Sentences with phrase «assessments on the climate impacts»

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Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

The UFT is currently interviewing candidates to run an independent assessment of the impact of the Community Learning Schools Initiative on student achievement and school climate in the participating schools.

He, Ziska and nine coauthors included nutritional erosion in the 2016 U.S. scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change on human health.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

This assessment is focused on the analysis of climate change impacts to the sectors of water (Chapter 3), forests (Chapter 4), and agriculture (Chapter 5).

For the assessments of climate impacts made herein, we follow guidance from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as providedclimate impacts made herein, we follow guidance from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as providedClimate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as providedClimate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as provided below.

This assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on Montana agriculture is a starting point to identify and prioritize the aspects of agriculture that might be most impacted.

Despite claims to the contrary, the conclusions of the IPCC take CO2 fertilisation properly into account in the assessment of climate change feedbacks involving the carbon cycle, and in the assessment of the impacts of climate change on ecosystems.

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«The 2 °C target was all about warming and didn't involve consideration of ocean acidification in any direct way,» said University of Queensland professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, one of the lead authors of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment chapter dealing with ocean impacts.

The assessment concludes with an analysis of major knowledge gaps — and thus areas for future research — related to climate change and its impacts on the three sectors covered herein (Chapter 6).

I was invested in the top three topics — testing and assessment, school climate and culture, and teacher evaluation — as they impacted my students and me on a daily basis.

The first global scientific assessment of climate change impacts on World Heritage coral reefs, published by UNESCO's World Heritage Centre last July, revealed that 25 of 29 listed reefs experienced bleaching stress in the last three years.

To evaluate whether the country's flood protection strategy is capable of coping with future climate conditions, an assessment of low - probability / high - impact scenarios is conducted, focusing mainly on sea level rise.

For this reason, a European project was estaqblished in 2011, COST - action TOSCA (Towards a more complete assessment of the impact of solar variability on the Earth's climate), whose objective is to provide a better understanding of the «hotly debated role of the Sun in climate change» (not really in the scientific fora, but more in the general public discourse).

Looking at Tropicana's scores you'll see that our assessment of PepsiCo found that their policies on farmers and workers issues are «poor» while they get slightly higher marks for how they address their impacts on climate change and land.

Here we use a risk assessment framework to examine the potential impact of El Nino events and natural variability on rice agriculture in 2050 under conditions of climate change, with a focus on two main rice - producing areas: Java and Bali.

On Friday, one recipient of the letter, Edward R. Carr, an associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina who will work on the assessment of climate impacts and adaptation options, complained about the letter in a post on his blog under the heading «Apparently we have learned nothing....&raquOn Friday, one recipient of the letter, Edward R. Carr, an associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina who will work on the assessment of climate impacts and adaptation options, complained about the letter in a post on his blog under the heading «Apparently we have learned nothing....&raquon the assessment of climate impacts and adaptation options, complained about the letter in a post on his blog under the heading «Apparently we have learned nothing....&raquon his blog under the heading «Apparently we have learned nothing....»

Consequently, the department must complete a comprehensive assessment of all installations to assess the potential impacts of climate change on its missions and adapt as required.

The report on impacts of climate change — one of three main sections of each of the panel's periodic assessments — has long been seen by some climate scientists, including some participants in the I.P.C.C. process, as a relatively weak element in the overall effort, in part because it has less scientific literature to draw on.

2007, PNAS) is that changes in shear will act in opposition to changes in stability, making an overall assessment of possible impacts of climate change on severe convection difficult at this time.

The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (whose reports are conservative by nature), and a range of other assessments all conclude with high confidence that — for better or worse — the long - term Arctic trend for summer sea ice is down, given the projected buildup of greenhouse gases and tendency of the Arctic to amplify warming.

The findings largely reflect those of other recent reports, including the section on climate impacts in last year's assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate impacts in last year's assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

Socio - economic and climate change impacts on agriculture: an integrated assessment, 1990 — 2080 Phil.

The take - home message, directly in sync with the core findings of the last two assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, can be distilled to a fairly straightforward statement: Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide will result in long - lasting warming that will progressively produce more harmful impacts on conditions and systems that influence human wellbeing.

