Sentences with phrase «for adapting to global warming»

Not exact matches

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

While the Antarctic region still provides a sanctuary for micro-organisms, global warming in the Arctic means mammals adapted to the cold are fast running out of places they can live, according to Kleinteich.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

Recent drought gives a taste of things to come for Kruger National Park, South Africa, as global warming outpaces species» ability to adapt

In the current era in which the problems of global warming can lead to planetary catastrophe, every city has to have a plan for adapting to climate change, especially thosesubject toextreme events.

According to this logic, the individual «good - hearted U.S. citizen» — although he or she possesses «vast wealth», and although he or she «helped create» the problems caused by global warming & climate change — is not to be held individually responsible for helping (the people in) poor countries adapt to probems caused by CO2 emissions.

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

Last week it was time for a new announcement, when the Brazilian government presented the draft for a plan to fight and adapt to global warming.

It follows that adaptation to the consequences of «global warming» will get easier and cheaper the longer we wait: for then we will only have to adapt to the probably few and minor consequences that will eventually occur, and not until they occur, and only where and to the extent that they occur.

· Explore how to deal with the risks of climatic changes, including how to adapt to the growing and potentially severe impacts of global warming for water resources.

Equally troubling, for those creatures and ecosystems that do manage to adapt to an environment 2 or 3 degrees warmer, could they cope in a cooling environment as the global temperature is wound back to 1.5 degrees?

We're working for solutions that will reduce emissions to levels compatible with a healthy planet, preserve forests and help nature adapt to global warming.

Alternet: Global temperatures may be climbing at a rate too fast for our forests and its biodiversity to adapt, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) warned after the World Bank predicted a 4 °C warming of the planet if policymakers continue to be apathetic about greenhouse gas emissions.

«Paul Ehrlich has never been able to learn from past experience,» he said, then launched into the Cornucopian line on the greenhouse crisis — how, even in the unlikely event that doomsayers are right about global warming, humanity will find some way to avert climate change or adapt, and everyone will emerge the better for it.

Working Group II addressed the vulnerability of human and natural systems to climate change (i.e., the negative and positive consequences of global warming) and options for adapting to the changes.

Among the targets on his hit list: the United Nations» Green Climate Fund (GCF), which hands out money for programs to adapt or mitigate global warming; the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund — saving $ 239 million; and the Global Climate Change Initiative, saving U.S. taxpayers $ 362 miglobal warming; the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund — saving $ 239 million; and the Global Climate Change Initiative, saving U.S. taxpayers $ 362 miGlobal Climate Change Initiative, saving U.S. taxpayers $ 362 million.

In arguing that the United States or other high - emitting nations need not reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions based on cost, how have you considered, if at all, that all nations have agreed in international climate negotiations to take steps to limit warming to 2 degree C because warming greater than this amount will not only create harsh impacts for tens of millions of people but runs the risk of creating rapid non-linear warming that will outstrip the ability of people and nations to adapt?

With global warming on the increase and species and their habitats on the decrease, chances for ecosystems to adapt naturally are diminishing.

Reports show the ocean's unique ecosystems are adapting to fluctuation in water temperatures likely caused by global warming, but increasing acidic levels may prove fatal for the world's coral reefs.

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

• Also, the unusually rapid rate of global warming we are causing will make it very difficult for ecosystems — not to mention humans — to adapt.

So we need to focus more on adapting to the effects of global warming — for example, by stepping up efforts to cope with inland flooding and the urban «heat island» effect.

For example, China has used its climate pledge as leverage to get more international aid from rich countries, like the U.S., to help poorer countries adapt to global warming.

Meanwhile, poorer countries have often asked for financial aid from wealthier countries to adapt to global warming.

As the Evangelical Climate Initiative's «Evangelical Call for Action» concludes: «[W] hile we must reduce our global warming pollution to help mitigate the impacts of climate change, as a society and as individuals we must also help the poor adapt to the significant harm that global warming will cause.»

«From a global perspective, the level of warming is about to enter the danger zone for coral reefs and it is certainly arguable that it is already too late for some of these systems to «adapt naturally,»» said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.

According to Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist at the University of Florida who recently co-authored a study on the tiny horses of the PETM era, human - caused global warming might be setting in too fast this time around for many species to adapt.

Recent drought gives a taste of things to come for Kruger National Park, South Africa, as global warming outpaces species» ability to adapt

The bases for his claims relied on 3 simplistic assumptions that a) bleaching is evidence that coral have reached their limit of maximum thermal tolerance, b) bleaching will increase due to global warming, and c) coral can not adapt quickly enough to temperatures projected by climate models.

For two weeks, the U.S. delegation has, by all accounts, worked to deny developing nations — vulnerable to, and victims of, global warming — the financial pathway they need to adapt to climate change or recover from climate - related losses and damages.

I agree that global warming could have disasterious affects for humans and other creaters alive today that are adapted to this climate.

«Whilst there may be a scientific consensus about global warming — that it is happening and largely man - made — there is no similar agreement about what should be done to tackle it; whether money should be spent, for example, on cutting carbon emissions or would be better used adapting our defences to the changing climate.

NOAA supports research like this to help American communities, businesses, and public health providers understand our vulnerabilities and to identify opportunities for us to adapt and prepare for extreme weather and the impacts of global warming.

BONN: Regional environmental officers from countries home to the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) mountain range, including Pakistan, called on Tuesday for cooperation between the nations to help mountain communities adapt to changing weather patterns caused by global warming.

As for «adapting to global warming»: First, consider how little we «adapted» in the aftermath of Katrina — just as at risk as before with faulty dikes ready to collapse in the next big hurricane, and this is in OUR country and LOCALIZED.

But for those species adapted to cold climates, global warming is taking its toll.

Therefore, maybe it's time to acknowledge that the ODR TLA has lost some of its brand appeal, and, like climate scientists who chose to abandon the term «global warming» for the more encompassing «climate change», we should consider the use of a better adapted term to current uses of online dispute resolution tools.