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For example, in the UK, a large number of adaptations have been identified including changes in flood management guidelines (assuming more extremes), hiring of climate change managers, changing nature conservation and disaster plans, climate - proofing buildings, planting different crops and trees, and converting a skiing area to a walking centre in Scotland (West and Gawith, 2005).

Not exact matches

We need forms of communication that reveal the spirit of change and the spirit of conservation, both of which are «inherent in the very nature of things» (SMW 201).

Nature Conservancy's Justin Adams explains why the conservation, restoration, and improved management of land could be an invaluable solution in the fight against climate change.

We have partnered with The Nature Conservancy in organizing the Mass Climate Change Adaptation Coalition, which is comprised of engineers, architects, planners, and conservation and environmental organizations working together to reduce the Commonwealth's vulnerability to the impacts of climate cChange Adaptation Coalition, which is comprised of engineers, architects, planners, and conservation and environmental organizations working together to reduce the Commonwealth's vulnerability to the impacts of climate changechange.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Mass Audubon President Henry Tepper, who provided an overview of the prominent conservation organization's accomplishments during the past year — including advances in nature - based education, land and species protection, and addressing climate change — noted those strategies echoed McCarthy's themes.

On November 7, the Chicago Conservation Corps and the Nature Museum came together to change that for 3,500 homes in the city of Chicago.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

A trial of double - blind peer review began in June 2013 at Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change, and Conservation Biology is considering adopting the practice.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which maintains the international «Red List» of threatened species, considers the polar bear «vulnerable» due to climate change - induced retreating sea ice.

Conservation International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature have developed the Blue Carbon Policy Framework, with the objective to integrate blue carbon activities into the policy and financial work of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which oversees international work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

The researchers are calling for guidelines produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, the world's main authority on species that are at risk of extinction, to be updated to include cautionary messages on some methodologies of climate change risk assessment.

«The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently changed the status of the giant panda from «endangered» to the less threatened «vulnerable,»» said Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.

That includes about half of the mammals and almost a quarter of the birds on the «red list» kept by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Thousands of people gathered in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress to talk about Earth's ecosystems, endangered species and climate change.

Colla noted that The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently assessed North American bumblebees and found that one quarter to one third of the species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and other factors such as habitat loss and disease.

In the journal Nature Climate Change, lead author Dr. Tom Bridge from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University and colleagues point out that global conservation policies have so far failed to prevent the widespread destruction of coral reefs and their fish life, which now threatens the food security of millions of people.

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As Swedish Society for Nature Conservation climate change expert Emma Lindberg said, «It was the one major reason that steered society towards climate - friendly solutions.

The new International Union on Conservation of Nature report on Caribbean coral conservation described great opportunities to protect reefs with fairly simple steps, even as it found climate change to be less of a threat than Conservation of Nature report on Caribbean coral conservation described great opportunities to protect reefs with fairly simple steps, even as it found climate change to be less of a threat than conservation described great opportunities to protect reefs with fairly simple steps, even as it found climate change to be less of a threat than some feared.

• Third, protect the biosphere: the conservation of nature is the fulcrum for wider change towards sustainability.

1) Energy conservation and energy efficiency 2) Renewable energy 3) Cleaner uses of coal, and carbon capture and storage 4) Sustainable transportation, including electric vehicles 5) Modernization of the electrical grid 6) Joint research and development of clean energy technologies 7) Clean air 8) Clean water 9) Natural resource conservation, e.g. protection of wetlands and nature reserves 10) Combating climate change and promoting low - carbon economic growth

William Cronon in his book Changes in the Land describes the regeneration of forest cover in the US northeast as agriculture moved west and the northeast became increasingly urban and suburban with yards, parks, street trees, conservation areas and places that simply reverted to nature.

But there is no other way, Halpern insists: «For conservation and management to be successful, we need to change our relationship with nature, from trying to lock it away to using and enjoying it in a practical but necessarily sustainable way.

Check out the entire study at Nature Climate Change: «Mapping vulnerability and conservation adaptation strategies under climate change.&Change: «Mapping vulnerability and conservation adaptation strategies under climate change.&change.»

Despite satellite estimates that more than doubled the population of known Emperor Penguins, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) changed their ranking of Emperors from a species of Least Concern to a Near - Threatened species based on modeling studies blaming the decline of DuDu's penguins on climate change as presented in Jenouvrier and Caswell's study.

The Nature Conservancy is taking on the tough issues facing conservation today — from climate change to the availability of fresh water.

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The Grenadian - German Programme «Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies» (ICCAS) introduced the toolkit to 49 primary schools in the small island state and is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

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Speakers: The Honorable Ricardo Lara, California State Senate; Jona - than Parfrey, Executive Director, Cli - mate Resolve; Ellie Cohen, CEO, Point Blue Conservation Science; Nicolas Muller, UNFCCC Moderator: Louis Blumberg, Director, California Climate Change Program, The Nature Conservancy Hosted by: The Nature Conservancy

Research on the intersections of gender equality and climate change was brought forward by CIFOR scientists in a couple of sessions arranged together with the Global Gender and Climate Alliance, including UN Women, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).

With The Nature Conservancy holding a conservation easement on the property, the project became one of the first and largest projects to meet the qualifications of the Climate Action Reserve, with the purpose of sequestering carbon to counteract the effects of climate change.

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The study comes at a time when — in part, due to the far - reaching effects of anthropogenic climate change — wilderness advocates and conservation scientists are rethinking the long - held belief in a «hands off» conservation strategy based on the notion that nature can take care of itself.

Lorena Aguilar, Global Senior Gender Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, put it clearly when she stated that «climate change exacerbates existing inequalities and slows progress towards gender equality -LSB-...] gender equality is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction -LSB-...] these inequalities are magnified by climate change.»

Over the next ten years, through our Shared Conservation Agenda, the Conservancy is addressing the root causes of some of the toughest problems facing people and nature in these five areas 1) climate change, 2) land and water protection, 3) food and water sustainability, 4) building healthy cities, and 5) connecting nature and people.

Of those species, only seven percent of mammals and four percent of birds were currently considered «threatened by climate change and severe weather» by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.

The World Wide Fund for Nature, an international non-governmental organization promoting conservation and biodiversity, stresses that climate change «will impact some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, disrupting food production, and threatening vitally important species, habitats and ecosystems.»

Climate change has heated the ocean to dangerously high temperatures and a recent analysis compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the disastrous consequences to come, from super storms to change in marine life behavior.

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Questions such as these, in a quite literal way, change the nature of the design process, expanding its concerns into multidisciplinary terrain that includes ecology, botany, conservation biology, and environmental history.

Such losses of individuals that take species towards critical viability thresholds can be very fast — within three decades or less, as already evidenced by many species now considered at risk of extinction due to causes other than climate change by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.15 The second kind of abrupt change is simply the terminal event in the extinction process — the loss of the last individual of a species.

Now, organizations working in developing countries can apply for support from the United Nations QIAO Plan on Climate Change and Nature Conservation as part of a partnership between the UN Office for South - South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the Beijing Qiaonyu Foundation.

Some of the environmental topics and categories that we now focus on include climate change and the effects of global warming, including their various impacts on both people and the planet as well as conservation issues and news articles relating to nature and wildlife.

Nature conservation policy and practice may not keep pace with environmental change 10.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) anticipates that changes to land cover and biodiversity caused by climate change, could force Indigenous people to «alter their traditional ecosystem management systems» and, in the extreme, «eventually lead to a loss of their traditional habitats and along with it their cultural heritage».