Sentences with phrase «assessing climate risks»

Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries: an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK (open access)

Nowadays, Schneider is one of the world's most prominent climatologists — in addition to his work as Professor of Biological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford, he has been heavily involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific body tasked with assessing the climate risks facing the planet.

Special Report: IPCC, assessing climate risks, consistently underestimates By Glenn Scherer The Daily Climate 12/06/2012

These local governments are using resources transferred from their national governments to systematically assess climate risks, raise climate awareness among citizens, and build climate - resilient bridges, roads and other projects to reduce risks identified.

Solomon argued a couple of years ago that cumulative carbon emissions are the best way of assessing climate risk, since they avoid problems such as time lags that mess with other measures, such as atmospheric concentrations.

It aims to form a basis for strengthening Brazil's adaptation capacity, assess climate risks and manage vulnerabilities.

Financial regulators have also endorsed the importance of scenario analysis for assessing climate risk through the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures.

In 2008, Congress asked the Defense Department to assess its climate risks, prompting the Pentagon to include the issue in the

We are very positive towards the TCFD framework as it will increase corporate transparency and hopefully provide the information asset owners and asset managers need to assess both climate risks and opportunities.

Not exact matches

The Risky Business Project will assess the economic and technical feasibility of reducing these climate risks by transitioning to an economy powered by clean energy.

While businesses are increasingly taking steps to assess risks and prepare for future climate changes, many companies face internal and external challenges that hinder efforts...

Following the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate - related Financial Disclosures, many companies are using climate scenarios to assess the risks that climate change poses to their operations and value Climate - related Financial Disclosures, many companies are using climate scenarios to assess the risks that climate change poses to their operations and value climate scenarios to assess the risks that climate change poses to their operations and value climate change poses to their operations and value chains.

In October 2013, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, and business leader and philanthropist Tom Steyer, founded a new initiative to assess and publicize the economic risks to the U.S. associated with climate change.

CDP assessed actions to reduce emissions and lower climate - related risks in the supply chain in the past reporting year.

Many politicians and climate reports now talk about risk, which works for some audiences — particularly in the business sector — who deal every day with assessing investment, insurance and other types of uncertain outcomes.

Better understanding of how climate affects tornado activity can help to predict tornado activity in the short - term, a month, or even a year in advance, and would be a major aid to insurance and reinsurance companies in assessing the risks posed by outbreaks.

Thomas Stocker, a professor of climate and environmental physics at the University of Bern and chairman of the IPCC working group charged with assessing the physical origins of climate change, said that the Oxford group's results had «shown movement in one direction only — toward greater risk».

The scientists say these findings reinforce the need for assessing the risk of a wide - scale collapse of reef ecosystems, especially if global action on climate change fails to limit warming to 1.5?

Christopher Wheatley, PhD student at the University's Department of Biology, said: «We looked at 12 methods of assessing the potential risk of climate change on British birds and butterflies.

«Hybrid» solution with small barriers affordable now Assuming a «middle climate change» scenario of about a foot of sea - level rise by midcentury, the team further assessed the cost - effectiveness of each flood - control strategy by measuring whether its benefits, or avoided risk, would outweigh the investment costs.

To solve this problem, Pielke suggested measuring environmental variables from a regional scale up to a global scale as a more inclusive way to assess environmental risks than the top - down approach used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Similar to climate change, nuclear energy presents serious risks, the likelihood and consequences of which — short of just waiting for them to occur — need to be accurately assessed.

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

Colla noted that The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently assessed North American bumblebees and found that one quarter to one third of the species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and other factors such as habitat loss and disease.

to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change

One of the methods championed by climate scientists is represented in the fraction of attributable risk [FAR (Allen, 2003; Stone and Allen 2005)-RSB-, which assesses the attribution of climate anomalies to anthropogenic warming of the atmosphere.

An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes in behaviors can significantly affect climate projections.

Researchers use risk analysis and modeled climate change to assess fire risk in The Golden State's future

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming woRisk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming worisk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

As such engaging southern partners will be vital to the successful delivery of this project and critical for building local capacity to assess the true risks from extreme events, addressing knowledge gaps and ensuring climate information is communicated effectively to key audiences.

Uncertainties, probabilities and risks to the marine environment have to be assessed as well as their feedback to climate system.

But though their probability is difficult to assess, state shifts are a potentially large contributor to overall climate risk.

The second thread links uncertain projections of future changes to statistical and process models of human systems to assess the risks posed by climate change.

An international panel that assesses published scientific, technical and socio - economic information about the risk of human - induced climate change.

Our investment professionals employ a bottom up approach and use fundamental analysis to assess all risk factors associated with each investment opportunity, which can include issues related to climate change and controlling environmental impact.

For example, if climatologists and oceanographers only considered sea level rise to predict coastal damages without regard to escalating rates of beach - front home building, they would be as errant as would a coastal developer who assesses future risks based only on current climate and sea levels (and Professor Pielke has led the charge on such integrated approaches).

The climate panel was created in 1988 under United Nations auspices to periodically review factors, human and natural, influencing climate and assess possible ways to limit risks.

[2011 paper — 211 cites] Assessing climate change impacts, sea level rise and storm surge risk in port cities: a case study on Copenhagen This study illustrates a methodology to assess the economic impacts of climate change at a city scale and benefits of adaptation, taking the case of sea level rise and storm surge risk in the city of Copenhagen, capital of Denmark.

Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture Rosamond L. Naylor, et al PNAS May 8, 2007 vol.

If you have not heard, IPCC was established by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

Since premiums need to be set fairly, there is a need to assess climate change related changes in risk regardless of whether that will be a small factor in overall costs.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-chapter19.pdf «Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change For some impacts, qualitative rankings of magnitude are more appropriate than quantitative ones.

The Times has published an article by Jonah Engel Bromwich assessing the storm's consistency with climate change projections, but also noting that the South was not among the areas identified in the 2014 National Climate Assessment as most at risk from more dowclimate change projections, but also noting that the South was not among the areas identified in the 2014 National Climate Assessment as most at risk from more dowClimate Assessment as most at risk from more downpours.

The first is to assess the beliefs (and distribution of beliefs) of scientists and researchers on climate risks.

This report argues that the risks of climate change should be assessed in the same way as risks to national security, financial stability, or public health.

Many climate scientists, bloggers and readers have weighed in this morning online and in my in - box to complain about my short print story assessing the risk of overstatement or inaccuracy facing everyone pressing an argument about climate science and policy.

I am sure that the security and intelligence communities are under - prepared for risks from climate warming as this topic doesn't map well on to how knowledge is organized and assessed in those communities.

... assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

«The extraordinary shareholder result on climate risk at Exxon and the recent successful resolution asking Occidental to assess the risk of climate and energy transition to its business model shows that shareholders understand the need to ensure the companies they own are managing transition risk.»