Sentences with phrase «more vulnerable communities»

If we buck this living global system too much, it could move to a state which is no longer hospitable to survival, first for more vulnerable communities, and eventually all of us.

She particularly is sensitive to the issues facing individuals from the more vulnerable communities who would appear before her in Surrogate's Court.

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In Budget 2017, you set out a vision to make Canada a more inclusive and innovative economy, with targeted investments in areas such as infrastructure, skills, housing, gender equality and support for vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

«We would have liked to see someone in a position of power take a progressive and more empathetic attitude towards those most vulnerable in his community,» she said.

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

We've been working for more than 30 years to bring real, measurable benefits to forests, communities, and wildlife in vulnerable landscapes around the world.

«Entire communities are being left vulnerable to dangerous sexual predators who often strike more than once,» said Klein, a Bronx Democrat, in a statement.

They may be less able to intimidate vulnerable communities with violent threats and instead face more non-violent resistance from a civil society reassured by the prize's moral significance.

New Yorkers are already experiencing hotter summers, more powerful storms and rising seas, which disproportionately affect already vulnerable communities.

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all New Yorkers, ensure voting rights, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump administration.»

He said further: «Even before Boko Haram began its insurgency in the region more than eight years ago, communities were already vulnerable and struggling to survive.

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable healthcare for all New Yorkers, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump Administration,» she said.

There's more: Gun violence disproportionately affects minority and vulnerable communities — children at Sandy Hook, worshipers at a Charleston prayer group, young Black men, and the LGBT community, itself the target of an estimated 20 % of all hate crimes.

«LGBTQ young people, particularly LGBTQ communities of color, are more vulnerable to becoming homeless and need our support,» said Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks.

Incorporating recent research into the NFIP could help establish a framework for identifying which properties and communities are most vulnerable to repetitive flooding and create more efficient standards to determine buyout eligibility.

And crop wild relatives are possibly even more vulnerable because they've tended to be overlooked both by agricultural scientists and the conservation community.

«We know that sea levels are rising and that coastal communities are becoming more vulnerable to extreme weather - and climate - related events.

«The balance of relatively simple communities of plants and animals is more easily upset than that of richer ones,» he wrote, «and more vulnerable to invasions.»

In general we find that if the international community fails to reach the SDGs then world population growth will be higher, people will be poorer and in worse health, and this larger world population will be more vulnerable to environmental change.»

economic, health and educational issues that make members of these communities more vulnerable in general, many linked to legacies of colonisation.

O'Donovan will also seek to understand why one community may be more vulnerable to a disaster than its neighbor.

People with dementia living in the community are most vulnerable but a new guide from QUT and the Red Cross Read more about Dementia an extra challenge in natural disasters - Scimex

The fact that vials of this particular vaccine had to be stored in Nairobi is peculiar for two reasons: for one, according to the KCDA this is not usually required for vaccine distribution, and, for another, the Kenya Catholic Health Commission (as the medical branch of the KCCB) also manages a network of 448 Catholic health units consisting of 54 hospitals, 83 health centers and 311 clinical dispensaries plus more than 46 programs for Community Based Health and Orphaned and Vulnerable Children scattered all over Kenya's 224,962 square miles [93]-- an area larger than any US state in the lower 48 except for Texas at 268,601 square miles [94].

«Doing that, you see many more communities are vulnerable to ocean acidification than previously thought.»

She's pushing for stricter environmental toxin reforms to protect vulnerable, low - income communities and more advanced farming systems that pull excess carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil.

I have noticed that quite a bit of the content of this board is ideologically biased and I am concerned this may harm the more vulnerable members of our community; those who don't have the capacity to cross reference the material to other sources and opinions.

This transformation can only happen if society's most vulnerable youth and adults acquire basic literacy skills that equip them with the knowledge and confidence to improve their own lives and build more resilient communities,» Ms Bokova added.

But this stress is magnified in vulnerable communities, because young children living with the adversities of poverty exhibit more behavior problems, on average, than their peers (Evans et al., 2004; Gunnar, 2000).

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

«Those big bets are paying off in more hopeful futures for so many vulnerable children in these communities.»

In addition to its partnership with PUSD, WINGS serves more than 1,100 students from vulnerable communities in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina through a direct - service afterschool program model of their research - based curriculum led by college students, known as WINGSLeaders.

Children from low socio - economic status communities are more likely to experience developmental vulnerability — but half of all children who are developmentally vulnerable come from the top three fifths of the income distribution.

We're active in more than 150 countries, serving vulnerable children through a wide range of media, formal education, and philanthropically - funded social impact programs, each grounded in rigorous research and tailored to the needs and cultures of the communities we serve.

Community education programs to educate communities who are more vulnerable to mental illness.

«We have been eagerly anticipating this day because we know how combining resources will save more of the most vulnerable animals in our community,» said Weitzman.

But how does a disarmed community, becoming more vulnerable to criminal activity relate to a community that adopts burdensome licensing fees, breeding restrictions or bans on pets?

It is a means of fostering healthier and more resilient communities, which is particularly important in places that are implicitly vulnerable to climate hazards like severe drought.

Poorer communities tend to be more vulnerable to loss of health and life, while wealthier communities usually have more economic assets at risk.

The author concludes that, so far, the rise in disaster losses is mainly a function of more investments getting in harm's way as communities in places vulnerable to natural hazards grow.

Climate science is no more or less vulnerable to such community influences or potential outcomes.

Study Finds Two Groups Hardest Hit by California's Drought 01.25.2017 — A new Pacific Institute study is the first statewide effort to explore the impact of the California drought on vulnerable communities... Read More.

The agreement reached under the UNFCCC will, for example, influence whether post-2015 development will be implemented in a two, three, four (or more) degree world, and the SDGs will influence not only how resilient and well adapted to the effects of climate change poor and vulnerable communities will be, but also the pace and carbon intensity of development in all countries.

«What's more, while every American's health is threatened by climate change, certain groups of people — including children, seniors, low - income communities, and those living with a chronic disease like asthma — are especially vulnerable,» the statement read.

«The heatwaves that we've experienced, particularly in some of the more southern climates such as Melbourne... we have already seen deaths occurring in our public hospitals from people, particularly those who are vulnerable in our community,» Mr Owler said.

We need to focus more on improving weather forecasting on longer time scales than the current 7 - 8 days so that vulnerable communities have more time to prepare for adversity.

More broadly, EJN Asia - Pacific will enable the media to connect vulnerable communities through the exchange of news, data and solutions regarding environmental challenges facing the region.

The replacement communities that evolved tended to be composed more active organisms less vulnerable to extinction events.

Following the NASA story, Edward Hannah, reader in climate change at the University of Sheffield, wrote in the Guardian that «the Greenland ice sheet is living on borrowed time», and that «tens of centimetres» of sea - level rise «would make many coastal communities more vulnerable to flooding and storm surges».

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

Almost 100 organizations Thursday launched a worldwide petition that calls for dramatically curbing greenhouse - gas emissions and helping vulnerable communities prepare for rising sea levels, more - frequent storms, longer droughts and other effects of global warming.