Sentences with phrase «irreversible loss»

They raised more fundamental questions about how to deal with irreversible losses from climate change.

Given the enormous consequences and irreversible losses from global warming should the worst projections play out, the time for improving the flow of information on this subject is clearly now.

However, there's plenty of action, humor and heart — and some genuinely effective dramatic moments in which familiar and beloved characters experience real, seemingly irreversible losses.

With an estimated 600 million people surviving on less than $ 1.25 a day, even minor climate variations could cause irreversible losses and tips large numbers into hardship.

Osteoarthritis is characterized by irreversible loss of cartilage in articular joints and it can cause severe joint pain, deformation and incapacitation.

There needs to be international recognition that communities and countries are suffering irreversible losses due to climate breakdown, now, and governments need to put new money on the table to help developing countries compensate, adapt to the impacts of climate change and tackle urgent development needs.

The European Union needs to push for a robust mechanism to compensate those communities and countries that will suffer irreversible losses due to climate breakdown.

«Washington State will need to respond vigorously to ocean acidification if we are going to avoid significant and possibly irreversible losses,» concluded the report from the Blue Ribbon Panel, which was co-chaired by former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief William Ruckelshaus.

The second week of the talks needs to draw up a robust mechanism to compensate those communities and countries that will suffer irreversible loses due to climate breakdown, in the form of financial assistance to developing countries, so they can adapt to the impacts of climate change, tackle urgent development needs, and compensate for irreversible losses as a result of climate breakdown.

Each year of delay means avoidable, irreversible loss of biodiversity.

Jamie Gorman, campaigner for Young Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Communities are suffering irreversible losses due to climate breakdown, now.

Based on the available information, the EPA in 2014 determined the mine would result in a complete and irreversible loss of fish habitats in some areas of the bay.

We have learned, then, to think of death as a single phenomenon whose presence is indicated either by irreversible loss of heart and lung function (the traditional criterion) or by irreversible loss of all brain function.

Yet, of course, even if we agreed that irreversible loss of whole brain function established that the person was dead, we would be reluctant to bury a corpse until its heart had ceased to beat.

Central to the progression of CKD is the gradual and irreversible loss of nephrons, the individual functional units of the kidney.

The irreversible loss of inner ear outer cells is a cause of both types of hearing loss.

The main cause of reduced cardiac functionality lies in the irreversible loss of cardiac muscle cells due to disease, especially ischaemic diseases such as cardiac infarction.

«Although fire is a natural component of this ecosystem, the irreversible loss of old forest could have detrimental effects on many species, including many resident and migratory songbirds.

These results offer new hope for the millions of people suffering from, or at risk of developing, liver failure — an increasingly common condition that results in progressive and irreversible loss of liver function.

Spinal cord injuries can lead to an irreversible loss of neurons, and along with scarring, can ultimately lead to impaired motor and sensory functions.

Prognosis EPI is associated with an irreversible loss of pancreatic acinar tissue in most cases, and complete recovery is therefore extremely rare.

In response to severe and prolonged drought in many regions of the world, including China, India, Thailand, Italy, and California, loss of surface irrigation water has resulted in excessive pumping of groundwater, which in turn has led to land subsidence, groundwater depletion, and irreversible loss of aquifer volume.

In Sturgeon, the Court held that when passengers» flights are subject to long delay, that is delay equal to or in excess of three hours, passengers of such flights are entitled to compensation on the basis of Article 7 of the Regulation, like those passengers whose original flights have been cancelled, given that they suffer an irreversible loss of time and, hence, a comparable inconvenience (par.

39 The opposite approach would constitute an unjustified difference in treatment, inasmuch as it would effectively treat passengers of flights arriving at their final destination three hours or more after the scheduled arrival time differently depending on whether their flights were delayed beyond the scheduled departure time by more than the limits set out in Article 6 of Regulation No 261/2004, even though their inconvenience linked to an irreversible loss of time is identical.

Deafness Deafness is defined as «a definite diagnosis of the total and irreversible loss of -LSB-...]

By doing nothing we stand to witness the irreversible loss of the most ancient cultures in the world...