Sentences with phrase «scale climate change challenges»

Decentralised strategies that involve the scientific community are needed to overcome the large scale climate change challenges ahead of us, say experts in disaster risk reduction.

Not exact matches

In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chain.

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scale.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

But there, challenges also arise, as models that simulate changing climate at a global scale do so at relatively coarse resolution, of around hundreds of kilometers, while hurricanes require resolutions of a few kilometers.

The commissioner said that the new framework will also enable funding with the «scale and scope» to tackle the major challenges that European society will face in the coming years: energy, health and aging, food, and climate change and the environment.

This module will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long ‐ term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards.

U.S. - China Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) The CCWG was established pursuant to the Joint Statement on Climate Change issued on April 13, 2013 during Secretary Kerry's first trip to China and is intended to spur large - scale, cooperative efforts to address the climate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already unClimate Change Working Group (CCWG) The CCWG was established pursuant to the Joint Statement on Climate Change issued on April 13, 2013 during Secretary Kerry's first trip to China and is intended to spur large - scale, cooperative efforts to address the climate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already unClimate Change issued on April 13, 2013 during Secretary Kerry's first trip to China and is intended to spur large - scale, cooperative efforts to address the climate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already unclimate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already underway.

While even the minutia contributes and is important, the big systemic change ideas are what we believe will be necessary for the built environment to tackle the scale of the climate change and housing demand challenges facing the world.

To make progress at the scale and pace required to meet the challenge of climate change, we need to take advantage of every pathway we have.

From the «Welcome thread»... for educating the public and for enabling large - scale collective intelligence to address the scientific and policy challenges associated with climate change.

This manual also hopes to raise a deeper awareness of efforts to catalyze technology transfer, and to inspire the readers to scale up efforts to address climate change challenges in partnership with the GEF.

Let's hope that as people take to the streets, it will wake leaders up to the scale of the climate change challenge and the task ahead.

«My engagement in the blogosphere over the past several years have convinced me that the blogosphere has untapped potential for educating the public and for enabling large - scale collective intelligence to address the scientific and policy challenges associated with climate change.»

NEON is designed to enable the research community to ask and address their own questions on a regional to continental scale around the environmental challenges identified as relevant to understanding the effects of climate change, land - use change and invasive species patterns on the biosphere.

(IPCC, 2007: 776)(Also see, What You Need To Know to Understand the Scale of the Climate Change Problem and The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of this Civilization Challenging Threat)

(See, What You Need To Know to Understand the Scale of the Climate Change Problem and The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of this Civilization Challenging Threat)

Caio Koch - Weser, Deutsche Bank vice chairman, said, «The Initiative shows in what dimensions and on what scale we must think if we are to master the challenges from climate change.»

In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, Sabine Fuss, et al. assess the potential and challenges facing large - scale deployment of BECCS.

This piece, published in Nature Climate Change, explores the need for BECCS technology in accordance with IPCC projections and assesses the challenges that accompany large scale negative emissions technology deployment.

This analytical report examines recent threats to health security in the WHO European Region from communicable diseases, natural disasters, large - scale accidents, conflicts and complex emergencies and the potential future challenges from climate change.

These two sets of challenges, those related to time - scale and those related to the global nature of climate change, are not in the classes that have traditionally yielded to the free - market mechanisms and political decision making that historically characterise Canada and the U.S. (see Section 14.5).

The chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has led recent efforts to question the existing climate change science, reflecting some skepticism within the U.S. government about the scale of the challenge.

The solutions that American environmental politics are capable of producing are not commensurate with the scale and scope of the challenge climate change represents.

At 11,000 square feet of space, it is the first container building of its scale to be truly mobile, designed to respond to all of the architectural challenges of a building of its kind, including international building code, dramatic climate changes, plug - in electrical and HVAC systems and ease of assembly and operations.»

Coastal governance should seek to maintain a flow of multiple values from multiple natural and built assets, across several scales, to diverse stakeholders, including future generations... each coastal region faces different challenges and opportunities from climate change.