Sentences with phrase «already adapting to climate change»

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

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.

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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.

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

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.

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 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.

«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.

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.

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 stapleClimate - 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 stapleclimate 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 stapleclimate - 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We have already implemented the first project on adaptation — Adapting to the climate change impact — with $ 6 million fund from UNFCCC.

Lindzen's ninth paragraph: «Moreover, actions taken thus far to reduce emissions have already had negative consequences without improving our ability to adapt to climate change.

While vitally important, this approach has largely ignored the impact climate change has already taken on vulnerable regions around the world, particularly agricultural communities, that urgently need resources to adapt to an altered climate.

Mr. Trump withdrew the US from the global climate agreement which nearly 200 countries signed in December 2015 in an effort to combat global warming and help poorer countries adapt to an already - changed planet.

TH: Perhaps it will be adapting to the climate change we have already created and adjusting our wine growing regions and seasons.

Here in the west, we're already seeing the impacts of climate change... But west coast leaders are not only committing to adapt to our changing climate, but to turning back the worst climate disruption: Our region will accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and invest in transit.

I didn't know the specifics regarding why the soil won't work for wheat, but I had essentially raised this point on the «Cockburn's form» among others regarding how crops are already adapted to specific soils which exist in specific climates — and you can't just pick up the soil and move it as appropriate climate moves northward when one skeptic / optimist suggested climate change would be beneficial.

This also has a knock - on effect: As food security declines and poverty increases, these people will end up migrating to urban areas in search of work — further stressing areas already trying to adapt to changing climate and building enough infrastructure to accommodate these newcomers.

You already probably purchase a carbon offset for all your flights, but would you pay a surcharge of about 1 % on long - haul flights if that money would be used to help poor nations adapt to climate change?

But it's just as important for cities to adapt to climate change — even if the human race were to cut emissions entirely, we would still be facing the extreme effects of climate change for decades to come, because of the increased carbon input that has already taken place since the industrial revolution.

Explore below to learn why and how we should mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt to the changes we are already experiencing.

That response, the panel concluded, ought to include not only a strong policy to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also a plan to begin adapting to climate change, some amount of which is already inevitable; more research into climate science and alternative energies; and active engagement in international efforts to control climate change.