• World Meteorological Organization (WMO) International Council for Science (ICSU) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC/UNESCO) Coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP) Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere program (TOGA) Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Future Earth Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Munn, R.E. (wikipedia.org)
  • And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had just issued its most unequivocal report yet on the link between human activity and climatic change. (newscientist.com)
  • At the start of the latest round of climate talks in Cancún , Mexico, this week, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , Rajendra Pachauri, warned that global emissions must peak by 2015 if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change. (newscientist.com)
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing climate change. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The climate science problem I'm working on is trying to better understand the impacts of climate change on the natural world - in biomes from the tundra to the tropics. (ornl.gov)
  • Any assessment of climate migration and its security impacts should pay close attention to these areas. (truthout.org)
  • This year hopes were high as the WEF annual Global Risks Report prioritized the impacts of climate change. (freespeech.org)
  • This could be described as an environmental time bomb because any climate change impacts on recharge occurring now, will only fully impact the baseflow to rivers and wetlands a long time later," Cuthbert said. (ndtv.com)
  • The team said their research showed one of the "hidden" impacts of climate change, and called for immediate action to ensure future generations aren't left high and dry. (ndtv.com)
  • On December 14, the Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology and the Energy Security and Climate Initiative held a moderated conversation with David G. Victor to discuss "Fixing the Climate" and how its proposed strategies can prepare us to respond to climate change-related impacts on security. (brookings.edu)
  • UNESCO World Heritage sites demonstrate the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and are important resources for traditional knowledge and practices and lead the way for heritage-based solutions and strategies. (unesco.org)
  • In recent months and years, we have seen cultural and natural heritage sites, including many UNESCO World Heritage sites, threatened by wildfires, floods, storms and mass-bleaching events, among many climate change-related impacts. (unesco.org)
  • In response to this undeniable impact of climate change on World Heritage and culture, UNESCO is working to build the capacities of countries and communities to better prepare for and recover from climate-change related impacts and disasters. (unesco.org)
  • UNESCO's strengthened collaboration with partners and Member States to address the growing need for enhanced monitoring of the impacts of climate change on heritage through more accurate and relevant data has been critical, as well as efforts to leverage global platforms, including the Urban Heritage Climate Observatory. (unesco.org)
  • The impacts of the climate crisis will start to be deadlier than some widespread diseases like cancer as the planet continues to heat up, warns a new report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). (yahoo.com)
  • The world is now on track to warm 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, according to the independent analysts at the Climate Action Tracker - putting the planet on course for severe climate impacts over the next few decades. (yahoo.com)
  • Even places which could become hotspots of climate out-migration because of increased impacts will likely still support large numbers of people. (commondreams.org)
  • The AP noted that though many scientists say the world is not on track for the worst-case scenario in terms of planet-heating emissions, van Aalst pointed out that even under more moderate scenarios, climate impacts are now happening more quickly than projected, 'including the extremes we are already experiencing, as well as potential implications for migration and displacement. (commondreams.org)
  • Impacts of environmental change, natural disasters and climate extremes on population on regional and global level. (studiesabroad.com)
  • The IPCC prepares comprehensive Assessment Reports assessing the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaption and mitigation. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Climate extremes have profound impacts on key socio-economic sectors such as agriculture. (nature.com)
  • Both were inspired in part by the devastating effects that Hurricane Sandy has had on the city's infrastructure as well as the billions of dollars worth of improvements necessary to curb the impacts of climate change. (timeout.com)
  • The city has already invested in a $20 billion program to help fortify its neighborhoods and waterfronts from the worst impacts of climate change, but some experts say that isn't even close to enough. (timeout.com)
  • As a region, we recognize the impacts of climate change and the importance of adopting resilient strategies. (wfp.org)
  • The project will not only greatly support refugees and their host communities' resilience in the face of the impacts of climate change but also bolster UNHCR's efforts in implementing environmental conservation, protection, and restoration activities in the refugee camps and the host surroundings in Kigoma," said Mahoua Parums, UNHCR Representative. (wfp.org)
  • Changes occurring in the world's climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. (cdc.gov)
  • Early public health action is essential to ensuring that systems are in place to protect people from the impacts of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • LUCSUS researchers are mapping social, economic and ecological impacts in relation to glacial change, and integrate biodiversity studies with climate change adaptation. (lu.se)
  • The final installment by WGIII, Mitigation of Climate Change, was released in April 2022. (ed.ac.uk)
  • We recall the launch of the Ten-Year Strategic Environmental Conservation Plan by the Government of Tanzania during the World Environment Day celebrations in May 2022, aimed at meeting the government's directive of each District planting 1.5 million trees per year in addition to supporting the ambitious goal of eliminating the use of charcoal and fuelwood by 2025. (wfp.org)
  • In particular, there is a great deal of resistance towards the idea that communicating climate change requires more than explaining the science. (newscientist.com)
  • Urban climatology and its applications with special regard to tropical areas : proceedings of the Technical Conference organized by the World Meteorological Organization and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, Mexico D.F., 26-30 November 1984 / scientific editor, T. R. Oke. (who.int)
  • 1 World Health Organization, 1946 Constitution. (who.int)
