Climate Risk and Business
... The adverse effects of climate change on human welfare are becoming more apparent worldwide, particularly in developing countries. In the past year, climate related impacts caused economic damages amounting to tens of billions of dollars, displaced millions of people and contributed to the looming f ...
... The adverse effects of climate change on human welfare are becoming more apparent worldwide, particularly in developing countries. In the past year, climate related impacts caused economic damages amounting to tens of billions of dollars, displaced millions of people and contributed to the looming f ...
the impact of climate change on the development - UN
... sea-level rise resulting from a global temperature increase of 4 degrees Celsius would completely submerge low-lying island states like Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Maldives. For the LDCs in Africa and Asia, climate change will result in flooding of low-lying coastal areas, increased water scarcity, de ...
... sea-level rise resulting from a global temperature increase of 4 degrees Celsius would completely submerge low-lying island states like Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Maldives. For the LDCs in Africa and Asia, climate change will result in flooding of low-lying coastal areas, increased water scarcity, de ...
2015 Conference Final Program - Climate Change: Impacts and
... Welcome to the Seventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. This conference and its associated journal have been created to promote dialogue across diverse fields and multiple perspectives, on the question of climate change. It examines evidence of climate change, consi ...
... Welcome to the Seventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. This conference and its associated journal have been created to promote dialogue across diverse fields and multiple perspectives, on the question of climate change. It examines evidence of climate change, consi ...
What to Do about Climate Change Executive Summary by Indur M. Goklany
... at least partly offset, if not overwhelm, any advances in well-being that would have occurred absent climate change. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports in its 2001 assessment that modest global warming (1 to 2°C over 1990 levels) could increase global economic product with ga ...
... at least partly offset, if not overwhelm, any advances in well-being that would have occurred absent climate change. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports in its 2001 assessment that modest global warming (1 to 2°C over 1990 levels) could increase global economic product with ga ...
Mainstreaming Climate Change in CAADP processes in
... their way into agricultural policy process, especially the ASWAp. Since the late 70’s and the early 80’s it became apparent that the earth is undergoing a significant shift in climate. According to IPCC (2007), it has now been generally accepted that this climate change is indeed taking place, and i ...
... their way into agricultural policy process, especially the ASWAp. Since the late 70’s and the early 80’s it became apparent that the earth is undergoing a significant shift in climate. According to IPCC (2007), it has now been generally accepted that this climate change is indeed taking place, and i ...
Climate Risk and Adaptation Strategy Discussion Paper (DOCX, 6.9
... Council is strongly committed to both types of action. Our mitigation response is outlined in our Carbon Neutral Strategy1 – which is guiding Council to 2020 and 2025 reduction targets. This discussion paper will focus on our adaptation response. While we acknowledge that mitigation is necessary to ...
... Council is strongly committed to both types of action. Our mitigation response is outlined in our Carbon Neutral Strategy1 – which is guiding Council to 2020 and 2025 reduction targets. This discussion paper will focus on our adaptation response. While we acknowledge that mitigation is necessary to ...
Final Background paper UNFCCC Latin American workshop on a…
... the International Development Bank. ...
... the International Development Bank. ...
Migration and Climate - International Institute for Sustainable
... of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption. Since then various analysts have tried to put numbers on future flows of climate migrants (sometimes called “climate refugees”)—the most widely repeated prediction being 200 million by 2050. But repetition d ...
... of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption. Since then various analysts have tried to put numbers on future flows of climate migrants (sometimes called “climate refugees”)—the most widely repeated prediction being 200 million by 2050. But repetition d ...
Using the UKCP09 probabilistic scenarios to model the amplified
... climate may affect landscape change predicted by the LAPSUS model by projecting GCM predictions of future temperatures to 1000 yr into the future. Importantly, this work made a direct connection between GCM projections and geomorphology. But the temporal resolution of the climate data was daily, thu ...
... climate may affect landscape change predicted by the LAPSUS model by projecting GCM predictions of future temperatures to 1000 yr into the future. Importantly, this work made a direct connection between GCM projections and geomorphology. But the temporal resolution of the climate data was daily, thu ...
