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Adaptation to a Changing Climate Today’s Iinvestments in Tomorrow’s Climate
This report advocates for the consumer by examining the impacts of climate change on such things as property values, protection of property, repair costs in the event of a climate disaster, as well as the accompanying psychological distress. The most vulnerable will be low-income, the eldery and those with pre-existing medical conditions who w ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations
Adaptation to Climate Change
While mitigation efforts are critical to avoid further climate change damage, even the most stringent will be inadequate to avoid all the impacts. Therefore, enhanced knowledge and awareness of the need for climate change adaption--its risks, opportunities and challenges--is essential to pursue at this point in time.
From the Introduction: ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Latin America
Adapting to Climate Change Survey: A Special Report
"Overall, there is a high level of engagement in planning for
adaptation (62%). The sector breakdown of members’ organisations planning for
adaptation is: construction 64%; manufacturing 64%; electricity, gas and water
supply (76%); transport, storage and communication (65%) and local government
(90%). This level of engagement is signific ...
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Geographic Focus: EU and Member States
Advancing the Science of Climate Change
This is another policy brief from The National Council of the National Academies.
As both experts and lay communities recognize that climate change is indeed taking place and posing serious risks and consequences for both natural systems and human society, the question has shifted from "What is happening?" to "How can we respond?". This p ...
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Geographic Focus: US Only
Agriculture and Climate Change
From the Introduction: " As countries are seeking to meet and negotiate binding climate change targets, the contribution that agricultural production makes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is being considered by policy makers globally. There is therefore a clear need to find cost-effective ways to address agricultural emissions whilst c ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Latin America
Assessing Dangerous Climate Change Through an Update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang...
From the Report: "Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change [United Nations (1992)...accessed February 9, 2009] commits signatory
nations to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that 'would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the climate system.' In an effort to ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin America
Basic Information from the EPA
This link will take you to a page on the EPA website that has posted four two-page fact sheets
on climate change based on recent scientific data and findings. These documents
may be useful to state and local governments looking for public outreach
materials on climate change. The four new fact sheets are:
Climate
Change Sc ...
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California Farm Water Success Stories
"This report analyzes successful examples of sustainable water policies and practices to demonstrate how innovative growers and irrigation districts are already beginning to move California toward more equitable and efficient water management use. These practices are making a differendce and there are steps, both in policy and on-the-ground, tha ...
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Climate Change Adaptation: The Pivotol Role of Water.
Water plays key roles in climate change and its effects on human societies. First, it is the lifeblood of the planet; second, it is the primary medium through which climate change influences earth's ecosystems, as well as all natural, social and economic systems and livelihoods. Water stress is already occurring around the planet and continuin ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin America
Climate Change Indicators in the United States
"This report presents 24 indicators, each describing trends
related to the causes and effects of climate change. The report focuses
primarily on the United States, but in some cases global trends are presented to
provide context or a basis for comparison. It aims to collect data and generate
analyses to: (i) monitor the effects/impact ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries
Climate Change: Faster, Stronger, Sooner
Research published on climate change since the deadline for the assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals that global warming is accelerating, at times far beyond IPCC 2007 forecasts.
This summary presents some sobering facts, some even dire predictions, regarding the Europen Unioin and the accelera ...
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Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis" The Quest for Green Growth
This is the report from the Brookings Blum Roundtable held in August of 2009. The report was postponed to incorporate the outcomes of the UNFCCC in Copenhagen 2009. While in many respects the participants of the roundtable felt that climate talks in Copenhagen were a failure, there was some movement towards international cooperation and the pos ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin America
Climate Refugees: Implications for India
From the Conclusion: "Climate change is likely to expose hundreds of millions of people to increasing environmental risks displacing a large number of people and forcing them to migrate. There is an emerging view that these people should be recognised as climate refugees by international laws and proper institutional arrangements should be made ...
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Geographic Focus: Asia and Oceania
Climte Change and Water: An Overview from the World Water Development Report 3 Water in A Changing W...
A global water crisis is not out of the question. One of the most difficult questions to get our heads around is that, even if greenhouse gas concentrations were to stabilize in the coming years, impacts from climate change are already unavoidable, including: inreasing water stress in many regions, more extreme weather events and the potential ...
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Combating Climate ChangeThe German Adaptation Strategy
Although this document focuses on the German strategies for adapting to climate change, the information presented is pertinent to the entire developed world, emphasizing that climate change is already changing the way we live and will have far-reaching consequences for the natural environment, human societies and the global economy if not properl ...
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Environment as infrastructure: Resilience to climate change impacts on water through investments in ...
From the document:
"This Perspective Document is part of a series of 16 papers on Water and Climate Change Adaptation."
"'Climate change and adaptation’ is a central topic on the 5th World Water Forum. It is the lead theme for the political and thematic processes, the topic of a High Level Panel session, and a focus in several docume ...
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Future Impacts of Climate Change Across Europe
From the Abstract: "This CEPS Working Document reviews the potential impacts of climate change on
11 key indicator categories and 3 large regions covering the entire European
Union. Although there remains a considerable degree of uncertainty about local
and regional effects, the paper highlights strong distributional patterns.
Northern E ...
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Geographic Focus: EU and Member States
Global Survey of Agricultural Mitigation Projects New!
Excerpted from Abstract: "This global survey of agricultural mitigation projects provides a summary of the state-of-the-art of different projects currently developed in this sector. It
contains data on 50 agricultural projects focusing on climate change, of which 22 were developed specifically with a greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation objective. Th ...
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Land: A Tool for Climate Change Adaptation
Excerpted from the text: "There are three justifications for the inclusion of adaptation measures for the drylands communities in the new climate change agreement. First, drylands communities are classified as the poorest of the poor and are therefore unlikely to be able to bear the added cost of response to longer and more intense droughts prec ...
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Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor Nations
Meeting the Climate Challenge: Core Elements of an Effective Response to Climate Change
The report highlights the four elements critical to mitigating climate change: energy effciency, renewable energy, forest conservation and sustainable land use. Arguing that the benefits they provide--economic, security, and environmental--makes them attractive beyond their value as simply responses to climate change. In other words, they are ...
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Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin America
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