Sentences with phrase «learn about the climate risks»

Learn about the climate risks of natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines.

In order to develop specific, localized climate action plans, stakeholders and scientists need to work together to learn about climate risks, brainstorm strategies and prioritize implementation.

Not exact matches

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

The workshop brought together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from the fields of social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and had two core objectives: to understand better how social protection can be used to strengthen the poor's resilience to climate and natural disaster risk in developing countries; to create a forum for cross-regional learning about good practice for realizing the potential synergies between social protection, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

The incorporation of climate change adaptation into each urban centre's development planning, infrastructure investments and land - use management is well served by an iterative process within each locality of learning about changing risks and uncertainties that informs an assessment of policy options and decisions.

If you'd like to learn about this issue in more depth, please visit Maplecroft's website and download The Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2014: http://maplecroft.com/themes/cc/.

They looked at what climate policy makers could learn from adaptive management techniques, to create an approach to mitigation that more fully accounts for the set of risks that governments care about, is less dependent on a globally binding mandate, and which could, therefore, be a better way to preserve flexibility in climate mitigation.

ESM 293 - 1S - Resilience and Risk in a Changing Climate [2 units] McGlade In this course, students will learn about resilience and risk and how these concepts are shaping today's thinking about our future ability to live sustainably in the face of a changing climRisk in a Changing Climate [2 units] McGlade In this course, students will learn about resilience and risk and how these concepts are shaping today's thinking about our future ability to live sustainably in the face of a changing cClimate [2 units] McGlade In this course, students will learn about resilience and risk and how these concepts are shaping today's thinking about our future ability to live sustainably in the face of a changing climrisk and how these concepts are shaping today's thinking about our future ability to live sustainably in the face of a changing climateclimate.

A Learning Experience Overall the hearing was a disappointment, as with a few exceptions, the participating congressmen did not take advantage of the opportunity to learn about climate change, the risks it poses, or the best path forward to address those risks.

Health professionals need to learn about climate change and related risks to be able to identify vulnerable people, such as the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, participate in emergency responses and contribute to health system stewardship.