Sentences with phrase «change impacts on society»

As described in section 1, evaluating climate change impacts on society and the consequences of alternative policy approaches are key goals of the scenario framework.

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CSV uses the power of the company's brand to inspire change and produce an overall beneficial impact on society.

This field, it is widely believed, has advanced sufficiently to permit meaningful predictions of the impact of population changes on the social and economic development of both rich and poor societies.

The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760 - 1830 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, «975).

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

It honours chefs who have a positive impact on society as a whole, showing how gastronomy can be a driver for change in spheres such as innovation, education, the environment, social and economic development and health.

This is why we established the Basque Culinary World Prize in conjunction with the local Government, as an award for chefs who undertake initiatives that have an impact on society, especially those who show how gastronomy can be a force for change».

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

This has a huge impact on how our society interacts as a whole so come along to one of our groups, have a cup of tea and change the world in a small way with connection and love.

Because of changes in adoption over the last few decades — changes that include open adoption, gay adoption, international adoptions and trans - racial (racial transformation) adoptions, and a focus on moving children out of the foster care system into adoptive families — the impact of adoption on the basic unit of society and the family, has been enormous.

Policymaking also reflects current ideology and background structures power so if we focus too much on impact as government policy change then you make academics into people who service the dominant ideology and the powerful in society.

Leaving aside the fact that civil society minister Nick Hurd is already supposed to be doing parts of this, the track record of centrally - driven change suggests it is unrealistic to expect a junior minister with no budget or levers to have any real impact on departmental secretaries of state?

Currently, Alison is PI on the ESRC funded project «International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance» (September 2015 - September 2018) with CIs George Christou (Warwick) and Seamus Simpson (Salford) and an ESRC Senior Fellow on the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe programme with the project «The impact of a proposed UK Brexit from the EU: the UK communications industries».

«The Fortune Society applauds passage of Raise the Age and celebrates the positive impact that this policy change will have on the lives of young people who have gotten tangled in the criminal justice system.

I have just found the third path, which is not just to establish a university but also establishing one that will be a change agent and impact on the society.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement puts future generations at risk and leaves the nation without a plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on society, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on June...

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

«I take what the models tell us may happen to our climate at large scales and try to understand what impacts these changes could have on society.

«Study reshapes understanding of climate change's impact on early societies.»

What had caused the sex ratio to drop so dramatically, Guttentag wondered, and what impact did this change have on society?

Climate change is a long - term process and science allows us to anticipate its impact on both the environment and society.

«The potential impacts of climate change on the biodiversity of Norfolk Species» is published in Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists» Society.

Why It Matters: «Changes in fertility levels have a dramatic impact on society,» Bachrach says, affecting everything from couples» happiness to the solvency of Social Security.

Changes in society, marked by industrialization, have had a significant impact on the physical activity of humans, who have become increasingly sedentary over the years.

«I want to generate breakthrough technologies that can change the world, commercialize these technologies to make a real impact on society, and mentor many outstanding students who will develop high - impact technologies throughout their careers.»

Like the long - duration space missions that came before it — the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the twin Voyager probes and, more recently, the European Rosetta mission, for example — Cassini irrevocably changed our perspectives, become ingrained in the lives of the people who worked with the mission and had tangible impacts on society.

Yet the report also argued against a rapid shift to non-fossil fuel energy sources, noting that «making significant changes in energy consumption... amid all the scientific uncertainties would be premature in view of the severe impact such moves could have on the world's economies and societies.»

By helping our customers optimize the way they do business — using our products to provide better healthcare, navigate change, and build better judicial and regulatory systems - Wolters Kluwer has a positive impact on society.

Eugene Linden's book is very well written and sets up the book as a prosecutorial case that climate change can have (and has had) serious impacts on human society.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

«There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources and human health,» the letter states.

10:45 - 11:00 The impact of environmental change on past human societies in the Central Peloponnese (Greece) Ingmar Unkel, Helmut Brückner, Walter Dörfler, Christian Heymann, Oliver Nelle, Arndt Schimmelmann, HelenZagana

Just as the boomers have had an impact on society at every stage of their lives (the hippies of the «60s became the yuppies of the «80s), they continue to change the way older people see themselves.

The panel aims to explore topics such as empathy's place in the sea - change in the production and distribution of films, how increasing the number of women at all levels of the film industry will effect this, and its impact on film criticism and influence on society as a whole.

One of the unwitting consequences of focusing on single parts is the seeming failure by many to see the fundamental change occurring outside the school walls; the impact of digital normalisation on the young, their parents and society, and the dramatic transformation that has been occurring in schools operating on a digital base (Lee & Broadie, 2014).

In this unit, students will explore the different forms of transportation over time — from the New World and early America, to present day — and their impact on society and the environment (Change and Continuity).

Coming to America: U.S. Immigration A Changing Society: Industrialization and Urbanization «Necessity is the Mother of Invention»: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution The Hopes of Our Ancestors: The Impact of Immigration on America

The fast - changing nature and prevalence of technology in society has had a substantial impact on many professional fields, such as journalism and medicine.

It is undoubtedly true that technology has had a profound impact on all layers of society, including business, and in many cases it in fact engineered change to such an extent that businesses had to adapt or perish (and in some cases, had no choice, just perished).

That's the bottom line: to have and impact on our society, to put a personal stamp on history, to plant the seed of change.

Rapid and deep changes in society, the economy and policy over the last decades are having an increasing impact on the delivery of social housing in North Western Europe.

Today's experimentation takes the form of incorporating materials such as plastic, polyurethane and other industrial materials to create soft sculptures which reflect also, on the fast - changing Chinese society and the impact of consumerism on people's daily lives.

Hopefully this pie chart offers the tools needed to demand meaningful change to the justice system by helping policymakers and the public to responsibly consider the social and fiscal impacts incarceration has on society.

Using an array of strategies, Harrison investigates, exposes and challenges the absurd consequences of our capitalist system: from over-consumption, inequality and alienation, to privatisation and climate change — and explores the impact free - market forces are having on our society, and our individual day - to - day lives.

However, this in itself is not enough to define what level of warming is «dangerous,» especially since the projections of actual impacts for any level of warming are highly uncertain, and depend on further factors such as how quickly these levels are reached (so how long ecosystems and society have had to respond), and what other changes are associated with them (eg: carbon dioxide concentration, since this affects plant photosynthesis and water use efficiency, and ocean acidification).

The europeans have a much better understanding of climate change and it's current and future impacts on society.

The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication «undertook this project because most of the action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate impacts is happening at the state and local levels of American society.

Tibetan Plateau in Peril at China Green Symposium: «Meltdown: The Impact of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau,» January 16th, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Asia Society and Museum, Auditorium and 8th floor, 725 Park Avenue, New York.

Large changes to the climate will have large impacts on human society and agriculture and the risks are large.