Climate change planning: Understanding policy frameworks and financial mechanisms for disaster relief

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Down, Chris
  • Birchall, S. Jeff

• Climate Change has been broadly defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as “any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity” (IPCC 2014). Consistent with this definition, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) defines climate change as “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods” (United Nations 1992).

• Date created

  2019

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Financial Mechanisms
  • Policy Frameworks
  • Climate Change Planning
  • Disaster Relief

• Type of Item

  Chapter

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-re9n-gn34

• License

  © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019