Sentences with phrase «many vulnerable regions»

The Rainforest Alliance will continue its commitment to reduce the effects of climate change by building climate resilience in some of the world's most vulnerable regions through forest conservation and sustainable agriculture.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

A look back at our decades - long partnership with indigenous and rural communities to build a sustainable forest economy in one of Guatemala's most valuable, vulnerable regions.

People need better access to water, particularly in vulnerable regions.»

In the Extreme Events final report, the trio had predicted vulnerable regions within the Western Interconnection — eight areas where large blackouts repeatedly struck their simulations.

Analysis of underground stresses could help predict vulnerable regions elsewhere in the United States

Florini said the conference will focus attention on how vulnerable the region is to warming and that what happens in the Arctic «doesn't stay in the Arctic.»

Experts should take note of local knowledge and beliefs when making plans about how to help people in vulnerable regions cope with the impacts of climate change.

All told, the most vulnerable regions included much of southern Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America and southern Australia thanks to a combination of degraded landscapes and shifting climates.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

«It can amplify and unmask ecological and socio - political weaknesses and increase the risk of adverse health outcomes in socially vulnerable regions.»

And the long - term rise in the costs of global disasters is probably due mainly to socio - economic changes, such as population growth and development in vulnerable regions.

In a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.

«In particular the United States, southern South America, southern Africa, central and southern Europe, Southeast Asia and southern Australia are vulnerable regions, because declines in mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases in water temperature under changing climate.

Today in PLOS Pathogens, scientists report that they've designed small molecules to target a particularly vulnerable region of hemagglutinin, one of the two proteins that jut from the viral surface like a flower.

Pro-inflammatory cytokines circulate all over the body and cause systemic inflammation, which, in turn, can cause considerable problems in certain vulnerable regions of the brain such as the hippocampus.

As research leaders in developing and using models to provide scientific insights into weather and climate change, Qian and others are striving to understand uncertainty in systems and modeling to improve projections and help prepare vulnerable regions for potential climate change impact.

The most vulnerable regions are in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Proteins with more dehydrons are more «unwrapped» - unstable in an aqueous environment, and therefore prone to bind with another protein to protect their vulnerable regions.

In a particularly vulnerable region of the brain called the striatum, HD mutation carriers show shrinkage as long as 15 years before they'd be predicted to have symptoms of HD.

These students knew, before Hurricane Katrina, how vulnerable the region had become.

There are certainly more far - flung places in the world, and there are prettier places too, but my encounters with this unique and vulnerable region periodically sent tears streaming down my face.

But its inclusion of «food stamp» style discounts for poor people in vulnerable regions side - steps the need to pair such policies with long - term initiatives aimed at shifting settlement patterns altogether.

Low - lying Florida and western Europe are often evoked as the vulnerable regions to these changes.

Combine that reality with the prospect of populations doubling by 2050 and the persistence of anarchy in vulnerable regions, and any impact from human - driven climate change has to be considered a background issue, at best, compared to the forces already killing thousands and deepening vulnerability of millions more.

In one such effort, undertaken in Pakistan after the devastating Kashmir earthquake in 2005, thousands of copies of a simple poster explaining basic construction techniques were distributed to schools in the vulnerable region.

That means trouble because of rising populations in vulnerable regions.

Food and water shortages or huge floods could push vulnerable regions over the edge into crises that could «demand an American humanitarian relief or military response», it... Read more

Your «we» doesn't seem to include people in the most vulnerable regions around the world (e.g. island nations, delta regions of Africa or Asia, the North).

Whether or not anthropogenic climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events, vulnerability to extreme weather events will continue to increase owing to increasing population and concentration of wealth in vulnerable regions.

There is no shortage of support needs for communities to address the impacts of climate change in agricultural systems, including support for adaptation for vulnerable regions and transformation to sustainable and resilient food production systems, built around local food economies.

Looking at the map, it's clear that southern and southeastern Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America, and southern Australia are among the most vulnerable regions.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

Money spent on global climate prognostications would IMO be much better spent on the improvement of shorter term weather forecasts for vulnerable regions.

This guidance document presents that climate change disproportionally affects the poorest and most marginalized communities living in vulnerable regions, among them indigenous peoples, whose livelihoods depend on natural resources.

The intelligence community uses Weather Analytics» database to assess the role of climate change in the political destabilization of vulnerable regions of the world.

Which are the most vulnerable regions?

For millions of people who depend on food grown in vulnerable regions, the future is actually evaporating.

To provide members of the public with the opportunity to contribute directly to research on climate change in a vulnerable region and demonstrate the power of an evidence - based approach to climate impact attribution.

Overall, we identified Alsace, Burgundy and Champagne as the most vulnerable regions, where the probability of tardive frost is projected to significantly increase throughout the 21st century for two out of three phenological models.

These predictions are especially important in vulnerable regions like the Arctic, which is expected to warm considerably this century, and which holds a vast amount of carbon in the tundra.

A second Ecological Footprint study was published in 2013, with a special focus on the Laguna Lake Region, the country's largest lake ecosystem, which includes Metro Manila — the most densely populated area on Earth and most vulnerable region in the country.

A look back at our decades - long partnership with indigenous and rural communities to build a sustainable forest economy in one of Guatemala's most valuable, vulnerable regions.

This may make some vulnerable regions uninsurable.»

The decreases in calcification and PIC occur simultaneously with decreases in the observed carbonate ion concentration, suggesting a possible link between acidification and decreasing calcification in this vulnerable region.

The result is that coastal flooding conditions will tend to follow a worsening trend — with the most vulnerable regions like the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts feeling the impact first.

His discourse is about the meager role played by the leaders from most vulnerable regions like Himalayas and Andes during this important global conference.

WGII FAQ12.4: What role does migration play in adaptation to climate change, particularly in vulnerable regions?

This conference in Nairobi, in sub-Saharan Africa, has the severity of impacts on vulnerable regions.

The study which will find ways to adapt in some of the most vulnerable regions in Asia and Africa [continue reading...]