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- חוסן או עמידות מתייחס לכמות השינוי שמערכת יכולה לספוג ללא שינוי של מצבה (IPCC TAR 2001).
- חוסן או עמידות מתייחסים ליכולת של מערכת להתגבר על השפעות של לחץ כבד עליה, שיתכן שגרם לה נזק (UKCIP, 2003).
- חוסן או עמידות מתייחסים ל-3 תנאים המאפשרים למערכות חברתיות או אקולוגיות להתאושש מחדש לאחר זעזוע שספגו. התנאים הם: יכולת ארגון עצמי, יכולת להגן מפני הפרעות ופגיעות במערכת ויכולת ללמוד ולהסתגל (Tompkins, 2005).
- ללא חרטה – אסטרטגיה שיש לאמץ בכל מקרה, גם ללא כל שינויים (אקלימיים, אנושיים) במשק המים.
- חרטה נמוכה – אסטרטגיה מאומצת לאדפטציה הנושאת עמה עלות נמוכה.
- חרטה גבוהה – אסטרטגיה מאומצת שעשויה להיות בעלת עלות גבוהה באם לא יחולו שינויים אקלימיים.
בת/בר-קיימא – Sustainable
אסטרטגיה המשתמשת במשאבים באופן מושכל כדי לצמצם את צריכתם ואת הפגיעה בהם ולהותיר משאבים גם לדורות הבאים.
היערכות אוטונומית (Autonomous Adaptation) (Spontaneous Adaptation)
היערכות אוטונומית היא היערכות שאינה מבוססת על תגובה מודעת לשינויי אקלים אלא מופעלת ע"י שינויים אקולוגיים במערכות טבעיות או ע"י שינויי שוק או שינויים ברווחה של מערכות אנושיות.
היערכות מקדימה (Proactive Adaptation / Anticipatory Adaptation)
היערכות הנעשית לפני שהשפעות של שינויי אקלים מורגשות בשטח.
היערכות מתוכננת (Planned Adaptation)
היערכות או התאמה שהיא תוצר של קבלת החלטות מכוונת המבוססת על מודעות שהתנאים השתנו או עומדים להשתנות ויש לנקוט בפעולה כדי להשיב את המצב על כנו, לתחזק את המצב הקיים או להשיג את המצב הרצוי.
היערכות פרטית (Private Adaptation)
היערכות ויישומה הנעשית ביוזמת פרטים, בתי אב וחברות פרטיות ומבוססת על האינטרס העצמי שלהן.
היערכות ציבורית (Public Adaptation)
היערכות ויישומה ביוזמת הממשלה על כל שלביה ומודרכת ע"י האינטרסים והצרכים של הציבור.
היערכות תגובתית, מגיבה (Reactive Adaptation)
היערכות והתאמה הננקטות לאחר שהשפעות שינויי האקלים כבר חלו.
היערכות, התאמה (Adaptation)
הסתגלות של מערכות טבעיות או אנושיות בתגובה לשינויי אקלים אקטואליים או מצופים, או להשפעותיהם. ההסתגלות ממתנת את הפגיעות ומאפשרות לנצל הזדמנויות מועילות. בדרך כלל ההסתגלות כוללת צעדים מעשיים להגנת מדינות וקהילות מפני הפרעות או נזקים שנגרמים ע"י שינויי אקלים.
חוסן (Resilience)
חלוקת נטל ההפסד (Share losses)
נשיאה משותפת בהפסד בקרב קבוצות או באמצעות קרנות ציבוריות כדוגמת ביטוח.
יכולת (Capacity)
שילוב של כל הכוחות והמשאבים הזמינים בקהילה, חברה או ארגון היכולים לצמצם את רמת הסיכון או את ההשפעות של אסון. יכולות כוללות אמצעים פיזיים, מוסדיים, חברתיים וכלכליים וכן כוח אדם מיומן ואף תכונות כגון מנהיגות וכושר ניהול (UN/ISDR, 2004).
יכולת היערכות, יכולת התאמה (Adaptive Capacity)
התכונה של מערכת להתאים את עצמה לשינויי אקלים (כולל השונות והקיצון) כדי למתן ולשכך נזקים פוטנציאלים או לנצל את היתרונות של הזדמנויות, או להתמודד עם תוצאותיו (IPCC TAR 2001a) ההיערכות יכולה להיות ספונטנית או מתוכננת, לדוגמה, בניית יכולת אצל הציבור בנושא חיסכון או תכנון רגיש למים ע"י חינוך והכשרה.
יכולת התמודדות (Coping Capacity)
האמצעים שבעזרתם בני אדם או ארגונים משתמשים במשאבים זמינים וביכולת כדי לקדם תוצאות שליליות העשויות להוביל לאסון. חיזוק יכולות ההתמודדות בונה חוסן (Resilience) כדי שניתן יהיה לעמוד בהשפעות של אסונות טבע או מעשה ידי אדם (UN/ISDR, 2004).
ללא חרטה / חרטה נמוכה / חרטה גבוהה:No / Low / High Regret
ניהול אינטגרטיבי של אגני היקוות (IWM Integrated Water Shed Management – )
ניהול משולב מתבסס על מערכות אקולוגיות תוך התחשבות בגבולות סטטוטוריים. זוהי גישה אינטגרטיבית לניהול מערכת סביבתית שאגן ניקוז הוא חלק ממנה. הגישה מאחדת תכנון, מדיניות ופעילויות לשם פיקוח על המים ועל משאבי טבע אחרים באגן הניקוז. IWM היא גישה יישומית ובת קיימא לניהול אגני היקוות.
נשיאה בנטל ההפסד (Bear Losses)
פעילויות התאמה אשר מבוצעות לאחר שתופעת שינויי האקלים השפיעה על השוק וגרמה להפסדים בהם יש להתחשב ומבוצעת בעיקר ברמת הפרט.
סיכון, סכנה (Risk)
סיכון בהקשר לאקלים הוא תוצר של האינטראקציה בין אסונות פיזיים לבין התכונות של המערכת החשופה להם – כלומר רגישותה ופגיעותה החברתית. סיכון שווה להסתברות של סכנה סביבתית מוכפל ברמת הפגיעות של מערכת נתונה (UNDP 2005). סיכון הוא שילוב של שני גורמים: ההסתברות לאירוע בעל תוצאות שליליות והתוצאות של אירוע כזה. סיכון משלב את ההשפעות על מערכות טבעיות ואנושיות ונובע מהחשיפה לסכנה.
עלויות היערכות (Adaptation Costs)
עלויות התכנון, ההכנות, הסיוע והיישום של שיטות היערכות, כולל עלויות תקופת המעבר (IPCC TAR 2001a).
פגיעות (Vulnerability)
פגיעות מתייחסת לדרגה שבה מערכת חשופה, או אינה יכולה להתמודד עם השפעות שליליות של שינויי אקלים כגון שונות ואירועי קיצון. פגיעות מושפעת מאופי, עוצמה ושיעור השונות באקלים שאליהם חשופה מערכת, רגישותה ויכולת ההסתגלות שלה (IPCC TAR 2001).
פעילויות מניעה (Prevent Effect Prevention)
פעולות למניעה השפעות שינויי אקלים למשל ע"י שינוי ייעוד של שימוש קרקע או שינוי מיקומו.
שיטות הפיכות וגמישות (Reversible Flexible Policy)
אסטרטגיה שניתן לשנות את העלות הכרוכה בהפעלתה במקרה ולא חלים שינויים אקלימיים או אנושיים במשק המים.
שילוב במדיניות ומוסדות קיימים (Mainstreaming)
אין עדיין הגדרה מוסכמת ל-mainstreaming, אבל משתמשים במונח זה כמילה נרדפת לאינטגרציה. הביטוי מתייחס לשילוב של מטרות ההיערכות, אסטרטגיות היערכות, מדיניות, אמצעים ופעולות להיערכות כך שהם הופכים לחלק בלתי נפרד מהמדיניות הלאומית והאזורית, מהתהליכים, והתקציבים בכל הדרגים והשלבים של הממשל (UNDP 2005).
מאמרים ופרסומים אחרונים
תוכנית היערכות לאומית לשינוי אקלים
המשרד להגנת הסביבה מפרסם את השלב הראשון של התוכנית הלאומית להיערכות לשינוי אקלים.
מידע נוסף
משבר האקלים – קונצנסוס מדעי לנוכח התעלמות והכחשה
מדעני האקלים שבים ומתריעים כי פליטות גזי חממה שמקורן בפעילות האדם מביאות להשתנות האקלים, והשתנות זו משפיעה דרמטית על הסביבה, על המערכות האקולוגיות ועל מרבית ההיבטים של תנאי החיים על כדור הארץ
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מפת סיכונים לאומית להיערכות לשינוי אקלים
במסגרת ההיערכות לשינוי אקלים, המשרד להגנת הסביבה עסק בשנה האחרונה בפיתוח כלי גאוגרפי תומך בקבלת החלטות מבוססות מדע וידע. הכלי יסייע למקבלי החלטות בכל הרמות לקבל החלטות ולקבוע סדרי עדיפויות מושכלות בתכנון וביישום של ההיערכות לשינוי אקלים.
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שינויי הטמפרטורה בישראל – בראי שלושה אטלסים אקלימיים
עבודה זו בוחנת את מגמות השינוי בטמפרטורה בישראל בהתבסס על השוואת שלוש תקופות מיצוע
של 15 שנה מתוך האטלסים האקלימיים שפרסם השירות המטאורולוגי הישראלי: ,1979-1964
2009-1995 ו.2020-2006
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של 15 שנה מתוך האטלסים האקלימיים שפרסם השירות המטאורולוגי הישראלי: ,1979-1964
2009-1995 ו.2020-2006
שינוי האקלים העולמי: אתגרים, השלכות ומדיניות בעולם ובישראל
מסמך זה נכתב לבקשת ועדת הפנים והגנת הסביבה. מטרתו להקיף סוגיות יסוד במגוון
תחומים הקשורים למדיניות האקלים, לקראת ועידת האקלים 28COP שמתקיימת בדובאי
מ30- בנובמבר עד 12 בדצמבר 2023 ולקראת הדיונים בחוק אקלים שאושר זה מכבר בוועדת
השרים לענייני חקיקה.
מידע נוסף
תחומים הקשורים למדיניות האקלים, לקראת ועידת האקלים 28COP שמתקיימת בדובאי
מ30- בנובמבר עד 12 בדצמבר 2023 ולקראת הדיונים בחוק אקלים שאושר זה מכבר בוועדת
השרים לענייני חקיקה.
תמיכה ממשלתית בתוכניות היערכות לשינוי האקלים ברשויות המקומיות
מסמך זה נכתב לבקשת חבר הכנסת יוראי להב הרצנו, ובו סקירה של התמיכה הממשלתית בתוכניות ההיערכות (אדפטציה) לשינוי האקלים ברשויות המקומיות בישראל.
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דו״ח ה-OECD: סקירת הביצועים הסביבתיים של ישראל
גירסה מקוצרת: תרגום לעברית של פרסום של ה-OECD
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אומדן הנזק הכלכלי מהתחממות המרחב הציבורי בעיר תל אביב-יפו
עבודה זו בוחנת את ההשפעות של התחממות המרחב העירוני בתל אביב-יפו על היבטים כלכליים שונים ברווחת ציבור לקוחות העיר (עסקים, תיירים, ותושבים) ובכלכלת העירייה, בשנת 2050.
מידע נוסף
תרחישי ייחוס לאירועי מזג אוויר קיצוניים בישראל (עדכון מרץ 2023)
כדי לאפשר היערכות טובה יותר למצבי מזג אוויר קיצוניים שעלולים להתרחש בעתיד, מתקיים תהליך עבודה משותף של השירות המטאורולוגי (שמ"ט) עם רשות החירום הלאומית (רח"ל) שנועד לגבש תרחישי ייחוס לאירועי מזג אוויר קיצוניים.
בעקבות זאת יצא מסמך המתאר את תרחישי הייחוס, אשר גובשו על-ידי השמ"ט.
המסמך הוכן במקור ב-2015. הוא עודכן לאחרונה במרץ 2023 וכולל גם עדכון לגבי עומס החום.
מידע נוסף
בעקבות זאת יצא מסמך המתאר את תרחישי הייחוס, אשר גובשו על-ידי השמ"ט.
המסמך הוכן במקור ב-2015. הוא עודכן לאחרונה במרץ 2023 וכולל גם עדכון לגבי עומס החום.
על ישראל לעדכן את התחזיות והתרחישים בנוגע לעליית גובה פני הים
הים הוא שחקן מרכזי בתופעת משבר האקלים. הוא קולט פחמן דו חמצני ופולט גזי חממה, אבל גם פולט מחצית מהחמצן שאנחנו נושמים. הים משפיע ישירות על האקלים, והוא מקור פרנסה ומזון למיליארדי בני אדם. בעקבות שינוי האקלים, גובה פני הים עולה, הוא הופך חם יותר וחומצי יותר, המגוון הביולוגי נפגע, קליטת גזי החממה יורדת והפליטה של גזי חממה עולה, בד בבד עם ירידה בפליטת חמצן.
מידע נוסף
דו"ח מצב הטבע 2022 – כרך מגמות ואיומים - פרק ג' - שרפות בשטחים הטבעיים והמיוערים בישראל
דו"ח מצב הטבע מרכז ומציג מידע מרחבי ועיתי על איומים למערכות האקולוגיות ועל תהליכים משמעותיים המשפיעים עליהן ועל המגוון הביולוגי.
פרק ג' - מיפוי וניתוח מרחבי ועיתי של תדירות השרפות בשטחים הטבעיים והמיוערים בישראל בשבע השנים האחרונות
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פרק ג' - מיפוי וניתוח מרחבי ועיתי של תדירות השרפות בשטחים הטבעיים והמיוערים בישראל בשבע השנים האחרונות
דו"ח מצב הטבע 2022 – כרך מגמות ואיומים - פרק ז' – שינוי אקלים והשפעתו על המגוון הביולוגי
סקירת תופעות שינוי האקלים ונתוני תחזיות בעולם ובארץ, הצגת ההשפעות הנצפות והצפויות על החי והצומח.
