Sentences with phrase «positive impact on climate change»

After sourcing the raw materials, mined areas are converted to parks and gardens, which have a positive impact on climate change and the community.»

«Never waste a good crisis... Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security,» she said.

If other companies were to ensure by - products were fed into the supply chain of other industries — for example by using waste products to generate energy — we would see a big positive impact on climate change, pollution and the Earth's dwindling resources.

Not exact matches

«There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars,» Tesla said in on its website.

If the company can control and contain this energy, it would have a positive impact on the problem of carbon emissions and climate change in the decades to come.

There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

I encourage farmers and ranchers in rural areas throughout the world to learn about the positive impact organic farming can have on protecting the environment, mitigating climate change and improving the health for future generations,» Straus added.

If every family made the decision to pass on disposables and try cloth diapers... either doing it themselves or using a service, it would make an important positive impact toward combating climate change.

The scientists conclude that agroforestry should therefore attract more attention in global agendas on climate change mitigation because of its positive social and environmental impacts.

And the positive impact on rivers, climate change, and denim workers would be enormous.

If your corporation believes in a bottom - up, cost - effective approach to financing nature for positive impact, join us on our worldwide tour to debut the Shared Value Platform, launching in Paris at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change at the end of November 2015.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

Many indigenous territories have tremendous wind, solar, biomass and geothermal resources, and there are varying opinions as to whether energy - related climate change mitigation activities are having a positive or negative impact on local and indigenous communities.

Overall, the report said, «Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts.»

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But it's a funny kind of world in which it is known that «negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts», and yet yields per acre and in total have increased.

In fact the Summary says that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts, with wheat and maize yields negatively affected in many regions and effects on rice and soybean yields smaller in major production regions.

«But globally over the 21st century, the magnitude and severity of negative impacts are projected to increasingly outweigh positive impacts,» as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its comprehensive 2014 literature review on «Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.impacts are projected to increasingly outweigh positive impacts,» as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its comprehensive 2014 literature review on «Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.impacts,» as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its comprehensive 2014 literature review on «Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.»

The award honours individuals whose actions and leadership have had a far - reaching positive impact on the environment, in advancing clean energy technologies to mitigate the threats of climate change.

For example, when researching the impacts of climate change, they are inherently inclined towards studying and reporting on the negative impacts and tend to ignore studies that show the positive impacts.

On balance, most research suggests that the negative impacts of a changing climate far outweigh the positive impacts.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Participants deepened their understanding of climate impacts and positive solutions through a series of creative exhibits — a photo exhibition on climate impacts on the island nation Tuvalu, various talk sessions connecting climate change and financial choices, as well as live art and music performances.

In theory any prolonged solar minimum period could have a substancial impact on the climate if the forcings are such that they create positive feedbacks to the climate system which make it very vulnerable to change.

«With Momentum for Change: Planetary Health we will shine a light on outstanding initiatives by communities, cities, companies, NGO and other institutions: ones where climate action is generating innovative, positive impacts on health in ways that can inspire others to greater ambition.»

Assuming there are any positive impacts on agriculture in the short term, they will be overwhelmed by the negative impacts of climate change.

On the vital question of how to approach climate change, the most influential economist is William Nordhaus whose explicit position is that we should decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions only if cost - benefit analysis or an optimisation model concludes that the net benefits to humans are positive, where the relevant effects are essentially impacts on economic output (Nordhaus and Yang, 1996On the vital question of how to approach climate change, the most influential economist is William Nordhaus whose explicit position is that we should decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions only if cost - benefit analysis or an optimisation model concludes that the net benefits to humans are positive, where the relevant effects are essentially impacts on economic output (Nordhaus and Yang, 1996on economic output (Nordhaus and Yang, 1996).

Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (some positive trends are evident in some high latitude regions).

The libertarian Cato Institute wrote in a blog post that the report «overly focuses on the supposed negative impacts from climate change while largely dismissing or ignoring the positives from climate change.»

«Evidence for climate change in the satellite cloud record» «Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models» «A net decrease in the Earth's cloud, aerosol, and surface 340 nm reflectivity during the past 33 yr (1979 — 2011)» «New observational evidence for a positive cloud feedback that amplifies the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» «Impact of dataset choice on calculations of the short - term cloud feedback»

This paper alleges that after analysing over 300 species (across 3 groups: plants, insects and vertebrates) between 1970 - 2012, that «Climatic change has had a wide range of impacts on species, with more species impacted positively than negatively in the short - term at least», with climate change the «largest positive impact».

Climate change may have both positive and negative impacts, even on the same species.

Relatively small changes could have large positive impact on the climate in Canada.

The alternative, to cut back on the amount of energy we consume and other negative impacts we're having on the world, sounds like a drag but is actually an exciting opportunity to make positive changes that won't just benefit the climate, but our whole society.

On Tuesday, some conservative groups criticized the new climate assessment, with the libertarian Cato Institute arguing in a blog post that it «overly focuses on the supposed negative impacts from climate change while largely dismissing or ignoring the positives from climate change.&raquOn Tuesday, some conservative groups criticized the new climate assessment, with the libertarian Cato Institute arguing in a blog post that it «overly focuses on the supposed negative impacts from climate change while largely dismissing or ignoring the positives from climate change.&raquon the supposed negative impacts from climate change while largely dismissing or ignoring the positives from climate change.»

The IUFRO report last year concluded that there is no current impact on forests from climate change, and mostly positive impacts likely over the next 100 yrs.

Over 75 % of previously listed sites are now no longer in danger, so it seems that they have a positive impact in these matters, although it would perhaps be unfair to ask them to solve climate change on their own.

I think the briefest answer to the question would be yes, some positive impacts of increased CO2 on plant productivity are expected, but some negative impacts on vegetation are also expected, and many uncertainties remain concerning vegetation responses to increased CO2 and climate change.

And before we know that, we will have to know whether or not our climate has changed primarily due to anthropogenic forcing (as assumed by the IPCC models) or by natural factors (as some others have concluded), whether or not the net impact of potential future human forcing of our climate (i.e. the 2xCO2 climate sensitivity) will be positive or negative and inconsequential or substantial and whether or not the specific mitigation actions we propose will have any perceptible impact on our climate.

Based on a century of ocean plankton science and the 10 international experiments on iron fertilization over the last 15 years we are confident that the scale, methods and technologies of the work we are planning will have positive impacts on all fronts, improving water quality, buffering surface water acidity, recharging the marine food chain, and safely sequestering enormous amounts of CO2 to help slow climate change.

«Our results show that maize yields are expected to be negatively affected by climate change, while the impacts on wheat and soybean are generally positive, unless CO2 fertilisation effects have been overestimated»....

«We want to have a positive impact on people and the planet, and that includes going «all in'to tackle climate change.