Sentences with phrase «evaluating climate risk»

For obvious reasons evaluating climate risk is an essential part of the insurance industry.

This analytical report presents a set of pilot climate risk assessment studies aimed to test and begin to develop methods and tools for evaluating climate risks to the private sector and to identify appropriate adaptation responses.

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«There is a potential risk that if you cool the planet by albedo modification, it could provide less incentive to reduce reliance on fossil fuels,» says Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist, current editor - in - chief of Science and chair of a committee that evaluated climate intervention techniques for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

The U.N. commission was founded in 1988 to evaluate the risk of climate change brought on by humans.

DOT also works to help transportation agencies evaluate potential risks from climate change and plan for improved resilience of transportation infrastructure and services.

These results add support to the need for policy approaches that consider the non-stationarity of extreme events when evaluating risks of adverse climate impacts.

Kahan says this doesn't affect the ability of the climate scientists to evaluate risk — he's talking about just the audience / citizens / voters.

The U.N. commission was founded in 1988 to evaluate the risk of climate change brought on by humans.

Managing climate - related risks will be more difficult without a base of knowledge and practice aimed at evaluating specific risks, and their likelihood and consequences, as well as potential actions to promote resilience, say Chris Weaver et al

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.

This analytical report aims to explore the impact of climate risk on the risk decreasing practices» adoption and evaluates their impact on household welfare.

These risks were further evaluated through field measurements of insulated and un-insulated mock - up walls, and simulated further under more severe climate conditions.

New York «climate risk» meeting will call on oil majors to evaluate size of carbon reserves that are incompatible with warming world

The Parry et al. (2005) study reports the results of a series of research projects that aimed to evaluate the implications of climate change for food production and risk of hunger.

This has included developing the BC Agriculture & Climate Change Action Plan, leading a project to evaluate the agriculture sector's risks and opportunities in relation to climate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture FounClimate Change Action Plan, leading a project to evaluate the agriculture sector's risks and opportunities in relation to climate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture Founclimate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture Foundation.

An earlier version of the PAGE model was used in the UK government's 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change to evaluate the effect of extra greenhouse - gas emissions on sea level, temperature, flood risks, health and extreme weather while taking account of uncertainty7.

The World Meteorological Organization is one of the founders of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the very body that is tasked with evaluating the risk of climate change caused by human acClimate Change (IPCC)-- the very body that is tasked with evaluating the risk of climate change caused by human acclimate change caused by human activity.

The index ranked the vulnerability of the world's countries, and the 50 cities deemed most economically important, to the impacts of climate change, by evaluating their risk of exposure to extreme climate events, the sensitivity of their populations to that exposure and the adaptive capacity of governments to respond to the challenge.

This includes identifying the values that may be at risk; synthesizing information on how climate risk management problems can be prioritized and manageably bounded; providing concrete options for managing risks, including how to create or identify such options; summarizing lessons learned in how to defensibly select among options by making explicit the inevitable tradeoffs that will arise when objectives conflict; evaluating the conditions under which such actions would be more or less effective; and providing guidance on how to manage continuous change over time, since climate risks are unlikely to be static.

For example, projected changes in temperature or precipitation and the likely impact on at - risk values may be better described using analogies to more familiar risks (though more research in evaluating the effectiveness of analogies as climate communication tools is needed; e.g. (Raimi et al 2017)-RRB-.

Guentchev G., R. B. Rood, C. M. Anmann, J. J. Barsugli, et al. (February 2016): Evaluating the Appropriateness of Downscaled Climate Information for Projecting Risks of Salmonella.

Insurmountable Risks lays out a set of criteria for evaluating proposals aimed at limiting climate change, including:

The purpose of this policy document is to evaluate the impact of climate change related risks on bank borrowers, utilizing as much data and analysis as possible.

I would simply say that IPCC is a political organization whose charter is to investigate and report the» scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation», IOW to evaluate the risk of human - induced climate change and any negative effects it may have on our society and environment.

Moreover, climate communication faces new challenges as assessments of climate - related changes confront uncertainty more explicitly and adopt risk - based approaches to evaluating impacts.