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Agriculture, irrigation and drought induced international migration: Evidence from Mexico
There is now substantial empirical evidence that climatic variability increases international migration, but relatively little is known about the mechanism driving the association and about adaptations that may reduce it. We use detailed data on migrants from Mexico to the U.S. to provide evidence in support of the hypothesis that drought induced migration from Mexico to the U.S. is mediated by agricultural income shocks.
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Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China
This paper reviews urban heat (UrHT) challenges following the SBAR (situation, background, assessment and recommendation) framework. The results indicate that heatwaves become more frequent, lasting and intense, especially after 1990s. Above 1960s level, heatwaves across China doubled in both magnitude and frequency by 2018.
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אוכלוסיות פגיעות ומשבר האקלים – תוכנית המאיץ
מסמך זה הוא פרי שיתוף פעולה של משרד הרווחה והביטחון החברתי (להלן: משרד הרווחה) עם תוכנית המאיץ להיערכות רשויות מקומיות למשבר האקלים של משרד האנרגייה, המשרד להגנת הסביבה ומשרד הפנים – במסגרת מִנהלת ההיערכות לשינויי אקלים.
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תמותה עודפת בישראל בשל גלי חום – מחקר ראשוני עבור המדענית הראשית של המשרד להגנת הסביבה
גלי חום מתאפיינים בשינויים חדים במזג האוויר, ואלו עלולים להוביל לפגיעה ממשית בבריאות הציבור.
למיטב ידיעתנו, טרם נבדק בישראל הקשר שבין גלי חום לתמותה. ביצענו ניתוח ראשוני לבחינת ההיתכנות
להימצאות של תמותה עודפת בישראל לאחר גלי חום.
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למיטב ידיעתנו, טרם נבדק בישראל הקשר שבין גלי חום לתמותה. ביצענו ניתוח ראשוני לבחינת ההיתכנות
להימצאות של תמותה עודפת בישראל לאחר גלי חום.
The strengths and weaknesses of future visioning approaches for climate change adaptation: A review
Adaptation to climate change is about planning for the future while responding to current pressures and challenges. Adaptation scientists are increasingly using future visioning exercises embedded in co-production and co-development techniques to assist stakeholders in imagining futures in a changing climate. Even if these exercises are growing in popularity, surprisingly little scrutiny has been placed on understanding the fundamental assumptions and choices in scenario approaches, timeframes,
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HELP Guiding Principles for Drought Risk Management under a Changing Climate
Disaster risk reduction mainly focused on flood events in the past decades. However, one of the most impactful water-related climate risks to both nature and humanity is considered to be droughts, many regions in the world have already been hit hard by drought events in recent years. Drought impacts are far-reaching and include degraded ecosystems, limited availability of drinking water and loss of food production. To be better prepared for future drought events, the High-level Experts and Leade
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Who benefits from nature in cities? Social inequalities in access to urban green and blue spaces across Europe
Parks, urban forests, tree-lined streets and riverbanks support urban well-being by providing space for rest, relaxation and exercise, and by keeping temperatures down. However, not everyone across Europe enjoys equal access to green space in cities. This briefing reviews the evidence of socio-economic and demographic inequalities in access to the health benefits derived from urban green and blue spaces across Europe. It showcases examples of green spaces that were designed to meet the needs of
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The development process and significance of the 3rd National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (2021–2025) of the Republic of Korea
The Republic of Korea has developed its 3rd National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (2021–2025) through joint work between government departments in 2020. This follows the Framework Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth, which was enacted in 2010. In this paper, we presented the development process, main contents, significance, and limitations of the 3rd Adaptation Plan as a helpful case for the international community to consult in formulating their national adaptation plans.
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Climate change impacts on infrastructure: Flood risk perceptions and evaluations of water systems in coastal urban areas
The importance of public perceptions and their role in climate change adaptation for infrastructure has been highlighted in previous studies. However, public perception of water infrastructure at risk of flooding has not been explicitly addressed. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate flood risk perception, the factors that influence it, and evaluations of water infrastructure systems.
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Adaptive planting design and management framework for urban climate change adaptation and mitigation
Implementing measures to adapt and mitigate climate change effects in cities has been considered increasingly urgent since the quality of life, health, and well-being of urban residents is threatened by this change. Novel communities of plant species that emerge and thrive in the harsh conditions of cities may represent a promising opportunity to address climate change adaptation and mitigation through the planting design and management of urban green spaces.
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Climate change increases risk of extreme rainfall following wildfire in the western United States
Post-wildfire extreme rainfall events can have destructive impacts in the western United States. Using two climate model large ensembles, we assess the future risk of extreme fire weather events being followed by extreme rainfall in this region. By mid-21st century, in a high warming scenario (RCP8.5), we report large increases in the number of extreme fire weather events followed within 1 year by at least one extreme rainfall event.
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GAR Special Report on Drought
The GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 explores the systemic nature of drought and its impacts on achievement of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the SDGs and human and ecosystems health and wellbeing. Droughts have deep, widespread and underestimated impacts on societies, ecosystems, and economies.
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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
The IPCC has finalized the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, the Working Group III contribution. It was finalized on 4 April during the 14th Session of Working Group III and 56th Session of the IPCC.
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Impacts of Climate Change on Water Management. Stocktaking, scope for action and strategic fields of action
In December 2020, the German Working Group on Water Issues of the Federal States and the Federal Government (LAWA) prepared a comprehensive report on the concerns, potential responses and strategic fields of action in water resources management, updating the previous work released in 2017.
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Policy Brief: Gender-Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction
This policy brief explores challenges faced in gender-responsive disaster risk reduction. Gender inequality, coupled with climate and environment crises, is the greatest sustainable development challenge of the present time.
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Plan of approach for exceptional low water events in the Meuse basin
The Meuse International River Basin District faced several consecutive years of the summer drought between 2017 and 2020. In order to be able to adapt to these events, which are likely to occur more often because of climate change, the International Meuse Commission has drafted a plan of approach to deal with exceptional low water events, published at the end of 2020.
The document aims to answer three questions:
What is an exceptional low-water event in the Meuse basin?
What are their con
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The document aims to answer three questions:
What is an exceptional low-water event in the Meuse basin?
What are their con
Everyday limits to adaptation
Adaptation to climate change, in terms of both academic and policy debates, has been treated predominantly as a local issue. This scalar focus points towards local agency as well as the contested responsibilization of local actors and potential disconnects with higher-level dynamics. While there are growing calls for individuals to take charge of their own lives against mounting climatic forces, little is known about the day-to-day actions people take, the many hurdles, barriers, and limits they
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A framework for climate change adaptation indicators for the natural environment
Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems will become increasingly severe as the magnitude of climate change increases. Climate change adaptation interventions to address current and projected impacts are thus paramount. Yet, evidence on their effectiveness remains limited, highlighting the need for appropriate ecological indicators to measure progress of climate change adaptation for the natural environment. We outline conceptual, analytical, and practical challenges in developing
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מתווה למיפוי סיכוני שינויי אקלים בישראל
שינויי האקלים נותנים את אותותיהם כבר כיום. האקלים בישראל צפוי להיות חם יותר, יבש יותר
וצפויה עלייה נמשכת בפני הים והתגברות השכיחות של אירועי מזג אויר קיצוניים. שינויים אלו
גורמים להתגברות השכיחות והעוצמה של סיכוני אקלים, כלומר נזקים הנגרמים לאדם ולרכוש
כתוצאה מהאקלים, כגון שיטפונות, הצפות, שריפות, בצורות, גלי חום וסערות קשות. סיכוני האקלים
הם בעלי שונות במרחב. היערכות לשינויי אקלים הכרחית בכדי להבטיח חוסן חברתי וכלכלי
בישראל. דרושים אמצעים פיזיים וכלכליים להתמודד עם השפעות האקלים בהווה שיהו
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וצפויה עלייה נמשכת בפני הים והתגברות השכיחות של אירועי מזג אויר קיצוניים. שינויים אלו
גורמים להתגברות השכיחות והעוצמה של סיכוני אקלים, כלומר נזקים הנגרמים לאדם ולרכוש
כתוצאה מהאקלים, כגון שיטפונות, הצפות, שריפות, בצורות, גלי חום וסערות קשות. סיכוני האקלים
הם בעלי שונות במרחב. היערכות לשינויי אקלים הכרחית בכדי להבטיח חוסן חברתי וכלכלי
בישראל. דרושים אמצעים פיזיים וכלכליים להתמודד עם השפעות האקלים בהווה שיהו
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The IPCC has finalized the second part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, the Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report. It was finalized on 27 February 2022 during the 12th Session of Working Group II and 55th Session of the IPCC.
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Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires
Climate change and land-use change are making wildfires worse and anticipates a global increase of extreme fires even in areas previously unaffected. Uncontrollable and extreme wildfires can be devastating to people, biodiversity and ecosystems. They also exacerbate climate change, contributing significant greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
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הערכה אסטרטגית לישראל 2022 - משבר האקלים: אתגר לסולידריות הבינלאומית
שנת 2021, שתחילתה בחילופי הממשל בוושינגטון בינואר וסיומה בוועידת האקלים של האו"ם שנערכה בגלזגו בנובמבר, הייתה "שנת האקלים" בזירה הבינלאומית. למרות אכזבה מהישגי הוועידה, נרשמו במסגרתה הישגים חשובים מבחינת שובה של ארצות הברית להובלה גלובלית, גיבוש שורת אמנות והסכמים בינלאומיים וכן רתימת מדינות רבות ובהן ישראל להגדלת התחייבויותיהן להפחתת פליטות גזי חממה.
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Building a Resilient Canada
The report examines current practices and emerging actions to reduce vulnerability and exposure to natural hazards through the integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Although the report mainly refers to Canada, it can provide a conceptual framework and examples relevant for governments, businesses, individuals, and other stakeholders of European countries and beyond.
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Economic losses and fatalities from weather- and climate-related events in Europe
The EU adaptation strategy aims to build resilience and ensure that Europe is well prepared to manage the risks from and adapt to the impacts of climate change, including limiting economic losses and other harm. All regions of Europe face economic losses and fatalities from weather and climate extremes every year. To support policy processes on climate change adaptation, data on these losses must be collected and reported across EEA member countries and in a coherent way over decades.
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מדריך להכנת תכנית פעולה מקומית להיערכות לשינוי אקלים ואנרגיה מקיימת
תוכנית פעולה מקומית לשינויי אקלים היא מסמך מדיניות המנחה את פעולות הרשות המקומית בתחומי האקלים. רשויות מקומיות ברחבי העולם, החלו להכין תוכניות מקומיות להתמודדות עם משבר האקלים כבר בשנות ה-90 של המאה ה-20 .תוכניות אלו התמקדו בעיקר בצמצום גזי חממה. רק בתחילת שנות ה-2000( אחרי סדרה של אסונות טבע, גל החום באירופה, שיטפונות בקופנהגן, סערות בניו יורק ובניו אורלינס( נכתבו תוכניות הפעולה המקומיות הראשונות להסתגלות והיערכות לשינויי אקלים. כיום מקובל לשלב מהלכים לחוסן אקלימי עם מהלכים לצמצום פליטות כחלק
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Nature-based solutions and global climate protection: Assessment of their global mitigation potential and recommendations for international climate policy
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) build synergies between biodiversity conservation and societal challenges such as climate change. This paper derives a working definition of NbS based on an evaluation of existing definitions. It assesses the global mitigation and adaptation potential of NbS in relevant studies for forests, croplands, grasslands, terrestrial and coastal wetlands as well as settlements. Recommendations for international climate policy are derived.
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UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022
As required by the Climate Change Act 2008, the UK government has undertaken the third five-year assessment of the risks of climate change on the UK. This is based on the Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk, the statutory advice provided by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), commissioned by the UK government and devolved administrations.
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Assessment Frameworks of Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Nature-based solutions (NBS) play an important and increasing role in both adaptation and disaster risk management. This is also recognized within several global and European agreements and policies (e.g., UN’s SFDRR, EU Green Deal, the EU Adaptation Strategy) which embed NBS as a means to address climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) as well as other societal challenges (e.g., biodiversity loss, climate mitigation). This calls for fit-for-purpose assessments, which c
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Just transition in the context of adaptation to climate change
Climate change impacts affect people in different ways and some members of society will find it more demanding to adapt their living and working conditions and their livelihood to changing climate conditions. Managing climate change adaptation and transition to a climate resilient society in a just and inclusive manner requires awareness about which conditions generate injustice with burdens from climate impacts shared and costs and benefits from adaptation measures distributed in a fair and equ
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Zero regrets: scaling up action on climate change mitigation and adaptation for health in the WHO European Region.
The Working Group on Health in Climate Change (HIC), established under the European Environment and Health Process, aims to articulate and consolidate an action-oriented position on health and climate change for the WHO European Region.
This HIC paper is aimed at policy-makers, particularly from the health sector, and civil society representatives – with the intent to raise awareness about the links between health and climate change, as well as the policy options that can maximize the benefit
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This HIC paper is aimed at policy-makers, particularly from the health sector, and civil society representatives – with the intent to raise awareness about the links between health and climate change, as well as the policy options that can maximize the benefit
Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm
Even as the world looks to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change already locked in are just as important. The sixth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report: The Gathering Storm looks at how the world is doing in adapting to these intensifying impacts.
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Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities
Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities, states that by the end of this century, many cities could warm as much as 4 °C if GHG emissions continue at high levels. Even at 1.5°C of warming, 2.3 billion people could be vulnerable to severe heat waves. The new guide offers planners an encyclopedia of proven options to help cool cities.
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פורום היערכות והתמודדות רשויות השרון עם משבר האקלים-דו"ח מסכם שנת פעילות ראשונה 2020-2021
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דוח מבקר המדינה 2021: פעולות ממשלת ישראל והיערכותה למשבר האקלים
דוח ביקורת מיוחד זה בנושא פעולות ממשלת ישראל והיערכותה למשבר האקלים מונח על שולחן הכנסת ומובא לפני הציבור לקראת ועידת האקלים העולמית COP26, שעתידה להתכנס בתחילת נובמבר 2021, בעיצומה של תקופה שבה מתקבלות בעולם הכרעות מדיניות אשר ישפיעו על האופן שבו נתמודד עם משבר עולמי זה, שצפוי ללוות אותנו בעשורים הקרובים.
