Sentences with phrase «adapting to the changes already»

The near - term is thus an era where short - term risk reduction comes from adapting to the changes already underway.

Adapting to changes already underway: As the Climate Hot Map demonstrates, the impacts of a warming world are already being felt by people around the globe.

Even if the world meets the Paris Agreement targets, communities across the globe will still need to build resilience and adapt to the changes already under way.

Not exact matches

The NDP and Wildrose Party faired better and adapted much quicker to the changes due to their already substantial base of individual donors.

As the Obama administration pushes a new plan to fight climate change, many businesses, from start - ups to multinationals, already are adapting to ensure their businesses can grow and profit amid sustainability challenges.

If you already have ownership structures and governance processes in place, and even if these have sustained your family for generations, you'll still need to maintain and adapt your governance to secure ongoing growth under changing circumstances.

«California winegrowers are resilient and have already adapted their practices to accommodate seasonal changes in the climate.

He has done already when change of ownership happened, he has shown he will adapt to the OWNER and that is why he has kept his job for so long even though he is no managerial god.

Ms Spelman will declare that the coalition is already making significant steps to cut carbon emissions and improve flood defences, but will also stress that adapting to climate change will be partly the responsibility of the local and community level.

I'll always read things with an open mind, but if it as I fear it turns out to be a rehash of «more markets, more choice, and more outsourcing», it'll demonstrate that the Blairites in question have failed to learn the key lesson of Blair — that parties and movements have to adapt to changing times, not keep fighting battles which are already either won or lost.

We may have already changed the ice sheets to a point that some parts of them may go, but we have the ability to stop changing it more and to adapt to what we have already done.

Adapting to climate change is already tough on moose; adding the present day's imbalance in the predator - prey dynamics puts additional stress on the Isle Royale ecosystem.

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

This is not a fable, it's a tale of how people are already adapting to climate change, as revealed at the International Institute for Environment and Development's sixth conference on community - based adaptation to climate change held in Vietnam in April.

According to Liu, if the new image was in the same orientation as the bars the subjects had focused on, the already adapted neurons would be less sensitive to the change and show a «relaxed response.»

The study is the first to show that animal populations can adapt and already have adapted to higher temperatures and increased heat wave frequencies — two results of climate change — by means of evolutionary changes in their heat tolerance.

Species characterized by strong single peaks in vocal activity already tended to reach those peaks later than other species, perhaps because birds with tightly constrained timing are less able to adapt to changing climatic conditions.

«In Southern Europe, adapting to some of the projected changes could only be achieved by a fundamental, and expensive, re-engineering of each city or water resource system, as significant adaptation to climate extremes has already been implemented and radical changes will be needed to achieve more,» the paper notes.

However, other research1 is already beginning to show how climate change is outpacing our ability to adapt food production.

The body must continuously be challenged in order for it to change and develop; if you keep doing what the body can already do, the body doesn't need to adapt!

Very excited to already see the changes from just a few days of the CI test and even though its small incremental improvements I already feel my body adapting to the MAHR training!

If you are adapted to the change or if you are in partial ketosis already then you would be able to keep going.

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And I will continue to work with NAHT and others to make sure that schools successfully embed and have the time to adapt to the changes that have already been announced and are coming through.

This familiarity likely means that the success of Facebook at Work will depend heavily on their ability to adapt the same interfaces and layout that users are already used to; recognizing that corporate citizens hate change even more than most.

Some agents are already changing, he notes, adapting to the blurred lines that are becoming common now.

Some further climate change is already in the pipeline which means we are going to have to consider adapting to it.

Paleoclimate evidence and ongoing global changes imply that today's CO2, about 385 ppm, is already too high to maintain the climate to which humanity, wildlife, and the rest of the biosphere are adapted.

It also promises financial support to poorer nations, to help them adapt to the damage that will be caused by the climate changes that are already happening.

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

Bangladesh's Farmers Already Switching to Climate - Resistant Crops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other stapleAlready Switching to Climate - Resistant Crops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staplealready taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staple crops.

For example, the range and abundance of economically important marine fish are already changing due to climate change and are projected to continue changing such that some local fisheries are very likely to cease to be viable, whereas others may become more valuable if the fishing community can adapt.

There are things that can be done to try to adapt to those changes that are already in the pipeline and that we are going to have to contend with because there is nothing we can do about them.

Even if we could find some magic switch, today, that would turn off all of our coal and gas and oil consumption — even then we would still have to adapt, because a certain amount of climate change is already baked into the system.

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.

Even then, we will still need to adapt to the changes we have already wrought.

I am also absolutely certain that a species that can already live and survive in regions of the world from the Arctic circle will easily adapt to any changes over the timescales involved.

Determining which types of prevention to invest in (such as monitoring, early warning systems, and land - use changes that reduce the impact of heat and floods) depends on several factors, including health problems common to that particular area, vulnerable populations, the preventive health systems already in place, and the expected impacts of climate change.275 Local capacity to adapt is very important; unfortunately the most vulnerable populations also frequently have limited resources for managing climate - health risks.

One of the conclusions of that 2010 Workshop was that, as climate change brings new uncertainties, adds new risks and changes already existing risks, one of the most effective ways for agriculture to adapt to climate change could be to increase its resilience.

However, systems already under stress or close to their climate limits are likely to experience the greatest difficulty in adapting to change.

Already Arctic human communities are adapting to climate change, but both external and internal stressors challenge their adaptive capabilities (high confidence).

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.

«Some of your [African] governments are already encouraging agricultural practices that are adapted to climate change and are reducing emissions,» he said.

Arctic human communities are already adapting to climate change, but their capacity to adapt is limited.

There is increasing evidence that farmers in some regions are already adapting to observed climate changes in particular altering cultivation and sowing times and crop cultivars and species.

That could mean, speculatively, that we're already on the wrong path with regard to adapting our crops to a changing climate.

He suggested that communities take action now to try to mitigate and adapt to the climate changes that are here already and that are expected to get worse in the near future.

So the point is, while we can make a difference to the longer - term outcomes in the second half of this century through reducing emissions, we can't affect the near - term changes which are already locked in, so we need to adapt.»

That would make it much harder for coastal cities like Miami, which is already seen as the U.S. city most vulnerable to climate change, to adapt in time.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.