``... computer simulations that help people visualize the long - term
climate impacts of decisions being undertaken today....
Not exact matches
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.
Quotes Anant Sundaram in an article examining the
impact of President Trump's upcoming
decision regarding U.S. participation in the Paris
Climate Agreement on American companies.
«The
decisions you make about what you put in the center
of your plate are far more important than the
decisions you make regarding what type
of lightbulb you put in your house or what type
of car you drive in terms
of impact on
climate,» Mr. Brown said.
Endeavoring to soften the
impact of Trump's brash
decision a few weeks later, Tillerson suggested that the administration had softened its approach, and that the US would be willing to remain in the
climate deal.
Bambrick said the governor should consistently consider the
impacts of climate change and apply the state's energy plan when making
decisions.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said again on Friday that President Donald Trump's
decision to pull the United States out
of the Paris Accord on
climate change has «potentially devastating
impact» and one that New Yorkers are already seeing.
NEW YORK STATE — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said again on Friday that President Donald Trump's
decision to pull the United States out
of the Paris Accord on
climate change has «potentially devastating
impact» and one that New Yorkers are already seeing.
President Donald Trump's
decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement puts future generations at risk and leaves the nation without a plan to mitigate the
impact of climate change on society, said Rush Holt, CEO
of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, on June...
The opportunity now is to better incorporate
climate impacts into current
decisions, so that adaptation isn't an additional requirement — it's part
of making good
decisions.»
Through planning scenario workshops, CISA works with community leaders, scientists, and
decision - makers to explore possible
impacts of climate change and options for managing them.
Short - and long - term
impacts The American economy is already beginning to feel the effects
of climate change, the report says, and «these
impacts will likely grow materially over the next 5 to 25 years and affect the future performance
of today's business and investment
decisions.»
The project studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal
of understanding
decisions about scarce water resources and their
impacts: How do water managers think about
climate uncertainty?
Although the draft
decision expresses «its utmost concern» regarding the
impacts of climate change on the World Heritage reefs, any action is delayed by a call «to further study the current and potential
impacts of climate change» for possible action when the committee meets in 2018.
The aim is to provide useful information for
decision - makers and stakeholders in assessing the environmental
impact of future
climate change.
Lowe says that the study also demonstrates the potential value
of incorporating
climate information in the public health
decision - making process not only in Ecuador but also in any epidemic - prone region,
impacted by El Nino events.
Trudeau has also said his party will embrace «evidence based policy» and «data - driven
decision - making,» do more to address
climate change, protect endangered species, and review the environmental
impact of major energy and development projects.»
Ecologists» research into the tropic cascading effects
of predators will assist
decision makers by providing important scientific findings to prepare for the
impacts of climate change occurring now and into the future.
Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday
of a joint program to predict
climate change and its
impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that
decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.
«Therefore it is essential to understand how different
climate factors interact and
impact food production when reaching
decisions on how to adapt to the effects
of climate change.»
There will be an analysis
of how a changing
climate impacts and affects those
decisions.
the type and effectiveness
of local political leadership and input in larger
decision - making questions — northern institutions often lack the time, mandate and funding to address
climate change
impacts — though emerging leaders in Canada and Alaska are proving to be an exception to this pattern;
-- To the maximum extent practicable and consistent with applicable law, every natural resource management
decision made by the department or agency shall consider the
impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on those natural resources.
(4) identifies
decision tools necessary to develop strategies for assisting natural resources to become more resilient and adapt to and withstand the
impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.
It includes information submitted by a wide range
of UN agencies on human, socio - economic and environmental
impacts as part
of a drive to provide a more comprehensive, UN-wide policy brief for
decision makers on the interplay between weather,
climate and water and the UN global goals.
-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both
climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in
climate - related
impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result
of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding
climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion
of climate effects on urban forests and
impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome
of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course
of action); 12) Detailed
decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.
Mission The mission
of PNNL's Aerosol
Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of ae
Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization
of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive
climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of ae
climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy
decisions related to global
climate change and the environmental impacts of ae
climate change and the environmental
impacts of aerosols.
She was lead author for the chapter on mitigation in the Third National
Climate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing potential impacts of climate change and informing long - term planning dec
Climate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing potential
impacts of climate change and informing long - term planning dec
climate change and informing long - term planning
decisions.
In examining the
impact of the school's civic
climate, it is again important to take into account other factors, focusing this time on those most likely to influence the respondent's
decision to vote.
It includes information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, analytic methods and tools, GHG reduction strategies, potential
impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure, and approaches for integrating
climate change considerations into transportation
decision making.
The model explores short - term scenarios
of policy
decisions by simulating social - economical - environmental systems, including the
impact of climate - induced drought on crop failures and food prices.
«Recent vivid and memorable media coverage
of climate change
impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen
of the residents
of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,» said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor
of international business who is co-director
of the Center for Research on Environmental
Decisions at Columbia University.
SO, coming back to the issues
of immediacy and inertia, our hope is that the sort
of commitment accounting described and demonstrated in the paper will be taken up by other analysts and used to evaluate the long - run
climate impacts of current capital investments, in turn allowing policymakers to confront these distant implications
of their
decisions in the present.
Judge Jackson's ruling exposes the bogus economic assumptions underlying nearly all
of BLM's coal leasing
decisions, and it will help hold BLM accountable for the
climate impacts of other
decisions on coal and fossil fuel extraction.
Dr. Koonin is correct that there is still uncertainty about the magnitude
of the
impacts of climate change and society will have to make
decisions under such uncertainty.
'' We are convinced that the Natural Capital Protocol has the power to revolutionize the way that businesses evaluate their operations and make
decisions, helping them to reduce pollution, protect biodiversity, and limit the
impacts of climate change», says First Climate CEO Sascha
climate change», says First
Climate CEO Sascha
Climate CEO Sascha Lafeld.
Policy implications are not limited by the uncertainties
of climate science itself, they are more limited for other reasons: uncertainties in actual
impacts and most importantly uncertainties in the actual outcomes
of any specific policy
decision.
The programme, under the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), aims to assist countries that are party to the Convention, particularly developing countries, to improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and to make informed decisions t
Climate Change (UNFCCC), aims to assist countries that are party to the Convention, particularly developing countries, to improve their understanding and assessment
of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to
climate change, and to make informed decisions t
climate change, and to make informed
decisions thereon.
«We believe that a
climate impact lens should be applied to all
decisions regarding new fossil fuel development, and urge that a «carbon - reducing clean energy» strategy, rather than an «all -
of - the - above» strategy become the operative paradigm for your administration's energy
decisions,» the letter said.
«
Climate Change Reconsidered II corrects this failure, presenting an analysis of thousands of neglected research studies IPCC has downplayed or ignored in its reports so that scientists, politicians, educators, and the general public can be better informed and make decisions about the potential impacts of CO2 - induced climate change.
Climate Change Reconsidered II corrects this failure, presenting an analysis
of thousands
of neglected research studies IPCC has downplayed or ignored in its reports so that scientists, politicians, educators, and the general public can be better informed and make
decisions about the potential
impacts of CO2 - induced
climate change.
climate change.»
As health professionals who recognize the adverse health
impacts of climate change and the need to mitigate those
impacts now, we support the governors»
decision to strengthen the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) by committing to further cut carbon pollution.
President Obama's
decision to reject Keystone XL because
of its
impact on the
climate is nothing short
of historic — and sets an important precedent that should send shockwaves through the fossil fuel industry.
«For years, BLM has been telling the public that its individual coal leasing
decisions — even those approving hundreds
of millions
of tons
of coal — have no
impact on our
climate.
Advocating against underlying inequalities and removing systemic barriers that hinder the lives and livelihoods
of women, such as the lack
of decision - making power or land (and land inheritance rights), which exacerbate the disproportionately negative
climate impacts for women.
CCAMLR Members also must ensure that it has adequately accounted for
climate change
impacts in all
of its
decision - making, including when setting catch limits for fisheries.
Implementation
of a human rights monitoring programs in the context
of BECCs should include the use
of role and capacity analysis to assess the obligations
of institutions at the international and national level to monitor the
impacts of climate engineering, as well as their capacity and analysis
of existing information systems and networks to assess critical information gaps to effective monitoring by
decision makers, rights - holders and rights - bearers.
There followed three days
of discussions among the attendees who were divided into 5 roundtables each with a particular issue at hand: 1) social
impacts of climate change; 2) Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
climate change; 2)
Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in
decision - making; 4) Fighting
climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the South.
(1) support States and Indian tribes in the development
of a geographic information system database
of fish and wildlife habitat and corridors that would inform planning and development
decisions within each State and Indian tribe, enable each State and Indian tribe to model
climate impacts and adaptation, and provide geographically specific enhancements
of State and tribal wildlife action plans;
The economic uniqueness
of the
climate - change problem is not just that today's
decisions have difficult - to - reverse
impacts that will be felt very far out into the future, thereby straining the concept
of time discounting and placing a heavy burden on the choice
of an interest rate.
As President
of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) LLC, I have worked with decision makers on climate impact assessments, assessing and developing meteorological hazard and climate adaptation strategies, and developing subseasonal climate forecasting strategies to support adaptive mana
Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) LLC, I have worked with
decision makers on
climate impact assessments, assessing and developing meteorological hazard and climate adaptation strategies, and developing subseasonal climate forecasting strategies to support adaptive mana
climate impact assessments, assessing and developing meteorological hazard and
climate adaptation strategies, and developing subseasonal climate forecasting strategies to support adaptive mana
climate adaptation strategies, and developing subseasonal
climate forecasting strategies to support adaptive mana
climate forecasting strategies to support adaptive management.