Sentences with phrase «change mitigation because»

According to Kairo mangroves are critical in the climate change mitigation because «mangroves and associated blue carbon sequester more carbon than any other system.

The scientists conclude that agroforestry should therefore attract more attention in global agendas on climate change mitigation because of its positive social and environmental impacts.

Not exact matches

I tend to agree but the only one thing I would say in mitigation is that teams generally do not like rotating defences / GKs — you will only see changes generally because of injury or drastic loss of form.

Fernández — who investigates the rehabilitation of degraded agricultural soils and their carbon sequestration potential for climate change mitigation — considers himself «lucky» because he managed to gather all the samples he needed before the budget restrictions.

While no country in history has achieved its economic growth without causing environmental damage, expectations for Singapore's mitigation ambition are particularly high because it is a leading figure in facilitating a global climate change treaty.

However, to date, countries have not incorporated coastal blue carbon into their portfolio of climate change mitigation or coastal management policies and actions, largely because the mechanisms for assessing blue carbon were not well defined or standardized.

I've made that point that that needs to be disconnected from work on emissions mitigation because the drivers of that vulnerability are far faster than climate change itself.

The agency chose these actions because it said they all meet these criteria: They can result in significant near - term emissions reductions, do not curb economic growth, rely only on existing technologies and proven policies and produce significant benefits beyond climate change mitigation.

Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

Because responding to climate change will require long - term investment in infrastructure, research and mitigation, we need an economic environment that is sufficiently consistent to reward such investment.

Um, because global climate change mitigation causes real harm now to prevent imagined harm in the future.

Today, the President will be giving a speech at Georgetown University on climate change issues, with announcements of initiatives that will be taken leveraging the powers of the Administrative Branch because the Congress is unable (and, to a large extent, unwilling) to take meaningful action to address climate change: whether mitigation or adaptation.

It is also an area where mitigation is not the only potentially useful strategy, because it should be possible to create new strains of important food crops better suited to a changed climate than current varieties.

Carbon removal techniques, while important for fighting climate change, have faced resistance from some in the environmental community partly because they have been perceived as a threat to the deployment of other climate change mitigation techniques.

«My candid opinion is that the youth and the women in the grassroot should be educated a lot more on adaptation and mitigation of climate change because they are more vulnerable.»

Reducing emissions from deforestation is crucial, both for climate change mitigation and simply because we need to preserve our remaining forests — but expecting carbon markets to do the job can, and does, lead to very problematic outcomes.

Detecting impacts of climate change on human vector - borne diseases remains difficult, in part, because active mitigations, such as vector - control, antimicrobials, and improved infrastructure can complicate detection of a climate signal.

A fee would probably be small (because you can't rebate the money and you can only spend it climate mitigation), so it wouldn't robustly change the energy marketplace.

For example, mitigation of climate change or public - health legislation threatens people who cherish unregulated free markets because it might entail regulations of businesses (Heath & Gifford, 2006; Kahan, 2010; Lewandowsky, Gignac, & Oberauer, 2013; Rosenau, 2012); vaccinations threaten Libertarians» conceptions of parental autonomy (Kahan, Braman, Cohen, Gastil, & Slovic, 2010; Lewandowsky, Gignac, & Oberauer, 2013); and evolution challenges people's religious faiths (Rosenau, 2012).

Wetlands are important ecosystems for climate change mitigation and adaptation because they can store huge amounts of carbon, while providing other essential services.

Instead, carbon sequestered from the atmosphere by plants and stored in biomass has value because it provides humanity with at least one key service: mitigation of damaging climate change.

Because of the substantial risks to society and nature posed by abrupt changes, this report recommends the development of an Abrupt Change Early Warning System that would allow for the prediction and possible mitigation of such changes before their societal impacts are severe.

Of further interest is the opinion that the U.S.'s recent decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord might not be as detrimental to global climate change mitigation as originally thought because decarbonization, including the switch from coal to natural gas, in the U.S. is now «taking place from the ground up.»

For another, it increases mitigation costs: failing to act now makes it more difficult to change because it allows additional investment in fossil fuel based infrastructure in developed and especially less developed countries.

As I wrote before: Postponing meaningful mitigation action until the shit hits the fan comes with considerable risk, because many changes in climate are not reversible on human timescales.

Here's where this «loophole of uncertainty» comes into play - because China has implemented actions that address climate change through its Eleventh Five - Year Plan since 2005 and has internally funding all of its energy efficiency measures and mitigation actions (and furthermore hasn't asked for any funding with regards to their 40 - 45 % reduction in carbon intensity by 2020 from 2005 levels), China would therefore be exempt from international MRV if this text is eventually agreed upon.

Stormwater mitigation is particularly important in this era of climate change because major storms are becoming severe and frequent.

It can not be taken lightly because the primary operating objective changes and typically flood mitigations options become more limited.

I would also very much like to see some costings of the emissions pathway being championed by the Worldwatch Institute — costings both of the climate change impacts which would still occur, and of the efforts required to reduce emissions to the proposed degree — because I think this particular mitigation scenario can be as valuable in getting us on track as has been James Hansen's promotion of 350ppm as a target.

This guidance document aims to promote uncertainty quantification, because quantifying uncertainty has the potential to foster more robust climate - change mitigation plans.

According to a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «Agriculture is in position of immediately implementing mitigation strategy because the existing techniques - properly applied - can ensure large GHG emissions reduction.»

Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.

I don't write about the problems of adaptation (how we will live in a warmer world) and mitigation (how we will reduce our emissions) much, because these areas take so much study and change so fast.

Moreover, companies must do more than acknowledge the climate change problem, they must also recognize «the gravity of the consequences society will face if it continues on its current course, primarily because those consequences suggest the magnitude of the foreseeable mitigation response.»

It is a key part of the climate change mitigation toolbox because it can tackle emissions sources for which no other technologies are out of the lab and commercially available.