Sentences with phrase «face as a result of climate change»

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«To avoid the kind of long - term economic disruption we are now facing, Government, engineers and the entire supply chain need to work together to make the infrastructure as a whole more resilient — and adapt it to cope with the anticipated increase in flooding as result of climate change.

Even the seemingly pristine Galápagos Islands, one of the most biologically rich and diverse ecosystems on the planet, face increasing threats as a result of climate change, water pollution, invasive plants and animals and other challenges related to human activities.

The document will, in part, spell out the potential disruptions the United States faces as a result of a changing climate, perhaps giving Holdren's idea some currency.

The second enormous challenge that we need to face as a result of the events set in motion 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture is climate change.

More than one - third of all counties in the lower 48 states will face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as a result of climate change.

I've never been to a COP before, but I certainly have felt and experienced the effects of climate change: in the drought that people face in my home country Kenya as a result of the disruption in rainfall patterns, and in the flooding that has seen lives lost, crops destroyed and cattle dying.

If, just over a year ago, had you proposed a film to Brian Cox, which took issue with the claims that climate change would massively reduce crop yields in Africa, or that the hundreds of millions of people living beneath the Himalayas face chronic water shortages as a result of glacial recession, you would, in his view, be a «maverick».

Kumi Naidoo, director of Greenpeace International, said that «The Polish government has done its best to turn these talks into a showcase for the coal industry», and that «backsliding by Japan, Australia and Canada» was a «slap in the face to those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change» (i.e. nobody).

The Philippines, a low - lying country of over 100 million people, faces threats from more intense typhoons, dramatic changes in rainfall patterns, sea level rise, and increasing temperatures as a result of man - made climate change, experts said.

Even if Trump himself were gone tomorrow, the nation still faces simmering crises (falling energy return on investment, increasing economic inequality, over-reliance on debt, climate change) that appear to be leading toward collapse of government and the economy; meanwhile, as a result of political polarization, social fragmentation, plain old corruption (see NRA), and truth decay we are losing whatever ability we ever had to address those crises.

Over two - dozen students have been placed in national parks in the National Capital Region to collaborate with park staff in developing education programs that illuminate the impacts and risks faced by the park as a result of climate change.

However, as a direct result of climate change, 20 % to 30 % of plant and animal species assessed so far would face a «commitment to extinction» [11] for a temperature rise of 2 °C to 3 °C.»

«Mongolia is facing enormous challenges including growing pressure on food security, traditional nomadic herding and water supplies as a result of the impacts of climate change,» said UN Under - Secretary - General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

As a result of this selfish misleading of public officials and the general public by many in the climate change research community, valuable resources get mis - used by political bodies trying to prioritize and solve the many different problems they are facing.

Large parts of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia will face an increasing risk of severe and prolonged drought this century as a result of climate change, a new study has confirmed..

Indigenous landholders are severely under resourced and have limited capacity and infrastructure to respond to the challenges they face as a result of human induced climate change.

However, in summary «Australia's current human rights laws do not provide adequate protection to Torres Strait Islanders faced with damage to their culture and possible relocation as a result of climate change».