79. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

It cooperates with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, other conventions, and related organizations engaged in climate change impact assessment, systematic observation and mitigation of climate change.

The overall climate within which UNRWA operated had an impact on its services.

Recognizing the impact of climate change on forests and sustainable forest management, as well as the contribution of forests to addressing climate change,

Our global world demands concerted global action to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change.

(c) To investigate the interactions between ozone and climate and the impact of aircraft emissions

Mr. Richard Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and UNFCCC consultant, presented the draft background paper on Technology to understand and manage climate risks .

(k) production of a special edition of quot IMPACT quot , the newsletter of the Climate Africa Network, which elaborated on the linkages between climate change and desertification

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

The overwhelming majority of scientists now agree that human activity is having a significant impact on the climate.

Cross sectoral dialogue and cooperation are needed to achieve best practices to combat climate change, as well as coordination and integration of sector policies having an impact on climate change.

This fact has also been confirmed by the results of the independent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004.

(h) Forest fires, pests, diseases and abiotic factors affecting forests, including storm damage and the impact of climate change

That process would have a positive impact on economic development and on the climate for foreign investment in Kosovo.

Thus, in most national communications climate change scenarios were presented in greater detail than the results of impact assessments.

This provides an indication of the relative impact different climate change action plans are having on absolute emission levels.

Many Parties reported specific scientific research on the effect of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on their countries' climate, and the need to conduct detailed studies of the impact of climate change on vulnerable sectors using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios of climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was planning its third assessment report, which would have a new focus on the regional impact of climate change directed in particular at policy makers.

And I reasoned that if we could make those transformative changes, and get rid of T1 altogether, we could reduce our impact to zero, including our impact on the climate.

Despite the improved climate for peace, I continued to express grave concern about the Israeli barrier and its humanitarian impact.

Regionally funded investment guarantees and non discriminatory region wide tax incentives would also impact favourably on the region's investment climate.

Global scientific simulation models, which have become more robust during the last decade, have significantly increased our capacity to anticipate future risks related to the impact of climate change although they still remain insufficient as regards projections for specific regional and subregional patterns of climate change and their impact.

Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us. The current drought covering much of East Africa far more severe than past droughts has been directly associated with climate change.

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

Yet considerable uncertainty remains about the magnitude of the impact of rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases on temperatures and climate. This uncertainty must be taken seriously when formulating strategies to combat climate change.

Fisheries A few countries examined the impacts on fisheries as a part of their climate change and sea level rise impact assessments.

Others expressed their concerns about the impact of climate change and contamination of soil and water on natural resources that cause permanent damage.

Prominent among the emerging issues highlighted in 2006 are the farming of marine species, and the impact of climate change on food production.

We must keep on pressing for the development and adoption of strategies that mitigate, and build resilience to, the impact of climate change.

IFRC was concerned about the prospect of an increasing number of climate related disasters that would principally have an impact on the poor.

In addition to research on inventories methodology, renewable energy sources, mitigation options and impact assessment, a comprehensive climate research programme is under way.

The eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties was expected to adopt a five year programme of work on the scientific, technical and socio economic aspects of climate impact and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.

We know what the impact of periodic droughts have been on the lives of tens of millions of Africans. We can therefore imagine what the impact of a drier climate on agriculture is likely to be.

The special report includes quantitative estimates of the impact that the possible measures it describes would have on climate change if they were implemented.

Every effort must be made to agree on mitigating the impact of climate change during the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Kyoto.

Furthermore, pledges at the Lima conference by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Norway, and Peru bring the Green Climate Fund to nearly 10.2 billion. And the impact of climate change is increasingly, though still inadequately, being factored into national and local budgets.

Climate Science or Climate Evangelism?

23. There was no doubt that greenhouse gas emissions were having an impact on the global climate and that the status quo was no longer acceptable.

The Special Rapporteur notes with concern the impact this climate of uncertainty has had on the free media and wishes to express his concern about it.

The Changing Climate On Climate Change

The scientific communities must continue to increase our understanding of the climate and the Earth system, to refine our predictive tools and to reduce remaining uncertainties in efforts to project future climate and the impact of change, in particular at the regional level.

There is broad consensus among scientists that the scientific understanding of the ongoing climate change is sufficient to warrant taking urgent action in order to mitigate the impact of future climate change, including both the environmental impacts and the socio economic consequences.

(f) production of a special edition of quot IMPACT quot , the newsletter of the Climate Africa Network, which will elaborate on the linkages between climate change and desertification, examining the relevance of the second assessment report of the IPCC to desertification and

We now understand that those microbes have more impact on our climate and regulating CO2 and oxygen than plants do, which we always thought oxygenate the atmosphere.

(c) Climate process and climate system studies