Sentences with phrase «negative impacts of a changing climate»

On balance, most research suggests that the negative impacts of a changing climate far outweigh the positive impacts.

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Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imChange Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iclimate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imchange - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Four years ago I called for a ban on fracking because of its negative impact on the environment and because it is not a solution to global climate change,» said Hawkins.

To those who care about curbing the negative impacts of climate change, this suggests there is no time like the present to start curbing emissions.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

Charles Godfray, a professor at the Department of Zoology at Oxford University who recently co-authored a paper in the journal Science about the challenges of feeding 9 billion people, said that the impact of climate change on agriculture will be negative.

Holt and talk - show host Thom Hartmann discussed a non-partisan 28 June letter sent to policymakers by 31 leading scientific societies, including AAAS, which warned of negative climate - change impacts to the global economy, natural resources, national security and human health.

The negative impacts of climate change are beginning to appear — and we may soon cross a threshold of significant damage

Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but new research this week from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.

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.»

Analyses show that climate shocks are important drivers of the expansions and contractions seen here, suggesting a large and previously overlooked negative impact of climate change on food production.

The negative impacts of climate change won't affect all species equally, McGuire said.

This fiscal reality leaves many countries unprotected to the negative impacts of climate change, including droughts, famine, and ecosystem loss.

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate cChange, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate climate changechange.

Early implementation of adaptation strategies, particularly in regard to enhancing resilience, has the potential to significantly reduce the negative impacts of climate change now and in the future.

'' in response to rising CO2 emissions and warmer temperatures, but these new results suggest there could also be a negative impact of climate change on vegetation growth in North America.

As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced in coming years, BECCS and other negative emissions technologies are looked to as a means of avoiding dangerous future climate scenarios by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

On the whole, the Earth's land surface has «greened» in response to rising CO2 emissions and warmer temperatures, but these new results suggest there could also be a negative impact of climate change on vegetation growth in North America.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small iClimate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small isChange (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small iclimate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small ischange, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands.

One must be able to make a convincing argument that the negative impacts of climate change far exceed the negative impacts of restricting fossil fuel use.

In order to make the case for action then, you must be able to quantify the negative impacts of climate change with a certain degree of accuracy.

The science suggests that, by and large, the risk of major negative impacts of climate change increases with higher levels of global warming.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

As Bryan Walsh summarized nicely in Time today, a separate review of existing research on marine animals in acidifying conditions, published on Sunday in Nature Climate Change, found uniformly negative impacts.

As a corollary, one mechanism for reducing the negative impacts of climate change is a reduction in other stressors.

One of the major limits to climate change adaptation is the context in which it needs to take place and efforts to slow or reverse negative impacts need to engage the long - term place based change in economy, nature, and society.

In addition, the committee believes that these approaches are more accurately described as «climate intervention» strategies — purposeful actions intended to curb the negative impacts of climate change — rather than engineering strategies that imply precise control over the climate.

Overall, the report identifies many more negative impacts than positive impacts projected for the future, especially for high magnitudes and rates of climate change.

To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to reach net - negative emissions, a point at which we're actually removing more carbon from the air than we're putting in.

Overall, the report said, «Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts.»

These early joiners were mostly small island states, which are the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change.

In June 2016, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific associations sent a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers that reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

But it's a funny kind of world in which it is known that «negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts», and yet yields per acre and in total have increased.

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.

Countries acknowledged the centrality of climate change to the post-2015 development agenda reaffirming «that climate change is a cross-cutting and persistent crisis» and «the scale and gravity of the negative impacts of climate change affect all countries and undermine the ability of all countries, in particular, developing countries, to achieve sustainable development -LSB-...] and threaten the viability and survival of nations.

In 2010, of the 179 countries assessed, 28 (15.6 %) were in the same quintile for GHG emissions and vulnerability to the negative impacts of climate change.

To avert negative impact of climate change, accelerated adoption of climate - smart agriculture would be necessary which would require dynamic national policies and investment priorities that will positively influence local institutions and interventions to adapt climate change.

The role of climate change in causing extreme heat waves, drastic rainfall, negative impacts on human health and threatened food security have received more attention recently than megadrought.

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.

Conversely, 11 of the 17 countries with low or moderate GHG emissions, are acutely vulnerable to negative impacts of climate change.

Some countries, such as China and the United States of America, are in a win - win position of achieving economic growth through fossil fuel use with few consequences from the resulting climate change, while many other, mostly Island and African, countries suffer low economic growth and severe, negative climate change impacts (see Supplementary Table S4 online).

«But globally over the 21st century, the magnitude and severity of negative impacts are projected to increasingly outweigh positive impacts,» as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its comprehensive 2014 literature review on «Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.impacts are projected to increasingly outweigh positive impacts,» as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its comprehensive 2014 literature review on «Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.impacts,» as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its comprehensive 2014 literature review on «Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.»

Results from various assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture based on various climate models and SRES emissions scenarios indicate certain agricultural areas that may undergo negative changes.

These emissions contribute to climate change, which can have a significant negative impact on the environment, particularly over a long period of time.

We extracted data on national vulnerability to the negative impacts of climate change from DARA's Climate Vulnerability Monitor (Cclimate change from DARA's Climate Vulnerability Monitor (CClimate Vulnerability Monitor (CVM) 18.

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.

The study, published in the journal Nature Geosciences, suggests that the change of phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) from positive to negative, or vice versa, could initiate chain reaction of climate impact that may affect the sea ice formation in the Antarctic region.

«By analysing the potential impact of future carbon constraints driven by global climate change policies, our study shows a deterioration in the financial risk profiles for smaller oil companies that could lead to negative outlooks and downgrades,» said Michael Wilkins, head of environmental finance at Standard & Poor's.

For example, when researching the impacts of climate change, they are inherently inclined towards studying and reporting on the negative impacts and tend to ignore studies that show the positive impacts.