Sentences with phrase «conflicts as a result of climate change»

This suggests caution in the prediction of such conflicts as a result of climate change.

Not exact matches

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

They point to direct effects resulting from rising temperatures and changes in the frequency and strength of storms, floods, droughts, and heat - waves — as well as to less direct impacts, such as changes in crop yields, the burden and distribution of infectious disease, and climate - induced population displacement and violent conflict.

An argument can also be made that rising ethnic conflicts can be linked to competition over natural resources that are increasingly scarce as a result of climate change, but many other intervening and contributing causes of inter - and intra-group conflict need to be taken into account.