Sentences with phrase «countries respond to climate change»

At the ongoing pre-Copenhagen climate talks in Bangkok, the US has made a step towards resolving the deal - breaker issue of funds to help developing countries respond to climate change.

According to Evanega, the high quality of the report could help improve the policy environment for GE crop use and to convince more people that there is scientific consensus about the safety of GE technology and that biotechnology can help the country respond to climate change.

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The hourlong documentary examines how Arctic warming may be increasing storms» intensity and altering their paths, and how countries such as the Netherlands are creating climate - adaptive cities to respond to changing conditions

-- The term «most vulnerable developing countries» means, as determined by the Administrator of USAID, developing countries that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, considering the approaches included in any international treaties and agreements.

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I've signed on as a senior reporter at ProPublica with a focus on how countries and companies are, and are not, responding to climate change.

Emphasizing that developed countries bear the overwhelming historic responsibility for causing anthropogenic climate change and must therefore take the lead in responding to the challenge across all four building blocks of an enhanced international climate change regime — namely mitigation, adaption, technology and finance — that builds - upon the U.N.F.C.C.C. and its Kyoto Protocol.

The «mission» is likely to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the kind of effects climate change is likely to have on human health in different regions of the country and build up capacities to respond to these and also to health emergencies arising out of natural disasters.

UNFCCC: Countries have successfully launched a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, agreed a firm timetable to adopt a universal climate agreement by 2015 and agreed a path to raise necessary ambition to respond to climate change.

While the Earth's climate does not respond quickly to external changes, many scientists believe that global warming already has significant momentum due to 150 years of industrialization in many countries around the world.

All of this to say, the country (the public and the government it elected) has plans to introduce necessary legislation to support society and future generations and respond to the reality of climate change.

The experience of the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) offers important insights into what it takes to use diverse financial instruments at scale to support developing countries to respond to climate change.

For example, the summary of the 2011 GAO report states: «OMB reports funding in four categories: technology to reduce emissions, science to better understand climate change, international assistance for developing countries, and wildlife adaptation to respond to actual or expected changes.»

The report provides guidance for local officials across the country on how to respond to climate change.

The current funding that a country can receive is capped at $ 10 million, which is very little to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change».

African journalists have critical roles to play in explaining the cause and effects of climate change, in describing what countries and communities can do to adapt, and in reporting on what governments and companies do, or not, to respond to these threats.

Yet people in developing countries are often most vulnerable both to climate change, and any potential efforts to respond to it.

(E) support the deployment of technologies to help the most vulnerable developing countries respond to the destabilizing impacts of climate change and encourage the identification and adoption of appropriate renewable and efficient energy technologies that are beneficial in increasing community - level resilience to the impacts of global climate change in those countries; and

• Improved understanding of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive responses in a variety of different local contexts across the country • Improved understanding of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build adaptive capacity that can be generalized across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and management • Collection of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research

The poor track record of rich nations in meeting their fast start finance pledges has raised serious concerns that these countries will also renege on their bigger promise to ensure that US$ 100 billion flows to developing nations each year by 2020 to help them to respond to climate change.

«Without transparency about how and when rich countries will meet their climate finance pledges, developing countries are left unable to plan to adequately address and respond to climate change,» says co-author Timmons Roberts of Brown University in the United States, whose Climate and Development Lab led the reclimate finance pledges, developing countries are left unable to plan to adequately address and respond to climate change,» says co-author Timmons Roberts of Brown University in the United States, whose Climate and Development Lab led the reclimate change,» says co-author Timmons Roberts of Brown University in the United States, whose Climate and Development Lab led the reClimate and Development Lab led the research.

If Pope Francis is Right that Climate Change is a Moral Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against Climate Policies Based on the Failure of Other Countries Like China to Act?

This report includes chapters on Mitigation, Adaptation, and Decision Support that offer an overview of the options and activities being planned or implemented around the country as local, state, federal, and tribal governments, as well as businesses, organizations, and individuals begin to respond to climate change.

The index shows how each country will be able to respond to extreme weather like droughts, blizzards, hurricanes, wildfires, and floods connecting to our changing climate — and how long it will take for each to adapt.

Although there are many countries other than the United States that have frequently failed to respond to what justice would require of them to reduce the threat of climate change, the United States, perhaps more than any other country, has gained a reputation in the international community for its consistent unwillingness to commit to serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions during the over two decades that world has been seeking a global agreement on how to respond to climate change.

South Africa openly acknowledges the need to voluntarily respond to climate change despite being a poor developing country.

Those hopes continued to swell when in a press conference a few days later, he responded to a question from the media on climate by saying that he planned to start «a conversation across the country...» to see «how we can shape an agenda that garners bipartisan support and helps move this agenda forward... and... be an international leader» on climate change.

The index ranked the vulnerability of the world's countries, and the 50 cities deemed most economically important, to the impacts of climate change, by evaluating their risk of exposure to extreme climate events, the sensitivity of their populations to that exposure and the adaptive capacity of governments to respond to the challenge.

The imperative to respond to climate change, as well as recent progress with electric vehicles and other alternatives to gasoline, has emboldened many countries to mandate a transition to zero - emission vehicles (ZEVs) through a ban on internal combustion engines.

Countries are falling short in delivering pledged finance to the Green Climate Fund, which aims to help poor nations respond to climate Climate Fund, which aims to help poor nations respond to climate climate change.

Climate Asia provides the first comprehensive picture of how people are impacted by and responding to changes in their environment across seven countries and maps where communities are struggling and adapting.

But during Obama's visit, Modi stressed that India did not feel itself under pressure on climate change from other countries, while insisting it was responding to the challenges presented by global warming.

I also discuss the work that Indigenous communities around the country are already doing to respond to climate change and to start preparing to engage in emerging carbon markets.

However, if Government are serious about Indigenous peoples leveraging economic benefits from the Indigenous estate, they must fully acknowledge that traditional practices, and caring for country can be of particular value in the new world of responding to climate change.