Sentences with phrase «reporting local climate change»

The purpose of our survey of SEJ members, therefore, was to identify their interest in reporting local climate change stories — both impacts stories and solutions stories — and to illuminate any barriers that are currently inhibiting such reporting.

We conducted this survey in partnership with SEJ, which has joined the Climate Matters team in an effort to support a broader group of journalists in reporting local climate change stories.

The results of that survey also illuminated the barriers that were impeding weathercasters from reporting local climate change stories, things like lack of access to local data and lack of time to do the necessary research.

It's also not surprising that nearly all SEJ members surveyed are interested in reporting local climate change stories.

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This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultural policies.

The report cautions, however, that the U.S. climate monitoring system is inadequate for properly measuring regional climate changes, which could make it difficult for scientists to provide meaningful predictions to local businesses or officials.

After a local newspaper reported a front - page news story of the Wicomico County schools» field trip to Assateague, readers accused the teachers of «brainwashing the kids with biased information» that climate change is occurring.

«Because global mismanagement of plastic is fueling the growing marine litter problem, policy responses are needed at all levels, from the international community of nations down to national and local communities,» said report co-author Cara Horowitz, executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.

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.»

These trends suggest that large - scale climate changes, rather than local factors, could be driving increases in fire activity, the scientists report.

The report provides scientifically sound practical guidance for selecting SLM practices that help address DLDD, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and for creating an enabling environment for their large - scale implementation considering local realities.

Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW's Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate change.

In addition, two Alliance reports from the Climate Change series offer specific federal, state, and local policy recommendations for fostering a positive school climate by ensuring greater access to rigorous coursework and high - quality teClimate Change series offer specific federal, state, and local policy recommendations for fostering a positive school climate by ensuring greater access to rigorous coursework and high - quality teclimate by ensuring greater access to rigorous coursework and high - quality teaching.

The report is one of a series that the Brookings team has conducted on the impact of changes in mainstream news media over the past five years, where general reporting on local and statewide education issues has fallen dramatically as print media has struggled in the current economic climate and changes brought on by the internet.

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

Our local tv news and newspaper often have reports on how climate change is, or could affect our lives here in Washington state.

They must remain in their home towns, report to the local police three times a day and abide by a nightly curfew until December 12, when the climate change conference winds up.

This activity report presents a record of the Seminar held from 27 to 29 July 2009 in Paris, focused on the role of education in addressing climate change, linking the local, regional and global contexts with particular emphasis on the challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The IMF report looks at direct incentives, local pollution and public health effects, climate changes, and a host of other costs to arrive at its projected subsidy number.

Please be cautious in praising all of these local councils as the motion which Eurobodalla Shire Council passed, in part, approved of: RCP6.0 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 5 (2012) Levels assessed as having a 15 % chance of being exceeded.

Human - induced climate change plays a clear and significant role in some extreme weather events but understanding the other risks at a local level is also important, highlights Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society's annual special report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspclimate change plays a clear and significant role in some extreme weather events but understanding the other risks at a local level is also important, highlights Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society's annual special report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate PerspClimate Perspective.

Steps that federal and local governments have taken to reduce emissions and prepare for the impacts of climate change have been in the right direction, the draft report states.

The report provides guidance for local officials across the country on how to respond to climate change.

The report shows how CICs can: develop and deploy appropriate technologies to mitigate and adapt to climate change; catalyse competitive domestic industries in clean technologies for job creation and economic growth; and deliver ancillary climate technology benefits such as energy security and access, and reduced local pollution.

The October 2011 report Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climate report Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateClimate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climate Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateClimate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateclimate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateclimate risks.

Any local authority seeking to play its part in answering the WMO's call for radical efforts to reduce carbon emissions would be wise to follow the recommendations of another UN agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house stClimate Change, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house staChange, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house stclimate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house stachange mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house standard.

In light of all this, the ecoAmerica / CRED report concludes that to make people care about climate change, you have to make the issue immediate, local, personal, and emphasize ideologically congenial solutions.

This report includes chapters on Mitigation, Adaptation, and Decision Support that offer an overview of the options and activities being planned or implemented around the country as local, state, federal, and tribal governments, as well as businesses, organizations, and individuals begin to respond to climate change.

Report on the workshop on the assessment of risk and vulnerability of agricultural systems to different climate change scenarios at regional, national and local levels, including but not limited to pests and diseases.

Many steps are being taken to curb emissions and mitigate impacts of climate change, but the new report warns that those actions have been insufficient, particularly at the local level.

They have to hold as many workshops with real input from stakeholders in climate change, industries, local government, insurance, farmers, coastal interests, academics, environmentalists, etc., and base their report on their input, like the NCA did.

A newspaper in a small New Hampshire community writes an article about a local resident who was a lead author for the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

This analytical report is a guide to help local governments in East Asia better understand the concepts of climate change; how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities; and what is being done by cities in the region and worldwide to learn, build capacity, and invest capital to promote sustainable, resilient communities.

By helping local and national decision - makers understand the current and future impacts before them, the IPCC report provides guidance on where to focus our attention in order to help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.

As a result, each week over 300 weathercasters nationwide currently receive broadcast quality Climate Matters materials they can use to report on the local impacts of climate Climate Matters materials they can use to report on the local impacts of climate climate change.

This analytical report covers GEF's climate change projects that catalyze technology transfer, particularly by providing information, creating an enabling environment that strengthens local capacity, and jump - starting the local markets for these technologies.

He was one of the few journalists in PNG selected by SPREP to undergo training on climate change reporting, and has since used this knowledge to cover environmental issues and also train local journalists.

The report investigated eight themes it deemed critical to sustainable agriculture; bioenergy, biotechnology, climate change, human health; natural resource management; trade and markets; traditional and local knowledge and community - based innovation; and women in agriculture.

In the lower atmosphere, the available data points to increasing water vapor content, but because of large variations in local humidity from day to night, from day to day, and from season to season, no - one currently knows exactly how much more water vapor is going into the air (IPCC Working Group 1 Assessment Report 4, Chapter 3, «Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change», page 273).

This report from the National Research Council identifies seventy - one metrics that when taken together may give advance warning of climate - related changes and their impacts across a range of both local and global scales.

(03/23/2011) Local climate shifts caused by deforestation and land cover change are causing insects to migrate to higher — and cooler — habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Biotropica.

To help weathercasters overcome the barriers that were inhibiting their reporting, we developed Climate Matters — a set of science - based reporting resources that are often localized, as well as a variety of training experiences so that weathercasters can become more confident and competent local climate change repClimate Matters — a set of science - based reporting resources that are often localized, as well as a variety of training experiences so that weathercasters can become more confident and competent local climate change repclimate change reporters.

With easy - to - use features that allow local governments to create in - depth reports of local greenhouse gas emission levels, which is one of the most essential steps in reaching predetermined goals surrounding climate change and pollution issues, the SEEC tool is tailored to the needs of California cities and counties.

With my freelance hat on, I've written reports on the health benefits of contact with nature for Planet Ark, written features for several magazines and newspapers, and provided climate change communication and waste education consulting services for clients, such as local councils.