Sentences with phrase «focused on climate change assessments»

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The physical science assessment focuses on four topics: drivers of climate change, changes observed in the climate system, understanding cause - and - effect relationships, and projection of future changes.

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).

These programs focus on climate, aerosol and cloud physics; global and regional scale modeling; integrated assessment of global change; and complex regional meteorology and chemistry.

For this assessment, we primarily focus on just two: how climate change will affect Montana's temperature and precipitation in the future.

In addition, we do not detail potential responses of individual tree species to climate shifts in this assessment; instead, we focus on the direct and indirect effects of climate change on forests.

The probe by this team takes the timeline on Exxon's focus on climate change several years earlier than a previous investigation of oil industry assessments of global warming by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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.

It was written by Laurens M. Bouwer, a researcher at Vrije University in Amsterdam focused on climate and water resources (and a lead author of a chapter in the 2001 assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cclimate and water resources (and a lead author of a chapter in the 2001 assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate CClimate Change).

The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

Carbon Tracker believes that fossil fuel management are overly focused on demand and price scenarios that assume business as usual and so there may be a risk assessment «gap» between a management's view of the future and that which would result from action on climate change, technology developments and changing economic assumptions.

«Although climate change and variability involves all aspects of the climate system [Pielke, 1998], the assessment of anthropogenically - forced climate change has focused on surface temperature as the primary metric [Mann and Jones, 2003; Soon et al., 2004].

It also presents how the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supports countries in addressing climate change, with particular focus on impact assessment and adaptation planning, increasing resilience, strengthening institutions and assisting countries in implementing adaptation priorities.

His current research focuses on the role of technology in addressing climate change, scenario analysis, and integrated assessment model development.

That is when the Climate Change Authority delivers its first report on Australia's ambition, and this will be in the same year as the IPCC delivers its next assessment of the climate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforClimate Change Authority delivers its first report on Australia's ambition, and this will be in the same year as the IPCC delivers its next assessment of the climate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforeChange Authority delivers its first report on Australia's ambition, and this will be in the same year as the IPCC delivers its next assessment of the climate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforclimate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforechange science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets before 2020.

Climate change and energy policy with focus on energy technology policy assessment, energy supply policy assessment, renewable energy development and energy conservation, including energy and emission scenarios, assessment on energy and fuel tax, research on China's potential to achieve its energy targets and development of the Integrated Policy Assessment models.

His research focuses on urban air pollution, climate change, transport, community resilience, behavioural change, public engagement and environmental assessment.

«At the moment, the focus is quite heavy on the economic categorisation of loss and damage, and we want to highlight the things that people value that can be damaged by climate change or lost to climate change that aren't accounted for in these assessments.»

While our focus here is on national assessments, and in the United States in particular, the project of improving such assessments is an international one, with parallel efforts in other countries or regions (e.g. UK Committee on Climate Change 2017, California's four Climate Change Assessments12); the need for peer learning between respective efforts is critical and often overlooked.

Assessments of adaptation options generally focus on incremental, homogeneous ecosystem responses to climate even though climate change impacts can be big, fast, and patchy across a region.

The need for change is arguably even more important for national assessments, which generally focus on climate change and impacts at national and sub-national scales, the scales of governance with primary decision - making authority for most response actions.

In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community - based adaptation.

While this blog is not meant to be a comprehensive assessment of Mr. Trump's stance on energy policies, we hope it provides a general overview for evaluating where Mr. Trump may stand on issues of interest to energy - focused voters: coal, climate change, renewables, efficiency, natural gas, nuclear and drilling.

While this blog is not meant to be a comprehensive assessment of Dr. Jill Stein's stance on energy issues, we hope it provides a general overview for evaluating where she may stand on issues of interest to energy - focused voters: coal, climate change, renewables, efficiency, natural gas, nuclear and drilling.

On Tuesday, some conservative groups criticized the new climate assessment, with the libertarian Cato Institute arguing in a blog post that it «overly focuses on the supposed negative impacts from climate change while largely dismissing or ignoring the positives from climate change.&raquOn Tuesday, some conservative groups criticized the new climate assessment, with the libertarian Cato Institute arguing in a blog post that it «overly focuses on the supposed negative impacts from climate change while largely dismissing or ignoring the positives from climate change.&raquon the supposed negative impacts from climate change while largely dismissing or ignoring the positives from climate change.»

A total of 22 European Member States answered the questions focusing on eight thematic areas or topics: governance, vulnerability, impact and adaptation assessments, national and subnational adaptation strategies, climate - change mitigation, strengthening of health systems, awareness raising and capacity building, green health services and sharing best practices.

The new assessment makes a point of focusing on how climate change is harming human health, noting that extreme weather, more wildfires, decreased air quality, insect - borne diseases, and food - and waterborne diseases are likely to endanger children and the elderly most of all.

It argues that the IPCC's «heroic days» of «Herculean work» are probably over, more frequent assessments focused on policy challenges are required, and the wider review of science made possible by the blogosphere can help: New Scientist says because the case for anthropogenic climate change is firmly established («the Nobel prize is won») the IPCC really needs to revision itself.

Working Group II, the section that focuses on the impacts of climate change and how to adapt to it, was a particular target for climate skeptics in assailing the fourth assessment report.

His research focuses on climate - change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human - induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions.