Sentences with phrase «negative effects of a changing climate»

«It is very possible that improving connectivity and quality of existing habitats over the next few decades may offset the negative effects of a changing climate.»

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They further point out the great importance of genetic diversity and traditional varieties to combat hunger and negative effects of climate change.

The summit, jointly organised by the United Nations, the World Bank Group, and the French Government in partnership with non-governmental organisations concerned about reversing the negative effects of climate change, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, holds at the eco-friendly La Seine Musicale, situated on the picturesque Seguin Island in western Paris.

It would be recalled that while signing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the sidelines of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2016, President Buhari had said it «demonstrated Nigeria's commitment to global efforts to reverse the effects of the negative trend.»

While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new research has found that some baby corals may be able to cope with the negative effects of ocean acidification.

A study published yesterday in Nature Climate Change showed that early exposure to high levels of CO2 during the larval stage of development had significant negative effects on the fish's size, metabolism and ability to sense threats in their environment.

«We should be thinking of ways to reduce our negative effects on the natural environment and these results show that if we do basic conservation and management, it can make a big difference in terms of how ecosystems will weather climate change,» Harley said.

The work aims to imitate the effects of climate change on the environment and the results are not all negative, but show a range of interlinked responses.

A sudden halt to the use of such methods, due to issues such as major negative effects, would also lead to rapid climate change, to which ecosystems and societies would have difficulty in adapting.

«With the potential negative effects of climate change, one key question we are trying to answer in the study of tropical ecology is how a tropical forest responds during a long - term drought,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

The theory of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from water vapor and phenomena such as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning.

The new study published in the peer - reviewed journal Global Change Biology says such increased flow variability has the most negative effect on salmon populations of several climate factors considered.

Therefore, climate change may have a more negative effect on the biological diversity of animals than previously assumed,» says Schleuning, and he adds, «A consideration of biotic interactions between animals and plants is therefore important for predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.»

Interestingly, also negative effects of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers and pesticides can be seen even at the coarse European scale and even more worrying is the fact that these negative effects are likely to be amplified with increasing temperatures as they can be expected from climate change.

It also grows on a long body of community ecology research that emphasizes the importance of biodiversity for buffering against the negative effects of climate change.»

«EbA is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation to help people and communities adapt to the negative effects of climate change at local, regional, and global levels.»

It could allow farmers to mitigate the negative effects of climate change early by adding fertilisers or tweaking moisture levels as crops grow.

• There is massive evidence that we are already suffering the negative effects of human - induced climate change; yet some argue that action to tackle climate change could be postponed since it would only happen in the long - term.

Alternate strategies must be employed if there is to be reasonable mitigation of the negative effects of the projected change in climate.

In fact its the multiple negative effects of climate change on oceans and land, that bother me most because it adds up insidiously.

CNN: The giant corporations powering the fossil fuel industry are warned that they face a damaging backlash if they try to resist the mounting pressures of climate change legislation and high - profile campaigning The financial and economic muscle of the global fossil fuel industry's corporate behemoths will not protect them from the costly effects of negative [continue reading...]

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

ANY conclusions vis a vis a change in a trace atmospheric gas, that itself has both positive and negative effects on Earth's climate are hard to analyze yet — another 100 years of satellite data will help correct that!

New breeding lines derived from MAS, either in entirely new or recombined genetic backgrounds or in the background of rice mega-varieties that are already planted to millions of hectares, could potentially alleviate the negative effects of climate change on rice production due to global warming.»

In fact the Summary says that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts, with wheat and maize yields negatively affected in many regions and effects on rice and soybean yields smaller in major production regions.

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We compared the CAIT GHG data and the CVM vulnerability data both in 2010 and 2030 to assess whether the most heavily polluting countries were also those least vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change.

(Coincidentally, the Heartland Institute's position denying the reality of human - induced climate change harkens back to its work in the 1990s, funded by Philip Morris, that disputed the negative effects of second - hand smoke.)

Here, we determine empirically the relationship between countries» GHG emissions and their vulnerability to negative effects of climate change.

Climate change impacts on Africa's ecosystems will probably have a negative effect on tourism as, according to one study, between 25 and 40 % of mammal species in national parks in sub-Saharan Africa will become endangered.

And what can farmers in developing countries do to lessen the negative effects of climate change?

More precisely, the activities included aim to enable children to: explain the issue of climate change and its impact on children and child rights; explain how reducing carbon emissions in industrialized countries can reduce climate change and its negative effects, and that they can contribute personally to achieving this; and develop skills to undertake action.

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.

And because climate change affects ecosystems and agriculture, many of the negative effects will disproportionately burden poor women, who bear the responsibilities of food production and water collection in many parts of the world.

Approximately half of consumers worldwide believe climate change will have a negative effect on their own lives, and 65 per cent agree that human activity is responsible for climate change.

A report on the impacts of climate change on human health published by the European Commission Joint Research Council also shows that coastal flooding and high sea - level rise scenarios could have significant negative effects on mental health, in addition to high economic costs.

With continued warming, however, benefits will likely peak and subsequently decline, and the effects of climate change for the nation as a whole in these sectors will turn negative.

What are the thresholds of climate changes that must occur before a negative effect occurs for particular key resources?

Africa, the continent least responsible for climate change, yet it is the most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change.

-- are given equal access to the resources necessary to respond to the negative effects of climate change;

Existing disparities between low - income communities and wealthier ones, such as high unemployment rates, are exacerbated by such negative effects of climate change as storms and floods, the report said.

This is due to a saturating effect of CO2 combined with a near - linear negative impact of climate change.

Just seems on top of the un / certainty pick - ems (uncertainty about negative or positive feedback) or the other of gritty hinges we see are at the «core» of the issue that we're almost assuming we can explain the last 14,000 years in climate history to a resolution of a decade and rule out all factors effecting all changes over that time prior to 1850 effectively when we hear statements «high» (most, likely, probably, etc) certainties of understanding what we are seeing being used to support invoking PP.

Previously, a significant amount of landfill gas was released into the atmosphere where greenhouse gases contribute to the negative effects of climate change.

If the negative effects of climate change, the rising air temperatures, the changing precipitation, the prevalence of extreme weather events, and the rising sea levels, become too disruptive or costly, we have the option to deploy certain climate altering technologies to remove greenhouse gases directly from the air or reflect sunlight back out of the atmosphere before it warms the earth.

Their paper argued, «a growing body of scientific research reports the wide array of negative effects of AGW on biodiversity» by citing Parmesan whose bogus claims about the negative effects of climate change on wildlife are well documented.

Do you really contest that the IPCC was set up as the scientific arm to support the UNFCC treaty's concern with the negative effects of climate change?

Jessica Hellmann, a researcher at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, and ecologists like her are figuring out how and why creatures change when the climate changes, and what can be done to reduce the negative biological effects of climate change.

But «these positive effects will be increasingly outweighed, worldwide, by the magnitude and severity of the negative effects of climate change,» according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on climate change,» according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on hchange,» according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on Climate Change report on hChange report on health.

«The world faces many challenges, but none more important than taking immediate and decisive action to develop new, inexpensive clean - energy sources that avoid the negative effects of climate change»