Sentences with phrase «impact climate beyond»
«Carbon emissions to impact climate beyond the day after tomorrow.»
https://www.sciencedaily.com/ Not exact matches
«Shifting from animal meat to the plant - based meats developed by Beyond Meat is one of the most powerful measures someone can take to reduce their impact on our climate.»
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
Another area where today's business investments have a direct relationship to tomorrow's climate impacts is in long - term capital expenditures, which will live well into the middle of the century and beyond.
Telly Valerie Onu of Beyond Capital Markets also sees a broad range of impact innovations coming via blockchain, including in the areas of agriculture, climate innovation, health and wellness and education.
This lead Deya to Beyond Meat, a company focused on improving human health, positively impacting climate change, conserving natural resources and respecting animal welfare through the innovation of plant based meat products.
Shifting from animal meat to the plant - based meats developed by Beyond Meat is one of the most powerful measures someone can take to reduce their impact on our climate.»
Beyond its use as a tool against large financial institutions, Schneiderman has used the act as a basis for a probe into ExxonMobil, arguing that its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholders and the public research that showed the potential impact of climate change constituted a Martin Act violation.
«These findings will be especially important to policymakers since they show that climate impacts can go beyond the borders of a single country by possibly driving higher migration flows,» said Juan - Carlos Ciscar, a senior expert at the JRC's Economics of Climate Change, Energy and Transporclimate impacts can go beyond the borders of a single country by possibly driving higher migration flows,» said Juan - Carlos Ciscar, a senior expert at the JRC's Economics of Climate Change, Energy and TransporClimate Change, Energy and Transport Unit.
And beyond a basic understanding, «we need to understand how to adapt to the impacts of climate change,» he continues.
Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the cClimate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climateclimate.
Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.
According to the findings, the extent of Arctic sea ice and its seasonal distribution clearly have broad impacts on Arctic climate that extend beyond the Arctic Ocean itself and have important implications for the future of the Arctic system.
«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.
«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.»
Projected ahead climate change has increasingly greater impacts beyond what the Climate Convention refers to as allowing systems to adapt natclimate change has increasingly greater impacts beyond what the Climate Convention refers to as allowing systems to adapt natClimate Convention refers to as allowing systems to adapt naturally.
However, Montana's climate and its impacts go beyond these.
Beyond that, I'm not sure about the invoking of the «last fifteen years of science,» but a good reference to support the 1.5 ºC threashold would be Schleussner et al (2015) «Differential climate impacts for policy - relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 ºC and 2ºC»
Recent independent analyses of current mitigation proposals on the table in Copenhagen by Nicholas Stern, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Ecofys, Climate Analytics, the Sustainability Institute (C - ROADS), the European Climate Foundation and ClimateWorks (Project Catalyst), all point to the same conclusion: the negotiations must deliver the high end of current proposals and stretch beyond them, if the world is to have a reasonable chance of containing warming to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, or the 1.5 °C goal of many developing nations.
However, «It is beyond the capacity of most current climate models to estimate regional impact,» Ward noted.
Developing countries want these to extend beyond cutting emissions and to include aid to help them to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Likewise if a number of species fail to adapt to the rapidly changing climate, the loss associated with this reduction in biodiversity goes beyond whatever small economic impact is modeled in these studies.
ALPRO ALPRO»S APPETITE FOR CHANGE REACHES BEYOND ITS OWN CUSTOMERS As a WWF climate positive leader, Alpro directly influences the eating habits of both its consumers and elements of the general public, and impacts heavily on sustainability up and down its value chain.
Italy's commitment came just days before the launch of «Europe Beyond Coal», a new alliance of groups concerned about the impact of Europe's dirtiest fuel on people's health, the climate, and the environment.
Beyond partisanship, younger Americans are significantly more concerned about climate change, an issue that is expected to have a much larger impact if temperatures rise consistently over coming decades.
Because the impacts of GHG emissions can be felt beyond a country's border, and the impacts of climate change on countries are highly variable, there is potential for some emitters to contribute more or less to the causes of climate change than is proportionate to their vulnerability to its effects9, 10,11.
The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.
Climate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruClimate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruclimate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruptions.
Dana: «Climate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruClimate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruclimate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruptions.
This means we will go beyond minimising the negative consequences of our business to create a positive impact on climate.
Delaying action on increasing ambition beyond 2 °C is detrimental to averting the worst impacts from climate change.
They are things that can be done locally that at first glance appear to be environmentally benign and have multiple benefits beyond impacts on climate.
However, for regional downscaling (and global) models to add value (beyond what is available to the impacts community via the historical, recent paleorecord and a worst case sequence of days), they must be able to skillfully predict changes in regional weather statistics in response to human climate forcings.
The impact Trump and company are having on federal clean energy and climate policies goes beyond regulatory rescissions and under - funded and mismanaged programs.
As women and men are affected differently by the impacts of climate change, with women likely to bear the greater burden in situations of poverty, climate actions have to be gender sensitive... MR: Those people in the most vulnerable situations typically live beyond the reach of conventional markets, and so require their needs to be met through other channels that can provide sustained social gains in the long term.
The detection of climate change impacts addresses the question of whether a system has changed beyond its expected behavior in the absence of climate change.
Beyond its immediate impacts on the marine environment, drilling in the Arctic undermines the White House's efforts to combat climate change.
Impacts related to climate change are already evident in many regions and sectors and are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond.
The impacts of climate change on public health will extend beyond the direct effects of temperature on human physiology.
One of the most devastating potential impacts of global climate change is a large global sea level rise over the coming century and beyond.
But beyond this vague reference, there is no mention of significantly reducing the climate - specific impact of buildings and built form.
A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.
Climate Matters in the Newsroom workshops assist journalists in reporting on climate change impacts that go well beyond increasingly extreme wClimate Matters in the Newsroom workshops assist journalists in reporting on climate change impacts that go well beyond increasingly extreme wclimate change impacts that go well beyond increasingly extreme weather.
Beyond geoscientists, «this new paradigm has not yet penetrated the impacts community,» that is, the economists and other specialists who tried to calculate the consequences of climate change.
«There is some evidence of changes consistent with mid-winter warming and little evidence of changes in the fall,» he said, «but questions of the broader impact, the cause of this trend, and whether the warmer climate in New England is linked to global climate change are beyond the scope of these studies.»
Results from an irreducibly simple climate model,» concluded that, once discrepancies in IPCC computer models are taken into account, the impact of CO2 - driven manmade global warming over the next century (and beyond) is likely to be «no more than one - third to one - half of the IPCC's current projections» — that is, just 1 - 2 degrees C (2 - 4 deg F) by 2100!
The frustrating aspect, beyond the unverifiable timeframes and dubious assumptions of climate change and impacts is that we're already observing some of the formative (and probably much more predictable) economic aspects.
As policy makers contend with deve - loping responses to climate change and its impacts in Alaska and beyond, it is imperative that the use and interpretation of scientific studies to support policy development minimizes any potential for bias by giving due consideration to the methodsused to estimate temperature change.
Susan was lead author of Impacts of A Warming Arctic, the synthesis report of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004, on which she worked for four years with 300 scientists from the Arctic and beyond.
Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.