Sentences with phrase «developing new climate change»

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.

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Cchange, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate Climate ChangeChange.

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.

Most developed countries see carbon markets as crucial under any new agreement because they seek out the cheapest emissions reductions, making climate change targets more achievable.

A new federal report strengthens our understanding of global climate change, providing policymakers with scientific evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following the release of the Climate Science Special Report on climate change, providing policymakers with scientific evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following the release of the Climate Science Special Report on Climate Science Special Report on Friday.

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.

In an office in London or New York it is less of a big deal — and the invisibility of climate change in developed countries is a barrier to communicating the risks.

But it makes equally clear that climate - related changes are already being observed globally and that new problems and challenges will develop no matter how radically emissions are reduced in the future.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject specialisms.

She has over a decade of experience developing new strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change on tropical marine ecosystems and developing tools and guidance to help managers and communities to respond.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

Case Study from IIASA Annual Report 2011: IIASA is developing new scenarios to underpin work of the upcoming Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5) More

«The UMI highlights the need for new imaging and omics technologies, such as those currently being developed at PNNL, to understand how microbes function and interact in complex environments and how they are impacted by climate change and other perturbations,» said Jansson, who also leads the Microbiomes in Transition initiative at PNNL.

Lightbridge is developing and commercializing next generation nuclear fuel technology that will significantly improve the economics and safety of existing and new reactors, with a meaningful impact on preventing climate change.

If you want to go deeper, the Capricorn new moons encourages it: read up on climate change and hydraulic fracking to develop an informed opinion on the topic.

International cooperation on climate - safe technologies and building capacity in the developing world to address climate change are also significantly strengthened under the new agreement.

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

Australia is said to working behind - the - scenes on the legal framework for a new climate treaty and on methods to finance developing countries» efforts to adapt to climate change and the technology to develop in a low carbon way.Rudd is working on getting U.S. and China, the leading emitters of greenhouse gases, to agree on a deal before talks begin in Copenhagen.

Keeping in mind that there were some notable exceptions — Sweden's prime minister calling for 25 - 40 % reductions from developed nations, the Maldives president basically accusing the developed world of trotting them out like a climate change show - pony twice a year and then ignoring their plight for the rest of the time, Japan's new prime minister committing to bring about 25 % domestic reductions — the statements made by national leaders were largely absent of truly strong details.

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration project).

It supports efforts at NASA, recommended as a priority by the National Research Council, to develop new space - based capabilities to help us better understand our changing climate.

-- Developing new international financial instruments to raise the tens of billions of dollars rich countries pledged to help poor ones adapt to climate change, develop non-polluting energy systems and restore forests.

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Finally, there's the engineer's myth, which holds that climate change will be easy to tackle because inventors will develop new technologies to lower the cost of reducing pollution.

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A new global climate - change regime is years away, but governments around the world are leveraging voluntary tools developed by the private sector to incubate climate - change solutions.

Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.

Measures, he said, would include developing new efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, expanding energy sources like solar and wind on public lands, and bolstering climate - change affected communities.

Other new techniques for incorporating such complex changes into quantitative climate scenarios are yet to be developed.

«The Center for Carbon Removal has an important role to play in guiding industry and governments as they develop new, sustainable, and scalable tools to fight climate change,» said Dr. Daniel Kammen, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the Center's team of a dozen advisers from industry, finance, policy, and academia.