  • The virus name chikungunya comes from the Kimakonde language, which is spoken in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique, and means "to become contorted," according to the World Health Organization . (medscape.com)
  • Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are the producers of the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates). (cdc.gov)
  • The expected 15,000 delegates will try to firm up rich nations' pledges to help developing nations cope with the effects of climate change. (newscientist.com)
  • The results further suggest that economic uncertainty induced by climate change amplifies these effects of climate change. (imf.org)
  • Could green accountability help communities in places like Mali, which are already experiencing catastrophic effects of climate change? (weforum.org)
  • From restoring wetlands to building new seawalls to retrofitting outdated infrastructure, a comprehensive plan to curb the effects of climate change on the entire New York metropolitan area is long overdue. (timeout.com)
  • Although scientific understanding of the effects of climate change is still emerging, there is considerable evidence to support preparing for potential health risks. (cdc.gov)
  • As the nation's public health agency, CDC is using its prevention expertise to help states and cities investigate, prepare for, and respond to the health effects of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • One particular output by a WCRP task team is the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, which standardizes and coordinates regular comparisons of the world's climate models and which provides an important basis for the IPCC Assessment Reports' climate projections. (wikipedia.org)
  • The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is an international programme that helps to coordinate global climate research. (wikipedia.org)
  • In practice, the programme aims to foster initiatives in climate research which require or benefit from international coordination and which are unlikely to emerge from national efforts alone. (wikipedia.org)
  • The programme does not fund climate research directly, but may at times exchange views with research funding agencies on global research priorities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The programme further maintains topical working groups and advisory councils on climate data, climate modelling, subseasonal-to-decadal climate prediction, and regional climate modelling. (wikipedia.org)
  • Stratosphere-troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) is a core project of the programme. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1993 WCRP - Agreement between the World Meteorological Organization, the International Council of Scientific Unions and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission on the World Climate Research Programme" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • Report of and update on the WMO-IOC-ICSU World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and its review by its sponsors" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • 2017. "The World Climate Research Programme Implementation Plan 2010-2015" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • The World Around is seeking applicants aged under 25 from anywhere in the world to apply for the program, which is supported by arts organisation Meta Open Arts and will have a public programme created in collaboration with the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum. (dezeen.com)
  • The IPCC was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The ancient metropolis 'could have disappeared with all the archaeological traces' it contains, said Lazare Eloundou Assamo, the director of the World Heritage programme at UN agency UNESCO. (thehindu.com)
  • The initiative, which is funded by Belgium, is jointly implemented by the Government of Tanzania, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the World Food Programme and partners under the Kigoma Joint Programme aims to reach 2.3 million people in Kasulu and Kibondo districts. (wfp.org)
  • Results of search for 'au:'World Climate Programme. (who.int)
  • We have created a programme that has synergies between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation because these two areas are strongly interlinked. (lu.se)
  • Magnus Hagelsteen, Programme Director, MSc in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation. (lu.se)
  • Countries attending U.N. climate talks were not able to come up with any major agreements on reducing carbon emissions and slowing global warming. (npr.org)
  • But climate policies such as the regulation of industrial emissions often seem to clash with conservative political views. (newscientist.com)
  • Doing so is essential to effectively implement the Paris Agreement and achieve its long-term goals, including the collective endeavor of making finance flows consistent with a pathway toward low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development. (wri.org)
  • Business can contribute to climate protection efforts in substantial, positive ways by helping to develop sound climate policies, by providing the research and technologies needed to address the challenge, and by taking actions to reduce and offset their own emissions. (wri.org)
  • SCSB partners are already taking steps to focus on the issue of climate change because it is important not only that we understand the issues but also that we understand and control our own emissions. (wri.org)
  • No matter what steps the global community takes to mitigate emissions, we will still be forced to adapt to a warmer climate. (truthout.org)
  • At climate talks in Copenhagen a year ago , delegates were galvanised by the scientific arguments for reaching an agreement to cut emissions. (newscientist.com)
  • There was strong criticism of the Bush administration's position, with German Environment Minister Juergen Trittin saying, 'We cannot allow the country with the biggest emissions of greenhouse gases to escape responsibility for protecting the global climate. (rferl.org)
  • However, the emissions cuts pledged under the accord are so small it would actually mean a catastrophic 3°C rise or more, said the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Countries that have ratified the Paris Climate Agreement must assess and report their emissions levels every five years. (worldbook.com)
  • Huge quantities of dust are emitted from places like the Copper River, and we need to understand these emissions to improve our climate models. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • Instead, they propose a new climate regime - an experimental set of strategies evolved from the foundations of the Paris Agreement - in which the profound transformations needed to reduce global emissions arise locally. (brookings.edu)
  • Kanta Kumari Rigaud, the World Bank's lead environment specialist and one of the report's co-authors, highlighted that even if political and business leaders take the actions scientists say are necessary to decrease emissions, 'we're already locked into a certain amount of warming, so climate migration is a reality. (commondreams.org)
