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Researchers must detail effects at the local and regional levels, members of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Sustainability and Climate Change Program said as they met at the University of California, San Diego.

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THE FACTS: The co-founder of the MIT program on climate change says the administration is citing an outdated report, taken out of context.

Clean fracking «is absolutely something we should be thinking about,» says Matt Horne, director of the Pembina Institute's climate - change program.

Jason Hollett, the Environment Department's executive director of climate change, said Nova Scotia's program would cover 80 to 90 per cent of all emissions in the province.

On the program's launch, Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise said, «The industry's key decision - makers are now in Bordeaux to address the most important topics affecting our shared interests, from the economy to e-commerce, international agreements and climate change.

Supporters of reforming the state's Forest Tax Abatement Program say the measure will help bolster the local economy while also safeguarding against climate change.

On climate change: In response to extreme weather events, Mr. Cuomo said he will launch Resilient NY, a program meant to enhance how communities recover after climate change - related events.

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«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

«Things move incredibly slowly here,» says Mark Konold, a project manager for the Worldwatch Institute's climate change and energy program.

, who called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the federal coal leasing program in 2012, said, «Leading on climate change means leading by example in how we manage the oil, gas and coal resources that belong to the American people.»

Much of USDA's climate change communication focuses on risk management practices that improve production and reduce costs, said William Hohenstein, director of the Climate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief Ecoclimate change communication focuses on risk management practices that improve production and reduce costs, said William Hohenstein, director of the Climate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief Econchange communication focuses on risk management practices that improve production and reduce costs, said William Hohenstein, director of the Climate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief EcoClimate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief EconChange Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief Economist.

In Iowa, extension program staff members work directly with agricultural retailers to teach them the latest in climate science, said Linda Prokopy, an associate professor of natural resource social science at Purdue University, who also studies farmers» views on climate change.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Ordinary people can't be experts on everything, so most folks look to people they respect — church leaders, the president, neighbors — for cues on issues of expertise, like climate change, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communiclimate change, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communicchange, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change CommuniClimate Change CommunicChange Communication.

Jacqui Patterson, director of the Environment and Climate Change Justice Program at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, said impacts of climate change are entwined with class, race, lack of political clout and economic disruption when polluting industriesClimate Change Justice Program at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, said impacts of climate change are entwined with class, race, lack of political clout and economic disruption when polluting industries Change Justice Program at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, said impacts of climate change are entwined with class, race, lack of political clout and economic disruption when polluting industriesclimate change are entwined with class, race, lack of political clout and economic disruption when polluting industries change are entwined with class, race, lack of political clout and economic disruption when polluting industries close.

Of all of the participants, 48 percent said they would agree to enter a government program for climate change adaptation or mitigation, Niles said.

«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.

C. Susan Weiler, a biogeochemist at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, (and currently a program director at NSF) says recent years have seen «tremendous growth» in interdisciplinary collaboration among climate change scientists.

«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

That's something that Janani Vivekananda, a senior climate change program officer with the peace - building organization International Alert, said she understood firsthand when she visited eastern Nepal.

«Alaska really is both the poster child for the impact of climate change and a warning for the dramatic changes that are coming to the rest of the United States and the planet,» said Whit Sheard, director of the Ocean Conservancy's International Arctic Program.

«The West and Southwest are likely to become drier, while the eastern United States is likely to experience increased rainfall,» says the report, which was put out by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, coordinated by the White House.

«This cap - and - trade program needs to be one that would be compatible with the Western Climate Initiative platform,» DEQ climate change policy lead Colin McConnaha said in a meeting in Portland with interested pClimate Initiative platform,» DEQ climate change policy lead Colin McConnaha said in a meeting in Portland with interested pclimate change policy lead Colin McConnaha said in a meeting in Portland with interested parties.

It is extraordinarily important,» said study author Andrew Holland, the program manager of the IISS's Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security, a project funded by the European Commission.

That desire of balance lead the program's creators to avoid terms like «climate change» or «global warming» in lesson plans, Rowe said, «which would have sent a biased point of view.»

«Washington screwed around and couldn't get it done,» says Sperling, who is also a member of the California Air Resources Board that set up the climate change program.

This study shows that it can be a promising option to protect European forests from the impacts of climate change,» says IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program Research Scholar Nikolay Khabarov, who led the study.

Other countries may reduce their ambitions as well — especially because Trump has said he would «cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs.»

«No developing country in the world has a climate law, let alone a climate law that has this vision and this ambition, that integrates all of the sectors at the national level in a system for climate change,» said Vanessa Perez - Cirera, head of climate and energy programs for WWF Mexico.

Dale Jamieson, who directs the New York University Environmental Studies program and was not affiliated with the study, says Hallegatte's findings should be a wake - up call for wealthier nations with at - risk coastal areas who have not taken precautions to prepare for the results of climate change.

This is an important step that can be taken now, rather than a future adaptation to climate change,» says co-author Andrés Cisneros - Montemayor, Nippon Foundation - UBC Nereus Program manager.

«A review of the literature exploring the effects of climate change on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queeclimate change on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queenchange on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of QueeClimate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of QueenChange Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.

Although the panel released few details, the statement said that those lower priorities include climate change and ecosystem research programs at USGS, which would see its budget drop by $ 101 million to $ 967 million; the Obama administration's request was $ 1.2 billion.

«Our findings clearly demonstrate that if future protected area expansion continues in a «business - as - usual» fashion, threatened species coverage will increase only marginally,» said Associate Professor James Watson, WCS's Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and senior author on the study.

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

We clearly show that power plants are not only causing climate change, but they might also be affected in major ways by climate,» says IIASA Energy Program Director Keywan Riahi, a study co-author.

«The Paris agreement has not yet been sealed, but is already raising our sights about what's possible,» Jennifer Morgan, global director of the World Resources Institute's climate change program, said in a statement.

«Climate change is predicted to occur earliest and most dramatically at the polar regions, and that's what the observations seem to be showing,» says Karl A. Erb, director of the National Science Foundation's office of polar programs.

Ultimately we need integrated strategies, which maximize synergies and avoid trade - offs between the water and climate change and other energy - related objectives,» says Keywan Riahi, Director of the Energy Program at IIASA.

«We've thought of climate change as «global warming»; among what matters is how this overall warming affects conditions that hit people where they live,» said Eric DeWeaver, program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funds NCAR.

«We hope that this study will highlight the marine species that are most in need of management and conservation actions under climate change,» said William Cheung, associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and director of science for the Nippon Foundation — UBC Nereus Program.

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

The White House has not said exactly how it would reduce nondefense spending by $ 54 billion to the targeted $ 461 billion, but has promised to slash foreign aid, the Environmental Protection Agency, and programs that address climate change.

Jaap Nienhuis, a graduate student in the MIT - WHOI Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics, says the effects of climate change, and the human efforts to combat these effects, are already making an impact on river deltas around the world.

But such efforts are useful in communicating the changing risks of extreme weather to the public, say the scientists, who are working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program.

It is not possible to uphold that fiduciary duty while failing to consider, let alone, mitigate against climate change and its associated costs to the economy and environment,» said Cunningham, who heads CLF's clean energy and climate change program.

In a statement, NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot said that the proposed budget «is in line with our funding in recent years, and will enable us to effectively execute our core mission for the nation, even during these times of fiscal constraint,» although it should be noted that it does make significant cuts to the agency's earth science and climate - change related programs.