Sentences with phrase «adverse changes in the climate system»

Policy changes can potentially be reversed or scaled back if needed, whereas many adverse changes in the climate system would be difficult or impossible to «undo».

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This activity report consists of a fact sheet presenting UN system's concerted activities to help people and communities in countries, especially those particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, to manage climate - related risks in their efforts to achieve sustainable socio - economic development.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).