Sentences with phrase «for damages caused by climate change»

«Some people hope that a growing economy will be able to compensate for the damages caused by climate change — that we can outgrow climate change economically instead of mitigating it.

THINGS took an interesting twist at the latest UN climate summit held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks when nations began talks over paying for the damage caused by climate change.

Not exact matches

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

Those sky - climbing costs are mostly caused by people, not climate change, cautions Munich Reinsurance, which says urban sprawl and expanding development increase the number of targets for Mother Nature to damage.

The damage caused by this round of bleaching will be felt for decades, but it's not the only reef around the globe to feel the heat of climate change.

The study's authors write that halving the amount of food waste and managing demand for particularly environmentally - damaging food products by changing global diets should be key aims that, if achieved, might mitigate some of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.

And while climate change remains a legitimate concern for wildlife — particularly on isolated mountaintops and in species - poor polar regions — it does not come close to the immediate, irreparable damage caused by the destruction of habitat.

Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats.

For example, a growing scarcity of fossil fuels and the need to stem the environmental damages caused by climate change will undoubtedly lead to a substantial increase in the use of public transportation.

How to deal with the impact of climate change is front and centre at international climate talks in Warsaw, with a fund for «losses and damages» caused by climate change to developing nations on the table.

She seems to have no concern for anything (such as the future of the planet with climate change damage or the huge environmental and health problems caused by the coal industry) other than getting her way;

The main argument for a carbon tax rather than a trading scheme is that, if there is a lot of uncertainty about the cost of reducing emissions, and not much uncertainty about the damage caused by climate change, a fixed price for emissions (that is, a tax) will get closer to the optimal outcome than a fixed quantity.

Under the guise of preventing «dangerous manmade climate change» and compensating poor countries for alleged «losses and damages» due to climate and weather caused by rich country fossil fuel use, they had planned to control the world's energy supplies and living standards, replace capitalism with a new UN-centered global economic order, and redistribute wealth from those who create it to those who want it.

San Francisco and Oakland are suing five major oil companies, including ExxonMobil, for damages allegedly caused by man - made global warming, arguing Big Oil covered up the knowledge their products would change the climate and should pay for current and future damages.

Poor countries, including small island states and the least developed countries, were looking for a decision to create an international mechanism to address losses and damages caused by climate change.

Almost immediately, another «prestigious» group of scientists waded in with a new «peer - reviewed» report predicting that climate change will cause a million deaths a year by 2020, $ 157 billion in annual damages, and indescribable misery for the world's poorest countries.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910017.stm «The vast numbers affected by the effects of climate change, such as flooding, drought and forest fires, mean that potentially people, organisations and even countries could be seeking compensation for the damage caused.

The cities are seeking billions of dollars in compensation for both past and future damage caused by climate change.

Because those who cause climate change are ethically responsible for damages caused by them, funding for adaptation projects needed by those most vulnerable to climate change will not be generated.

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The lecturer, a negotiator on Loss and Damage, mentioned that in order to create a just agreement based on the geographical nuances of loss and damage, developed countries who are now beginning to face the damages caused by climate change need to meet with those who have been experiencing it for Damage, mentioned that in order to create a just agreement based on the geographical nuances of loss and damage, developed countries who are now beginning to face the damages caused by climate change need to meet with those who have been experiencing it for damage, developed countries who are now beginning to face the damages caused by climate change need to meet with those who have been experiencing it for years.

The fourth value also uses a 3 % discount rate, but represents the 95th percentile across the models instead of the average, in order to try and include the potential for higher monetary damages caused by climate change.

The committee also separately derived a range of values for damages from climate change, and found that each ton of carbon dioxide emissions will be far worse in 2030 than now: «even if the total amount of annual emissions remains steady, the damages caused by each ton would increase 50 percent to 80 percent.»

Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats.

A trend analysis of normalized insured damage from natural disasters is not only of interest to the insurance industry, but can potentially be useful for attempts at detecting whether there has been an increase in the frequency and / or intensity of natural hazards, whether caused by natural climate variability or anthropogenic climate change.

In a discussion scheduled for Friday, small island states will push to include research on the damages caused by climate change.

Author Emily Gerrard explores this challenging dichotomy as well as possible legal redress for damage and loss caused by climate change.