Sentences with phrase «reduce climate change consider»

The document is, of course, not a binding treaty — it merely «notes», «urges» and «requests» that states involved in programs to reduce climate change consider the economic and social impacts of measures to mitigate climate change.

Not exact matches

Mass Audubon's Shaping the Future of Your Community program assists municipalities in considering holistic climate change impacts and reducing vulnerability.

The practice also was considered to be more effective at reducing the effects of climate change.

Because of black carbon's short residency in the atmosphere, reducing black carbon emissions is considered a short - term strategy for mitigating global climate change.

Although more water could lead to about an 18 per cent recovery in waterbird numbers, the team found this could be reduced to only a 1 per cent increase as a result of long - term climate change, which is not adequately considered in the plan for the Basin.

Writing in Current Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change iClimate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change imChange Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change iclimate change imchange impacts.

Politicians and industry have been considering the possibility of slowing down climate change by eliminating these SLCF without the need to immediately reduce CO2 emissions.

These approaches do not consider how companies and consumers indirectly contribute to climate change by purchasing products from those industries, or that certain companies may be taking actions to reduce their environmental impact.

While we endure the long, long wait, it might be time to consider direct citizen action to reduce climate change emissions.

-- Given the continuing rise in urban population, reducing carbon emissions from transportation is considered a key factor in trying to diminish climate change problems caused by larger and larger cities.

James Hansen, in his book, believes it is possible (or was possible then) to take actions which reduced the atmospheric concentration of CO2 to 350ppm (a level he considers the maximum to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change).

Currently, the international climate change community is considering how to create incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation — or «REDD».

LOL — Your claims global brightening from reduced cloud cover is a climate forcing without considering the effect of such cloud cover changes on outgoing IR.

There is a growing recognition that the magnitude of health «co-benefits,» like reducing both pollution and cardiovascular disease, could be significant, both from a public health and an economic standpoint.273, 272,309 Some climate change resilience efforts will benefit health, but potential co-harms should be considered when implementing these strategies.

And majorities of Americans believe each of the four policy proposals considered in this survey would make a difference in reducing the effects of climate change.

Targets adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are considered «science - based» if they are in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Would you consider adding a chapter addressing the likely efficacy of various policies that have been proposed to prevent / reduce sea level rise caused by man made climate change?

Due to concern over the risk of climate change, a number of countries have adopted, or are considering the adoption of, regulatory frameworks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Consider an alternative universe where the scientists provided a range of scenarios to consider and included natural climate variability in the mix, and recommended that suite of policy options be developed to help reduce societal vulnerability to future climate change, both of the natural and anthropogenic Consider an alternative universe where the scientists provided a range of scenarios to consider and included natural climate variability in the mix, and recommended that suite of policy options be developed to help reduce societal vulnerability to future climate change, both of the natural and anthropogenic consider and included natural climate variability in the mix, and recommended that suite of policy options be developed to help reduce societal vulnerability to future climate change, both of the natural and anthropogenic variety.

Avoiding dangerous climate change by reducing fossil - fuel emissions becomes more difficult once permafrost emissions are properly considered.

It's also a «ready - made opportunity» for the federal government to consider as part of its climate change strategy, he says, adding that Canada would reduce its emissions by 3.7 million tonnes annually if it moved 10 per cent of truck traffic to rail.

U.S. leadership on reducing the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change is considered by many to be critical in getting other nations to commit to action beyond 2020.

«As we work to reduce our state's carbon footprint and curb climate change, I encourage New Yorkers to consider electric vehicles and help take us a step closer to achieving our goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030,» Governor Cuomo said.

Planning by coastal communities that considers the impacts of climate change reduces the risk of harm from those impacts.

In South America, a continent that has already been working to reduce their emissions due to their location, which is considered to be especially susceptible to the effects of climate change, there is a massive push among governments to continue to develop sources of renewable energy such as hydroelectric, geothermal, and solar.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

If to avoid catastrophic climate change nations must increase their commitments to reduce ghg emissions to levels required of them based upon ethics and justice, how are nations actually considering or ignoring ethics and justice in formulating their climate change policies and what lessons can be learned from this?

The failure of nations to consider act on what equity and justice requires of them to reduce the threat of climate change has been at the very center of the most contentious disputes in international climate negotiations (See, Brown, 2013, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Eclimate change has been at the very center of the most contentious disputes in international climate negotiations (See, Brown, 2013, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Eqchange has been at the very center of the most contentious disputes in international climate negotiations (See, Brown, 2013, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Eclimate negotiations (See, Brown, 2013, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of EClimate Change on the Basis of EqChange on the Basis of Equity).

Today, export credit agencies met at the OECD to consider how to reduce their contribution to climate change.

The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester considered this in an October 2012 report, «Has US Shale Gas Reduced CO2 Emissions?

To minimise the risks of heat stress that are most pronounced in large cities due to the urban heat - island effect in summer (Kalnay and Cai, 2003) urban planning should consider: reducing the heat island in summer, the heat load on buildings, cooling load and high night - time temperature, and taking climate change into account in planning new buildings and setting up new regulations on buildings and urban development.

Hence the evolution of the CH4 lifetime depends on the relative timing of NOx and hydrocarbon emission changes in the emission scenarios, causing the calculated CH4 increase in 2100 to be reduced by 27 % when climate change is considered.

Therefore, well - established insight into the effects of climate change on water resource components can be considered to be an essential strategy to reduce these effects.

In fact, the Yohe paper that Romm cites suggests that additional warming of up to 2 °C, may be on the whole a net benefit to humanity, even though, like others, it seems that study doesn't fully consider the increases in adaptive capacity and secular technological change, consideration of which would reduce future damages from climate change, effectively increasing the temperature beyond which climate change would result in net losses globally, and reduce the benefit - cost ratio for mitigation.

Geoengineering, the deliberate manipulation of environmental processes to counter the effects of climate change, is being considered as a potential last - ditch option to avoid the worst effects of global warming given the challenges of reducing the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

We are suffering terrible climate change damage — consider the decline in run - off in the Murray Basin, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and violence in extreme weather events, increased ferocity of bushfires and length of the fire danger season, increasing acidity of the oceans and rise in sea levels, the decline in rainfall in the southern half of the country, the damage to the Great Barrier Reef, etc. — we should reduce our CO2 production levels for our own benefit.