Sentences with phrase «daunting challenges of climate change»

The plan seeks to implement the concept of using the campus as a kind of «living laboratory» to explore innovative and scalable ways of tackling the daunting challenges of climate change, and to use that living laboratory to enhance the educational experience of MIT's students and provide new hands - on teaching opportunities for its faculty.

Not exact matches

Now, as the world faces the daunting challenge of trying to curb climate change by weaning itself from fossil fuels, Smil's work on energy transitions is getting more attention than ever.

Instilling in students the value of thinking beyond the short term will give them the best chance to tackle some of the world's most daunting challenges, including climate change.

With vast economic, political, and eco-problems (other than climate change) to ponder, and with the challenges of making a living and raising a family in increasingly daunting circumstances, the attention of many people is on a lot of other things in addition to climate change.

The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year on options for mitigating emissions concluded that stabilization of greenhouse gases could be accomplished with known technologies, but the new paper contends that the panel's assumptions about technological innovation made a daunting challenge look far more doable than it really is.

Turned out the event was less about science than it was about communications — and the challenges of communicating about climate change were never more visible, or more daunting.

The document also suggest ensuring food security in the face of climate change is among the most daunting challenges facing humankind.

«We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age.

My Reply - Even IF the climate model could predict the current statistics of the occurrence of ENSO, the NAO, the PDO, etc [which is proving quite a daunting challenge], this, by itself is not sufficient to justify their use to provide projection of CHANGES in the statistics of ENSO, the NAO, the PDO, etc events in the coming decades.

«Some specific features of the climate change threat combine with certain aspects of human psychology to make the challenge of collective national and international action an especially daunting one,» the researchers write.