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The second national communication on climate change - Slovak republic - June 1997
Climate Change Resilience
Australia's third national communication on climate change - a report under the UNFCCC
Climate Change Resilience
2002
National communication 2001 , New Zealand's third national communication under the framework convention on climate change
Climate Change Resilience
2002
Climate change - Australia's second national report under the UNFCCC
Climate Change Resilience
1997
Second status report for iceland pursuant to the United nations framework convention on climate change - 1997
Climate Change Resilience
SOPAC Project Report 46: Reducing vulnerability of Pacific ACP states - Technical Report - An assessment of coastal processes, impacts, erosion mitigation options and beach mining

SOPAC Secretariat

2005
IPCC special report on carbon dioxide capture and storage / prepared by working group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate Change Resilience
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Meyer, L.A.

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de Coninck H.C.

2005
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report provides information for policymakers,scientists and engineers in the field of climate change and reduction of CO2emissions. It describes sources,capture, transport, and storage of CO2. It also discusses the costs, economic potential, and societal issues of the technology, including public perception and regulatory aspects. Storage options evaluated include geological storage, ocean storage, and mineral carbonation. Notably, the report places CO2capture and storage in the context of other climate change mitigation options, such as fuel switch, energy efficiency, renewables and nuclear energy. This report shows that the potential of CO2capture and storage is considerable, and the costs for mitigating climate change can be decreased compared to strategies where only other climate change mitigation options a reconsidered. The importance of future capture and storage of CO2for mitigating climate change will depend on a number of factors, including financial incentives provided for deployment, and whether the risks of storage can be successfully managed. The volume includes a Summary for Policy makers approved by governments represented in the IPCC, and a Technical Summary.The IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage provides invaluable information for researchers in environmental science, geology, engineering and the oil and gas sector, policymakers in governments and environmental organizations, and scientists and engineers in industry.
Possible actions to address climate change and protected area concerns
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Chape, Stuart

2005
The evolution and expansion of the human species over the past few hundred thousand years, an infinitesimal fraction of planetary time, now sees us as the dominant life form on Earth. We are dominant because of our intelligence and adaptability, and our need to constantly strive for newer and better ways of doing things. But there are now six billion of us, predicted to increase to 8-10 billion by 2050, and our domination of the planet is paralleled by the massive impact that we have had on the Earth's ecosystems. A recent mapping of the human footprint on the planet has concluded that more than 80% of the Earth's land surface is directly influenced by humans. We consume 40% of the Earth's net primary productivity, 35% of oceanic shelf productivity and 60% of freshwater runoff. As a result, remaining natural landscapes are rapidly being modified and the Earth's biological diversity continues to decline at an alarming rate. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) has found that in the last several decades 20% of the world’s coral reefs were lost and 20% degraded, while 35% of mangrove area has been lost. The MEA also concluded that humans have likely increased the species extinction rate by as much as 1,000 times over background rates typical throughout Earth's history.
Climate change and biodiversity conservation: knowledge needed to support development of integrated adaptation strategies: report of an e-conference, September 2005
Climate Change Resilience
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UK Presidency of the EU

2005
The impacts of climate change on biodiversity and the degree to which autonomous and directed adaptation will lesson these impacts are likely to be complex and hard to predict. This will make the research information we gain particularly difficult to communicate to the people who will be required to act on this information, namely ecosystem managers, resource managers, the public and policy makers
The Kingdom of Tonga's Initial National Communication in response to its commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Climate Change Resilience
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Kingdom of Tonga. Climate Change Enabling Authority

2005
The climate of Tonga is tropical. It lies within the southeast trade wind zone of the South Pacific. Climatic parameters include rainfall, temperture. wind and sunshine hours. Tonga's annual rainfall can be defined by two seasons, the wet and dry seasons. Wet season is also known as the cyclone season and it is noticeable from November to April. Dry season runs from May to October. The wettest months are particularly January. February and March that may exceed 250mm of rainfall per month. During dry season, the amount of rainfall received per month is less than 250mm.

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