פרק מספר 2 בדוח עוסק באדפטציה - ההעירכות הלאומית להסתגלות לשינויי אקלים
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פרק מספר 2 בדוח עוסק באדפטציה - ההעירכות הלאומית להסתגלות לשינויי אקלים
Financial Innovation for Climate Adaptation in Africa
Current adaptation finance flows to Africa are insufficient to meet growing adaptation needs on the continent. This report provides an overview of existing adaptation finance flows in Africa and identifies opportunities to increase the volume and efficacy of that finance.
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מערכות אקולוגיות ורווחת האדם: הערכה לאומית – דו"ח ממצאי מפתח
פרויקט 'מערכות אקולוגיות ורווחת האדם - הערכה לאומית' הוא הפרויקט הראשון שמעריך ומנתח את המגוון הביולוגי ואת המערכות האקולוגיות של ישראל בהיבט של התועלת שלהם לאדם ולחברה. פרויקט זה נערך בהמשך ובמקביל לתהליך עולמי של עיסוק הולך וגובר במצבם של המערכות האקולוגיות ושל המגוון הביולוגי ובאופן שהוא משפיע על היבטים קיומיים ואחרים של החברה האנושית. פרויקט הערכת המילניום בוצע ברמה העולמית בשנים 2000¯2005
ביוזמת הממשלות החברות בארבע אמנות סביבתיות של האו"ם, ומבוצע בשנית על ידי ה"פלטפורמה
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ביוזמת הממשלות החברות בארבע אמנות סביבתיות של האו"ם, ומבוצע בשנית על ידי ה"פלטפורמה
Israel’s State of Climate Tech 2021
Technological innovations play a crucial role in the global challenge to mitigate and adapt to climate change
Israel is renowned as a global leader of technological innovation and this report sets out to examine, for the first time, Israel’s state of climate tech and the potential of its “problem solving” entrepreneurs to provide solutions for the world’s greatest challenge
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Israel is renowned as a global leader of technological innovation and this report sets out to examine, for the first time, Israel’s state of climate tech and the potential of its “problem solving” entrepreneurs to provide solutions for the world’s greatest challenge
The way forward: Supporting climate adaptation in coastal towns and small cities
This article summarizes and reflects upon the work presented in ‘The Unusual Suspects in Climate Change Adaptation – Small Coastal Cities and Towns’ special issue. Across the special issue the challenge of adapting coastal towns and small cities to the impacts of climate change was clearly evident. In order to address some of the challenges, an initial way forward is outlined here to act as a pathway for future research. The areas requiring particular focus include: building a network of coastal
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Infrastructure for Climate Action
By providing quantitative evidence of the influence of infrastructure on sustainable development and climate mitigation and adaptation, Infrastructure for Climate Action highlights the key role that infrastructure plays in fostering climate compatible development.
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Narratives of ice loss: New approaches to shrinking glaciers and climate change adaptation
This article explores an as-yet overlooked component of glacier melt: how competing narratives of ice loss are embedded in divergent climate change adaptation debates. This analysis of regional narratives of ice loss exposes the contested role of glacial meltwater amongst local residents, framing glaciers not just as physical features but also as nodes of discourse and imagination that influence climate change adaptation. Peru's Cordillera Blanca offers an excellent case study for this new n
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Interactions between two existential threats: COVID-19 and climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are complex existential threats, unpredictable in many ways and unprecedented in modern times. There are parallels between the scale and scope of their impacts and responses. Understanding shared drivers, coupled vulnerabilities, and criteria for effective responses will help societies worldwide prepare for the simultaneous threats of climate change and future pandemics. We summarize some shared characteristics of COVID-19 and climate change impacts and i
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Long-term sea-level rise necessitates a commitment to adaptation: A first order assessment
Without adaptation, sea-level rise (SLR) will put more people at risk of flooding. This requires a timely and adequate commitment to adaptation. In this paper, we show how adaptation needs to unfold over time to manage climate-induced SLR. We use a novel scenario-neutral approach, applied globally and subsequently combined with SLR and population scenarios, to assess when, where, and how fast to adapt up to 2150.
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Drivers of and pressures arising from selected key water management challenges — A European overview
This report aims to give a European overview of the main drivers and pressures that are at the core of key water management challenges and which put European water bodies most at risk of not achieving key environmental objectives. Identifying the pressures from and drivers of key water management challenges at the European level can help in prioritising the main issues that should be tackled with measures
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State of the Climate in 2020
This is the 31st issuance of the annual assessment now known as State of the Climate, published in the Bulletin since 1996. As a supplement to the Bulletin, its foremost function is to document the status and trajectory of many components of the climate system. However, as a series, the report also documents the status and trajectory of our capacity and commitment to observe the climate system.
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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
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A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings & Communities
This practical guide demonstrates how buildings and community spaces can be constructed to increase their resilience to climate change, especially in developing countries where structures are largely self-built. The publication provides an overview of the fundamental types of interventions at the building scale, including the use of nature-based solutions.
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Climate change adaptation in fisheries
We conducted a global systematic literature review of climate change adaptation in fisheries. We addressed three specific questions:
(i) What are fisheries adapting to? (ii) How are fisheries adapting? and (iii) What research gaps need to be addressed? We identified, characterized and examined case studies published between 1990 and 2019 that lie at the intersection of the domains of climate change, adaptation and fisheries
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(i) What are fisheries adapting to? (ii) How are fisheries adapting? and (iii) What research gaps need to be addressed? We identified, characterized and examined case studies published between 1990 and 2019 that lie at the intersection of the domains of climate change, adaptation and fisheries
A Systematic Review of the health co-benefits of urban climate change adaptation
The recent and projected upward trends in the frequency and intensity of climate induced events in cities have enhanced the focus on adaptation. In addition to enhancing the capacity of cities to prepare for and absorb risk, adaptation measures provide multiple co-benefits. However, health co-benefits are among the least explored. These are now seen as increasingly important with the renewed focus on public health since the COVID-19 pandemic. This study reviews literature focused on the health c
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Defining region-specific heatwave in China based on a novel concept of “avoidable mortality for each temperature unit decrease”
The distribution of temperature and temperature-health association varied largely across different regions in China, a region-specific definition for heatwave was therefore needed. We collected the data on daily mortality, meteorological factors and air pollution in 84 Chinese cities during 2013−2016, which was divided into seven regions. Based on the association between daily maximum temperature and mortality in each city in a threshold distributed lag non-linear model, where the threshold was
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Rethinking resilient agriculture: From Climate-Smart Agriculture to Vulnerable-Smart Agriculture
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is seeking to overcome the food security problem and develop rural livelihoods while minimizing negative impacts on the environment. However, when such synergies exist, the situation of small-scale farmers is often overlooked, and they are unable to implement new practices and technologies. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to improve CSA by adding the neglected but very important element “small-scale farmer”, and introduce Vulnerable-Smart Agriculture (VSA
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Index for climate change adaptation in China and its application
With the increasing awareness of the risks and impacts of climate change, scholars tend to pay more attention to the applications of indicators, which access the effectiveness of climate change adaptation. This study aims to evaluate the overall progress of climate change adaptation in China during 2010‒2018 in a quantitative manner. The Index for Climate Change Adaptation in China (ICCAC) has been thus developed by adopting the analytic hierarchy process weighting and expert scoring method. Nam
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ההיערכות לשיטפונות וההגנה מפניהם - דוח ביקורת מיוחד - משרד מבקר המדינה
בשנים האחרונות מתרבים מקרי השיטפונות וההצפות בישראל כתוצאה מעלייה בתכיפות אירועי
הגשם החריגים ובעוצמתם, בד בבד עם התרחבות ניכרת של השטחים הבנויים והאטומים הפוגעים בכושר החלחול של המים לתוך הקרקע. בחורף 2020 אירעו ברחבי הארץ כמה אירועי גשם חריגים שהובילו לשיטפונות ולהצפות חמורים בעיקר בערי החוף. באירועים אלה קיפחו את חייהם שבעה בני אדם, ונגרמו נזקים לרכוש ולתשתיות בהיקף של עשרות מיליוני שקלים.
הרשות המקומית ממלאת תפקיד חיוני בהיערכותו של העורף האזרחי לאירועי מזג אוויר חריגים, ובמיוחד בכל הקשור
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הגשם החריגים ובעוצמתם, בד בבד עם התרחבות ניכרת של השטחים הבנויים והאטומים הפוגעים בכושר החלחול של המים לתוך הקרקע. בחורף 2020 אירעו ברחבי הארץ כמה אירועי גשם חריגים שהובילו לשיטפונות ולהצפות חמורים בעיקר בערי החוף. באירועים אלה קיפחו את חייהם שבעה בני אדם, ונגרמו נזקים לרכוש ולתשתיות בהיקף של עשרות מיליוני שקלים.
הרשות המקומית ממלאת תפקיד חיוני בהיערכותו של העורף האזרחי לאירועי מזג אוויר חריגים, ובמיוחד בכל הקשור
Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
Within the framework of the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (DAS), the Federal Government is now presenting the second monitoring report in 2019. It informs the public and decision-makers in all areas of social life about the observed consequences of climate change. The message of the monitoring report is that the future has already reached us. Germany is in the midst of global warming, with far-reaching consequences for the environment, society and health. Urgent action must be
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The impact of climate change on mental health and emotional wellbeing: current evidence and implications for policy and practice
Climate change and mental health are two of the most significant and pressing challenges facing societies across the world. Yet, growing awareness of these global issues has not been met with sufficient action to mitigate their impacts. Mental illness – or the disabling effects of distress – already affects around a billion people globally, while the effects of climate change are increasingly apparent. Both of these issues are projected to increase and stand to affect many more people without su
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Food Systems at Risk: Transformative Adaptation for Long-Term Food Security
his report examines how climate change is impacting agriculture and threatening national and global food systems, particularly in climate hotspots, and how these trends are projected to intensify over the coming decades. The report defines and details transformative adaptation for agriculture and why such longer-term, systemic approaches are needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers and herders. Transformative adaptation in agriculture promotes long-term resi
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Introducing the Built Environment in a Changing Climate: Interactions, Challenges, and Perspectives
Planning for climate change adaptation is among the most complex challenges cities are facing today. Worldwide, unprecedented levels of urban overheating have been recently recorded. Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are major receptors and drivers for climate change with disruptive and mutually empowering impacts on both the natural and the socio-economic environment
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השפעתם של שינויי האקלים על הביטחון הלאומי: היערכות מערכות הביטחון בישראל ובמדינות נבחרות
שינויי האקלים כבר כאן, והם עתידים להתגבר בעשורים הקרובים. השפעתם על הביטחון הלאומי תורגש בשלושה תחומים: החרפת איומים גיאופוליטיים; פגיעה בכשירות המבצעית של כוחות הביטחון; וריבוי אירועי חירום בהם עשויה להידרש מעורבות מערכת הביטחון. בסקירה מתוארים תרחישים אלה, ונסקרת ההיערכות לקראתן במערכת הביטחון של ישראל ובמדינות שונות, ובראשן ארה"ב.
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Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk-Advice to Government For the UK's third Climate Change Risk Assessment
The Adaptation Committee’s Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk sets out the priority climate change risks and opportunities for the UK. The report draws on an extensive programme of analysis, consultation and consideration by the Committee involving over 450 people, 130 organisations and more than 1,500 pages of evidence and analysis
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Power-sensitive design principles’ for climate change adaptation policy-making in South Asia
Despite the proliferation of power approaches to study climate change, there is little focus on how to deal with the negative effects of power in climate change adaptation (CCA) policy-making. CCA literature provides little insight into understandings of manifestations of power that can create negative effects, especially in the context of South Asia.
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Cities on the route to 2030
We stand at a major crossroads for city climate action. As we mark a decade of cities disclosing climate data through CDP, there are less than ten years left to halve global emissions. Our new report reveals the huge progress in disclosure and action over the last decade – and where cities must now urgently ramp up their ambition and efforts to secure a resilient, green recovery from COVID-19, and a climate-safe future.
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אקלים מגדרי: נשים בחזית
הפגיעות העירונית למשבר האקלים נדמית ניטרלית, כזאת שנחלקת באופן שוויוני בין כלל תושבי העיר - אבל מסתבר שנשים פגיעות יותר. מדוע הפגיעות של נשים ייחודית וכיצד ערים צריכות להיערך על מנת לתת לכך מענה ולפתח חוסן עירוני-מגדרי? כתבה נוספת בסדרה "משבר האקלים: הזווית העירונית"
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Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions- A handbook for practitioners
The Handbook aims to provide decision-makers with a comprehensive NBS impact assessment framework, and a robust set of indicators and methodologies to assess impacts of nature-based solutions across 12 societal challenge areas
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היערכות מדינת ישראל לשינוי אקלים - דוח מס' 1
בשנת 2018 אושרה החלטת ממשלה 4079" :היערכות ישראל להסתגלות לשינוי אקלים: יישום ההמלצות
לממשלה לאסטרטגיה ותוכנית פעולה לאומית". בהחלטת הממשלה 4079 נכתב שמדינת ישראל מכירה
בהתרחשות שינויי אקלים עולמיים ובצורך בהיערכות לקראתם, לרבות הקמת מנהלת היערכות לאומית. זאת
בעקבות הסכמה עולמית רחבה והתחזקות הראיות המדעיות כי שינוי האקלים מתרחש, וכן כי כל אחד
כדור הארץ מהעשורים הקודמים, החל בשנת 1850 .משלושת העשורים האחרונים היה חם יותר על פני
הסכנות הנובעות משינוים אלה מגוונות, ובהן עלייה בתכ
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לממשלה לאסטרטגיה ותוכנית פעולה לאומית". בהחלטת הממשלה 4079 נכתב שמדינת ישראל מכירה
בהתרחשות שינויי אקלים עולמיים ובצורך בהיערכות לקראתם, לרבות הקמת מנהלת היערכות לאומית. זאת
בעקבות הסכמה עולמית רחבה והתחזקות הראיות המדעיות כי שינוי האקלים מתרחש, וכן כי כל אחד
כדור הארץ מהעשורים הקודמים, החל בשנת 1850 .משלושת העשורים האחרונים היה חם יותר על פני
הסכנות הנובעות משינוים אלה מגוונות, ובהן עלייה בתכ
Nature-based solutions in Europe: Policy, knowledge and practice for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
Working with nature and enhancing the role of ecosystems can help reduce the impacts of climate change and increase resilience to climate change. Such an approach can deliver multiple benefits, including lowering pressures on biodiversity, improving human health and well-being, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building a sustainable economy. This EEA report provides up-to-date information for policymakers on how to apply nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk
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ניתוח חברתי של משבר האקלים: האם מתבסס אי-צדק אקלימי ברמה המקומית?
