Global warming
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C between the start and the end of the 20th century. en.wikipedia.org
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By strengthening the capacity of vulnerable communities, the project aims to increase the resilience of poor people to cope with and...
Climate change is real and happening now. The average global surface temperature has warmed 0.8°C in the past century and 0.
(*Fernanda Zermoglio) One innovative approach to learning-by-doing was implemented at the training of trainers workshop conducted in Cape Town in 2008 as part of the ACCCA project.
Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration Between Malian Communities and Scientific Organizations to Identify and Implement...
This material is largely based on the ACCCA project Synthesis Report Next steps
1 Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way One approach to understanding climate...
Back to: Sub-Module 1.2 - Institutional policy matrix Adaptation to climate change is not only multidimensional, encompassing various impacts,...
Back to Adaptation Targets For an article on the concept of adaptation targets see: Tiempo Bulletin on Climate and Development, Issue 64 – July 2007
Back to Adaptation Targets The Climate Change Adaptation Targets (CCAT) in Mongolia Project is being implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM ENDA is one of the few truly international African NGOs whose constituency comprises African populations in urban...
Nepal baseline vulnerability assessment and social indices Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration between Malian Communities...
This short overview of climate change issues in Africa was written by Ben Smith and Anna Taylor as input to an Environment and Climate Change...
The 12th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) was held in Johannesburg on 7-12 June 2008.
21 April: Initial team members, contract between UNEP and OSS in progress, outline and writing assignments on wiki 29 April: Key messages from...
One of the climatic events that may become more frequent and intense due to climate change is El Nino. Over the last 3 decades the Andean sub-region...
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We see adaptation a process of socio-institutional learning relevant for specific contexts, and producing adaptation outcomes and processes...
Responding to climate change requires new ways of thinking and doing. The Frontline Knowledge Express has evolved from a meeting of climate change...
Current Climate and hazards
Some thoughts on my impending PhD study: Environmental change has always affected civilizations and hence business . The rate of climate change...
Below is guidance on how to use the California climate data layer for Google Earth. Clicking on any grid-center, dynamically generates time series...
Process of developing a motif was interesting - had difficult questions to ask. This developed an understanding that communication would be key to developing adaptation messages.
This interactive user guide is being developed to produce CIRCE project deliverable D13.2.1 Foundatation paper on adaptation options and screening.
The following talking points were written by Tom Downing on January 23, 2007. 1. The longer term need for adapting to climate change begins with...
Video from fieldwork in Ga-Selala, S. Africa Examples of adaptation in action Adapting to multiple stresses in Sekhukhune, South Africa Effective...
1 Report 2 Survey 3 Further Reading Report The objective was to synthesize the wealth of climate information specifically linked to consequences...
The climate messages presented here are based on analysing: observed data collected from 32 weather stations across Mozambique since 1960; the...
Background basics climate defines the range of weather events experienced in a region climate is a complex interconnection of many global and...
The Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town, led by Bruce Hewitson, are the lead weADAPT organisation working on climate modelling and climate science.
This project was carried out under the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)] which was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign...
The participant list can be downloaded: here (in case you lost your original version!) The session by session agenda of the workshop can be found here Presentations
1 Purpose of this guide: 2 This guide is designed specifically for: 3 Concepts and context 4 Process 5 Prototype projects 6 Links 7 Next steps...
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM, Dakar, Senegal Sen (1999) defines development as the creation of choice and lack of development as having no choice or no say in what happens.
SEI, as part of the weADAPT Group, coordinated the launch of a new climate change adaptation platform at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007.
The purpose of this page is to gather information that will be useful to Sida for conducting a quick screening of the effects of climate change...
Facing the uncertainty inherent in making a decision about a future which is not entirely known or understood will require specific consideration...
It is likely to be a participatory module that will coach people through questions related to: 1) the aim of climate adaptation? (e.
POLICY BRIEF : Effective use of climate science to improve adaptation in Africa
This site will be developed by the 2009 students, who are encouraged to add links to relevant material, upload summaries of papers read in class...
To introduce the tools currently available for Adaptation To establish a collaborative space to organize, share and disseminate user-developer...
Welcome to the Climate Change and Health page. I uploaded a few papers of potential interest, including the Human Health Chapter of the IPCC...
The following guidance summarizes the results of the workshop held from March 31st to April 11th in Cape Town, South Africa for the working group...
In order to assess how climate change might impact certain livelihood groups, it is necessary to establish the degree and range of exposures...
1 Audience 2 Purpose of the guide 3 Links to pages 4 Next steps Great... so you are someone who works with climate data to generate new...
Kenya has a dipole rainy season in which the long rains are generally from March to May as the ITCZ moves northwards, and the short rains are...
Follow this link for findings from the Bolivia NCAP project on the vulnerability of systems of production and human health around Lake Titicaca and perceptions of risk and change.
The chart on the left shows the variation in monthly mean air temperatures for Ghana as a whole. As can be seen, incremental temperatures in...