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Climate vulnerability monitor
DARA, 2012The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition reveals that climate change has already held back global development and inaction is a leading global cause of death. Harm is most acute for poor and vulnerable groups but no country is spared either the costs of inaction or the benefits of an alternative path.
Commissioned by the world’s most vulnerable countries and backed by high-level and technical panels, the new Monitor estimates human and economic impacts of climate change and the carbon economy for 184 countries in 2010 and 2030, across 34 indicators.
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Available online: http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2 [...]
Published by: DARA ; 2012 (2nd ed.)
The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition reveals that climate change has already held back global development and inaction is a leading global cause of death. Harm is most acute for poor and vulnerable groups but no country is spared either the costs of inaction or the benefits of an alternative path.
Commissioned by the world’s most vulnerable countries and backed by high-level and technical panels, the new Monitor estimates human and economic impacts of climate change and the carbon economy for 184 countries in 2010 and 2030, across 34 indicators.Notes: Pdf version [35Mb] available here
Language(s): English
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Who is the Met Office? : In TheMetOffice YouTube Channel
2012"Who is the Met Office? What do we do? In this short video, Dave Britton explains who the Met Office is and what kind of products and services we provide not just to the UK but across the globe."
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Available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tls9h2q7QlY
"Who is the Met Office? What do we do? In this short video, Dave Britton explains who the Met Office is and what kind of products and services we provide not just to the UK but across the globe."
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Weather service ; Meteorology ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Socially just adaptation to climate change
This study explores how far social justice is considered in local adaptations to climate change impacts across the UK. It was undertaken just as the UK Government increased its commitment to the adaptation agenda – at the same time as public-sector funding cuts reduced the scope and scale of climate change activities at the local level. Its findings are relevant for all bodies operating at this level whose climate change adaptation activities impact on vulnerable communities. The study provides a wealth of insights into how social justice can be incorporated into adaptation planning. It was in ...
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/27608
Jean Welstead ; Rachel Brisley ; Richard Hindle ; Jouni Paavola ; Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Published by: JRF ; 2012This study explores how far social justice is considered in local adaptations to climate change impacts across the UK. It was undertaken just as the UK Government increased its commitment to the adaptation agenda – at the same time as public-sector funding cuts reduced the scope and scale of climate change activities at the local level. Its findings are relevant for all bodies operating at this level whose climate change adaptation activities impact on vulnerable communities. The study provides a wealth of insights into how social justice can be incorporated into adaptation planning. It was informed by: a literature review of the theoretical concepts of social justice and climate change adaptation; a survey of local authorities’ climate change adaptation plans; and case studies of the Highlands, Islington and York to investigate how social justice is taken into account in local adaptation planning and implementation.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Social aspects ; Social protection and welfare ; Climate policies ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Climate change: is the UK preparing for flooding and water scarcity? : (Adaptation sub-committee progress report 2012)
CCC, 2012This progress report assesses how well the United Kingdom is preparing for climate change. According the report, four times as many properties are at risk of flooding in England without action on climate change. The report uses a set of national indicators to help assess adaptation progress on two of the largest risks to the English regions: flooding and droughts. The report analyses and provides advice to the government for its upcoming adaptation programme.
Climate change: is the UK preparing for flooding and water scarcity?: (Adaptation sub-committee progress report 2012)
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Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/27607_cccascreport2012bookmarked2.pdf
Published by: CCC ; 2012
This progress report assesses how well the United Kingdom is preparing for climate change. According the report, four times as many properties are at risk of flooding in England without action on climate change. The report uses a set of national indicators to help assess adaptation progress on two of the largest risks to the English regions: flooding and droughts. The report analyses and provides advice to the government for its upcoming adaptation programme.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Climate policies ; Drought ; Flood ; Earthquake ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; Bangladesh
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Improving the Assessment of Disaster Risks to Strengthen Financial Resilience: A Special Joint G20
GFDRR, 2012This report – Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening the Ecological Basis of Food Security through
Sustainable Food Systems - has been a unique collaboration of 12 leading scientists and
experts involved in world food systems including marine and inland fisheries.