גישת אי-צדק אקלימי טוענת להתבססותה של חלוקה לא שווה בקרב מדינות ברחבי העולם בין פליטות גזי החממה והתרומה להתחממות העולמית, לבין רמות הפגיעות ממנה. כהמשך לגישה זו, המאמר מציע מסגרת לניתוח חברתי של משבר האקלים המתמקדת ביחידת ניתוח חברתית, ובאמצעותה נדגים את תהליך התהוותו של אי-צדק אקלימי גם ברמה המקומית.
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מגמות היסטוריות ומגמות חזויות בדפוסי המשקעים בישראל עד סוף המאה
במרץ 2021 ,הוכנה על-ידי אגף אקלים, בשירות המטאורולוגי, עבודה מקיפה לרשות המים, בנושא
"מגמות היסטוריות ומגמות חזויות בדפוסי המשקעים בישראל עד סוף המאה". בעבודת מחקר זו,
נותחו הן מגמות העבר והן המגמות החזויות בכמות הגשם השנתית, עד שנת 2100 .
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"מגמות היסטוריות ומגמות חזויות בדפוסי המשקעים בישראל עד סוף המאה". בעבודת מחקר זו,
נותחו הן מגמות העבר והן המגמות החזויות בכמות הגשם השנתית, עד שנת 2100 .
Business-as-usual will lead to super and ultra-extreme heatwaves in the Middle East and North Africa
Global climate projections suggest a significant intensification of summer heat extremes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). To assess regional impacts, and underpin mitigation and adaptation measures, robust information is required from climate downscaling studies, which has been lacking for the region. Here, we project future hot spells by using the Heat Wave Magnitude Index and a comprehensive ensemble of regional climate projections for MENA. Our results, for a business-as-usual path
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Mapping the evolution and current trends in climate change adaptation science
Research on climate change adaptation has increased in number and significance since the 1970s. Yet, the volume of information on adaptation is now difficult to manage given its vast scope and spread across journals, institutions, disciplines and themes. While an increasing number of researchers have used systematic literature reviews to analyse particular themes within this rapidly growing field of research, there is still missing an overall analysis of the current state of climate change adapt
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The old and the climate adaptation: Climate justice, risks, and urban adaptation plan
With the transition to carbon-free economy, concerns have grown about the “green divide” – the separation of society into different social groups whose socioeconomic status determines one’s well-being from climate change impacts. Studies in environmental justice concur that the adverse effects of urban climate change are disproportionately greater for the demographically vulnerable populations, such as the elderly, the children, and the socially marginalized. Yet, little is known about how these
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A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture
Participatory modeling approaches provide opportunities for collective action responding to challenges of community resource limitations. In the context of climate change, challenges arise from the potential limitations of water availability and resulting conflicts within the agricultural sector. Northeast Lower Saxony is the region with the highest irrigation intensity in Germany due to the sandy soils with low water holding capacity, the cultivation of crops with high water demand, and a negat
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Responding to the health risks of climate change in Europe
A new briefing by the Lancet Countdown and the European Environment Agency (EEA), explores the health impacts of climate change in Europe and suggests key opportunities for increased ambition with a focus on adaptation. The briefing highlights key health impacts from climate change including wildfires, heatwaves and extreme temperatures, the spread of infectious diseases and droughts. It outlines the opportunities to reduce climate-related health risks through adaptation policies in Europe
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Urban planning policy must do more to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
Well-designed urban planning policy can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to anticipated climate change impacts. However, there has been limited analysis of the extent to which urban planning policy documents addresses climate change adaptation and or mitigation. There is a need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, and to be well adapted to this change (in line with the Paris Agreement). Achieving this goal will assis
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Forging a climate-resilient Europe - the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change
The European Commission adopted its new EU strategy on adaptation to climate change on 24 February 2021. The new strategy sets out how the European Union can adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change and become climate resilient by 2050. The Strategy has four principle objectives: to make adaptation smarter, swifter and more systemic, and to step up international action on adaptation to climate change.
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Accelerating climate research and action in cities through advanced science-policy-practice partnerships
Cities have become increasingly recognized as key sites for climate research and action. Recently, these efforts have been significantly advanced through science-policy-practice partnerships. The objective of this paper is to assess how these partnerships are structured, the research and action agenda that underpins them, and how this agenda is being articulated and implemented. The assessment also helps to define some of the conceptual and operational gaps faced by the science-policy-practice c
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Inventories of extreme weather events and impacts: Implications for loss and damage from and adaptation to climate extremes
Extreme and impactful weather events of the recent past provide a vital but under-utilised data source for understanding present and future climate risks. Extreme event attribution (EEA) enables us to quantify the influence of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) on a given event in a way that can be tailored to stakeholder needs, thereby enhancing the potential utility of studying past events. Here we set out a framework for systematically recording key details of high-impact events on a national
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Study on adaptation modelling
This report proposes recommended approaches to analysis and modelling for better informed decision-making on adaptation at various levels of governance. It also identifies research advancements to foster the development and application of the technical, financial, economic and non-monetary analysis and modelling of climate change hazards, risks, impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.
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Heat and health in the WHO European Region: updated evidence for effective prevention
The WHO Regional Office for Europe published guidance on heat–health action planning in 2008, and intends to update this to include the latest evidence. An in-depth review was initiated, based on recent epidemiological and environmental research and lessons learned from implementation in practice.
This publication collates and summarizes the most relevant evidence published since 2008, focusing primarily on Member States in the WHO European Region. Findings are organized around the elements the
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This publication collates and summarizes the most relevant evidence published since 2008, focusing primarily on Member States in the WHO European Region. Findings are organized around the elements the
Changing Lengths of the Four Seasons by Global Warming
How long will the four seasons be by 2100? Increasing evidence suggests that the length of a single season or in regional scales has changed under global warming, but a hemispherical-scale response of the four seasons in the past and future remains unknown. We find that summer in the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes has lengthened, whereas winter has shortened, owing to shifts in their onsets and withdrawals, accompanied by shorter spring and autumn. Such changes in lengths and onsets can be mai
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Determinants of flood adaptation: Parametric and semiparametric assessment
Flood adaptation measures are indispensable to offset agricultural losses emanating from the increasing frequency and intensity of floods. Therefore, it is necessary to identify key precursors of adaptation for the success of flood‐related adaptation programs. Using cross‐sectional household survey data from rice farmers of eastern Nepal, this study explores existing adaptation practices along with the factors influencing farmers' adaptation strategies. Both parametric and semiparametric for
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The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change
Climate change affects human health; however, there have been no large-scale, systematic efforts to quantify the heat-related human health impacts that have already occurred due to climate change. Here, we use empirical data from 732 locations in 43 countries to estimate the mortality burdens associated with the additional heat exposure that has resulted from recent human-induced warming, during the period 1991–2018. Across all study countries, we find that 37.0% (range 20.5–76.3%) of warm-seaso
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Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 - Delivering an Adaptation Action Agenda
COVID-19 has transformed the landscape of our society and poses both threats and opportunities for the climate adaptation agenda. Climate adaptation is at risk of serious setbacks in the coming years due to shifts in public spending due to immediate relief and the potential fallout of a global recession. Adaptation has also never been more important, climate shocks are happening now, intersecting with and exacerbating impacts of COVID-19 – so building resilience to climate impacts will be critic
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Toward sustainable climate change adaptation
Industrial ecology (IE) has made great contributions to climate change mitigation research, in terms of its systems thinking and solid methodologies such as life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, and environmentally extended input–output analysis. However, its potential contribution to climate change adaptation is unclear. Adaptation has become increasingly urgent in a continuously changing climate, especially in developing countries, which are projected to bear the brunt of climate‐chan
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Living with water: climate adaptation in the world’s deltas
Over the centuries, deltas have given rise to some of the world’s greatest cities—and those cities have always been open to the world. They have thrived not only in the trade of goods, but also in the exchange of ideas. Today, as the world faces up to the need to adapt to climate change, it has never been more important for delta countries to learn from one another. That is the thinking behind this ‘lighthouse’ report, which brings together inspiring case studies from around the globe to galvani
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State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2020
The Global Center on Adaptation presents the first in a series of reports that will assess progress on climate adaptation and provide guidance and recommendations on best practice in adapting to the effects of a changing climate and building resilience to climate shocks
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Understanding the Links Between Climate Change Risk Perceptions and the Action Response to Inform Climate Services Interventions
Understanding what motivates people to act on climate change provides an opportunity to design more effective interventions, in particular, climate services interventions, by aligning them with factors that strongly influence action. Climate change risk perceptions have been shown to underlie action on climate change. Therefore, this study performs exploratory research to understand how various determinants of risk perceptions contribute and interact to influence climate change risk perceptions
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The Global Risks Report - 2021
The 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unemployment, widening digital divides, youth disillusionment, and geopolitical fragmentation. Businesses risk a disorderly shakeout which can exclude large cohorts of workers and companies from the markets of the future. Environmental degradation—still an existential threat to humanity—risks intersecting with socie
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Urban adaptation in Europe: how cities and towns respond to climate change
EEA assessment report presenting the status quo of adaptation to climate change at the local government level, with particular focus on cities. The assessment presents the overview of climate risks to cities, types of adaptation responses, extent of adaptation planning and actions at the loal level in Europe and opportunities to scale up and speed up implementation of adaptation to climate change at the local level.
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Adaptation Gap Report 2020 - UNEP
The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2020 finds that while nations have advanced in planning, huge gaps remain in finance for developing countries and bringing adaptation projects to the stage where they bring real protection against climate impacts such as droughts, floods and sea-level rise.
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Healthy environment, healthy lives: how the environment influences health and well-being in Europe
Nature provides the basis for the good health and well-being of the European population. Cleatreme temperatures, floods an air, water and food are essential for sustaining life; natural environments provide space for recreation, relaxation and social interaction; and raw materials feed into our production systems
to provide the comforts of contemporary life.
Climate change contributes to the burden of disease and premature deaths in Europe. Direct health effects include death, injury and the
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to provide the comforts of contemporary life.
Climate change contributes to the burden of disease and premature deaths in Europe. Direct health effects include death, injury and the
Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin Current Situation and Risks for the Future - 1st Mediterranean Assessment Report
The First Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR1) prepared by the independent network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) founded in 2015 is now finished.
MedECC assesses the best available scientific knowledge on climate and environmental change and associated risks in the Mediterranean Basin in order to render it accessible to policymakers, stakeholders and citizens. The report includes a Summary for Policymakers (SPM), which comprises the key messages of the
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MedECC assesses the best available scientific knowledge on climate and environmental change and associated risks in the Mediterranean Basin in order to render it accessible to policymakers, stakeholders and citizens. The report includes a Summary for Policymakers (SPM), which comprises the key messages of the
Health System Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change
Climate change is already causing avoidable injuries, illnesses, and deaths, and is damaging healthcare and public health facilities. The magnitude and distribution of future climate-sensitive health outcomes and of risks to health systems will depend on the level and timing of investment in adaptation and on the chosen greenhouse gas emission pathway. If no additional actions are taken, then over the coming decades substantial increases in morbidity and mortality are expected, as well as breakd
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The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises
The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the emerging health profile of the changing climate. The 2020 report presents 43 indicators across five sections: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerabilities; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. This report represents the findings a
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1st Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR1) main results - MedECC
The first report on the environment and climate change produced by the MedECC network was released in November 2020. It is sounding the alarm!
It received the North-South Prize 2020 from the Council of Europe, as a model of collaboration between countries of the North and the South of the Mediterranean.
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It received the North-South Prize 2020 from the Council of Europe, as a model of collaboration between countries of the North and the South of the Mediterranean.
Risks and Impacts of Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Infographic
New MedECC infographic on drivers and impacts of climate and environmental change is available
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שינוי אקלים, תכנון עירוני ובנייה ירוקה
במסמך זה רוכז מידע בנושא תכנון עירוני ובנייה ירוקה בעידן של שינוי אקלים. המידע בנושא שינויי אקלים וההשלכות על התכנון והבנייה הירוקה לקוח מתוך דוחות שהגיש מרכז הידע להיערכות לשינוי אקלים בישראל למשרד להגנת הסביבה.
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Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation
The paper is the first global systematic review of the effectiveness of nature-based solutions and provides evidence that nature-based solutions play a key role in addressing the impacts of climate change, but also highlights potential trade-offs to be avoided and evidence gaps where further study is needed. The review investigates nearly 400 scientific studies including both real-world cases, and modelled scenarios. Of the real-world cases, most nature-based interventions (59%) were found to re
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Climate change strategic narratives in the United Kingdom: Emergency, Extinction, Effectiveness
Achieving policy, business and behaviour change necessary to mitigate climate change is one of the most formidable challenges of the twenty-first century. Increasingly, researchers have argued that communicating purposively designed stories – ‘strategic narratives’ – may be effective in building support for the policy measures necessary to limit anthropogenic warming to 2˚C above pre-industrial levels
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Greening schoolyards - An urban resilience perspective
Greening schoolyards and redesigning them to be better playgrounds delivers multiple benefits
Greening schoolyards is a highly distributed urban intervention that can enhance city resilience as a whole
Integrating resilience into project design and implementation requires a practical resilience framework
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Greening schoolyards is a highly distributed urban intervention that can enhance city resilience as a whole
Integrating resilience into project design and implementation requires a practical resilience framework
Adaptation to health effects of climate change in Europe
The main impacts on health in Europe are from heat and heat-waves, changing patterns of infectious and vector-borne diseases, and from extreme disasters like floods and fires. This opinion presents the challenges for the health sector caused by the need for adapting to the increased risks from climate change, and provides recommendations aimed to strengthen the resilience of the health sector in Europe in view of climate change impacts.
