Sentences with phrase «developing new climate»

It targets adaptation practitioners and decision - makers at all levels (from community to global) who are designing new adaptation initiatives and / or developing new climate change - related policies.

Their research, published in Physical Review Letters, could be helpful in developing new climate models that better capture ocean dynamics.

Hunt said he would work with Australia's chief scientist, Alan Finkel, CSIRO, and the scientific community to develop a new climate science strategy that will cover remaining staff and charge a new climate change center in Hobart, Australia, with coordinating related research efforts across government agencies and academia.

The dataset was produced by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego who developed a new climate «downscaling» method for global climate models known as localized constructed analogs (LOCA).

Australia can develop new climate - safe exports to make up for forgoing potential future export income that might accrue from new fossil fuel extraction projects.

The E.O. instructs Federal agencies to work together and with information users to develop new climate preparedness tools and information that state, local, and private - sector leaders need to make smart decisions.

SA can develop new climate - safe exports to make up for forgoing potential future export income that might accrue from drilling for oil in the Bight or from future new gas extraction projects.

So the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS), of which I'm a board member, developed new climate - specific passive house standards.

In cooperation with Building Science Corporation, under a U.S. DOE Building America Grant, the PHIUS Technical Committee has developed a new climate - specific passive building standard.

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Develop and market profitable new products and services that actually turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance — and improve the perception of your company

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

A new insurance program has been launched to help small farmers in developing countries recover from devastating effects of climate change.

However, with the world's food produced and grown under changing climate conditions, depleting resources, and rising population, improved new varieties need to be developed and released faster.

How can Australian research and industry work together to help developing regions improve their resilience to an increasingly volatile world (geopolitical instability, warzones, and climate change) by helping them produce more food domestically, stabilising their markets and ultimately creating a new customer base?

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

While today's schools work hard to develop friendly social climates, you will want to consider how well your child will get along with their new peers.

Utilizing a new fabric specially developed and made in Europe for babywearing, you now have a ring sling that is not just more comfortable but also easier to use and manage than traditional ring slings, and best of all, suitable for all climates.

In a way, the climate negotiations since have justified its fears: in the two decades since, developing countries have continually clamoured for a new climate - specific funding institution, dissatisfied with the World Bank's involvement in the Global Environmental Facility that has served as the Framework convention's financial mechanism.

The push, part of the 2018 State of the State agenda, will also lead to the creation of an advisory panel to develop a «de-carbonization roadmap» for new investments that bolster fighting climate change and green technology.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.

The Clean Power Plan was part of an effort that included New York and other states to develop required cuts in emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants in order to combat climate change.

Erie County is developing a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations with funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) which is expected to not only reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions but also save the County on energy costs.

Water quality in the Schoharie Valley and the Catskill Watershed has captured the attention of environmentalists and government officials who have joined forces to develop procedures and policies for dealing with «the new normal» climate change seems to have cast across upstate New Yonew normal» climate change seems to have cast across upstate New YoNew York.

«Deploying offshore wind is key — not only to reducing the pollution that is fouling our air and devastating our climate, but also to developing the renewable energy future needed to create a vibrant and sustainable economy,» said Ross Gould, Environmental Advocates of New York's Air & Energy Program Director.

The lawmaker is a member of the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus and has discussed the need to develop clean and renewable energy in New York's 21st Congressional District, including wind and hydropower as part of an «all of the above» energy approach.

A new study suggests that climate change will make life even more arduous for adolescent girls in the developing world

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modellers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

Following up on discussions in the regular negotiations, the accord would establish a start - up fund of roughly US$ 30 billion over the next three years to help developing countries prepare for a warmer climate, integrate new technologies into sustainable development plans and protect their forests.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

When new particles develop in the atmosphere, this influences cloud formation and with that the climate too.

During an eerily foreshadowing talk I attended the week before Sandy came crashing ashore, New York City's climate resilience advisor, Leah Cohen, assured the small attending audience that PlaNYC 2030, a tentative map for the city's sustainable growth, outlined no such plans to «buy back» developed areas in the city — even those dangerously close to the water's edge.

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

That's why the Georgia Tech team has developed a new way of mining data from climate data sets that is more self - contained than traditional tools.

Drawing from a new schematic of crop yield response under historical / current and future climate developed by the co-author David Lobell from Stanford University, they were able to determine the impact on crop yield from five management practices.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.

The new IRI director, Brazilian meteorologist Antonio Divino Moura, and his 15 to 20 staff scientists will use supercomputers to develop global projections of several months or more of precipitation, temperature, and other climate variables, says Scripps climate scientist Nicholas Graham.

While there is the development of new hydrocarbon sources, including deepwater / horizontal drilling and fracking, are contentiously underway, commitments to mitigate climate change are driving efforts to develop sources of alternative and renewable energy.

Mark Howden, head of agricultural climate adaptation projects at CSIRO in Canberra, oversees projects to develop new farming systems that reduce water seepage and new crops bred with genetic traits suited to hotter, drier conditions and elevated carbon dioxide.

Kodjak said the ICAO's proposed standards will not sufficiently cut airplane emissions to reduce their climate impact, and the EPA's process for developing new standards for U.S. airplanes could be an opportunity to make emissions cuts even stricter.

Those payments will come in three flavors of so - called climate financing: as part of a bolstered adaptation fund, a new fund to pay developing countries to protect their forests, and money to help poorer countries buy appropriate technology to make their commitments.

The methodology developed in Lovejoy's two recent papers could also be used by researchers to help analyze precipitation trends and regional climate variability and to develop new stochastic methods of climate forecasting, he adds.

Schaeffer and his colleague Niklas Hoehne of the climate consultancy ECOFYS told New Scientist that the loopholes could allow developed nations to carry on increasing their emissions until 2020.

The University of Surrey has developed a new and cost - effective catalyst to recycle two of the main causes behind climate change — carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

By remotely «combing» the atmosphere with a custom laser - based instrument, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have developed a new technique that can accurately measure — over a sizeable distance — amounts of several of the major «greenhouse» gases implicated in climate change.

An international team of scientists has developed a strategy to boost people's ability to adapt to climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate Climate Change.

«This new high - resolution climate model is able to simulate regional - scale precipitation with considerably improved accuracy compared to previous generation models,» said Tom Delworth, a research scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., who helped develop the new model and is co-author of the paper.

With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate.

A botany researcher at New Zealand's University of Otago and colleagues have developed a new system to map the world's «biomes» — large - scale vegetation formations — that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changNew Zealand's University of Otago and colleagues have developed a new system to map the world's «biomes» — large - scale vegetation formations — that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changnew system to map the world's «biomes» — large - scale vegetation formations — that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changes.