National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia 2011
... has been the warmest period in the history of global temperature records (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 2007). Human induced global warming is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which trap heat in the atmosphere, causing a gradual warming of the earth’s sur ...
... has been the warmest period in the history of global temperature records (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 2007). Human induced global warming is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which trap heat in the atmosphere, causing a gradual warming of the earth’s sur ...
Observed groundwater temperature response to recent climate
... at the outlet, to minimize influences by ambient air temperatures. An examination of the time series for seasonal effects revealed that they contain certain minor seasonal effects with annual variations up to ±0.2 K, which indicates an impact of ambient air temperature on the GWT during the sampling ...
... at the outlet, to minimize influences by ambient air temperatures. An examination of the time series for seasonal effects revealed that they contain certain minor seasonal effects with annual variations up to ±0.2 K, which indicates an impact of ambient air temperature on the GWT during the sampling ...
The theme of slow onset impact
... the operative provisions of the Convention. The operative provisions of the Convention begin by defining both the ‘adverse effects of climate change’ as well as the term ‘climate change’ itself. Adverse effects of climate change are …changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climat ...
... the operative provisions of the Convention. The operative provisions of the Convention begin by defining both the ‘adverse effects of climate change’ as well as the term ‘climate change’ itself. Adverse effects of climate change are …changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climat ...
Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate
... which respondents were confronted with a scenario in which ‘‘the next five winters would have very little natural snow’’. The survey, which identified significant negative demand reponses, was repeated by Pickering, Castley, and Burtt (2010), and its main scenario was also used in Switzerland (Behri ...
... which respondents were confronted with a scenario in which ‘‘the next five winters would have very little natural snow’’. The survey, which identified significant negative demand reponses, was repeated by Pickering, Castley, and Burtt (2010), and its main scenario was also used in Switzerland (Behri ...
Normative aspects of climate adaptation policies
... national, regional, private, administrative, and environmental legal regimes. At each of these levels, the actors contribute a variety of values, interests, resources, and perspectives. The problem cuts across the jurisdictions and routines of organizations and sectors. Moreover, the dynamism of the ...
... national, regional, private, administrative, and environmental legal regimes. At each of these levels, the actors contribute a variety of values, interests, resources, and perspectives. The problem cuts across the jurisdictions and routines of organizations and sectors. Moreover, the dynamism of the ...
Community Adaptation Plan Bluefields, Jamaica
... effects. Section 3 briefly examines what climate change has meant for Bluefields thus far and what it could mean for the community in the future. Section 4 presents the expected outcomes of the Community Adaptation Plan. Section 5 gets to the heart of the matter and presents the goals, strategies an ...
... effects. Section 3 briefly examines what climate change has meant for Bluefields thus far and what it could mean for the community in the future. Section 4 presents the expected outcomes of the Community Adaptation Plan. Section 5 gets to the heart of the matter and presents the goals, strategies an ...
Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in
... “Even piece of grass from the frost, used to build, buildup frost that thick. One grass sticking out from the snow, hardly any wind. Nowadays we don’t see frost on the roofs our grass that sticking out from the snow, we don’t see frost. More winds nowadays because the weather’s changing.” “It’s been ...
... “Even piece of grass from the frost, used to build, buildup frost that thick. One grass sticking out from the snow, hardly any wind. Nowadays we don’t see frost on the roofs our grass that sticking out from the snow, we don’t see frost. More winds nowadays because the weather’s changing.” “It’s been ...
IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report
... Projected climate changes Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in the climate system ...
... Projected climate changes Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in the climate system ...
Accurate estimates of yield gaps - Van Bussel et al 2015
... Accurate estimation of yield gaps is only possible for locations where high quality local data are available, which are, however, lacking in many regions of the world. The challenge is how yield gap estimates based on location-specific input data can be used to obtain yield gap estimates for larger s ...
... Accurate estimation of yield gaps is only possible for locations where high quality local data are available, which are, however, lacking in many regions of the world. The challenge is how yield gap estimates based on location-specific input data can be used to obtain yield gap estimates for larger s ...
Top-down vs bottom-up - working paper version
... 2007). For a comparison of costs see Jonathan Pickering, Frank Jotzo, and Peter J. Wood, ‘Splitting the Difference: Can Limited Coordination Achieve a Fair Distribution of the Global Climate Financing Effort?’, Global Environmental ...
