Sentences with phrase «regional adaptation decisions»

This post discusses Workshop presentations on broadening the portfolio of climate information for use in regional adaptation decisions.

by Judith Curry This post discusses Workshop presentations on the utility of climate models for regional adaptation decisions.

FP7 ToPDAd project developed state - of - the - art socioeconomic methods and tools for an integrated assessment supporting regional adaptation decision - making.

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Dow is eager to include dialogue related to risk tolerance and priorities, and approaches to address the uncertainty in climate adaptation in ways that everyone — local community members, regional decision - makers, and scientists — can understand and participate in.

These questions are relevant to meso - scale (1 - 5 decades; local and regional extent) adaptation proposals and decisions.

The study focuses on the way in which decision making in climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) is managed, and assesses practical cases of regional and national adaptation strategies.

Although climate change is global, information on climate adaptation and mitigation are required by the local and regional decision - makers.

These climate change adaptation decisions need to be made however, and in an effort to produce useful regional scale climate information that embodies the global climate change a number of «downscaling» techniques have been developed.

Based on current models, this is not the case everywhere, and continued model development and improvement is required to decrease the uncertainty and increase the utility of regional climate projections for adaptation decision making.

Finally we come to the question of whether regional climate projections should be used in climate change adaptation decisions concerning infrastructure development?

Shukla / IGES: [«Future of the IPCC», 2008] It is inconceivable that policymakers will be willing to make billion - and trillion - dollar decisions for adaptation to the projected regional climate change based on models that do not even describe and simulate the processes that are the building blocks of climate variability.

It highlights for decision makers the needed promotion of local knowledge to adapt to climate fluctuations in order to better define and implement adaptation policies at the national and regional level.

This unique modeling framework will provide decision support for regional climate mitigation and adaptation planning.