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The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: A systematic review of evidence from low- And middle-income countries
(IOP Publishing, 2021)
Climate change adaptation responses are being developed and delivered in many parts of the world in the absence of detailed knowledge of their effects on public health. Here we present the results of a systematic review ...
COVID-19: Lessons for the climate change emergency
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak pandemic is now a global crisis. It has caused 9+ million confirmed cases and
400,000+ deaths at the time of writing and triggered unprecedented preventative measures that have confined
a ...
Early warning systems: The "last mile" of adaptation
(American Geophysical Union, 2012-09)
Recent scientific assessment studies of climate change impacts, including those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, provide evidence of the negative effects of climate variability and change on natural and ...
Translating Niche Features: Modeling Differential Exposure of Argentine Reptiles to Global Climate Change
(Wiley, 2015-08)
Global climate change affects the distributions of ectotherms and may be the cause of several conservation problems, such as great displacement of climatic suitable spaces for species and, consequently, important reductions ...
How Sustainable Transportation Can Utilize Climate Change Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024)
The effect of climate change on electricity expenditures in Massachusetts
(Elsevier, 2017-07)
Climate change affects consumer expenditures by altering the consumption of and price for electricity. Previous analyses focus solely on the former, which implicitly assumes that climate-induced changes in consumption do ...
The Systems Thinking Playbook for Climate Change
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale ZusammenarbeitDE, 2011)
Simple interactive exercises, we call them ‘games’ or ‘strategic exercises’, have the potential to help participants understand by doing. In The Systems Thinking Playbook for Climate Change, we present 22 games that will ...
Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope
On 11 November 2014, a remarkable event occurred. President Barack Obama of
the United States and President Xi Jinping of China announced a bilateral agree-
ment to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that ...
Catastrophe zones by hydro-meteorological events in Chile and contributions for a climate risk index
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST GEOGRAFIA, 2016)
It is estimated that changes in global weather patterns and natural dynamics can cause a high incidence of extreme events, and therefore increase risk levels. In this study, we review the major climatic and hydrometeorological ...