(b) Improving access to high quality data and information on current and future climate variability and extreme events

Climate change impacts are already evident in regions of such States, with the frequency and intensity of extreme natural events increasing.

In many rural areas, deteriorating and outdated infrastructure has lost its resilience to climate related extreme events such as hurricanes and droughts.

Additionally, many Parties applied statistical analysis and spatial temporal analogues to develop climate change scenarios for various time horizons up to 2100, which they used to infer relationships between mean climate change and extreme events.

Almost all Parties are concerned that future climate change would lead to an increase in frequency and intensity of extreme events, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes and El Niño effects. However, further understanding of the relationships between climate change and the frequency and intensity of extreme events is hampered by high levels of uncertainty surrounding the magnitude of the changes that have been projected using GCMs.

Even if we limit the rise in global temperatures, climate change is here to stay. Communities are already facing more extreme and frequent droughts, floods, and other weather events.

Extreme events, such as droughts, floods and hurricanes, will be less extreme and less frequent with successful mitigation.

And also, as an increase in extreme weather events due to climate change, they're expecting more waves to come in over the fringing reef, which will contaminate their fresh water supply.

experiencing stresses from current climate and climate related events and phenomena that could be exacerbated by future climate change.

Examples include technology for conservation and sustainable use such as resilience of ecosystems, and adaptive capacity and technology that makes use of genetic resources such as crops with higher resistance against extreme climate events.

Projections indicate that extreme weather events will become more common in the future.

The fact that heat waves like the one in Russia become more frequent and extreme in a warmer world is easy to understand. Extreme rainfall events will also become more frequent and intense in a warmer climate, owing to another simple fact of physics warm air can hold more moisture.

Of course, competition for resources will also be important, especially as the consequences of the fourth factor climate change manifest themselves. Many countries and regions are already under severe water stress, which will only intensify as climate change causes natural disasters and extreme weather events like droughts to become increasingly common.

He stressed the importance of adaptation noting that climate change cannot be totally avoided and it may be more rapid and pronounced than currently suggested anticipatory adaptation is more effective and less costly than emergency measures and immediate benefits can be gained from better adaptation to climate variability and extreme events.

For coping with extreme climate events, Mr. Burton suggested revision of civil construction codes and standards taking into account weather extremes, raising stakeholders' awareness of climate change impacts, providing advice on ways to incorporate climate change into stakeholders' decision making processes, developing insurance products through the private insurance industry and lowering insurance premiums for areas where adaptation measures have been implemented.

Expressing its deep concern at the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and associated natural disasters,

Organizing, chairing and participating in side events and sessions at international climate change meetings

Climate change brings widespread weather events that affect whole communities at the same time.

Knowledge would offer similarly monumental benefits. Science magazine recently published research suggesting that universal education, by giving populations the appropriate intellectual tools and skills they need, is the single most efficient mechanism for adapting to climate change and reducing fatalities associated with extreme weather events.

With the concentration of greenhouse gases projected to rise still further over the next century, a corresponding increase in the global mean surface temperature is likely to trigger increased climate variability and greater incidence and intensity of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts.

Many Parties also applied statistical and analogue methods based on regionally developed methods and or historical records for developing scenarios covering periods of less than 100 years, and some reported on using a statistical analysis to infer relationships between mean climate change and extreme events.

He pointed out that with the projected rise in the concentration of greenhouse gases, a corresponding increase in the global mean surface temperature was likely to trigger increased climate variability and greater incidence and intensity of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts.

Look no further than the insurance industry as they struggle to cope with mounting catastrophic losses from extreme weather events.

What explains this unexpected turn of events, and what does it mean for future climate policy?

NEW YORK The hurricane on America s eastern seaboard last week (which I experienced in lower Manhattan) adds to a growing collection of extreme weather events from which lessons should be drawn. Climate experts have long argued that the frequency and magnitude of such events are increasing, and evidence of this should certainly influence precautionary steps and cause us to review such measures regularly.

But, before millions of people are submerged, many will be struck by extreme weather events. Record breaking hot months now occur five times more frequently than they would in a stable, unchanging climate these heat waves cause droughts, wild fires, poor harvests, and, inevitably, loss of life.

The Heads of State and Government of AOSIS endorsed the Buenos Aires AOSIS Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change of 17 December 2004 and expressed grave concern that the adverse effects of climate change, climate variability, sea level rise and associated phenomena such as the increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, continue to threaten the sustainable development, livelihoods and existence of SIDS.

When we have extreme El Nino events, you see all this red, and you see no green out here around the Galapagos.

Mr. Ian Burton, independent consultant, Canada, stressed the importance of motivating individuals to spread technologies for adaptation, especially relating to extreme events.

In his keynote address, Mr. Orville London, Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly, underlining Trinidad and Tobago's vulnerability to extreme weather events such as floods and hurricanes, stressed that his country and region are committed to take action to mitigate climate change and to cope with disasters.

Most Parties stressed that they already are experiencing stresses from climate related events and phenomena that could be exacerbated by future climate change, and that this makes them highly vulnerable.

As the Secretary General pointed out in his March 2005 report, the adverse effects of climate change, sea level rise and associated phenomena such as the increase in intensity and frequency of extreme weather events threatens the sustainable development, the livelihoods of the people and the very existence of some States.

Taking into account that extreme weather events and associated natural disasters and their reduction must be dealt with in a coherent and effective manner,

Taking into account the fact that extreme weather events and associated natural disasters and their reduction must be dealt with in a coherent manner,

5. Underscores the importance of maintaining the El Niño Southern Oscillation observation system, continuing research into extreme weather events, improving forecasting skills and developing appropriate policies for reducing the impact of the El Niño phenomenon and other extreme weather events and emphasizes the need to further develop and strengthen these institutional capacities in all countries, in particular in developing countries

7. Underscores the importance of maintaining the El Niño Southern Oscillation observation system, continuing research into extreme weather events, improving forecasting skills and developing appropriate policies for reducing the impact of the El Niño phenomenon and other extreme weather events, and emphasizes the need to further develop and strengthen these institutional capacities in all countries, in particular in developing countries

LONDON Governments around the world have just received one of the most important scientific reports ever written. It provides the starkest assessment yet of how the earth s climate is responding to rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and creating risks for billions of people from extreme weather events and rising sea levels.

Without sufficient infrastructure, roads, storage facilities and irrigation services are susceptible to physical damage from climate related events, and farmers become increasingly vulnerable.

No country can solve the existential threat of climate change alone. No country can eradicate extreme poverty, combat potential pandemics, or improve nuclear security by itself.

Moreover, we will face unprecedented logistical obstacles in establishing a United Nations peace support operation in a country famous for its extreme climate and prohibitive terrain.

Welcomes the increasing number of events associated with the celebration, on 17 October of each year, of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the opportunity which these events provide to people and populations living in extreme poverty to make their voices heard

There is evidence that the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events will increase over many areas worldwide, notably over many northern hemisphere mid to high latitude land areas.

Some point to climate change, with global warming producing deeper droughts and more extreme weather. Some of these fires have raged under abnormal conditions some have not.

The need to develop climate related codes for infrastructure design and prepare for the onset of specific climate events will also require sufficient services for early warning so that farmers may make appropriate decisions concerning their crops and livestock.

Heatwaves and droughts on one hand, directly from the warming, but also, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor with its latent energy, rainfall will become in more extreme events.