Sentences with phrase «on adapting to climate change»

Instead, we should concentrate on adapting to climate change.

As countries increasingly focus on adapting to climate change, and more «climate finance» [continue reading...]

The proposed dataset will provide information as well as informing decisions on adapting to climate change, something existing datasets don't provide,» the Met Office says in a statement.

«Without an effective plan to prepare for the risks from climate change the country may sleepwalk into disaster,» said John Krebs, chairman of a group that advises Britain's government on adapting to climate change.

Assuming that only socioeconomic factors — rather than rising emissions — influence losses may yield ill - founded policy recommendations that focus exclusively on adapting to climate change while dismissing energy policy as a legitimate part of the toolkit for responding.

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At a Washington meeting last spring on adapting to climate change, Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said that he expected «a major speech» on climate from Obama down the line.

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They also learn methods to adapt to climate change and reduce the negative impact on the environment.

At the same time, it enables work with on a bilateral basis to accelerate the development and deployment of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions of drought, flooding and salinity brought on by climate change.

For example, the initiative could enable member nations to partner in the development and distribution of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions of drought, flooding, and salinity brought on by climate change.

For three years, UTZ and the DE Foundation worked on an ambitious Coffee Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate climate change.

Mass Audubon served on the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immedClimate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immediChange Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immedclimate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immedichange impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immediately.

Until April this year, London was been taking a lead internationally on how to adapt to, and mitigate the effects of climate change, whereas now we are fl oundering in indecision and a lack of direction.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develClimate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develoChange], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; 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Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

The move toward more natural coastline protection comes as federal agencies, state governments, and local and business leaders focus increasingly on the concept of resilience as they plan for how communities will adapt to climate change.

The second instalment of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report came out on Monday (see «World must adapt to unknown climate future, says IPCC «Climate Change report came out on Monday (see «World must adapt to unknown climate future, says IPCC «climate future, says IPCC «-RRB-.

The Committee on Climate Change, an independent advisory body, says # 500 million is needed over four years to adapt to climate Climate Change, an independent advisory body, says # 500 million is needed over four years to adapt to climate cChange, an independent advisory body, says # 500 million is needed over four years to adapt to climate climate changechange.

But this year's report instead focuses on how people are, and should be, adapting to climate change.

We still can not predict exactly how climate change will affect each part of the world, but the people on the front lines are showing others how to adapt

Adapting to climate change is already tough on moose; adding the present day's imbalance in the predator - prey dynamics puts additional stress on the Isle Royale ecosystem.

The difference is that farmers can do things to adapt to the changing climate, and hopefully alleviate the impacts on their crops,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

The State of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate effects of climate change, although the longer - term influence of population growth on climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.

But historians have usually pinned most responsibility on the Norse themselves, arguing that they failed to adapt to a changing climate.

National representatives discussed such impacts, stressing the urgency for action to slow them in their remarks to attendees during one of four concurrent sessions on curbing greenhouse emissions, adapting to climate change, technological solutions, and how to pay for such changes.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

More recently Rosenzweig helped chair the New York City Panel on Climate Change, brought together to update the city on the latest climate science and to help city agencies prepare toClimate Change, brought together to update the city on the latest climate science and to help city agencies prepare toclimate science and to help city agencies prepare to adapt.

This is not a fable, it's a tale of how people are already adapting to climate change, as revealed at the International Institute for Environment and Development's sixth conference on community - based adaptation to climate change held in Vietnam in April.

«It's important to know which species can adapt their morphology and behavior» in response to climate change, she says, and collecting data on such phenomena will help set priorities for conserving species.

During the past few years, most of the reports that developing countries have filed with the U.N. on how they plan to adapt to climate change mention population growth as a complicating factor.

But fossil fuels development and loss of vegetation does have a big effect on how a region responds and adapts to a changing climate because of the water stress it creates where drilling is occurring.

For Tom Osborne of Reading University, senior research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science who models the global impacts of climate change on agriculture, farmers have no choice; they have to adapt where they can and change where they can't.

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

He documents the threat to ice posed by climate change but focuses on practical solutions that will help us mitigate the damage and adapt to a warmer world.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

The answer might be found just a few miles farther south, where communities on the Gulf and Atlantic coastlines have been adapting to hurricanes — intensified by climate change — for several years (ClimateWire, Feb. 4).

«Animals can adapt to climate change, mainly by relying on migration, depopulation — which consists of starvation and cannibalism — and dietary change,» he explains.

The U.S. also had pledged $ 3 billion to the U.N. Green Climate Fund, which gives financial support to developing countries to help them mitigate and adapt to climate change; Trump could renege on that much needed financial sClimate Fund, which gives financial support to developing countries to help them mitigate and adapt to climate change; Trump could renege on that much needed financial sclimate change; Trump could renege on that much needed financial support.

FAO is also warning governments to do more to understand the likely effects of climate change on fishing and how best to adapt to the challenge.

«Therefore it is essential to understand how different climate factors interact and impact food production when reaching decisions on how to adapt to the effects of climate change.»

«Species with smaller geographical ranges are naturally more sensitive to environmental change, and if the same community of species is also highly specialized to forage on few food resources, it will be less capable of adapting to a changing environment» says co-author and Assistant Professor Bo Dalsgaard from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate.

«We want to know if species will be able to adapt to climate change quickly enough based on how they adapted to climate change in the past,» says evolutionary ecologist John Wiens, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and lead author of the new study.

The factors that restrict whether fish or shellfish can adapt to climate change include their preferred temperature range, restrictions on their geographic range, how long it takes to reproduce, and specific habitat requirements such as needing kelp or coral reef to survive.

«Plants» ability to adapt could change conventional wisdom on climate change.»

Failure to adapt to climate change came fifth on the WEF report's list of risks ranked by their potential impact on humankind.

A little - known grant program that supports academic research to help communities adapt to climate change and manage their coastal and lakeshore resources is on the chopping block in the Trump administration's budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

(E) establishes performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and

Do organisms have the ability to adapt to climate change on a timescale of decades?

Developing a more comprehensive understanding of climate change will help policy - makers with decisions on how to delay or adapt to climate changes.