Sentences with phrase «report on climate risks»

The IPCC's Working Group II report on climate risks and impacts acknowledged the limitations of biofuels (ClimateWire, March 31).

Retail and oil and gas companies performed particularly strongly, with 67 percent and 65 percent of the largest companies in each sector reporting on climate risks.

The panel is charged by the United Nations with reviewing research to create periodic reports on climate risks, documents that are often used by governments to guide decisions, and its every conclusion is being dissected under a microscope.

Not exact matches

Governments can manage climate change but will have to cut greenhouse gases to zero by 2100 to limit risks a U.N. report said on Sunday.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports&rreports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports&rReports»).

The report shows how investors continue to seek accountability on climate change risk and corporate political spending, but have growing concerns regarding the treatment of women.

Others on climate change, energy and related risks — as well as sustainability reporting on strategy and performance — account for almost another 40 percent of all resolutions, roughly the same as the previous year.

«This report shows how fund managers, the experts on whom millions of savers rely, see the climate - related risks to share prices,» said UKSIF chief executive Simon Howard.

In its next two Group annual reports, HSBC will give more details on its approach to climate - related risks and opportunities

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

Since 2010, two large investors have been trying to get Smucker's to work on substantive and meaningful annual sustainability reporting and address risks associated with climate change, with marginal success.

The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 evidence report, prepared for the UK Government by the the Committee on Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 evidence report, prepared for the UK Government by the the Committee on Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate climate change.

The AAAS Center for Public Engagement convened a panel of experts to develop and disseminate a report on the realities, risks, and responses to climate change.

Landrum and her colleagues demonstrated the effect experimentally and reported the results in a 2017 paper in the Journal of Risk Research entitled «Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test,» in which participants read a news story on Zika public health risks that was linked to either climate change or immigration.

The report, called «What We Know,» marks the kickoff of a new AAAS initiative to increase dialogue on the risks of climate change.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up in 1988 by the UN to report on the risks of global warming.

The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

R. S. Sharma, a public health specialist on the panel from the Indian Council of Medical Research, writes in the report that, «the hot tropical climate of the country, the low body mass index; low fat content of an average Indian as compared to European countries and high environmental concentration of radio frequency radiation may place Indians under risk of radio frequency radiation adverse effect.»

Their work resulted in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report and Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

On the whole, in terms of magnitudes of risks that we used in our analysis [in the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change for the U.K. government], my best guess is that we underestimated theOn the whole, in terms of magnitudes of risks that we used in our analysis [in the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change for the U.K. government], my best guess is that we underestimated theon the Economics of Climate Change for the U.K. government], my best guess is that we underestimated them.

In their report for CAP, Kelly and her co-author, Tracey Ross, write that climate change «imposes an unfunded mandate on state and local governments and the American people to manage these risks and foot the bill for the damages.»

Failure to adapt to climate change came fifth on the WEF report's list of risks ranked by their potential impact on humankind.

Hans - Otto Poertner, Ecophysiologist at Alfred - Wegener Institute, Co-Chair of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II and deputy coordinator of BIOACID explains: «The Fifth Assessment Report AR5 of the IPCC has shown that the risks of severe impacts for some organisms and ecosystems increases strongly between 1.5 and 2 degrees.

In its recent synthesis report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says there is «medium confidence» that climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent conflict by amplifying poverty and economic Climate Change (IPCC) says there is «medium confidence» that climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent conflict by amplifying poverty and economic climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent conflict by amplifying poverty and economic shocks.

In a new report on climate change and human health in Virginia, the Natural Resources Defense Council says the risk of heat - related illnesses will grow; coastal flooding, already a major concern, will worsen; and allergy season will start earlier and last longer.

Franklin Templeton participates in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), annually measuring and reporting on carbon emissions, as well as risks and opportunities for our business due to the effects of climate change.

Huq describes how the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1990 evolved from identifying risks and impacts to offering ways to limit those risks.

The National Academies, fulfilling a congressional request, have issued a trio of invaluable reports affirming the scientific case for a growing and largely harmful human influence on climate; proposing a path and strategies for curbing American emissions of heat - trapping gases; and urging the country to work to cut risks attending life with no new «normal» climate patterns or coastlines.

The report reviews research on the behavioral element in every part of the climate problem — from consumer habits to the human tendency to give outsize importance to immediate costs even when confronted with evidence of big long - term risks.

Horton, who was involved in crafting the 2010 report, «Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response,» offered many thoughts, including one I had to convey on Twitter:

But Dr. Somerville, who has also contributed to several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the risks that attend further silence, in the face of ever - growing emissions of heat - trapping gases, are far greater.

Here's an Associated Press summary in The Times and a BBC article on the Dutch findings, which are in a report initiated after an errant conclusion about the risks from rising sea levels in the Netherlands made it into the 2007 climate assessments by the panel.

Back in February, when I wrote about the «burning embers» diagram of climate risk that was left out of the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a reader, Josh J. of Snow Hill, N.C., gave the artwork this climate risk that was left out of the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a reader, Josh J. of Snow Hill, N.C., gave the artwork this Climate Change, a reader, Josh J. of Snow Hill, N.C., gave the artwork this review:

But in 2009, as I reported more and more on the inherent threat of climate extremes in some of the world's poorest places (sub-Saharan Africa, particularly) I became concerned that the uncertain impact of greenhouse - driven warming paled beside other drivers of risk (persistent poverty, doubling populations, and the existing pattern of super-drought).

Any useful summary of knowledge on the causes and consequences of climate change and possible responses would have to include a hard look at the substantial (and sobering) body of work on what shapes human behavior: how people absorb or ignore scientific information — including the climate panel's own reports — and what roadblocks in human behavior await the menu of possible policy options for limiting climate - related risks.

Now 15 authors of the 2007 report, many of whom were authors on the 2001 report as well, have written a paper salvaging the I.P.C.C. diagram of climate risk that was dropped.

In 2001, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced its third set of reports examining the causes and consequences of global warming, it included a fascinating illustration, called the «burning embers» diagram, showing gradients of rising risk with rising temperatures.

(I'd first heard of of Norgaard's research while reporting my 2007 article on behavior and climate risk.)

If Mann had wanted to point to an opposite end to the spectrum of ways in which scientists can contribute to public discourse on global warming science and risks, a better choice (in my view) would have been Susan Solomon's handling of the rollout of the 2007 science report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

[This is the Intergorvernmental Panel on Climate Change report, «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation,» which I wrote about here.]

Given that California is a best - case scenario * compared to other states (and, of course, countries) far more dependent on coal, Long's piece and the underlying report pose a strong challenge to those calling for a «deploy, deploy, deploy» approach to cutting climate risks.

What the Human Development report provides is a framework for thinking about how climate change affects the range of options for improving human lives, as experienced through food security, education, health, natural disaster risks, migration, and so on.

There's an invaluable new report out from an international team of experts on paths to more effective climate risk assessment that describes precisely why the work of Hansen and his co-authors and those who now review the work is essential:

The clearest risks lie overseas, particularly in poor countries with weak public health agencies, according to a draft government report on climate impacts on human health and welfare, done at the request of President Bush.

Another, of course, is the 2012 report on managing risks from extreme weather events from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Martin Parry, a co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, described the report, released in April 2007, from which the «embers» diagram of risk was excluded.

The report takes the approach used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its «reasons for concern» section and the diagram known as «burning embers» — both of which essentially illustrate how rising temperatures equate with rising risk in a variety of areas that matter to society.

One early test of Dr. Field's — and the panel's — resolve to be more transparent and inclusive is a special panel report on managing the risks from climate extremes being initiated next month.