Sentences with phrase «climate challenge chapter»

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The book's short chapters address the economic underpinnings and challenges of everything from climate change to global governance to the imbalance between savings and investment in China.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

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Bjorn Stevens has a lot going on: scientific member of the Max Planck Society, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, head of the department Atmosphere and the Earth System, professor at the University of Hamburg, lead author of an IPCC AR 5 Chapter 7, co-lead of a WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity.

Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climatologist immersed in climate science and policy for decades, framed the question a different way in the title of the last chapter of his new book on the climate challenge: «Can Democracy Survive Complexity?»

Chapter 3 is by Naomi Oresekes and Erik Conway, «Challenging Knowledge: How climate science became a victim of the cold war.»

In fact, the I.P.C.C. WGII report, in the chapter on North America says «Research since the [last IPCC report] supports the conclusion that moderate climate change will likely increase yields on North American rain fed agriculture... Most studies project likely climate - related yield increases of 5 - 20 % over the first decades of the century... Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources.»

The Committee recognizes that a research program in CDR faces difficult challenges to create viable, scalable, and affordable techniques, but the Committee argues that the situation with human - induced climate change is critical enough (see Chapter 1) that these CDR techniques need to be explored to assess their potential viability and potential breakthrough technologies need to nurtured as they arise.»

It features chapters on: the year in review, which highlights environmental extremes, including record extreme weather and climate events and increasing degradation of marine ecosystems, but notes progress towards new investments in renewable energy and towards a green economy; the benefits of soil carbon; the closing and decommissioning of nuclear power reactors; and on key environmental indicators, which underscores the need to address mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and soil degradation.

From the guest author's Chapter One of Herbert Girardet's 2007 «Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges» anthology, here is that same narrative:

This insight, backed by the palaeo - climatic record (see Chapter 2, Section 2.4), is a new challenge for global change science because now thresholds have to be identified and their values need to be estimated using the entire hierarchy of climate models.

The Consortium seeks to increase the capacity of individual physicians, national medical societies and their state chapters to address the challenge to human health represented by climate change.

Writing a costs chapter is a challenge in the current climate where the law develops rapidly but a sensible overview is provided.