Sentences with phrase «different climate risks»

Similar adaptation strategies can often be implemented for different climate risks.

Not exact matches

From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

It's more accurate to say that each week we have a small, statistically insignificant and wholly unreliable forecast for the coming week's market direction, but that when grouped over a large number of instances, the differences in the average return / risk profile of different Market Climates are highly statistically significant.

Basically, a Market Climate says «when these conditions were historically true, here is the set of returns that the market had - some are positive, some are negative, but look, the average return / risk profile is different in this Climate than in the other ones.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recognized that CCS should be one component of our response to carbon emissions and climate change, but there are many different approaches that could be taken, all with variousClimate Change (IPCC) has recognized that CCS should be one component of our response to carbon emissions and climate change, but there are many different approaches that could be taken, all with variousclimate change, but there are many different approaches that could be taken, all with various risks.

Up until now, scientists have sought to quantify the risk of climate change to different species by mapping where those species occur today based on climate and then predicting where they may occur in the future.

The study features maps of the state and shows the climate risk to 30 different vegetation types under different climate scenarios.

The study identifies such climate change refugia based on the amount of natural habitat present and the risk that regions shift to a different type of natural vegetation due to climate change — a phenomenon known as «biome shift».

However, if we choose a different path — if we act aggressively to both adapt to the changing climate and to mitigate future impacts by reducing carbon emissions — we can significantly reduce our exposure to the worst economic risks from climate change, and also demonstrate global leadership on climate.

Relationship between sun exposure and melanoma risk for tumours in different body sites in a large case - control study in a temperate climate, Eur J Cancer (2010), doi: 10.1016 / j.ejca.2010.10.008, in press.

A sleeping box should be constructed about twice the size of the dog, with bedding placed inside.There are many ideas for ideal bedding, but there is no perfect solution because every breed has different needs and every climate has differing risks.

Distinguishing between different kinds of extreme weather events is important because the risks of different kinds of events are affected by climate change in different ways.

Perhaps my pursuit of the «research needed to understand it» and my assessment there from of the «causes, risks, and hazards,» may be different from those of other AGU members, but I don't think that should exclude me from trying to «communicate clearly and objectively with those who can implement policies to shape future climate.»

Today and Wednesday a group of authors from across the different working groups — examining the basics of climate science, the impacts of warming and options for policy responses — are meeting at Jasper Ridge in northern California to come up with an approach for «consistent evaluation of uncertainties and risks.»

Among other notions related to communicating environmental risk, I explore whether the public and media response to human - driven climate change might have been different if CO2 were pink.

(This is a very different task than girding communities against climate - related risks.)

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

Direct extinction risk caused by climate change for all of Earth's species, for different scenarios of atmospheric warming.

This report highlights 30 at - risk locations chosen because the science behind the risks they face is robust, and because together they shine a spotlight on the different kinds of climate impacts already affecting the United States» cultural heritage.

In terms of the risk this has never been about decadal fine tuning, but about (preventing) the longterm slide into an entirely different climate the Earth hasn't seen for millions of years.

Although the small number of impact assessments that evaluate stabilisation scenarios do not take full account of uncertainties in projected climate under stabilisation, they nevertheless provide indications of damages avoided and risks reduced for different amounts of emissions reduction.

A warmer climate therefore increases risks of both drought — where it is not raining — and floods — where it is — but at different times and / or places.

«The plaintiff cities and counties apparently describe these climate risks in ways that are far different than how they described them in their own bond offerings,» said the CEI in its petition.

Lovely little anecdotes, but if an ATC system crashes on a busy day, people's lives are at risk whereas if a climate model crashes (due to a system or process error rather than a numerical error), it can be re-run — as long as the error doesn't cause different results to occur, ie.

Comparing liberal and conservative assessments of the risks of climate change and nuclear power and showing how these responses vary with different levels of scientific literacy.

