Sentences with phrase «like accelerating climate change»

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

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Emerging threats, like pollution and climate change, may accelerate the rate of extinction.

If a region's electricity production exceeds this 600 - ton threshold, such as in countries like India, Australia and China, electrification could actually increase carbon emissions and accelerate climate change.

This seems like particularly important new research: From CNN «Satellite observations show sea levels rising, and climate change is accelerating it».

So it felt like a fresh spring breeze to see constructive discussion sparked by «Fighting Climate Change With Innovation,» a Foreign Affairs essay proposing a public - private mix of clean - energy investments, policies and incentives aimed at overcoming technological hurdles and accelerating deployment.

We can only hope that climate change is not going to be like a runaway train accelerating down - grade to some catastrophic end.

Building Knowledge to Reduce Uncertainties — Landscape - scale restoration projects like 4FRI present the opportunity to learn about the influence of accelerated thinning on forest water budgets and resilience using modern forestry techniques and under a changing and variable climate.

Simply put, accelerating, rapid warming is not happening presently (but rest assured, it will happen in the future, just like it has in the past - and that's what natural climate change does, no human CO2 required).

Reducing global warming by 0.5 °C may not sound like much, but when it comes to climate change, every tenth of a degree matters, and slowing near - term warming is particularly important to avoid triggering feedback loops that could accelerate further warming.

Difficult, complicated science questions like the interplay between natural climate variability (e.g., volcanic eruptions, solar minimums, the El Niño - La Niña cycle) and manmade, fossil fuel - based energy consumption — which accelerates greenhouse gas emissions and drives climate change — still need further clarification.

Also I'd still like to hear your thoughts on the «evidence for accelerated climate change» which is «all around us».