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World Cities Report 2020: The Value of Sustainable Urbanization
The World Cities Report 2020 shows that the intrinsic value of sustainable urbanization can and should be harnessed for the wellbeing of all. The Report provides evidence and policy analysis of the value of urbanization from an economic, social and environmental perspective, including the unquantifiable value that gives cities their unique character; and also explores the role of innovation and technology, local governments, targeted investments and the effective implementation of the New Urban
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Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities
Climate change adaptation presents an opportunity for legacy cities to address growing social, racial, and economic inequality, or engage in just climate change adaptation. While the importance of just and equitable climate change adaptation is well understood, the policy and politics that underlie such efforts are less well understood. This paper focuses on the development of just climate change adaptation strategies in legacy cities, particularly those in the Great Lakes region of the U.S., wh
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המשבר הסמוי שמעצב את המזרח התיכון
שיעים נגד סונים, פלסטינים נגד ישראלים, מסורת נגד קידמה - לרשימת הגורמים שהופכים את האזור שלנו לאזור כה נפיץ יש להוסיף כוח אימתני שכבר יוצר שינויים מהותיים בחברה, בכלכלה ובביטחון: משבר האקלים
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United Nations Climate Change Annual Report 2019
Greater efforts are required to adapt to the impacts of climate change and to
protect people and the planet. The UNFCCC interacts with governments and
partners in searching for ways to increase developing countries’ capacity to adapt.
This year in adaptation was marked by the secretariat’s provision of support to
countries for developing their national adaptation plans, the work of the
Adaptation Committee on climate finance, the enhancement of partnerships
under the Nairobi work programme
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protect people and the planet. The UNFCCC interacts with governments and
partners in searching for ways to increase developing countries’ capacity to adapt.
This year in adaptation was marked by the secretariat’s provision of support to
countries for developing their national adaptation plans, the work of the
Adaptation Committee on climate finance, the enhancement of partnerships
under the Nairobi work programme
שינוי אקלים ובריאות הציבור - סקירת ספרות, מיפוי מדדי בריאות והמלצות לפעולה
בשנת 2018 ממשלת ישראל קיבלה החלטה להיערכות לאומית להסתגלות לשינוי אקלים ) החלטה מספר 4079.)
לצורך יישום החלטת הממשלה, נקבע כי על כל משרד ממשלתי לפתח תוכנית היערכות ולהשתתף במאמץ הלאומי
להיערכות מיטיבה לשינוי אקלים. מסמך זה צפוי להוות שלב ראשון במאמץ לקראת גיבוש תוכנית עבודה של משרד
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לצורך יישום החלטת הממשלה, נקבע כי על כל משרד ממשלתי לפתח תוכנית היערכות ולהשתתף במאמץ הלאומי
להיערכות מיטיבה לשינוי אקלים. מסמך זה צפוי להוות שלב ראשון במאמץ לקראת גיבוש תוכנית עבודה של משרד
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שינוי האקלים וההשפעה על בריאותך- תרשים - הותאם מתוך הדוח: שינוי אקלים ובריאות הציבור
ישראל נמצאת באחד מהאזורים הרגישים ביותר לשינוי האקלים
מתועדת מגמת התחממות הכוללת קיץ ארוך, קיצוני וחם יותר; עלייה בתדירות של גלי חום; הפחתה בכמות המשקעים והקצנה במופעיהם.
משבר האקלים הוא אחד הגורמים המשפיעים ביותר על הבריאות במאה ה–21 ועל מדינת ישראל להיערך למען בריאות הציבור.
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מתועדת מגמת התחממות הכוללת קיץ ארוך, קיצוני וחם יותר; עלייה בתדירות של גלי חום; הפחתה בכמות המשקעים והקצנה במופעיהם.
משבר האקלים הוא אחד הגורמים המשפיעים ביותר על הבריאות במאה ה–21 ועל מדינת ישראל להיערך למען בריאות הציבור.
Global Biodiversity Outlook 5
Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It is a periodic report that summarizes the latest data on the status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions relevant to the further implementation of the Convention
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מגמות השינוי בטמפרטורה בישראל, תחזיות עד 2100
בדו"ח "שינויי אקלים בישראל מגמות עבר ומגמות חזויות במשטר הטמפרטורות והמשקעים"
דו"ח מחקר מס' 0000075-2019-0804-4000 ,נובמבר 2019 ,השירות המטאורולוגי( אותו פרסמנו
בסוף שנה שעברה, מוצגת השתנות הטמפרטורה עבור שני תרחישים, (האחד מתון 5.RCP4 והשני
קיצוני יותר 5.RCP8 )בו האנושות אינה נוקטת בשום פעולה לצמצום גזי החממה. השתנות
הטמפרטורה הוצגה לשני תרחישים אלו עד שנת 2050.
בעבודה הנוכחית אנו מרחיבים את חישוב מגמות השינוי החזויות, לאותם שני תרחישים, עד שנת
2100.
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דו"ח מחקר מס' 0000075-2019-0804-4000 ,נובמבר 2019 ,השירות המטאורולוגי( אותו פרסמנו
בסוף שנה שעברה, מוצגת השתנות הטמפרטורה עבור שני תרחישים, (האחד מתון 5.RCP4 והשני
קיצוני יותר 5.RCP8 )בו האנושות אינה נוקטת בשום פעולה לצמצום גזי החממה. השתנות
הטמפרטורה הוצגה לשני תרחישים אלו עד שנת 2050.
בעבודה הנוכחית אנו מרחיבים את חישוב מגמות השינוי החזויות, לאותם שני תרחישים, עד שנת
2100.
תכניות היערכות לשינויי אקלים-מבט משווה ראשוני
מסמך זה נכתב לבקשת חה"כ מיקי חיימוביץ', יו"ר ועדת הפנים ואיכות הסביבה לקראת דיון שכותרתו "משבר האקלים - היערכות לשינויי אקלים קיצוניים ברמה המקומית והלאומית". המסמך מהווה סקירה ראשונית של תוכניות פעולה בתחום ההיערכות לשינוי האקלים, בדגש על תוכניות המיושמות במדינות האיחוד האירופי.
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Accelerating Climate Action in Israel
This report analyses the actions necessary in the near and medium term to reduce Israel’s GHG emissions in three sectors– electricity, residential and transport, for which specific policy recommendations are developed.
The report will serve as input to the roadmap that will be developed to support the country’s long-term low-emission strategy (LT-LEDS)
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The report will serve as input to the roadmap that will be developed to support the country’s long-term low-emission strategy (LT-LEDS)
תכנית פעולה היערכות לשינויי אקלים - תל אביב יפו - 2020
התכנית ממפה את שינויי האקלים הצפויים ואת השפעתם על העיר, על האוכלוסייה ועל מערך השירותים והסביבה הפיזית.
מתוך ניתוח התחזיות והתרחישים, זיהינו שתי משימות מפתח לעשור הקרוב: קירור העיר וניהול המים.
לצורך מימושן, קבענו מגוון כלים ופעולות, כדי להבטיח את המשך איכות החיים בעיר, למרות שינויי האקלים.
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מתוך ניתוח התחזיות והתרחישים, זיהינו שתי משימות מפתח לעשור הקרוב: קירור העיר וניהול המים.
לצורך מימושן, קבענו מגוון כלים ופעולות, כדי להבטיח את המשך איכות החיים בעיר, למרות שינויי האקלים.
Nature-based solutions for adapting to water-related climate risks
Healthy ecosystems, and their associated services, can provide effective natural protection against water-related climate risks. Nature-based solutions (NbS) have recently gained momentum in international policy discussions due to their potential to foster synergies between ecosystem health and human wellbeing, while also offering economic benefits. This paper provides an overview of the use of NbS to date in OECD countries and finds that in most cases ambition for NbS does not match practice. F
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Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade
International trade enables us to exploit regional differences in climate change impacts and is increasingly regarded as a potential adaptation mechanism. Here, we focus on hunger reduction through international trade under alternative trade scenarios for a wide range of climate futures. Under the current level of trade integration, climate change would lead to up to 55 million people who are undernourished in 2050. Without adaptation through trade, the impacts of global climate change would inc
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Care-full and just: Making a difference through climate change adaptation
In the small city of Dunedin, on the south-east coast of Aotearoa New Zealand, sea-level rise and increased flood events are affecting communities. The potential for climate change impacts in South Dunedin to exacerbate existing inequalities is high. Floods in 2015 became a catalyst for a different way of ‘doing’ climate change adaptation suggesting more care-full and just intentions and practices
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Collaboratively Developing Tools for Climate Change Adaptation-Lessons for Research and Policy
Climate change is causing extreme weather events to increase in frequency and intensity, putting cities, home to most of Europe’s population, at rapidly increasing risk
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Standardisation in local climate change adaptation: benefits, myths and recommendations
This policy brief provides an outline of the urban standardisation landscape in Europe, covering the benefits of (and barriers to) using standards for local climate change adaptation, outlining existing relevant standards for local governments, busting persistent myths about using them, and concluding with a set of recommendations for local governments and creators of standards.
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Scaling Local and Community-Based Adaptation
Climate change continues to pose serious threats to inclusive and sustainable development across all scales. The adverse impacts of climate change are manifested largely at the local level. The underlying drivers of vulnerability—including socio-economic, ecological and human resources, institutions, governance and infrastructure—are inherently context-specific and reflected at local scale. Hundreds of millions of people in both developing and developed countries are vulnerable to the direct and
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How does private adaptation motivation to climate change vary across cultures? Evidence from a meta-analysis
Natural hazards, exacerbated by climate change, increasingly affect societies worldwide. The accelerating risks entail that private adaptation complement more traditional public climate change adaptation measures. Culture plays an important role in framing how individuals experience hazards and behave toward them. Yet, empirical research explicitly measuring whether and how climate change adaptation varies across cultures is lacking. To address this gap, we collect meta-analytic data on factors
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חוסן עירוני בשגרה ובחירום-אסטרטגיות, פרקטיקות והמלצות לרשויות המקומיות
משבר הקורונה העמיד את הרשויות המקומיות בישראל ובעולם בפני דילמות ואתגרים קריטיים. לצד
המחיר הכבד שהמשבר גבה וממשיך לגבות מהתושבים, מהעסקים ומהרשויות המקומיות עצמן, מבטאת
תקופה זו ביתר שאת את תפקידו המרכזי של השלטון המקומי - לא רק בהוצאה לפועל של מדיניות הממשלה
ובהפעלת מערכי חירום, אלא גם בהובלה של יוזמות ומהלכים מקומיים, המספקים לתושבים מענה משלים
והכרחי, המתבסס על צרכי המקום ונסיבותיו הייחודיות.
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המחיר הכבד שהמשבר גבה וממשיך לגבות מהתושבים, מהעסקים ומהרשויות המקומיות עצמן, מבטאת
תקופה זו ביתר שאת את תפקידו המרכזי של השלטון המקומי - לא רק בהוצאה לפועל של מדיניות הממשלה
ובהפעלת מערכי חירום, אלא גם בהובלה של יוזמות ומהלכים מקומיים, המספקים לתושבים מענה משלים
והכרחי, המתבסס על צרכי המקום ונסיבותיו הייחודיות.
What is ecosystem-based adaptation
Healthy ecosystems can reduce the negative impacts of climate change. For instance, coastal habitats like mangroves provide natural flood defences, well-protected lakes retain water sources during droughts, and healthy forests reduce the risk of devastating wildfires. Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is an approach that uses these ecosystem services as part of a holistic adaptation strategy. Often through win-win outcomes, EbA protects vulnerable communities from extreme weather while simultaneo
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A diagnostic tool for supporting policymaking on urban resilience
Urban resilience has become a popular notion among urban policymakers and scientists, as a way to deal with the many complex issues that cities face. While it has positive connotations and resonates with local urban agendas, it is not always clear what it means and what factors contribute to resilience. Additionally, critical literature observes that people's views on what resilience means can differ strongly and the many choices that are made in planning and implementing resilience are ofte
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Financing Water Supply, Sanitation and Flood Protection
The OECD and the Directorate-General for Environment, the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on the environment, joined forces to examine current and future water-related financing challenges faced by EU member states. These include investments needed to comply with EU regulation for water supply, wastewater collection and treatment, and flood protection. As part of the research, new data was produced on current levels of expenditure for water supply, sanitation and flood p
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A Method for Enhancing Capacity of Local Governance for Climate Change Adaptation
The lack of capacity for climate change adaptation at the subnational level has been highlighted as a key barrier to implementing the UNFCCC National Adaptation Plans. At the same time, the adaptive capacity of local governance is highly context sensitive, making a “one-size fits all” approach inappropriate. Thus, a versatile methodological approach for application in various local contexts is required. There are several indicator-based local governance assessment methods for evaluating the effe
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פיתוח חוסן חברתי: מה בין מגפת הקורונה למשבר האקלים?
הזרקור על משבר הקורונה כמגיפה בריאותית והחיפוש אחר פתרונות בריאותיים מידיים בידוד, שמירה
על היגיינה אישית וריחוק חברתי . וארוכי טווח- המרוץ לחיסון , הסיטו מהדיון היבטים חברתיים של
המשבר. כחברה שרוצה לפתח חוסן לאומי וחברתי, עלינו לבחון מי מצליח להתמודד טוב יותר בעתות המשבר ומי פחות? מי יצליח לחזור מהר יותר לשגרה ומי יתקשה?
נתונים ראשוניים בעודנו בעיצומו של המשבר, מלמדים כי הנפגעים העיקריים מגיעים משכבות האוכלוסייה המוחלשות בחברה הישראלית
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על היגיינה אישית וריחוק חברתי . וארוכי טווח- המרוץ לחיסון , הסיטו מהדיון היבטים חברתיים של
המשבר. כחברה שרוצה לפתח חוסן לאומי וחברתי, עלינו לבחון מי מצליח להתמודד טוב יותר בעתות המשבר ומי פחות? מי יצליח לחזור מהר יותר לשגרה ומי יתקשה?
