Sentences with phrase «adverse effects of climate change»

For example, they staged a walk - out at COP19 at Warsaw when their proposal for a loss and damage mechanism, which would contribute to addressing damages occurring from adverse effects of climate change, did not receive enough traction.

Putting an end to the debate over climate change, the UN Security Council in a presidential statement declared at its meeting on climate change on July 20 that possible adverse effects of climate change may, in the long run, aggravate certain existing threats to international peace and security.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the need for sustained financial, technical and capacity building support from the international community to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change in the country.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

Gleick said mitigating the adverse effects of climate change will require scalable, institutional, and socially responsible solutions along with smarter diplomacy.

Beehives were donated to poor households in the communities for them to improve their livelihoods given the lack of alternative income generating activities and the adverse effects of climate change on their traditional agricultural production.

On the community level, many towns and cities have autonomously created action plans to prepare for the adverse effects of climate change.

Adaptation The Kyoto Protocol, like the Convention, is also designed to assist countries in adapting to the adverse effects of climate change.

Vulnerability: The degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes.

Ecotourism is really a good advocacy especially nowadays that we are now experiencing the adverse effects of climate change.

Such cooperation -LCB- shall -RCB--LCB- should -RCB- take into account the urgent and immediate needs of developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

«We have a moral responsibility to protect our birds, our children, and future generations from the adverse effects of climate change,» said Gail Gatton, Executive Director of Audubon Washington.

Even the adverse effects of climate change and renewable energy policies on jobs, economic growth, human health and welfare, and bird and bat populations receive little attention.

However, the adverse effects of climate change overrule the benefits from the increased production by plants.

Acknowledging this doesn't mean that global warming isn't real, or that world leaders and scientists shouldn't tackle the adverse effects of climate change, but hype and exaggeration serve no one.

This technical document aims to provide an overview of existing methodologies and tools for assessing the risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.

Leading climate scientist James Hansen used a study published Tuesday to continue to hammer home the warning that humanity is nearing «the point of no return» when it comes to reversing or even mitigating the adverse effects of climate change.

In 2015, the city created The Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment aimed at identifying the city's capacity to cope with the adverse effects of climate change.

The role of the Warsaw International Mechanism is to promote the implementation of approaches to addressing L&D associated with the adverse effects of climate change, by enhancing understanding, strengthening dialogue, and enhancing support (financial, technical, and capacity - building).

Take, for example, the new issue at the heart of the multilateral negotiations: the Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage associated with climate impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

The Paris Agreement also outlined eight specific areas of action to support the task of «averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change».

It acknowledges that «loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change includes, and in some cases involves more than, that which can be reduced by adaptation».

«Disaster reduction strategies and means to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.»

This idea may seem as futuristic today as the automobile did in the 1879, but carbon removal likely will play a large role in preventing the adverse effects of climate change in the near future.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreement in Paris said that countries «recognize the importance of averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change» and provided a framework for governments to begin reducing greenhouse gases.

Parties are to enhance understanding, action and support, including through the Warsaw International Mechanism, on a cooperative and facilitative basis with respect to loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.

This decision established a work programme to «consider approaches to loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change».

Loss and damage (Art. 8)-- The Paris Agreement recognizes the importance of averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including extreme weather events and slow onset events, and the role of sustainable development in reducing the risk of loss and damage.

Article 4.8 of the Convention includes «funding, insurance, and transfer of technology, to meet the specific needs and concerns of developing country Parties arising from the adverse effects of climate change and / or the impact of the implementation of response measures».

«There are several adaptation options to counter the adverse effects of climate change on global wheat production — and for some regions this will be critical,» they said.

The lands we protect — iconic vistas, working farms, habitat - rich wetlands and other great open spaces — also will help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.

Vulnerability - Vulnerability is the degree to which a system is susceptible to, and unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes.

Governments adopted the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts with a focus on developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.