Sentences with phrase «climate change projects»

His salary is not funded from any external sources or dependent on specially funded government climate change projects.

The Guardian newspaper has released a list some 25 pages long of climate change projects in other countries that were funded by you, the British taxpayer.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected in 2001 that the sea level will rise by no more than three feet in this century — but that projection assumes the major ice sheets will remain intact.

Funding by the World Bank shows no evident change over the past 20 years, with climate change projects funded at a much greater rate than biodiversity projects.

Yet she has already filled numerous IPCC roles, is a senior lecturer at an institution of higher learning, is chairperson of her school's Centre on Global Change and Health, and is a member of the steering committee of a health and climate change project funded by the United Nations.

He previously spent eight years working on climate change projects at the consultancy firm Atkins.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

Updated, 4:04 p.m. A valuable study published this week in Nature Climate Change projects that exposure to extreme heat in the United States is likely to rise enormously by mid century, driven equally by demographic shifts boosting Sun Belt populations and projected changes in heat waves in a warming climate.

A report from the Climate Council warns that reducing climate change projects and staff may significantly hurt climate change research in the country.

Analysis of the responses of vegetation types in California to climate change projected decreased coniferous forests in the northwestern part of the state and increases in broadleaf vegetation [16].

The development of alternative ocean grids was funded by the NERC Rapid Climate Change project «The role of the cryosphere on modulating the THC of the North Atlantic» (Ref.

According to the Congressional Research Service, between 2001 and 2014 the US Government spent $ 131 billion on human - caused climate change projects.

To create that balance, the USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change project develops adaptation plans with local communities and non-governmental organizations to help implement plans that benefit more than 28,000 people in rural areas of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

From 1994 to 1996, the Enron Foundation contributed nearly $ 1 million dollars — $ 990,000 — to the Nature Conservancy, whose Climate Change Project promotes global warming theories.

The following is a selection of key findings [14] regarding the impacts of climate change on systems, sectors and regions, as well as some findings on vulnerability [15], for the range of climate changes projected over the 21st century.

Our regional model projects that Atlantic hurricane and tropical storms are substantially reduced in number, for the average 21st century climate change projected by current models, but have higher rainfall rates, particularly near the storm center.

Because better information about climate finance offers big benefits, Colombia worked with WRI and its partners on a new system to measure, report and verify how much funding goes toward climate change projects.

a prioritisation of opportunities, including developing a method for prioritisation in consultation with the national Indigenous Climate change project group

With climate change projected to bring worsening storms and rising sea levels, the creation of this new sanctuary prevents further development on this part of the coast while also providing critical habitat for a variety of bird species including snowy egrets, marsh wrens, and American bitterns.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that if the world continues to emit greenhouse gasses at its current rate, carbon dioxide could double somewhere around the middle of the century.

The projects include the construction of a leadership centre at the Legon campus of the University of Ghana, scholarship scheme for brilliant but needy students, and a climate change project.

A 2013 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that temperatures could rise at least 2 °C (3.6 °F) by the end of the century under many plausible scenarios — and possibly 4 °C or more.

But on top of that, the fund itself is practically empty — and the little remaining funds will only be available for climate change projects that are developed and led by national and regional agencies, such as government ministries and research institutes.

Hilal Elver is a research professor in global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-director of the Climate Change Project.

The World Bank said it will allot 28 percent of its own investments on climate change projects, with future spendings taking global warming into account.

The most recent report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected a global average sea level rise of between about one to three feet, although that report did not take the new findings on Antarctic ice melt into account.

Dipu Moni said wealthier nations must begin immediately delivering the billions of pounds» worth of aid they have earmarked for climate change projects.

Without a carbon price and if airport expansion is unconstrained, aviation demand could grow more than 200 % between 2005 and 2050, the Committee on Climate Change projects.

In their most recent 2014 assessment of global trends, the scientists of the prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that «agriculture in Africa will face significant challenges in adapting to climate changes projected to occur by mid-century, as negative effects of high temperatures become increasingly prominent.»

An interview with scientist Bruno Locatelli on improving the design of climate change projects

More information on the National Economic, Environment and Development Study (NEEDS) for Climate Change Project.

The world's biggest provider of public finance to developing countries said it would spend 28 % of its investments directly on climate change projects, and that all of its future spending would take account of global warming.

At least $ 16bn a year, from across the World Bank group, which includes other development and finance institutions, will be directed to climate change projects, including renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that the earth would warm 1.1 — 6.4 degrees Celsius (2 — 11 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century.