  • Working Group III (WG III) focuses on climate change mitigation, assessing methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Obama has warned that failure to act on climate change would be a "betrayal" of future generations, but faced with a Congress reluctant to even limit greenhouse gas emissions -- let alone ratify an international agreement -- his options appear limited. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The President will use his speech at the Climate Summit to call on other leaders to keep their ambition high and to work toward a strong global framework to cut emissions. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • We perform research essential to understanding the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, climate change and land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services on local, regional, national and global scales. (lu.se)
  • assess the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, climate and land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services and provide a basis for informed societal responses, with a focus on critical changes in forest, agricultural, urban and arctic ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • WCRP uses these funds to organize science workshops or conferences and support collaboration between climate scientists at an international level. (wikipedia.org)
  • The largest group of contributors to WCRP are several thousands of climate scientists from around the world who offer their expertise and time as volunteers to, for example, help organize workshops in key areas of research, lay out avenues for future research in white paper articles, and serve on WCRP science or advisory boards. (wikipedia.org)
  • This wasn't always true, but now some 97 percent of climate scientists agree that man-made climate change is a reality. (npr.org)
  • I'm a scientist and so scientists get excited about understanding things that they didn't understand before, understanding the natural world. (ornl.gov)
  • Climate scientists argue that extreme weather events and resource shortages will affect millions of people in Africa, Australia, and Latin America by 2050. (truthout.org)
  • Giant dust storms in the Gulf of Alaska can last for many days and send tonnes of fine sediment or silt into the atmosphere, and it is having an impact on the global climate system, say scientists. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • Future generations face an environmental "time bomb" as the world's groundwater systems take decades to respond to the present day impact of climate change, scientists warned on Monday. (ndtv.com)
  • Climate scientists, politicians and policy experts from around the world will be meeting next week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt for Cop27, the UN's annual climate change conference . (yahoo.com)
  • Scientists say climate change is causing oxygen loss in the cold waters of eastern Canada, imperiling the Greenland halibut and the Atlantic cod. (truthdig.com)
  • Scientists believe they have discovered the northernmost island in the world, after a tiny patch of land was revealed by shifting ice off the coast of Greenland. (sky.com)
  • The latest round of United Nations climate talks wraps up today. (npr.org)
  • Yesterday, November 7, officials from around the world gathered in Marrakech , Morocco , for the 2016 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, or COP22. (worldbook.com)
  • Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), listens during a news conference after a week long preparatory meeting at the U.N. in Geneva February 13, 2015. (yahoo.com)
  • By Megan Rowling BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Responding to climate change in the next 15 years is the world's 'mega development project', given the need to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure, creating jobs and economic stability, the United Nations' top climate change official said on Tuesday. (yahoo.com)
  • They also underpin negotiations at the UN Climate Conference - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). (ed.ac.uk)
  • The IPCC has also produced a range of reports in response to requests for information on specific scientific and technical matters from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments and international organisations. (ed.ac.uk)
  • President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with time running out on his hopes of leaving a lasting environmental legacy. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The US has also agreed-at least this is the interpretation of the Europeans-to a common campaign against climate change within the framework of the United Nations, a position that Washington had rejected up to now. (wsws.org)
  • KIGOMA - The United Nations has launched a three-year project to improve communities' resilience to climate shocks in the Kigoma region - where hundreds of thousands of refugees are hosted. (wfp.org)
  • The seminar will explore how trade will increasingly become even more important to diffuse the food crisis in an increasingly climate afflicted world plagued by changing weather and extreme weather events. (worldbank.org)
  • Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • the ones who were born into the climate crisis and whose lives have been and will be fundamentally shaped by what the world does in the coming decade," said The World Around founder Beatrice Galilee . (dezeen.com)
  • The reality is that despite more than three decades of global climate diplomacy efforts, a meaningful consensus about which concerted strategies work best in response to the crisis remains elusive. (brookings.edu)
  • And along with the danger of hotter temperatures, the climate crisis will make extreme weather like droughts, storms, wildfires and floods more common, adding additional risk to human life. (yahoo.com)
  • We are taking action because, like so many British Columbians, we have felt angry, powerless, afraid, and overwhelmed at the global scale of the climate crisis and the glacial pace of action, and we have asked ourselves: what direct action can we do that makes a difference? (godlikeproductions.com)
  • 33-year-old Stella Nyambura Mbau, who designed a flash flood early warning system for rural Kenya, joins us on the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, as we examine how women - particularly those in the "Global South" - are most affected by the climate crisis. (sky.com)
  • The water crisis in India raises concerns of global climate change endangering not only the availability of water for consumption, but also for agricultural and infrastructure use. (washington.edu)
  • If we don't support communities in adapting to the climate crisis, we face the risk of rising levels of hunger in the future," said WFP Deputy Country Director Brian Bogart. (wfp.org)
  • WCRP's largest activities are its four "Core Projects" (called SPARC, CLIVAR, CliC, and GEWEX), which support climate research on the global atmosphere, oceans, the cryosphere, and the land surface (together constituting the Earth's physical climate system) as well as interactions and exchanges between them. (wikipedia.org)
