Sentences with phrase «potential change in climate»

Only a persistent series of unusual events taken in the context of regional climate parameters can suggest a potential change in climate has occurred.

Like consolidation drainage, the fate of plover habitat is also tied to potential changes in climate.

Understanding the potential changes in climate over this core region is important to the successful implementation of «Belt and Road Initiative» (a US$ 1 trillion regional investment in infrastructure).

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For at least a decade after receiving in - house research warning of the potential impact of Climate Change, ExxonMobil continued to fund outside groups that disputed it.

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Timor - Leste's current minister of commerce, industry, and the environment, Constâncio Pinto, sees Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, as a potential ally based on her past experience as a UN adviser in Timor - Leste.

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

In a nutshell: the cost of climate change in Canada is already big and growing, with the potential to become enormouIn a nutshell: the cost of climate change in Canada is already big and growing, with the potential to become enormouin Canada is already big and growing, with the potential to become enormous.

Martijn Wilder, Baker & McKenzie partner in charge of global environmental markets and climate change, said the firm hadn't done much climate litigation in the past but the pace of inquiries from companies seeking reassurance about any potential liability had quickened.

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

«In the 1980s, Exxon needed to understand the potential for concerns about climate change to lead to regulation that would affect Natuna [the gas field] and other potential projects,» Bernstein wrote.

«We are the first business in the world to have launched an SMS platform that enables farmers to access tailored information sourced sustainably — and with the potential to scale — from within the farming community itself, so that they can increase resilience to climate change, increase crop yield and improve their livelihoods whether or not they are online.»

In this article, we investigate trends in global coffee distributions and cultivation practices, and we review the potential impacts of these geographic and management changes on biodiversity, ecosystem services, resilience to climate change, and sustainable livelihoodIn this article, we investigate trends in global coffee distributions and cultivation practices, and we review the potential impacts of these geographic and management changes on biodiversity, ecosystem services, resilience to climate change, and sustainable livelihoodin global coffee distributions and cultivation practices, and we review the potential impacts of these geographic and management changes on biodiversity, ecosystem services, resilience to climate change, and sustainable livelihoods.

The combined effects of climate change could reduce potential output by up to 30 percent in Africa and up to 21 percent in Asia, the FAO Chief noted.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Second, because sustainable, organic agriculture practices have tremendous potential to mitigate climate change by sequestering (storing) greenhouse gases in the rich and fertile soils.

The companies, co-ops and individuals were nominated by their peers for expanding the boundaries of industry practices in at least one of the nine areas identified by the Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate climate change.

Iceland, due to its geographical position, would allow the EU to have another foot in the Arctic and its potential energy resources, which could become accessible thanks to climate change.

The governor, who is considered a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, also plans to take on some of the leading national issues of the day - sexual harassment, climate change, the opioid epidemic, terrorism and reforming the criminal justice system.

As worldwide temperatures rise and the earth sees extreme weather conditions in both summer and winter, a team of researchers with the University of Florida and Kansas State University have found that that there is potential for insects - and possibly other animals - to acclimate and rapidly evolve in the face of this current climate change.

Jing Helmersson shows in her doctoral dissertation that if climate change is held within the framework of the Paris agreement on a maximum of two degrees of warming, the Aedes aegypti mosquito will only be provided the potential to spread in southern small regions of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

Investigating the climate impacts of urbanization and the potential for cool roofs to counter future climate change in Southern California.

That includes the potential for abrupt climate change and the factors amplifying warming in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

With global climate models projecting further drying over the Amazon in the future, the potential loss of vegetation and the associated loss of carbon storage may speed up global climate change.

While the documents show API learned of potential climate change risks as early as 1968 and had formed committees to examine smog pollution in the 1940s, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond said in November 1996 that climate science was unsettled.

«The primary risk that climate change may pose would be any potential increase in the frequency or intensity of strong thunderstorms, hurricanes or brushfires,» the company said on a climate risk disclosure form that California began requiring insurers to file this year.

Over the past 20 years, evidence that humans are affecting the climate has accumulated inexorably, and with it has come ever greater certainty across the scientific community in the reality of recent climate change and the potential for much greater change in the future.

Even those areas that will benefit from a changed climate, such as a potential expansion in regional climates amenable to certain crops in Canada, for example, will not solve the problem.

Ms Tanner said monitoring of estuarine CO2 was important for planning and remediation efforts: «As each estuary is different, the potential impacts of climate change and urban development will be different in every ecosystem.»

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

«Understanding how biodiversity responds to climate change in freshwater rock pools could provide critical information about potential patterns of biodiversity change both locally and globally,» Nadeau said.

Although the draft decision expresses «its utmost concern» regarding the impacts of climate change on the World Heritage reefs, any action is delayed by a call «to further study the current and potential impacts of climate change» for possible action when the committee meets in 2018.

The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track climate change and to assess potential impacts.

In an article published Aug. 31 in Nature Climate Change, Lin and her coauthor Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examined potential storm hazards for three cities: Tampa, Fla.; Cairns, Australia; and Dubai, United Arab EmirateIn an article published Aug. 31 in Nature Climate Change, Lin and her coauthor Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examined potential storm hazards for three cities: Tampa, Fla.; Cairns, Australia; and Dubai, United Arab Emiratein Nature Climate Change, Lin and her coauthor Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examined potential storm hazards for three cities: Tampa, Fla.; Cairns, Australia; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Big trees also capture a disproportionate amount of carbon dioxide, making them potential boons in the battle against a changing climate.

However, the potential impact is less clear at regional scales, but it is likely that climate variability and change will exacerbate food insecurity in areas currently vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

CLIMATE CHANGE • Torrential rainstorms that flooded northern California in late November and early December are a warning to the government and scientists of a bigger issue: the potential arrival of a megastorm.

Discarded pet Burmese pythons are breeding in the Everglades — and climate change could make a third of the US potential python habitat.

Victor Smetacek, the German oceanographer who led the expedition along with Victor Wajih Naqvi, an Indian geochemist, says that result means that iron fertilization has a much lower sequestration potential for atmospheric CO2 and, thus, will play a smaller role in fighting climate change than previously expected.

Among the 1,215 Audubon members who volunteered to take part in the experiment, the researchers found those writing about collective causes of climate change were, relative to the control group, willing to donate 7 percent more of their potential winnings.

«With the potential negative effects of climate change, one key question we are trying to answer in the study of tropical ecology is how a tropical forest responds during a long - term drought,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.

Research in Nature Climate Change reveals that adaptation measures have the potential to generate further pressures and threats for both local and global ecosystems.

«It is important to begin mechanistic studies of these declines,» the team concludes in a paper presenting the finding published in today's Science, «with habitat alteration, climate change and agricultural chemical usage being potential key drivers of observed shifts.»

Understanding Antarctic climate change is important not only because of the potential sea level rise locked up in the vast Antarctic ice sheet, but also the shift in the westerly winds has moved rainfall away from southern Australia.