Sentences with phrase «affected most climate change»

It is sadly ironic that the people affected most climate change will have contributed the least to the problem.

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Although there's overwhelming scientific consensus behind the concept that human behavior is affecting the climate, most of the world and the U.S. in particular is still dealing with climate change deniers.

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

The International Coffee Organization (ICO)- the largest international lobby for the coffee industry - lists climate change as one of the most important factors adversely affecting small coffee farmers.

On the program's launch, Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise said, «The industry's key decision - makers are now in Bordeaux to address the most important topics affecting our shared interests, from the economy to e-commerce, international agreements and climate change.

It is the most vulnerable populations that are most affected by more - violent and less - predictable natural disasters resulting from climate change.

Infrastructure a matter of life and death for people in countries most affected by climate change.

Delaying infrastructure decisions is no longer simply inconvenient, it's a matter of life and death for people in countries most affected by the adverse consequences of climate change, Mr Clarke will claim in a debate to be held during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science

Chris Nadeau is studying a species of water flea whose tiny, easily replicated and manipulated rock pool habitats make them ideal test subjects for predicting how climate change affects the planet's most vulnerable species.

«Agriculture is the sector most likely to be affected by changes in climate of all sectors of society,» Nelson adds.

Of all the possible ways in which climate change could affect our planet, this is the most bizarre: as the oceans warm up, Earth will start rotating a wee bit faster, reducing the length of a day.

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

«A warming climate is affecting the Arctic in the most complex ways,» said Virginia Burkett, USGS Associate Director for Climate and Land Use climate is affecting the Arctic in the most complex ways,» said Virginia Burkett, USGS Associate Director for Climate and Land Use Climate and Land Use Change.

Future scarcity affected by climate change will most likely lead to different water pricing needs than the schemes we know from the past.»

They then mapped the regions where those species with a high intrinsic risk are most affected today by human impact and climate change.

As climates change across already stressed ecosystems, there is no doubt that species will be affected, but to what extent and which will be most vulnerable remain uncertain.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

While most of the region endured dry, freezing weather, pockets of «refugia,» or vegetated areas not affected by climate change, remained scattered along the Bering land bridge throughout the LGM period.

«This means one of the most important questions of our time is how climate change is affecting the polar regions,» explains Dr. Marcello Passaro of the TUM German Geodetic Research Institute.

This lake is the Great Lake most impacted by summer hypoxia — the loss of oxygen at the bottom that affects fish and other living communities — and, according to Dr. Twiss, is a good sentinel for climate change.

Our study allows us to target conservation efforts on those species that are most negatively affected by climate, to help them persist under future climate change.»

One of the most critical questions surrounding climate change is how it might affect the food supply for a growing global population.

We need more empirical studies to truly understand who will be most affected by climate change in the future.»

«Climate change risk for half of plant and animal species in biodiversity hotspots: The Amazon, Miombo Woodlands in Southern Africa, and southwest Australia will be among the most affected places in the world, according to comprehensive new paper and report commissioned by WWF.»

Most of that research has focused on adult fish, but that is only giving researchers and fishery managers part of the picture of how stressors like climate change and fishing are affecting different species.

«For them, the global phenomenon of climate change very clearly affects these bigger picture environmental things, so they have the most pronounced worry, because they already see it everywhere.

The RCU Africa relocation serves to strengthen the implementation of the convention in the region most affected by desertification, drought and the effects of climate change.

In the long - term, even gradual changes in climate may induce migration from the most affected areas.

The UNC researchers say this is the most comprehensive study yet on how climate change could affect public health through air pollution.

In the tradition of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, this Leonardo DiCaprio produced 2016 film attempts once again to sound the alarm about climate change by drawing attention to some areas of the world that are poised to be most affected in the coming years.

This pack looks at how rich countries are contributing the most to climate change while poor countries suffer its worst affects.

Although the United States will be less affected and is better equipped than most nations to deal with climate change, and may even see a benefit owing to increases in agriculture productivity, infrastructure repair and replacement will be costly.

Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.

Unfortunately, those most affected by the earliest symptoms of a climate change are typically communities most reliant upon consistent weather and the least capable of coping when such patterns change — but still the world seems to dally in enacting legislation sufficient to combat it.

You might guess, for example, that the most effective messages would be related to national security, or related to how climate change will affect the specific place you happen to live.

Many reports are quick to link one - off events with climate change; others purport to provide regional evidence of how global warming is affecting a particular country; some try to identify which countries are most vulnerable to disasters.

Crops affected in the most extreme climate change scenario (RCP 8.5).

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The unjust truth is that, as Mr. Hollande put, «the poorest countries with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions are the most vulnerable and are even further affected [by climate change].»

A new study released Friday in the journal Science Advances helps clear up a bit of the mystery, by showing that man - made climate change is responsible for most of the change seen in ocean surface temperatures near the equator across Asia, which in turn affect regional rainfall patterns including the Indian monsoon.

The participants echoed the need to ensure that people most affected by climate change receive relevant information from the Government of Malawi and UMFULA.

Projects like the LTER provide one of the most valuable toolsets to understanding how climate change has and will affect communities around the world.

But not enough has been said about the people whose activities contribute to those emissions or about those who will be most affected by climate change, especially women.

CGAIR: West Africa is one of the most affected regions by climate change due to its dependency on rain - fed agriculture.

When asked about climate change impacts, Americans do not mention health impacts, 290 and when asked about health impacts specifically, most believe it will affect people in a different time or place.291 But diverse groups of Americans find information on health impacts to be helpful once received, particularly information about the health benefits of mitigation (reducing carbon emissions) and adaptation.292

It's the last of the major inquiries and reviews surrounding climate science that were commissioned in the wake of «ClimateGate», «HimalayaGate» and so on - and probably the most important, as it could significantly affect how the organisation pursues its work towards its fifth major assessment of climate change, due out in 2013.

Some insurance companies have stopped providing coverage altogether in areas most affected by climate change.

Climate justice involves front - line communities — those who will be affected first and most severely by climate Climate justice involves front - line communities — those who will be affected first and most severely by climate climate change.

This guidance document illustrates the steps to set up a Youth Climate Dialogue (YCD), which is an event that features a video - conference dialogue between schools in different parts of the world about how youth perceive climate change, how it affects their lives, and what actions they consider most impClimate Dialogue (YCD), which is an event that features a video - conference dialogue between schools in different parts of the world about how youth perceive climate change, how it affects their lives, and what actions they consider most impclimate change, how it affects their lives, and what actions they consider most important.