Sentences with phrase «potential cost of climate change»

One of these is the potential cost of climate change to agriculture, to housing, and to the remnants of wild Earth.

The IPCC's assessments of the potential costs of climate change «is probably an underestimate,» argued Zenghelis, «because it omits consideration of many of the impacts of climate change, including potentially catastrophic risks.»

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

There was a conference held at the begining of this year that went over this sort of thing, it was subtitled «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» and you can find the presentation [slides] that were presented at http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html There's a lot of interesting things about possible thresholds, stabilisation levels for CO2 and emission reduction pathways and the potential costs.

I agree that climate change ranks low (22nd out of 22 potential priority areas in a recent Gallup Poll, as I recall) among the American public, particularly when people are confronted by the reality that doing something meaningful will entail costs.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

Mick... The issue of climate change, as I understand it, is about potential costs.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

When Gregory turned the discussion to the potential effects of climate change and ways to combat them, Blackburn insisted that all potential remedies must be subject to short - term cost - benefit analysis.

REDD + has the potential to deliver cost - effective mitigation of climate change in addition to enhancing development of forest communities.

Predicting the cost impact of various potential warming scenarios requires us to concatenate these climate predictions with economic models that predict the cost impact of these predicted temperature changes on the economy in the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries.

By allowing countries to use international carbon markets to meet their commitments, the Agreement has recognized the cost - effectiveness potential of market - based solutions to climate change.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

While not all states are pursuing climate policies, Carbon Brief analysis showed that those concerned about the potential high cost of climate change represent 40 % of total US emissions.

Promoted policies to mitigate potential (but not demonstrated) risks related to climate change would costs hundreds of billions dollars.

So even if the State comments had properly considered the real effect of climate change on extreme weather events instead of the inappropriate total cost of a storm, there are a legitimate range of potential outcomes --(15 % more intense to 3 % more intense).

For most of them, costs have declined over the last decades and the authors expect significant technical advancements and further cost reductions in the future, resulting in a greater potential for climate change mitigation.

Prof Wadhams is co-author of the controversial Nature paper which calculated the potential economic costs of climate change based on a scenario of 50 Gigatonnes (Gt) of methane being released this century from melting permafrost at the East Siberia Arctic Shelf (ESAS), a vast region of shallow - water covered continental crust.

The agency's finding, which was sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget without fanfare on Friday, also reversed one of the Bush administration's landmark decisions on climate change, and it indicated anew that President Obama's appointees will push to address the issue of warming despite the potential political costs.

Whenever a potential investment project has finances that rely on governments continuing to talk big but do little about climate change, the project risks becoming non-viable after all the costs of development are spent if the government subsequently starts to take climate change seriously.

... In addition to climate research, scientists, industry, and government should implement measures to cost - effectively protect the climate and intensify efforts to develop technologies that — in addition to meeting other societal goals — could help us mitigate and adapt to the potential effects of climate change.»