Causes and Impacts of global warming and climate change, looks into discussing the causes, impacts, risks, and trends that different scenarios of climate change impose to the living of humans on earth.

«Scenarios of different rates and magnitudes of climate change provide a basis for assessing the risk of crossing identifiable thresholds in both physical change and impacts on biological and human systems».

Carry out relevant research activities that would reduce climate related risks for the different socio - economic sectors.

The Himalayan Times: Climate experts from six different countries, including Nepal, have called for integration of climate and disaster risks management into national development policies and progClimate experts from six different countries, including Nepal, have called for integration of climate and disaster risks management into national development policies and progclimate and disaster risks management into national development policies and programmes.

Indeed by producing large ensembles, for multiple different emission scenarios, we do present the climate projections as a set of possible future climate risks, with associated uncertainty.

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

I approach this climate debate from two other different perspectives: medical, where confidence levels are calculated quite accurately, and risk management.

It is almost universally assumed that political polarization over societal risks like climate change originate in different levels of trust in scientists: left - leaning people believe in human - caused climate change, it is said, because they have a greater degree of confidence i...

Climate modelling has a different problem: based on forecast and projection, it is by definition an inexact science, but one upon which concrete decisions must be based if governments and societies are to assess risks and plan ahead.

It is almost universally assumed that political polarization over societal risks like climate change originate in different levels of tru...

People are projecting European & American climate (drought risk is in summer) onto a fundamentally different climate.

Report on the workshop on the assessment of risk and vulnerability of agricultural systems to different climate change scenarios at regional, national and local levels, including but not limited to pests and diseases.

Rather, it is that SRM and CDR, along with mitigation and adaptation, could be implemented in such a way as to complement one another, with different policies brought to bear on those aspects of climate risk which they are best suited to address.

ELASTINEN project provides information and seeks solutions for strengthening the capabilities of different sectors to assess and manage risks related to weather, climate, and economic impacts.

All that can be told — and certainly should be told — is that climate change brings new and changed risks, that these risks can have a range of significant implications under different conditions, that there is an array of political considerations to be taken into account when judging what needs to be done, and there are a portfolio of powerful, but somewhat untested, policy measures that could be tried.

develop solutions for different sectors for risk assessment and management related to extreme weather and climate events, such as thunder storms in 2010 and Tapani storm on Boxing day 2011, using also economic assessment methods

ELASTINEN (2015 - 2016) project provided information and sought solutions for strengthening the capabilities of different sectors to assess and manage risks related to weather, climate, and economic impacts.

Indeed the second Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report published this year found that climate change was already impacting global society in a number of different ways, including decreasing agricultural output, acidifying the oceans, worsening extreme weather, and even exacerbating the risk of civil conClimate Change (IPCC) report published this year found that climate change was already impacting global society in a number of different ways, including decreasing agricultural output, acidifying the oceans, worsening extreme weather, and even exacerbating the risk of civil conclimate change was already impacting global society in a number of different ways, including decreasing agricultural output, acidifying the oceans, worsening extreme weather, and even exacerbating the risk of civil conflicts.

The warmer climate therefore increases risks of both drought − where it is not raining − and floods − where it is − but at different times and / or places.

Compendium of projected risks due to critical climate change impacts on ecosystems for different levels of global mean annual temperature rise, ΔT, relative to pre-industrial climate (approach and event numbers as used in Table 4.1 and Appendix 4.1).

We've gone down a different path when talking about climate - change risk than we have with other risk topics like earthquakes and pandemics.

Obama said today that these databases will be set up to «make sure that cities and state assess risk under different climate scenarios so we don't waste money on projects that don't withstand the next storm.»

Recent multi model estimates based on different CMIP3 climate scenarios and different dynamic global vegetation models predict a moderate risk of tropical forest reduction in South America and even lower risk for African and Asian tropical forests (see also Section 12.5.5.6)(Gumpenberger et al., 2010; Huntingford et al., 2013).»

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.