Sentences with phrase «posed by a changing climate»

Adaptation is aimed at lowering the risks posed by a changing climate.

A Climate Risk Assessment for the United States identifies the economic risks posed by a changing climate.

Given the well - demonstrated health consequences of nitrogen - related air pollution, along with the additional risks posed by a changing climate, now is not the time to relax emission controls.

Not exact matches

Chase says the environmental risks posed by climate change mean companies need to find «platforms for participation,» or ways to trade resources with one another to limit environmental drain.

Investor Network on Climate Risk is a $ 5 trillion network of investors that promotes better understanding of the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate Climate Risk is a $ 5 trillion network of investors that promotes better understanding of the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate climate change.

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

Peabody Energy has a responsibility to be honest with investors and the public about the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in announcing the settlement with Peabody Monday.

With negotiations under way for the UK to leave the European Union, he argued for a cross-party approach and stressed that a partnership with Europe, needed to deal with the challenges posed by the refugee crisis and climate change, would require that Britain's «parting is carried out well».

In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chain.

Water challenge Diouf noted the special challenge posed by water as climate change would make rainfall increasingly unreliable.

Weathering the Storm: With California stuck in extreme drought and last year's barley crop damaged by heavy rain, climate change is posing serious problems for the brewing industry.

Healthy, intact natural systems provide many benefits to the challenges posed by climate change, from forests that sequester and store carbon dioxide to wetlands that act as natural flood absorbers.

Citing the threat posed by climate change, the Winnetka Park District is investigating ways to continue providing outdoor ice skating should winters become shorter.

David Cameron has shown in the past that he understands the risks posed by climate change and that he's prepared intervene to ensure we tackle it.

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

Anyone who denies climate change, and the dangers posed by non-renewal fossil fuels, is not in touch with reality.

President Buhari expressed his administration's readiness to embrace several opportunities presented by the challenges posed by climate change.

She added: «President Bush appears unwilling to change direction and take urgent action to combat the devastating economic and environmental threats posed by climate change.»

And yet all of us sat to hear Sir Mark Walport, the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, when he came last month and explained to the Government that the recent IPCC report - which made clear the threats posed by man - made climate change - was the most exhaustive, authoritative, peer reviewed report on climate change ever published.

Elsewhere in his interview, Hawking spoke of the threat posed by climate change and artificial intelligence.

Clinton and Trump answered questions on climate change, income inequality and gun violence posed by New York Times readers and put to them by the paper's editorial board.

He said last month: «There is now widespread agreement about the nature and scale of the threat posed by climate change.

Citing the threat posed by climate change, Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday announced plans for a new seawall and promenade along Staten Island's southern coast.

This is certainly very alarming and what NORPRA expects of government is to rededicate itself to the implementation of a very comprehensive national policy on climate change to minimize the threats posed by climate change.

«We have to be able to withstand and recover quickly from all hazards posed by climate change,» Bloomberg said in a statement.

With every year of inaction the risks posed by climate change grow, according to a new report requested by Congress.

Environmentalists welcomed the first - of - its - kind acknowledgement by a major petroleum company that climate change poses real and immediate challenges to the firm's prospects.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

Could it be true that staving off the severe effects posed by climate change won't impose ruinous costs?

In a post at ThinkProgress, Joe Romm throws a wet blanket on the idea of exporting US natural gas in an attempt to curb Russia's energy leverage, saying «Sadly, few seem to care about diminishing the threat posed by climate change, since it has become increasingly clear that LNG would make things worse.»

Urban looked at over 130 studies to identify the level of risk that climate change poses to species and the specific traits and characteristics that contribute to risk (see the Perspective by Hille Ris Lambers).

Opportunities are expanding for natural and social scientists who wish to take on the scientific and practical challenges posed by climate change.

On the first day of the Copenhagen climate conference, 56 newspapers publishing in 20 languages in 45 countries publish an unprecedented joint editorial calling for meaningful action to face the threat posed by climate change.

An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

Barack Obama last week became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the nation's Arctic territory, using a sojourn in this vast state to highlight the risks posed by climate change.

A distinction must be made between the potential threats posed by climate change and deforestation.

They argue that the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance is similar to that posed by climate change because it is a natural process exacerbated by human activity and the actions of one country can have global ramifications.

Now that climate change poses an even more urgent threat to the endangered tortoise, biologists have a controversial plan to safeguard its future — by moving it to new sites outside of its known historical range.

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.

Rising sea levels, generated by climate change, pose a serious threat to the flying foxes» habitat and its food resources through flooding, erosion and contamination of freshwater supplies.

World Bank head Jim Yong Kim has put a priority on highlighting the threats posed by climate change.

Given the threats posed by climate change and evolving disease, researchers say that holding on to that diversity may prove key to ensuring steady supplies of fresh milk and other animal products.

The letter, which was spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warns of the numerous threats posed by climate change — including extreme weather events, regional water scarcity, heat waves and wildfires.

The use of the tool and images obtained from it will help coral reef managers to communicate about the threats posed to reefs by climate change with their colleagues, stakeholders and with policymakers.

Changing living conditions caused by climate change or ocean acidification — the decrease of ocean pH due to the uptake of human - induced carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — pose serious threats to marine organisms.

«The region is profoundly affected by climate change — including loss of sea ice, acidification of the ocean, and increased access for industries that pose significant risks to the ocean environment.»

While the degraded reefs Piercy looked at were mostly ravaged by overfishing, climate change poses a global long - term problem for reefs.

The second thread links uncertain projections of future changes to statistical and process models of human systems to assess the risks posed by climate change.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.