נתונים ראשוניים בעודנו בעיצומו של המשבר, מלמדים כי הנפגעים העיקריים מגיעים משכבות האוכלוסייה המוחלשות בחברה הישראלית
Exploring potential adaptation options for policy and decision-makers: The Climate-ADAPT Catalogue
Adaptation options are measures and actions that can be implemented to manage climate risks to an acceptable level, taking advantage of any positive opportunities that may arise from climate change. Climate-ADAPT provides a catalogue of potential adaptation options that can be explored by climate impacts and adaptation sectors of interest
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Green climate change adaptation and the politics of designing ecological infrastructures
There is a distinctive ecological turn within contemporary urban infrastructure design linked to the embrace of green approaches to climate adaptation and new ‘ecological’ and ‘landscape infrastructures’ which combine green and grey features. These promise a wide range of ecological, social and cultural benefits and have been accompanied by distinctive new design visions and imaginaries
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Multi-Dimensional Data Preparation: A Process to Support Vulnerability Analysis and Climate Change Adaptation
Agriculture is the backbone of a country’s economic system, considering that it not only provides food and raw materials but also employment opportunities for a large percentage of the population. In this way, determining the degree of agricultural vulnerability represents a guide for sustainability and adaptability focused on changing future conditions. In many cases, vulnerability analysis data is restricted to use by authorized personnel only, leaving open data policies aside
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היערכות ישראל לשינוי אקלים: מיפוי אוכלוסיות פגיעות-סקירת ספרות ומסמכי מדיניות מהעולם
סקירה זו נכתבה לשימוש מינהלת היערכות לשינוי אקלים לצורך העמקת הדיון בנושא פיתוח חוסן חברתי בהיערכות ישראל לשינוי אקלים. זאת מתוך הבנה כי על תוכנית ההיערכות לכלול התייחסות ייחודית לקבוצות חברתיות פגיעות יותר לשינוי אקלים. לצורך הכנת המסמך נערכה סקירה של הספרות האקדמית ושל מסמכי מדיניות מרחבי העולם, מופו הקבוצות החברתיות הפגיעות יותר לשינוי אקלים ונסקרו דרכי ההתמודדות האפשריות ברמה הלאומית והמקומית. כמו
כן, הושם דגש על התאמת הסקירה להיבטים החברתיים והתרבותיים הייחודים של ישראל.
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כן, הושם דגש על התאמת הסקירה להיבטים החברתיים והתרבותיים הייחודים של ישראל.
What makes climate change adaptation effective? A systematic review of the literature
Increased understanding of global warming and documentation of its observable impacts have led to the development of adaptation responses to climate change around the world. A necessary, but often missing, component of adaptation involves the assessment of outcomes and impact
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Accelerating invasion potential of disease vector Aedes aegypti under climate change
Vector-borne diseases remain a major contributor to the global burden of disease, while climatechange is expected to exacerbate their risk. Characterising vector development rate and its spatio-temporal variation under climate change is central to assessing the changing basis of human disease risk. We develop a mechanistic phenology model and apply it to Aedes aegypti, an invasive mosquito vector for arboviruses (e.g. dengue, zika and yellow fever).
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Shifting to climate change aware cities to facilitate the city resilience implementation
Climate change (CC) is one of the most urgent threats to modern societies, having direct and indirect consequences on the rapid growth of urban areas. Cities are attempting to both reduce their impact on the environment and build resilience to be able to face the irreversible effects of CC through plans and strategies
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The Dasgupta Review – Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity- Interim Report
The independent Review will explore the sustainability of our engagements with Nature – what we take from it; how we transform what we take from it and return to it; why we have disrupted Nature’s processes; and what we must urgently do differently to enhance our collective wealth and well-being, and that of our descendants
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A Snapshot of Global Adaptation Investment and Tracking Methods
The intensity and frequency of extreme weather events and chronic climate-related changes are increasing, globally. With these changes, there is a pressing and clear need for communities worldwide to invest in adapting to climate change. According to the UN Environment Programme, in developing countries alone, adapting to climate change will require USD 280 billion to USD 500 billion per year by 2050 (UNEP 2016). The 46 countries that included adaptation cost estimates in their Nationally Determ
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-Common Ground Between the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework - Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Countries are faced with the growing challenge of managing increasing risks from climate change and climate variability, putting development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals at risk. The adoption in 2015 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement on climate change provides a clear mandate for increased coherence in countries’ approaches to climate and disaster risk reduction
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Three steps to integrate climate change adaptation and development: Addressing resilience in Danish development policy
The world needs resilient societies. In order to achieve this, adaptation to climate change is key. Denmark’s development cooperation should take a leading role in the integration of climate change adaptation and development.
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Building resilience against biological hazards and pandemics: COVID-19 and its implications for the Sendai Framework
Year 2020 has become the year of coping with Covid-19
This year was to be the “super year” for sustainability, a year of strengthening global actions to accelerate the transformations required for achieving the 2030 agenda. We argue that 2020 can and must be a year of both. Thus we call for more utilisation of the health-emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) framework to complement current responses to COVID-19 and the patent risk of similar phenomena in the future
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This year was to be the “super year” for sustainability, a year of strengthening global actions to accelerate the transformations required for achieving the 2030 agenda. We argue that 2020 can and must be a year of both. Thus we call for more utilisation of the health-emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) framework to complement current responses to COVID-19 and the patent risk of similar phenomena in the future
The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change
As anthropogenic climate change continues the risks to biodiversity will increase over time, with future projections indicating that a potentially catastrophic loss of global biodiversity is on the horizon1,2,3. However, our understanding of when and how abruptly this climate-driven disruption of biodiversity will occur is limited because biodiversity forecasts typically focus on individual snapshots of the future. Here we use annual projections (from 1850 to 2100) of temperature and precipitati
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Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States
United States government scientists estimate that COVID-19 may kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans. The majority of the pre-existing conditions that increase the risk of death for COVID-19 are the same diseases that are affected by long-term exposure to air pollution. We investigate whether long-term average exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) increases the risk of COVID-19 deaths in the United States
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How our responses to climate change and the coronavirus are linked
The coronavirus pandemic may lead to a deeper understanding of the ties that bind us on a global scale
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Migration, environment and climate change: Responding via climate change adaptation policy
With the advance of climate change and environmental changes threatening livelihoods, their impacts on migration and displacement are receiving increasing attention in research, politics, and civil society. The issue is complex and multi-dimensional, with environmental changes affecting human mobility in diverse ways. The three reports in this series thus evaluate the evidence base for policymaking, and provide entry points for responses in the field of climate change adaptation
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UNDRR Annual Report 2019
Annual report for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019
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Floodplains: a natural system to preserve and restore
Floodplains are part of Europe’s natural capital, covering 7 % of the continent's area and up to 30 % of its terrestrial Natura 2000 site area. Studies have shown that 70-90 % of floodplains have been environmentally degraded. The objective of this work is to showcase that natural floodplains support achieving multiple EU policy objectives. More specifically to show that natural and restored floodplains provide an alternative to structural measures for providing flood protection, and at the
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Global warming to increase violent crime in the United States
Recent studies have revealed large and robust correlations between seasonal climate and violent crime rates at regional scales within the continental United States, begging the question of how future climate change will influence violent crime rates. Here, we combine empirical models from previous studies with 42 state-of-the-art global climate models to make such projections, while accounting for key factors like regionality and seasonality, and appropriately combining multiple of sources of un
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From incremental to transformative adaptation in individual responses to climate-exacerbated hazards
In this Review of scholarship on behavioural adaptation, we find that most empirical studies focus on the affective and cognitive drivers of behaviours with largely private benefits. Few examine behaviours with collective benefits or explore the moderating role of social factors on affective and cognitive cues
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The Global Risks Report 2020
The Global Risks Report 2020 presents the major risks the world will be facing in the coming year. The global economy is facing an increased risk of stagnation, climate change is striking harder and more rapidly than expected
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Economy-wide effects of coastal flooding due to sea level rise: a multi-model simultaneous treatment of mitigation, adaptation, and residual impacts
The article presents a multi-model assessment of the macroeconomic impacts of coastal flooding due to sea level rise and the respective economy-wide implications of adaptation measures for two greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration targets, namely the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP)2.6 and RCP4.5, and subsequent temperature increases
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Anomalously warm temperatures are associated with increased injury deaths
Temperatures that deviate from the long-term local norm affect human health, and are projected to become more frequent as the global climate changes. There are limited data on how such anomalies affect deaths from injuries. In the present study, we used data on mortality and temperature over 38 years (1980–2017) in the contiguous USA and formulated a Bayesian spatio-temporal model to quantify how anomalous temperatures, defined as deviations of monthly temperature from the local average monthly
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Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts
In this report, we look at the physical effects of our changing climate. We explore risks today
and over the next three decades and examine cases to understand the mechanisms through
which physical climate change leads to increased socioeconomic risk
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and over the next three decades and examine cases to understand the mechanisms through
which physical climate change leads to increased socioeconomic risk
Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience - Observations from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria
Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has made supply chains more interconnected than ever, while also expanding both their range and fragility. In the third quarter of 2017, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria revealed some significant vulnerabilities in the national and regional supply chains of Texas, Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico
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2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction
The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36% of final energy use and 39% of energy
and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, 11% of which resulted from
manufacturing building materials and products such as steel, cement and glass. This year’s Global Status Report provides an update on drivers of CO2 emissions and energy demand globally since 2017, along with examples of policies, technologies and investments that support low-carbon building stocks
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and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, 11% of which resulted from
manufacturing building materials and products such as steel, cement and glass. This year’s Global Status Report provides an update on drivers of CO2 emissions and energy demand globally since 2017, along with examples of policies, technologies and investments that support low-carbon building stocks
Building urban resilience with nature-based solutions: How can urban planning contribute?
Cities face increasing environmental, social and economic challenges that together threaten the resilience of urban areas and the residents who live and work there. These challenges include chronic stresses and acute shocks, amplified by climate change impacts. Nature-based solutions have emerged as a concept for integrating ecosystem-based approaches to address a range of societal challenges
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Adaptation’s Thirst: Accelerating the Convergence of Water and Climate Action
Water has long been recognized as a central component of climate change impacts as well as a tool to ensure effective adaptation. In the words of Carter Roberts, CEO, WWF-US, at the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in 2009, “The language of water is the language of climate change.” Nevertheless, miscommunication and misunderstanding remain an issue between the water and climate change commun
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The Role of Domestic Budgets in Financing Climate Change Adaptation
With climate-induced shocks and stresses threatening fiscal stability and undermining the achievement of broader development goals, governments across the world are recognising the need to mobilise more and smarter investment in climate adaptation. This paper considers the role of domestic budgets as an under-examined but vitally important and sustainable source of adaptation finance at scale. It does so based on the premise that in many developing countries, domestic budgets are already the lar
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How England’s broken planning system has created (not reduced) the risk of floods
Recent floods in England have been described as unprecedented or even “biblical” events, often with the misguided assumption that they were unavoidable or unpredictable. That is not the case.
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Climate Finance and Sustainable Cities
The theme of the 2019 SCF Forum was “Climate finance and sustainable cities”. The objective of the Forum was to enhance understanding of how to accelerate the mobilization and delivery of climate finance for the development of sustainable cities
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2019 National Preparedness Report
The National Preparedness Report evaluates annual preparedness progress and challenges facing the whole community. The 2019 National Preparedness Report highlights the diverse range of preparedness challenges the Nation faces—from terrorism and active shooter incidents, to cyber attacks, to natural disasters, as well as how stakeholders across the Nation are using preparedness grant funding to invest in preparedness improvements
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Yearbook of global climate Action 2019
The Yearbook identifies opportunities and challenges for mitigation and resilience in the seven thematic areas of the Marrakech Partnership (land use, oceans and coastal zones, water, human settlements, transport, energy and industry) and the cross-cutting area of finance
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Meeting the looming policy challenge of sea-level change and human migration
Minimizing the adverse consequences of sea-level change presents a key societal challenge. New modelling is necessary to examine the implications of global policy decisions that determine future greenhouse gas emissions and local policies around coastal risk that influence where and how we live
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Global Climate Report - October 2019
Last October was Earth’s second-hottest October in recorded history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The agency announced that average global land and ocean surface temperatures in October were 1.76 degrees above the 20th century average.
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שינוי האקלים בישראל מגמות עבר ומגמות חזויות במשטר הטמפרטורות והמשקעים
בדו"ח זה לראשונה מציג השירות המטאורולוגי ניתוח בהיקף נרחב של מגמות הטמפרטורה
וכמויות המשקעים על בסיס נתוני העבר מכל רחבי הארץ וניתוח תחזיות של מודלים אקלימיים
אזוריים לעשורים הקרובים
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וכמויות המשקעים על בסיס נתוני העבר מכל רחבי הארץ וניתוח תחזיות של מודלים אקלימיים
אזוריים לעשורים הקרובים
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris agreement
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Perspectives of climate change adaptation of building areas against heat waves
This paper makes a contribution to the 11th SDG "Sustainable Cities and Communities" with the target to improve the adaptation to climate change and resilience to disasters in terms of summer heat
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World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is”
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GAR19 - Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
This fifth edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is being issued four years after the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (Sendai Framework).
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2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
The 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories was adopted and accepted during the 49th Session of the IPCC in May 2019
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Gender-Transformative Climate Change Adaptation: Advancing Social Equity
Power and gender inequalities can constrain and undermine climate change adaptation. Those who are vulnerable and marginalized, with limited access to resources and assets, are already facing formidable barriers in adapting to climate change. Ignoring this challenge is maladaptive, as it adds to the vulnerabilities of those already burdened disproportionately and encourages new types of exclusions. Meeting the challenge requires that we transform our societies into fairer and more just organizat
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2019 - IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report
highlights the urgency of prioritizing timely, ambitious and coordinated action to address
.unprecedented and enduring changes in the ocean and cryosphere
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highlights the urgency of prioritizing timely, ambitious and coordinated action to address
.unprecedented and enduring changes in the ocean and cryosphere
Quantifying the impact of changing the threshold of New York City heat emergency plan in reducing heat-related illnesses
The adverse health impact of high heat is widely documented and can lead to a substantial public health burden. Although heat-related illness in western countries is largely preventable, extreme heat remains the main weather contributor to the burden of disease in the United States.
