Sentences with phrase «increasing climate challenges»

Cuomo said clean energy is a business opportunity for the state, as well as an important step to address increasing climate challenges.

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The challenges that we face with that ever - increasing population with regards to climate change, food and water availability, sustainability — those problems are going to be solved by science, and they're going to be solved by the kids today.

In today's climate of business consolidation, increased competition and regulatory changes, the food and beverage industry is facing some of its toughest challenges in years.

Several important influencers affected the foodservice industry's performance last year, including the country's unstable political climate and increased labor challenges.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

The plan is one of the most comprehensive yet from the Westchester County executive, who is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bid for a second term, and highlights an issue that both candidates say is a top priority: how to boost New York's business climate and increase jobs, particularly in upstate regions grappling with decades of economic malaise.

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.

So we have a tremendous challenge ahead of us to bring the world's people out of poverty, increase the wealth all over, which seems to be needed by people and desired by people and at the same time keep the Earth safe in maintaining it in the climate regime and which is not throwing huge ringers into the climate system that we are not controlling.

They must also deal with a host of challenges tied directly to the environment and potentially amplified by climate change, including warming waters, increasing ocean acidity and the spread of diseases that can decimate shellfish stocks.

They face challenges from an increasing population; land that's overfarmed and worn out; and climate change, bringing with it worsening drought or increased rainfall.

Even the seemingly pristine Galápagos Islands, one of the most biologically rich and diverse ecosystems on the planet, face increasing threats as a result of climate change, water pollution, invasive plants and animals and other challenges related to human activities.

All three, according to the citation, «have contributed significantly to increasing the quantity and availability of food, and can play a critical role as we face the global challenges of the 21st century of producing more food, in a sustainable way, while confronting an increasingly volatile climate.»

For alpine plant species, climate change presents a special challenge: To escape increased greenhouse warming, the species have to move to a higher - altitude habitat.

Trenberth's challenge is not just to show statistical evidence that recent climate changes are anomalous from the null hypothesis, but: 1) that these are due to anthropogenic causes 2) that these are «very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations», and 3) that these will cause catastrophic effects.

As such, determining the role of climate change in increasing or decreasing the present and future likelihood of a rain storm like Harvey presents a challenge.

Flagship Project 5 will speed up genetic gain for the development of improved and climate - resilient rice varieties to increase farmers» income, overcome challenges of climate change, and increase farmers» and consumers» food and nutritional security.

If climate change exceeds the temperature target, scientists warn, there is a greater risk that the world's ice sheets will be destabilized, leading to sharply rising seas, and increasing climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves and floods, which could pose daunting challenges for food and water availability for growing populations.

The authors say that wheat diversity could increase the chances of wheat resilience in the face of future climate changes and pest challenges.

Along these, increasing environmental degradation and climate change is a major and universal challenge for humankind.

«Under the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training, Viet Nam Man and Biosphere Programme, UNESCO and the Biosphere Reserve Management Board, children have increased their knowledge on the challenges linked to Education for Sustainable Development such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental issues.

It is challenging to create a climate of inclusion if there is little diversity on campus, so developing strategies for increasing diversity — and collecting data to clearly understand their progress — is important.

The Changing Landscape of School Leadership: Recalibrating the School Principalship By M. Scott Norton «Achievement, servicing special needs, implementing change without funding, addressing increasing misbehavior, cultivating a learning climate, and compensating for a lack of role preparation are several areas Norton highlights as significant contributors to a growing list of challenges that principals face.

Achievement, servicing special needs, implementing change without funding, addressing increasing misbehavior, cultivating a learning climate, and compensating for a lack of role preparation are several areas Norton highlights as significant contributors to a growing list of challenges that principals face.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Increases the capacity of colleagues to identify and use multiple assessment tools aligned to state and local standards; b) Collaborates with colleagues in the design, implementation, scoring, and interpretation of student data to improve educational practice and student learning; c) Creates a climate of trust and critical reflection in order to engage colleagues in challenging conversations about student learning data that lead to solutions to identified issues; and d) Works with colleagues to use assessment and data findings to promote changes in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning.

«The world is facing serious challenges such as climate change, traffic congestion, road fatalities and increasing air pollution.

In response to the challenge of climate change, the HES project aims to increase energy efficiency (EE) in European small and medium hotels by 20 % and their use of renewable energies (RE) by 10 %, demonstrating that economic growth and sustainability can, and should, go hand in hand.

Together, his artworks and research seek to facilitate an increased understanding of the shared social, political, environmental, and cultural climate challenges we face, both within our local communities, and in the international arena.

The main objective of COP21 in December 2015 is to produce a cooperation framework among governments for a steady increase of individual and collective ambitions for addressing the challenge of climate change.

This article minimizes what credibly could be the largest challenge in dealing with climate change: Holding the atmosphere to a CO2 content no greater than 450 PPM to prevent an increase of no more than 2 degrees C, beyond which runaway growth in CO2 could occur from natural sources.

Yu Kosaka & Shang - Ping Xie, as published in Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7467/full/nature12534.html): «Despite the continued increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the annual - mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty - first century1, challenging the prevailing view that anthropogenic forcing causes climate warming.»

In fact, the I.P.C.C. WGII report, in the chapter on North America says «Research since the [last IPCC report] supports the conclusion that moderate climate change will likely increase yields on North American rain fed agriculture... Most studies project likely climate - related yield increases of 5 - 20 % over the first decades of the century... Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources.»

Any one of these mega-investments would be a challenge for societies to manage for regional development; the combination of several investments occurring simultaneously multiples the challenge, one that also includes increased logging, mining, migrations, and enhanced climate vulnerability.

The projected rapid population increase in Africa may well exacerbate a range of challenges: environmental, health and social, including climate change.

«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate customers, innovators, utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.

Challenging news for those climate campaigners who believe that renewable sources of energy are on the increase: they may be, but so are carbon dioxide emissions.

And in a world of accelerating sea level rise and climate change, in which farmland is being degraded and turned to desert, in which ever more land is set aside for carbon storage in the form of forest, and in which the strains of survival increase social divisions and social conflict, there is a new challenge: where will the 2bn climate refugees find new homes?

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

And as for «solutions to the climate change challenge», I would be grateful if he would kindly explain what the government proposed solution of a carbon tax will actually do for the climate, when China and India's increasing emissions will swamp anything Australia can achieve unilaterally.

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

It features chapters on: the year in review, which highlights environmental extremes, including record extreme weather and climate events and increasing degradation of marine ecosystems, but notes progress towards new investments in renewable energy and towards a green economy; the benefits of soil carbon; the closing and decommissioning of nuclear power reactors; and on key environmental indicators, which underscores the need to address mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and soil degradation.

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.

Too often the climate «debate» is reported in the media as equal between a few who challenge the science and a much larger number whose research supports current climate theory and predictions linking greenhouse warming with increasing emissions.

This analytical report calls for increasing energy access, energy efficiency, and clean energy efforts to meet the climate change challenge and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The report identifies urbanization and associated increased flood risk, water scarcity and impacts of climate change as the main challenges facing the region.

This information brief stresses that, to meet the challenges of climate change and the increasing global demand for food, agriculture must become «climate - smart».

«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.»

The greatest climate challenge we face is not a possible temperature increase this century, but the transition into the next ice age.

(6) The consequences of global climate change, including increases in poverty and destabilization of economies and societies, are likely to pose long - term challenges to the national security, foreign policy, and economic interests of the United States.

He said that however one defines the energy - climate challenge, technology will be an important part of the solution — a solution that advances key public interests including reduced energy costs, greater energy efficiency and increased manufacturing productivity.