Sentences with phrase «front lines of climate change»

«We are on the bay and the ocean and we are on front lines of climate change and we all know that.»

The combined strength of our two organizations — which have trained more than 2 million farmers worldwide in total and brought over 43 million hectares of land under sustainable management — will lend greater momentum to the sea change that has already begun to take hold among forward - thinking leaders in government, the private sector, civil society, and rural communities on the front lines of climate change.

These farmers are on the front lines of climate change, with little access to resources to help cushion the disruptions climate change can cause in their operations and within their daily lives.

The city budgeted $ 60 million in FY17 for the project, according to a spokesperson, and de Blasio said, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the time, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.

The poles are on the front lines of climate change — melting ice, thawing permafrost, warming temperatures — but they are also at the forefront of weather patterns, global oceanic circulation and the marine food chain.

Kuffner noted that Rhode Island, with 400 miles of shoreline, is on the front lines of climate change.

However, what we see in the news is not always what the scientists at the front line of climate change experience.

Living, as the authors say, «on the front lines of climate change,» the young women revealed some common experiences.

Six of the videos, «Scientists on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» feature NCA chapter authors talking about key messages from their chapters.

But first a sad voice from the front lines of climate change.

Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state speaking about ocean acidification.

President Obama begins his historic visit to Alaska today to promote his plan to respond to global warming in the place he says is «on the front lines of climate change.»

Carbon Covenant Carbon Covenant is Interfaith Power & Light's program to support faith communities on the front lines of climate change.

As a region on the front lines of climate change, we must act on the immediate and long - term risks resulting from our reliance on fossil fuels.

Still, this week's anthrax outbreak further emphasizes the reality of the Arctic as one of the front lines of climate change, and the questions inherent in a rapidly changing ecosystem.

Many Arctic species that are on the front line of climate change, such as seals, walruses, and bowhead and beluga whales, are also part of the Native traditional diet.

But others like Casey Camp - Horinek, Ponca Nation elder, who spoke Monday at the Women on the Front Lines of Climate Change event, were at Wounded Knee and marched with Ceasar Chavez...

And I'm worried that if governments keep saying what they're doing is organized at stopping warming at 2 - degrees, then the people who are actually on the front lines of climate change — coastal cities, farmers and so on — are going to think about preparing for a world that's 2 degrees warmer, when in reality the evidence seem to suggest they should be preparing for a world that [has warmed] a lot more than 2 degrees.

Cook Inlet remains in the final plan, with a lease sale scheduled in 2021, even though Alaska is on the front lines of climate change and warming at twice the global average rate.

Oil rich Saudi Arabia is leading a campaign to sabotage attempts by countries on the front line of climate change to include an ambitous 1.5 C target for global warming in the COP21 agreement currently being negotiated in Paris.

It provides a platform for policy discussion, and for the voices of those men and women on the front lines of climate change to be heard.

Even without formally pulling out of the Paris pact, the U.S. is abandoning its pledge to pay $ 3 billion into a United Nations fund to help countries on the front lines of climate change.

«As we implement the Paris Agreement, we must ensure that these examples of the expertise and experience of women living on the front lines of climate change inform the decisions taken at COPs,» said Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and president of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice.

Professor Vaughan told the Climate News Network: «Understanding sea level rise is the front line of climate change, and sea level rise doesn't happen overnight.

Excerpts: Regarding the currently popular theory that mankind is responsible for global warming, I am very pleased to deliver good news from the front lines of climate change research.

Cities are on the front line of climate change.

Virginia is on the front lines of climate change impacts that are here now.

At the opening of the second day of the two - day Dialogue, former Republic of Ireland President Mary Robinson urged participants to listen to women and those on the front lines of climate change.

Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state speaking about ocean acidification.

Six of the videos, «Scientists on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» feature NCA chapter authors talking about key messages from their chapters.

Meet leading experts on the front lines of climate change — scientists, politicians, faith leaders and visionaries all working to create a sustainable future.

Krill are on the front lines of climate change — melting sea ice is destroying their habitat, and ocean acidification could further harm them.

With modern agriculture and land use as the second largest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, right behind energy production, farms are on the front line of climate change.

If you don't know what's happening to small islands... communities like the Carteret Islands are on the front lines of climate change, because of rising seas and severe weather — they are experiencing more severe storm surges, coastal erosion.

They are ecologically sensitive waters as well, putting the residents of nations like Kiribati, where the effects of rising sea levels already are being felt, on the front lines of climate change.