Sentences with phrase «links with climate»

The advance made by COP23 negotiators «has enabled us to open up a new, important channel of information and will enable us to start building much more informed relationships between agriculture, innovation and the dynamic links with climate change,» said Sadler, whose World Bank colleagues led finance discussions at the Global Landscape Forum.

But it is understood that his links with climate change sceptic bloggers in North America drew him to the attention of the investigating team, and have exposed rifts within the university's environmental science faculty.

This manual discusses the concept of private finance, its links with climate change mitigation and adaptation and public actors» roles to mobilize it.

What the paper does focus on, Hansen said, is determining whether extreme weather events like the Texas heat wave can be attributed to climate variability — the natural ups and downs in seasonal temperature — or to the global upward trend in summer temperatures that science now links with climate change.

This manual aims to help young people consider the actions they might take towards more sustainable lifestyles, drawing links with climate change.

«It's important to determine where we believe that some of the recent trends in circulation could potentially be linked with climate change, rather than just natural variability,» Ted Shepherd, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in an email.

It highlights the vulnerability and exposure of people dependent upon rivers to floods, droughts and eventually shortages as a result of changes in the melting and freezing cycles linked with climate change and other pollution impacts.

A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 11 provides evidence for the prevalent hypothesis that these fluctuations are linked with climate shifts that result in changes in seed production in these species» boreal forest habitat in northern Canada.

CO2 levels tightly linked with climate change over past 420 million years CO2 levels tightly linked with climate change over past 420 million years mongabay.com March 28, 2007 New research...

It is ironic that while cap - and - trade — a sensible approach to reducing carbon dioxide emissions linked with climate change — is dead and buried in the Senate, considerable support has emerged for an approach that would be both less effective and more costly.

In this context, humans are like corals, which are also facing increased disease linked with climate change, Harvell said.

Reviewed geological data indicate that the history of Arctic sea ice is closely linked with climate changes driven primarily by greenhouse and orbital forcings and associated feedbacks.

Penguin Decline in Antarctica Linked With Climate Change.

Africa Atlas Maps Current Challenges, Future Directions Achim Steiner, executive director of the UNEP, says that the atlas «shows the vulnerability of people in the region to forces often outside their control, including the shrinking of glaciers and impacts on water supplies linked with climate change.»

Such catastrophes are reported occasionally in the media but the link with climate change is almost never made.

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President Donald Trump will pull out of a nuclear deal with Iran, although the spokeswoman said the decision was not linked to the political climate with Iran.

Explaining to its shareholders how it is addressing strategic risks linked to major environmental and social policy issues, such as climate change and human rights, is an important dialogue every corporation needs to engage in with its shareholders.

Because of the links between drought, land degradation, desertification and climate change, withdrawal from the Desertification Convention comes with potentially significant costs.

She also provided a link to a video of her joint presentation with Suncor CEO Steve Williams at the recent Business and Climate Summit in London, UK, where they spoke articulately about the work being done in Alberta.

Air France's move comes amid international uncertainty over whether U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of a nuclear deal with Iran, although the spokeswoman said the decision was not linked to the political climate with Iran.

Bring up one of the following terms, with a link to an accompanying news story: Benghazi, climate change, anything involving something inflammatory Donald Trump said, the illuminati, gun control or any number of other slightly controversial topics.

A second, linked rumour was that Aronofsky would replace the sin and judgement message of the story with an environmental tract, and while his pre-flood humanity's mistreatment of creation is a pointed nod at modern climate change deniers, it doesn't go further than that.

The Business Mirror also ran a story linking yield loss with climate change and how IRRI could help by developing better rice strains.

«With more innovators joining forces under POIG, we move closer to achieving POIG's vision: a responsible supply chain that has broken the link between palm oil production and the destruction of forests and peatlands, the exploitation of communities and workers, and climate change,» concluded co-chair Matthias.

In his letter, which was drawn up jointly with Dutch premier Jan Peter Balkenende, Mr Blair notes the importance of energy security but says any debate on the subject must also be about climate change and its links to the European economy.

Miner told House members that extreme weather linked to climate change — with big swings between cold and hot weather — has taken a toll on Syracuse's old and fragile water pipelines.

Given the importance of the industry to the UK economy the CIOB believes the role should be located within a highly influential government department; probably the Cabinet Office, with excellent links into the Treasury, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR).

Can New York lead the country in linking job growth with fighting climate change?

Three didymo experts not involved in the study agreed that climate change possibly is playing a role with didymo, although the degree of the link is uncertain.

So the fact that they are major, that does link up with the climate change research.

The information could be used to better cope with drought, floods, heat waves and other extreme weather linked to climate change.

Another possible issue with attribution science, he says, is that the current generation of simulations simply may not be capable of capturing some of the subtle changes in the climate and oceans — a particular danger when it comes to studies that find no link to human activities.

The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

The study, led by the University of Southampton, together with the Universities of Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle (all part of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) and the University of Reading analysed the weather through lyrics, musical genre, keys and links to specific weather events.

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

Stronger link with severe weather The report is firm on the science that humans are causing climate change.

The uncertainty associated with future climate projections linked to economic possibilities of what people will do is far larger than the uncertainty associated with physical climate models.

A significant update in this report from the 2009 version is the stronger link between climate change and severe weather, as the science on that topic has strengthened in the last five years, said a source familiar with the report.

An extensive body of prior research has revealed students have many misconceptions about climate change, confusing it, for example, with causing acid rain and ozone depletion, as well as linking it to skin cancer, the authors note.

DEQ staff are beginning the study now and said Friday that they plan to start with the assumption that they would be linking markets with California, Quebec and other members of the Western Climate Initiative, the U.S. - Canadian subnational carbon - trading alliance.

Ash Parton and colleagues fall into the second camp, writing, «The dispersal of early human populations out of Africa is dynamically linked with the changing climate and environmental conditions of Arabia.

A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and war - fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

«Science can now link climate change with some extreme weather events.»

Responses to climate - linked factual questions, such as whether Arctic sea ice area has declined compared with 30 years ago, were politicized as if we were asking for climate - change opinions.

When the team put the two sets of data together, though, along with climate data from the same 150 - year period, they could clearly see the link between periods of slow growth and dead trees later on.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

The working group on coupled biogeochemical cycling and controlling factors dealt with questions regarding the role of plankton diversity, how ocean biogeochemistry will respond to global changes on decadal to centennial time scales, the key biogeochemical links between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate, and the role of estuaries, shelves, and marginal seas in the capturing, transformation, and exchange of terrestrial and open - marine material.

David Wessel, director of Brookings» Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, said the linking of monetary policy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to take on.

The researchers acknowledge that equating the moisture levels of the Lake Titicaca region with climate conditions in the jungles to the east is «stepping out on a limb,» but Baker notes that most evidence supports that link.