Sentences with phrase «most vulnerable regions»

The African continent is one of the most vulnerable regions to future climate change.

In April, for example, a European Union report on adaptation said Europe's most vulnerable regions to climate change will be southern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, the Alps, and the far north.

It aims to not only help advance the climate change and food security dialogue in Nepal, but also provide concrete inputs for adaptation planning to build resilience in the most vulnerable regions of the country.

The study which will find ways to adapt in some of the most vulnerable regions in Asia and Africa [continue reading...]

His discourse is about the meager role played by the leaders from most vulnerable regions like Himalayas and Andes during this important global conference.

The result is that coastal flooding conditions will tend to follow a worsening trend — with the most vulnerable regions like the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts feeling the impact first.

Overall, we identified Alsace, Burgundy and Champagne as the most vulnerable regions, where the probability of tardive frost is projected to significantly increase throughout the 21st century for two out of three phenological models.

Which are the most vulnerable regions?

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

Looking at the map, it's clear that southern and southeastern Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America, and southern Australia are among the most vulnerable regions.

Your «we» doesn't seem to include people in the most vulnerable regions around the world (e.g. island nations, delta regions of Africa or Asia, the North).

The most vulnerable regions are in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula.

All told, the most vulnerable regions included much of southern Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America and southern Australia thanks to a combination of degraded landscapes and shifting climates.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

The Rainforest Alliance will continue its commitment to reduce the effects of climate change by building climate resilience in some of the world's most vulnerable regions through forest conservation and sustainable agriculture.

A second Ecological Footprint study was published in 2013, with a special focus on the Laguna Lake Region, the country's largest lake ecosystem, which includes Metro Manila — the most densely populated area on Earth and most vulnerable region in the country.

Not exact matches

As the region with the highest percentage of EEA - born workers, rising from 7 % in 2004 to 14 % in 2016, London is most vulnerable to a drop in migration, the report said.

Bonds of Europe's most - indebted nations slumped as speculation resurfaced that the euro region remains vulnerable to shocks as it emerges from the sovereign debt crisis.

«Additionally, the UK Government's # 1.1 billion commitment is helping hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people in Syria and the region to rebuild their lives and next month's Syria conference in London will raise significant new funding from the international community.

Open Doors is petitioning Secretary of State John Kerry and USAID ambassador Alfonso Lenhardt, asking them not for immigration help but to ensure that aid is reaching the most vulnerable, that efforts to defeat ISIS are strengthened, and that there is long - term investment in the region.

The IEF invests in Early Childhood Development for the most vulnerable children within the Winelands region of South Africa.

A look back at our decades - long partnership with indigenous and rural communities to build a sustainable forest economy in one of Guatemala's most valuable, vulnerable regions.

The very fact that cloth diapers are going to cover your infant's most vulnerable and sensitive body areas makes it imperative that you choose a laundry soap that effectively removes even the worse blow out stains but remains mild enough to not cause unwanted irritation on your baby's private region.

As opioid - related deaths increase nationwide, Capital Region lawmakers and advocates said they fear proposed cuts to Medicaid would harm New York's most vulnerable.

There's strong bipartisan support among the region's state delegation for paying a living wage to Direct Support Professionals — the people responsible for caring for society's most vulnerable individuals.

«The Democratic field for Mayor this year was comprised of candidates who are passionate about improving the quality of life for workers, the middle class, and New York's most vulnerable, such as the poor and senior citizens,» said UAW Region 9A Director Julie Kushner.

The bill is being drafted by Republican Assembly members including Jim Tedisco of the Capital Region, who says police are most vulnerable when sitting in thier vehicles.

Many of these regions of high SGD — 12 % of the overall coastline — overlapped with areas of heavy development, and Sawyer says these areas are the most vulnerable to contamination.

«Though poorer countries in hotter regions are most vulnerable to climate change, our findings highlight the extent to which countries are interlinked, and Europe will see increasing numbers of desperate people fleeing their home countries.»

(The brain samples, obtained through the Banner Sun Health Research Institute, were taken from a region known to be vulnerable to the most devastating effects of Alzheimer's.)

The retreat is especially severe in West Antarctica, widely acknowledged as the most vulnerable part of the continent and the region whose glaciers are losing the most ice.

One of the members, senior project coordinator Jim Sipes of the Atlanta office of EDAW, a landscape architecture and planning firm, exploited existing data to model which low - lying regions are most at risk from storm surges and flooding and where the most vulnerable populations are concentrated.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

The graphic shows areas that are most vulnerable to ocean acidification since they are regions where the saturation of aragonite is lower.

Conventional wisdom has it that the high latitudes and polar regions are the most vulnerable.

Surprisingly, the ecosystems most vulnerable to major biome shifts are the already hot regions around the equator.

Researchers found that between 1982 and 2015, 9 million to 45 million people annually were affected by water quality issues — and that low - income, rural regions were most vulnerable.

In addition, I served on a multidisciplinary team assessing nutrients in ground water across the country — findings that EPA and other federal agencies used to prioritize regions most vulnerable to ground - water contamination.

In a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.

Japan spends millions of pounds a year on earthquake prediction and monitoring, but most of its efforts are centred on the more vulnerable Suruga Bay region, west of Tokyo.

Hammer, who came to the United States from Guatemala as a child, «has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea - level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida,» according to a White House statement.

Yet those are amongst the regions most vulnerable to potential sea level rise, which in their case would cause a direct reduction of habitat.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

We save the most vulnerable animals from our region's euthanasia shelters, giving them all the medical care, nourishment, training, socialization, TLC, and time they need till we find them forever families.

«Because they harbor so much of the world's biodiversity, mountain regions are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of tourism, climate change, and global warming,» says Linda McMillan, UIAA Mountain Protection Commission president and Deputy Vice-Chairman, IUCN - WCPA Mountains Biome.

Now the deployment of fossil and coal generation in regions like sub-Saharan Africa is very likely a net positive for humanity, since a lack of modern electricity systems is largely what makes those locales most vulnerable to climate and other impacts in the first place.

The map also shows the regions most vulnerable to sea - level rise, another detrimental effect of climate change that can be exacerbated by the storm surge from tropical storms.

However, most of the key technological innovations have not reached many of the developing countries and vulnerable communities, particularly those in Southeast Asia; therefore, it is important that the region has the capacity and knowledge needed to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of the changing environment and assessments such as the TNA workshop is indispensable.

Most of the region's population lives in cities, which are particularly vulnerable to climate change related flooding and life - threatening heat waves because of aging infrastructure and other factors.