Sentences with phrase «most focused on climate change»

In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

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The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth, teems with marine life and will be the focus of Australia's Earth Hour — a global campaign which encourages individuals and organisations to switch off their lights for one hour on April 29 for climate change.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Instead, the most successful bullying prevention programs focus on changing the climate that supports bullying behavior.

Billionaire philanthropist puts focus on protecting small farmers saying they are likely to suffer the most from climate change.

Most middle school science teachers reported spending a short time focusing on climate change — one to two hours on average.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere.

Most of that research has focused on adult fish, but that is only giving researchers and fishery managers part of the picture of how stressors like climate change and fishing are affecting different species.

Instead of focusing on those edges of a species range, Jonathan Lenoir, a plant ecologist at the Paris Institute of Technology in France, and colleagues decided to examine what climate change was doing to optimum ranges — the zones where most of a population lived — for plants in the mountain forests of western France.

Watson said most climate studies on biodiversity focus on the effects climate change could have 50 to 100 years from now.

According to Sharp, the focus of the findings also marks an important milestone from the perspective of glaciology, which traditionally focuses on sea level as the most direct consequence of the impact of climate change on glaciers.

«Most of the research on severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in climate change has focused on the USA and it is unclear how well the lessons learned there apply to the rest of the world,» Brooks concluded.

To date, most empirical evidence on climate change impacts have focused on the agricultural sector.

Her current work focuses on understanding past climate change during both greenhouse and icehouse periods, particularly in the polar regions, the areas of Earth that are most sensitive to climate change.

Attribution of hurricane characteristics to climate change is extremely challenging, and the authors have focussed only on the precipitation response, which is perhaps the most well understood, and is particularly important given the nature of the flooding in Texas due to Harvey.

«Our work on this common species helps us to understand the adaptive responses of birds to a changing climate and their constraints, and this fundamental knowledge will help future workers and managers focus their work on other species and potentially identify those species most at risk from climate change.»

To change this kind of climate - and begin to combat teacher isolation, closed doors, negativism, defeatism and teacher resistance - the most effective principals focus on building a sense of school community, with the attendant characteristics.

Most of Walsh's criticism is focused on the Republicans using the debt issue as an excuse to cut into programs that offend them, including American support for the budget of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and public broadcasting.

Despite its climate - centric name and mission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, «IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems.climate - centric name and mission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, «IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems.Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, «IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems.»

We focus here on the most dramatic claim that Mr. Savory made regarding the reversal of climate change through holistic management of grasslands.

Most discussions about adapting to inevitable climate change in a world with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases have focused on seawalls, drought - resistant crops and the like.

Focusing on the influence of greenhouse - driven climate change on weather extremes (except for rainfall and heat) takes the debate into terrain that favors those trying to exploit uncertainty because, for extremes that matter most to society, the science is murky, at best.

«efforts to address climate change should continue to focus most heavily on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in combination with adapting to the impacts of climate change because these approaches do not present poorly defined and poorly quantified risks and are at a greater state of technological readiness.»

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.

While most policy discussions around climate change focus on energy wonks, the Times says that military analysts are increasingly of the view that «climate - induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions».

These issues are likely to be a major focus of the forthcoming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reClimate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reclimate research.

There are already several other lawsuits worldwide that are attempting to hold fossil fuel companies, including Shell, accountable for their contributions to dangerous climate change, but most are focused on financial compensation.

In order to block proactive government policymaking and keep corporate interests unregulated, libertarian groups have focused a significant part of their efforts on climate change on distorting the science to confuse public opinion, denying the seriousness of the problem, and, most recently, impugning the integrity of the climate science community.

Although one might think that the human health impacts of global warming would be among the most well studied areas of climate change, it is only in the last decade that the medical community and other health professionals have focused on this issue in depth.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Thursday for a focus on «climate justice» rather than climate change, saying the poor suffered most from global warming.

While the report made a strong case for human - caused climate change, most media coverage focused on the question of whether there has been a «pause» in global warming.

Back in 2006, he edited a special issue on responses to climate change and, like most such efforts, the articles were narrowly focused on showcasing exciting low - carbon technologies.

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.

If they are to be effective, local plans for climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) require the involvement of a variety of stakeholders and a specific focus on the most vulnerable groups.

The publication stresses that, to be effective, local plans for climate change require the involvement of a variety of stakeholders and a specific focus on the most vulnerable groups.

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.

This flyer stresses that the threats of climate change can have a negative effect on human health and welfare but at the same time can constitute an opportunity to leverage positive social transformations with a particular focus on the needs of the most vulnerable within a comprehensive sustainable development framework.

Shell is almost solely focused on CCS as a mechanism for tackling climate change, sources at the company say, although most independent advisers believe CCS, which has still not proved itself to be commercially or technologically possible on a large scale, will not be ready until 2020 at the earliest.

Due to the IPCC most of the research has been focused on how humankind has made changes that warm the climate.

It also presents action to advocate a multidimensional approach to climate change policies to take into account the potential social co-benefits of effectively addressing climate change as well as opportunities to focus on the most vulnerable and to develop climate - related policies and measures to provide better living conditions in their societies as a whole.

I've repeatedly made similar comments on how there are far bigger issues needing to be addressed than potential impacts from «climate change» and attempts to focus resources on these suppossed impacts is most likely going to lead us down a dark alley.

Thus, focusing most government R&D on climate change WILL solve the «climate change» «problem» — by allowing the economy self destruct by negligence of preparing for alternative fuels!

In particular, it addresses the critical question of what policy options, and what type of REDD + funding mechanism, are most conducive towards effectively financing forest - based climate change mitigation (with a focus on Phase 3 of REDD + implementation).

Virtually all of the activity documented in the report took place in the voluntary markets, while most media coverage of carbon trading has focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The two areas I'm most focused on are food waste prevention and plant - forward diets, which are recognized as two of the most impactful things we can do to reverse climate change.

KR: The two areas I'm most focused on are food waste prevention and plant - forward diets, which are recognized as two of the most impactful things we can do to reverse climate change.

Climate experts are now concluding that research must focus on clouds, with many scientists considering the possibility that a 1 % or less change in cloud coverage could explain most of the past changes in global temperatures.

So far most of the attention has focused on the risk of climate change to fossil fuel companies.

Most of the discussion of climate change in the mass media has focused on the T - factor, i.e., how bad the fossil fuel industry is and the related fossil - fuel driven technologies (cars, airplanes, machinery, power plants, etc.).