Sentences with phrase «key vulnerabilities»

This presentation will highlight the six areas where teens get stuck as key vulnerabilities around the adoption experience in adolescence.

Both teams say that a global view of the internet's infrastructure will be invaluable for assessing key vulnerabilities.

Unless otherwise specified, this chapter refers to global mean temperature change above 1990 - 2000 levels, which reflects the most common metric used in the literature on key vulnerabilities.

Such additional warming would increase the number and severity of impacts associated with many key vulnerabilities identified in this chapter.

A focus on key vulnerabilities is meant to help policy - makers and stakeholders assess the level of risk and design pertinent response strategies.

Section 19.4.4 concludes this chapter by suggesting research priorities for the natural and social sciences that may provide relevant knowledge for assessing key vulnerabilities of climate change.

Its objective is to contribute to low carbon development and address key vulnerabilities due to the consequences of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Key Vulnerabilities for Ecosystems and Biodiversity Part IV.

The identification of potential key vulnerabilities is intended to provide guidance to decision - makers for identifying levels and rates of climate change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Box 19.1).

This subsection reviews the growing literature (see, e.g., Schellnhuber et al., 2006) on mitigation of climate change as a means to avoid key vulnerabilities or dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the climate system.

First, it synthesises information from Working Group I (WGI) and Chapters 3 - 16 of Working Group II (WGII) of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) within the uncertainty framework established by IPCC (Moss and Schneider, 2000; IPCC, 2007b) and the risk management approach discussed in Chapter 2, and identifies key vulnerabilities based on seven criteria (see Section 19.2).

Section 19.3 presents selected key vulnerabilities based on these criteria.

Most key vulnerabilities are relatively localised, in terms of geographic location, sectoral focus and segments of the population affected, although the literature to support such detailed findings about potential impacts is very limited.

Overall, the Bank of Canada sees the risks to the financial system as basically unchanged from December, the last time it reported on the issue, with three out of the four key vulnerabilities coming from outside the country.

While the report was touted by oil and gas interests as saying fracking is safe, it did find several specific instances of contamination from fracking and concluded that fracking creates several key vulnerabilities that could potentially undermine the health of drinking water in the United States.

Major themes included key vulnerabilities of the climate system and critical thresholds, socio - economic effects both globally and regionally, emission pathways to stabilize greenhouse gases, and technological options to achieve stabilization levels.

Within the relevant sub-sections, we describe briefly ecosystem properties, goods and services, we summarise key vulnerabilities as identified by the TAR, and then review what new information is available on impacts, focusing on supporting and regulating services (for provisioning services see Chapters 3, 5 and 6).

The «reasons for concern» identified in the Third Assessment remain a viable framework for considering key vulnerabilities.

In some cases, key vulnerabilities emerging from such interactions are assessed, such as the fragmentation of habitats that constrains some species, which — when combined with climate change — forces species movements across disturbed habitats.

Section 19.4 draws on the literature addressing the linkages between key vulnerabilities and strategies to avoid them by adaptation (Section 19.4.1) and mitigation (Section 19.4.2).

Part I. Key Vulnerabilities of the Climate System and Critical Thresholds Part II.

A variety of methods is used in the literature to identify response strategies that may avoid potential key vulnerabilities or DAI (see also Fisher et al., 2007, Section 3.5.2).

The remainder of Section 19.4 reviews literature pertaining to these methods that examines mitigation strategies to avoid key vulnerabilities or DAI.

Based on the information summarised in the sections above (Table 7.3), key vulnerabilities of industry, settlement and society include the following, each characterised by a level of confidence.

Most key vulnerabilities are related to (a) climate phenomena that exceed thresholds for adaptation, i.e., extreme weather events and / or abrupt climate change, often related to the magnitude and rate of climate change (see Box 7.4), and (b) limited access to resources (financial, technical, human, institutional) to cope, rooted in issues of development context.

«By developing innovative strategies to address key vulnerabilities, GCA is committed to improving cyber safety on a global level, ultimately benefitting many more than its constituent members.»

It pointed to the continued presence of fragile fixed - income market liquidity as a key vulnerability in the overall financial system, while it repeats the risks of a sharp increase in long - term interest rates, stress from emerging markets like China and prolonged weakness in commodity prices.

«That should be viewed as a positive development by the (Bank of Canada), though progress on reducing the «key vulnerability» of elevated household debt will likely be very slow,» RBC economist Josh Nye wrote in a research note.

«That should be viewed as a positive development by the Bank of Canada, though progress on reducing the «key vulnerability» of elevated household debt will likely be very slow.»

Which brings us to another key vulnerability in the tech ecosystem.

a) Commit to sorting out the secrecy and any related corruption in the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies: a key vulnerability for the UK that just won't go away;

The Conservatives have made an impressive start to the week; party strategists knew their key vulnerability was the charge of lack of substance to Tory plans.

A key vulnerability is password strength — PLCs connected to corporate networks or the Internet are frequently left wide open, Digital Bond CEO Dale Peterson says.

The IPCC has taken a crack at that, identifying 26 «key vulnerabilities» in its most recent assessment, ranging from declines in agricultural productivity to the melting of ice sheets and polar ice cover as well as determining how to judge if they are spiraling out of control.

The mode features objectives that each side works towards achieving, such as taking out the key vulnerabilities of a large ship.

«That said, the further deterioration in the oft - cited debt metric will serve to strengthen the Bank of Canada's appraisal that elevated household indebtedness remains a key vulnerability to financial stability,» Cooper wrote.

1 Key vulnerabilities to climate change Some ecosystems are highly vulnerable: Coral reefs, marine shell organisms Tundra, boreal forests, mountain and.

This technical document analyzes the impact of two hurricanes and a tropical storm that affected Belize in order to identify some key vulnerabilities in the power system to extreme weather, which is likely to be exacerbated due to climate change.

The development of criteria for identifying «key vulnerabilities» was a major contribution from Chapter 19 of the contribution of Working Group II (WGII) to the AR4 (IPCC (2007c).

A number of Earth - system changes may be classified as key impacts resulting in key vulnerabilities.