Sentences with phrase «climate change in places»

This is a longstanding issue that was also emphasized in «The Climate Divide,» our 2007 special report in The Times on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan Africa.

He points to the lack of close - focus climate analysis in the region, which was a point made in «The Climate Divide,» our 2007 special report on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan Africa.

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«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

Neither Ottawa nor Alberta's provincial government has a plan in place to address what happens when the imperatives of confronting climate change make depressed oil prices the norm.

Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that energy innovation needed to be a top agenda item at the climate change conference now taking place in this airport suburb outside Paris.

-- The Earth was formed by this giant explosion which took place millions of years ago and somehow ended up in this perfectly rotating planet that has perfectly precise, repeatable days, months and years and rotates at the perfect angle so as to enable defined changes in climate and weather to have predictable seasons.

On 17 — 21 October, the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome.During the first day, FAO launched its flagship publication on The State of Food and Agriculture, which focused on climate change this year.

The UN Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate climate change.

Study links California drought to global warming: Now a study is asserting a link between climate change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar vortex blamed for a harsh winter that mercifully has just ended in many places...

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Take it from Woody Allen: A big family meal is no place for challenging your in - law who doesn't believe in climate change or rehashing the juicy details of your hot date last Saturday.

Nestlé has been recognized as a global leader for its response to climate change, again earning a place in the annual CDP Climate climate change, again earning a place in the annual CDP Climate Climate A List.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

It will be a compelling place to witness nature's return and increased resilience in a climate changing world.

And with climate change laws, human rights and workers» rights yet again on the table, what faith would anyone place in ministers maintaining these fundamental protections under deals done in the dark?

The Committee on Climate Change has its offices in Holbein Place just off Sloane Square and has a budget of # 4.4 million all from the taxpayer (up from # 4.3 million under Labour when Ed Miliband was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.)

He further stated: «We are putting in place the framework to be able to make it cheaper for you to be able to have it as a result of the monies that we can generate from the United Nations convention on climate change system.»

Alternatively (and given the rapid changes that seem to be possible in this new climate) could minor parties or even new parties rise up to take their place?

In terms of proving progressive credentials to the Left my guess is that the Conservative leadership would also point to the party's acceptance of homosexual rights, efforts to promote women and ethnic minority candidates and the significant emphasis that the party has placed on civil libertarianism and combating climate change.

Voters in the four - county district said they believe that climate change is a significant threat (74 - 20 percent); favor a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (66 - 27 percent), consider themselves 2nd Amendment rather than gun control supporters (54 - 43 percent) and support keeping Obamacare in place (50 - 45 percent).

The place of climate change in science education could fall by the wayside.

We can change the climate back or at least hold it in place.

But with the Tories beaten into third place in Eastleigh, see the sudden climate change in the coalition.

The Nana Addo led government was again highly went applauded when government in the 2017 Budget Statement and Economic Policy stated that it had placed high premium on combating climate change through prioritization of climate change programmes and projects.

The President made this known on Tuesday in his statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, at the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Marrakech, Morocco.

«With the Trump administration in place, people who don't necessarily even believe in climate change, I'm really worried whether the money will even be there,» said Councilman Donovan Richards, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Rockaway.

The group wants the United States to public commit to transition to a 100 % clean, renewable energy economy by 2030 when the UN meeting on climate change takes place in NYC in September.

Peatlands in cold places face challenges in a changing climate, too.

Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have played vital roles in the collection of scientific data on climate change.

The researchers fear that, if climate scenarios are proven right, a permanent change in the western Amazon may start to take place within 10 years.

Rather than placing ourselves in a «fight» against climate change, or lament a lost Eden, we should take the chance to rethink how we live, says Mike Hulme

«The portions of the West that are already stretched in terms of water resources — Arizona, New Mexico, the High Plains of Texas, the southern Central Valley — for those places that are already having problems, climate change is going to tighten the screws,» Meixner said.

Researchers hope their findings, which match other climate change records, will encourage others to seek climate data in unlikely places.

Some researchers have suggested that climate change, which has resulted in a rapidly warming Arctic, is leading to jet stream kinks that keep extreme weather in place, although that hypothesis is still being debated (ClimateWire, April 3).

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

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Because of the sheer complexity in the way parts of an ecosystem work together, just how places like the forest floor will be influenced by climate change will most likely remain difficult to predict, Lensing says.

The scheme is vital: The only way nations can meet the targets in the Paris Agreement to combat climate change is to eliminate the burning of fossil fuels or to capture emissions and find a place to store them besides the atmosphere.

Fears that climate change will erode progress McCarty is an organizer of a climate change conference taking place in Washington, D.C., this week that has brought together coastal American Indians and indigenous groups from the United States and its Pacific Island protectorates and territories.

A 2005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on carbon capture and storage, which guided Shaffer's modeling, said it was «very likely» that 99 percent of stored C02 would stay in place over the first 100 years and «likely» that the same percentage would stay in place over 1,000 years.

The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track climate change and to assess potential impacts.

In fact, climate change may mean migration — and the loss of a sense of place for folks as disparate as Pacific islanders whose homelands drown, to herders forced to abandon their pastoral ways in the SaheIn fact, climate change may mean migration — and the loss of a sense of place for folks as disparate as Pacific islanders whose homelands drown, to herders forced to abandon their pastoral ways in the Sahein the Sahel.

Harstad acknowledged that such an approach would be a «radical departure» from the more popular view, embodied in such agreements as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which places much of its focus on end - of - stack emissions.

«It's easier in places like the dry valleys to isolate the effects of climate change, or to isolate how one species responds to climate change in one way,» he said.

But when average temperatures rise, as is happening in many places around the world because of climate change, big blocks of ice melt more quickly than they can grow during the winter.

As climate change alters weather patterns — hastening desertification in some places and sopping others — increases the strength of natural disasters — from cyclones to landslides — and raises sea levels world wide, it will make many areas and livelihoods untenable, say the authors.

And in the era of climate change, those fleeing sea - level rise will be on the lookout for a place to live on higher ground, which is likely to push people of color and the poor out of neighborhoods that have historically been mostly black or Caribbean.