Sentences with phrase «mitigating climate»

If these high - impact approaches to mitigating climate change are seen as non-starters, adolescents may erroneously conclude there is little they can do to effect change.

Developing countries, faced with a choice between energy development for poor populations and mitigating climate risk for future generations, have consistently chosen the former; they are building new, fossil - based energy infrastructure as fast as they can.

Thus, DAC is not currently an economically viable approach to mitigating climate change.

May 4 IPCC report on mitigating climate change.

Our results demonstrate the health benefits of reducing soot and smog, an expected additional advantage of a strong carbon standard for power plants — beyond the direct health benefits of mitigating climate change associated with avoided exposure to heat episodes, fires, severe weather events, and so on.

Nevertheless, Allen's prescription does succeed in focussing the mind on the scale of the problem that we face in mitigating climate change.

In September 2015, the UN announced a new set of Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which include ending poverty, improving global health, ensuring gender equality and mitigating climate change by 2030.

And yet carbon and development projects that result in carbon credits tradeable on the open market are a tried and tested way of mitigating climate change.

Since most ODS are «super» greenhouse gases (GHG) with global warming potentials (GWP) hundreds or thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2), this phase - out has had dramatic impacts on mitigating climate change.

And a mere 25 percent of Republican mayors believe that mitigating climate change necessitated fiscal sacrifices, compared with 80 percent of Democrats.

Physicists can contribute in significant ways to understanding the physical processes underlying climate and to developing technological options for addressing and mitigating climate change.

Mitigating climate change's worst impacts is critical, especially when they disproportionately affect society's most vulnerable.

The decision to retain holdings in the fossil fuel industry flies in the face of recommendations from a climate change committee appointed by Reif, which this summer issued a report noting that three - quarters of the committee supported «targeted divestment from companies whose operations are heavily focused on the exploration for and / or extraction of the fossil fuels that are least compatible with mitigating climate change.»

The sub-programme has four key goals: adapting to climate change, mitigating climate change, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and enhancing knowledge and communication.

Science and technology should focus on ensuring that agriculture not only provides food but also fulfills environmental, social and economic functions such as mitigating climate change and preserving biodiversity.

Fifth, they feel international pressure to start acting on mitigating climate change and they want to be seen as a partner in this field.

It highlights the potential of CSP technologies to scale up renewable energy at the utility level, diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and mitigating climate change.

Meat and dairy generate more global greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, yet reducing the consumption of animal products through institutional purchasing remains a largely untapped yet highly effective, cost - saving approach to mitigating climate change while promoting public health.

«In addition, safeguarded farmland will continue providing healthy local produce and mitigating climate - change impacts of transporting food around the globe, while conserved wetlands improve the quality of our air and water and serve as buffers from potentially catastrophic storm surges predicted under current climate - change scenarios,» he added.

In 2016, ICROA and Imperial College conducted a second research study that highlighted further how private investment into voluntary carbon projects generates benefits to local communities in addition to mitigating climate change.

This document presents the BioCarbon Fund (BioCF), a public - private initiative, housed within the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit, mobilizing resources for pioneering projects that sequester or conserve carbon in forest and agro-ecosystems, mitigating climate change and improving rural livelihoods.

A documentary of people living with the consequences of global warming as well as scientists» new approaches to mitigating climate change and adapting to an evolving planet.

The other three are the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (scheduled for endorsement in March 2014), the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change (April 2014), and the Synthesis Report (October 2014).

Whether it's a debt fund used to support large - scale solar and wind installations, or an equity fund to support the latest startup eliminating food waste, there's no better time than the present to support entrepreneurs mitigating climate change — now that we know what we have to do and what we can (and can not) rely on.

The booklet sets out an analytical framework for understanding the water - energy - food security nexus in the Arab region and considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a view to mitigating climate change and ensuring access to food, water and sustainable energy for all.

The WGI contribution is the first in the series of four reports with the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability scheduled for finalization in March 2014; the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change to be finalized in April 2014, and the AR5 Synthesis Report to be completed in October 2014.

For Bill Nye, mitigating climate change means attempting to «do everything all at once,» not dwelling on whether that will put a slight dent in the energy industry's profit margins.

Haines, A., K. R. Smith, D. Anderson, P. R. Epstein, A. J. McMichael, I. Roberts, P. Wilkinson, J. Woodcock, and J. Woods, 2007: Policies for accelerating access to clean energy, improving health, advancing development, and mitigating climate change.

This is not a careful argument, because people — sceptical and not — have been questioning the leaps between observing that the earths temperature changes, the attribution of that change to humans, the conclusion that it will cause catastrophe, and that the only way to confront that catastrophe is by mitigating climate change through reduction in emissions.

I'm not yet a good enough student of the subject to be able to have a technical opinion on the matter, although readers know my enthusiasm for any engineering proposals that uses the market to move what we need to do forward, that is, mitigating climate disruption.

Forest conservation has long been seen as a way of mitigating climate change, but across the world, natural landscapes are increasingly threatened by industrial development and urbanisation.

He argues that although the international community faces many obstacles in mitigating the climate problem, solutions are possible.

In a place where climate change is already inducing ever more annual droughts, this business in the name of mitigating climate change is in fact causing a double effect on people.

«With the exception of some international initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD +), development agencies, governments, and others have failed to give enough weight to the connection between strengthening community forest rights and mitigating climate change,» it says.

Concentrating solar plants (CSP) generate solar thermal electricity (STE) while producing no greenhouse gas emissions, so it could be a key technology for mitigating climate change.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

Now, with my recent focus on nuclear power for ending poverty and mitigating climate change, a few friends have asked whether my views on climate have changed.

Luckily, such a strategy is not only possible, but it is also the only way for the United States to play its role in mitigating climate change.

We no longer have a choice between mitigating climate change and adapting to climate change.

Forests play an integral role in mitigating climate change.

The whole point of mitigating climate change is to protect the existing ecosystem.

Population dynamics in mitigating climate change, 2016.

However, I think that your framing of carbon removal as a «third way» for curtailing climate change threatens to mislead key stakeholders about the appropriate role of carbon removal solutions in mitigating climate change, in turn jeopardizing the ability of carbon removal solutions to gain the support they need to flourish.

It's time for some straight - talk on which actions really make a difference when it comes to mitigating climate change.

Just being involved in mitigating climate change in one way or another is supposed to be damning.

The SOC sequestration is a costeffective strategy of mitigating the climate change during the first 2 to 3 decades of the 21st century.

# 3 O'Neal I think that if you read IPCC AR4 Working Group II on Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation, you will see that IPCC understands that adapting and mitigating climate change are only part of what must be done to manage sustainable development.

Regarding the discussion on mitigating climate problems by encouraging smaller population, perhaps the government could give people tax rebates for having small families.

Conservation projects address topics of current importance such as developing an understanding of biodiversity and wildlife habitat needs, the contributions of sustainably managed forests to water quality, and quantifying the value of these forests toward mitigating climate change.

# 538 nigelj said Regarding the discussion on mitigating climate problems by encouraging smaller population, perhaps the government could...