  • This comes after the World Bank issued a report predicting global temperatures could rise by 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century - possibly sooner if current promises to curb emission are not kept. (npr.org)
  • Tens of thousands of people marched through Manhattan sounding an urgent call for action to reverse global climate change. (cnn.com)
  • The UNFCCC plays a pivotal role in setting rules and norms for global climate action, including on finance. (wri.org)
  • Representing the complexity of the natural world in global climate models is critical to enhancing models' predictive capabilities. (ornl.gov)
  • A collaborative effort by General Motors, the World Resources Institute, Monsanto, and British Petroleum addresses how the Earth's climate can be protected while expanding global economic prosperity. (wri.org)
  • Estimates also predict that 200 million people will be newly mobilized as climate migrants by 2050 due to global warming's effects. (truthout.org)
  • This increased migration will very likely affect global security, which makes it imperative for the United States and other nations to begin formulating responses to climate migration now. (truthout.org)
  • His message was reinforced by the UK's Royal Society, which the same day published a picture of global chaos in a world warmed by 4 °C - which it said could happen as early as the 2060s. (newscientist.com)
  • An international conference on climate change opened yesterday in Bonn with the United States and Japan coming under heavy pressure to help salvage the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. (rferl.org)
  • The global population is aging, while climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of weather-related disasters and lowering productivity. (imf.org)
  • The huge protests outside December's failed Copenhagen climate summit showed that a global movement for real climate action had emerged. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Unlike the Copenhagen fiasco, the climate activists at Cochabamba took aim at the real culprits for global warming. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The conference gives hope of a coming together of the revolutionary movements in Latin America, the social movements of the poor in the global South and the grassroots climate movement in the North. (greenleft.org.au)
  • With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. (worldbank.org)
  • It will highlight the state of food security in the world and how global food trade restrictions have compounded food insecurity caused by the war in Ukraine. (worldbank.org)
  • It will also look at the existing trade policies governing agricultural trade and discuss actions at the global, regional and country levels that can help ensure that trade plays a critical role it can in addressing food security and climate change. (worldbank.org)
  • This year's global gathering of world elites in Davos, Switzerland brought new and urgent attention to climate change. (freespeech.org)
  • According to Sabel and Victor, Global climate diplomacy-from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement-is not working. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Exactly how the dust may be influencing the global climate system is not yet clear, although new research from the University of Leeds and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science suggests the effect is bigger than previously thought. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • In a paper published today in the journal Science Advances , the research team argue that more research is needed to understand the role that dust plays in the complex global climate system. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • The findings were presented on the last day of global climate talks in Madrid, Spain, and show that oxygen levels in the world's oceans declined by around 2 percent between 1960 and 2010. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Rachel Kyte, the World Bank's special envoy for climate change, said to decarbonize economies, 'we will need to begin with extraordinary ambition at the end of this year' in Paris where countries are due to agree a new global deal to tackle climate change. (yahoo.com)
  • In their visionary book " Fixing the Climate ," Charles F. Sabel and David G. Victor argue that we cannot meet the stark challenges before us through top-down global treaties. (brookings.edu)
  • Through case studies and practical examples, the platform aims to inspire and guide local actions that contribute to and align with major global commitments including the 1972 World Heritage Convention, the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (unesco.org)
  • The development of inclusive public policies for climate action through culture is another essential step to advance a shared global climate agenda, which will be strongly supported through the implementation of the updated Policy Document on climate action for World Heritage, currently being finalized. (unesco.org)
  • Hotter temperatures will lead to more excess deaths, especially in parts of the world that already get very hot - likely making existing global inequalities even worse, the agency says . (yahoo.com)
  • Underscoring the necessity of immediate and sweeping action to take on the climate emergency, a World Bank report revealed Monday that 216 million people across six global regions could be forced to move within their countries by midcentury. (commondreams.org)
  • Global warming and climate change facts. (studiesabroad.com)
  • Tuesday's climate summit in New York kicks off a process that will culminate in Paris at the end of 2015, where the world's powers will hope to seal a new global climate change pact. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Nearly 1,600 Pakistanis died in the floods and 33 million others were affected in a disaster 'probably' made worse by global warming, according to World Weather Attribution, a network of researchers. (thehindu.com)
  • This tool may be integrated in all risk assessments but could also be used to explore global climate teleconnections. (nature.com)
  • However, most of the production comes from 8 key regions of the world, which accounted for 78% of the global production in 2016 (Fig. 1 and Table 1 in the Supplementary material). (nature.com)
  • As climate extremes could induce shocks in the global food market, the need of more research (aiming at a better characterisation of these events) has been recently pointed out 10 . (nature.com)
  • The global search for consensus prevents rapid action for climate protection, because minimal compromises then become the accepted standard," he told the Berliner Zeitung . (wsws.org)
  • He had previously attacked "climate deniers" before, calling politicians skeptical of catastrophic global warming "unpatriotic" and "inappropriate" on the Rachel Maddow Show February 10, 2010. (newsbusters.org)
