PPT-Climate change and European islands

Dr Eman Calleja PhD Islands and Small States Institute 1 Structure of my talk 2 Why European islands 3 1 Why European islands Four different island regions 4 2 Diversity of threats to the four island regions. Gambier Islands Fr Marquesas Islands Fr French Polynesia Fr St Martin Fr Neth Martinique Fr Bonaire Cura57575ao Aruba St Eustatius Ne h Saba Neth French Guiana Fr St Pierre and Miquelon Fr Puerto Rico U S A Jammu and Ka . December 2008 . José A. Ochoa . Guano Islands are a group of small rocky islands off the coast of Peru, usually they are bordered with cliffs on all sides, and mostly covered by the nests and guano of many seabirds. Guano is a quechua word “wanu”, meaning “droppings of sea birds”.. August 2011. Where did they come from?. Dublin. Galway. Clare. Italy. US. France. Germany. UK. Type of Trip to the Islands. Overseas . 78% decided to visit the islands before arriving in the area. 88% on first visit to the islands. Hurricane Summary. 2012. The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is a very active hurricane season.. Thus far we have seen 19 storms which exceeds the number of predicted storms for the season. (10 hurricanes, 1 major ).. SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES. ”. Al . Binger, PhD. Senior Energy Science Advisor. &. SIDS DOCK Coordinator. Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre. Belmopan, . Belize. More, Faster, Now! Closing the emissions gap – how to unlock mitigation potential on the . Plate or Plume?. Emily . Hadrill. , Marissa Lo, Libby . Passey. , Ally Sweeney, Ellie White. Introduction. Precursors and Onset of Activity. There is uplift in the region of the . Islands. (A.B. Watts, 1996) (A. . John Olson. Desert Research Institute. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting. 23 May 2016. River & stream salinity. Varies . over four orders of magnitude, . specific electrical conductivity (EC) from < . . Dimitra. Kavarnou. University of Reading. d.kavarnou. @. pgr. .. reading.ac.uk. A bit more of Geography…. Dimitra Kavarnou - Henley Business School, University of Reading. A bit more of Geography…. The case of Greek Islands. Kostas Komninos . Director, DAFNI . – Network of Sustainable . Greek Islands. Energy Expert, AEGEA – Aegean Energy and Environment Agency. INTERNATIONAL . CONFERENCE . Las Palmas, Gran . Climatology. is . the study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climatic changes.. Climate describes annual variations of temperature, precipitation, wind, and other weather factors.. 17 January 2011. How and Why Does Climate Change?. Climate changes over a broad range of time scales. Years, decades, centuries, millennia. Many factors combine to affect climate. Variability of incoming solar radiation. LIHEAP Webinar . May 25, 2016. Victoria Ludwig, . U.. S. . EPA Heat Island Reduction Program. Micro-scale . temperature differences between urban and rural areas. Urban areas can be . 2 – 22 . º. F higher than rural areas. Climate. is what you expect, . Weather . is what you get!. Everyone has heard the phrase, but what does it actually mean?. Climate. Change . = The change in average conditions of a particular place over a long period of time. (We usually link ‘climate change’ to rising temperatures but this is . . Stability. Daniel Osorio, . financial. . stability. . department. , central . bank. . of. . colombia. October. 1st, 2020. 1. Climate Change: Risks to Financial Stability (Carney, 2019). Transition.