Sentences with phrase «industry on climate change impacts»

A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, finds that the federal government spent three times more than the private insurance industry on climate change impacts last year.

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Whether you're looking for the latest content on the impacts of climate change, the fossil industries that produce the emissions, renewable energy and energy efficiency alternatives, or climate solutions outside energy, you've come to the right place.

Mills has analyzed everything from the impact of climate change on the insurance industry to energy use in African villages, modern buildings, and data centers.

Jean - Marc Touzard, director of research on innovation at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Montpellier and co-coordinator of a national program to assess the impact of climate change on the wine industry, found the PNAS paper too alarmist.

While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

«It's always alarming to hear that things are going to get worse,» said Paul Marshall, a private industry scientist who previously led high - profile research into climate change's impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.

No industry has a bigger impact on climate change than agriculture and food, both as a source of the problem and as a solution.

Culture - defining events definitely impact fiction - writing trends: think LGBT issues, ISIS, ecstasy treatment for PTSD, the presidency under Trump, the refugee crisis, climate change, food industry politics — we've currently got a lot going on.

During the 1970s, only a few people speculated that it might be wise to impose serious changes on industry and agriculture for the special purpose of reducing their impact on climate.

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A March 2008 study by Ernst & Young lists climate change as the number one risk to the insurance industry, describing climate change as «long - term, far - reaching and with significant impact on the industry.»

Read more from AWEA's siting expert about the reality of wind energy's impact on wildlife and what the industry is doing to help mitigate climate change.

That's disappointing: from Australia's point of view, a cheap, safe method of CCS would have resolved the climate change problem, at least as regards electricity, with no adverse impact on our coal industry.

The report warns that unchecked climate change would hit hard at Queensland's biggest industries: mining, cattle and potentially tourism, through impacts on the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics.

In 1996, when the IPCC released its second assessment report, stating that the human impact on climate was «discernible», a fossil - fuel - industry - funded group called the Global Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than climate was «discernible», a fossil - fuel - industry - funded group called the Global Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than it was.

Educate industry, government, and the general public on the importance and viability of establishing alternative sources of energy production and advanced geothermal technologies, and the impacts on the environment and climate change of various forms of energy production.

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.

With the late - mover advantage of being able to learn from earlier failures — both economic and political, in Europe and in Washington — specialists working with California's Air Resources Board have drafted proposed regulations intended to cushion the economic impact on the state's industries but still accomplish the law's purpose: reducing emissions linked to climate change to 1990 levels by 2020.

Our trainings foster local leadership and steep learning in local traditions to yield powerful activism, such as the Pacific Warrior Training Program, which has mobilized hundreds of Indigenous activists across many Pacific islands to engage their communities on the impacts of climate change and participate in mass actions confronting the coal industry in Australia.

As citizens concerned about climate change, we often focus on the negative impacts of industry — which in the case of fossil fuels are presently many, varied, and growing.

Cooney also made sure that no mention was made of the 2000 National Assessment on Climate Change Impacts, a report that became the target of conservative groups with ties to the oil industry and was suppressed by the Bush White House.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

That's important because many of the impacts of climate change on people, societies, infrastructure, industry, and ecosystems are the result of interactions between humans, nature, and specifically climate and weather, at the regional scale.

If other companies were to ensure by - products were fed into the supply chain of other industries — for example by using waste products to generate energy — we would see a big positive impact on climate change, pollution and the Earth's dwindling resources.

The exhibit illustrates various aspects of the global plastic pollution problem, including impacts on both land and sea, humans and animals, as well as the relationship between plastic, the petrochemical industry, fossil fuels, and climate change.

As part of our contribution, CSW commented that the document might carry greater relevance for decision - makers who want to advance a needed adaptation agenda to an unconvinced or climate - skeptic audience (a very real possibility) by including more explicit language on the ways in which climate change issues can be framed to appeal to diverse groups — for example, emphasizing the potential damages to people and property to one community, the negative impacts to industry in another.

There is a major industry that involves taking GCM output and using that to evaluate local impacts on crops, endangered species, and ecosystems, and often what gives the biggest impact is changes in the extremes, but even the mean climate at a local scale has not been demonstrated to be accurately simulated.

The agency was very concerned about the impact of climate change on the United States fisheries and fishing industry.

We track the subsidies the industry receives; we analyze industry - friendly arguments around extreme fossil fuel extraction; and we show the impact of fossil fuels on the economy, energy security and climate change.

It is only sensible that we should do so, and if we do, and if in particular we reach the conclusion that they should use the methodology implied in the impact assessment and not the absurd methods used by Sir Nicholas Stern, now Lord Stern — he received his reward — they would reach a conclusion very similar to that advocated by the hon. Gentleman on Second Reading: that we should put far more emphasis on adaptation to helping poor countries cope with climate change, rather than on crippling our industries — aviation, shipping and all the other industries — to little avail.

Climate change may have a bigger impact on the travel and tourism industry than any other sector.

This sector team can play a large role in creating change by advocating for effective climate legislation that can benefit our outdoor experience, improve our personal well - being and reduce the impact on our natural world that the outdoor industry relies upon for its success.

Government divisions over approach to climate change plan are bridged, but targets will be reviewed in 2018 to consider their impact on industry

Selected examples of current and projected climate - change impacts on industry, settlement and society and their interaction with other processes.

A number of Indigenous groups around the country have formed working groups and are working together and with industry groups on climate change impacts and opportunities relevant to them and their regions, including: