Sentences with phrase «climate change impacts like»

If this can be achieved it should provide environmental benefits across the city and contribute to green infrastructure, particularly as climate change impacts like urban heating and high rainfall events increase.

«Protecting our water sources is a critical component of adapting to climate change impacts like drought, sea level rise, stronger storms, and warmer temperatures — which is why EPA and the Army have finalized the Clean Water Rule to protect these important waters, so we can strengthen our economy and provide certainty to American businesses.»

e. Developed countries agreed to provide funding to help developing countries make the costly shift to green energy and shore up their defenses against climate change impacts like drought and storms and rich nations must report every two years on their finance levels — current and intended.

Not exact matches

As we face future known threats like war and climate change, and unknown threats like an asteroid impact or new disease, Downey said that that's the kind of knowledge we should want to have.

The difficulty is that consumers choose foods based on what they like - and this frequently changes but rarely considers the impact of climate change.

Imagine your business making a big impact solving problems like hunger, poverty, war, violence, and catastrophic climate change while making a healthy profit.

It's time we all meet in the social impact space to tackle big world issues like, hunger poverty and climate change!

Eight Ways Wine Will Change in 2016: The impact of climate change and new technologies (like the ability to check wine prices on smartphones) are on my vinous radar for 2Change in 2016: The impact of climate change and new technologies (like the ability to check wine prices on smartphones) are on my vinous radar for 2change and new technologies (like the ability to check wine prices on smartphones) are on my vinous radar for 2016...

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imChange Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iclimate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imchange - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Keeping abreast of the new scientific discoveries and tools related to climate change, designing and implementing our own research and monitoring projects, encouraging scientists to use our wildlife sanctuaries, and sharing lessons learned with our partners are appropriate high impact strategies for a science - based organization like Mass Audubon.

«We have a moral obligation to our children and future generations to reduce the severe impacts of climate change like rising sea levels, which will disproportionately impact coastal communities in Massachusetts,» said EPA Administrator McCarthy.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

Queens Councilman Donovan Richards — whose district, like Mr. Borelli's, suffered shattering damage during 2012's Hurricane Sandy — also underscored the impact of petroleum derived plastic products on climate change.

To those who care about curbing the negative impacts of climate change, this suggests there is no time like the present to start curbing emissions.

No matter what mechanism the United States ultimately decides to employ in addressing climate change, it must be implemented in a way that minimizes costs and recognizes the impacts on different regions of the country, like my home state of West Virginia.

It now says we often can not predict which impacts of climate change — like storms or floods — will hit where.

«To be perfectly blunt, by the time serious climate change impacts kick in, place like Pennsylvania might not have any ash trees left,» McCullough said.

By analyzing current building codes and the like, the New York City Panel on Climate Change determined the acceptable level of risk for its residents and is now prioritizing projects that hold to those same levels the perils from climate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heatClimate Change determined the acceptable level of risk for its residents and is now prioritizing projects that hold to those same levels the perils from climate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heat Change determined the acceptable level of risk for its residents and is now prioritizing projects that hold to those same levels the perils from climate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heatclimate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heat change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heat waves.

Seasonal changes in precipitation and water storage make it difficult for modelers to estimate water availability and impacts of interventions, and the effects of climate change can be difficult to tease out from other impacts like human activities.

«Our results predict that climate change could greatly impact the tallgrass prairie as we currently know it, reducing forage for cattle in the drier parts of grasslands, in places like Kansas,» Johnson said.

Understanding how climate change might influence flooding has been a tricky endeavor because so many other factors, like urbanization, deforestation or the dredging of rivers, also impact how often floods occur and how big they are, muddying the picture.

Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

«When we think of climate change having an impact on a mammal species, what comes to mind most immediately is an Arctic animal like the polar bear, which depends on sea ice to survive,» Helgen said.

Their analysis emphasizes the greater vulnerability of poor populations to climate impacts and highlights the need for better modeling, like that proposed by the Princeton team, to reduce poverty and climate change.

«Given the scale of greenhouse gas reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, are we prepared to eat beef analogs that look and taste like beef, but have a much lower climate impact?»

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

«While it is impossible to detect the impact from a specific letter, just like we can't attribute a specific storm to climate change, we can hope that repeated blasts will get their attention,» Green says.

«Understanding underlying mechanisms like the CVH is one way to do that, but we need to do a lot more before we can tell exactly how species will be impacted and how to best help them deal with climate change.»

«It looks like EPA has done a good job of listing all the possible impacts of global climate change.»

«As climate models are being developed, we are beginning to get more accurate information about the impacts of climate change to severe weather incidents in areas like Finland,» says meteorologist Pauli Jokinen from Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

Today, scientists around the world, including those at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research that Schellnhuber founded in 1992, are successfully investigating the nonlinear dynamics of the complex climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate Climate Impact Research that Schellnhuber founded in 1992, are successfully investigating the nonlinear dynamics of the complex climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate climate change.

These climate changes have measurable effects, like reductions in ground and surface water resources due to changing timing of precipitation and snowmelt, and measurable impacts like declining forest health and more wildfires, to altered crop seasons and greater irrigation demand.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

A study published earlier this year and led by Prestemon used both climate models and projections of societal changes, like population growth and development, to look at how they might impact wildfire projections.

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Working together as a class with their teachers, their task is to explain to their 2017 selves what impact climate change has had on their local area, in whatever format they like — a 3 minute video, a quick story or letter, or an image.

Course syllabi at Crossroads read like a college curriculum: War, Media and the Enemy; The Ever - Changing History of New York City; and Ecosystems, Climate and Human Impact.

Dressed in street clothes, often adorned with neon glow sticks, the dancers (the main protagonists are played by Corey, Jay Donn, and Marty McFly) masterfully engage in movements of «flexing,» «bone breaking,» «pauzing,» and «glytching» to portray what at times feels like a new species of human, impacted both by our ever - increasing reliance on technology and by the altered landscape of a changing climate.

In addition to recognizing the human development cost of climate change, tools like Maplecroft's climate change impact map must be used to motivate change.

Responding to comments 14, 25, and 56: I'm a policy analyst in Seattle, well - read on the impacts of climate change, but also other global resource constraints — like peak oil, peak phosphorus and the limits of industrial agriculture, waters supply (closely related to climate), and human systems / governance.

The atmospheric components of climate models were never really designed for the study of TCs, but the fact that they can produce features with TC - like character when run at sufficiently high resolutions, gives us increased confidence in the possibility that climate models can be used to analyze climate change impacts on TCs.

This is exactly what Climate Change looks like as it's IMPACTS are happening in the real world (versus in the scientific theory papers)-- all kind sof unexpected unplanned for extreme events and a built infrastructure and building not up to the extreme demands of topdays extreme weather events across an entire Continent.

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

As author and co-editor of a new fire book, «The Ecological Importance of Mixed - Severity Fires — Nature's Phoenix,» I would like to comment on Lindon's hypothesis that by «controlling» fire we can reduce climate change impacts.

There are certainly impacts of climate change (like ocean acidification, for example) that are pretty much unquestioned.

Like it or not, our lives will be governed in many ways by the impacts of climate change and by the efforts to slow climate change.

How do we apportion responsibility across time for dealing with multigenerational impacts, like the human contribution to climate change, and multigenerational tasks, like transforming how we harvest and use energy?

But like Jeff, I would like to know why the Times doesn't believe reporting more on the actual impacts of climate change (higher wheat prices, persistent political destabilization in climate impacted regions, etc....)