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Risks Associated to Climate and Environmental Changes in the Mediterranean Region
Recent accelerated climate change has exacerbated existing environmental problems in the Mediterranean Basin that are caused by the combination of changes in land use, increasing pollution and declining biodiversity. In most impact domains (such as water, ecosystems, food, health and security), current changes and future scenarios consistently point to significant and increasing risks during the coming decades. Policies for the sustainable development of Mediterranean countries need to mitigate
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The Role of Green Infrastructures in Urban Planning for Climate Change Adaptation
The population that lives in cities has surpassed the one that lives in the countryside. Cities are recognized as apriority source of pollution. The degradation of air quality and the phenomenon of Urban Heat Island (UHI) are some of the most well-known consequences of urban development. The adaptation of the cities is emerging as one of the greatest challenges that urban planners will face in this century. Urban Green Infrastructures (GIs) could help cities adapt to climate change
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Peak energy, peak oil, and the rise of renewables: An executive’s guide to the global energy system
In this episode of the McKinsey Podcast, Simon London speaks with senior partners Namit Sharma and Christer Tryggestad about their research in the Global Energy Perspective 2019 and
.where global energy demand is headed in the decades to come
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.where global energy demand is headed in the decades to come
UN 2019 sixth Global Environment Outlook: GEO-6 - Summary for Policymakers
UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally Agreed Environment Goals, such as the Paris Agreement
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The case for strategic and managed climate retreat
Faced with global warming, rising sea levels, and the climate-related extremes they intensify, the question is no longer whether some communities will retreat—moving people and assets out of harm's way—but why, where, when, and how they will retreat.
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Accelerating Climate Action
This report builds on the OECD Well-being Framework and applies a new perspective that analyses synergies and trade-offs between climate change mitigation and broader goals such as health, education, jobs, as well as wider environmental quality and the resources needed to sustain our livelihoods through time
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Tracking global climate change adaptation among governments
The Paris Agreement and Katowice Climate Package articulate a clear mandate for all parties to undertake and document adaptation progress. Yet persistent challenges have prevented substantive developments in tracking adaptation and the assessment of adaptation actions and their outcomes
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Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program
The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity and breadth of a deadly combination of existing community stressors, aging infrastructure, and a powerful natural hazard. In many ways, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was a turning point for understanding and managing disasters, as well as related plan making and policy formulation. It brought t
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Business Climate Resilience: Thriving Through the Transformation
WBCSD’s report brings together important global developments and latest thinking on climate adaptation and resilience, with particular focus on private sector climate resilience. It builds on the need for businesses to prepare for both the physical risks that are associated with climate change, as well as the associated transitional risks on the path towards a net-zero economy
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ערים בעידן של שינוי אקלים — זירות של פגיעוּת והיערכות
ערים נחשבות לפגיעות במיוחד לשינוי אקלים ולאירועי מזג אוויר קיצוניים. לנוכח ההכרה
בפגיעות העירונית ובעקבות שורה של אסונות טבע שהיכו בערים ברחבי העולם, מתחילות ערים
רבות ברחבי העולם להיערך לשינוי האקלים. השיח המרכזי בהיערכות העירונית לשינוי האקלים
נסוב סביב מושג החוסן העירוני, המתואר לרוב כיכולת של עיר נתונה להתמודד בהצלחה עם מגוון
של לחצים ואירועי קיצון. תוכניות להגברת החוסן העירוני מתייחסות לסך הפעולות שיש לבצע
מבעוד מועד כדי להפחית את עוצמת הפגיעה וכן לשפר את היכולת להתאושש לאחריה. המאמר ס
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בפגיעות העירונית ובעקבות שורה של אסונות טבע שהיכו בערים ברחבי העולם, מתחילות ערים
רבות ברחבי העולם להיערך לשינוי האקלים. השיח המרכזי בהיערכות העירונית לשינוי האקלים
נסוב סביב מושג החוסן העירוני, המתואר לרוב כיכולת של עיר נתונה להתמודד בהצלחה עם מגוון
של לחצים ואירועי קיצון. תוכניות להגברת החוסן העירוני מתייחסות לסך הפעולות שיש לבצע
מבעוד מועד כדי להפחית את עוצמת הפגיעה וכן לשפר את היכולת להתאושש לאחריה. המאמר ס
Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience - 2019
This report focuses on making the case for climate adaptation, providing specific insights
and recommendations in key sectors: food security, the natural environment, water, cities and
urban areas, infrastructure, disaster risk management, and finance. It is designed to inspire
action among decision-makers
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and recommendations in key sectors: food security, the natural environment, water, cities and
urban areas, infrastructure, disaster risk management, and finance. It is designed to inspire
action among decision-makers
Challenges to natural and human communities from surprising ocean temperatures
Based on historical and lived experience, people expect certain conditions to prevail in the ecosystems they depend upon. Climate change is now introducing strong trends that push conditions beyond historic levels. Using ocean ecosystems as a case study, we show that the frequency of surprising temperatures is increasing faster than expected. We then use these events as motivation to develop a theory for how temperature trends and events will impact natural and human communities
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The Global Climate in 2015–2019
Compared to the previous five-year assessment period 2011–2015, the current five-year period 2015–2019 has seen a continued increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
and an accelerated increase in the atmospheric concentration of major greenhouse
gases (GHGs), with growth rates nearly 20% higher
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and an accelerated increase in the atmospheric concentration of major greenhouse
gases (GHGs), with growth rates nearly 20% higher
The Global Risks Report 2019
The Global Risks Report 2019 is published against a backdrop of worrying geopolitical and geo-economic tensions. If unresolved, these tensions will hinder the world’s ability to deal with a growing range of collective challenges
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Tracking the progress of climate change adaptation: An Australian case study
The six adaptation conferences organised by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility between 2010 and 2018 provide a unique and novel opportunity to track adaptation progress in Australia
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A Land Without Water
Climate change, waves of refugees and poor planning are draining water supplies
in Jordan
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in Jordan
Climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector in Europe
Climate change affects agriculture in a number of ways. Changes in temperature and precipitation as well as weather and climate extremes are already influencing crop yields and livestock productivity in Europe. Weather and climate conditions also affect the availability of water needed for irrigation, livestock watering practices, processing of agricultural products, and transport and storage conditions
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Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods
Climate change has led to concerns about increasing river floods resulting from the greater water-holding capacity of a warmer atmosphere. These concerns are reinforced by evidence of increasing economic losses associated with flooding in many parts of the world, including Europe
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Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Adaptation Activities: A Reference Guide for City Managers
Cities are leading the way in committing to ambitious climate adaptation goals and implementing strategies to reduce climate risks. However, these commitments to adaptation action often face challenges in documenting changes in resilience of urban systems and populations. To capture these adaptation results, cities will need to develop robust monitoring and reporting frameworks to measure achievement, document outcomes and learn from their adaptation activities
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Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems
In the face of major shifts in temperature and precipitation, some conventional strategies that help people to cope or incrementally adapt to climate change may become inappropriate in the long-term. Transformative adaptation, i.e. fundamental systems’ changes that address root causes of vulnerability may be needed
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Managing global catastrophic risks - Part 1 - Understand
Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), this report is dedicated to providing options for policy-makers to better understand, mitigate, prepare for, respond to and communicate about global catastrophic risks
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Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits
We develop empirically-grounded estimates of willingness-to-pay to avoid excess mortality risks caused by climate change. Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate a mortality-temperature relationship that enables global extrapolation to countries without data and projection of its future evolution, accounting for adaptation benefits. Further, we develop a revealed preference approach to recover unobserved adaptation costs
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Tens of thousands additional deaths annually in cities of China between 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming
The increase in surface air temperature in China has been faster than the global rate, and more high temperature spells are expected to occur in future. Here we assess the annual heat-related mortality in densely populated cities of China at 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming
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How does gendered vulnerability shape the adoption and impact of sustainable livelihood interventions in an era of global climate change?
Though many studies have long considered the broad social implications of climate change, researchers have only recently started to consider the gendered unevenness of the global landscape of vulnerability, exposure, and adaptive capacity to environmental stressors and shocks
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Breathing life into climate change adaptation
The exploration of evolutionary biology and biological adaptation can inform society's adaptation to climate change, particularly the mechanisms that bring about adaptability, such as phenotypic plasticity, epigenetics, and horizontal gene transfer. Learning from unplanned autonomous biological adaptation may be considered undesirable and incompatible with human endeavor. However, it is argued that there is no need for agency, and planned adaptation is not necessarily preferable over autonom
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Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient
Biological responses to climate change have been widely documented across taxa and regions, but it remains unclear whether species are maintaining a good match between phenotype and environment, i.e. whether observed trait changes are adaptive. Here we reviewed 10,090 abstracts and extracted data from 71 studies reported in 58 relevant publications, to assess quantitatively whether phenotypic trait changes associated with climate change are adaptive in animals
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Responsibility for climate change adaptation
As a policy process, climate change adaptation is rapidly advancing. Yet fundamental questions remain unanswered including, who is responsible for planned adaptation and when, who is liable for losses and damages resulting from climate change and how is responsibility distributed in a multilevel governance system? Responsibility can be evaluated in terms of the timing of particular events, the specific societal actors involved and the rules and norms used to attribute responsibility for dealing
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WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018
This publication marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate, which was first issued in 1994. The 2019 edition treating data for 2018 marks sustained international efforts dedicated to reporting on, analysing and understanding the year-to-year variations and long-term trends of a changing climate
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Increased frequency of and population exposure to extreme heat index days in the United States during the 21st century
The National Weather Service of the United States uses the heat index—a combined measure of temperature and relative humidity—to define risk thresholds warranting the issuance of public heat alerts. We use statistically downscaled climate models to project the frequency of and population exposure to days exceeding these thresholds in the contiguous US for the 21st century with two emissions and three population change scenarios
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The imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe
The report focuses on the consequences of climate change for human health in Europe and the benefits of acting now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to stabilise the climate
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Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus in drylands
The vulnerabilities of our food, energy and water systems to projected climatic change make building resilience in renewable energy and food production a fundamental challenge
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Adaptation challenges and opportunities for the European energy system
This report analyses the needs for climate change adaptation and climate resilience in Europe’s energy system now and in the future. This assessment supports the clean energy transition, which involves a massive expansion of renewable energy sources, many of which are sensitive to climate factors
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Microbiologists' Warning to Humanity: microorganisms and climate change
This Consensus Statement documents the central role and global importance of microorganisms In climate change biology
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Deep-ocean climate change impacts on habitat, fish and fisheries
This publication focuses on the impacts of climatic changes on demersal fisheries, and the interactions of these fisheries with other species and vulnerable marine ecosystems. The principal cause of climate change is rising greenhouse gases and other compounds in the atmosphere that trap heat causing global warming, leading to deoxygenation and acidification in the oceans
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Climate change adaptation at different levels of government: Characteristics and conditions of policy change
Climate change adaptation strategies that aim to minimize harm and maximize benefits related to climate change impacts have mushroomed at all levels of government in recent years. While many studies have explored barriers that stand in the way of their implementation, the factors determining their potential to mainstream adaptation into various sectors are less clear. In the present paper, we aim to address this gap for two international, six national, and six local adaptation strategies.
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Responding to Rising Seas - OECD Country Approaches to Tackling Coastal Risks
There is an urgent need to ensure that coastal areas are adapting to the impacts of climate change. Risks in these areas are projected to increase because of rising sea levels and development pressures. This report reviews how OECD countries can use their national adaptation planning processes to respond to this challenge
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Managed retreat as a strategy for climate change adaptation in small communities: public health implications
In coming decades, sea level rise associated with climate change will make some communities uninhabitable. Managed retreat, or planned relocation, is a proactive response prior to catastrophic necessity. Managed retreat has disruptive health, sociocultural, and economic impacts on communities that relocate. Health impacts include mental health, social capital, food security, water supply, sanitation, infectious diseases, injury, and health care access
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Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
The accelerating impacts of climate change, and the need to avoid much larger impacts in the future, bring urgency to scaling up action on adaptation and resilience
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Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation
Despite recognizing the importance of public bureaucracies in governing climate change, our knowledge of how their behavioral and structural characteristics influence climate change adaptation policy is limited. This article provides an introduction to a collection of studies that seeks to explore the link between climate change adaptation and public bureaucracies, and to distill lessons for the scholarship on adaptation as well as the persistent debates on the role of administrative traditions
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Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation in Tropical Islands
Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation in Tropical Islands provides comprehensive information on climate change, biodiversity, possible impacts, adaptation measures and policy challenges to help users rehabilitate and preserve the natural resources of tropical islands. While biodiversity and climate change of tropical islands has previously received less attention, it is ironically one of the most vulnerable regions in this regard. The core content of the work derives largely from the ideas
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Climate Change Adaptation - Research, Science and Innovation
The historic Paris Agreement set out the challenging long-term goal of keeping global warming to “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. At the same time, it called on societies to build up their resilience and ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change
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Scientists Warn and Call for the Protection of our Planet
We have never been in the history of mankind as a species in such a moment and place. We have
never faced such a challenge during our stay on this planet. Such a great mobilization of scientists from around the world has never happened before
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never faced such a challenge during our stay on this planet. Such a great mobilization of scientists from around the world has never happened before
Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for Climate Change-Related Health Impacts, Risks, Adaptation, and Resilience
Climate change poses a range of current and future health risks that health professionals need to understand, track, and manage. However, conventional monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as practiced in the health sector, including the use of indicators, does not adequately serve this purpose. Improved indicators are needed in three broad categories: (1) vulnerability and exposure to climate-related hazards; (2) current impacts and projected risks; and (3) adaptation processes and health system resi
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Impacts of climate change on transport: A focus on airports, seaports and inland waterways
The report assesses the impacts of climate change on transport for Europe using projections of climate data, coastal inundation, river flooding and river discharge data. Impacts considered include those of sea level rise, storm surges, extreme weather events and floods on airports and seaports, as well as floods and droughts on inland waterways. Main outputs include the identification of transport infrastructure at risk in future time periods and the estimation of economic impacts
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Climate Change Adaptation for Transportation Systems
Climate Change Adaptation for Transportation Systems examines the international state of knowledge on climate change and weather and their potential impacts on the planning, design and serviceability of transportation networks. The book describes alternative frameworks for adapting to climate change in the planning, provision and management of transportation systems. It discusses methods and models for including climate and weather factors in planning and design for use in transportation asset s
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A roadmap to effective urban climate change adaptation
This paper outlines a roadmap to effective urban climate change adaptation built from our practical understanding of the evidence and effects of climate change and the preparation of climate change adaptation strategies and plans. This roadmap aims to drive research in achieving fruitful knowledge and solution-based achievable recommendations in adapting to climate change in urban areas with effective and systematic manner
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The Adaptation Gap Health Report - 2018
The 2018 Adaptation Gap Report has two parts. First, it provides an overview of the status and trends of the adaptation gap in terms of vulnerability to climate change, adaptation costs and finance, and countries’ adaptation commitments and actions. Second, the report undertakes an
in-depth assessment of the adaptation gap in health
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in-depth assessment of the adaptation gap in health
Port industry survey on climate change impacts and adaptation
Ports are critical infrastructure assets that serve as catalysts of economic growth and development. At the same time, they are also exposed to the risk of the impacts of climate variability and change, particularly in view of their location in coastal zones, low-lying areas and deltas
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Climate Change, Impacts and Vulnerability in Europe 2016 - An Indicator-based Report
This report is an indicator-based assessment of past and projected climate change and its impacts on ecosystems and society. It also looks at society’s vulnerability to these impacts and at the development of adaptation policies and the underlying knowledge base.
