Sentences with phrase «divisions over climate change»

This result suggests that public divisions over climate change stem not from the public's incomprehension of science but from a distinctive conflict of interest: between the personal interest individuals have in forming beliefs in line with those held by others with whom they share close ties and the collective one they all share in making use of the best available science to promote common welfare.

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The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

The paper reports that Labour is intending to try and highlight divisions with Conservative Party over climate change in the top Tory target seats where the Green Party won more than 2 % of the vote at the last election - in the hope of stopping Green supporters from switching to back the Conservatives and helping to deliver a Tory majority in the Commons.

The survey results highlight the division between scientists and farmers over climate change and the challenges in communicating climate data and trends in non-polarizing ways, Prokopy said.

Yaun sees a kind of division in the discourse over issues like climate change that is far more profound than party affiliation, yet perhaps is more bridgeable once identified:

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

The same basic divisions — said in hundreds of different ways in dozens of meeting rooms in the Peruvian capital — have stalled any significant move to combat climate change, though it is already affecting farm output worldwide; adding to uncertainty over freshwater availability; hastening glacier melt; raising sea levels; and making storms, floods and droughts more frequent and more severe.

In her paper this summer about migration and climate change in a context of high mobility (in collaboration with UN-HABITAT and the Population Division, UN / DESA), Cecilia Tacoli of the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) cites an estimate that by 2050 there will be over 200 million people forced to move primarily because of climate change.

The chief scientist said Mr. Daboub, who oversees the sustainable development division of the bank, tried to take out some references to climate change completely and, in other cases, replaced it with the phrases «climate risk» and «climate variability», which convey greater uncertainty over the human impact on climate.

Government divisions over approach to climate change plan are bridged, but targets will be reviewed in 2018 to consider their impact on industry