Sentences with phrase «emerging challenges of climate change»

As new dynamics settled in and emerging challenges of climate change moved in Kairo was compelled to think deeper.

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Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

This collection of essays, which emerged from a 2012 conference of the same name at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Center for 21st Century Studies, assembles texts by a group of scholars who expand on numerous challenges involving engagement with the nonhuman, such as climate change, biotechnology, genocide, terrorism, and war.

We talk about how evidence of past abrupt climate change emerged and challenged climate scientists to reexamine smooth curves toward a warmer world.

The world's most powerful established and emerging nations — together responsible for more than 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — concluded a day - long meeting after the Group of 8 summit in Japan and emerged on Wednesday with a joint statement calling climate change «one of the great global challenges of our time.»

It's a global compact signed on a voluntary basis by Local and Regional Authorities willing to adapt their water infrastructure and services to the emerging challenges they are increasingly facing such as climate change, rapid urban growth, depletion and pollution of water resources or ageing infrastructure.

A new scandal is now emerging that fundamentally challenges the accuracy of climate - change data provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This book sets out the opportunities and emerging challenges in the area of sustainable development and climate change, and identifies innovative means for addressing them.

It emphasizes the issues of securing energy needs of poor and climate change mitigation emerging as conflicting challenges, and their significance in the Asia - Pacific region in the global context.

The regional discussions emphasized the need to enhance transboundary cooperation on water resource management, and to build adaptive capacities of institutions in each region to manage emerging challenges, particularly those related to climate change.

Broader adoption of renewable power production in emerging economies is not the only solution to climate change challenges.

The challenge faced by the Obama administration as it seeks to secure support for the Waxman - Markey Climate Change bill was again underlined when it emerged oil and gas industry lobbyists are planning a nationwide campaign designed to create the impression of widespread grassroots opposition to the legislation.

«Lately, along with mitigation of anthropogenic impacts on the climate system by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, the world community places increasing emphasis on the economy and public adaptation to adverse effects of climate change, including analysis and prediction of emerging challenges and threats.»

In particular, it reviews the main challenges faced by the countries of the region in their quest for sustainable development, with a focus on emerging trends related to increasing demands for infrastructure development, energy supply, and commodity exports, as well as opportunities offered by the global response to climate change.

Daily Times: The Climate Change and Vulnerability Adaptation Assessment for Capital residents will be finalised by the end of December to make Islamabad a model resilient city against emerging climatic challenges.

That I speak about the need for a representative body today does not mean that I am not concerned about the challenges that will emerge for our communities through climate change, or the threat to our children through sexual abuse and the prevalence of violence.

The Native Title Report 2008 examines the challenge of climate change for Australia's Indigenous peoples and the support they require to put in place adaptation and mitigation strategies, as well as new opportunities to participate in emerging carbon markets and to apply traditional knowledge in response to climate change.