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Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives: Designed for Effective Climate Change Mitigation? [PDF]

International Interactions, 2016
The Paris Agreement of December 2015 set a highly ambitious target for global climate change mitigation, but it remains unclear how it will be reached, and the individual countries’ pledges do not add up to the overall target. Can transnational climate governance initiatives be expected to fill the gap?
Michaelowa, Katharina, Michaelowa, Axel
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The ESA Climate Change Initiative: Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables [PDF]

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2013
Observations of Earth from space have been made for over 40 years and have contributed to advances in many aspects of climate science. However, attempts to exploit this wealth of data are often hampered by a lack of homogeneity and continuity and by insufficient understanding of the products and their uncertainties.
Hollmann, R., Merchant, C. J., Saunders, R., Downy, C., Buchwitz, M., Cazenave, A., Chuvieco, E., Defourny, P., de Leeuw, G., Forsberg, R., Holzer-Popp, T., Paul, F., Sandven, S., Sathyendranath, S., van Roozendael, M., Wagner, W.   +15 more
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Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015–2017

Environmental Research Letters, 2018
In the period 2015–2017, the Western Cape region has suffered from three consecutive years of below average rainfall—leading to a prolonged drought and acute water shortages, most prominently in the city of Cape Town. After testing that the precipitation
Friederike E L Otto, Piotr Wolski, Flavio Lehner, Claudia Tebaldi, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Sanne Hogesteeger, Roop Singh, Petra Holden, Neven S Fučkar, Romaric C Odoulami, Mark New   +10 more
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China’s public health initiatives for climate change adaptation

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 2023
China's health gains over the past decades face potential reversals if climate change adaptation is not prioritized. China's temperature rise surpasses the global average due to urban heat islands and ecological changes, and demands urgent actions to safeguard public health.
John S. Ji, Yanjie Xia, Linxin Liu, Weiju Zhou, Renjie Chen, Guanghui Dong, Qinghua Hu, Jingkun Jiang, Haidong Kan, Tiantian Li, Yi Li, Qiyong Liu, Yanxiang Liu, Ying Long, Yuebin Lv, Jian Ma, Yue Ma, Kinay Pelin, Xiaoming Shi, Shilu Tong, Yang Xie, Lei Xu, Changzheng Yuan, Huatang Zeng, Bin Zhao, Guangjie Zheng, Wannian Liang, Margaret Chan, Cunrui Huang   +28 more
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Interactive simulation with En-ROADS spurs climate action among decision-makers

npj Climate Action
The risks of climate change stand in stark contrast to widespread confusion, conflict, and insufficient action among decision-makers. Interactive climate policy simulations have been proposed to enable people to learn more effectively than traditional ...
Juliette N. Rooney-Varga, Lucia Cheney, Rachel L. Coleman, Andrew P. Jones, Florian Kapmeier, Peyton Newsome, Krystal Noiseux, Bethany Patten, Kenneth Rath, John D. Sterman   +9 more
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Evaluating the scientific credentials of the supporters of public petitions denying anthropogenic climate change

Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 2021
Notwithstanding the extensive media coverage of topics related to climate change, communication initiatives in open contradiction with the scientific understanding of climate change as a primarily anthropogenic phenomenon are still widespread.
Stefano Caserini, Sylvie Coyaud, Giulia Persico, Gabriele Messori   +3 more
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Global initiatives to prevent climate change

Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2008
Dear Sir, Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our times. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. Climate change impacts will range from affecting agriculture – further endangering food security – to sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, increasing ...
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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper reviews selected initiatives taken by Asian countries to comply with emerging global sustainability standards, reporting, and management systems, and tracks the response of Asian businesses to global environmental concerns, examines market based innovations including new regulations that augmented corporate excellence, and identifies future ...
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Mari Kimura, Kumiko Isono   +2 more
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Mapping Childhood Cancer Care Services in Oceania: Methodological Lessons From the SIOP Global Mapping Programme

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The International Paediatric Oncology Society Global Mapping Programme aims to collect data on global paediatric oncology services by continent, with Africa and Latin America completed. This study reports on the methodology and lessons learned for Oceania, a unique continent with resource disparity across countries, multiple small island ...
Trisha Soosay Raj, Christy Noble, Amy Gray, Daniel C. Moreira, Jennifer Lowe, Maite Gorostegui, Gwenda Anga, Andrew Soma, Milena Lay Dos Santos, Siobhan Cross, Erin Luttrell, Michael Sullivan, Julie Cayrol, Julia Challinor, Neil Ranasinghe, Jordana McLoone, Claire E. Wakefield   +16 more
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Initialized near-term regional climate change prediction [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2013
Climate models are seen by many to be unverifiable. However, near-term climate predictions up to 10 years into the future carried out recently with these models can be rigorously verified against observations. Near-term climate prediction is a new information tool for the climate adaptation and service communities, which often make decisions on near ...
F. J. Doblas-Reyes, I. Andreu-Burillo, Y. Chikamoto, J. García-Serrano, V. Guemas, M. Kimoto, T. Mochizuki, L. R. L. Rodrigues, G. J. van Old   +8 more
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