Sentences with phrase «on vulnerable regions»

While vitally important, this approach has largely ignored the impact climate change has already taken on vulnerable regions around the world, particularly agricultural communities, that urgently need resources to adapt to an altered climate.

Natural disasters would probably include extremes of weather Faustino but I agree that climate change would generally manifest itself in a much more gradual way and would impact on vulnerable regions, rather than globally.

This conference in Nairobi, in sub-Saharan Africa, has the severity of impacts on vulnerable regions.

Not exact matches

Scientists and energy experts say that a distributed grid that doesn't rely on a single power plant for energy generation could help vulnerable island regions such as the Caribbean weather strong storms like Irma or Maria.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

In a region hard hit by climate change, the Rainforest Alliance focuses on advancing community forestry, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and environmental education to defend vulnerable landscapes and support rural communities.

The very fact that cloth diapers are going to cover your infant's most vulnerable and sensitive body areas makes it imperative that you choose a laundry soap that effectively removes even the worse blow out stains but remains mild enough to not cause unwanted irritation on your baby's private region.

I was delighted when the government announced its Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme, which is focused on those who can not settle in the region and need longer - term solutions: torture victims, those who have faced sexual violence and those who need specialist medical treatment.

Methods included using pipes called thermosiphons along the sides of the tracks to refrigerate vulnerable parts of the soil along the highest parts of the plateau, an area that comprises the largest continuous sub-Arctic permafrost region on the planet.

Florini said the conference will focus attention on how vulnerable the region is to warming and that what happens in the Arctic «doesn't stay in the Arctic.»

But now, a vulnerable glacier on the other side of the island, part of a massive flow of ice known as the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceans.

He went on to conclude that «these findings indicate that individual differences in fronto - stiato - limbic regions implicated in impulsivity and decision making could render individuals vulnerable for the transition from occasional to escalating stimulant use.»

The broader region is vulnerable to earthquakes from multiple sources, including deep earthquakes within the subducted Juan de Fuca plate, offshore megathrust earthquakes on Cascadia subduction zone and the shallow crustal earthquakes within the North American Plate.

In addition, I served on a multidisciplinary team assessing nutrients in ground water across the country — findings that EPA and other federal agencies used to prioritize regions most vulnerable to ground - water contamination.

Japan spends millions of pounds a year on earthquake prediction and monitoring, but most of its efforts are centred on the more vulnerable Suruga Bay region, west of Tokyo.

Importantly, countries such as Jordan that are dependent on waterways flowing downstream to them are vulnerable to the consequences of drought and land - use change in upstream regions.

With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

Such data may give planners and decision makers a new tool to identify key regions of U.S. coastlines that may be vulnerable to sea level changes on 10 - to 20 - year timescales.

Pilot study focusing on a region vulnerable to climate change Although the study highlights that long term changes in rainfall intensity are not always» man - made,» it does not necessarily mean that today's weather anomalies across the Indian Ocean rim countries and, in particular, their frequency, are not subject to human influence.

That said, it might be better to focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as a necessary but not sufficient goal, particularly when it comes to ensuring a maximum degree of sustainability in regions containing highly vulnerable populations.

In other words, the fastest way to provide air conditioning to the hundreds of millions of people on Earth who are currently vulnerable to heat death, is to accelerate the development of unfettered capitalism in their regions, giving them access to air conditioning and inexpensive electricity.

The potential for specific climate - vulnerable communities to experience highly harmful health effects is not entirely clear in specific regions and on specific time frames due to uncertainties in rates of adaptation and uncertainties about the outcome of public health interventions currently being implemented that aim to address underlying health disparities and determinants of health.249 The public health community has not routinely conducted evaluations of the overall success of adaptation interventions or of particular elements of those interventions.

Money spent on global climate prognostications would IMO be much better spent on the improvement of shorter term weather forecasts for vulnerable regions.

This guidance document presents that climate change disproportionally affects the poorest and most marginalized communities living in vulnerable regions, among them indigenous peoples, whose livelihoods depend on natural resources.

Safa» Al Jayoussi, Executive Director / IndyACT, said: «Concrete steps were taken in this year's COP23, now we need to move this into action toward pre-2020 ambition on the local and subregional level, especially from the Arab Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.&Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.&region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.»

For millions of people who depend on food grown in vulnerable regions, the future is actually evaporating.

To provide members of the public with the opportunity to contribute directly to research on climate change in a vulnerable region and demonstrate the power of an evidence - based approach to climate impact attribution.

These include the consequences for vulnerable systems, such as agricultural production in tropical regions, impacts on human health and natural systems such as coral reefs, and on ice sheets and sea level rise.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

A second Ecological Footprint study was published in 2013, with a special focus on the Laguna Lake Region, the country's largest lake ecosystem, which includes Metro Manila — the most densely populated area on Earth and most vulnerable region in the coRegion, the country's largest lake ecosystem, which includes Metro Manila — the most densely populated area on Earth and most vulnerable region in the coregion in the country.

Building capacity in climate, agriculture, livestock and food security experts through users» specific workshops and pilot application projects Improve understanding of the impacts of climate variability on key agricultural production areas including input / output markets and vulnerable areas in the region such as arid and semi-arid areas.

The regions of the Antarctic ice sheet scientists think are most vulnerable to melting are «marine - based» glaciers, which sit on land that's below sea level.

Aims to calculate the frequency and intensity of heat waves in South Asia, focusing on Pakistan and identifying the regions within Pakistan that are most vulnerable to heat waves

What are NASA and other science agencies doing to better understand this vulnerable region and its potential impact on global sea level?

The overwhelming dependence on agriculture and natural resources for living makes the people of this region very vulnerable from climate change.

In April, for example, a European Union report on adaptation said Europe's most vulnerable regions to climate change will be southern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, the Alps, and the far north.

The region is particularly vulnerable to climate change because of population levels that place mounting resource demands on an already degraded natural resource base.

On the other hand, at a more detailed scale, from a small region to a small country, many specific localities, sectors and societies can be highly vulnerable, at least to possible low - probability / high - consequence impacts; and potential impacts can amount to very severe damages.