«My candid opinion is that the youth and the women in the grassroot should be educated a lot more on adaptation and
mitigation of climate change because they are more vulnerable.»
Not exact matches
Fernández — who investigates the rehabilitation
of degraded agricultural soils and their carbon sequestration potential for
climate change mitigation — considers himself «lucky»
because he managed to gather all the samples he needed before the budget restrictions.
The scientists conclude that agroforestry should therefore attract more attention in global agendas on
climate change mitigation because of its positive social and environmental impacts.
However, to date, countries have not incorporated coastal blue carbon into their portfolio
of climate change mitigation or coastal management policies and actions, largely
because the mechanisms for assessing blue carbon were not well defined or standardized.
I've made that point that that needs to be disconnected from work on emissions
mitigation because the drivers
of that vulnerability are far faster than
climate change itself.
Today, the President will be giving a speech at Georgetown University on
climate change issues, with announcements
of initiatives that will be taken leveraging the powers
of the Administrative Branch
because the Congress is unable (and, to a large extent, unwilling) to take meaningful action to address
climate change: whether
mitigation or adaptation.
It is also an area where
mitigation is not the only potentially useful strategy,
because it should be possible to create new strains
of important food crops better suited to a
changed climate than current varieties.
Carbon removal techniques, while important for fighting
climate change, have faced resistance from some in the environmental community partly
because they have been perceived as a threat to the deployment
of other
climate change mitigation techniques.
Detecting impacts
of climate change on human vector - borne diseases remains difficult, in part,
because active
mitigations, such as vector - control, antimicrobials, and improved infrastructure can complicate detection
of a
climate signal.
For example,
mitigation of climate change or public - health legislation threatens people who cherish unregulated free markets
because it might entail regulations
of businesses (Heath & Gifford, 2006; Kahan, 2010; Lewandowsky, Gignac, & Oberauer, 2013; Rosenau, 2012); vaccinations threaten Libertarians» conceptions
of parental autonomy (Kahan, Braman, Cohen, Gastil, & Slovic, 2010; Lewandowsky, Gignac, & Oberauer, 2013); and evolution challenges people's religious faiths (Rosenau, 2012).
Wetlands are important ecosystems for
climate change mitigation and adaptation
because they can store huge amounts
of carbon, while providing other essential services.
Instead, carbon sequestered from the atmosphere by plants and stored in biomass has value
because it provides humanity with at least one key service:
mitigation of damaging
climate change.
Of further interest is the opinion that the U.S.'s recent decision to withdraw from the Paris
Climate Accord might not be as detrimental to global climate change mitigation as originally thought because decarbonization, including the switch from coal to natural gas, in the U.S. is now «taking place from the ground up.
Climate Accord might not be as detrimental to global
climate change mitigation as originally thought because decarbonization, including the switch from coal to natural gas, in the U.S. is now «taking place from the ground up.
climate change mitigation as originally thought
because decarbonization, including the switch from coal to natural gas, in the U.S. is now «taking place from the ground up.»
Here's where this «loophole
of uncertainty» comes into play -
because China has implemented actions that address
climate change through its Eleventh Five - Year Plan since 2005 and has internally funding all
of its energy efficiency measures and
mitigation actions (and furthermore hasn't asked for any funding with regards to their 40 - 45 % reduction in carbon intensity by 2020 from 2005 levels), China would therefore be exempt from international MRV if this text is eventually agreed upon.
Stormwater
mitigation is particularly important in this era
of climate change because major storms are becoming severe and frequent.
I would also very much like to see some costings
of the emissions pathway being championed by the Worldwatch Institute — costings both
of the
climate change impacts which would still occur, and
of the efforts required to reduce emissions to the proposed degree —
because I think this particular
mitigation scenario can be as valuable in getting us on track as has been James Hansen's promotion
of 350ppm as a target.
According to a member
of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, «Agriculture is in position
of immediately implementing
mitigation strategy
because the existing techniques - properly applied - can ensure large GHG emissions reduction.»
Because of the long atmospheric lifetime
of some
of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from
climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions
of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity
of climate change, and
climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts
of climate change.
Moreover, companies must do more than acknowledge the
climate change problem, they must also recognize «the gravity
of the consequences society will face if it continues on its current course, primarily
because those consequences suggest the magnitude
of the foreseeable
mitigation response.»
It is a key part
of the
climate change mitigation toolbox
because it can tackle emissions sources for which no other technologies are out
of the lab and commercially available.