Sentences with phrase «mitigate against climate change»

Yes — probably all members of WG1 can now all get high paid jobs as actuaries working for insurance companies to mitigate against climate change.

A spokesmann added: «Wind farms help to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate against climate change, which is an ever greater threat to birdlife.»

It is not possible to uphold that fiduciary duty while failing to consider, let alone, mitigate against climate change and its associated costs to the economy and environment,» said Cunningham, who heads CLF's clean energy and climate change program.

«The size of the financial contribution in this context, as decided in the convention, is that the developed countries committed themlves to cover the full incremental costs of developing countries actions to adapt or mitigate against climate change,» is how he put it.

It is not possible to uphold that fiduciary duty while failing to consider, let alone, mitigate against climate change and its associated costs to the economy and environment,» said Cunningham, who heads CLF's clean energy and climate change program.

The aim of the project is to provide the UAE with an innovative design for a new type of biomimetic space that sustainability reduces carbon production and mitigates against climate change.

Not exact matches

Highly protected marine reserves can help mitigate against the impacts of climate change, a study by a team of international scientists has concluded.

Writing in the journal, Conservation Biology, scientists recommend the adoption of measures to mitigate against a range of effects including; food scarcity (where fisheries compete for the same resources), being caught in fishing nets, oil pollution and climate change.

At the same time, the agency said, adverse health effects from climate change «will be distributed unequally within and between populations,» with wealthier countries and regions generally being better able to adapt to and mitigate against the harshest effects.

Towards their safeguarding research within HERACLES project («HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hCLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hclimate changes and natural hazards.

«One researcher told of receiving threats of sexual assault and violence against her children after her photograph appeared in a newspaper article promoting a community tree - planting day as a local action to mitigate climate change.»

«Uncertainty» about whether or not something (very costly), which we do (in the «uncertain» attempt to change our climate from an «uncertain» model - generated threat) will have «uncertain» unintended negative consequences, which could be much more severe than the «uncertain» threat we are attempting to mitigate against in the first place, seems to ba a reasonable justification for NOT doing this mitigating action.

To suggest that coastlines aren't quite as perilous as green activists claim, that the government shouldn't be picking winners, or that cheaper energy might be more helpful to poor people than mitigating climate change was to «deny science», and to be victim of some horrific right wing ideology that would make Hitler's crimes against humanity look like a summer picnic... Climate sceptics were inviting certaiclimate change was to «deny science», and to be victim of some horrific right wing ideology that would make Hitler's crimes against humanity look like a summer picnic... Climate sceptics were inviting certaiClimate sceptics were inviting certain doom.

Inasmuch as it is the IPCC brief and raison d'être to ascertain the impact and negative consequences of human - induced climate change and identify actions to mitigate against these, it is not at all surprising that IPCC would present a view that leans toward exaggerated negative impacts and consequences, in order to assure the continued need for its very existence.

The Met Office, working with other interested parties, is taking the lead in providing the advice and solutions government, veterinary experts and farmers will need to mitigate against the effects of climate change on animal and plant health in the future.

If the tobacco strategy has its roots in a defence against litigation, it follows that the «standard of proof» set by Oreskes, Lynas and Monbiot to legitimise political action to mitigate climate change is «beyond reasonable doubt».

Just to be clear, I'm not against studying climate change, or funding research into technology that can mitigate human effects on the environment.

One [climate] researcher told of receiving threats of sexual assault and violence against her children after her photograph appeared in a newspaper article promoting a community tree - planting day as a local action to mitigate climate change.

At the time that he denied the waiver (acting against the better advice of his staff, which had strongly urged him to grant it), Johnson claimed that California's law was unnecessary because of the recently enacted energy bill, which would do more to mitigate climate change than «a confusing patchwork of state rules» — this despite the fact that 13 other states, representing about half of the country's drivers, were also on board with the plan.

But the key point is that we still have several steps in the process before we should start talking about implementing actions to «mitigate» against human - induced climate change, as some are already proposing, invoking the «precautionary principle».