have worked alongside our partners and have sought and taken account of their feedback and that of the wider group of organisations who have participated in the work. More formal testing: we have made predictions about what org ...
Warming Impact—Disease - Open Evidence Archive
... plus many other organizations, including the I ntergovernmental P anel on C limate C hange, which was established by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization to provide the world with "a clear scientific view" on climate change. The only real debate is about how fast warming will ...
... plus many other organizations, including the I ntergovernmental P anel on C limate C hange, which was established by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization to provide the world with "a clear scientific view" on climate change. The only real debate is about how fast warming will ...
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... rates. Methods that livestock producers use to mitigate thermal stress – including modifications to animal management or housing – tend to increase production costs. According to the most recent assessment report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program: “The projected increases in air temperature ...
... rates. Methods that livestock producers use to mitigate thermal stress – including modifications to animal management or housing – tend to increase production costs. According to the most recent assessment report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program: “The projected increases in air temperature ...
Changing Communities: Changing Climate,
... those impacts. There are many other guides available which take various approaches to adaptation planning. For instance, there are guides specific to risk and infrastructure (i.e. A Risk-Based Guide for Local Governments in British Columbia), climate change and health (i.e. Human Health in a Changin ...
... those impacts. There are many other guides available which take various approaches to adaptation planning. For instance, there are guides specific to risk and infrastructure (i.e. A Risk-Based Guide for Local Governments in British Columbia), climate change and health (i.e. Human Health in a Changin ...
Best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous
... In the context of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change (NWP), the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirty-eighth session, requested the secretariat to prepare a technical paper before SBSTA 39 on best practices a ...
... In the context of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change (NWP), the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirty-eighth session, requested the secretariat to prepare a technical paper before SBSTA 39 on best practices a ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... flooding; and more violent winds in the Sahel and Sahara regions. As Mali’s agriculture sector is highly dependent on climatic factors, it is generally agreed upon that climate change will produce great impacts in this sector, even when considering the uncertainty of the forecasting models. Scientif ...
... flooding; and more violent winds in the Sahel and Sahara regions. As Mali’s agriculture sector is highly dependent on climatic factors, it is generally agreed upon that climate change will produce great impacts in this sector, even when considering the uncertainty of the forecasting models. Scientif ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector
... This publication, combined with a comprehensive series of international and regional seminars, is designed to provide a pragmatic platform to strengthen the capacity of professionals to understand and respond effectively to the global challenges of climate change in tourism destinations. It is a cri ...
... This publication, combined with a comprehensive series of international and regional seminars, is designed to provide a pragmatic platform to strengthen the capacity of professionals to understand and respond effectively to the global challenges of climate change in tourism destinations. It is a cri ...
The use of the aridity index to assess climate
... evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evaporation ratio (the ratio of annual evapotranspiration to precipitation) of catchments from a range of climatic r ...
... evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evaporation ratio (the ratio of annual evapotranspiration to precipitation) of catchments from a range of climatic r ...
The use of the aridity index to assess climate change effect on
... evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evaporation ratio (the ratio of annual evapotranspiration to precipitation) of catchments from a range of climatic r ...
... evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evaporation ratio (the ratio of annual evapotranspiration to precipitation) of catchments from a range of climatic r ...
Climate change adaptation in Norway
... position in Europe. Rising sea temperatures could therefore have major impacts, both negative and positive, on current production patterns. However, the fisheries and aquaculture industries are used to adapting to wide natural variations in sea temperature and in the size of fish stocks. When CO2 co ...
... position in Europe. Rising sea temperatures could therefore have major impacts, both negative and positive, on current production patterns. However, the fisheries and aquaculture industries are used to adapting to wide natural variations in sea temperature and in the size of fish stocks. When CO2 co ...
The global hydrological cycle and energy budget under climate
... and this leads to large anomalies in surface temperature, precipitation and sea ice area extent. Overall, this thesis demonstrates that the low agreement among different climate models about precipitation projections is partly caused by the large internal variability. Further, it is shown how differ ...
... and this leads to large anomalies in surface temperature, precipitation and sea ice area extent. Overall, this thesis demonstrates that the low agreement among different climate models about precipitation projections is partly caused by the large internal variability. Further, it is shown how differ ...
Protected Areas: Buffering nature against climate change
... The first and most important step the experts recommend is rapid expansion of Australia's reserve system to protect core habitats. Fortunately Australia already has a detailed plan and targets set to do this. Now all that’s needed is the investment to create new reserves and other protected areas. R ...
... The first and most important step the experts recommend is rapid expansion of Australia's reserve system to protect core habitats. Fortunately Australia already has a detailed plan and targets set to do this. Now all that’s needed is the investment to create new reserves and other protected areas. R ...
Equity and Cost-Effectiveness of adaptation funding_CLEAN_woENx
... cost effectiveness, and how they could be useful as criteria for prioritization of adaptation funding. As a further step, we will analyze if equity and cost-effectiveness effectiveness are contradictory principles and if policymakers will face tradetrade offs if they want to prioritize adaptation pr ...
... cost effectiveness, and how they could be useful as criteria for prioritization of adaptation funding. As a further step, we will analyze if equity and cost-effectiveness effectiveness are contradictory principles and if policymakers will face tradetrade offs if they want to prioritize adaptation pr ...
