Sentences with phrase «challenges climate change presents»

This broad risk category includes matters such as: how climate change affects the company's profitability, what opportunities / challenges climate change presents to the company, and what actions the company is taking in anticipation of the various climate change related regulations coming down the pipe (e.g. the anticipated mandatory cap - and - trade system on greenhouse gas emissions).

This broad risk category includes matters such as: how climate change affects the company's profitability, what opportunities / challenges climate change presents to the company, and what actions the company is taking in anticipation of the various climate change related regulations coming down the pipe (e.g. the anticipated mandatory cap - and - trade system on greenhouse... [more]

The study by Heartland Institute, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) says «mankind will be much better off in the year 2100 than it is today and therefore able to adapt to whatever challenges climate change presents.»

«Even in worst - case scenarios, mankind will be much better off in the year 2100 than it is today, and therefore able to adapt to whatever challenges climate change presents.»

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Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

Scottish and UK governments must work together to tackle the challenges presented by climate change and population growth, and to ensure there are enough people with the right skills to deliver our infrastructure.

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

For alpine plant species, climate change presents a special challenge: To escape increased greenhouse warming, the species have to move to a higher - altitude habitat.

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

«Confronting the challenges of a changing climate presents opportunities for managers and other decision - makers to plan ahead, foster resilient landscapes, and ensure that the benefits forests provide are sustained into the future,» said Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station and the Forest Products Laboratory.

This curve is derived from cost and supply estimates from the latest UN IPCC climate change report and from analyses of the scientific literature on GGR (using midpoint estimates where cost / supply ranges were presented) performed by the Virgin Earth Challenge (VEC) team:

The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

As such, determining the role of climate change in increasing or decreasing the present and future likelihood of a rain storm like Harvey presents a challenge.

The Awards also reserve space for two central challenges of the present, those of climate change and development cooperation.

«Even the most moderate predicted trends in climate change will present new national security challenges for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard,» said Frank L. Bowman, co-chair of the committee that wrote the report and a retired U.S. navy admiral.

«Naval forces need to monitor more closely and start preparing now for projected challenges climate change will present in the future.»

I am absolutely convinced that any challenge presented by the change of the climate caused by man or nature or by the combination of both will successfully be met by our scientists and engineers.

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).

So in this viewpoint, climate change and the challenges it presents to the taken - for - granted expectations of economic growth and progress is very similar to the identity threats engendered by the civil rights movement and racism, or feminism and patriarchy.

The solutions, however, must also include a much better focus than present on climate change adaptation and reducing vulnerability to drought — a «no - regrets» strategy that will help both with natural variability, and the variability that could be made more challenging by human - caused climate change.

Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.

OneWorld South Asia: How do the challenges brought by climate change present an opportunity for better management of natural resources in India?

Museums across the country face challenges in presenting climate change to the public at a time when the issue has become politically fraught.

This activity report presents a record of the Seminar held from 27 to 29 July 2009 in Paris, focused on the role of education in addressing climate change, linking the local, regional and global contexts with particular emphasis on the challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

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

Climate change presents a profound challenge to this cautious centrism because half measures won't cut it: «all of the above energy» programs, as U.S. President Barack Obama describes his approach, has about as much chance of success as an all of the above diet, and the firm deadlines imposed by science require that we get very worked up indeed.

This guidance document defines challenges such as poverty and climate change and presents the associated opportunities that can be seized to prevent unsustainable development of Africa's mountain ecosystems.

This activity report presents a summary of the Green Development and Climate Change Programme challenges and successes during its first year of the implementation phase (2014 - 2017)

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.

The wealth of data and provocative arguments presented here make «Smart Solutions to Climate Change» a valuable resource for policy - makers, NGOs, academics, students, and everybody who is interested in learning more about the economic realities that face us as we confront this challenge.»

The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.

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.

The Edison Electric Institute ($ 82 million), a supposed member of the conspiracy exposed by Brulle, declares that «Global climate change presents one of the biggest... challenges the country has ever faced.»

Cape Farewell Foundation and Pattison Onestop are proud to present Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change, a multi-site urban screens project addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a culturaClimate Change, a multi-site urban screens project addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a culturaclimate challenge through a cultural lens.

The DMOZ listing reads: «Offers critical scientific evidence, including a five - piece video, that challenges the premises of the Kyoto Protocol, and presents alternative causes of climate change.»

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.

For climate change responses to be effective thinking must move beyond these limited approaches to become people - focused, and focus on the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents in the struggle for gender equality.

The increased risk of drought presents the greatest challenge as a result of climate change.

So, the key thing for us is to obviously get our budget proposals through, but once we do that, we think that his presents an opportunity to turn the twin challenges of energy dependence and climate change into an economic opportunity — for New York, and hopefully for the American people to stop sending all of our energy dollars overseas, recapture them, build new technologies, and then export those technologies around the world as people try to reduce their own dependence and fight climate change.

Climate change presents a major challenge for society.

While many of us have dedicated our lives to education and communications, climate change presents some new and unique communication challenges - including that we often struggle to have conversations with people different than ourselves.

In this article, I present a neoclassical realist theory of climate change politics that challenges the idea that cooperation on climate change is compelled alone by shared norms and interests emanating from the international level and questions if instead [continue reading...]

«Climate change presents a major challenge for society,» the report warned.

Rogoff says the state and the nation have an ideal opportunity now to respond to international challenges presented by climate change because the U.S. representative to the Arctic Council, retired Coast Guard Admiral Joseph Papp, is about to assume chairmanship of the council.

However, we still lack a quantitative understanding of the physical mechanisms leading to the suggested changes in ocean circulation, which inevitably challenges our interpretation of past and present climates and shakes our confidence in future projections.

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Rather than nominate such broad goals, the Copenhagen Consensus Expert Panel was presented with nearly 40 specific investment proposals designed by experts to reduce the challenges of Armed Conflict, Biodiversity Destruction, Chronic Disease, Climate Change, Education Shortages, Hunger and Malnutrition, Infectious Disease, Natural Disasters, Population Growth, and Water and Sanitation Shortages.

The success of a climate - based Charter challenge will depend on a number of factors, including who would bring the case, what government conduct would be challenged and whether the courts would accept the causal link between the present and future harms of climate change and the government's management of GHG emissions.

Former Sen. John WarnerMore senators and citizens might support a climate bill if it emphasized the national security challenges presented by climate change, former Virginia Sen. John Warner (R) argued on Tuesday.

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