Sentences with phrase «climate impacts from»

3.2 Climate modelling papers that talks about emission scenarios and subsequent warming or other climate impacts from increased CO2 in the abstract implicitly endorse that GHGs cause warming

As NRDC's Danielle Droitsch put it in Just the facts: Climate Impacts from the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

We all know that the window of time that we have to prevent the worst climate impacts from happening is in fact narrowing, and it is closing fast.

Local agriculture does not necessarily have lower climate impacts from transportation.

on Draft synthesis report on US climate impacts from lame duck Bush administration raises questions

In the latter category, at the moment, is the recent burst of assertions and press coverage over the extent of climate impacts from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — centered on a new paper on this issue by Robert Howarth, a Cornell ecologist who makes no secret of his opposition to the gas - extraction method.

Despite their best efforts to shape their markets we'll learn a lot about climate impacts from insurance companies, as statistical margins are eaten away by forthcoming changes.

Here we show the climate impacts from removing present - day anthropogenic aerosol emissions and compare them to the impacts from moderate GHG - dominated global warming.

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To offset the remaining climate impact from its New York and Connecticut restaurants, Le Pain Quotidien is supporting a Gold Standard - certified climate project in Africa.

PNNL global model treatments reveal much larger climate impact from burning vegetation and biofuel emissions

[Response: You may also be interested in the article by Richard Feely and colleagues, Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans arguing that quite apart from any climate impact from atmospheric CO2, there is a much more direct impact from the dissolution of CO2 in the world's oceans.

[Response: You may also be interested in the article by Richard Feely and colleagues, Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans arguing that quite apart from any climate impact from atmospheric CO2, there is a much more direct impact from the dissolution of CO2 in the world's oceans.

Pollution from coal burning, in the United States and particularly in developing countries, has big impacts on public health, and the climate impact from coal - generated carbon dioxide could be enormous if the world's still - vast reserves are heavily exploited.

China also released several recent reports laying out financial and technical means for allowing industrialized countries to help cut the climate impact from its energy use.

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We might feel incredibly proud of that achievement, and so we should, but our actual climate impact from fossil fuel exports would still be double the climate impact from all the fossil fuels we currently use within Australia.

It is Leif Svalgaard's contribution that has led me away from the idea that TSI changes have a major effect except on very long timescales of maybe 100,000 years or so and even then the internal system checks and balances seem to adjust enough to prevent a direct climate impact from TSI changes alone.

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WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: «If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,» curbing temperature rise by «less than.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.»

He dug into the numbers, consulting with a friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's models were too conservative about the rate and impact of climate change.

President Donald Trump's aim to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement is not having too great an impact, Vladislav Soloviev said.

«Shifting from animal meat to the plant - based meats developed by Beyond Meat is one of the most powerful measures someone can take to reduce their impact on our climate.»

But the Pentagon maintains that climate change impacts, including refugees from drought - stricken areas of the world and rising sea levels, are a significant threat to national security, as The New York Times reported.

In addition to the vote on the climate - impact report, Exxon holders will consider proposals to shift spending away from oil exploration to dividends and buybacks.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The long - term impact of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord will wash over everything from agriculture to economics to housing.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

Still, Lazarus said the debate about the climate impacts of energy projects would benefit from a closer look at their market effects.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

MoneyShow Las Vegas — May 15 - 18, 2017 From May 15th to 18th, John Mousseau of Cumberland Advisors will join the nation's top financial minds at The MoneyShow Las Vegas where they'll discuss the economy, the markets, and how the changing political climate will impact them in the coming year.

The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups on ongoing or potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the impact their business had on climate change.

«Most of the climate resolutions ask companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to re-port on the risks from climate change on business operations,» Passoff of Proxy Impact said.

The Risky Business Project focused on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

The Risky Business Project focuses on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

Public protests over the last two years have highlighted the risks of spills along the route from Alberta to BC's coastal waters, and the climate impacts of building new pipelines to enable massive increases in bitumen production and exports.

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

Shifting from animal meat to the plant - based meats developed by Beyond Meat is one of the most powerful measures someone can take to reduce their impact on our climate.»

As no one can really tell when or where the impacts of climate change will hit, aside from identifying climate tolerant varieties farmers are also using nature's strength by relying on diversity.

Quote from UTZ certified coffee farmer Nguyen Thu Truc from Vietnam talking about the impact of the Coffee Climate Care Project (Italian).

«The International Rice Research Institute and other research institutions have developed a wide range of sustainable technologies that will help reduce use of water, chemicals and energy in rice, and protect the crop from pests, disease and the impacts of climate change.

Reducing food waste also impacts climate change as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come from landfills.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

From defending endangered species to mitigating climate change impacts, one of the most effective ways to protect the nature of Massachusetts is through sound environmental policy.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

The lawsuit, against BP Plc, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, follows similar lawsuits filed last year by San Francisco and other California cities seeking billions of dollars in damages from rising sea levels due to climate impacts.

The panel is expected to discuss topics ranging from the impact of climate change on New Yorkers» health, the increase in extreme weather such as heightened flood risk, and recent efforts by the state to respond.

AG Eric Schneiderman says the U.S. State Department failed to fully analyze the impacts climate change pollution from the proposed Keystone XL and related oil pipelines will have on New York and the nation.

House Republicans have sought records from both Schneiderman and the offices of the Massachusetts and Maryland attorneys general pertaining to the probe of whether ExxonMobile understated the impact of climate change from its operations.

Experts from around the world will be gathering at the Met Office's Hadley Centre this week to assess the long - term impact of climate change.