Sentences with phrase «risks around climate change»

«We are concerned about the material risks around climate change and we want to ensure that the companies which we invest in are well - positioned to transition to a 2 degree C world.»

The APG works closely with EOS scientists, other leading academics, and geo - risk experts, customising projects for organisations to assess and mitigate risks around climate change, sea - level rise, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and floods.

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In the press release and communication efforts around the second report released early this year, the IPCC went to considerable lengths to portray the climate change challenge as one of «risk management».

As climate change raises summer temperatures around the world, increases in precipitation could offset drought risk in some regions.

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

Also I remember an American climate researcher [Schlesinger I think] was going around giving a presentation on reducing CO2 [and spending money to do so] as a form of Insurance policy against the risk of climate change.

Predictors of public climate change awareness and risk perception around the world.

A group of experts all around the globe has come up with a climate change report that aims to highlight the importance of risk assessment and the impacts of global warming to the society.

Grijalva is targeting academics who have testified before Congress at the invitation of Republicans and have generally contested the scientific consensus around the reality of human - induced climate change or downplayed the risks.

Around the world, rays are threatened with extinction due largely to over-fishing, habitat loss, and climate change and are even more at risk than sharks.

Also I remember an American climate researcher [Schlesinger I think] was going around giving a presentation on reducing CO2 [and spending money to do so] as a form of Insurance policy against the risk of climate change.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

«Recent vivid and memorable media coverage of climate change impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen of the residents of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,» said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor of international business who is co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University.

But it's possible, and even if this particular disaster is not attributable to climate change, it still exemplifies very well what the risks from extreme precipitation «look like», in the Bay area and around the world.

There, climate scientists and government officials from around the world are tweaking the summary of a forthcoming report, «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.climate scientists and government officials from around the world are tweaking the summary of a forthcoming report, «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.Climate Change Adaptation.»

Scientific evidence indicates that the global climate is moving outside the bounds of past experience and can be expected to put new stresses on societies around the world, prompting examination of a variety of plausible scenarios through which climate change might pose or alter security risks for the United States.

Because the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, with grave consequences for local biodiversity and cultures, and for low - lying communities around the world at risk from climate change.

So, questions will be around what interventions and policies are justified by what the current science already says — not just what it doesn't yet specifically know — about risks and implications of climate change.

Marohasy works for the Institute of Public Affairs which, if you want to talk about tentacles, is firmly attached to the body of conservative «free market» groups around the world that deny the risks of human - caused climate change.

«My years spent gathering and studying data from in and around Antarctica leave me in no doubt about the seriousness of the risks that climate change poses.

Uncertainty and risks around carbon removal should not paralyze us, but rather galvanize us to address uncertainties and mitigate risks so these solutions are available at the appropriate scale needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

Such policies are likely to help manage the risks of climate change while also enabling societies to pursue other high priority goals around the world — including clean air and water, access to reliable, affordable energy, and economic progress for all people.

Awareness of this enduring disparity is a reminder of the need to expand access to reliable, affordable energy for all, even as parties around the world pursue common ambitions to improve the environment and address the risks of climate change.

Since 1992, when nations around the world established the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), there has been an international effort to understand and address the risks of climate Climate Change (UNFCCC), there has been an international effort to understand and address the risks of climate cChange (UNFCCC), there has been an international effort to understand and address the risks of climate climate changechange.

Climate change increases stress on water, food and energy security within the US and around the world which creates hard - to - predict security risks.

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These front groups missions are to undermine support for climate change policies, a mission that virtually guarantees they will publish and promote claims that lead citizens to conclude that there is no risk from increasing levels of greenhouse gases emissions around the world.

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This guidance document provides an overview of how climate change increases the risk of hunger and breaks down fragile food systems around the world.

Other risks could be compounded by climate change, with projections of more heavy downpours in a warming climate increasing the odds of the city's vital Catskills reservoirs being muddied more frequently — a condition that could require the construction of billions of dollars in filtration equipment that the city had avoided through environmental cleanups around the watersheds feeding into the system.

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Organizations around the world to join with IUGG and its member Associations to encourage scientists to communicate freely and widely with public and private decision - makers about the consequences and risks of on - going climate change and actions that can be taken to limit climate change and promote adaptation; and

Climate change is a problem that is being caused mostly by high emitting nations and people that are harming and putting at risk poor people and the ecological systems on which they depend around the world.

Four billion people are vulnerable to the effects of climate change and 500 - 600 million people — around 10 % of the planet's human population — are at extreme risk.

As the impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt around the world, companies are increasingly becoming more susceptible to related risks that could have profound financial implications.

A free MOOC on coursera.org by The World Bank Group called From Climate Science to Action provides a good overview of the real risks that are already happening around the world and strategies that real communities are taking to try to cope with change and manage climate change to help reduce risk of natural disClimate Science to Action provides a good overview of the real risks that are already happening around the world and strategies that real communities are taking to try to cope with change and manage climate change to help reduce risk of natural disclimate change to help reduce risk of natural disasters.

After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the US came together to «rescue» federal data on climate change, thought to be at risk under the new administration.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

Talking of which, we are flattered that Bob Ward — Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, erstwhile Director of Public Policy at risk insurance giants RMS and before that, Senior Manager for Policy Communication at the Royal Society — has dropped by to give his thoughts on our observation that, if you're going to go around accusing the opposition of corruption, you'd better be whiter than white yourself.

News of a letter signed by 20 scientists to President Obama (imploring him to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to punish immoral «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change «-RRB- first popped up around mid September.

Climate change may be «the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century» and one which will put the wellbeing of billions of people around the world at increased risk.

Given the serious risks of climate change and the human rights implications of not dealing with it, judges interpreting climate cases around the world are increasingly making decisions that will place them on the right side of history.

For references, see Reframing climate change assessments around risk: recommendations for the US National Climate Assessment in environmentalresearchweb's sister journclimate change assessments around risk: recommendations for the US National Climate Assessment in environmentalresearchweb's sister journClimate Assessment in environmentalresearchweb's sister journal ERL.

Around 200 scientists have gathered for the meeting in Exeter, UK, to thrash out the risks that climate change poses to the world and feed this information to the policy makers who must decide what to do about it.

This is evident in the rejection of the undeniable reality of climate change by many of Trump's top appointees, the promotion to power of individuals who reject the fact of evolution in favor of pseudoscience and religious fundamentalism, the spreading of bad medical science around the proven safety of vaccines, and the refusal to study the health risks of guns.

«Recent vivid and memorable media coverage of climate change impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen of the residents of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,» said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor of international business who is co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia.

Scientists have outlined current impacts and future implications of climate change, as well as the ambition required to minimize the risk of the worst disruptions to communities around the world.

«In the two years since Paris, governments, companies, and communities around the world have stepped up to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the risks they face from climate change.

The Politico investigation found that in an application to build a coastal wall around a golf resort in Ireland, Trump's company Trump International Golf Links Ireland explicitly cited the risk of sea - level rise and extreme weather due to climate change.

As my co-author Peter put it, «As governments around the world set in motion the policies and activities needed to meet their climate change targets under the Paris Agreement, more and more businesses, from farmers to investment firms, will need to pay attention to the associated risks and opportunities.