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Climate Change Impacts on the United States The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change.  Overview:  Alaska. (open access)

Climate Change Impacts on the United States The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. Overview: Alaska.

This document discusses climatic trends in Alaska and how changes in weather and climate are affecting plant and animal populations, other geographic and environmental factors, and the socio-economic impacts on the region.
Date: 2000
Creator: National Assessment Synthesis Team (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adapting Water Management A Primer on Coping with Climate Change (open access)

Adapting Water Management A Primer on Coping with Climate Change

This primer is intended as a guide to some of the basic issues surrounding water management from a climate change perspective. It includes information on climate change impacts on various freshwater ecosystems as well as precipitation. Also addressed is how the assessment of vulnerability should distinguish between impacts assessment, which attempts to project future biophysical and ecological changes in a deterministic manner, and vulnerability assessment, which attempts to combine an assessment of future suites of change with an assessment of the resilience of ecosystems and management institutions.
Date: March 2009
Creator: Matthews, John H. & Quesne, Tom Le
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change in Indonesia Implications for Humans and Nature (open access)

Climate Change in Indonesia Implications for Humans and Nature

The report highlights that annual rainfall in the world’s fourth most populous nation is already down by 2 to 3 per cent, and the seasons are changing.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Case, Michael; Ardiansyah, Fitrian & Spector, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science Perspectives on the CCSP Strategic Plan (open access)

Science Perspectives on the CCSP Strategic Plan

Scientists offer comments on the Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
Date: 2003
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pathways: In the UNFCCC Process up to 2025 (open access)

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pathways: In the UNFCCC Process up to 2025

Meeting the EU objective of limiting global average temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels requires a peak in global greenhouse gas emissions within the next two decades. This means that early participation of developing countries in global emission control is needed, even under a significant strengthening of the commitments of Annex I countries under the Kyoto Protocol. The study has shown that it is possible to design a set of consistent rules for the attribution of the long-term emission endowments of the different world regions. The gains from participating in global emission trading and from reduced air pollution damage and/or abatement costs does substantially enhance, from a developing country perspective, the attractiveness of an early participation in a regime based on greenhouse gas reduction pathways, provided that the level and the form of their commitment is well designed so as to minimise economic risks.
Date: October 2003
Creator: Criqui, P.; Kitous, A.; Berk, M.; den Elzen, M.; Eickhout, B.; Lucas, P. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roadmap for Restoring Ecosystem Resiliency and Sustainability (open access)

Roadmap for Restoring Ecosystem Resiliency and Sustainability

This document describes the economic and environmental value of the gulf coast environment and plans by federal and state governments to restore and protect wetlands and barrier islands.
Date: March 2010
Creator: Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Working Group (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library