Sentences with phrase «systems in changing climates»
Field, in the school's Department of Global Ecology with the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science, reviewed and synthesized existing research on climate change for a special issue of Science: «Natural Systems in Changing Climates.»
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»
An NDP government would establish a comprehensive upstream cap - and trade system to meet our international commitments to fight climate change and rigorously enforce environmental laws here in Canada.
CalPERS, the California Public Employees» Retirement System, which voted in favor of the climate change proposal at Exxon's shareholder's meeting Wednesday, also released a statement.
Among these questions, she includes, «What impacts do changes in the Arctic have on the large - scale climate and weather systems?»
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»).
«At the same time, we will continue to resolutely be a protector and promoter of the global climate system process, proactively participating in the multilateral climate change process,» Hua said.
Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.
From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?
Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.
The Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, recently announced the appointment of experts in responsible investment, sustainable finance, risk management and climate change to head its new task force on climate - change - related disclosures.
Speakers at the rally included Dr. Andre Leu, president of IFOAM, Vanadana Shiva of Navdanaya, Hans Herren of the Millennium Institute, and Laura Lengnick author of the book Resilient Agriculture — Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate which is being made into 4 minute videos featuring farmer stories in their own words, along with Precious Phiri, Will Allen, and Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association.
Even addressing climate change — Project Drawdown analyzed more than 100 different climate change - reversing solutions, and it turns out that eight of the top 20 solutions with the greatest impact can be found in the food system.
The food system is in an interesting predicament — it's a significant contributor to one of its own biggest threats — climate change.
Waste Not, Warm Not: Poverty, Hunger and Climate Change in a Circular Food System Dr Karen Brooks, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets, International Food Policy Research Institute
Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.
The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia
Powered by billions of earthworms working rapidly in concert with beneficial microbes, the BIDA ® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards» wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85 % over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing water conservation measures in support of the fight against climate change.
Through the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in prClimate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in prclimate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in progress.
David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.
Along with most people who recognise the reality of climate change, I do not doubt that markets and private property rights have, or can have, an important role to play in handling the problem, e.g., through suitably designed emissions trading systems and the like.
«On his watch we have an environment secretary who doesn't believe in climate change, our carbon emissions are rising rather than falling and the government has failed to set a target a clean up our power system by 2030.»
He further stated: «We are putting in place the framework to be able to make it cheaper for you to be able to have it as a result of the monies that we can generate from the United Nations convention on climate change system.»
«Brian Kavanagh has worked hard in the Assembly on issues of critical importance to Brooklyn — affordable housing, reforming our criminal justice system, creating an equitable transportation system and combatting the effects of climate change.
The governor, who is considered a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, also plans to take on some of the leading national issues of the day - sexual harassment, climate change, the opioid epidemic, terrorism and reforming the criminal justice system.
It cites numerous ways in which climate change is already threatening Europe, including glacial retreat in Europe's mountain systems, flooding from the melting ice - caps and increased water demand in the Mediterranea.
«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.
In October this year the Department for Energy and Climate Change announced it would be slashing the FiT to just 21p from December 12th, prompting a rush to get solar photovoltaic (PV) systems set up in timIn October this year the Department for Energy and Climate Change announced it would be slashing the FiT to just 21p from December 12th, prompting a rush to get solar photovoltaic (PV) systems set up in timin time.
«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.
It states, in part, «Creating a sustainable regional food system that meets [the $ 1 billion] demand and offers equal access to nutritious food will improve public health, bolster the city's «good food» economy, build resilience in the wake of extreme weather events and reduce the city's «foodprint» as a way to mitigate the impacts of climate change.»
His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.
Marching behind Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's Global Climate Convergence contingent and in front of the ecosocialists of System Change Not Climate Change, the New York state Green Party drew in supporters from across the state for a contingent of nearly 150.
In response, DiNapoli said the retirement system is already a leader among public pension funds in seeking to push a low carbon economy and getting corporations to address climate change issues, such as through shareholder resolutions aimed at companies like ExxonMobiIn response, DiNapoli said the retirement system is already a leader among public pension funds in seeking to push a low carbon economy and getting corporations to address climate change issues, such as through shareholder resolutions aimed at companies like ExxonMobiin seeking to push a low carbon economy and getting corporations to address climate change issues, such as through shareholder resolutions aimed at companies like ExxonMobil.
In addition, he said, emerging threats like climate change, cyber-attacks, and internet - connected control systems make the water systems even more vulnerable.
Groups involved in the Convergence include the Green Shadow Cabinet, Organic Consumer Association, Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, PopularResistance.org, System Change Not Climate Change, Alliance for Global Justice, Workers United, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, and many state Green Parties.
«The research fills an important gap in our understanding of the vulnerability of tropical river - forest systems to changes in climate and land cover,» said the project's leader, Leandro Castello, assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.
A «coverage gap» in future years The agency had sought $ 910 million this year for its Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), which will provide data for weather forecasts, search - and - rescue operations and climate change research.
In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate systeIn the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate systein ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.
Common problem but differing approaches Climate change is every country's problem, but the developed and developing worlds have very different challenges ahead of them in transitioning their energy systems away from fossil fuels, according to the IEA report.
«In the face of rapidly expanding energy demand and the increasingly urgent threat of climate change, we are continuing to respond to the energy system as it evolves rather than actively managing its transformation,» Didier Houssin, IEA's director of sustainable energy policy and technology, said yesterday at the report's launch.
«If CO2 leaked from storage and reached the seafloor, then the environmental impact will be measurable, but very restricted in area and not catastrophic,» said Jerry Blackford, a marine system modeler at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and author of the paper, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.
The physical science assessment focuses on four topics: drivers of climate change, changes observed in the climate system, understanding cause - and - effect relationships, and projection of future changes.
In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 200In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 200in 2006.
In September 2014, Koonin wrote an editorial where he acknowledged human - caused climate change was happening but wrote that the «impact today of human activity appears to be comparable to the intrinsic, natural variability of the climate system itself.»
«We're really interested in understanding how these systems will change as we experience global warming or climate change,» Medvigy said.
They concluded that the heavy rains in Europe last year were likely due to natural variability in the climate system rather than climate change.
This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.
What followed was a rare and relatively new occurrence in Yosemite Valley — a ranger program focused exclusively on how one of the jewels of America's national parks system is responding to a changing climate.
«This system is a starting point for being more transparent, because the more transparent we are, the more opportunities for financing further actions we will have in the international arena,» said Juan Mata Sandoval, director - general of climate change policy at Mexico's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
But ecological upheaval, burgeoning travel and trade, a changing climate, and failures in public health systems have allowed new pathogens to emerge and old ones to bounce back.