Sentences with phrase «by vulnerable regions»

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As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

The Rainforest Alliance will continue its commitment to reduce the effects of climate change by building climate resilience in some of the world's most vulnerable regions through forest conservation and sustainable agriculture.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

In a region hard hit by climate change, the Rainforest Alliance focuses on advancing community forestry, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and environmental education to defend vulnerable landscapes and support rural communities.

The bill is being drafted by Republican Assembly members including Jim Tedisco of the Capital Region, who says police are most vulnerable when sitting in thier vehicles.

From the 1970s to 1990s, the population dropped by 80 percent, and similar to other exploited species the fish have started to aggregate in smaller regions of the sea, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure.

Researchers found that between 1982 and 2015, 9 million to 45 million people annually were affected by water quality issues — and that low - income, rural regions were most vulnerable.

Their research showed that the number of regions with a vulnerable electricity network due to water availability will increase significantly by 2030.

«The significant victories we have gained in technology research and development innovation should further inspire renewed commitments by national governments to strengthen global and regional partnerships in creating better options for resource - poor and climate change - vulnerable rice farmers in the region.»

This week the first official estimate of the nation's vulnerable minors was revealed by the Children's Commissioner for England, which showed in the region of 800,000 children in the UK suffering from mental health problems.

Combine that reality with the prospect of populations doubling by 2050 and the persistence of anarchy in vulnerable regions, and any impact from human - driven climate change has to be considered a background issue, at best, compared to the forces already killing thousands and deepening vulnerability of millions more.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

The map also shows the regions most vulnerable to sea - level rise, another detrimental effect of climate change that can be exacerbated by the storm surge from tropical storms.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

Settled early by Europeans, this geographically rugged region was suffering from cropland productivity losses because soils were thin and the land was rocky, sloping, and vulnerable to erosion.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

His discourse is about the meager role played by the leaders from most vulnerable regions like Himalayas and Andes during this important global conference.

Results showed that in terms of area affected, regions surrounding the Gulf of Mexico may be the most vulnerable to flooding; in terms of population, Florida is the most vulnerable, closely followed by Louisiana, California, New York and New Jersey, they found.

It appears that forests in the Amazon, at least in the central and eastern regions, may be rendered vulnerable to collapse either by increases of Potential Evaporation (PE, by increasing temperature or sunlight) or decreasing precipitation (Pc).

The computer simulations of changing conditions in vulnerable regions later this century − in a blazing landscape fed by a river delta flowing through steamy marshland, and enfolding a calm, relatively shallow 1,000 km lagoon of evaporating seawater − have delivered a stark conclusion.

«Indeed it is estimated that annual mean temperature has increased by over 2 °C during the last 70 years and precipitation has decreased in most regions, except the western part of the country, indicating that Mongolia is among the most vulnerable nations in the world to global warming.»

The new reserves are also significant in that they are part of a broader initiative by the Amazon Conservation Association, an NGO with offices in Washington D.C. and Peru, to support sustainable livelihoods in a region that is traditionally very poor and is expected to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

This question can be examined by estimating which regions are most vulnerable to future climate change (Samson et al 2011).

Vulnerability to climate change can be exacerbated by the presence of other stresses... vulnerable regions face multiple stresses that affect their exposure and sensitivity as well as their capacity to adapt.