Sentences with phrase «increased focus on climate change»

Recent favorable developments in wave energy due to the increased focus on climate change include, technological developments in Scotland, Australia, Denmark and the USA, and a high potential for energy supply - wave energy could provide 10 % of the current world electricity supply (if appropriately harnessed)- and the potential synergies with the offshore oil and gas industry could be significant.

«In order to sustain water and energy security in the next decades, the electricity focus will need to increase their focus on climate change adaptation in addition to mitigation.»

This increasing focus on climate change has inspired an unprecedented surge in funding for environmental protection and sustainable development initiatives in general, yet it may hold unforeseen and potentially negative consequences for particular environmental issues that are either marginalized within the climate change discussion or that actually run counter to climate change concerns.

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Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.

As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide.

The bill focuses heavily on the likely impacts of climate change in Mexico and points to concerns over the increase in extreme weather events.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

«The Assyrians can be «excused» to some extent for focusing on short - term economic or political goals which increased their risk of being negatively impacted by climate change, given their technological capacity and their level of scientific understanding about how the natural world worked,» adds Selim Adalı.

We urge increased focus on public - citizen participation for more democratised actions on climate change.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

Important as satellites focused on earth are vital to monitoring climate change and weather disasters, crucial for the ever increasing levels of extreme weather experienced around the world.

As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

Despite its climate - centric name and mission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, «IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems.climate - centric name and mission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, «IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems.Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, «IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems.»

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.

Achieving sustainable development requires focusing on the underlying economic, demographic, political and environmental factors that currently limit adaptive capacity and increase vulnerability to climate change.

The document highlights that, with demands on forests increasing and climate change threatening, efforts to maintain ecosystem services and benefits from forests should focus attention on effective management at the field level.

On climate change, the guidelines address both mitigation and adaptation issues, with a focus on identifying practices that could increase vulnerability to climate changOn climate change, the guidelines address both mitigation and adaptation issues, with a focus on identifying practices that could increase vulnerability to climate changon identifying practices that could increase vulnerability to climate change.

This analytical report focuses on the links between gender and climate change adaptation and highlights strategies the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) used to mainstream gender into climate change adaptation policy and increase women's engagement in decision - making.

It focuses on UNISDR's work with partners to deliver results and measures achievement against the strategic objectives for these two years, including 1) disaster risk reduction accepted and applied for climate change adaptation; 2) measurable increases in investment in disaster risk reduction; 3) disaster - resilient cities, schools and hospitals; and 4) strengthened international system for disaster risk reduction.

The past five years have brought a sea change in urban climate action: increased awareness of the critical role that local leaders play in carbon reduction; new capacity in local governments to tackle climate change; and a sharper focus on strategies that advance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and clean transportation.

This analytical report underscores that, with demands on forests increasing and climate change threatening, efforts to maintain benefits from forests should focus attention on effective management at the field level.

It also presents how the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supports countries in addressing climate change, with particular focus on impact assessment and adaptation planning, increasing resilience, strengthening institutions and assisting countries in implementing adaptation priorities.

Lomborg was quoted in a piece titled, «Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,» in which Lomborg says that «the UN should focus on more cost - effective environmental policies,» and increase their global target for limiting warming from 2C to 3C: [15]

In its first week, fivethirtyeight published a piece from Rodger Pielke Jr. (an environmental studies professor who focuses on climate impacts) in which it was argued that climate change is not causing increased economic losses.

Over time, our work continued to expand — including increased focus on the urgent need to address human - caused climate change.

After you take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.

Increases in SENA's GPP with Amazon forest loss and the climate mechanisms responsible for these changes are similar to the result of the combined experiment, however they do not pass our significance threshold, so we focus on climate mechanisms related to wNA and wNA + Amazon results only.

Analyses asserting little or no role of climate change in increasing the risk of losses tend to focus on a highly limited set of hazards and locations.

As the damages of climate change tend to increase exponentially with rising temperatures, many economists argue that the biggest impacts of climate change will occur later in the century, and that the main focus should be on reducing longer - term warming.

