World Resources 2010-2011 - Decision Making in a Changing Climate

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World Resources 2010-2011 - Decision Making in a Changing Climate

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Recent extreme weather events including floods, heat waves, and droughts present a vivid image of the direction the world is heading. As climate change intensifies, more events like these, combined with longer-term changes in the climate's average state - including rising seas, melting glaciers, and shifting precipitation patterns - will have profound impacts on people, ecosystems and infrastructure. Together, these changes call for different approaches to planning and policymaking, enabling societies to adapt effectively to a much hotter tomorrow.
World Resources 2010-2011: Decision Making in a Changing Climate is a major new resource to help developing country national-level officials make decisions that support communities and economic sectors to become more climate resilient.
Based on input from more than 100 experts in 36 countries, the report offers specific, practical strategies and innovative case studies to inform how to integrate climate change risks into national policies and planning. (...)

The contents:
http://www.worldresourcesreport.org/wrr-2010-2011

Sull'argomento:

http://www3.lastampa.it/ambiente/sezioni/news/articolo/lstp/426284/

The Report:
http://pdf.wri.org/world_resources_report_2010-2011.pdf