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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Climate Change Response"”.
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From Kyoto to Paris - a review of South Africa's climate change response with particular emphasis on the Clean Development Mechanism and envisaged transition to the Sustainable Development Mechanism
The climate change timeline is at critical juncture as policymakers, academics and other climate-related stakeholders are contemplating the transition from the Kyoto era to the advent of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change (the Paris Agreement). The study focuses in particular on …
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Impacts of Climate Change in Snowmelt-Dominated Alpine Catchments: Development and Assessment of Comparative Methods to Quantify the Role of Dynamic Storage and Subsurface Hydrologic Processes
… of water supply for the Western United States. Changes in timing and duration of snowmelt are predicted to continue under climate change; however, the impact this change will have on water resources is not well understood. The ability to compare hydrologic processes across space and time is …
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Green Bonds as a more effective way of capitalizing the South African National Green Fund
… man's industrial activity being the key cause of climate change seem to be receding. Governments around the world are mostly in agreement that something urgent needs to be done but the big question that remains is how to mobilize sufficient financial resources to address the enormous investment …
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Decoding divergence in marine protistan communities: from strain diversity to basin biogeography
… biogeochemistry and protists’ environmental change sensitivity. I cultured twelve strains of the coccolithophore Gephyrocapsa huxleyi across temperatures, which revealed strain-specific differences in thermal optima and niche widths. I used traits measured during the experiments to design a …
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Decoding divergence in marine protistan communities: from strain diversity to basin biogeography
… biogeochemistry and protists’ environmental change sensitivity. I cultured twelve strains of the coccolithophore Gephyrocapsa huxleyi across temperatures, which revealed strain-specific differences in thermal optima and niche widths. I used traits measured during the experiments to design a …
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Understanding the Characteristics of Precipitation and Their Response to Climate Change
… in the extratropics and aim to understand changes in vertical velocity which control the spatial variation in the climate-change response of extratropical precipitation extremes. I solve the quasi-geostrophic omega equation and attribute the vertical velocity changes in two ways. In the dry …
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Creating an effective and equitable legal carbon taxing regime for South Africa
Human accelerated climate change presents a worldwide threat. It is a problem that requires international as well as local solutions. Human accelerated climate change is induced by the release of so called greenhouse gasses (GHG's) as a result of human activity, most notably by converting fossil …
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SILVER FIR AND ITS PROVENANCES IN A CLIMATE CHANGE PERSPECTIVE
CHAPTER 2: Drought responses of Italian silver fir provenances in a climate change perspective. In a climate change perspective, the resilience of Mediterranean forest ecosystems is closely linked to their ability to cope with drought and rising temperatures. This ability can be influenced by …
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Building the Western Cape farmers resilience to climate change: assessing the usefulness of credibility salience and legitimacy framework in linking climate change adaptation information into action
… of scientific information to support climate change decisionmaking for farmers' resilience to the global challenge, a persistent gap exists between knowledge development and its application in decision-making. This is exerting pressure on science to develop more actionable or …
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Multi-Level process integration of heat pumps in a non-continuous processing site
… towards decarbonization, including New Zealand’s Climate Change Response Amendment Act 2019, there is a need for methods and technologies that can be applied to replace industrial fossil fuel boiler use. With an increasing range of renewable energy sources, electrification provides a promising …
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POPULATION GENOMICS, DISTRIBUTION AND REPRODUCTIVE ECOLOGY OF AN ITALIAN STENO-ENDEMIC CHASMOPHYTE, CAMPANULA RAINERI
… in steno-endemic species often results from climate oscillations that have reduced the extent of suitable habitat or limited species dispersion across ecological barriers. Narrow endemics may also be of recent origin (yet to disperse) or relicts of ancient lineages. High-elevation …
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Bird Abundance at Bird Feeders in Response to Temperature, Wind Speed and Precipitation During the Winter Season
… pipeline was developed for this study to append climate data from Weather Underground (WU) to the PFW bird feeder data. The final dataset helped to explore how exactly the birds are reacting to winter temperatures, wind speeds and rain levels. Our results indicate that birds species in general …