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Communicating Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
Communicating the impacts of climate change and possible adaptive responses is a relatively recent branch of the larger endeavor of climate change communication. This recent emergence, in large part, is driven by the fact that the impacts and policy/planning/practice responses have only recently emerged in more widespread public consciousness and discourse, and thus in scholarly treatment
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Making the Case for Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems as a Nature-Based Solution to Urban Flooding
European cities continue to experience a steady increase in the intensity and frequency of floods, largely due to high urban densities and resultant soil sealing. In the last decade, flooding as a natural hazard has produced the highest economic losses in Europe and storm water management has become a serious urban challenge.
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WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2017
The global mean temperature in 2017 was approximately 1.1 °C above the pre-industrial
era, more than half way towards the maximum limit of temperature increase of 2 °C sought through the Paris Agreement, which further strives to limit the increase to C 1.5 ° above pre- Industrial levels
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era, more than half way towards the maximum limit of temperature increase of 2 °C sought through the Paris Agreement, which further strives to limit the increase to C 1.5 ° above pre- Industrial levels
The Adaptation Gap Report
The 2017 Adaptation Gap Report, which is the third global Adaptation Gap Report by UN Environment – prepared in collaboration with the Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation – focuses on one of the key questions arising in the wake
of the global goal: What are the ways forward to assess progress towards the global goal on
adaptation?
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of the global goal: What are the ways forward to assess progress towards the global goal on
adaptation?
WMO Statement on the state of the global climate in 2016
This latest report confirms that 2016 was the warmest year on record: a remarkable 1.1 °C above the pre-industrial period, which is 0.06 °C above the previous record set in 2015. This increase in global temperature is consistent with other changes in the climate system.
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Master ADAPT Project - Climate Change Adaptation Practices Across the EU Countries
Within the EU, southern Europe, and the Mediterranean basin in particular, will be most affected by global climate change. Strategies and plans for adaption to climate change are developed at national and regional level in the EU
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Advancing climate adaptation practices and solutions: Emerging research priorities
This paper builds on insights from Adaptation Futures 2016: Practices and Solutions – the largest
gathering of adaptation experts to date – to identify research priorities at a time when adaptation
is scaling up and moving from planning to implementation around the world. It traces the
evolution of adaptation research over time, reflects on how it has evolved, maps what it looks
like today, anticipates research directions and gaps, and articulates new research priorities
Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries: Fostering Resilience Through Gender Equality
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change in the Pacific due to prevailing gender inequalities. Meanwhile, the participation and leadership of women in climate change adaptation has been identified globally as critical for fostering resilience in families, communities and nations
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דו"ח הוועדה לקביעת מדדים ודרכי ניהול פעילות שטח בתנאי אקלים חריגים עבור אוכלוסיות משרד החינוך
דו"ח זה מסכם המלצות עדכניות המבוססות על המידע הרפואי / מחקרי הקיים היום, על המידע התפעולי / מחקרי של ניהול מצבי חירום ואסון, על מידע ניהולי וארגוני ועל ידע צבור של ניהול, מניעה ועזרה ראשונה מעשיים בשטח.
בסיכום כל פרק מופיעות המלצות קצרות וברורות אשר יסייעו באיזון גורמי הסיכון ע''מ למנוע פגיעות ותמותה. המסמך סוקר את ההמלצות למענה במניעה ראשונית ובמניעה שניונית של מעטפת ארגונית, עזרים, קריאת מצבים וניהולם.
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בסיכום כל פרק מופיעות המלצות קצרות וברורות אשר יסייעו באיזון גורמי הסיכון ע''מ למנוע פגיעות ותמותה. המסמך סוקר את ההמלצות למענה במניעה ראשונית ובמניעה שניונית של מעטפת ארגונית, עזרים, קריאת מצבים וניהולם.
Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the US Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the Twentieth Century
This paper examines the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the twentieth-century United States both for its own interest and to identify potentially useful adaptations for coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with mean temperature exceeding 80°F declined by 75 percent. Almost the entire decline occurred after 1960. Second, the diffusion of residential air conditioning explains essentially the entire decline in hot day–related fa
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הצללה במוסדות חינוך ובמגרשי משחקים בגנים ציבוריים
מסמך זה נכתב לבקשת חברת הכנסת ד"ר יפעת שאשא ביטון, יושבת ראש הוועדה לזכויות הילד, לקראת - דיון בוועדה לזכויות הילד בנושא הצללה במוסדות חינוך ובמגרשי משחקים. אמצעי התקשורת מדווחים מזמן לזמן על מקרים של ילדים שנכוו ממתקני משחקים שהפכו ללוהטים בשל חשיפה ממושכת לחום השמש, במגרשים שהצללה בהם לא נכונה או אין בהם הצללה כלל.
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Periodic Report Summary 1 - DYNAMIC (DYNamic feedbacks of climate impacts on current Adaptation and Mitigation Investment Choice)
The DYNAMIC (DYNamic feedbacks of climate impacts on current Adaptation and Mitigation Investment Choice) project proposes a novel framework to evaluate the economic consequences of climate change impacts and related policy responses.
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בחינת תרומת קבוצות סוציו אקונומיות בישראל לפליטות גזי חממה מצריכת מזון ביתי
לייצור המזון, במיוחד בחקלאות התעשייתית, נודעת השפעה ממשית על היקף פליטות גזי חממה באופן ישיר או עקיף. גזי חממה אלו נוצרים בכל שלבי מחזור החיים של המזון, החל משלב החקלאות ותשומותיו, דרך הייצור, הפצה, קירור, קמעונאות, הכנת המזון בבית וכלה בסילוק הפסולת.למעשה, בעוד שבמחקרים השונים קיימת הסכמה על כך שפליטות גזי חממה מייצור המזון וצריכתו מהוות חלק משמעותי מפליטות גזי החממה בעולם, המחלוקת המחקרית נסובה סביב הערכת היקף הפליטות. לדוגמא, לפי דוח של האו"ם מ- 2014 14.5% מפליטות גזי החממה כתוצאה מפעילו
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Climate Adaptation: Seizing the Challenge
The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change’s report, Climate Adaptation: Seizing the Challenge, captures some of the latest thinking in the field of climate adaptation and financing, with the goal of assisting decision-makers in the public and private sectors gain a better understanding of the issue
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Explaining Extreme Weather Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective
The annual Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) special issue on the attribution of last year’s extreme weather events is published today. This year’s issue “explaining extreme events of 2013 – from a climate perspective” includes two papers led by researchers from our climateprediction. This is a highly-cited and influential annual publication coined in 2012 asking whether and to what extent anthropogenic climate change altered the risk of major extreme weather events of the p
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Lima call for climate action- Decision
Climate Action & UNEP delivered their fifth annual Sustainable Innovation Forum on December 9 in Lima. This year’s event brought together close to 500 leaders from key United Nations bodies, governments, international & regional companies and leading non-governmental organisations (NGO's).
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מדדים לאיכות חיים, לקיימות ולחוסן לאומי
מדידת חוסן: המונח חוסן resilience נעשה רווח בשיח הציבורי בשנים האחרונות. החוסן הפך
עיקרון מנחה בתכנון של מערכות תשתית, בתכנון עירוני, בהיערכות לאירועי משבר סביבתיים,
כלכליים וחברתיים וכן בארכיטקטורה של מערכות מורכבות שונות ברחבי העולם.
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עיקרון מנחה בתכנון של מערכות תשתית, בתכנון עירוני, בהיערכות לאירועי משבר סביבתיים,
כלכליים וחברתיים וכן בארכיטקטורה של מערכות מורכבות שונות ברחבי העולם.
United Kingdom national adaptation programme: Making the country resilient to a changing climate
This report outlines the steps government, businesses and communities are already taking to address the most severe and urgent threats of climate change, as identified by Defra last year in its Climate Change Risk Assessment
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Urban Forest Strategy - City of Sydney
In 2012 the City of Sydney (the City) adopted the Greening Sydney Plan. One of the key elements of that Plan is to develop and protect the City’s urban forest. This Urban Forest Strategy outlines the way the City will work to improve the environment, using trees, while managing the associated risks and costs
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Climate Change Adaptation in Israel
In accordance with a June 2009 decision by the Israel Government, the Ministry of Environmental Protection is preparing a national climate change adaptation program aimed at reducing the adverse effects of global changes on water scarcity, drought and increased frequency of extreme events, among others
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Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Agriculture Sector
UK agriculture could be significantly affected by climate change Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, changes in sunshine levels and in concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), and increasing frequency of weather events currently considered extreme would all have an impact on operations, productivity and the range of products offered by
the sector
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the sector
Climate Prediction for Adaptation: Who needs what?
The role of short- and long-term climate predictions in determining the success of adaptation to climate change is investigated. A simple theoretical model that captures the relationship between adaptive performance, decision structure, and prediction accuracy at different temporal scales is developed, and its implications deduced. It is shown that users who face high adjustment costs (i.e. are inflexible) depend more heavily on accurate long-term predictions than those who are able to adjust
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UK climate change risk assessment: government report
The Government published the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) on 25 January 2012, the first assessment of its kind for the UK and the first in a 5 year cycle. It sets out the main priorities for adaptation in the UK under 5 key themes identified in the CCRA 2012 Evidence Report - Agriculture and Forestry; Business, industries and Services; Health and Wellbeing; Natural Environment and Buildings and Infrastructure - and describes the policy context, and action already in place to tackle
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Urban Forest Strategy: Making a great city greener 2012-2032
This is the City of Melbourne’s first Urban Forest Strategy. It is the product of a collaborative
process, developed over two years with a large number of stakeholders including local and
the broader community in Melbourne
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process, developed over two years with a large number of stakeholders including local and
the broader community in Melbourne
2011 Bonn Declaration of Mayors
This declaration is the outcome document of the Mayors Adaptation Forum, which forms the Mayors segment of the Resilient Cities 2011 congress. It highlights the need to build resilience to disasters as a critical issue. It also signals the need to take appropriate action to build local capacities in reducing risk to disasters including those exacerbated by climate change.
The declaration advocates for the implementation of the following: (i) mainstreaming new adaptation and resilience standard
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The declaration advocates for the implementation of the following: (i) mainstreaming new adaptation and resilience standard
A double-resolution transient RCM climate change
A double-resolution regional experiment on hydrodynamic simulation of climate over the eastern Mediterranean (EM) region was performed using an International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste RegCM3 model. The RegCM3 was driven from the lateral boundaries by the data from the ECHAM5/MPI-OM global climate simulation performed at the MPI-M, Hamburg and based on the A1B IPCC scenario of greenhouse gases emission. Two simulation runs for the time period 1960-2060, employing spatial resolutions
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Climate Change Adaptation and Real Option Evaluation: A Case Study in Campeche, Mexico
This report illustrates the application of a (relatively) new method to guide decision making under high (and unknowable) levels of uncertainty. The approach allows for the identification of robust policy options that are economically beneficial under different scenarios and varying levels uncertainty. Option value techniques are commonly employed in the finance literature to identify investment decisions that are resilient across a spectrum of outcomes. The methods are technically advanced
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ipcc summary for policymakers
The Working Group III Special Report on Renewa
ble Energy Sources and Climate Change
Mitigation (SRREN) presents an assessment of th
e literature on the scientific, technological,
environmental, economic and social aspects of
the contribution of six renewable energy (RE)
sources to the mitigation of climate change. It is
intended to provide policy relevant information to
governments, intergovernmental processes and ot
her interested parties. This Summary for
Policymakers provides an ov
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ble Energy Sources and Climate Change
Mitigation (SRREN) presents an assessment of th
e literature on the scientific, technological,
environmental, economic and social aspects of
the contribution of six renewable energy (RE)
sources to the mitigation of climate change. It is
intended to provide policy relevant information to
governments, intergovernmental processes and ot
her interested parties. This Summary for
Policymakers provides an ov
Climate change- vulnerability and adaptation indicators
The purpose of this Technical Paper is to rehearse some fundamental concepts surrounding the
development and delineation of adaptation indicators. It builds upon the outputs of an Expert meeting
on climate change vulnerability and adaptation indicators (Budapest, September 2008) and on the
contents of a Background Paper that was prepared for the meeting.
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development and delineation of adaptation indicators. It builds upon the outputs of an Expert meeting
on climate change vulnerability and adaptation indicators (Budapest, September 2008) and on the
contents of a Background Paper that was prepared for the meeting.
