Climate change, vulnerability, and risk linkages
This research aims to develop a model that may be used to determine the effective adaptive measures to implement in a system affected by climate change.
This research aims to develop a model that may be used to determine the effective adaptive measures to implement in a system affected by climate change.
This paper aims to present part of the research results in developing an adaptation process to cope with flood risk in coastal cities under the impact of climate change variability and rapid urbanization
The purpose of this study is to measure local climate change response capacity and identify the existing gaps between local climate change action plans and land use plans.
On the night of December 10, 2010 Patricia Espinosa shed a tear and received a standing ovation. The foreign secretary of Mexico and president of the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP) on Climate Change
Shine Jacob / Kolkata December 28, 2010, 0:00 IST After looking to buy land in other countries, Maldives is making a last-ditch effort to avoid its citizens becoming climate refugees. It is importing sand. In this endeavour to tackle the effects of global warming, none other than Bangladesh is playing Good Samaritan.
India is set to have the world
Eminent environmentalist Dr Atiq Rahman on Wednesday stressed the need for involving local communities to implement the adaptation programmes to face the adverse impacts of climate change. "Local governments as well as local community are two vital components for climate change adaptation," he said at a roundtable at Hotel Sheraton in the city this morning. United Nations Development Programme (
The feud between Texas and the Environmental Protection Agency reached a new level this week, with federal officials saying that they will take over the granting of permits for new power plants and refineries in the state because Texas refuses to regulate its emissions of greenhouse gases. Gov.
Republicans poised to take power in Congress are planning a rapid attack against a climate change initiative the Obama administration wants to launch on January 2, according to members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Their resolve could harden further after President Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency announces a second layer of regulation, possibly as early as Thursday,
Japan is likely to shelve a plan to introduce carbon emissions trading as the troubled ruling Democratic Party bows to powerful business groups still recovering from a costly downturn. If confirmed, it would be a massive reversal by the party, which has backed one of the toughest emissions reduction targets of any major economy and said emissions trading was a key way to achieve that goal and d
If we could see the energy we use we wouldn't be so wasteful. Technology can help, says Joseph Giacomin.
<p>Most insights come as a surprise: a burst of understanding, an elegant solution to a problem. This decade's main insight in climate science was a different breed. For 40 years, researchers had wrestled with three big questions: Is the world warming? If so, are humans behind the warming? And are natural processes likely to rein it in?
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: People living across the coastal states will soon have to change their preferences in the variety of fish they have consumed and relished for long. Factors like ocean warming, acidification and calcification are beginning to make an impact on traditional fisheries with coastal states reporting newer species of fish. The oil sardine and mackerel which were found in a
Some scientists have argued from observations that global warming will alter clouds in ways that will largely counter warming by greenhouse gases. But the overwhelming majority of climate scientists sides
Estimates of Earth's climate sensitivity are uncertain, largely because of uncertainty in the long-term cloud feedback. I estimated the magnitude of the cloud feedback in response to short-term climate
Extreme weather events are becoming more common as the world warms
Bangladesh on Wednesday called for billions of dollars to be made available quickly for its fight against climate change, as United Nations' environment talks entered their third day in Mexico. The low-lying
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<p>The Bali Action Plan shines with lots of hopes for developing countries that in two years there would be a shared vision to combat global warming. In that plan, the shared vision was portrayed as a ‘long term cooperative action” which would include a “long term global goal for emission reduction”.
Funding a response to climate change after Kyoto will require another look at both burden sharing and funding mechanisms. After reviewing the risks of cap-and-trade with carbon offsets and the advantages of a harmonized carbon tax, a method is proposed to utilize a harmonized carbon tax to finance a global climate fund.