Sentences with phrase «ones adapt to climate change»

-- Developing new international financial instruments to raise the tens of billions of dollars rich countries pledged to help poor ones adapt to climate change, develop non-polluting energy systems and restore forests.

By only speaking of climate change, this statement leaves out the biggest drivers of climate vulnerability on the continent in the next few decades, and contributes to the murkiness that will create ever more problems if and when rich countries finally divvy up money to help poor ones adapt to climate change.

Not exact matches

One is adapting to climate change and the other is the economic and well being of the Arctic people.

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

CISA is one of 11 NOAA - supported Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments teams helping communities prepare for and adapt to climate variability and change through collaborations among climate scientists and decision - makers.

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.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

One of the world's major producers of food needs to adapt its farming practices for climate change

The White House's proposed «America First» budget forcefully kicks many federal climate - related energy programs to the curb, representing a possible turn away from renewable energy and a broad disinvestment in the research and development needed to transform the U.S. energy system into one better able to adapt to climate change.

One of WRI four key goals is to protect the global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.

If we have some time to prepare, the combination of lowering all the discussed emissions, utilizing current technology to implement alternative energy sources, and engineering new twists on said technology to both continue lowering emissions and adapting to global climate changes as well, we may be able to guide our response sets to outside, artificial selective pressures in conjunction with natural ones; natural, internal variability and external forcings / feedbacks.

Regarding global warming and population growth, in my view anyhow, «job one» should be to try to face and address them wisely, and a subsidiary (but still important) task should be to prepare / adapt / adjust to those aspects of climate change and population growth that we can't fully address.

I wonder why action is being taken to adapt to and mitigate man - made climate change instead of «discussing» the «debate» over 10 - year old first papers and whether Algore is fat and whether the earth is cooling despite last year being the warmest on record (according to one dataset)?

The proposed agreement, echoing the architecture of the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol, has a few main themes: finding ways that rich countries can help poor ones adapt to impending climate change; strengthening efforts to curb emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases from rich countries and the biggest poor ones; and committing rich countries to helping poor ones deploy energy technologies or forest policies that limit their emissions even as they try to prosper.

The same ones who say they don't think climate change has been «scientifically proven» are already busily adapting — self - consciously so — to climate change by adopting practices like no - till farming.

One of the report's co-authors has said he believes that it displays «a more optimistic tone about our ability to adapt» to the impacts of climate change than previous reports did.

«It's not good for low - income or high - income countries but it's particularly worse for the low - income countries as they are the ones which can least afford to adapt,» (Dr. Nicholas Harold from the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New South Whales).

While mitigation climate change is essential adapting to and through centuries of warming is paramount... the stories of animals, plants and people adapting to a warming world express trust in our ability to adjust to changing conditions, even radical ones, and to establish a voice for resilience in uncertain times.

You would think researchers would welcome opportunities to balance that vast library of one - sided research with an analysis of the natural causes of climate change — so that they can evaluate the relative impact of human activities, more accurately predict future changes, and help ensure that communities, states and nations can plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts.

One of the conclusions of that 2010 Workshop was that, as climate change brings new uncertainties, adds new risks and changes already existing risks, one of the most effective ways for agriculture to adapt to climate change could be to increase its resilienOne of the conclusions of that 2010 Workshop was that, as climate change brings new uncertainties, adds new risks and changes already existing risks, one of the most effective ways for agriculture to adapt to climate change could be to increase its resilienone of the most effective ways for agriculture to adapt to climate change could be to increase its resilience.

Virginia is one of only 14 states with a finalized plan to prepare for and adapt to climate change, but so far it has completed only two of its original 43 goals.

That evidence now shows us that we face a stark choice, between a future with a little more climate change that we will still have to adapt to and cope with, and one with catastrophic climate change that will threaten the future of life as we know it.

The countries still have major issues to hash out, including how to handle the billions of dollars to be funneled from wealthy nations to poorer ones to help them adapt to climate change and develop cleaner sources of energy.

One - third (33 %) is allocated for projects and programmes assisting developing countries to adapt to climate change.

«Since such rapid climate change would challenge even the most modern societies to successfully adapt, knowing how these massive events start and evolve is one of the most pressing climate questions we need to answer.»

The study, published March 30 in the journal PLoS ONE, paves the way towards an important road map on the impacts of ocean warming, and will help scientists identify the habitats and locations where coral reefs are more likely to adapt to climate change.

Villagers rebuilt an embankment last year after Cyclone Alia near Satkhira, Bangladesh, one of the first countries to tap into a fund that helps poor states cope with and adapt to climate change.

... Remember that humans have survived climate change for thousands of years, not by playing God with one or two politically selected factors, but by adapting to the new conditions, whether hot, cold, dry or wet.

One of the report's recommendations is that agriculture should adapt to a changing climate.

«So one thing we really need to do is think about adaptation: How are we going to adapt to climate change?»

While the specifics of government climate policies will vary greatly, all will have one of two fundamental objectives: constraining GHG emissions or adapting to existing or projected climate change.

The last one focused on the science behind climate change; this new, 29 - page report will detail its impacts, along with what we can do to minimize and adapt to the worst of it.

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it?

Their conclusion: «If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [in 2008] to at most 350 ppm.»

While most cost - estimating has focused on GDPs, trade and other such figures, Larsen's work is different in that it gauges the effect of climate change by adding up all the dollars of adapting to a warmer world, one bridge and one building at a time.

I didn't know the specifics regarding why the soil won't work for wheat, but I had essentially raised this point on the «Cockburn's form» among others regarding how crops are already adapted to specific soils which exist in specific climates — and you can't just pick up the soil and move it as appropriate climate moves northward when one skeptic / optimist suggested climate change would be beneficial.

Regarding your concerns about catastrophes to biosphere: since the climate in known to catasrtophically swing between ice ages and warm ages, the part of biosphere that was not fit to adapt to these changes has only one way - to die.

In one fell swoop, the provision of resources to adapt to climate change has been made solely dependent on market mechanisms, when in fact what is needed is a fulfillment of the legal obligations of the Convention by rich nations providing the funds.

Their argument on the face of it seems inconsistent with other recent research on reef response to climate change, which in one case suggests that some corals could vanish, and in another that some corals might adapt, very slowly.

However, with an innate understanding of the acute impacts of climate change, the Philippines is one of the world's strongest voices leading the global movement, combatting the problem and ultimately setting an example in adapting to climate change.

«Of the roughly one billion U.S. dollars spent every day across the world on climate finance, only 6 % of it is devoted to helping people adapt to climate change in the present.