Sentences with phrase «huge impact on climate change»

Gardening and ayurvedic - based living can create a huge impact on climate change, leaving a precious gift for future generations.

«We understand these fears,» she says, «but if contraception and family planning were made available to all those who want it, this would slow population growth and have a huge impact on climate change.»

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The CGF recognizes that unchecked climate change will have a huge impact on the consumer goods sector, its customers and employees.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

«Our research shows that the impact of climate change on marine biodiversity and fisheries is going to be huge,» Cheung said.

«Secretary Zinke is giving Trump truly awful advice,» asserts John Hocevar, director of oceans campaigns at Greenpeace in Washington, D.C. «The science is clearer than ever that climate change is killing our coral reefs and that industrial fishing has had a huge impact on marine ecosystems that extends far beyond the fish they target.»

It's not necessarily obvious to the uninitiated what a huge effect this ~ 2ºC uncertainty in ECS estimates has on scenarios that attempt to predict the magnitude and timing of climate change impacts (e.g. the AR5 RCPs).

It's not necessarily obvious to the uninitiated what a huge effect this ~ 2ºC uncertainty in ECS estimates has on scenarios that attempt to predict the magnitude and timing of climate change impacts (e.g. the AR5 RCPs).

The main purpose of this book is to suggest concrete ways in which the international community can begin to address the huge gaps in our knowledge relating to the likely impact of climate change on migration.

If climate change continues to have a negative impact on these tourism spots and natural wonders, it could have a huge effect on the local economy, too, as tourism is Australia's second-most valuable export, employing more than 580,000 people — 15 times more than the coal mining industry.

«For property and casualty insurers, climate change represents an important challenge because the rising seas, the increased risk of drought, fire and floods, and the stronger storms that may occur will have a huge impact on the claims of the people insured.»

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

Asia is a huge and diverse region, so both climate change and the impact on freshwater resources will vary greatly depending on location.

As a result, the likely outcome of the report's release will be more of the same: a welter of scary scenarios, followed by politicians promising huge carbon cuts and expensive policies that have virtually no impact on climate change.

Climate change raises questions of both distributive and retributive justice because: (a) Climate change is a problem caused by some people that inflicts harm on others; (b) Some of the poorest people in the world are extremely vulnerable to its impacts and can do little to protect themselves from those impacts; (c) The adverse impacts to some of the world's poorest people are likely to be catastrophic; and (d) Huge reductions from status quo emissions are necessary to prevent catastrophic warming.

Because the work is based on modeling at a high level to see how species are impacted in their range, it's hard to account for variables that will ultimately make a huge difference for species trying to survive climate change.

She said she believes in weather change, but she said she does not believe man has a huge impact on the climate.»

This position completely ignores the huge financial cost of dealing with the impacts of climate change and the $ 500 billion the EU is spending every year on oil and gas imports.»

«UK Climate Agency Confirms: Huge Cumulative CO2 Growth Has Little Impact On Long - Term Climate Change, Warming Main Per NOAA, Climate Impact of Cumulative CO2 Emissions Since 1880 Approaching Nil»

Unlike many other places, which have had huge inputs from human development which complicate the picture, Mongolia can be seen as somewhere that the impact of global climate instability can be observed clearly, especially as the climate there seems to be changing more rapidly than many other places on the globe.

Climate change: global reshuffle of wildlife will have huge impacts on humanity (The Guardian, March 30, 2017)

I wish that I were struggling to stay focused on climate science today rather than commenting on the vigorous discussion in last night's US presidential debate about the ongoing, huge and escalating economic impacts of climate change...

As is, the huge uncertainty about aerosols means that in principle net human impact on climate could have always netted out to something close to zero with most of the temperature change due to natural trends.

Now, scientists meeting at World Water Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point, saying that without serious reforms to the way many Asian countries manage water chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.»