Awareness of urban climate adaptation strategies –an international overview

Funding climate adaptation strategies with climate derivatives

Climate adaptation requires large capital investments that could be provided not only by traditional sources like governments and banks, but also by derivatives markets. Such markets would allow two parties with different tolerances and expectations about climate risks to transact for their mutual benefit and, in so doing, finance climate adaptation. Here we calculate the price of a derivative ...

analysis of farmers’ perception of climate changes and adaptation strategies

introduction agriculture is the most important sector of the economy in iran and it is highly dependent on the climate. the impact of global climatic change on agriculture has recently become an issue of increasing importance. the global climate change has been drawing attention of many to this very important topic of climate change, though it was a difficult proposition for many to accept whet...

Effect of Climate Change on potato Production and assessment adaptation strategies in Fereydounshahr

In order to study was to evaluate future climate Fereydunshahr of Isfahan for the next hundred years and its effect on potato production in Fereydunshahr. To forecast future climate conditions in Fereydunshahr were collected daily climate data including maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall and sunshine hours in this region during the period 1982 to 2012. In this study was used to simulate ...

Agrometeorological adaptation strategies to increasing climate variability and climate change

This paper starts with summarizing the indications for climate change as they are reviewed in the most recent WMO global climate system reviews. There are indications in the paper for increasing climate variability in certain areas. Some of the principal causes of increasing climate variability and climate change (ICV & CC) are a mixture of external and internal factors to the climate system. O...

Overview of Impacts , Adaptation , and Vulnerability to Climate Change 1