Sentences with phrase «change mitigation effort»

The release of the roughly 200 petagrams (or 200 trillion kilograms) of carbon stored in the top meter of Arctic tundra would greatly undermine any global climate change mitigation effort, Bunn warns.

«RIA uses indigenous vision to contribute to the climate - change mitigation effort,» he concluded.

The more renewables PUB can generate and use, the smaller our carbon footprint, and the greater our contribution to Singapore's climate change mitigation effort.»

At the same time, the global climate change mitigation effort will reduce the CO2 emissions per unit of electricity and steel inputs, further limiting life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's suggestion to focus our sea - level rise and climate change mitigation efforts on building a more - resilient city are on point.

On the other hand, while sustained high oil prices could provide climate change mitigation efforts a mild boost, the study concludes that such market developments would be no substitute for concerted global policy to limit climate change to below 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

Sadly, these corporations are running climate change mitigation efforts into the ground, and politicans don't even care.

Or perhaps the news will propel even more nations, cities, businesses and leaders to up the ante with their own climate change mitigation efforts.

Two new studies have warned that climate change mitigation efforts will fail by merely focusing on checking of carbon dioxide emissions.

Committing to a 20 - year time frame, the commercial sector, despite a huge uptick in air traffic is bracing for a change to support the climate change mitigation efforts.

Gelbspan lampoons tea - party activists for viewing climate change mitigation efforts as «as a conspiracy to impose world government and a sweeping redistribution of wealth», yet in a 2012 amateur audio interview, he offers the following insight at the four minute point: (profanity alert)

The state will intensify its climate change mitigation efforts, create new adaptation policies, address resilience issues, and continue to provide the leadership for others.

Some of our drought measures can also undermine our climate change mitigation efforts.

Rehabilitation and remediation of the environment will offer economic opportunities to Indigenous peoples on our lands, but will also contribute significantly to climate change mitigation efforts increasing the capacity for carbon sequestration and the effectiveness of natural systems to adjust to a changing environment.

The same is true in Australia — and it is clear that this traditional knowledge will be a valuable resource in national climate change mitigation efforts.

Not exact matches

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The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

There is the question of whether the primary purpose of a target is to motivate mitigation efforts or to minimize harm (whether from climate change, incurred mitigation costs, or geoengineered disasters).

Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis links the river's increasingly deadly floods to a widespread pattern of human - caused environmental degradation and related flood - mitigation efforts that began changing the river's natural flow nearly 3,000 years ago.

Climate change is reversible and can be solved through mitigation efforts.

It has also been the reason why scientists in the climate field are all talking about mitigation and adaptation efforts in combating the climate change; the greatest threat ever confronted mankind.

Recognizing the linkage between the potential impacts of climate change and development, mitigation and adaptation strategies should be pursued as part of development and poverty eradication efforts.

Just for a change, no discussion of mitigation efforts please!

The magnitude of future climate change and its impacts from the middle of the century onwards depend on the effectiveness of global climate mitigation efforts.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

«[The] House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Such a feedback loop could result in accelerated warming throughout the globe, which will strongly impact ongoing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Early definitions were unhelpfully circular «We define climate emergencies as those circumstances where severe consequences of climate change occur too rapidly to be significantly averted by even immediate mitigation efforts» (Blackstock et al 2009).

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Another study, in the journal Nature Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.&Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.&change and averting its risks.»

It entails a search for synergies across climate change mitigation - and adaptation - related efforts where possible.

Mitigation efforts can still avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change.

China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global efforts towards the mitigation of climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development in the process.12

Climate change will have increasingly bad impacts if business as usual continues without substantial mitigation efforts.

But his refutation of what he saw as sloppy logic certainly does not imply skepticism about climate change and the need to take mitigation and adaptation efforts seriously, he insists.

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While the IPCC reports cover the physical science, impacts, and mitigation efforts, CCR - II is strictly focused on the physical science of climate change.

The brief suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action.

With the renewed public interest in climate change mitigation after the Paris conference, the question was, whether or not the COP would generate results and help to keep momentum in international climate protection efforts.

At the same time, the region is particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, motivating both climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

It is hoped that the publication will raise awareness of the specific needs of these countries regarding forests and climate change, in particular regarding climate change adaptation but also mitigation, and will provide a point of departure for identifying and catalyzing regional action to complement and enhance national efforts.

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Kresge Foundation grant «To ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts include the needs of communities of color»

«Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

The second, expected in March, will cover «impacts and vulnerabilities» of climate change; the third, on mitigation efforts, is set to go out in April.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).