Sentences with phrase «lying island state»

CB: In clear terms, in your view, what is the difference between 1.5 C and 2C in terms of impact for a low - lying island state, for example?

That half a degree is the difference between low - lying island states surviving, or Arctic ice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level rise.)

At the Paris climate talks, scientists and people from low - lying island states set 1.5 °C of warming as a red line that must not be crossed.

However, countries also agreed on a more aspirational goal at Paris to try to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, which was seen as a safer level for low - lying island states and other more vulnerable countries.

Low - lying island states and other countries vulnerable to rising sea levels, floods and hurricanes have been putting pressure on developed countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions and keep the rise in temperatures to within a limit of 2C this century.

AFP is reporting that Denmark has agreed to sponsor the Maldives» trip: Saying that as the Maldives will be one of the nations worst affected by climate change, Denmark has ponied up $ 2.5 million in funds so that the world's poorest nations and low - lying island states will be able to attend the summit.

Not exact matches

New York wants most of the state to be reliant on clean energy in 15 years, and the key to getting it done may lie with the award - winning Long Island researcher who developed the pacemaker battery.

The LIRR, which connects the city and Long Island and has 300,000 daily riders, is operated by a state agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, meaning the ultimate political responsibility lies with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but the impact in the city would be undeniable.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller Thursday as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

The president of the Pacific island state of Kiribati favors buying more land abroad after a purchase in Fiji, to secure both food supplies and perhaps a future home if rising sea levels swamp low - lying atolls.

Since 1992, the UN recognizes a distinct group of fifty developing, low - lying coastal countries known as Small Islands Developing States (SIDS).

The original London specimen was collected in 1870 from the remote Mortlock Islands, a series of low - lying atolls and part of the Federated States of Micronesia in the west - central Pacific Ocean.

Gains in 2011 are more likely to be in getting to grips with the chemistry of existing superheavy atoms, which may offer clues as to where the island lies, says Walter Loveland of Oregon State University in Corvallis.

Beware the Giant Paintbrush, Little Insect Way, way down in the southeast corner of Alaska lies Prince of Wales Island, the fourth largest in the United States.

The island of Kaua`i lies at the northernmost part of our island state and geologically is one of the oldest.

Geography: The second largest of the former West Indies Associated States, the avocado - shaped St. Lucia lies between Martinique and St. Vincent in the Windward Islands chain of the eastern Caribbean.

Truk state consists of seven major island groups lying within the Eastern Caroline Islands, about 617 miles (1028 km) southeast of Guam and 3,262 miles (5,436 km) southwest of Hawaii.

It is located off the east coast of Sabah, Malaysia's eastern most state, and lies on the north - eastern corner of Borneo, the world's third largest island.

Doing nothing until the end of the decade would also likely mean curtains for low - lying areas and small island states, including the Maldives, whose President Mohamed Nasheed I advise on climate change issues.

All I hope is that the feds don't take even more of our blue state money to bail out the red state «rugged individualists» who build massive tract mansions on coastal barrier islands and in formerly low lying marshlands.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other climate scientists regard global warming of two degrees Celsius as catastrophic, bringing water stress to arid and semi-arid countries, more floods in low - lying coastal areas, coastal erosion in small island states, and the elimination of up to 30 percent of animal and plant species.

The latest study from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the inevitability of drastic global warming in the starkest terms yet, stating that major impacts on parts of the world — in particular Africa, Asian river deltas, low - lying islands and the Arctic — are unavoidable and the focus must be on adapting life to survive the most devastating changes.

-- High exposure of people, economic activity, and infrastructure in low lying coastal zones and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP.

Even if the 1.5 °C target was reached, which scientists say is highly unlikely, a number of low - lying small island states in the Pacific and Caribbean will disappear off the map.

Micronesia and Mauritius, two low - lying island nations that are highly vulnerable to climate change induced sea level rise, have proposed aggressively phasing out the use of HFC's, and were recently joined by the United States.

In this episode, they explain the causes of climate change and highlight its devastating impacts in small islands and low lying costal states.

The US — and European — position was a huge disappointment for the low - lying and small island states, which argued they needed recognition that their countries could pay the ultimate price for climate change in terms of land loss and migration.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts that, in some cases, could have associated damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts and associated annual damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.

The report, which is the second installment of a three - part series of scientific updates from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sharply warns that climate change poses the greatest risks to the most vulnerable populations within all nations, and a potentially existential risk to poorer countries already struggling with food insecurity and civil conflict, as well as low - lying small island states.

Suffice it to say that in Copenhagen 350 emerged as the alternative to reduction targets that would condemn low - lying and island states and other «most vulnerable» areas to near - certain apocalypse.

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