Sentences with phrase «at global biodiversity»

The video, inspired by the Natural Capital Project, looks at global biodiversity loss and how it impacts us financially, socially, and ecologically.

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Organic agriculture counteracts resource depletion (soil, water, energy, nutrients), contributes positively to the problems associated with climate change and desertification and can help to maintain and enhance biodiversity at a global scale.

«Global biodiversity catastrophes are not about death but about the pruning of evolutionary branches on the tree of life at a rate much higher than the sprouting of new shoots,» added co-author Ivo Duijnstee, an adjunct assistant professor of integrative biology.

Juan Esteban Rodríguez, a graduate student in population genetics at the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO) in Irapuato, Mexico, initially planned to study a recent thread in the global tapestry that is Mexican ancestry.

As climate change and biological invasions continue to impact global biodiversity, scientists at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado - Boulder have recently published work that suggests that the way organisms move to new areas, or range expansion, can be impacted directly by evolutionary changes.

Of course, as he acknowledges, an increased local species - count might go hand in hand with lost biodiversity at the global level.

The study, published today in PNAS and led by scientists at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the University of Vienna and UCL, analysed a global database of 45,984 records detailing the first invasions of 16,019 established alien species from 1500 until 2005 to investigate the dynamics of how alien species spread worldwide.

Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, co-author of the comment and researcher at ZSL, said: «With global wildlife populations halved in just 40 years, there is a real urgency to identify variables that both capture key aspects of biodiversity change and can be monitored consistently and globally.

Acting to protect and promote biodiversity is at least as important to achieving these commitments and to human wellbeing as is the fight against global climate change.»

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones and global biodiversity has varied dramatically over geologic time.

Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent say that with over 4 million km2 of tropical forests harvested for timber worldwide, improving the way logging impacts on wildlife is essential for global biodiversity conservation.

The models used in this research come from the Wallace Initiative, a near decade long partnership between the Tyndall Centre at UEA, eResearch at James Cook University, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and WWF.

«The fact that India made a financial commitment at national and international level sets a precedent for other emerging economies to offer more support to global biodiversity conservation,» Gustavsson said.

«EbA is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation to help people and communities adapt to the negative effects of climate change at local, regional, and global levels.»

Experts share their priorities for what must be done to make protected areas more effective at conserving global biodiversity

Boris Worm's lab investigates patterns of marine biodiversity by looking at global data.

by Adam D. Sacks Executive Director Biodiversity for a Livable Climate On November 21 - 23, 2014 at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate) presented its ground - breaking (no pun intended) conference, Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming.

All materials link with at least one of the nine Eco-School topics; Energy, Water, Biodiversity, School Grounds, Healthy Living, Transport, Litter, Waste, Global Citizenship.

The head of this Alliance, Dr Goreau, was Senior Scientific Affairs Officer for global climate change and biodiversity at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development, and the «only coral reef scientist with degrees in atmospheric physics and chemistry.»

At least to me, what is also evident is this: concerns like long - term human well being, biodiversity protection and the maintenance of the integrity of this tiny planet we inhabit are now at odds with a leviathan - like global political economy, the leaders of which relentlessly GROW at the expense of all elsAt least to me, what is also evident is this: concerns like long - term human well being, biodiversity protection and the maintenance of the integrity of this tiny planet we inhabit are now at odds with a leviathan - like global political economy, the leaders of which relentlessly GROW at the expense of all elsat odds with a leviathan - like global political economy, the leaders of which relentlessly GROW at the expense of all elsat the expense of all else.

Lawyer Bethell's husband is political writer Thomas Bethell, whose book, The Politically Incorrect Guide (TM) to Science (2005) promoted intelligent design and AIDS denialism, but scoffed at any dangers from global warming, radiation, dioxins, DDT, loss of biodiversity, etc..

Researchers have repeatedly warned that climate change puts biodiversity at risk, especially in the tropical forests, themselves at risk from global warming that will have consequences that could in turn accelerate forest loss and the biodiversity of life sheltered by those forests, embracing both vegetation and the creatures that depend on the vegetation.

Alternet: Global temperatures may be climbing at a rate too fast for our forests and its biodiversity to adapt, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) warned after the World Bank predicted a 4 °C warming of the planet if policymakers continue to be apathetic about greenhouse gas emissions.

Press Trust of India: The Nagoya Protocol, which is a crucial feature of global attempts at conserving biodiversity, will be implemented inIndia through the Biological Diversity Act, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told Rajya Sabha today.

The Need: «Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of global environmental challenges, from loss of biodiversity to climate change to plastic pollution, that call for action at all levels of government,» said Denis Hayes.

I don't tend to write much about this, but my concern over global warming is based, to a great extent, on the losses in biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.

Such experiments should be judged on their scientific merit, as well as the broader governance and ethics concerns around solar geoengineering, which should include potential biodiversity responses when the intention is to inform solar geoengineering deployment at the global scale.

Rather it's a nod to discussions about to start at United Nations headquarters in New York, as world leaders and their representatives gather to discuss first the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and then global biodiversity, before getting down to the main tranche of the General Assembly.

This requires an integrated global framework, capable of being implemented at national and project levels, which would enable the quantification and subsequent reduction of humanity's impact on biodiversity.

The fossil record indicates that the past 100 years has seen species extinctions at 100 — 1,000 times the background rate (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), and among five drivers of global biodiversity loss between now and 2100 (climate change, land use change, atmospheric CO2 increases, nitrogen deposition, and species introductions), land use change — not climate change — is predicted to be the most important (Sala et al. 2000).

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It might include for instance water stress in specific area — with defined consequences such as on biodiversity, fire, security or civil society — at either global or regional scales or both.

It might include for instance water stress in a specific area — with defined consequences such as on biodiversity, fire, security or civil society — at either global or regional scales or both.

It's also one of the reasons that I linked to Hoffman et al at Bart's in the first place... None of this changes the fact that global warming is going to be a huge hit on planetary biodiversity further into this century, and over coming centuries, both through direct effects and through exacerbation of other non-climate-change impacts.

«Unless global CO2 emissions can be cut by at least 50 percent by 2050 and more thereafter, we could confront an underwater catastrophe, with irreversible changes in the makeup of our marine biodiversity,» said Rees.

Climate envelope models do not simulate dynamic population or migration processes, and results are typically constrained to the regional level, so that the implications for biodiversity at the global level are difficult to infer (Malcolm et al., 2002a).

Several global studies suggest that at least until 2050 land - use change will be the dominant driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss in human - dominated regions (Sala et al., 2000; UNEP, 2002; Gaston et al., 2003; Jenkins, 2003; Scharlemann et al., 2004; Sala, 2005).

This Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 demonstrates that with concerted efforts at all levels, we can achieve the goals and targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 — 2020.

At any one time there are as many as 16 people, including adults, teenagers and young kids living on site, and they work together to uphold the center's principles of «preserving biodiversity, combating climate change and promoting global equity.»

«The problems of climate change and biodiversity loss are global, but the solutions to them must begin at the local level,» Sanderson wrote in Foreign Affairs.

At 600ppm, global average temperature rise could be in the range of 3 - 4Â °C — which means greater sea level rise than predicted, glaciers melting and constraining water supply throughout large areas of Asia, agriculture being severely stressed in many places, greater storm intensity, reduced biodiversity, the end of coral reefs.

DW: The rush around the world to plant crops used to produce biofuel has not only sparked a global food vs. fuel debate, but it's also putting biodiversity at risk.

Biodiversity is moving up the global development agenda, following a major meeting of policymakers at the 12th Conference of Parties (COP12) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Pyeongchang, South Korea.