Sentences with phrase «challenges climate change poses»

The World Bank has seized upon the immense challenges climate change poses to humanity and is now front and center in the complicated, international world of carbon finance.

A major theme of Climatopolis is that as climate scientists continue to make progress with modelling climate change and as we individually learn about the day - to - day challenges climate change poses for different cities, their residents will take pro-active steps to adapt to changing circumstances.

As Germán Orizaola, co-author of the study published in the journal Ecology and a researcher at the Swedish university states «Among the many challenges climate change poses to natural ecosystems, the effect it can have on the dietary preferences of living organisms is a field of study that has been attracting researchers» attention in recent years.»

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In a letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the CEOs noted «climate change poses one of the greatest global challenges and threatens to roll back decades of development -LSB-...]

With negotiations under way for the UK to leave the European Union, he argued for a cross-party approach and stressed that a partnership with Europe, needed to deal with the challenges posed by the refugee crisis and climate change, would require that Britain's «parting is carried out well».

In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chain.

Water challenge Diouf noted the special challenge posed by water as climate change would make rainfall increasingly unreliable.

Healthy, intact natural systems provide many benefits to the challenges posed by climate change, from forests that sequester and store carbon dioxide to wetlands that act as natural flood absorbers.

President Buhari expressed his administration's readiness to embrace several opportunities presented by the challenges posed by climate change.

Environmentalists welcomed the first - of - its - kind acknowledgement by a major petroleum company that climate change poses real and immediate challenges to the firm's prospects.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

Opportunities are expanding for natural and social scientists who wish to take on the scientific and practical challenges posed by climate change.

«Current planning understates the challenge that climate change poses to the water supplies in the American Southwest,» Udall said.

An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

Though agricultural intensification and climate change could pose new challenges for managing liver fluke transmission, early results in the afflicted Lawa Lake region are promising, with human infection rates in the worst - hit areas down to below 10 %, fish infection rates dropping from 70 % to below 1 %, and no infected snails detected.

«And no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» he said.

Climate change is posing a severe challenge to freshwater fish in Canada.

He also co-directs Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasClimate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasclimate change poses to the world's coastlines.

Climate change poses a tremendous scientific, economic, diplomatic, and ethical challenge to the human race.

I also co-direct Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasClimate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasclimate change poses to the world's coastlines.

If climate change exceeds the temperature target, scientists warn, there is a greater risk that the world's ice sheets will be destabilized, leading to sharply rising seas, and increasing climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves and floods, which could pose daunting challenges for food and water availability for growing populations.

Though the APS statement about climate change is more nuanced than the AAAS letter, stating — for example — «scientific challenges remain in our abilities to observe, interpret, and project climate change,» it in no way disputes the scientific consensus on climate change or the risks it poses.

To the Arctic (G) Meryl Streep narrates this 3 - D documentary highlighting a mamma polar bear's attempt to raise her two cubs while adjusting to the challenges posed by climate change.

A climate change - themed game developed by BAFTA - winning studio, Preloaded, poses a challenging educational premise with the aim of changing behaviors.

Though challenges posed by climate change, air pollution, and light pollution affect the seemingly pristine tracts of land in Katmai and other national parks, wilderness ensures that future generations can experience an untrammeled land.

Despite being highly productive, current and future climate change poses many challenges to the agricultural sector.

He mentioned a recent retreat his school held to explore how to engage both the analytic and emotional sides of the human brain on the challenges posed by human - driven climate change.

So Southgate, too, presents a picture with no cliffs or collapses, but instead a transition to an era in which food supplies will most likely progressively tighten (unless countries get serious about a research push, which is particularly important with climate change posing fresh challenges).

Although the United States has significant capacity to adapt to climate change, it will pose challenges for civil society and DoD alike, particularly in light of the nation's extensive coastal infrastructure.

Its conclusions, as I wrote today, largely follow those of other United Nations assessments of the challenges posed by human - caused climate change — particularly the call for prompt, aggressive reductions in greenhouse gases by developed countries, along with a lot more aid for the poor countries most in harm's way.

«No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» said Obama in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.

On a broader level, Mr. Mandil urged both producers and consumers to work together to confront the challenges posed by energy poverty and climate change.

''... [N] o challenge - no challenge - poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Climate change exacerbates global injustice for present and future generations, and poses one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time.

In his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama claimed that «no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.»

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Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

The meeting discussed and reflected on the challenges that climate change poses to education systems in SIDS, and on the role that education must play in adaptation to climate change.

The document also reviews the main perceived challenges that climate change poses to forests and their managers.

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This document is composed of two reports that present complementary views on the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change to developing countries in the fields of adaptation and mitigation.

South Africa has already taken steps to understand, recognise and address the challenges that climate change poses, yet the ability to recognise and address the needs of the country's children is not well established.

A changing climate is posing another challenge for honey bees and other pollinators.

DHAKA (AFP)-- Scientists in Bangladesh posed a fresh challenge to the UN's top climate change panel Thursday, saying its doomsday forecasts for the country in the body's landmark 2007 report were overblown.

This brochure presents the challenges that climate change poses to food security and introduces the concept of Climate - Smart Agriculture as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) activities in thiclimate change poses to food security and introduces the concept of Climate - Smart Agriculture as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) activities in thiClimate - Smart Agriculture as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) activities in this area.

It also reviews solutions for responding to the challenges posed by climate change.

The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»

It is based on the recognized need for an urgent shift in the way urban infrastructure is planned, designed and managed in order to respond to the challenges posed by rapid urbanization, globalization and climate change.

The report highlights that natural resource constraints, especially climate change and the limited availability of productive land and water in some regions, pose substantial challenges to producing food at affordable prices.

It also presents a set of fundamental challenges to livelihoods in the Pacific Islands region posed by future climate change and recommendations to reduce the impacts of such changes.