I made this point recently in an e-mail exchange with three leaders of the climate panel's next assessment — the chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, and Thomas Stocker and Christopher Field, scientists respectively co-leading the reports on climate science and impacts.

In essence Tung & Zhou are dining at the denialist's last - chance saloon by invoking a 60 - year natural cycle (their cycle of choice being AMO) resulting in a reduced anthropogenic influence on climate, although they make sure to not directly challenge climate sensitivity by asserting that their findings will impact on assessment of net anthropogenic forcing and leave climate sensitivity estimates unchallenged.

There are far fewer assessments of possible climate - change impacts on tropical regions outside Amazonia.

While at WWF, he coordinated reviews of climate impacts on U.S. national parks, marine ecosystems, and migratory birds, in addition to climate vulnerability assessments in southern Africa and China.

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

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The challenges are significant, but the record of progress suggests that within the next decade the scientific community will develop fully coupled dynamical (prognostic) models of the full Earth system (e.g., the coupled physical climate, biogeochemical, human sub-systems) that can be employed on multi-decadal time - scales and at spatial scales relevant to strategic impact assessment.

Consequently, the Department must complete a comprehensive assessment of all installations to assess the potential impacts of climate change on its missions and adapt as required.

The programme, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aims to assist countries that are party to the Convention, particularly developing countries, to improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and to make informed decisions tClimate Change (UNFCCC), aims to assist countries that are party to the Convention, particularly developing countries, to improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and to make informed decisions tclimate change, and to make informed decisions thereon.

The latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted these concerns: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.Climate Change noted these concerns: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

With every assessment the group publishes four technical reports, each thousands of pages long — one on the basic science, and others on climate impacts and how to adapt to them, ways to curb emissions, and a synthesis of all the findings — as well as a 20 - page summary for policymakers that covers the material most relevant to world leaders and the public.

The announcement expected on Monday will come less than a month after the White House released a sweeping assessment of climate change's impact on the United States.

Currently, there are no published assessments of potential impacts of climate change on regional endemic floras for any part of North America.

Climate uncertainties and their discontents: Increasing the impact of assessments on public understanding of climate risks and cClimate uncertainties and their discontents: Increasing the impact of assessments on public understanding of climate risks and cclimate risks and choices.

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36

Oakland, CA, USA, and Zurich, Switzerland — Global Footprint Network, an expert in natural resource accounting, announced an agreement with carbon footprinting provider South Pole Group to strengthen their respective offerings by collaborating on comprehensive climate and carbon impact assessment services for sovereign bond investors.

More recent assessments combining global - and regional - scale analysis, impacts of climate change on growing periods and agricultural systems, and possible livelihood implications, have also been examined (Jones and Thornton, 2003; Huntingford et al., 2005; Thornton et al., 2006).

In 1996, when the IPCC released its second assessment report, stating that the human impact on climate was «discernible», a fossil - fuel - industry - funded group called the Global Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than climate was «discernible», a fossil - fuel - industry - funded group called the Global Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than it was.

Results from various assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture based on various climate models and SRES emissions scenarios indicate certain agricultural areas that may undergo negative changes.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

The WGI contribution is the first in the series of four reports with the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability scheduled for finalization in March 2014; the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change to be finalized in April 2014, and the AR5 Synthesis Report to be completed in October 2014.

It discusses the assessment of climate change impacts on forest regulating services using an ecosystem based valuation approach and finally presents the economic valuation exercise, and corresponding monetary estimation results of forest sequestration services in the context of climate change.

McDermid, S.P., G. Dileepkumar, K.M.D. Murthy, S. Nedumaran, P. Singh, C. Srinivasa, B. Gangwar, N. Subash, A. Ahmad, L. Zubair, and S.P. Nissanka, 2015: Integrated assessments of the impacts of climate change on agriculture: An overview of AgMIP regional research in South Asia.

This technical document measures the impact of climate change on freshwater resources through an integrated assessment, in order to identify the related underlying causes of socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability in the Arab region.