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Scientific research into climate change adaptation generally starts with analyses of the likely effects of climate change on people, ecosystems, and the environment. These impacts cover its effects on lives, livelihoods, health and well-being, ecosystems and species, economic, social and cultural assets, and infrastructure.
Climatic adaptation refers to adaptations of an organism that are triggered due to the patterns of variation of abiotic factors that determine a specific climate.Annual means, seasonal variation and daily patterns of abiotic factors are properties of a climate where organisms can be adapted to.
In 2003, Bray and von Storch repeated their 1996 survey, using the same response structure with ratings on a 1–7 scale, and including all of the original questions. Further, new questions were added, which were devoted to climate change adaptation and media coverage of climate change. This second survey received 530 responses from 27 ...
A National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) is a type of plan submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [1] by least developed countries, to describe the country's perception of its most "urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change". [2]
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is an initiative [1] within the U.S. federal government focused on climate change science, formed under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) was founded on 18 September 2018. [1] Hosted by the Netherlands, GCA engages in policy activities, research, communications, and technical assistance to government and the private sector, policy development, research, advocacy, communications, and partnerships. [2]
AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 (March 2023) Synthesis Report 2021 and 2022 Sixth Assessment Report (AR6): Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (Working Group I, August 2021), Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Working Group II, February 2022), Mitigation of Climate Change (Working Group III, April ...
The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was the program responsible for coordinating and integrating research on global warming by U.S. government agencies from February 2002 to June 2009. [1] Toward the end of that period, CCSP issued 21 separate climate assessment reports that addressed climate observations , changes in the atmosphere ...