Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report

Submitted by Robert Watt on Thu, 2012-04-19 16:35
Author(s):
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Year:
2012
Pages:
24
Summary:

This report highlights the key findings of the IPCC's Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change (SREX) Adaptation from a Latin American and Caribbean perspective.

It includes an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development. A version of the report is also available in Spanish.

Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in Africa: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report

Submitted by Robert Watt on Thu, 2012-04-19 16:29
Author(s):
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Year:
2012
Pages:
24
Summary:

This report highlights the key findings of the IPCC's Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change (SREX) Adaptation from an African perspective.

It includes an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development.

Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in Asia: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report

Submitted by Robert Watt on Thu, 2012-04-19 16:22
Author(s):
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Year:
2012
Pages:
24
Summary:

This report highlights the key findings of the IPCC's Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change (SREX) Adaptation from an Asian perspective.

It includes an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development.

Funding Source:
Department for International Development (DFID)

The Importance of Population for Climate Change Challenges and Solutions

Submitted by population on Thu, 2010-04-15 20:30
Author(s):
Population Action International
Year:
2009
City:
Washington, DC
Summary:

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It has been historically driven by an atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated mostly by the industrialized world. The consequences of climate change—more intense hurricanes and typhoons, rising sea levels, drought, heat waves, major disruptions to agriculture—will be felt by communities around the world.

Population trends play an important role in the larger context of economic, technological, and social trends that affect the climate system.

The Copenhagen Diagnosis - Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-12-11 03:44
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Author(s):
I. Allison, N.L. Bindoff, R.A. Bindschadler, P.M. Cox, N. de Noblet, M.H. England, J.E. Francis, N. Gruber, A.M. Haywood, D.J. Karoly, G. Kaser, C. Le Quéré, T.M. Lenton, M.E. Mann, B.I. McNeil, A.J. Pitman, S. Rahmstorf, E. Rignot, H.J. Schellnhuber, S.H. Schneider, S.C. Sherwood, R.C.J. Somerville, K. Steffen, E.J. Steig, M. Visbeck, A.J. Weaver.
Year:
November 2009
Editor:
The University of New South Wales (UNSW)
City:
Sydney
Publisher:
Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
Pages:
64
Summary:

Full Report

The report synthesizes some of the policy-relevant climate science published since the close-off of material for the last IPCC report (AR4). It serves as a handbook of science updates that supplements the AR4 in time for Copenhagen in December 2009, and any national or international climate change policy negotiations that follow.

The report covers the range of topics evaluated by Working Group I of the IPCC, namely the Physical Science Basis.