climate change Articles
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Urban climate change impact and Istanbul Water Consensus
Climate change impacts especially on major cities of the world are expected to cause inter–sectoral interactions concerning environmental, socio–economic, cultural, and technological developments and their implementations. This paper presents a methodology to predict future monthly rainfall amounts and surface runoff volumes on decadal basis from 2000–2050 and accordingly interpretation of ...
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Climate change and water adaptation issues
The report reviews the challenges facing Europe to adapt to the impacts of climate change on water resources. Water is a critical sector for people's lives and the economy. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilised today, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including those on water availability and flooding, will continue for many decades to come. Using a policy ...
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Climate change and river flooding in Europe
Untitled Document Extreme floods are the most common type of natural disaster in Europe. Climate change, including the increasing intensity of heavy rainfall, is projected to make extreme river floods even more frequent in some areas, especially in central, northern and northeastern Europe. In particular, the number of sudden, localised but severe floods - flash floods ...
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Building community resilience to climate change : Testing the adaptation coalition framework in Latin America
The purpose of this paper is to present the findings from a five-country case study which tested the application of the Adaptation Coalition Framework (ACF) in Latin America and the Caribbean. The development of the ACF is based on the belief that climate change presents challenges that many climate change adaptation models and sustainable development frameworks do not completely address. As a ...
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2014 U.S. Climate Action Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
On January 1, 2014, the Department of State submitted the 2014 U.S. Climate Action Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This report, which includes the First U.S. Biennial Report and Sixth U.S. National Communication to the UNFCCC, details actions the United States is taking domestically and internationally to mitigate, adapt to, and assist others in ...
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Climate is changing, can we? A scientific exhibition in schools to understand climate change and raise awareness on sustainability good practices
Climate change is recognised as the most urgent environmental problem we are facing today. Communication initiatives can play a key role in addressing people's perception of climate change possibly driving them to change their lifestyles. The Institute of Biometeorology of Italian National Research Council realised in 2006-2007 a communication campaign through a science exhibition visited by more ...
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Using the transtheoretical model of behavioural change to understand the processes through which climate change films might encourage mitigation action
A number of recent films such as An Inconvenient Truth and The Age of Stupid aim not merely to inform their audience about climate change, but to engage them in taking mitigation action. This paper outlines the transtheoretical model of behavioural change, which incorporates six stages of change that individuals progress through as they change their behaviour, and ten associated processes of ...
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Adapting flood management to climate change: comparing policy frames and governance practices in the Low Countries
Belgium and the Netherlands together form the Low Countries. Empirical research in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) and the Netherlands proves that there are substantive differences in the organization of governance processes regarding flood management in response to climate change. This article answers the question of how Flanders and the Netherlands, confronted with universal ...
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Adapting to climate change
This assessment addresses climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation (1). Global climate observations, science and physical impacts as well as mitigation — the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — are covered in separate analyses (2). To achieve the EU's objective of limiting the global temperature increase to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, global GHG emissions need ...
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An assessment of flaws and conflicts in climate change communication
Science has made a great leap forward in the last 20 years in supporting the claim of the anthropogenic origin of climate change. The community of scientists working on disciplines related to climate is virtually unanimous on the point. According to polls, respondents in some Western countries are showing a growing scepticism, if not plain confusion. This article aims at describing and analysing ...
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Supporting a strong and visible representation of climate change in the SDGs
Your Excellencies, Dear Members of the OWG on SDGs, We are writing to thank you for your ongoing efforts to ensure that climate change is appropriately reflected in the latest version of the focus area document. We believe that climate change is an existential threat to humankind and global efforts to overcome poverty and achieve sustainable development. Therefore, we also believe that climate ...
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The Plumbing of Adaptation Finance - Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility at the Local Level
Adaptation is local but reaching the local level is not always easy. This paper explores the challenges of reaching the most vulnerable people with adaptation finance. It identifies opportunities for improvement and proposes a framework to assess delivery of adaptation finance focusing on transparency, ownership, responsiveness and equity. The amount of international climate finance approved to ...
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Some issues in climate change decision-making
This paper critically analyses various issues related to the climate change decision problem. It focuses on ex ante preventive measures, such as hedging strategies, as well as ex post remedies, such as liability and insurance. In addition, it explores the importance of economic concepts, such as free riding and value of information, to the climate change debate.Keywords: climate change, ...
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Identifying Countries that are Particularly Vulnerable to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change: An Academic or a Political Challenge?
In light of the scarce funds currently available for adaptation, some Parties to the UNFCCC have suggested a prioritisation between eligible countries on the basis of their vulnerability to climate change, and to develop a vulnerability index for doing so. Article 4.4 of the Convention commits developed countries “to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse ...
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The origins of integrated models of climate change
The Club of Rome's report The Limits to Growth, published in 1972, asserted the necessity to stop economic and demographic growth in order to avoid the collapse of the world system. It summarised several heterogeneous approaches of the future, somewhere between an ecologically alarmist approach and a typically managerial approach of technological forecasting. The report caused a storm in ...
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Prospects for future climate change and the reasons for early action
The 2008 A&WMA Critical Review, which was entitled “Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,” focused on the vital issue of global climate change. During the presentation of the review on June 25, 2008, in Portland, OR, Dr. Michael C. MacCracken, chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC, gave an overview of the basic ...
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The essential role of expertise on natural resources in climate change Master`s education
Future climate change may critically affect natural resources that are essential for basic human needs. Water resources are undoubtedly among the most important resources in this respect. Moreover, water plays an important role in the climate system. These examples illustrate why it is important to pay considerable attention to natural resources in climate change education. The expertise ...
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Integrated water resource planning in the context of climate uncertainty
In many locations, climate change may significantly reduce urban water supplies and could also affect water demand. With uncertainty around future climate, supply-demand planning needs to adapt. This paper addresses the question: How does climate change alter Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) for urban water? The paper covers the setting of planning objectives in the face of climate change, ...
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Validation of a conscientious corporate brand framework - a Turkish study
This study tests a construct of Conscientious Corporate Brand (hereinafter called CCB) introduced by Rindell et al. (2011). It assesses the dimensions of environmental and climate change issues, and the internal and external corporate codes of ethics. Subsequently, it builds upon and validates previous research in the field of ethical branding. The study was performed in business–to–business ...
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UK climate change secretary fights Treasury to save DECC
Climate change secretary is fighting the Treasury to save DECC’s funding and independence, reports ...
By Vital Energi
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