Sentences with phrase «many key vulnerabilities»

It pointed to the continued presence of fragile fixed - income market liquidity as a key vulnerability in the overall financial system, while it repeats the risks of a sharp increase in long - term interest rates, stress from emerging markets like China and prolonged weakness in commodity prices.

«That should be viewed as a positive development by the (Bank of Canada), though progress on reducing the «key vulnerability» of elevated household debt will likely be very slow,» RBC economist Josh Nye wrote in a research note.

«That should be viewed as a positive development by the Bank of Canada, though progress on reducing the «key vulnerability» of elevated household debt will likely be very slow.»

Which brings us to another key vulnerability in the tech ecosystem.

a) Commit to sorting out the secrecy and any related corruption in the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies: a key vulnerability for the UK that just won't go away;

A key vulnerability is password strength — PLCs connected to corporate networks or the Internet are frequently left wide open, Digital Bond CEO Dale Peterson says.

Both teams say that a global view of the internet's infrastructure will be invaluable for assessing key vulnerabilities.

The IPCC has taken a crack at that, identifying 26 «key vulnerabilities» in its most recent assessment, ranging from declines in agricultural productivity to the melting of ice sheets and polar ice cover as well as determining how to judge if they are spiraling out of control.

Even Lara's key vulnerability — her desire to see her long - dead father again — is intrinsically tied to Jolie: Lord Croft is played by none other than Jon Voight, Jolie's own father.

«That said, the further deterioration in the oft - cited debt metric will serve to strengthen the Bank of Canada's appraisal that elevated household indebtedness remains a key vulnerability to financial stability,» Cooper wrote.

Overall, the Bank of Canada sees the risks to the financial system as basically unchanged from December, the last time it reported on the issue, with three out of the four key vulnerabilities coming from outside the country.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-chapter19.pdf «Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change For some impacts, qualitative rankings of magnitude are more appropriate than quantitative ones.

1 Key vulnerabilities to climate change Some ecosystems are highly vulnerable: Coral reefs, marine shell organisms Tundra, boreal forests, mountain and.

This technical document analyzes the impact of two hurricanes and a tropical storm that affected Belize in order to identify some key vulnerabilities in the power system to extreme weather, which is likely to be exacerbated due to climate change.

Its objective is to contribute to low carbon development and address key vulnerabilities due to the consequences of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Major themes included key vulnerabilities of the climate system and critical thresholds, socio - economic effects both globally and regionally, emission pathways to stabilize greenhouse gases, and technological options to achieve stabilization levels.

This includes model verification using observations, quantification of model probabilities and uncertainties, identification of key vulnerabilities as well as adaptation potentials, and, finally, developing response strategies.

The development of criteria for identifying «key vulnerabilities» was a major contribution from Chapter 19 of the contribution of Working Group II (WGII) to the AR4 (IPCC (2007c).

Within the relevant sub-sections, we describe briefly ecosystem properties, goods and services, we summarise key vulnerabilities as identified by the TAR, and then review what new information is available on impacts, focusing on supporting and regulating services (for provisioning services see Chapters 3, 5 and 6).

Such additional warming would increase the number and severity of impacts associated with many key vulnerabilities identified in this chapter.

Professional expertise and judgment led to determining «key vulnerabilities.»

A number of Earth - system changes may be classified as key impacts resulting in key vulnerabilities.

Transient temperature changes are more instructive for the analyses of key vulnerabilities, but the literature is sparse on transient assessments relative to equilibrium analyses.

Schneider, S.H., S. Semenov, A. Patwardhan, I. Burton, C.H.D. Magadza, M. Oppenheimer, A.B. Pittock, A. Rahman, J.B. Smith, A. Suarez and F. Yamin, 2007: Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change.

Section 19.4.4 concludes this chapter by suggesting research priorities for the natural and social sciences that may provide relevant knowledge for assessing key vulnerabilities of climate change.

Section 19.3 provides an indicative, rather than an exhaustive, list of key vulnerabilities, representing the authors» collective judgements based on the criteria presented in Section 19.2, selected from a vast array of possible candidates suggested in the literature.

The assessment of key vulnerabilities and review of the particular assemblage of literature needed to do so is unique to the mission of Chapter 19.

Section 19.3 presents selected key vulnerabilities based on these criteria.

The «reasons for concern» identified in the Third Assessment remain a viable framework for considering key vulnerabilities.

Section 19.4 draws on the literature addressing the linkages between key vulnerabilities and strategies to avoid them by adaptation (Section 19.4.1) and mitigation (Section 19.4.2).

The identification of potential key vulnerabilities is intended to provide guidance to decision - makers for identifying levels and rates of climate change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Box 19.1).

Key vulnerabilities are linked to specific levels of global mean temperature increase (above 1990 - 2000 levels; see Box 19.2) using available estimates from the literature wherever possible.

Assessment of potential key vulnerabilities is intended to provide information on rates and levels of climate change to help decision - makers make appropriate responses to the risks of climate change [19.

Depending on circumstances, some of these impacts could be associated with «key vulnerabilities», based on a number of criteria in the literature (magnitude, timing, persistence / reversibility, the potential for adaptation, distributional aspects, likelihood and «importance» of the impacts).

«The key vulnerability of a [carbon adder] is the need for agreement on setting and changing the [carbon] price.»

Positive impacts on a system are addressed when reported in the literature and where relevant to the assessment of key vulnerabilities.

Identifying key vulnerabilities can help guide efforts to increase resiliency and avoid large damages from abrupt change in the climate system, or in abrupt impacts of gradual changes in the climate system, and facilitate more informed decisions on the proper balance between mitigation and adaptation.

The remainder of Section 19.4 reviews literature pertaining to these methods that examines mitigation strategies to avoid key vulnerabilities or DAI.

The topics addressed include critical thresholds and key vulnerabilities of the climate system, impacts on human and natural systems, socioeconomic costs and benefits of emissions pathways, and technological options for meeting different stabilisation levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Key Vulnerabilities for Ecosystems and Biodiversity Part IV.

Most key vulnerabilities are related to (a) climate phenomena that exceed thresholds for adaptation, i.e., extreme weather events and / or abrupt climate change, often related to the magnitude and rate of climate change (see Box 7.4), and (b) limited access to resources (financial, technical, human, institutional) to cope, rooted in issues of development context.

Based on the information summarised in the sections above (Table 7.3), key vulnerabilities of industry, settlement and society include the following, each characterised by a level of confidence.

Involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1988, he was Coordinating Lead Author, WG II, Chapter 19, «Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change» and a core writer for the Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report.

By focusing the institutional knowledge and resources of stakeholders on select challenges, GCA will be able to isolate and address key vulnerabilities adversely affecting individuals and organizations all over the world, ultimately benefitting those in both the public and private sectors.»

In her book, Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens, author and C.A.S.E. CEO Debbie Riley highlights «the six spots where teens get stuck» as key vulnerabilities around the adoption experience in adolescence.

This presentation will highlight the six areas where teens get stuck as key vulnerabilities around the adoption experience in adolescence.

Maternal depression in pregnancy is a key vulnerability factor for offspring depression in early adulthood.

Not exact matches

According to the researchers, whose claims were earlier reported on by Gizmodo, the software running on those keys, called Vision, has a vulnerability that allows criminals to create master keys and open any door in the facility.

A couple of Belgian researchers published a paper containing proof of concept code that exploits vulnerabilities in the way cryptographic keys are exchanged over Wi - Fi, allowing hackers to steal people's data.

Researchers at a special security vulnerability search team at Google reported to Intel's security section in June that they'd uncovered a problem with a key part of CPU design.