Sentences with phrase «challenges posed by climate change»

This allows us to challenge business - as - usual approaches that we consider to be unsustainable in the face of the unprecedented challenge posed by climate change.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) consists of 192 countries that seek to develop intergovernmental policies addressing challenges posed by climate change.

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.

Assembling the scientific work force needed to address the new scientific challenges posed by climate change is likely to be a major challenge.

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.

Our knowledge base, however, is insufficient to quantify the effects of climate change on many of these metrics because of conceptual challenges posed by climate change to standard assumptions, as well as practical data and methodological hurdles; insufficient understanding of how such metrics capture the way people actually feel; and, for non-monetized values, sometimes resistance to calculating them at all (Sussman et al 2014, Neumann and Strzepek 2014).

Director of Climate Action Network Europe Wendel Trio said: «It is clear for us that the future EU budget must live up to the huge challenges posed by climate change...

This is one of the central challenges posed by climate change, and I freely admit to being deeply ambivalent about it.

As Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned recently, the challenges posed by climate change are a «tragedy of the horizon,» one that could undermine the hydrocarbon sector very quickly, stranding huge reserves of Canadian oil, gas and coal.

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.

Even so, he conceded, bringing back the committee or something equivalent is worth considering, given the importance of addressing the challenges posed by climate change.

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.

Addressing the challenges posed by climate change will require a combination of adaptation to the changes that are likely to occur and global reductions of CO2 emissions from anthropogenic sources.

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

Climate financing mechanisms are one of the current many proposed solutions to the challenges posed by climate change.

With a current project end date of 2020, it aims to adapt Paris to the challenges posed by climate change and future resource scarcity.

Since 2008, in anticipation of the challenges posed by climate change, the city has developed and implemented the Total Water Management (TWM) strategy for sustainable use of water sources.

The Convention (see here for text) has been signed by nearly all the world's nations and sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to «tackle the challenge posed by climate change».

«With the challenges posed by climate change there has been a new approach to fix increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

This week Justin Gillis, an environment reporter at The Times, begins a monthly column exploring the challenges posed by climate change.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change.