Sentences with phrase «of victims of climate change»

Call them climate refugees, climate migrants, or climate - displaced people, the number of victims of climate change is growing rapidly and will keep growing till it encompasses all of us.

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The most vulnerable victims of climate destruction, he claims, are the world's poorest people, who lack the resources to adapt to climate change and natural disasters.

Farmers are among the first victims of climate change as they rely on the weather and the environment in its...

«We are the No. 1 victim of climate change, of course through no fault of us.

A type of coral commonly found on the Great Barrier Reef could survive for at least another 100 years before it falls victim to the effects of climate change, according to US and Australian scientists.

Beetles gained similar strength in the Rockies during mild winters in the late»90s and early 2000s, killing not only their usual victims but also entire hillsides of ancient whitebark pines, which live at altitudes once too frigid to support the insects.A beautifully concise explanation of what has happened in a large portion of the West, thanks in part to climate change.

Lubbers observed that the issues of an asylum - seeking have henceforth been approached with prudence and led to close scrutiny of both refugee and immigration regulations.37 Refugees and asylum - seekers are the most victims of the growing climate of fear of terrorism and other transnational crimes and thus being treated with suspicion, and sometimes, arbitrary detained and, actually, deported.38 The states are changing their refugee - immigration related policies because of concern that the terrorists may gain entry to the territory through the channel of asylum system.39

Rather than be viewed (or viewing themselves) as victims of a disaster, children can be pro-active agents to address the impact of natural disasters, especially in light of climate change.

The sequence was animated because no one had, so far, captured photos or video of drowning bears, which some environmental groups described as victims of climate change.

Also, the sub-Sahara Sahel region is also looking like a victim of permanent climate change.

Just as a band of Carteret Islanders are abandoning their homes due to the effects of climate change — becoming the world's first climate change refugees — word has come that rising sea levels and more severe weather patterns may claim an even greater victim: the entire cultural legacy of Australia's native Aborigines.

You can not say that these particular bears were the victims of climate change.

He stressed that China was a victim of climate change, and that its increased emissions was inevitable as the country goes through necessary industrialisation as it develops.»

On Monday morning, the Paris prosecutor's office said it would release all but 9 of the 317 people arrested for climate - change demonstrations in the Place de la Republique, leading to a battle with police that damaged a memorial to victims of the Paris terror attacks.

The first victim of the Climate Change purge is the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a wonderful non-profit organization dedicated to protecting free enterprise from being undermined by progressive activists of all stripes.

Inside the growing evangelical movement to acknowledge the reality — and the victims — of climate change.

IRIN: Discussions about much - needed support for agriculture — which is seen both as a victim and a cause of climate change — at the UN's climate change conference in Doha have been postponed until next year.

India, however, finds itself a «victim» of the effects of climate change that are caused largely by Western nations» industrialization long ago.

They, the fisherfolk are victims of climate change and not the cause!

Climate change policy has become a victim of the sunk costs fallacy.

While Indigenous peoples are generally depicted as victims of poverty and vulnerability to climate change, the document suggests that it would also be appropriate to emphasize their sensitivity to the environment, adaptive capacity and resilience, as manifested by their ability to modify their behaviour in response to changing climatic conditions.

The fuss about his environmental and economic analysis has — in my view — obscured the most significant aspect of this encyclical: his observation that climate change has already created human victims, and his insistence that we all have a moral obligation to help these vulnerable people.

Every additional person increases carbon emissions — the rich more than the poor — and increases the number of climate change victims — the poor more than the rich.

«The Caribbean as a whole has been a minor contributor to climate change overall, but a tremendous victim of it,» Honey says.

People across the study sites were not passive victims of climate change.

Similarly, one might argue that geoengineering as civil disobedience can avoid the objections to self - defense because it purports to benefit all victims of climate change.

More than a decade of national media attention to the human impacts of climate change in the Arctic has largely framed communities as victims to sell the urgency of mitigation to the public.

An agreed work program on loss and damage to help victims of climate change will start immediately anda decision «to establish institutional arrangement, such as an international mechanism, at COP19»

I think it's the most callous thing I've ever heard, it must certainly run the risk of coming across as callous when put to the victims of our climate change fuelling lifestyles.

With one alleged victim of climate change after another — from pikas, penguins and polar bears to whales — he thoroughly dismantles the so - called science that blames each and every worrisome observation on man - made climate change, and he explains the true causes, natural and man - made, of their travails.

It is indigenous and rural peoples, like many of the victims in the Philippines, who are the most vulnerable to climate change, and the least responsible for it.

After a two hour delay in getting final approval by the UN Secretariat and Mexican security officials for an already sanctioned action, we spoke out in behalf of the those who no longer have a voice — the victims of the many climate change - related disasters worldwide in the past year.

Our thoughts are with the victims and survivors of Haiyan, and we show our solidarity by continuing our fight for a just solution to climate change.»

The U.S. and the Saudis, to be sure, hold prominent positions, and just behind them are the rest of the usual suspects: ExxonMobil lobbyists, the American Enterprise Institute, The International Chamber of Commerce (whom journalists complain is so predictable as to be boring, and therefore useless), the skeptics - cum - denialists, the anonymous scum who distributed counterfeit editions of NGO newsletters (they weren't, actually, very funny) and fake - byline flyers ridiculing the third - world victims of climate change (you have to see them to believe them).

1995 Goldman Prize recipient Ricardo Navarro and his organization Friends of the Earth El Salvador / CESTA recently partnered with the Movement of the Victims and Peoples Affected by Climate Change (MOVIAC)... Read More

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

The central issues of climate change and oil decline are so broad and complex that both science and advocacy fall victim to the recency effect.

These features include: (a) it is a problem caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of ghgs in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people and who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, and, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people, nations must act quickly to limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions.

Whatever the spin the goal is always the same: to exploit the personal tragedies of the disaster victims for political gain by dishonestly pretending that natural extreme weather events are somehow connected with «man - made climate change.»

«These two or three thousand individuals are direct victims of climate change policy and their number is only expected to increase.»

The report warned that poor and marginalized communities around the globe will be some of the first and hardest hit victims of climate change: «The poorest people in the world, who have had virtually nothing to do with causing global warming, will be high on the list of victims as climate disruptions intensify.»

«Far from being climate change's key cause, the world's oceans are actually another victim of greenhouse pollution.»

The women are at the centre of climate change challenge; they have been disproportionately affected as victims.

Even if it could be demonstrated that climate change had caused a particular problem, the «crime» that the «victim» is the subject of is not defined by the action of the perpetrator, but by the status of the «victim».

(c) Whether the victims of climate change have a right to participate in decisions that must be made in the face of uncertainty?

This oversight is not only to the detriment of affected women, but to anyone who either is now or will be affected by climate change (read: all of us), because women are not only victims of climate change, but have a lot of potential to be part of the solution.

At 12:58 p.m. there was a moment of silence for the victims of climate change, and at 1 p.m. there was a wave of sound that erupted symbolizing the climate alarm.

Cost arguments usually ignore issues of procedural justice including the right of victims to consent to being put at risk to climate change impacts.

One of the big problems is that the Parties with historical responsibility over Loss and Damage (U.S., EU, Canada, Australia, among other developed countries) are not willing to compensate the victims, usually the Global South, less prepared to deal with climate change.