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This document summarizes climate change coping approaches in Portugal across different scales from national to local. At the national scale, Portugal prepares an annual National Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and has a National Programme for Climate Change and National Strategy for Climate Adaptation that establish sectoral emissions reduction targets and goals for increasing knowledge and implementing adaptation measures. At the local scale, over 99 Portuguese municipalities have signed the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and 26 municipalities have developed Municipal Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation. Research and development projects are also studying approaches for coastal and river basin management to cope with climate change impacts through monitoring, developing technologies, and identifying solutions.
2014 Climate Change Connections - Workshop Content & Activities
The 14th Summer Environmental Health Sciences Institute took place in Houston, TX the week of 7/14/2014. This workshop on climate change, comes from educational designers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. While you may not have been able to join us, you can still review content and download all the activities at our website: https://scied.ucar.edu/events/clone-climate-change-connections-2014
climate change.pdf
INTRODUCION
Climate alter alludes to the long-term change of the Earth's climate designs, basically due to human exercises, such as the burning of fossil powers, deforestation, and mechanical exercises. The affect of climate alter has been well reported and incorporates rising worldwide temperatures, ocean level rise, extraordinary climate occasions, and changes in precipitation designs, among others.
The logical agreement is that climate alter is happening, which human exercises are the essential cause. The Interval Board on Climate Alter (IPCC), which is made up of driving climate researchers from around the world, has expressed that it is exceptionally likely (i.e., more noteworthy than 90% likelihood) that human exercises have caused worldwide warming since the mid-20th century.
One of the foremost noteworthy impacts of climate alter is worldwide warming, which is causing the Earth's normal temperature to rise. This rise in temperature is basically due to the discharge of nursery gasses, such as carbon dioxide and methane, into the air. These gasses trap warm from the sun and anticipate it from getting away back into space, driving to an by and large increment in temperature.
As a result of worldwide warming, we are seeing a number of changes in our climate. For illustration, the polar ice caps are melting, causing ocean levels to rise. Usually a critical concern, as rising ocean levels can cause flooding in low-lying regions and have a destroying affect on coastal communities. Moreover, climate alter is causing changes in precipitation designs, driving to more visit and serious dry spells, surges, and storms.
Climate alter moreover has noteworthy impacts on our biological systems. For illustration, changes in temperature and precipitation can disturb characteristic biological systems and modify the conveyance and behavior of natural life. This may lead to the misfortune of biodiversity and can have genuine results for the working of environments.
There are too critical social and financial impacts of climate alter. For illustration, changes in climate designs can have a noteworthy affect on farming, driving to nourishment deficiencies and cost increments. Furthermore, extraordinary climate occasions can cause critical harm to infrastructure, homes, and businesses, driving to critical financial misfortunes.
Given the seriousness of the impacts of climate alter, there's an critical require for activity to moderate its impacts. This will require a multi-pronged approach that incorporates lessening nursery gas outflows, adjusting to the impacts of climate alter, and investing in research and improvement to create unused advances and techniques for tending to climate alter.
To diminish nursery gas emanations, we have to be move absent from fossil powers and towards cleaner shapes of vitality, such as wind, sun oriented, and hydropower. Moreover, we have to be increment vitality effectiveness and decrease our generally vitality util
General circulation model
General circulation models (GCMs) are computer models that simulate the operation of the climate system. GCMs take into account factors like greenhouse gases, landforms, ocean currents, and their interactions. GCMs are used to both identify possible causes of climate change and predict future climate. Contemporary GCMs are complex, three-dimensional models with thousands of individual cells that simulate atmospheric and oceanic processes globally. GCMs are the best tools available for determining the potential impacts of climate change and informing conservation and policy responses.
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With the increasing urban population in Kenya, which is estimated to be growing at a rate higher than that of the country’s general population, waste generation and management is already a major challenge. The industrialization and urbanization process in the country, dominated by one major city – Nairobi, which has around four times the population of the next largest urban centre (Mombasa) – has witnessed an exponential increase in the generation of solid waste. It is projected that by 2030, about 50 per cent of the Kenyan population will be urban.
Aim:
A healthy, safe, secure and sustainable solid waste management system fit for a world – class city.
Improve and protect the public health of Nairobi residents and visitors.
Ecological health, diversity and productivity and maximize resource recovery through the participatory approach.
Goals:
Build awareness and capacity for source separation as essential components of sustainable waste management.
Build new environmentally sound infrastructure and systems for safe disposal of residual waste and replacing current dumpsites which should be commissioned.
Current solid waste management situation:
The status.
Solid waste generation rate is at 2240 tones / day
collection efficiently is at about 50%.
Actors i.e. city authorities, CBO’s , private firms and self-disposal
Current SWM Situation in Nairobi City:
Solid waste generation – collection – dumping
Good Practices:
• Separation – recycling – marketing.
• Open dumpsite dandora dump site through public education on source separation of waste, of which the situation can be reversed.
• Nairobi is one of the C40 cities in this respect , various actors in the solid waste management space have adopted a variety of technologies to reduce short lived climate pollutants including source separation , recycling , marketing of the recycled products.
• Through the network, it should expect to benefit from expertise of the different actors in the network in terms of applicable technologies and practices in reducing the short-lived climate pollutants.
Good practices:
Despite the dismal collection of solid waste in Nairobi city, there are practices and activities of informal actors (CBOs, CBO-SACCOs and yard shop operators) and other formal industrial actors on solid waste collection, recycling and waste reduction.
Practices and activities of these actor groups are viewed as innovations with the potential to change the way solid waste is handled.
CHALLENGES:
• Resource Allocation.
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The case for addressing climate change with machine
- 1. The Case For Addressing Climate Change With Machine Learning. Not a solution, but a tool to tackle it.
- 2. Climate Change As A Consequence Of Carbon Emissions. A change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
- 3. Is It Really Happening?
- 4. The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
- 5. How are we currently dealing with it? Global Climate Model:- Climate models are based on well-documented physical processes to simulate the transfer of energy and materials through the climate system. They use mathematical equations to characterize how energy and matter interact in different parts of the ocean, atmosphere, land. Building and running a climate model is complex process of identifying and quantifying earth processes using powerful supercomputers.
- 6. How are we currently dealing with it?(Extended)
- 7. What is Lacking? The heart of Global Climate Models is not beating Million dollar problem of the Navier-Stokes Equations. ∇. 𝑢 = 0 𝜌 𝑑𝑢 𝑑𝑡 = −∇𝑝 + 𝜇∇2𝑢 + 𝐹
- 8. How Machine Learning Can Help Us Do It Better? Make precision agriculture possible at scale. Improve deforestation tracking. Discover new materials. Improve predictions of how much electricity we need. Optimize how freight is routed. Lower barriers to electric-vehicle adoption. Help make buildings more efficient. Create better estimates of how much energy we are consuming.
- 9. What Does This Mean From The Business Perspective? AgriTech:- SFarmsIndia, AgroStar, Crofarm. Smart Buildings:- Greenbeat – Smart Green Roofing(Oslo), Ventive – Smart Ventilation(UK). Optimising Power Consumption:- Grid Sentry – Wireless Smart Grid Sensors(USA), Suncil – Solar-Powered Street Lights (The Netherlands).
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