  • Even in countries that have avoided border wars, a global campaign of fence building - aimed at keeping out human migrants whose numbers are rising in an era of climate change and sociopolitical unrest - is causing widespread damage to vulnerable natural landscapes and migratory animal species. (mongabay.com)
  • A global systematic framework is needed to define climates where pathogens are detected. (cdc.gov)
  • The lack of consensus might largely be rooted in the lack of a global systematic framework to define climates where pathogens are detected. (cdc.gov)
  • Here, we compare the 2 solar climate definitions and the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system to determine whether the 1999 Vancouver Island outbreak was the first-ever detection of C. gattii s.l. in a temperate environment and which system should be used for a global systematic climate classification framework. (cdc.gov)
  • This session of Grand Rounds explored the wide-ranging health impact of our changing climate and discussed some of the strategies, programs and partnerships currently being used to confront the challenges associated with global climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to human health and the responsibility for taking action to address this threat rests with every person, every community, every leader and every government around the world. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. John Iskander and Dr. George Luber discuss some of the challenges associated with global climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • The trend of increasing disasters and related losses are global in various parts of the world. (lu.se)
  • The IPCC reports are a really big deal for climate change. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Here you can learn about the role of the IPCC reports - and why the gruelling review process makes them the ultimate source of climate change information. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The rigorous process for each report produced makes the IPCC the world's most authoritative source of climate change information. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that by the year 2100, approximately 56 to 75% of humanity will experience water scarcity. (washington.edu)
  • Water resources and climatic change : sensitivity of water-resource systems to climate change and variability, Norwich, U.K., November 1987. (who.int)
  • Meeting of Experts on the Sensitivity of Water-Resource Systems to Climate Variability (1987 : Norwich, U.K. (who.int)
  • Track progress towards climate finance goals, including mobilizing $100 billion by 2020, and achieving a balance in public funding for adaptation and mitigation. (wri.org)
  • Specialized climate funds provide vital public resources, usually on concessional terms, for climate change adaptation and mitigation. (wri.org)
  • While our work encompasses many of the climate funds, such as the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), we focus much of our attention on the Green Climate Fund (GCF). (wri.org)
  • CAP President and CEO John Podesta and his former CAP colleague Peter Ogden framed the stark reality of adaptation to a warmer climate two years ago: "Science only tells part of the story. (truthout.org)
  • From tangible and living heritage to museums and creativity, culture represents a wellspring to combat climate change through mitigation and adaptation. (unesco.org)
  • Climate Change Adaptation actors within this field of study. (lu.se)
  • Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation will be at- universityadmissions.se. (lu.se)
  • Parts of the groundwater that's underneath the Sahara currently is still responding to climate change from 10,000 years ago when it was much wetter there," Cuthbert said. (ndtv.com)
  • For the first time, Figueres warned that the world faced the possibility of reaching the end of the current Kyoto protocol compliance period, at the end of 2012, without anything to replace it. (newscientist.com)
  • Prague, 17 July 2001 (RFE/RL) -- A crucial meeting on climate control got underway yesterday in Bonn, Germany, with delegates from 180 countries meeting to try to rescue the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. (rferl.org)
  • Despite safeguarding 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity, globally Indigenous groups only receive 1% of climate finance. (weforum.org)
  • is to confront the consequences of climate disruption and the loss of biodiversity. (thehindu.com)
  • Conflicts over disputed borders, increasingly exacerbated by climate change, are putting some of the world's key biodiversity hotspots at risk. (mongabay.com)
  • Our vision is to provide a world-leading research environment that brings together excellent research and training at Lund University and the University of Gothenburg to address our society's need for knowledge about the dynamics between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly changing world. (lu.se)
  • Biodiversity loss and climate change are inseparable challenges which have to be addressed together. (lu.se)
  • The WCRP was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU), and has also been sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO since 1993. (wikipedia.org)
  • Everyday operations are supported by a secretariat of around 8 full-time staff, hosted by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva. (wikipedia.org)
  • Established in 2020 by Galilee and Diego Marroquin, The World Around presents conferences that aim to showcase architecture's best ideas. (dezeen.com)
  • The White House has said it will not announce its post-2020 goals in New York this week, but rather plans to roll an out ambitious target early next year according to John Podesta, Obama's adviser on climate and energy. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • 2020: Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus: Challenges to Coherence, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy. (lu.se)
  • Increased knowledge tends to harden existing opinions ( Nature Climate Change , vol 2, p 732 ). (newscientist.com)
  • But the extreme weather events such as drought and record rainfall -- both made worse by our heating planet -- could have another long-lasting impact on how quickly reserves replenish, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. (ndtv.com)
  • As a consequence, according to new research in Nature Climate Change , more warm, salty and oxygen-depleted water from the Gulf Stream is getting into one of the world's great waterways. (truthdig.com)
  • In some cases, that means leveraging the technology of a place like Oak Ridge National Laboratory to build a range of possible futures in a peat bog in Northern Minnesota to better understand what the consequences might be for climate change and for our society's future. (ornl.gov)
  • The geopolitical consequences of climate change are determined by local political, social, and economic factors as much as by the magnitude of the climate shift itself. (truthout.org)
  • Working Group II (WGII) assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive consequences of climate change and options for adapting to it. (ed.ac.uk)