The institutions involved include the UN Environment Programme, the International Fund
for Agricultural Development, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations,
the World Bank, the World Food Programme and the World Resources Institute. The report provides
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Available online: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26784?locale-attribute=fr
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the ; World Bank ; Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published by: GFDRR ; 2012This report – Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening the Ecological Basis of Food Security through
Sustainable Food Systems - has been a unique collaboration of 12 leading scientists and
experts involved in world food systems including marine and inland fisheries.
The institutions involved include the UN Environment Programme, the International Fund
for Agricultural Development, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations,
the World Bank, the World Food Programme and the World Resources Institute. The report provides
detailed analysis of the many factors threatening the world’s food supplies and its ability to continue to generate calories and proteins in the 21st century including from fisheries. Yet it also provides a series of forward-looking recommendations and remedies to the many grim scenarios that often accompany the food security debate.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Disaster management ; Economics ; Case/ Case study ; Earthquake ; Landslide ; Australia ; Argentina ; Brazil ; Chile ; China ; Colombia ; France ; Germany ; Italy ; Japan ; Republic of Korea ; Mexico ; Turkey ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; United States of America
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Boundary layer dynamics over London, UK, as observed using Doppler lidar during REPARTEE-II
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), Vol. 11. N° 5. Barlow J.F.; Dunbar T.M.; Nemitz E.G.; et al. - Copernicus GmbH, 2011Urban boundary layers (UBLs) can be highly complex due to the heterogeneous roughness and heating of the surface, particularly at night. Due to a general lack of observations, it is not clear whether canonical models of boundary layer mixing are appropriate in modelling air quality in urban areas. This paper reports Doppler lidar observations of turbulence profiles in the centre of London, UK, as part of the second REPARTEE campaign in autumn 2007. Lidar-measured standard deviation of vertical velocity averaged over 30 min intervals generally compared well with in situ sonic anemometer measure ...
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Corrigendum to "Controls of carbon dioxide concentrations and fluxes above central London" published in Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 1913–1928, 2011
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), Vol. 11. N° 5. Helfter C.; Famulari D.; Phillips G.J.; et al. - Copernicus GmbH, 2011
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IWR Report, 2011-R-08. Flood risk management approaches : as being practiced in Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States
The Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat, the United Kingdom Environment Agency, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers agreed in 2009 to develop a document to explore risk-informed approaches as being practiced and developed primarily in those four countries. This document, the result of that collaboration, reflects contributions from agencies within the four participating nations but is not an official position of any government or international organization. It is organized around a conceptual framework developed to encomp ...
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Climate: observations, projections and impacts
The Met.Office, 2011Understanding the potential impacts of climate change is essential for informing both adaptation strategies and actions to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.
But assessing the impacts is scientifically challenging and has, until now, been fragmented. To date, only a limited amount of information about past climate change and its future impacts has been available at national level, while approaches to the science itself have varied between countries.
In April 2011, we were asked by the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to begi ...
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GCOS, 130. Synthesis of National Reports on Systematic Observation for Climate
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2009 (WMO/TD-No. 1490)
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Climate information for adaptation and development needs
This brochure provides updated information on how climate science and services can enhance adaptation to climate variability and change, especially for development needs.
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JCOMM Technical Report, 20. JCOMM Ship Observations Team second session: national reports
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) - WMO, 2003 (WMO/TD-No. 1170)
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JCOMM Technical Report, 18. JCOMM Expert Team on Maritime Safety Services (ETMSS): First session
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) - WMO, 2002 (WMO/TD-No. 1135)
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Economic instruments for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
The Royal Society, 2002The need to reduce anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere – notably carbon dioxide (CO2) – is crucial to slowing down the rate of global climate change. Governments can reduce these emissions by advocacy, by regulation and by the application of economic instruments. Economic analysis shows convincingly that placing primary emphasis on the use of economic instruments provides the most
cost-effective route for such emission reduction. In this report we consider two generic types of economic instrument that could provide the most effective solution to rising CO2 em ...
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