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U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Report 3.4: Abrupt Climate Change Summary and Findings

This brochure identifies four types of abrupt climate change that would pose major risks to global health, security, and the economy.

Date: unknown

Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program

Item Type: Text

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The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic Plan

The vision document provides an overview of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) long-term strategic plan to enhance scientific understanding of global climate change.This document is a companion to the comprehensive Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program.

Date: July 2003

Creator: Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research

Item Type: Text

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U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) Strategic Plan, which details measures to accelerate the development and reduce the cost of new and advanced technologies that avoid, reduce, or capture and store greenhouse gas emissions. According to the DOE, the CCTP is the technology component of a comprehensive U.S. strategy introduced by President George W. Bush in 2002 to combat climate change that includes measures to slow the growth of greenho… more

Date: September 2006

Creator: The U.S. Climate Change Technology Program

Item Type: Text

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UGEC Viewpoints, No. 2, September 2009

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that has transformed and continues to alter landscapes and the ways in which societies function and develop. For this issue of UGEC Viewpoints, the editors collected case-studies presented at the Open Meeting that span across regions and themes: from Australia and the United States, as well as the less developed nations in Africa, megacities of Asia such as Dhaka, Bangladesh and Delhi, India, vulnerable coastal areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, and the largest … more

Date: September 2009

Creator: Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project

Item Type: Text

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Understanding ecosystems

Plants and animals live in environments which change over different periods of time. Some changes happen each year with the seasons, whilst others take hundreds or even millions of years. As these changes occur, living organisms respond in different ways. To cope with the changing seasons, individuals can change their physiology or behaviour, for instance by hibernating or migration. In response to longer-scale change, species may adapt through evolutionary change. If they cannot, they must eit… more

Date: 2003

Creator: British Antactic Survey

Item Type: Text

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Understanding the Policy Contexts for Mainstreaming Climate Change in Bhutan and Nepal: A Synthesis

This report is a synthesis of two Adaptation Knowledge Platform studies that sought to understand the policy contexts for addressing climate change adaptation and key conservation issues in Nepal and Bhutan.

Date: 2013

Creator: Davis, Marion & Li, Lailai

Item Type: Text

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UNDP Briefing Note on Adaptation to Climate Change: Doing Development Differently

The document outlines UNDP's adaptation services and UNDP-GEF's adaptation portfolio that comprises 21 national, regional and global projects taking place in 45 countries.

Date: November 2007

Creator: United Nations Development Programme

Item Type: Text

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UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Afghanistan

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections

Date: January 2006

Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.

Item Type: Text

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