  • In a world that is ever increasingly subjected to the consequences of climate change, weather patterns have not just become a bigger part of public and private discourse, it is having real effects on our lives. (washington.edu)
  • As Thomas Friedman so bluntly writes, the world in 2050 will be crowded and it will be hot. (truthout.org)
  • Worldwide, estimates suggest that as many as 200 million people could become climate migrants by 2050. (truthout.org)
  • UNESCO data highlighting the accelerated melting of glaciers in World Heritage sites, with glaciers in a third of sites set to disappear by 2050. (unesco.org)
  • u201cThe World Bank projects as many as 216 million people will be forced to move *only within their country* (meaning, excluding those forced to other countries) by climate change by 2050 across huge chunks of the world. (commondreams.org)
  • The report's highest projection is for Sub-Saharan Africa, which could see up to 86 million internal climate migrants by 2050, followed by East Asia and the Pacific (49 million), South Asia (40 million), North Africa (19 million), Latin America (17 million), and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (five million). (commondreams.org)
  • If countries start now to reduce greenhouse gases, close development gaps, restore vital ecosystems, and help people adapt, internal climate migration could be reduced by up to 80%--to 44 million people by 2050. (commondreams.org)
  • Without these actions, the report predicts that 'hotspots' of climate migration will emerge as soon as within the next decade and intensify by 2050, as people leave places that can no longer sustain them and go to areas that offer opportunity. (commondreams.org)
  • The Spanish government set up operations in African countries to discourage migration to Spain, which could intensify with climate change's effects. (truthout.org)
  • Climate migration is often a result of natural disasters, but resource scarcity, food security, and water shortages will also be important drivers of voluntary and long-term climate migration in the 21st century. (truthout.org)
  • Today there are roughly 214 million migrants globally , meaning if climate migration projections come true, they will double the total level of migration worldwide. (truthout.org)
  • In some cases, climate migration hot spots overlap with already volatile and unstable regions, where substantial migration could easily give rise to border conflicts and national security concerns. (truthout.org)
  • We'll offer a framework that can be used to address climate migration and its effects on security below. (truthout.org)
  • But first, we'd like to outline a handful of specific regions that could see migration and conflict due to a changing climate. (truthout.org)
  • As climate change leads to displacement and forced migration, entire ways of life risk being lost forever. (unesco.org)
  • Groundswell Part 2: Acting on Internal Climate Migration includes analyses for East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, building on a modeling approach from a 2018 report that covered Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. (commondreams.org)
  • For instance, people are increasingly moving to cities, and we find that climate-related challenges such as water scarcity, declining crop productivity, and sea-level rise play a role in this migration. (commondreams.org)
  • Development that is green, resilient, and inclusive can slow the pace of distress-driven internal climate migration,' he concluded. (commondreams.org)
  • This report is a timely call for urgent action at the intersection of climate, migration, and development. (commondreams.org)
  • Investing in better understanding of the drivers of internal climate migration to inform well-targeted policies. (commondreams.org)
  • current migration to Europe, population security, natural resources and the impact of climate change. (studiesabroad.com)
  • This episode of Changing Climate, Changing Migration discusses how the world's fastest growing economy is confronting environmental change, particularly with economic growth and proximity to troubled Venezuela likely to drive significant immigration. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today's complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict. (unesco.org)
  • Today climate changes are occurring at an increasingly rapid rate. (medlineplus.gov)
  • and other groups are increasingly conducting HIAs to inform decision-making processes for transportation, land use, climate change, and other sectors. (cdc.gov)
  • We know that it is difficult to overcome the psychological distance between the concept of climate change - not here, not now - and people's everyday lives. (newscientist.com)
  • People's climate summit, Cochabamba, April 22. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Bolivia's World People's Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth was radical, inspiring, uncompromising and exactly what was needed. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The final "people's agreement" adopted by the summit - the Cochabamba protocol - warned that climate change puts the future of humanity in danger. (greenleft.org.au)
  • A protester carries a sign during the 'People's Climate March' in the Manhattan borough of New York September 21, 2014. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The project was funded by UK Research and Innovation through its Healthy Ageing Challenge, and the study will build on the World Health Organization's Age-Friendly Cities and Communities work, which encourages active ageing by creating improved opportunities for health, community participation, and to enhance people's quality of life as they age. (who.int)
  • Working with older people's groups and key climate change experts, the project explored how to tackle extreme weather by co-designing potential solutions at the local, community, and city level. (who.int)
  • The SCSB initiative builds on BP's climate change commitments. (wri.org)
  • Architecture forum The World Around has launched an initiative that will pair 25 under 25-year-olds with mentors including architects Sumayya Vally , Frida Escobedo and Tatiana Bilbao . (dezeen.com)
  • The initiative is seeking 25 people to apply for its Young Climate Prize , which will expand The World Around 's current program of talks. (dezeen.com)
  • Refugees from natural disasters usually can return home over time-as in this case-but future climate migrants could be permanently forced to leave. (truthout.org)
  • We have these climate-related disasters, which are having a huge impact on sites, for example Mohenjo Daro,' he said. (thehindu.com)
  • We bring life-saving relief in emergencies and use food assistance to build peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. (wfp.org)
  • Climate change exposes vulnerable communities to the impact of natural disasters. (wfp.org)
  • When the climate changes, disasters follow and unfortunately it is a growing trend. (lu.se)
  • Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World (co-authored by David Victor ) and answered questions from the audience. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Renee Montagne talks about this with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. (npr.org)
  • Which country has the most climate skeptics? (weforum.org)
  • Nye also lectured climate skeptics on Meet the Press February 27, 2014, saying "the more we mess around with this denial, the less we're going to get done. (newsbusters.org)
  • And activists may be gearing up to push harder: celebrities, political leaders and the masses rallied in New York and across the globe on Sunday demanding urgent action on climate change, with organizers saying 600,000 people hit the streets. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • COP27 Climate Change Conference: Urgent action needed for Africa and the world. (bvsalud.org)
  • Additional "Grand Challenges" target specific questions of societal interest within climate science. (wikipedia.org)
  • World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. (weforum.org)
  • The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum. (weforum.org)
  • The World Economic Forum attracts heads of state and corporate leaders each January to discuss the state of the world economy. (freespeech.org)
  • You can study just about anything and be a climate scientist. (ornl.gov)
  • Karl Mallon, a scientist with Climate Risk and one of the key authors of the report, says 2014 has been calculated as the point at which there is no longer enough time to develop the industries that can deliver a low carbon economy. (abc.net.au)
  • Our International Climate Finance work strengthens key policies and governance elements in important international institutions to promote Paris Agreement alignment in finance and uphold the role of climate finance in international negotiations. (wri.org)
  • UNESCO is at the forefront of collecting data and evidence concerning climate change's impact on culture. (unesco.org)
  • This is also the first time that case studies with site level evidence concerning climate change's impact on culture has been collected globally - through this World Heritage Canopy platform. (unesco.org)
  • Malm, A & Carton, W 2024, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown . (lu.se)
  • Track Latest News and Election Results Coverage Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world. (ndtv.com)
  • Although climate finance is a key enabler to enhance and accelerate ambitious climate action in developing countries, it has not reached the needed scale. (wri.org)
  • The EU is ready to agree an ambitious climate framework, but regrettably some other major economies are not," she said, mentioning specifically the failure of US legislators to agree a climate bill. (newscientist.com)
  • The UN's new chief climate negotiator, Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, has little of the campaigning zeal of her predecessor, Yvo de Boer. (newscientist.com)
  • It makes fundamental economic sense' for countries to push forward on tackling climate change because of the benefits it will bring in terms of food, water and energy, as well as employment,' Christiana Figueres told a carbon market conference in Barcelona. (yahoo.com)
  • With all the factors that influence climate change and the perception that individual choices have marginal effect in the grand scheme of things, it's understandable why the issue of climate change seems to be constantly swept under the rug. (washington.edu)
  • For 15 years, WRI has been working on climate change and promoting economically sound solutions to the world's policymakers through our research and institute-wide actions. (wri.org)
  • We undertook this project because we are already engaged in dialogue on sustainable development, and we agreed that our discussions should extend to climate change. (wri.org)
  • This notion is the crux of sustainable development and premise of our Safe Climate, Sound Business collaboration. (wri.org)
  • Through the World Heritage Canopy platform, heritage-based solutions for Sustainable Futures including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as SDG13 - climate action, are reflected through case studies of UNESCO World Heritage sites. (unesco.org)
  • World Heritage Canopy is a platform of innovative strategies and practices that integrate heritage conservation with sustainable development. (unesco.org)
  • The Groundswell report is a stark reminder of the human toll of climate change, particularly on the world's poorest--those who are contributing the least to its causes,' said Juergen Voegele, vice president of sustainable development at the World Bank, in a statement. (commondreams.org)
  • Meanwhile, receiving areas are often ill-prepared to receive additional internal climate migrants and provide them with basic services or use their skills. (commondreams.org)
  • One of the overall goals of the Paris Agreement, which was created under the UNFCCC, is to align all financial flows towards low-emission and climate-resilient development. (wri.org)
  • In the midst of the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), the experience of World Heritage sites provides important evidence and ways forward to support UNESCO Member States, and beyond, in their climate actions building on culture at the local and national levels. (unesco.org)
  • I study a small part of the world - the belowground world, the soils and the roots tangled there - but other folks study greenhouse gases or soil carbon or plant photosynthesis. (ornl.gov)
  • Flexible and market-oriented climate policies that implement national commitments can address the long-term need to stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases. (wri.org)
  • We looked at scenarios to meet future world energy demand that show increasing and stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations, we explored new technologies and potential business opportunities, and we discussed government policies and how they could encourage businesses and consumers to respond. (wri.org)
  • But that number of deaths could be dwarfed if the world continues to pump greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a very high rate, the data shows. (yahoo.com)
  • Its expert groups also develop international standards for climate data and propose future emphasis areas in international climate research, among others. (wikipedia.org)
  • More specifically, SPARC promotes and facilitates cutting-edge international research activities on how chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere interact with climate and climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research has shown that people who endorse free-market economic principles become less hostile when they are presented with policy responses which do not seem to be as threatening to their world view, such as geoengineering. (newscientist.com)
  • Through her research at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Colleen Iversen collaborates with colleagues around the world to add knowledge about climate-vulnerable ecosystems into Earth system models that predict the planet's future. (ornl.gov)
