Sentences with phrase «more focused on climate change»

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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's suggestion to focus our sea - level rise and climate change mitigation efforts on building a more - resilient city are on point.

Given the presence of Naomi Klein at People and Planet, and the fact Pope Francis has already delivered an extensive message on climate change with his encyclical, it is possible the meeting will be much more policy - focussed, calling for very specific and detailed changes.

«Linking health and climate change in challenging our eating habits could have more effect than focusing on each of these issues alone,» said Springmann.

She also said the state needs to focus more resources on environmental protection efforts and look at what it can do to reduce the impacts of climate change.

Methane or natural gas is 72 times more potent at capturing heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release - and to deal with climate change, we need to focus on the next few decades.

Three Reviews focus on more specific impacts of climate change.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

The move toward more natural coastline protection comes as federal agencies, state governments, and local and business leaders focus increasingly on the concept of resilience as they plan for how communities will adapt to climate change.

An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last year — which came to similar conclusions as the new report — did include the United States, but it focused more on North America as a whole.

Harstad acknowledged that such an approach would be a «radical departure» from the more popular view, embodied in such agreements as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which places much of its focus on end - of - stack emissions.

«The language style used by climate change skeptics suggests that the arguments put forth by these groups may be less credible in that they are relatively less focused upon the propagation of evidence and more intent on refuting the opposing perspective,» said Pennycook.

If the world is focused on adaptation, Third World countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the news magazine Foreign Policy.

We create and manage projects that focus on research in the polar regions as means to understand fundamental climate mechanisms, and to drive change towards a more sustainable society.

The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

The International Polar Foundation focuses on polar regions and polar sciences as a means to communicating on climate change and to promote a more sustainable society.

Lertzman explains that everyone will respond to climate change differently, depending on their temperament, personality, schedule, etc. «Some people will find that it makes sense for them to become involved on a political level; others may be more interested in fashion and want to focus on engaging with sustainable clothes,» she explains.

We urge increased focus on public - citizen participation for more democratised actions on climate change.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

ASCD supports some of the proposed changes, including the push for stronger family and community engagement, the extended grant period to allow for more planning and pre-implementation activities, efforts to address school climate, and the focus on tying professional development to teacher evaluations.

Presentations focused on deepening inequality, the evidence for dangerous climate change, population trends, urban problems, new economic models and more.

Using models to distinguish between the forcing histories is thus likely to require a tighter focus on regional changes, or in climate patterns, more than the just the mean temperature.

As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

I've always thought that the way to make progress on climate change, especially in «reluctant» countries like China and even the U.S., is to start by focusing on places where climate goals overlap with other national priorities — like clearing the air or making energy supplies more reliable.

There, he focuses on an important piece, «More knowledge, less certainty,» written by the climatologist Kevin Trenberth for Nature Reports / Climate Change earlier this year.

It turned out things were far more nuanced (as he later said, «The Earth system may be less responsive in the warm times than it was in the cold times»), but in a field that had long mainly foreseen smooth curves for planetary change with rising greenhouse gas levels, the result was a vital focus on the risks of abrupt climate change.

Put another way, I am doubtful that we can address the challenge of sustainable development via climate policy, but I am far more optimistic that we can address the challenge of climate change via a comprehensive focus on sustainable development.

Given that our best bet of climate sensitivity has remained the same (1.5 — 4.5 C) for over 30 years with all new information «pretty much cancelling out», at one point do we begin to focus this investment more on mitigation or another approaches to climate change in general?

The solutions, however, must also include a much better focus than present on climate change adaptation and reducing vulnerability to drought — a «no - regrets» strategy that will help both with natural variability, and the variability that could be made more challenging by human - caused climate change.

The General Assembly speech will almost certainly focus more on Francis's call for addressing climate change as a moral duty, given the growing pressure from poor countries to have their needs front and center in climate treaty talks in Paris in December.

However, their Commentary is off target when it lays blame for the misguided focus on attribution on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) «effectively yield [ing] to the contrarians» inexhaustible demands for more «proof.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

McIntyre and others are more restrained, focusing on the decline shown by tree ring data, which is one form of climate change evidence.

Climate change featured prominently in the more philosophically - focused inauguration speech but the State of the Union is a platform to lay out specific policies, making it the first test of Obama's sincerity on climate Climate change featured prominently in the more philosophically - focused inauguration speech but the State of the Union is a platform to lay out specific policies, making it the first test of Obama's sincerity on climate climate action.

There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between climate and fields such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.

The US government spends $ 2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other «unprecedented» crises.

Bill Gates is leading a more than $ 1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.

Messages focused on extreme weather events, they found, made many Americans more likely to view climate change as an act of God — something to be weathered, not prevented.

In the fight against climate change, most experts focus on controlling emissions of carbon dioxide, but methane is actually the more potent greenhouse gas, even more effective at trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere.

He served on the Johns Hopkins President's Task Force on Climate Change and the Advisory Board to Focus the Nation, and in 2011 he catalyzed a national «Stop The Brain Drain» movement to encourage more young people to pursue careers in entrepreneurship and public service instead of Wall Street.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

The 2018 strategy is far more focused on the nexus of climate change and energy, offering multiple approaches for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and its cascading impacts, such as sea - level rise.

In 2011 the State of the Beach report therefore focused on re-defining the Erosion Response indicator to more completely address coastal climate change adaptation, specifically concentrating on the response of coastal areas to sea level rise.

It focuses on three broad issues: how cities contribute to and are affected by climate change; how policy makers can use cities to change human behavior and improve technology related to climate change; how cities should use climate change as an opportunity to raise their profile, reinforce sensible policies, and move toward a more sustainable community and planet.

By focusing on temperature per se, we conveniently ignore the more important aspects of climate change: floods, droughts, high winds, dust storms, and unseasonable weather that ruins harvests and sets up famines.

If things continue to worsen as climate change brings more evaporation and less rain over time, other issues will come into focus for the seven states and part of Mexico that rely on the Colorado River.

Lomborg was quoted in a piece titled, «Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,» in which Lomborg says that «the UN should focus on more cost - effective environmental policies,» and increase their global target for limiting warming from 2C to 3C: [15]

In his four decades at RFF, he conducted research on energy resources and policy, with a more recent focus on issues of energy security, renewable and unconventional fuels, and climate change.

I disagree slightly with their reason for this, focusing more on the large - scale climate dynamics regime and change points, but I agree that the late onset to the melt season should be a contributor.

MC: That might be the cause, but on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about issues that are of concern to the American public, and climate change just isn't near the top of those lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.