Sentences with phrase «climate challenges pose»

Scientists unaffiliated with the study said it shows better data is needed to fully understand the extent of the climate challenge posed by landfill methane emissions.

We need them all to achieve the massive energy transformation that the climate challenge poses to us.

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In a letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the CEOs noted «climate change poses one of the greatest global challenges and threatens to roll back decades of development -LSB-...]

With negotiations under way for the UK to leave the European Union, he argued for a cross-party approach and stressed that a partnership with Europe, needed to deal with the challenges posed by the refugee crisis and climate change, would require that Britain's «parting is carried out well».

To address supply chain challenges posed by extremely perishable items such as bananas and by extremes in climate and weather, Class Produce maintains relationships with hundreds of growers.

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.

Water challenge Diouf noted the special challenge posed by water as climate change would make rainfall increasingly unreliable.

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.

Environmentalists welcomed the first - of - its - kind acknowledgement by a major petroleum company that climate change poses real and immediate challenges to the firm's prospects.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

As Germán Orizaola, co-author of the study published in the journal Ecology and a researcher at the Swedish university states «Among the many challenges climate change poses to natural ecosystems, the effect it can have on the dietary preferences of living organisms is a field of study that has been attracting researchers» attention in recent years.»

Opportunities are expanding for natural and social scientists who wish to take on the scientific and practical challenges posed by climate change.

«Current planning understates the challenge that climate change poses to the water supplies in the American Southwest,» Udall said.

An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

Though agricultural intensification and climate change could pose new challenges for managing liver fluke transmission, early results in the afflicted Lawa Lake region are promising, with human infection rates in the worst - hit areas down to below 10 %, fish infection rates dropping from 70 % to below 1 %, and no infected snails detected.

The deal poses a fundamental challenge to climate science, because it is difficult to work out whether trends and events are caused by greenhouse gases or would have happened anyway.

«And no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» he said.

The papal visit will also coincide with the start of the Republican party's nomination race for presidential candidates, posing a serious challenge to conservatives who continue to deny the warnings of climate science or oppose efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change is posing a severe challenge to freshwater fish in Canada.

He also co-directs Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasClimate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasclimate change poses to the world's coastlines.

Climate change poses a tremendous scientific, economic, diplomatic, and ethical challenge to the human race.

I also co-direct Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasClimate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasclimate change poses to the world's coastlines.

If climate change exceeds the temperature target, scientists warn, there is a greater risk that the world's ice sheets will be destabilized, leading to sharply rising seas, and increasing climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves and floods, which could pose daunting challenges for food and water availability for growing populations.

Though the APS statement about climate change is more nuanced than the AAAS letter, stating — for example — «scientific challenges remain in our abilities to observe, interpret, and project climate change,» it in no way disputes the scientific consensus on climate change or the risks it poses.

They challenged the world to do better, and they challenge the political system to realize the unacceptable risks posed by climate disruption.

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.

A climate change - themed game developed by BAFTA - winning studio, Preloaded, poses a challenging educational premise with the aim of changing behaviors.

For pet owners in many climates, bitter cold, snow and ice during the winter months poses a 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.

Despite being highly productive, current and future climate change poses many challenges to the agricultural sector.

He mentioned a recent retreat his school held to explore how to engage both the analytic and emotional sides of the human brain on the challenges posed by human - driven climate change.

If the new forecast of a decade of cooler temperatures in North America and Europe pans out, it will pose a substantial challenge to climate campaigners, politicians, and citizens: Can they produce meaningful action to limit the long - term warming that scientists still say is clearly ahead under a building greenhouse blanket even when it's cooling outside?

So Southgate, too, presents a picture with no cliffs or collapses, but instead a transition to an era in which food supplies will most likely progressively tighten (unless countries get serious about a research push, which is particularly important with climate change posing fresh challenges).

Although the United States has significant capacity to adapt to climate change, it will pose challenges for civil society and DoD alike, particularly in light of the nation's extensive coastal infrastructure.

Given that California is a best - case scenario * compared to other states (and, of course, countries) far more dependent on coal, Long's piece and the underlying report pose a strong challenge to those calling for a «deploy, deploy, deploy» approach to cutting climate risks.

Its conclusions, as I wrote today, largely follow those of other United Nations assessments of the challenges posed by human - caused climate change — particularly the call for prompt, aggressive reductions in greenhouse gases by developed countries, along with a lot more aid for the poor countries most in harm's way.

The entwined climate / energy / development challenge is the world's worst problem, with every single facet posing challenges to a species that is mainly «here and now» and with any generation only prodded to powerful action by powerful events.

«No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» said Obama in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.

On a broader level, Mr. Mandil urged both producers and consumers to work together to confront the challenges posed by energy poverty and climate change.

''... [N] o challenge - no challenge - poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Climate change exacerbates global injustice for present and future generations, and poses one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time.

In his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama claimed that «no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.»

A different kind of climate movement would have tried to challenge the extreme ideology that was blocking so much sensible action, joining with other sectors to show how unfettered corporate power posed a grave threat to the habitability of the planet.

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Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

The meeting discussed and reflected on the challenges that climate change poses to education systems in SIDS, and on the role that education must play in adaptation to climate change.

The document also reviews the main perceived challenges that climate change poses to forests and their managers.

Climate Science Watch: Climate Science Watch is a non-profit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate Climate Science Watch: Climate Science Watch is a non-profit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate Climate Science Watch is a non-profit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate climate change.

This document is composed of two reports that present complementary views on the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change to developing countries in the fields of adaptation and mitigation.