Sentences with phrase «manage risks from climate change»

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-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

There, climate scientists and government officials from around the world are tweaking the summary of a forthcoming report, «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.climate scientists and government officials from around the world are tweaking the summary of a forthcoming report, «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.Climate Change Adaptation.»

Another, of course, is the 2012 report on managing risks from extreme weather events from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

My point was that, if we accept this basic story (it's too simple, even as an account of how cultural cognition works; but that's in the nature of «models» & should give us pause only when the simplification detracts from rather than enhances our ability to predict and manage the dynamics of the phenomenon in question), then there's no reason to view the valences of the cultural meanings attached to crediting climate change risk as fixed or immutable.

This technical document includes a summary for policymakers presenting key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX).

The takeaway from these reports is that all energy sources, including carbon - based fuels, are necessary to meet future global energy demand growth as society manages climate change risks.

IPCC: This Summary for Policymakers presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX).

This has included developing the BC Agriculture & Climate Change Action Plan, leading a project to evaluate the agriculture sector's risks and opportunities in relation to climate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture FounClimate Change Action Plan, leading a project to evaluate the agriculture sector's risks and opportunities in relation to climate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture FoundChange Action Plan, leading a project to evaluate the agriculture sector's risks and opportunities in relation to climate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture Founclimate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture Foundchange and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture Foundation.

But now, researchers and practitioners are starting to ask how they can help address L&D, and many are confused, particularly about how L&D mechanisms might be distinct from existing approaches to adapt to climate change, and manage disaster risk.

A free MOOC on coursera.org by The World Bank Group called From Climate Science to Action provides a good overview of the real risks that are already happening around the world and strategies that real communities are taking to try to cope with change and manage climate change to help reduce risk of natural disClimate Science to Action provides a good overview of the real risks that are already happening around the world and strategies that real communities are taking to try to cope with change and manage climate change to help reduce risk of natural disclimate change to help reduce risk of natural disasters.

To enable society to better manage the risks and opportunities arising from changes in climate, engagement between the users and the providers of climate information needs to be much more effective and should better link climate information with decision - making.

The relationship between adaptation and mitigation in managing climate change risks: a regional response from north central Victoria, Australia

The report says that the world is ill - prepared to manage the risks from a changing climate, and that if warming proceeds along the high end of the possible range of outcomes, climate change may overwhelm even the most well - prepared and wealthy nations.

More than 100 scientists from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are currently meeting in Queensland, Australia, to complete a special report, entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation», which is not due to be released until November.

To respond to the challenge of understanding climate and climate variability, the NSF's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is providing the nation and the world with the science - based knowledge to predict change, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change and climate variaclimate and climate variability, the NSF's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is providing the nation and the world with the science - based knowledge to predict change, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change and climate variaclimate variability, the NSF's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is providing the nation and the world with the science - based knowledge to predict change, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change and climate variaClimate Change Science Program (CCSP) is providing the nation and the world with the science - based knowledge to predict change, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change and climate variabChange Science Program (CCSP) is providing the nation and the world with the science - based knowledge to predict change, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change and climate variabchange, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change and climate variaclimate change and climate variabchange and climate variaclimate variability.