Sentences with phrase «identify key climate»

Angela Anderson, director of the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, noted for instance that it could potentially be useful as part of a coordinated campaign to identify key climate «wrongdoers.

The objective of the mapping studies was to identify key climate - mitigation technologies and associated goods.

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The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.

For all its usefulness with identifying climate risks, the data unleashed by the White House yesterday can't answer a key question: What can a community do, exactly, to avoid future damages?

In 2008, Chile launched its first National Climate Change Action Plan, for the period from 2008 to 2014, to gather information on what was happening in the country, identify the baselines for emissions cuts and measure other key variables.

It should include succession planning for key roles and identify the training needs of staff to be able to fulfil those roles moving forward as «growing your own» staff will become more and more necessary in the current climate.

The authors of this illuminating book identify a comprehensive set of practices and conditions that were key factors for improvement, including school leadership, the professional capacity of the faculty and staff, and a student - centered learning climate.

The National Center on Response to Intervention (2010) identifies positive school climate as possessing four key components: 1) creating a caring school community, 2) teaching appropriate behavior and social problem - solving skills, 3) implementing positive behavior support, and 4) providing rigorous academic instruction.

This research workshop focused on the issue of how future climate change might affect transportation and brought together top transportation and climate change experts to explore what is currently known about the interaction between climate change and transportation and identify key potential risks.

The Institute's signature climate change publication, Climate in the Parks: Innovative Climate Change Education in Parks (PDF, 5.7 MB) will add momentum to the dialogue among key stakeholders, educators, and park leaders by identifying a selection of strong climate change education programs and trainings in parks around theclimate change publication, Climate in the Parks: Innovative Climate Change Education in Parks (PDF, 5.7 MB) will add momentum to the dialogue among key stakeholders, educators, and park leaders by identifying a selection of strong climate change education programs and trainings in parks around theClimate in the Parks: Innovative Climate Change Education in Parks (PDF, 5.7 MB) will add momentum to the dialogue among key stakeholders, educators, and park leaders by identifying a selection of strong climate change education programs and trainings in parks around theClimate Change Education in Parks (PDF, 5.7 MB) will add momentum to the dialogue among key stakeholders, educators, and park leaders by identifying a selection of strong climate change education programs and trainings in parks around theclimate change education programs and trainings in parks around the world.

The Institute's Climate Change Education & Parks program (PDF) seeks to strengthen parks as educational venues by identifying program, models, and policies that can be replicated, scaled, and adopted as policy by key decision makers.

In Naomi Oreskes» work attempting to identify relationships between the «tobacco lobby» and climate sceptics, she proposed that key individuals were «Merchants of Doubt», and employed the same strategy — «the tobacco strategy».

This technical document brings together key reports from the investment world that demonstrate best practice on climate change, identifying the risks and opportunities, assessing how companies are dealing with them, and translating their performance and intentions into future financial returns.

Joronen and Oksanen (2012) more constructively identified three key features: in emergency: «climate change is an immediate or impending threat», that extends to «life and health of humans and many other life forms» and is highly likely to result in «social disorder, for example economic turmoil and mass migration of climate refugees», in the absence of immediate action.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

This technical document analyzes the impact of two hurricanes and a tropical storm that affected Belize in order to identify some key vulnerabilities in the power system to extreme weather, which is likely to be exacerbated due to climate change.

This technical document aims to highlight recent experiences with country - level implementation of Climate - Smart Agriculture (CSA) to identify some key lessons to incorporate in ongoing efforts to expand the use of the approach in developing countries.

We have helped our clients identify the key elements of an effective climate change strategy as part of their overall sustainability program.

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The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

This technical document identifies key challenges and solutions for carrying out project - level economic analysis of adaptation to climate change, both stand - alone and integrated into broader development projects.

Fifteen countries also completed assessments of the investments and financial flows needed to address climate change in nationally identified key sectors.

Project Purpose: To identify key audiences in Canada that have ethnic or cultural ties to countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and build an effective engagement campaign to mobilize and educate these populations to become advocates in the drive for climate change solutions.

Incorporating these feedbacks and contributing to research on identifying and quantifying these is a key element in keeping our climate - model projections up to date.

In our study, we were able to identify and realistically reproduce the key processes for the two abrupt climate shifts.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

To identify potential legal gaps, the assessment looks at key laws, regulations, decrees, and orders relevant to climate change mitigation and adaptation across key sectors of the economy.

• Provide a clear, evidence - based explanation of the role played by different parts of the energy sector in causing air pollution • Present detailed projections of the energy sector and related air quality pathways in different countries and sectors, based on known energy, climate and air quality policies, and the key implications for policymakers • Identify additional policy measures that can materially improve the outlook for energy - related air pollution, examining both the co-benefits and trade - offs with other energy and climate objectives • Based on analysis of different policy options, distil the key findings of the report into a clear set of implications and recommendations for policymakers

This working paper identifies and evaluates the key climate and energy policy options available to Mexico to support the implementation of its INDC.

Our assessment identifies eight key regional risks from climate change.

It appears to me that you have identified the key fallacy in Zeke's logic regarding the premise that there is a greater than 66 % probability that «climate sensitivity is somewhere between 1.5 C and 4.5 C for a doubling of carbon dioxide».

The identification of potential key vulnerabilities is intended to provide guidance to decision - makers for identifying levels and rates of climate change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Boxclimate change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Boxclimate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see BoxClimate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Box 19.1).

Identifying key vulnerabilities can help guide efforts to increase resiliency and avoid large damages from abrupt change in the climate system, or in abrupt impacts of gradual changes in the climate system, and facilitate more informed decisions on the proper balance between mitigation and adaptation.

That's the surprise finding of a study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change last month, which analysed and identified the key themes in more than 16,000 publications about climate change by conservative organisations.

To understand better the potential health impacts of climate variability and change in these countries, this report synthesizes the information presented and identifies key recommendations for improving the health sector's capacity to anticipate and prepare for climate variability and change.

Couple of things [1] «A key issue is to identify potential black swans in natural climate variation under no human influence, over time scales of one to two centuries...».

Cities will connect with the scientific community to identify key research gaps and help define global, regional and local monitoring systems and data architectures, informed by multilevel reporting systems like the carbonn Climate Registry.

The committee was charged to examine the current state of knowledge of how gases, aerosols, land use, and solar variability force the climate system, identify key gaps in understanding, and recommend research priorities (see Box P - 1 for the full statement of task).

My response is primarily designed to correct their misleading description of my own research; but it also is directed more broadly at their attempt to discredit scientists and scientific research on climate change.1 I have identified six key issues that are raised in the article, and I provide commentary about their substance and accuracy.

There he identified quantification of cloud effects on climate as a key technical problem.

In addition to this conspiracy of silence, the administration disbanded the developing networks of scientists and stakeholders that were identifying key issues and producing reports as part of a national preparedness effort and has refused to initiate a follow - on second National Assessment of climate change impacts.

The Report identified 19 major environmental tipping points that are at risk of being triggered by processes linked to climate change, including higher releases of methane, and collapse of key Arctic fisheries.

identifying and estimating the costs associated with key threats from climate change for Indigenous communities at Identified Project Sites, along with any key financial impediments to participating in opportunities

The Northern Australian Water Futures Assessment of which the Department is a joint delivery partner, has a strong Culture and Social program which aims to identify the key cultural and social assets across northern Australia and gain an understanding of their watering needs to enable future development proposals to take these needs into account in the context of a changing climate.