Sentences with phrase «climate risk assessments»

Investors can make a difference through green standards, green bonds and better climate risk assessments.

We hope this will be useful for researchers and practitioners completing further climate risk assessments.

These activities include the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, West - Wide Climate Risk Assessments, and Basin Studies.

Westwide Climate Risk Assessments - The West - wide Climate Risk Assessments (WWCRA) are a complementary activity with the Basin Studies and the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives within the WaterSMART Initiative, in accordance with Secretarial Order 3289 (pdf - 83 KB), and meet the authorizations of the Secure Water Act.

Thanksgiving worked with Rwanda's Dukunde Kawa Cooperative, which has over 1800 producers, doing site - specific climate risk assessments, and deploying best practices such as shade intercropping, erosion control, and watershed conservation.

Just last week, Stringer announced the City will begin a long - awaited climate risk assessment of its investments.

She identified development of national flood building and disaster resiliency standards as two examples that could «drive locals to make better decisions,» and noted the president just announced that all international development programs will have to undertake a climate risk assessment going forward to qualify for federal funds.

There's an invaluable new report out from an international team of experts on paths to more effective climate risk assessment that describes precisely why the work of Hansen and his co-authors and those who now review the work is essential:

This is the report of a workshop identifying successful examples of integrating practices and tools for climate risk assessment and management and disaster risk reduction strategies into national policies and programmes.

This analytical report presents a set of pilot climate risk assessment studies aimed to test and begin to develop methods and tools for evaluating climate risks to the private sector and to identify appropriate adaptation responses.

In recent years, he has devoted much of his wealth and time to financing climate and energy initiatives at Yale University and Stanford University (where as a Trustee he played a key role in pushing through coal divestment), managing clean energy investment funds, and co-founding a climate risk assessment initiative.

Such valued attributes, to the extent they are vulnerable to climate change, should be the central focus of climate risk assessment.

«Climate risk assessment, Evaluation of approaches» Final conference of the Dutch National Research Program on Climate Change, 15 Nov 2001.

A new report grapples with the complex challenges of climate risk assessment, and urges governments to adopt a cross-disciplinary, holistic approach at the...

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But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

Which is why the Committee on Climate Change has carried out a comprehensive, scientific assessment of the risks and opportunities for the UK.

The climate change risk assessment is the result of more than three years of work, involving hundreds of leading scientists, and experts from both the public and private sectors.

It aims to provide what it calls the first - ever «comprehensive assessment of the economic risks our nation faces from the changing climate.»

At the heart of the initiative is the «What We Know» report, an assessment of current climate science and impacts that emphasizes the need to understand and recognize possible high - risk scenarios.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

The risk assessment stems from the objective stated in the 2015 Paris Agreement regarding climate change that society keep average global temperatures «well below» a 2 °C (3.6 °F) increase from what they were before the Industrial Revolution.

Results from the three assessments confirm that climate projections are the main driver influencing future trends of flood risk.

«In this exciting question of what's next for climate, assessment has a huge amount to contribute, ranging from revealing risks and options through to pinpointing the ways that it's a challenge of values, and whose values count and how much,» Mach said.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

The team is now investigating the risk from climate change to bird and butterfly populations across Europe and how existing assessments may have underestimated their chances of survival against a changing climate.

The researchers are calling for guidelines produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, the world's main authority on species that are at risk of extinction, to be updated to include cautionary messages on some methodologies of climate change risk assessment.

Jiacan Yuan is a climatologist who is interested in understanding the fundamental dynamical processes in the atmosphere and improving climate models, which could give us better predictive power and risk assessment of the changing climate.

A recent assessment of sea level risk issued by Climate Central ranked the top 25 U.S. cities with the -LSB-...]

He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate change.

The connections to irrigation practices and global grain supplies, to Conservation Reserve Program land, to cover - cropping practices, and to fire risks alluded to in this section and elsewhere in this assessment are all reminders that the interdependence of livestock and crop agriculture will likely loom large as Montana experiences the cumulative effects of climate change.

I'm one of the directors of the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate change.

A group of experts all around the globe has come up with a climate change report that aims to highlight the importance of risk assessment and the impacts of global warming to the society.

The risk assessment must be based on every tipping point being breached, so for all intents and purposes, climate sensitivity is unconstrained.

It seems to me we should use the higher values for climate sensitivity, including the slower feedbacks, for a complete assessment of risks upto the seventh generation, so to speak.

These and most other similar large - scale assessments are based primarily on species distribution (bioclimatic envelope) models, which use correlations between species» observed distributions and climate variables to predict their distributions and hence their extinction risk under future climate scenarios [9]--[11].

Quantitative integrated assessment of climate change risks is not always possible, but it can play a key role in informing decisions both about local adaptation and about large - scale mitigation policy.

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The final thread addresses how climate change risk assessment can usefully inform real - world policy and investment decisions.

Following preliminary assessments from the Met Office, Oxford University researchers undertook the first scientific experiment to analyse whether the risk of extreme rainfall has changed due to climate change after the winter deluge between December 2013 and February 2014.

he Climate Impact Lab is developing highly - resolved climate projection frameworks capable of producing both the detail and the likelihood assessments needed for quantitative assessment of future climatClimate Impact Lab is developing highly - resolved climate projection frameworks capable of producing both the detail and the likelihood assessments needed for quantitative assessment of future climatclimate projection frameworks capable of producing both the detail and the likelihood assessments needed for quantitative assessment of future climateclimate risk.

Importantly for risk assessment, ESMs may fail to capture the low - probability, high - impact end of potential future climate change altogether.

Given that the writers are on strike anyhow (but even if they weren't), perhaps the TV media should give us a «time out» from their normal entertainments and cover basic statistics, risk assessment, climate science, and related matters for the public good?

The output is a risk assessment of the direct and indirect economic impacts of storm surge under climate change, including, for example, production and job losses and reconstruction duration, and the benefits of investment in upgraded sea defences.

Here's an Associated Press summary in The Times and a BBC article on the Dutch findings, which are in a report initiated after an errant conclusion about the risks from rising sea levels in the Netherlands made it into the 2007 climate assessments by the panel.

Perhaps my pursuit of the «research needed to understand it» and my assessment there from of the «causes, risks, and hazards,» may be different from those of other AGU members, but I don't think that should exclude me from trying to «communicate clearly and objectively with those who can implement policies to shape future climate.»

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.

Refute the risk assessment that: given temps are rising, given they will continue to rise for 1k + years even if we had zero emissions starting today, given the risks of rapid climate change and long - term temp rises are real and threaten our ability to function as a society, etc., we should act to mitigate these threats, particularly since the actions to be taken will lead to a healthier existence for humanity even if AGW / ACC turns out to be wrong.

The report also disappoints in a more fundamental way: it fails to understand the issue of future ocean circulation changes as an issue of risk assessment, rather than one of climate prediction.

Almost 20 years ago, Harold Lewis, a respected physicist who had advised the government and the Pentagon on matters ranging from nuclear winter to missile defense, included his assessment of climate change from the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in a book on technological risk:

7:23 p.m. Updated Below The climate blogger Joe Romm and I agree (breaking news): Scientific research and assessments examining the link between human - driven climate change and malaria exposure have, for the most part, accurately gauged and conveyed the nature of the risk that warming could swell the ranks of people afflicted with this awful mosquito - borne disease.