Sentences with phrase «focuses on climate change impacts»

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.

22 This report focuses on climate change impacts, not mitigation.

Two additional working groups, which focus on climate change impacts and responses, will release their reports early next year, followed by a synthesis volume.

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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.

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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.