Sentences with phrase «nations people adapted»

Tradition can be what you did yesterday, what we need to know is how First Nations people adapted and coped with all changes.

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The notion that skills matter, that the wealth of a nation is embodied in its people and that only an educated people can adopt new technologies (and adapt them and innovate them), was voiced in America at the dawn of the 20th century.

More and more people are turning down the white - collar corner office for a green - collar job that helps the nation adapt to the growing move ever closer to sustainability.

The United Nations Environment Programmme (UNEP) has launched a web app and infographic to support people living and working on coasts in making decisions on how to adapt to a changing climate.

Given that mainstream climate change scientific view holds that the Earth could experience rapid non-linear climate change impacts which outstrip the ability of some people and nations to adapt, should this fact affect whether nations which emit high levels of ghgs should be able to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for non-action on climate change?

In arguing that the United States or other high - emitting nations need not reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions based on cost, how have you considered, if at all, that all nations have agreed in international climate negotiations to take steps to limit warming to 2 degree C because warming greater than this amount will not only create harsh impacts for tens of millions of people but runs the risk of creating rapid non-linear warming that will outstrip the ability of people and nations to adapt?

Finally, the fact is that climate is a reason many more people move to Phoenix AR than move to the «ice box of the nation», International Falls, MN, suggests we are better able to adapt to warm than cold.

At the World Government Summit in Dubai being held Feb. 8 to 10, world leaders and grey - haired bureaucrats from the United Nations, World Bank, and other agencies discussed how governments can help their countries» people adapt to relentless social and technological change.

It challenges us to adapt the structures of society in ways that ensure that first nation peoples can participate fully, be welcomed and have our cultures respected.