... 2007). For a comparison of costs see Jonathan Pickering, Frank Jotzo, and Peter J. Wood, ‘Splitting the Difference: Can Limited Coordination Achieve a Fair Distribution of the Global Climate Financing Effort?’, Global Environmental ...
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Manual
... Eight Steps to Adaptation I. Define your community and specify your adaptation planning area. Determine boundaries for the geographical area, or combination of areas, or otherwise define the community for which you want to develop adaptation planning. 2. Determine your motives for adaptation. Wh ...
... Eight Steps to Adaptation I. Define your community and specify your adaptation planning area. Determine boundaries for the geographical area, or combination of areas, or otherwise define the community for which you want to develop adaptation planning. 2. Determine your motives for adaptation. Wh ...
Migration and Climate Change - Development Research Centre on
... of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption. Since then various analysts have tried to put numbers on future flows of climate migrants (sometimes called “climate refugees”)—the most widely repeated prediction being 200 million by 2050. But repetition d ...
... of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption. Since then various analysts have tried to put numbers on future flows of climate migrants (sometimes called “climate refugees”)—the most widely repeated prediction being 200 million by 2050. But repetition d ...
Danish strategy for adaptation to a changing climate
... society. By autonomous adaptation we mean that authorities, businesses and private citizens react to the consequences of climate change in a timely manner within the legislative, economic and technological framework. The strategy focuses mainly on the general activities to be undertaken to ensure th ...
... society. By autonomous adaptation we mean that authorities, businesses and private citizens react to the consequences of climate change in a timely manner within the legislative, economic and technological framework. The strategy focuses mainly on the general activities to be undertaken to ensure th ...
Climate change in Australia | East Coast cluster report
... The global climate model (GCM) simulations presented here represent the full range of emission scenarios, as defined by the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) used by the IPCC, with a particular focus on RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The former represents a pathway consistent with low-level emissions ...
... The global climate model (GCM) simulations presented here represent the full range of emission scenarios, as defined by the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) used by the IPCC, with a particular focus on RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The former represents a pathway consistent with low-level emissions ...
What is dangerous climate change?
... The report has been written based on the work of the Rapporteurs and Participants in Beijing and has been through several rounds of review amongst the participants, many of whom provided detailed comments and suggestions that we hope have been fully incorporated. The detailed contributions in the re ...
... The report has been written based on the work of the Rapporteurs and Participants in Beijing and has been through several rounds of review amongst the participants, many of whom provided detailed comments and suggestions that we hope have been fully incorporated. The detailed contributions in the re ...
We Have Been Conned - The Science and Public Policy Institute
... other material that might support a specific hypothesis. Its reports are not an honest assessment of climate because they omit, dismiss or distort research findings that do not conform to a certain belief, and if those reports are supposed to focus only on any possible human influence on climate the ...
... other material that might support a specific hypothesis. Its reports are not an honest assessment of climate because they omit, dismiss or distort research findings that do not conform to a certain belief, and if those reports are supposed to focus only on any possible human influence on climate the ...
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann (born 1965) is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, who has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years. He has pioneered techniques to find patterns in past climate change, and to isolate climate signals from ""noisy data"".As lead author of a paper produced in 1998 with co-authors Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes, Mann introduced innovative statistical techniques to find regional variations in a hemispherical climate reconstruction covering the past 600 years. In 1999 the same team used these techniques to produce a reconstruction over the past 1,000 years (MBH99) which was dubbed the ""hockey stick graph"" because of its shape. He was one of 8 lead authors of the ""Observed Climate Variability and Change"" chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report published in 2001. A graph based on the MBH99 paper was highlighted in several parts of the report, and was given wide publicity. The IPCC acknowledged that his work, along with that of the many other lead authors and review editors, contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was won jointly by the IPCC and Al Gore.He was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003 and has received a number of honors and awards including selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and awarded the status of distinguished professor in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.Mann is author of more than 160 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two books: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, published in early 2012. In 2013 the European Geosciences Union described his publication record as ""outstanding for a scientist of his relatively young age"". He is also a co-founder and contributor to the climatology blog RealClimate.