Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management: Photo Essays.
Global warming is a phenomenon of climate change characterized by a general increase in average temperatures of the Earth, which modifies the weather balances and ecosystems for a long time. It is directly linked to the increase of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, worsening the greenhouse effect.
Meeting of climate scientists in Toronto subsequently calls for 20% cuts in global CO 2 emissions by the year 2005. UN sets up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to analyse and.
Global Warming Threatens Penguins How rising temperatures and melting ice have affected the habitats of five species of the swimming birds Special Report: Cop15.
An exclusive photo essay tells the story of Ontong Java, a string of remote Pacific islands at the mercy of climate change. Without support from governments, islanders are struggling to keep their.
Photo essay: Families are changing, policies need to change too. Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2019. This photo essay provides a snapshot from UN Women’ latest flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World, and UN Women programmes around the world.
Models; Tools; Databases Models. Climate Change and Watersheds Model (BASINS-CAT) BASINS is a multi-purpose, environmental analysis system that integrates a geographical information system (GIS), national watershed data, and state-of-the-art watershed modeling tools, including the Hydrologic Simulation Program (HSPF) FORTRAN model, into one package.
Scientific opinion on climate change Various prominent bodies have commented on global warming, most notably the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).