Sentences with phrase «of damage from climate change»

No evidence of climate change... just reports of damage from climate change.

«We predict that poor countries will suffer the bulk of the damages from climate change.

Many estimates of net costs of damages from climate change across the globe are now available.

But most importantly, the scale of damages from climate change are likely to dwarf the economic and environmental costs of oil spills.

Not exact matches

Say what you will about Exxon's long - time climate change denial, about the lingering damage from the Exxon Valdez disaster, about the fact it's the archetype of Big Oil.

For example, they staged a walk - out at COP19 at Warsaw when their proposal for a loss and damage mechanism, which would contribute to addressing damages occurring from adverse effects of climate change, did not receive enough traction.

It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major sCHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major schange — from increased flooding to wind damage from major storms.

In November, countries will meet for the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties for negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discuClimate Change, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discusChange, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discuclimate variability and climate change will be vital to discuclimate change will be vital to discuschange will be vital to discussions.

Micronesia is one of nine nations that researchers recently reviewed in a report assessing loss and damage from climate change.

In a related field, property insurers say human development far outweighs the influences of climate change when it comes to rising damage from thunderstorms, flooding and hurricanes.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

There is a risk that some of these tiny but amazing alpine plants could potentially disappear due to climate change, damage from alpine recreation sports and over-collecting.

In contrast to reefs across the globe, which have suffered severe and continuing damage due to the combined effects of climate change and local disturbances, the researchers found that the coral communities on most of the reefs they looked at had recovered rapidly from this major «bleaching» event.

They show that as uncertainty in the temperature increase expected with a doubling of CO2 from pre-industrial levels rises, so do the economic damages of increased climate change.

After the Geneva meeting, he claimed that Pearce's work shows that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by the middle of the next century would cause damage from climate change valued at between 1.5 and 2 per cent of «gross world product».

In terms of how probable each of those is, there's a lot of debate, but in terms of actually making policy, you have to look at all possibilities and figure out possible actions you could take to limit the damage from climate change.

«That would require a regional economic analysis for damages from acid rain and carbon dioxide and the benefits of reduced climate change,» said Wigley.

Using a super-ensemble of regional climate model simulations from the climateprediction.net experiment, we will determine how the carbon produced by these major industrial entities is contributing to the damages from climate change.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

Oregon and Washington are the number one and two softwood - producing states in the nation, respectively; 20 these two states plus Idaho produce more than $ 11 billion in primary wood product sales.21 Our review of existing research suggests the Northwest's forests will experience significant potential impacts from climate change, in particular from wildfire — due to both increased drought and to wood damage from pests surviving warmer winters.

Speaking from an Australian perspective, a very astute and sobering comment was made on this very subject of the insurance industry and climate change damage.

Green Cross Sri Lanka's version of the Green Lane Diary focuses on climate change and water conservation, as well as how to protect the environment from tsunami damage.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

Investments in climate - change adaptation and mitigation can provide a wide range of co-benefits that enhance protection from current climate variability, decrease damages from air and water pollution, and advance sustainable development.

Five cities and counties in California that are suing fossil fuel companies for damages triggered by climate change are now at the center of a legal paradox created by conflicting decisions from two federal court judges reviewing nearly identical claims.

The cost of climate change in agriculturally productive areas, plus damage from sea level rise is likely to vastly exceed the cost of mitigation.

The results from the study suggest that critical impact asymmetries due to both climate and socio - economic structures may deepen current production and consumption gaps between developed and developing world; it is suggested that adaptation of agricultural techniques will be central to limit potential damages under climate change.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

The U.N. report gets two things right: 1) there is a risk of serious damages from climate change if left unabated for a century and 2) poor countries in the low latitudes are likely to bear the greatest share of that risk.

Much climate - related damage results from extreme weather events and could be affected by changes in the frequency and intensity of these events due to climate change.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

«Climate change is damaging many corals, but it appears to be bypassing certain reefs that support some of the greatest diversity of life on the planet,» Dr. Kleypas said in a news release from the National Science Foundation.

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...]

If we make the switch and rely on renewable sources of energy like the sun, we can save billions of dollars by avoiding not only the costs of replacing these plants, but also the increasingly higher costs of climate change in areas like healthcare expenses and damage from extreme weather.

In contrast, EPA's estimate for the total gains from avoided climate change damages as well as other factors (such as reduced macroeconomic volatility from reduced reliance on oil imports), might yield as little as $ 29 billion in the year 2040, in the scenario where the «social cost of carbon» is relatively low.

The resulting adaptation cost figures range from between U$ 6 billion to U$ 14 billion / year that Pakistan would have to spend at an average in the 2010 - 2050 time frame to cope with the effects of climate change while it will be also left to, unavoidably, bear significant «residual damage» costs induced due to climate change.

The scientists will outline how only a combined strategy employing all the major sustainable clean energy options — including renewables and nuclear — can prevent the worst effects of climate change by 2100, such as the loss of coral reefs, severe damages from extreme weather events, and the destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide.

«Using that approach we showed that as uncertainty in the temperature increase expected with a doubling of CO2 from pre-industrial levels rises, so do the economic damages of increased climate change,» Lewandowsky continued.

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While the study — «The hidden risks of climate change: An increase in property damage from drought and soil subsidence in Europe» — doesn't cite overall climate change as a direct cause for the increase in soil subsidence, it describes a strong link to the condition that will «magnify these risks as factors such as rising average temperatures and more erratic rainfall continue to alter soil conditions.»

Not Bob, but Haiti has already failed, and while it's not only about climate change, it is mostly because of environmental damage from the Antropocene.

In the absence of sufficient political will to tackle the climate problem, courts could prevent and protect society from climate change related damages, casualties, and infringements of human and civil rights.

Climate change is increasingly levels of ozone to the extent that plants in northern and central Europe will be suffering significant damage from the pollutant by the end of this century say Swedish scientists.

The North Sea cod fishery has been declining owing to overfishing since the late 1960s.10 The North Sea cod catch fell 75 percent from 1987 to 2002, for example.11 In the past two decades, Bridlington fishermen shifted to shellfishing, 2 but the nearby town of Whitby is still known as the cod capital of the United Kingdom.12 England's coastal communities can ill afford further damage to the fishery from climate change.

They include, among many others, principles on what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest risk from climate damages in poor nations that have done little to cause climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their country because climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?

The Dutch court considered that the nature and extent of the damage ensuing from climate change, the knowledge and foreseeability of this damage, and the chance that hazardous climate change will occur are such that the Dutch government has a serious duty of care to take measures to prevent it.

The work of saving nuclear by Environmental Progress will prevent $ 25 billion in economic damages from climate change damage by 2025, based on the US EPA's social cost of carbon.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.