Sentences with phrase «around climate change migration»

The Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum brought together for the eleventh consecutive year key players from the private and public sectors to share the state of the art around climate change migration, and reach out to cooperation agencies, potential investors and service providers.

The Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF) is bringing together for the tenth consecutive year key players from the private and public sectors to share the state of the art around climate change migration, and reach out to cooperation agencies, potential investors and service providers.

Not exact matches

By Kaz Janowski, editor at SciDev.net I have become aware of a growing weariness with the pessimistic narratives around climate change, migration and other global environmental issues and events.

Other studies have gauged how climate changes will affect migration, flowering, and other factors that could put plants and animals out of step with the world around them.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans; longer, hotter heat waves; dangerous droughts and floods; and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict and hunger around the globe,» Obama added.

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

The evening of conversation will include a panel organized around the concept of «Imaging Futures», which will consider macro-scale observations on Earth landscapes, the long - term effects of anthropocentric climate change, and the possibility of inter-planetary migration.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe,» Obama said.

In southern Africa, scientists expect a migration of species toward cooler and moister areas.13 If we do nothing to reduce our emissions, 12 Etosha faces a net loss of around eight species of mammals by 2050.13 Unless we take meaningful action today, climate change could render Etosha and other national parks in dry or desert regions unable to fulfill their mandate: to protect mammalian biodiversity.13

With sea level rise slowly swallowing Pacific island nations and warming sea and air temperatures exacerbating droughts and floods around the world, we're closer than we've ever been to a climate change - triggered migration event.»

«All the predictions are that there is going to be huge migration around climate change in the decades to come.»

So as climate change intensifies around the world, it's no surprise that the migration patterns of animals are being impacted.

It's the second day of the Young Friends of the Earth summer camp in (somewhat) sunny Brittany, and with our wonderful guest speakers from around the world, we've had workshops on plans for activism at this December's UN climate talks in Paris (COP21), the impacts of climate change on migration, and many more.

These include the increasing number of violent conflicts around the world, forced migration, pollution, and the impacts of climate change.