Climate Change

Rating resilience: factoring climate resilience into infrastructure risk metrics

This paper proposes a framework for defining risk metrics to capture climate resilience in infrastructure assets.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2019
Aled Jones
Observer Research Foundation
Tags:
Climate Change, Infrastructure Development, Extreme Weather Events, Green House Gases, Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

Rating resilience: factoring climate resilience into infrastructure risk metrics

This paper proposes a framework for defining risk metrics to capture climate resilience in infrastructure assets.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2019
Aled Jones
Observer Research Foundation
Tags:
Climate Change, Infrastructure Development, Extreme Weather Events, Green House Gases, Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

Solid Earth change and the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet

Recent studies suggest that Antarctica has the potential to contribute up to ~15 m of sea-level rise over the next few centuries. The evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is driven by a combination of climate forcing and non-climatic feedbacks.

Publication Date: 
30/01/2019
Pippa L. Whitehouse, Natalya Gomez, Matt A. King & et al
Nature Communications
1-14
Tags:
Antarctica, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Geology
Climate Change

Greenland ice melting faster than scientists had thought, nears 'tipping point'

Ice on Greenland is melting four times faster than it did just 16 years ago, a study reports.

Publication Date: 
21/01/2019
USA Today (US)
Tags:
Greenland, Glacial Melt, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Scientists
Climate Change

The Global Risks Report 2019

The world is facing the increased risk of political confrontations between major powers, which is hindering solutions to challenges like climate change warns the 14th edition of Global risks report.

Publication Date: 
16/01/2019
World Economic Forum
Tags:
Extreme Weather Events, Climate Change, Environment, India, Global, Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

Climate, conflict and forced migration

Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as well as to the migration crisis in Europe. Exploiting bilateral data on asylum seeking applications for 157 countries over the period 2006–2015, we assess the determinants of refugee flows using a gravity model which accounts for endogenous selection in order to examine the causal link between climate, conflict and forced migration.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2019
Guy J. Abel, Michael Brottrager, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma & et al
Global Environmental Change
54
239-249
Tags:
Climate Change, Conflicts, Migration, Displacement, Rainfall Pattern, Drought, Natural Disaster, Africa, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Floods, Storms, Sea Level Rise, Cyclones, Syria, Refugees
Climate Change

Wintertime heat melting Greenland's ice sheet: Scientists

Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest in the world, is melting in winter due to heat from the ocean, recent research says.

Publication Date: 
26/12/2018
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Global Warming, Scientists, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change
Climate Change

Explaining extreme events of 2017 from a climate perspective

This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events. This is the second year that scientists have identified extreme weather events that they said could not have happened without warming of the climate through human-induced climate change.

Publication Date: 
10/12/2018
American Meteorological Society
Tags:
Extreme Weather Events, Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Droughts, Heat Waves
Climate Change

World 'way off course', UN warns at crunch climate summit

KATOWICE, POLAND: The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned on Monday as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to a

Publication Date: 
04/12/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide, Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

RegionsAdapt 2018 report: multi-level governance in climate change adaptation

This report reflects the data disclosed by 38 regional governments that are members of the 'RegionsAdapt' initiative.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2018
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Governance, Extreme Weather Events, Heat Waves, Sea Level Rise

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