  • History of climate change research. (studiesabroad.com)
  • World Resources Institute (WRI) is actively engaged in various geographies to produce relevant e-mobility research and provide deep technical assistance that supports stakeholders in delivering results. (hewlett.org)
  • Age-Friendly Cardiff facilitated two Ageing and Climate Change Workshops at Cardiff Central Library Hub as part of an academic research project. (who.int)
  • The research aims to identify the ways in which societies engage with nature and glaciers in the age of climate change , by in-depth study of human-nature relationship s, and integration of different research fields such as ecosystem services valuation, political ecology and glaciology. (lu.se)
  • LUCSUS has collaborators across the world for advancing the key research area on G lacierized e cosystems and societies. (lu.se)
  • So what were we most worried about with the rise in corn and wheat prices over this past summer, due to the U.S. drought, but also drops in other parts of the world. (npr.org)
  • When you have under and malnutrition due to climate change-induced drought, you have a serious problem well into the future. (npr.org)
  • The method is applied to large-scale heat stress and drought events in the key wheat producing regions of the world, as these extremes can cause serious yield losses and thus trigger market shocks. (nature.com)
  • One of the many manifestations of climate change is severe drought. (washington.edu)
  • As climate change delivers longer droughts and bigger superstorms, the extremes of rainfall become more pronounced, impacting groundwater reserves for generations to come. (ndtv.com)
  • In a changing climate context, characterised by an intensification of these extremes and where the population is expected to grow, exposure and vulnerability must be accurately assessed. (nature.com)
  • Here, we propose a novel approach to defining and characterising concurrent climate extremes (i.e. extremes occurring within a specific temporal lag), which is able to identify spatio-temporal dependences without making any strict assumptions. (nature.com)
  • Climate extremes have an impact in all sectors of socio-economic systems, causing large losses, damages and fatalities. (nature.com)
  • Looking back on the lesson 7 contemplative practice on climate complexity I was at first kind of glad to be living in the Pacific NorthWest. (washington.edu)
  • United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, welcomes you to the encore presentation of Climate Change and Health - From Science to Practice. (cdc.gov)
  • Your first sentence in this report is that you hope it shocks the world into action. (npr.org)
  • Obama's last meeting with heads of state to try to strike a climate deal, in Copenhagen five years ago, ended in bitter disappointment. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • WWF Australia chief executive Greg Bourne says it is time the world weans itself off fossil fuels, otherwise the circumstances could be catastrophic. (abc.net.au)
  • But those predictions also assume that countries won't renege on any climate plans or actions in the coming decades. (yahoo.com)
  • New York is expected to be completely screwed over by climate change in the coming decades, and Mayor Bill de Blasio took a step this week to hold some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies accountable. (timeout.com)
  • But in ecological terms, the Himalayan plateau, the "rooftop of the world," is a place of connection, especially for the wayward snow leopard ( Panthera uncia ), the alpine region's apex predator and "tiger of the high mountains," so dubbed by Aishwarya Maheshwari, an Indian wildlife biologist who has studied the elusive species for decades. (mongabay.com)
  • Iversen and colleagues also study the boreal peatlands, which house vast carbon stores vulnerable to climate change. (ornl.gov)
  • The populations most vulnerable-children, elderly people, those living in poverty, people living in certain geographic areas and people with underlying health conditions-are at even greater health risk from climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Both countries are also among the world's most vulnerable to climate change", Marie Stissing Jensen explains. (lu.se)
  • Climate Science for Serving Society. (wikipedia.org)
  • JIM YOUNG KIM: Well, one of the things that we stress is that there is overwhelming convergence around the science of man-made climate change. (npr.org)
  • Fast-forward to today, the eve of the IPCC's latest report on the state of climate science, and it is clear that public concern and political enthusiasm have not kept up with the science. (newscientist.com)
  • One of the most striking findings is that concern about climate change is not only, or even mostly, a product of how much people know about science. (newscientist.com)
  • Climate change communicators must understand that debates about the science are often simply a proxy for these more fundamental disagreements. (newscientist.com)
  • My colleagues and I argued in a recent report for the Climate Outreach and Information Network that there is no inherent contradiction between conservative values and engaging with climate change science. (newscientist.com)
  • What would you tell a student interested in pursuing a career in climate science or a related field? (ornl.gov)
  • THE gap between climate science and climate diplomacy grows ever wider. (newscientist.com)
  • Climate science says that changes in rainfall intensity are very significant for groundwater. (ndtv.com)
  • Overcoming climate change is a challenge for those "coming of age," much like World War II was for the Greatest Generation, Bill Nye "The Science Guy" asserted. (newsbusters.org)
  • He called out Zepps for referring to them as "people who are skeptical of climate science. (newsbusters.org)
  • Students come from all over the world and from various ac- processes of change such as climate change, urbanisation, ademic disciplines, such as engineering science, social science, and the increasing complexity of modern society poses major political science, natural science and environmental science. (lu.se)
  • Higher temperatures could exacerbate deaths in many hot parts of the world, but some wealthier places could blunt the impact, the report says. (yahoo.com)
  • Through this grant, the World Resources Institute will also promote the concept of tying new coal projects in water-stressed areas to comprehensive environmental impact reviews. (hewlett.org)
  • Dr. John Iskander and Dr. George Luber revisit their discussion on climate change and its impact on human health to discuss some of the important new scientific findings that have taken place. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers are studying the best ways to lessen climate change and reduce its impact on our health. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Moreover, rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and more frequent extreme weather events are impacting food production and distribution systems throughout the world. (worldbank.org)