Sentences with phrase «focus on climate change from»

Although voluntary, the pressure on companies to begin reporting on these measures will be strong, given the now global focus on climate change from governments and consumers alike.

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Think of the large NGOs focused on climate change as the beavers who want to keep new holes from forming.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

The Risky Business Project focused on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

The Risky Business Project focuses on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

Our best plan of action now would be to focus on how to deal with climate change once it arrives in force, instead of the current futile attempts to stop it from happening.

Experts giving evidence to the Commons» energy and climate change committee urged ministers to shift from the three - year - deadline to focus on what will happen in five to ten years.

Panels focused on current efforts to tackle climate change, ranging from local environmental initiatives to the global Paris climate agreement, as well as how divestment from fossil fuels can be a tool for climate justice and curbing the impacts of climate change.

Billionaire philanthropist puts focus on protecting small farmers saying they are likely to suffer the most from climate change.

Inhofe attacks «environmental agenda» These messages don't sit well with conservatives who say that a focus on climate change detracts from efforts to contain terrorism and siphons away needed resources.

Current predictions of extinction risks from climate change vary widely depending on the specific assumptions and geographic and taxonomic focus of each study.

So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.

Harstad acknowledged that such an approach would be a «radical departure» from the more popular view, embodied in such agreements as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which places much of its focus on end - of - stack emissions.

In early 2014, his focus shifted from an emphasis on climate change and the environment to biomedical research.

Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but new research this week from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.

The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of climate change and population growth.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

Watson said most climate studies on biodiversity focus on the effects climate change could have 50 to 100 years from now.

According to Sharp, the focus of the findings also marks an important milestone from the perspective of glaciology, which traditionally focuses on sea level as the most direct consequence of the impact of climate change on glaciers.

St. Pierre noted that the scientific exploration of Lake Hazen speaks to the big - picture perspective, approaching the questions of climate change from a focus on the whole system rather than examining subsystems in silos.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Focusing on the climate change «controversy», the expert he chose on that particular matter was Climate Communication's Science Director, Richard Somerville, featured in a clip from last year discussing human - induced climate climate change «controversy», the expert he chose on that particular matter was Climate Communication's Science Director, Richard Somerville, featured in a clip from last year discussing human - induced climate Climate Communication's Science Director, Richard Somerville, featured in a clip from last year discussing human - induced climate climate change.

She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from New York University, where her research focused on the role of motivated reasoning in climate change skepticism.

Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.

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.

Highlights of the annual meeting included a session focusing on the role of observations in climate change research and breakout sessions with topics ranging from current field campaigns to new instruments.

A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to actual impacts of climate change on time - scales of up to 30 years.

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«Our work on this common species helps us to understand the adaptive responses of birds to a changing climate and their constraints, and this fundamental knowledge will help future workers and managers focus their work on other species and potentially identify those species most at risk from climate change.»

The focus here is on polar bears and how rapid climate change is altering and threatening their existence some 150,000 years after they evolved from brown bears and adapted to the below - zero temperatures of the Earth's northernmost regions.

We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.

Green Cross Sri Lanka's version of the Green Lane Diary focuses on climate change and water conservation, as well as how to protect the environment from tsunami damage.

Lesson created for the Changing Climate topic of the new OCR B (9 - 1) Geography GCSE, focusing on the pattern of climate change from the start of the Quaternary period to preseClimate topic of the new OCR B (9 - 1) Geography GCSE, focusing on the pattern of climate change from the start of the Quaternary period to preseclimate change from the start of the Quaternary period to present day.

The intensified focus on Illinois results in part from a changing national climate for principal preparation.

In addition, each OA shall focus as appropriate for its missions on the following areas: transportation access to jobs, particularly for non-driving segments of the population; quality of transportation systems near minority and low - income communities; implementation of NEPA; implementation of Title VI; impacts and benefits from commercial transportation and supporting infrastructure (goods movement); and impacts from climate change.

Summer 2017 — Issue 6, cover art by W. Jack Savage • Sixth issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.»

Caroline has a bachelor's in biology and environmental studies from the University of Victoria (UV) and her masters in science, with a focus on kelp forest ecology and the effects of climate change from Case Western Reserve University.

Marfa Dialogues 2012 featured a weekend of programming focused on climate change, with presentations and discussions with input from Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit and Dr. Diana Liverman, among others.

In 2013, Marfa Dialogues is moving from the desert to the city, where the project will continue to focus on climate change, integrating the work and voices of artists, writers, journalists, scientists and other participants from the academic, government and public interest sectors.

• A preview of Marfa Dialogues / NY from the July 15, 2013 New York Times: «Cultural Programs to Focus on Climate Change» by Allan Kozinn

Many seasoned observers of climate science and policy feel it's hard to see how they will, given the pressures on political figures to focus on the here and now, and the variegated interests arrayed at the ranks of tables — from shrinking island states to oil monarchies to established and emerging powers sitting on mountains of coal — and the tough time our species has recognizing slow but consequential changes.

In light of those concerns, I suggest a suite of policies, focused largely on risk reduction and adaptation, to insulate the United States and countries of strategic concern from the worst effects of climate change.

It is too bad that the editors picked a bad piece of art to accompany our letter but the focus of the climate deniers on the art is an effort to divert public attention once again from the facts of climate change.

For a stark example of the costs attending business as usual, read the following «Your Dot» contribution from Elizabeth Hadly, a Stanford University biologist who's been doing field work in Nepal's Himalayan highlands focused on the impact of climate change on small mammals.

I've queried a batch of researchers focused on ice sheets and sea level on these findings, and asked them how their views of sea level changes in a warming world have evolved since the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.

He gave a modest thumbs up to Dr. Schmidt but his overall reaction was that the commentators focusing on changing how the climate issue is «framed» were far too detached from the public to have a meaningful idea of how to make an impact.

In a news release from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Brian O'Neill, an author of the study (and someone who has long focused on the interplay of population and climate change), stressed the importance of considering the interplay of societal patterns and climate patterns in gauging evolving risks:

Postscript, 5:25 p.m. ** Via Twitter, I was pointed to a Heritage Foundation blog post by Joel Griffith criticizing Young Conservatives for Energy Reform for supporting renewable - energy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate change.

The demonstrators were largely focused on economic injustice and inequity, with a central concern being climate change driven mainly by emissions from rich countries and mostly harming poor nations that have not had an industrial revolution.