Sentences with phrase «overall climate risk»

But though their probability is difficult to assess, state shifts are a potentially large contributor to overall climate risk.

Not exact matches

Right now, the Market Climate is one that has historically been associated with great risk, but negative overall returns.

However, the overall market return / risk climate could become consistent with a more neutral or modestly constructive outlook (with an obligatory safety net in either case, given current valuation extremes) if market internals were to improve decisively.

Overall, our research shows that the Midwest region faces significant climate risks to its agricultural sector if we stay on our current greenhouse gas emissions pathway, but that these risks vary markedly by state, county, and even specific crop.

Overall, our research shows that California faces significant climate risks to its commodity crop output if we stay on our current greenhouse gas emissions pathway, but that these risks are extremely crop - and location - specific.

Overall, farmers were much less concerned about climate change risks — like fewer winter chill hours for trees, more heat waves and increased flooding.

«Overall, climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.»

An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes in behaviors can significantly affect climate projections.

Likewise, no direct push from climate change could be found in California's wildfire activity, though it is clear that it is increasing the overall wildfire risk there.

Since premiums need to be set fairly, there is a need to assess climate change related changes in risk regardless of whether that will be a small factor in overall costs.

Overall risk to human health, society and the environment increases with increases in both the rate and magnitude of climate change.

IMHO, the warming climate is reducing the overall risk to intense tornadoes in the United States, based on total path length of (F3 - F4 - F5) «intense» across the past 100 years.

It's also important to remember that clarifying the causes and consequences of the last century's climate changes is just a small part of the overall picture illuminating rising risks from the unrelenting buildup of greenhouse gases.

Stephen H. Schneider, the Stanford climatologist I've been interviewing since 1988 on this issue, has long favored pursuing climate policies that reflect the overall reality that the risk of bad outcomes rises with gas concentrations:

Through this training the local level officials and operational professionals were given orientation on the major issues and themes of climate change, adaptation and its linkages with overall risk management through systematic adaptation process.

The overall objectives of the training is to share and learn various issues of Climate Change related issues relating to adaptation approaches and climate forecast applications that would help better manage of the climatic risks in agriculture and allied sectors in the cClimate Change related issues relating to adaptation approaches and climate forecast applications that would help better manage of the climatic risks in agriculture and allied sectors in the cclimate forecast applications that would help better manage of the climatic risks in agriculture and allied sectors in the country.

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.»

«The situation at the moment is so desperate that we need to do everything we can to reduce overall systemic climate risk, and that includes offsets,» said Martijn Wilder, a leading environmental lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, based in Sydney.

«Some of it might be down to things you'd have trouble suing — like the Sun --(I don't think he meant the tabloid), so you obviously need to work how particularly human influence has contributed to the overall change in risk,» the scientist, who has worked with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said.»

Similarly, in his 2006 report on the economic consequences of climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern wrote that, «If we don't act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least five per cent of global GDP each year, now and forever.»

In southern Europe, to compensate for increased climate - related risks (lowering of the water table, salinisation, eutrophication, species loss)(Williams, 2001; Zalidas et al., 2002), a lessening of the overall human burden on water resources is needed.

While the majority of small, developing, island nations faced extreme levels of exposure to climate - related events, their populations and infrastructures were deemed less «sensitive,» and were therefore generally not considered to be at «extreme» risk overall.

Overall, there is the risk of pandering to the view that we can only deal with climate change, if we adopt a frugal lifestyle.

«We find no evidence for an overall trend in disease risk in coffee - growing regions of Colombia from 1990 to 2015, therefore, while weather conditions were more conducive to disease outbreaks from 2008 to 2011, we reject the climate change hypothesis.»

Graph shows that adding the interaction of slowly and quickly migrating species in response to climate change, increases the overall time lag (of population average) compared to the geographically shifting temperature gradient — and therefore the overall extinction risk associated with this warming.

Develop a risk assessment of overall investments if the best - and worst - case scenarios for climate change play out in terms of potential financial losses.

A Learning Experience Overall the hearing was a disappointment, as with a few exceptions, the participating congressmen did not take advantage of the opportunity to learn about climate change, the risks it poses, or the best path forward to address those risks.

«Overall, we see there is a surface level of preparedness from companies globally to have board - level oversight of climate risk and opportunity,» she said, pointing to key drivers such as investor pressure, reputational factors and consumer reaction to climate risks.

Disclose how the organization identifies, assesses and manages climate - related risks and how they are integrated into the organization's overall risk management.

Under risk management: Disclose how the organization identifies, assesses and manages climate - related risks and how they are integrated into the organization's overall risk management.