Sentences with phrase «damaging effects of global climate change»

Reports in recent years that marine protected areas (MPAs) aren't effective in saving coral reefs from the damaging effects of global climate change have led some to argue that such expensive interventions are futile.

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CNN: The giant corporations powering the fossil fuel industry are warned that they face a damaging backlash if they try to resist the mounting pressures of climate change legislation and high - profile campaigning The financial and economic muscle of the global fossil fuel industry's corporate behemoths will not protect them from the costly effects of negative [continue reading...]

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Loss and damage is an important battleground in the climate justice fight because countries in the Global South are among the least responsible for climate change, yet are suffering and will suffer the worst effects of climate change.

Petroleum and coal companies are allowed to sell their products which, when consumed, cause untold trillions of dollars in costs in human health and environmental damage, and governments pay those costs in the form of medical benefits, and eventually measures to deal with the effects of global climate change.

On many occasions, we were pressured by developed countries and other groups to give way on our positions regarding a) loss and damage (i.e. compensation for developing countries suffering from the effects of climate change) and a b) 1.5 °C cap on global temperature.

The debate about climate change here often dwells on the direct effects of global warming on our natural and cultural heritage, along with the damage it will cause to agriculture and tourism.