Sentences with phrase «environmental change programmes»

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The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch programme will therefore continue its crucial monitoring, research and assessment activities to provide scientific data needed to understand and ultimately predict environmental changes, as it has done for the past 25 years» said Mr Jarraud.

«Selective - breeding programmes may effectively reduce the capacity of corals to adapt to future changes in environmental conditions by narrowing genetic variation,» says David Miller, a coral biologist at James Cook University in Townsville.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

And the rescue plan now relies on the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) persuading the World Bank to support a programme for environmental change that does not meet the bank's investment criteria.

Key life skills The direct link to developing a wider set of skills is a further benefit to those participants in an environmental behaviour change schools programme.

The benefits of embedding an environmental behaviour change programme into an empowering project for school children are ample and through GAP's experience, we've seen the most successful outcomes delivered where students are encouraged to own the process from beginning to end and develop the necessary tools to reach their goals.

As part of this new collaboration, at this conference the global - environmental - change programmes support a major research initiative, Future Earth: research for global sustainability.

The Earth System Governance Project [1] is a long - term, interdisciplinary social science research programme developed under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions program on Global Environmental Change, and started January 2009.

Abhijit Ghosh, deputy programme manager for climate change at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India's top environmental NGO, said the national climate change missions had received almost no funding to date.

Urban agriculture contributes to a wide variety of urban issues and is increasingly integrated in urban land use planning and urban sector programmes (social inclusion and poverty alleviation, local economic development, environmental management, climate change strategies, amongst others) and used as a tool in sustainable city development.