Sentences with phrase «other climate change strategies»

«Is Aerosol Geoengineering Ethically Preferable to Other Climate Change Strategies?»

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And Savage says he and other officials within Alberta Environment have been asked to prepare more research in anticipation of talks to consider changes to the province's climate strategy.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Others on climate change, energy and related risks — as well as sustainability reporting on strategy and performance — account for almost another 40 percent of all resolutions, roughly the same as the previous year.

The agenda will include a range of warblers - centric topics, including climate change impacts; species conservation strategies; genetics and hybridization; and warbler songs and other vocalizations.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

To counter this effort, Maibach and others are using the same strategies employed by climate change deniers.

«Yet the U.S. has no national climate change preparedness strategy; and Federal efforts to address the rising risks have been undermined through budget cuts and other means.»

«We must expand our focus and devise strategies that target the biogenic emissions of these other greenhouse gases if we are to change the course of climate change.»

President Barack Obama came empty - handed to the Copenhagen climate change negotiations, and the U.S., China and other powers settled for a nonbinding declaration of sentiments and goals rather than an operational strategy and process of implementation.

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.

Although not generally stressed about climate change, those with high levels of altruistic concern, or concern for the well - being of others, also engaged in some environmental coping strategies and pro-environmental behaviors — more so than those whose environmental concerns were mostly egoistic.

For the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, he co-authored a number of landmark reports addressing CCS and other climate change mitigation technologies.

Climate change and other stressors will not impact marine species and habitats equally everywhere; therefore, strategies for spreading the risk must be built into MPA network design.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting artists of color, queer, and other marginalized intersections of artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works, live performance, and the intersectionality of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.

By all means give me a strategy for saving Prairie chickens but make sure it isnt at the cost of many others unable to adapt to climate changing this fast.

I conjecture that three changes in the way in which the climate problem is presented by the experts to the general public would make the conversation go better: acknowledge that climate constraints are unwelcome (thereby establishing empathy with general audiences, as a doctor does when conveying bad news), present the science as unfinished (thereby taking away the surprise factor that accompanies every new wrinkle — cf. the cosmic ray stories of a couple of weeks ago), and admit that no solution is wonderful (something hard for much of our community, which loves some strategy and hates at least one of the others).

People who come to the clinic — we call them impatients, because they are too impatient to wait for legislative change and other traditional strategies to address environmental crisis, climate destabilization.

The more you engage with countries that are «reluctant» to spend a ton of their own money on climate change the more you need to advocate strategies that are linked internationally — so that one country's effort gets magnified by what other countries do.

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

Two major federal climate science reports — one on climate change - induced extreme weather, the other on increasing difficulties in dealing with climate impacts on federal lands — were released last week with two nearly opposite communication strategies.

Activities supported by the five regional commissions include, among others, the creation of strategies to integrate climate change consideration into development plans, the assessment of the economic impacts of climate change, and the evaluation of the costs of mitigation and adaptation.

As Yohe sees it, a prudent risk - management strategy dictates significant cuts in greenhouse gases and immediate planning to adapt to rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.

Policies and other strategies intended to reduce carbon pollution and mitigate climate change can often have independent influences on human health.

With climate change now more and more an establishment concern, and attempts to avert it now increasingly institutionalized in the established order, some have pointed to the «death of environmentalism» as an oppositional movement in society.12 However, if some environmentalists have moved toward capitalist - based strategies in the vain hope of saving the planet by these means, others have moved in the opposite direction: toward a critique of capitalism as inherently ecologically destructive.

As we recommended in the paper, systematic investment in these strategies along with other recommended initiatives are likely to increase substantive news attention to various health threats associated with climate change, and thereby increase the capacity of communities to pursue mitigation and adaptation actions.

UN-Habitat is already working with cities and other local governments in 20 developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change.

