Sentences with phrase «rely on climate adaptation»

Future freshwater stress has important implications for vulnerable island populations, who must rely on climate adaptation scenarios for agricultural practices and seasonal water management.

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This analytical report aims to show that climate change adaptation relies on the reduction and management of climate - related disaster risks and why both need to become central to development planning and investment.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- Bangladesh plans to cut spending from its own budget on climate change adaptation and rely more in the future on funds from donors, government officials said.

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

We conclude that the large climate change from burning all fossil fuels would threaten the biological health and survival of humanity, making policies that rely substantially on adaptation inadequate.

Many climate - related studies, such as detection and attribution of historical climate change, projections of future climate and environments, and adaptation to future climate change, heavily rely on the performance of climate models.