Climate Change 2001: Mitigation: Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeBert Metz, Ogunlade Davidson, Rob Swart, Jiahua Pan Some issues addressed in this Working Group III volume are mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, managing biological carbon reservoirs, geo-engineering, costing methods, and decision-making frameworks. |
Contents
CONTENTS | 21 |
Chapter | 23 |
9 | 27 |
13 | 42 |
12 | 49 |
Overview of Impacts Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change | 75 |
88889 | 99 |
144 | 100 |
92 | 528 |
Asia | 533 |
93 | 542 |
100 | 555 |
Australia and New Zealand | 591 |
Europe | 641 |
CONTENTS | 643 |
Latin America | 693 |
Methods and Tools | 105 |
Developing and Applying Scenarios | 145 |
6 | 146 |
4 | 159 |
Hydrology and Water Resources | 191 |
Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services | 235 |
Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems | 343 |
CONTENTS | 345 |
Human Settlements Energy and Industry | 381 |
CONTENTS | 383 |
Insurance and Other Financial Services | 417 |
Human Health | 451 |
CONTENTS | 453 |
Africa | 487 |
CONTENTS | 695 |
North America | 735 |
Polar Regions Arctic and Antarctic | 801 |
CONTENTS | 803 |
Small Island States | 843 |
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development and Equity | 877 |
A Synthesis | 913 |
Annex A Authors and Expert Reviewers | 971 |
B Glossary of Terms | 981 |
Acronyms Abbreviations and Units | 997 |
List of Major IPCC Reports | 1001 |
E Index | 1005 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adaptation to climate adaptive capacity agricultural Alcamo American Meteorological Society areas Asia atmospheric Available online biodiversity Biogeochemical Cycles Cambridge carbon carbon cycle Chapter climate change impacts climate change scenarios climate scenarios climate variability CO₂ coastal costs crop decrease developing countries disaster disease distribution drought ecological economic ecosystems effects of climate El Niņo elevated CO2 energy Environment estimates example extreme events factors Finland flood forest frequency future Global Change global climate global warming habitat high confidence hydrological impacts of climate increase infrastructure interactions IPCC Journal lakes land land-use losses malaria medium confidence mitigation natural ocean peatlands permafrost plant pollution population potential precipitation production projected rainfall range reduce regions Research response result risk sea-level rise sector sensitivity simulated socioeconomic soil species studies temperature trends tropical tropical cyclones uncertainty United Kingdom urban vegetation vulnerability water resources weather wetlands