Requires such group, within a year and every four years thereafter, to submit to Congress a report that: identifies gaps in data and recommends actions to fill those gaps; proposes a coordinated strategy for funding and allocating responsibilities among federal agencies for climate and other global change data collection, management, and retention; recommends a federal capital investment strategy; and evaluates optimal design of observation system components to ensure a cost - effective, adequate set of observations detecting and tracking global change.

«There is an incoherence at best between oil companies on the one hand positioning themselves as being on the side of the world's developing countries and while on the other actively pursuing strategies which will entail catastrophic climate change which we already know is having a significant impact on the global south,» she said.

It presents the results of spatial analyses that can assist decision - makers in planning for REDD + in a way that generates multiple benefits, and explores the possible contributions that REDD + can make to the achievement of other policy goals such as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the objectives of Peru's National Climate Change Strategy.

A memo leaked to the New York Times in 1998 exposed its strategy of investing millions to muddy the science on climate change among «congress, the media and other key audiences».

After these threats are identified for each resource, then the relative risk from natural - and human - caused climate change (estimated from the global climate model projections, but also the historical, paleo - record and worst case sequences of events) can be compared with other risks in order to adopt the optimal mitigation / adaptation strategy.

This page contains relevant content from U.S. government agencies and other sources that can help Tribal Nations and other communities understand how climate variability and / or global climate change is impacting and / or may impact their Peoples, Lands, and Resources and to assist in building climate resilience strategies.

-- Consistent with its authorities under other laws and with Federal trust responsibilities with respect to Indian lands, each Federal department or agency with representation on the National Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resClimate Change Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resoChange Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resclimate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resochange and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resources.

At other points in the first day, my message was that «business as usual» was no longer a prudent strategy for carmakers beause of the global urgency of energy security and climate change and the new market pressures and opportunities they create.

(12) other State - based strategies that comprehensively implement adaptation activities to remediate the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on terrestrial, marine, and freshwater fish, wildlife, plants, and other natural resources.

At the official launch at Imperial College London the League called for a step change in sustainable living, arguing that truly transformational strategies would be needed to overcome the climate crisis and the many other pressing issues facing humankind today.

Adaptation efforts in South Asia have so far been fragmented, lacking a strong link between national climate change strategies and plans, and existing disaster risk reduction, agricultural, and other relevant policies.

• The effects of management strategies on climate, ecosystem services, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change; field experiments and models designed to learn about coupled human - and environmental systems and to test different management interventions • The valuation of ecosystem services, including the economic or other costs associated with impacts of climate and other environmental changes • Adaptive approaches and institutional and governance mechanisms for addressing the regulatory aspects of special status species management

«(n) the promotion of sustainable settlement and transportation strategies in urban and rural areas including the promotion of measures to --(i) reduce energy demand in response to the likelihood of increases in energy and other costs due to long - term decline in non-renewable resources, (ii) reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and (iii) address the necessity of adaptation to climate change; in particular, having regard to location, layout and design of new development.»

Optimal decision making strategies are arguably a mismatch for the climate change problem owing to the deep uncertainty surrounding climate sensitivity, among other sources of uncertainty.

Donna currently is involved in developing the company's global climate change strategy and in greenhouse gas and other environmental reporting.

The climate denial countermovement has also blocked critical reflection on and serious debate about climate change through other strategies which seek to promote the idea that civil society will be better off if climate change policies are not adopted.

The current strategy for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases isn't nearly enough to prevent potentially devastating changes to the Earth's climate.

Sceptics need to find as much common ground as possible pokerguy, they need to stop quarrelling with each other and do a proper, co-ordinated rebuttal of the IPCC and its accolytes and to provide policy makers with credible alternative strategies for dealing with climate change at the regional level.

In response to the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change, Kenya has developed a National Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate climate change, Kenya has developed a National Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate cchange, Kenya has developed a National Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate cChange Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate climate changechange.

With some scientists saying that the tipping point for devastating sea - level rise and other abrupt climate change events is only ten years away, fast - action climate strategies like the 2007 Montreal Protocol adjustment are critical to buying world leaders more time to negotiate a long - term post-2012 climate treaty.