Sentences with phrase «adapt to climate change does»

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In this segment, BNN speaks with Al Gore's right - hand man at Climate Reality Project, Stefan Sjöstrand, the president of IKEA Canada, and Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada about what businesses are doing to adapt to climate Climate Reality Project, Stefan Sjöstrand, the president of IKEA Canada, and Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada about what businesses are doing to adapt to climate climate change.

Only a vibrant economy will permit us all to adapt to climate changes that nature brings and about which we can do very little, since solar variations, ocean currents, and volcanic eruptions are quite beyond our control.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develClimate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; 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The difference is that farmers can do things to adapt to the changing climate, and hopefully alleviate the impacts on their crops,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

Gaye said that governments in West Africa are eager to get started adapting to climate change, but they don't have any idea what that change might be.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

«Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world's coastal regions if they do not adapt to sea - level rise.»

But fossil fuels development and loss of vegetation does have a big effect on how a region responds and adapts to a changing climate because of the water stress it creates where drilling is occurring.

«It's obvious now that the climate is changing, so it's a good time to get [the information] in front of transportation folks to help them understand the climate issue, what is transportation's role in it, and what can be done to both adapt to a changing climate and reduce the impact,» she said.

The stark reality is that even though Uganda has done little to cause climate change it will be forced to adapt to its effects.

FAO is also warning governments to do more to understand the likely effects of climate change on fishing and how best to adapt to the challenge.

Mingzhen Lu, first Princeton author and a graduate student in Hedin's research group, said that if root traits do in fact determine a plant's ability to withstand a particular environment, these findings could be valuable in conserving endangered species or projecting how plants might adapt to climate change.

Do organisms have the ability to adapt to climate change on a timescale of decades?

The key to adapting to a changing world because of climate change is diversity — so we are really doing a bad job if we let Monsanto and others take over how our food is grown and do the exact opposite to what is needed to have true food security in the future.

We've adapted our crops for each location over hundreds of years of genetic engineering, and I suspect farmers continue to do this year over year in real time as the climate changes.

# 3 O'Neal I think that if you read IPCC AR4 Working Group II on Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation, you will see that IPCC understands that adapting and mitigating climate change are only part of what must be done to manage sustainable development.

Pielke is basically saying the climate will change, there is not much we can do about the change so we better be able to adapt weather it gets warmer or colder.

(It is not just about adapting to climate change, despite the headline; always remember, writers don't control headlines.)

Here on our doorstep at Columbia University in NYC there is a huge team of scientists along with Al Gore who just won the Noble Prize for doing the research and spreading the word on climate change and with the Columbia Earth Institute as an advisor the city on how to adapt to this crisis and do our fair share in mitigating it, the members of this Noble Prize winning team should be brought front and center to explain the dire situation to the people of this town.

He must be feeling the heat, because in his latest post to his blog, he denies being Mr. Gloom n'doom and makes positive and realistic recommendations of what we will have to do to adapt to climate change and peak oil.

Paul Quencé Merritt (no relation to me) asks why we don't just adapt as best we can to the coming climate changes, since we have neither the will nor the means to prevent them, and our current strategies have failed.

The very things we need to do to adapt to a changing climate are exactly the same actions we need to take to slow down, or even reverse, global warming in the first place.

«efforts to address climate change should continue to focus most heavily on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in combination with adapting to the impacts of climate change because these approaches do not present poorly defined and poorly quantified risks and are at a greater state of technological readiness.»

The same ones who say they don't think climate change has been «scientifically proven» are already busily adapting — self - consciously so — to climate change by adopting practices like no - till farming.

One of the report's co-authors has said he believes that it displays «a more optimistic tone about our ability to adapt» to the impacts of climate change than previous reports did.

But there are things we can do slow climate change, as well as to adapt and protect against its effects.

To adapt to a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years agTo adapt to a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years agto a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years ago.

May said parliamentarians had not done enough to prepare the public for the effect climate change would have on their lives in terms of efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate changes.

Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, the conservation group that launched legal action to get Pacific walruses listed in 2008, told Earther that the agency's claim that walruses will adapt to climate change «is baseless, and simply doesn't match the science showing that walruses are being harmed by the devastating loss of their sea ice habitat.»

This can lead to a built - in assumption that the future will repeat the past — something that does not match - up with either preventing climate change or adapting to it.

Plant species become adapted to local conditions over thousands of years, meaning that what is locally adapted today could do poorly tomorrow as the climate changes.

Sure, environmentalists will have to adapt to changing circumstances — right now, the focus is on protecting the EPA's Clean Air Act authority — but does climate activism really need to be completely renovated?

«How ecosystems, and, probably, societies adapt to climate change has a tremendous amount to do not only with the amplitude of that change but the speed with which it happens,» he says.

Rich, industrialised countries like the EU and US have a legal obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC — which the talks fall under) to take the lead in cutting their emissions while providing the finance and technology to poorer countries to adapt to climate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways thClimate Change (UNFCCC — which the talks fall under) to take the lead in cutting their emissions while providing the finance and technology to poorer countries to adapt to climate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways thclimate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways they did.

African journalists have critical roles to play in explaining the cause and effects of climate change, in describing what countries and communities can do to adapt, and in reporting on what governments and companies do, or not, to respond to these threats.

This is done to assist the locality in adapting to the local manifestations of climate change.

The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.

I'm not looking for the earth to adapt so much, but I do believe that water plays a huge part in this scenario, and we haven't at all considered it in connection with climate change... except as an unfortunate aftermath.

(which will happen anyway) to, «How do we make the best use of what we have left to adapt to climate change and the coming energy crunch?»

If it is better to mitigate GHG emissions rather than adapt to rapid climate change (which certainly appears to be the case), then we need effective proposals that don't offend these values.

What we need to do is what we have always done as a species in the face of climate change: adapt.

From GBM's perspective it does not have to be a choice between people or forest, and with climate change already being felt in Africa and many parts of the world, it is an issue of climate justice that we ensure people receive the resources, information and support they need to adapt to climate change.

Humans have adapted to natural climate change events for 10's of thousands of years and we will continue to do so.

However, the most glaring logical fallacy here involves the conclusion that climate change does not pose a threat because we can adapt to it.

While this is a glaring logical fallacy, Michaels and Cato follow with perhaps an even greater fallacy, arguing that climate change does not pose a threat because we may be able to adapt to it.

The strategy is to divide conservative candidates and moderate voters; framing conservatives as standing on the morally wrong side of the climate change issue; as they have been portrayed in the gay marriage and Civil Rights debates.9 The NextGen campaign applies a master narrative that is adapted to each state, emphasizing that climate change poses a serious threat to the economy, public health, and children, and that if a candidate doesn't believe in climate change, they can't be trusted.

Climate change is having a disproportionately harsh impact on the least developed countries and particularly on marginalised communities, which do not have the ability to adapt to climate Climate change is having a disproportionately harsh impact on the least developed countries and particularly on marginalised communities, which do not have the ability to adapt to climate climate change.

For example, many countries will face increased challenges for economic development, increased risks from some diseases, or degraded ecosystems, but some countries will probably have increased opportunities for economic development, reduced instances of some diseases, or expanded arHow is climate change affecting monsoons?As cities develop economically, do they become better adapted to climate change?

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