The discussion on the effects of climate change on human activity has primarily focused on how increasing temperature levels can impair human health.

Despite a thirty - five year debate on climate change, for the most part, governments, NGOs, organizations, and individuals are ignoring the ethical dimensions of climate change even though an increased focus on ethics and justice is needed to move the world to a global solution to this immense threat.

Military Sharpens Focus on Climate Change A Decline in Resources Is Projected to Cause Increasing Instability Overseas

We also need to call on local officials to do some intense creative thinking focused on freeing up resources being spent on maladaptive programs (i.e. those that increase GHG emissions and / or threaten human vulnerability to climate change impacts) for worthy causes such as those being presented by ICLEI USA through Climate Commuclimate change impacts) for worthy causes such as those being presented by ICLEI USA through Climate CommuClimate Communities.

With a focus on addressing global megatrends such as demographic and social needs, increased urbanization and climate change, BASF works to increase the proportion of its products and solutions that make an extensive sustainability contribution along the value chain.

Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI) is a capital and services provider to the sustainable infrastructure markets, focused on reducing climate changing greenhouse gas emissions («GHG» or carbon emissions) as well as mitigating the impact of, or increasing resiliency to, climate change.

Hannon Armstrong is a capital and services provider focused on sustainable infrastructure markets that reduce climate changing greenhouse gas emissions («GHG») as well as mitigating the impact of, or increasing resiliency to, climate change.

In particular, it reviews the main challenges faced by the countries of the region in their quest for sustainable development, with a focus on emerging trends related to increasing demands for infrastructure development, energy supply, and commodity exports, as well as opportunities offered by the global response to climate change.

The NAMA focuses on a set of interventions and measures related to policy development, technical assistance, and access to finance that will be integrated within sustainable commercial oriented investment activities that contribute to enhanced agriculture productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, improved food security, and increased incomes.

That said, his reporting over the past two decades has focused largely on the science of climate change, and that's an area generally seen as having moved steadily, if often incrementally and fittingly, toward, rather than away from, increased concern over the issue.

Although the world's attention continued to focus on the IPCC's Working Group I, which addressed the physical science, increasing funding and attention went to the other two Working Groups, which addressed the likely impacts of climate change and the policies needed to mitigate the damage, recruiting experts in fields ranging from epidemiology to economics.

It aims to improve media coverage of climate change, and therefore increase public engagement in the issue with a focus on developing countries and especially in critically affected regions.

«Recent climate changes in this region may have had substantial impact on the carbon balance of Canadian boreal forests as a result of increased fire frequency, an unprecedented expansion of insect outbreaks, and widespread drought - induced tree mortality,» the authors write, but focused their study on drought.

For example, the resilience work will include climate adaptation - specific goals (e.g., providing reliable access to power during increasing heat waves, or storms), while also supporting carbon neutrality goals (implementing low or no carbon - emitting solutions for those reliable power sources), and it will equally importantly focus on building community capacity to deal with a constantly changing climate, including changing extremes.

IPAs are taking on an increasing active contemporary management focus which means managing specifically for climate change if necessary and where it can be identified as requiring active management to achieve biodiversity outcomes.

The goals for the Center for States include to build capacity for increased effectiveness of public child welfare agencies through strong national expertise in child welfare and change management to help build and / or sustain the ability of agencies to perform well; to work in partnership with the Centers for Tribes and Courts to support States and other jurisdictions across the country; to create new and lasting partnerships with States, jurisdictions, Tribes, courts, and the Children's Bureau's Regional Office staff that reflect a shared focus on meeting the unique and individual needs of States and jurisdictions; to use a collaborative and systematic approach to build State and territory capacities across the five domains of resources; infrastructure; knowledge and skills; culture and climate; engagement and partnership.

These interventions focused on changes within the school and classroom climate to increase awareness about bullying, increase teacher and parent involvement and supervision, form clear rules and strong social norms against bullying, and provide support and protection for individuals bullied.