Sentences with phrase «defenses against storms»
Defenses against storms and floods, built on past events, will fail unless emergency planners use forward - looking data that account for rapid climate change
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«We need to shore up our coastal defenses against future storms,» Cuomo said in a statement.
Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.
We should be strengthening public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical diseases even if we weren't worried about the climate change, we should be avoiding further development on flood plains at next to sea level just because of storm damage even in an unchanging climate.
e. Developed countries agreed to provide funding to help developing countries make the costly shift to green energy and shore up their defenses against climate change impacts like drought and storms and rich nations must report every two years on their finance levels — current and intended.