Two additional working groups, which
focus on climate change impacts and responses, will release their reports early next year, followed by a synthesis volume.
22 This report
focuses on climate change impacts, not mitigation.
The report, which is the product of more than 300 lead authors and hundreds more contributing authors,
focuses on climate change impacts as well as opportunities to adapt to a changing climate and reduce the global community's vulnerability to climate change - related impacts.
Not exact matches
Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research
focuses on the
impact of
climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.
Their
focus on overcoming disease, improving education, and lobbying for
climate change initiatives is having a powerful
impact.
There were librarians and archivists
focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the
impact of the TPP
on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists
focused on the TPP and
climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.
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.
This lead Deya to Beyond Meat, a company
focused on improving human health, positively
impacting climate change, conserving natural resources and respecting animal welfare through the innovation of plant based meat products.
Current concerns about
climate change have
focused on the
impact of transport
on the environment.
She also said the state needs to
focus more resources
on environmental protection efforts and look at what it can do to reduce the
impacts of
climate change.
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.
Her research
focuses on global
change ecology and
climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the
impact of
climate change through new techniques in conservation management.
To date, concerns about
climate change's
impact on agriculture have
focused on drought — another likely outcome of warming world.
Four News stories
focus on past and future
impacts of
climate change and the techniques that researchers are using to study them.
Three Reviews
focus on more specific
impacts of
climate change.
This special section of Science
focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of
climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis
on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological
impacts and improve predictive power.
By
focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis
on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the
impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and
climate change,
on the local ecosystem.
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 bill
focuses heavily
on the likely
impacts of
climate change in Mexico and points to concerns over the increase in extreme weather events.
His research is
focused on marine biodiversity, coral reef ecology and conservation and the
impacts of
climate change on marine ecosystems.
Another White House guest in the crowd was Nicole Hernandez Hammer, a
climate activist who has
focused her work
on climate change's
impacts in Florida.
Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of
changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term
impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that
climate change adaptation can not just
focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong
focus on planning for and mitigating the
impacts of
climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites,
climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.
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.
They
focused on climate change and sea - level rise
impacts in the coastal zone, and examined ways of how to better manage and cope with
climate change.
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.»
«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research
focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its
impact on climate change.
By
focusing on teenage girls, the authors stress, they are not making light of the
impacts climate change will have
on boys and men.
«The Assyrians can be «excused» to some extent for
focusing on short - term economic or political goals which increased their risk of being negatively
impacted by
climate change, given their technological capacity and their level of scientific understanding about how the natural world worked,» adds Selim Adalı.
To date, most empirical evidence
on climate change impacts have
focused on the agricultural sector.
This assessment is
focused on the analysis of
climate change impacts to the sectors of water (Chapter 3), forests (Chapter 4), and agriculture (Chapter 5).
Her international research programme
focuses on the
impacts of global
climate change and ocean acidification
on coastal marine biodiversity and the consequences for ecosystem structure and functioning, and spans the UK, Europe, USA and NZ.
His next research project will
focus on the pollen record of the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, studying the
impact of rapid
climate change across the Paleocene — Eocene Thermal Maximum
on the formerly subtropical plants of the US Western Interior.
We
focus instead
on one major insect pest --- wheat stem sawfly (Cephus cinctus Norton)--
on Montana's dominant crop, wheat, to illustrate the mechanisms and principles involved in assessing
climate change effects
on agricultural pests and their
impacts on crop yield or quality.
IPF Luxembourg
focuses on the production of communication and education material and the organisation of events to promote Polar Sciences as a mean to better understand
Climate Change and the
impacts it will have
on our environments.
While Pollard's research
focuses on understanding the microbiome through bioinformatics and modeling, other projects study human disorders such as diabetes and asthma, the
impact of the ocean and soil
on climate change, and the influence of plants, animals, and water
on food production.
Michael's research
focuses on the natural science and policy aspects of
climate change and its
impacts, especially sea level rise and its causes and consequences.
I've worked with a number of systems, including plants and invertebrates, recently
focusing on the
impact of
climate change on ant communities.
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.
The interview
focused on climate change assessments and whether scientists underestimate
impacts to, as Oreskes... Continue reading →
This issue of the TWAS Newsletter has a special
focus on science diplomacy in the developing world, and describes the
impact in health,
climate change, astronomy, education and other fields.
Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious
Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate
Climate Action Plan
focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for
climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate
climate impacts, and leading
on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act
on climate climate change.
While much of the attention at Paris is
focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many
climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Climate Change.
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.
Five impressively researched sections frame our Anthropocene
impacts (with considerable
focus on climate change); discuss the innovations that might ameliorate those
impacts; enumerate man's interaction with (read: manipulation of) and influence upon nature; outline the intersection of our technological advances and nature; and explore our mind - boggling tinkering with the human body and psyche.
With a
focus on the
impact that
climate change is having in the region, the Belize International Film Festival will also screen documentaries and short films that encourage the development and use of green technologies and social
changes to safeguard the environment.
In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his
focus on human - driven
climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging
impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
The article provides a solid review of the recent developments in the science
focusing on potential
climate change impacts on tropical cyclones.
The second lecture deals with the
impacts of
climate change (with a
focus on extreme events and sea - level rise) and the possibilities for holding global warming below 2 °C.