Sentences with phrase «damage of action on climate change»
I would actually say it should be «The economic damage of action on climate change outweigh the future benefits of action.»
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With the agreement in effect, COP22 has been designated «the COP of action,» and the focus will be on implementation of the agreement and detailed questions of enforcement, commitment, and issues such as the loss and damage due to climate change, which are already occurring.
Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.
The stolen emails were a call to arms for all those who want to stop action on climate change, a sign, just when they thought they were even being abandoned by some conservative politicians, that the energy industry was still in action and capable of inflicting great damage on those scientists.
Parties are to enhance understanding, action and support, including through the Warsaw International Mechanism, on a cooperative and facilitative basis with respect to loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.
Talking about Loss and Damage without agreeing on compensation is unfair, and is delaying an urgent action to current and future destructive impacts of climate change on those most vulnerable.
In «A Transitional Climate Summit in Doha,» a November 28, 2012 CFR «Expert Brief» by Michael A. Levi, director of the council's Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, we are told that global climate change «threatens intensifying damages primarily in the future but requires strong action to curb emissions now.Climate Summit in Doha,» a November 28, 2012 CFR «Expert Brief» by Michael A. Levi, director of the council's Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, we are told that global climate change «threatens intensifying damages primarily in the future but requires strong action to curb emissions now.Climate Change, we are told that global climate change «threatens intensifying damages primarily in the future but requires strong action to curb emissions now.&Change, we are told that global climate change «threatens intensifying damages primarily in the future but requires strong action to curb emissions now.climate change «threatens intensifying damages primarily in the future but requires strong action to curb emissions now.&change «threatens intensifying damages primarily in the future but requires strong action to curb emissions now.»
He and those like him, in positions of power who dishonestly oppose action on climate change, so abetting irreparable damage to this planet that we all share and love, will be seen by future generations as the worst of the worst.
Costs are defined in a variety of ways and under a variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from climate change; ► implementation costs of changing existing rules and regulation, capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ► social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)'s technical paper on the subject says that the negative effects of slow onset events are already affecting developing countries and the resulting loss and damage associated with slow onset events is likely to increase significantly, even assuming that appropriate mitigation and adaptation action is undertaken.