Sentences with phrase «local climate by»

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.

Based on research led by University of Cincinnati geologist Eva Enkelmann in the St. Elias Mountain Range — located along the Pacific coastal region of North America — the way a mountain range moves and behaves topographically can also change and create its local climate by redirecting wind and precipitation.

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Once the project is finished, researchers are hoping to help climate migrants successfully integrate into Canadian society by providing solutions to policy makers and increasing local awareness on climate migration.

Green Guerrilla Marketing, developed by Shel Horowitz, takes it a step farther: as consumers become more aware of issues like climate change, buying local, etc., they want to patronize companies that understand that.

Based on a global declaration signed in 2015 by investors at the Paris COP21 UN Climate Conference, the Brazilian Statement adds local context, with input from market participants, including fund managers, insurance companies and pension funds.

The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities were developed in 2017 by Robin Chase, Zipcar co-Founder, and a consortium of leading city and transport organizations including: the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), Transportation for America (T4America), Rocky Mountain Institute, Shared - Use Mobility Center, and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

Inspired by the YouTube appeal made by MFM founder Sir Paul McCartney in advance of the COP21 climate talks in Paris in December, a pro-veggie proposal was put to the local authorities by the Catalan Republican Left party and won the support of the ruling Barcelona en Comu party.

MASIPAG has been establishing local seed banks and trial farms protected and cared by small farmers to help them cope with climate change.

Avance Coffee Conference October 11 - 12, 2017 - Guatemala City, Guatemala Michelle Deugd, Rainforest Alliance Director of Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods, will be a speaker on Climate Change: Reconciling Global and Local Actions at this conference hosted by the Specialty Coffee Association.

Plus, keep an eye out for programming that highlights how local families can prepare for extreme weather caused by climate change.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change on our community.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

He also responded to questions from the audience by detailing the steps being taken to improve the investment climate and enhance the local capacity by improving education, as well as enforcing local content requirements for new investments.

The committees suggested setting up a national climate change adaptation program to empower communities by using local, indigenous knowledge to help decrease disaster risk and support recovery efforts.

The government must also ensure that every council plays its part in meeting UK climate targets by introducing local carbon budgets in the decentralisation and localism bill.

At 12:30 p.m., local elected officials, NYSEG ratepayers, and anti-fracking climate activists hold a press briefing on the proposal to keep the Cayuga Power plant functioning by converting it to natural gas, state Capitol, 3rd floor (outside LCA offices), Albany.

A new paper published by scientists in the Northeast finds that long - term studies at the local scale are needed to accurately predict and manage the effects of climate change.

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump's polling numbers, the delay on a GOP healthcare bill, local Governors pledging to abide by the Paris climate accords, and the lack of motivation for state legislation ethics reform.

Fifty - seven percent support actions taken by some mayors and governors to honor the goals of the Paris climate agreement despite U.S. withdrawal, and 55 percent think their state and local government should do more to address climate change.

With funding from Maryland Sea Grant, a program funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of Maryland, Kenney has launched a «listening tour» to understand the scientific needs of regional and local decision - makers related to increasing resilience to climate change.

Kirstin Dow puts her research into action by convening local and regional decision - makers and community members to jointly explore solutions to climate change impacts.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

«By carefully managing reefs with conditions that are more likely to recover from climate - induced bleaching, we give them the best possible chance of surviving over the long term, while reduction of local pressures that damage corals and diminish water quality will help to increase the proportion of reefs that can bounce back.»

Previous studies by the Cardiff team on warming effects in the Rivers Wye and Tywi reveal significant reductions in insect numbers and even an instance of local species extinction due to climate change.

The goal of the new rule is to help local governments identify vulnerable areas affected by climate change that they can show to federal and state officials as a way to obtain money for things like road rebuilding.

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

Observation - based data sets, which focus mainly on local and regional climate, are obtained by taking raw climate measurements from weather stations and applying it to a grid defined over the globe.

If it turns out climate change is making extreme weather events more likely, it is important to help locals build resilience, for instance by building irrigation systems to cope with drought, says Grainne Moloney, a chief technical adviser with FAO Somalia, a division of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

The recent declines and disappearances of many frogs, toads, and salamanders have been blamed on a number of causes, including pathogenic infection, pesticides, pollutants, increased UV radiation from ozone depletion, and local drought spurred by climate change.

And when US President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement earlier this year, a range of US cities and states pledged to act on their own version of «Think globally, act locally,» by cutting local and regional carbon emissions in keeping with the goals of the Paris deal.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

This research is part of multi-pronged project funded in 2014 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation aimed at partnering with local organizations to develop science - based climate change solutions for coastal communities.

To meet the ’10 000 year criterion», set by the DOE, the repository must not release «significant» amounts of its radioactive content into the environment during that period, no matter what changes occur in the local climate, geology or water table.

Increasingly local adaptation to climate is being studied at the molecular level by identifying which genes control climate adaptation and how these vary between individuals.

It works by providing sustainable social benefits for a local community within climate change adaptation practices.

Even if exacerbated by climate change, spring floods wouldn't be as serious of a problem if local governments hadn't allowed development in vulnerable floodplains, Criss said.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

The water crisis is being driven by several factors: climate change, an expanding population, local mismanagement and a greater demand on farmers.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory ComClimate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory ComClimate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

(vi) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakeholders.

Greenland temperature variations Veizer's paper argues that the local preindustrial climate fluctuations over the past millennium in Greenland were not driven by CO2.

They help us to understand the global circulation of the atmosphere by explaining the mechanisms that drive some of the persistent or recurrent patterns (or features) of local weather and climate.

Teleconnections explain a large fraction of climatic variability in distant locations, variability that can not be accounted by the local physical processes, making this a very interesting lens through which to explain weather and climate.

For example, under the «business - as - usual» climate scenario (called RCP8.5 by the UN IPCC, which assumes that emissions continue to grow unabated), there is a 50 per cent chance that local sea - level rise will exceed 22 centimeters at Oslo.

Microclimate is usually, however, characterized by considerable uniformity of climate over the site involved and relatively local when compared to its enveloping macroclimate.

However, we now know that climate change is already affecting regional circulation patterns and by extension helping to shape local extreme weather.

Thanks to field trials financed by SWISSAID, they can prove that local varieties are more economical and respond with greater resistance to climate fluctuations — and yield harvests which are just as plentiful.