WeatHerinG tHe storM options for Framing adaptation
... In Weathering the Storm: Options for Framing Adaptation and Development, Heather McGray, Anne Hammill, and Rob Bradley review examples of adaptation efforts drawn from throughout the developing world. They describe strategies of adaptation and development on an encouraging trajectory of convergence: ...
... In Weathering the Storm: Options for Framing Adaptation and Development, Heather McGray, Anne Hammill, and Rob Bradley review examples of adaptation efforts drawn from throughout the developing world. They describe strategies of adaptation and development on an encouraging trajectory of convergence: ...
Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change
... in land size and interference with the drainage system constructed by the colonialists. The combination of these factors has limited the ability of farmers to deal with floods that affect the lower parts of the watershed. While most of the coping strategies currently employed are implemented on an a ...
... in land size and interference with the drainage system constructed by the colonialists. The combination of these factors has limited the ability of farmers to deal with floods that affect the lower parts of the watershed. While most of the coping strategies currently employed are implemented on an a ...
Possible impacts on climate change on biocontrol systems in New
... unchanging biological drivers such as seasonal daylength. New Zealand uses biocontrol to reduce greatly the need to use pesticides, provide cheap, long-term, self-sustaining control of pests, to conserve natural habitats and to foster sustainable systems dependent on natural processes with minimal i ...
... unchanging biological drivers such as seasonal daylength. New Zealand uses biocontrol to reduce greatly the need to use pesticides, provide cheap, long-term, self-sustaining control of pests, to conserve natural habitats and to foster sustainable systems dependent on natural processes with minimal i ...
What is carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in
... that maximizes the amount of carbon that remains stored in the soil and plant material for the long term and is the form of sequestration most often found at community level. No-till farming, wetland management, rangeland management, and reforestation are examples of terrestrial sequestration practi ...
... that maximizes the amount of carbon that remains stored in the soil and plant material for the long term and is the form of sequestration most often found at community level. No-till farming, wetland management, rangeland management, and reforestation are examples of terrestrial sequestration practi ...
The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A
... adaptation options available to and in use by marine and coastal managers. This report presents the results of EcoAdapt’s efforts to survey, inventory, and assess adaptation projects from different regions, jurisdictions, and scales throughout North America’s marine and coastal environments. First, ...
... adaptation options available to and in use by marine and coastal managers. This report presents the results of EcoAdapt’s efforts to survey, inventory, and assess adaptation projects from different regions, jurisdictions, and scales throughout North America’s marine and coastal environments. First, ...
Building Climate Change Resilience in
... slow, difficult, highly contested process, which did not have to deal with climate change and which was much helped by prosperity and economic stability. Many of the nations or cities most at risk from climate change lack the political and institutional base for adaptation – and for addressing the d ...
... slow, difficult, highly contested process, which did not have to deal with climate change and which was much helped by prosperity and economic stability. Many of the nations or cities most at risk from climate change lack the political and institutional base for adaptation – and for addressing the d ...
A georeferenced agent-based model to analyze the
... Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Received 21 January 2014; final version received 1 June 2014) ABSTRACT ...
... Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Received 21 January 2014; final version received 1 June 2014) ABSTRACT ...
How will organic carbon stocks in mineral soils
... by a range of climate models for a range of climate scenarios to examine the impacts of future climate on global soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. The results suggest an overall global increase in SOC stocks by 2100 under all scenarios, but with a different extent of increase among the climate model ...
... by a range of climate models for a range of climate scenarios to examine the impacts of future climate on global soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. The results suggest an overall global increase in SOC stocks by 2100 under all scenarios, but with a different extent of increase among the climate model ...
Climate engineering
Climate engineering, also referred to as geoengineering or climate intervention, is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climatic system with the aim of limiting adverse climate change. Climate engineering is an umbrella term for two types of measures: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. Carbon dioxide removal addresses the cause of climate change by removing one of the greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere. Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing the Earth to absorb less solar radiation.Climate engineering approaches are sometimes viewed as additional potential options for limiting climate change, alongside mitigation and adaptation. There is substantial agreement among scientists that climate engineering cannot substitute climate change mitigation. Some approaches might be used as accompanying measures to sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Given that all types of measures addressing climate change have economic, political or physical limitations a some climate engineering approaches might eventually be used as part of an ensemble of measures. Research on costs, benefits, and various types of risks of most climate engineering approaches is at an early stage and their understanding needs to improve to judge their adequacy and feasibility.No known large-scale climate engineering projects have taken place to date. Almost all research into solar geoengineering has consisted of computer modelling or laboratory tests, and attempts to move to real-world experimentation have proved controversial for many types of climate engineering. Some practices, such as planting of trees and whitening of surfaces as well as bio-energy with carbon capture and storage projects are underway, their scalability to effectively affect global climate is however debated. Ocean iron fertilization has been given small-scale research trials, sparking substantial controversy.Most experts and major reports advise against relying on geoengineering techniques as a simple solution to climate change, in part due to the large uncertainties over effectiveness and side effects. However, most experts also argue that the risks of such interventions must be seen in the context of risks of dangerous climate change. Interventions at large scale may run a greater risk disrupting natural systems resulting in a dilemma that those approaches that could prove highly (cost-) effective in addressing extreme climate risk, might themselves cause substantial risk. Some have suggested that the concept of geoengineering the climate presents a moral hazard because it could reduce political and public pressure for emissions reduction, which could exacerbate overall climate risks.Groups such as ETC Group and some climate researchers (such as Raymond Pierrehumbert) are in favour of a moratorium on out-of-doors testing and deployment of SRM.