Sentences with phrase «addressing climate impacts»

Tribal Nations are disproportionately affected by climate change, yet many lead the nation in building awareness and addressing climate impacts to their traditional lifeways.

Addressing climate impacts in these countries and others, experts warned, will have to take into account the dozens of other factors at play in any given community, experts said.

The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact is a bipartisan initiative where local governments from four major counties — with a combined population of 5.6 million — are developing and implementing comprehensive measures to address climate impacts like sea - level rise.

It outlines a range of policy solutions to address climate impacts that are related to: assessing loss and damage to ecosystem services; avoiding and reducing loss and damage; risk reduction; and identifies areas for future research.

WWF supported H&M to develop a new strategy to address climate change which included setting ambitious short and long term targets to address climate impacts through their entire value chain as part of a broader transformational partnership between H&M and WWF.

The Petersberg Dialogue is also another opportunity where ministers from the most vulnerable countries will remind the richest countries that it is their particular responsibility to immediately cut emissions and increase support for addressing climate impact in developing countries.

Congress directed the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and DOI to develop a government - wide strategy to address climate impacts to fish, wildlife, and plants.

This is the message of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which addresses climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

• Expanding the FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation program to $ 500 million annually to support local government initiatives to address climate impacts

These initiatives put aviation on a path to address its climate impact, but are heavily opposed by the industry, which demands continued exemptions from such efforts to reduce the sector's greenhouse gas emissions.

This theme may also help address climate impacts experienced by Alaska Native Communities used to traveling on frozen lands and seas to hunt, fish, and gather wild foods.

President Barack Obama has done more to address climate impacts than any of his predecessors, notably in his administration's Climate Action Plan announced in 2013.

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«There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars,» Tesla said in on its website.

To help meet the challenges of the changing climate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuClimate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate issues that impact people and their communities.

There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars.

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

It will also provide an in - depth look into innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities, how to address common communication barriers between clinicians, healthcare executives, and IT, how the current social and political climates are impacting the industry, and much more!

Even addressing climate change — Project Drawdown analyzed more than 100 different climate change - reversing solutions, and it turns out that eight of the top 20 solutions with the greatest impact can be found in the food system.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Mass Audubon is committed to mitigating climate change and addressing its impacts.

In both cases, the governor said he's addressing the matters because the actions — or, in the case of climate change, inactions — in Washington have a harmful impact on New York.

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major storms.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Workshop Goal: Provide Lake Erie / Niagara River region municipal leaders with training on severe weather and climate change impacts as well as some of the tools, resources, and programs that can be used to identify and address vulnerabilities and increase community resiliency to those impacts.

The legally binding international Agreement on climate change, among others, addresses issues of global warming, including its impact on food security and agriculture.

«U.S. funding is insufficient to address the human health impact of and public - health responses to climate change,» the report's authors caution.

No matter what mechanism the United States ultimately decides to employ in addressing climate change, it must be implemented in a way that minimizes costs and recognizes the impacts on different regions of the country, like my home state of West Virginia.

Gleick called on impacted nations to put in place innovative programs that address the specific problems facing their country, saying fresh diplomatic approaches are necessary «for reducing the other kinds of water - related risks and broadly the other kinds of climate - related risks that I think we're going to see in the future.»

He also organized a symposium on Spatial Tools to Address Climate Change Impacts at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

We need to work collectively to find solutions as this would not only generate multiple benefits at lower individual costs, but would also define saving water as best practice and provide strategic opportunities to address climate change impacts on water.

«These were multi-stakeholder, problem - solving committees addressing things like climate impacts,» he said.

The conference will address issues such as marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the oceans.

And climate activists say that President Trump's border wall with Mexico and other efforts to keep people out represent a backward effort to stem a tide of migration that would be better addressed at its source: in places where climate impacts are already happening.

That appears to be the first time that Curbelo talked publicly about addressing rising seas and other climate impacts since he took office in January after defeating Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia by 3 percentage points.

«Emissions from land use represent a significant piece of the problem and must be addressed if the world is to avoid the worst impacts of climate change,» said Boucher.

«Climate change is real, man has an impact on addressing climate change, and we as a company need to do something about it,» hClimate change is real, man has an impact on addressing climate change, and we as a company need to do something about it,» hclimate change, and we as a company need to do something about it,» he said.

Trudeau has also said his party will embrace «evidence based policy» and «data - driven decision - making,» do more to address climate change, protect endangered species, and review the environmental impact of major energy and development projects.»

Established by Congress in 2008, the climate science centers develop science and tools to help land managers address climate - related impacts to land, water, fish and wildlife, and cultural sites.

In another move to address the impact of climate change, President Barack Obama ordered a bipartisan task force on Friday to help U.S.

The report from the Commission on Health and Climate Change lays out the health impacts of a warming world and offers policy advice on how to address medical concerns and prevent them from getting worse.

They report that the future resilience of penguin populations to climate change impacts will almost certainly depend upon addressing current threats to existing habitat degradation on land and at sea.

In the end, they agreed to create «arrangements -LSB-...] to address loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change».

The model is the first to consider how the effects of climate change impacts — and the policies designed to address them — will produce very unequal outcomes between the rich and poor in the same country.

Within nations, addressing climate health impacts is a matter of weighing upfront versus deferred costs — that is, deciding to spend money to reduce emissions and pursue sustainable development or spending more money many years down the line to contend with disease, persistent flooding and an overwhelmed health sector.

the type and effectiveness of local political leadership and input in larger decision - making questions — northern institutions often lack the time, mandate and funding to address climate change impacts — though emerging leaders in Canada and Alaska are proving to be an exception to this pattern;

(1) provide technical assistance to Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and interested private landowners in their efforts to assess and address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources;

(3) uses a stakeholder process to identify and prioritize needed monitoring and research that is of greatest relevance to the ongoing needs of natural resource managers to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification; and

(2) include, in the case of a coastal State, a strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the coastal zone that --

(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate climate change.