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Premier volet de la stratégie du Conseil fédéral, version provisoire:
Cette stratégie fixe le cadre d’une démarche coordonnée au niveau fédéral pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Elle doit permettre à la Suisse d’exploiter les opportunités offertes par les changements climatiques et de minimiser les risques qu’ils induisent, to…
Cities and the communities who live in them are significantly impacted by climate shifts in both means and extremes. These are already affecting the New York metropolitan region and will increasingly do so in the coming decades. This New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report (NPCC3) provides co‐generated tools and methods for implementing r…
This decade is on track to be the hottest on record, and heatwaves are only set to become more frequent and intense as climate change takes hold. Heat stress presents a growing threat to human health and economic productivity globally, while driving greater energy demand for cooling.
This research identifies four regional hotspots – West Africa, Centra…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 114, July 2014:
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of urban risk and resilience. Its articles provide an overview of the best practices and interventions apropos urban resilience with special focus on Asia in the context of the HFA2 process. This document includes the following content:
(i) The i…
This report presents an overview of what adaptation to climate change might mean for Eastern Europe and Cental Asia, in terms of vulnerability to a changing hydrology and more extreme droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires, and in terms of the frequency and cost of natural disasters.
It starts with a discussion of emerging best prac…
This report relates the findings of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) regarding the rise in global temperatures over the past ten years and the correlating rise in the frequency and severity of disaster events. The report is divided into six chapters: (i) chapter one assesses temperature data and analyzes it by continent; (ii) chapter two asse…
This case-bound book draws upon experiences around the world reflecting how people are using climate information to improve their lives, through climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies. In this book, over 100 authors are relating their work in weather, climate and water services at international, regional, national and local lev…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
In this study, the researchers propose a novel data-driven inverse modelling approach to inform decision makers and grid operators on planning rotating power outages. With climate change, heat waves have become more frequent and intense. Rotating power outages happen when the power supply is unable to meet the cooling demand increase resulting from extr…
This study combines simulated heat exposure data during historical heat wave events in three large U.S. cities to assess the degree to which heat-related mortality and morbidity change in response to a concurrent electrical grid failure event. The researchers develop a novel approach to estimating individually experienced temperature to approximate how…
Montréal’s Resilient City Strategy constitutes an ambitious initial proposal for the city of Montréal, Canada. Using the citizen as its starting point and then shifting its focus to the Montréal community, the municipal administration, and ultimately to public and private organizations, this strategy broadly reflects a global movement towards resilience…
NERC’s 2022 Summer Reliability Assessment (SRA) identifies, assesses, and reports on areas of concern regarding the reliability of the North American bulk power system (BPS) for the upcoming summer season. In addition, the SRA presents peak electricity demand and supply changes as well as highlights any unique regional challenges or expected conditions…
This study aims to investigate the increased cost to European road and railway infrastructures due to an increase in extreme heat corresponding to four different global warming levels (GWL): 1.5 ◦C, 2 ◦C, 3 ◦C, and 4 ◦C. Extreme high temperatures adversely affect road pavements through increased levels of rutting, while railways have a greater prop…
This document is the final report of a Senate inquiry by the Environment and Communications References Committee looking at Australia’s extreme weather and asking if the country is ready. It looks at any emerging trends on the frequency of extreme weather events. Based on evidence on future projections of such events and on global warming scenarios of b…
The rail network in the US is the largest network within any single country at 140,000 miles of Class 1 tracks. The network is predominantly focused on freight traffic with the exception of key passenger corridors along the eastern seaboard and in the upper Midwest. This extensive rail network enhances connectivity, but also raises the question of…