«There is a stronger sense of energy
security than climate change,» said Zou Ji, an international climate negotiator for China until his retirement last August; he is now the China country director for the World Resources Institute, an international environmental group.
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In a world where more
than one billion people do not have enough to eat, and our future food
security is threatened by
climate change and an ever - growing population, it is essential to improve the control of crop diseases like fusarium ear blight around the globe.
The models show that
climate change is a less influential driver of global food
security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.
I have just written a report for the Council on Foreign Relations on
climate change and national
security which is a little different
than the others in that it focuses on what needs to be done, if you take the problem to be a real one.
More
than 120 scientists from around the world gathered in Erice, Sicily, to grapple with problems ranging from Internet
security to
climate change.
To cover modules from introduction to
climate change adaptation, agriculture and food
security, to international legal frameworks, impacts and risks assessments, action prioritization and addressing issues of governance and finance, the MOOC team leveraged knowledge from more
than 40 experts and practitioners in this field.
«Concerns about
climate change and energy
security are driving an aggressive expansion of bioenergy crop production and many of these plant species emit more isoprene
than the traditional crops they are replacing,» the paper states.
A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that while residents of 13 countries ranked
climate change as the greatest threat to national
security, US residents tended to fear cyber-attacks and ISIS much more so
than climate change.
The role of
climate change in causing extreme heat waves, drastic rainfall, negative impacts on human health and threatened food
security have received more attention recently
than megadrought.
Moreover, they drive
climate change by encouraging the consumption of polluting fuels while tilting the playing field against renewable power and energy efficiency: Fossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater
than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy
security of fossil - fuel importing countries.
President Obama has said that
climate change represents a greater threat to America's national
security than does terrorism.
In an interview with the Boston Globe on March 9, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the Navy's top officer in the Pacific, stated that
climate change was the biggest long - term threat in the Pacific region and «probably the most likely thing that is going to happen... that will cripple the
security environment, probably more likely
than the other scenarios we all often talk about.»
Because of the looming specter of
climate change that is threatening to disrupt agriculture, we may find that energy policies will have an even greater effect on future food
security than agricultural policies do.
A 2012 research report from Yale University's Project on
Climate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national se
Climate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national sec
Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for
climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national se
climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national sec
change mitigation and adaptation»
than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national
security.
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At this juncture, it is crucially important to recognise that
climate change is pervasive and has more
security implications
than any other threat today.
Paolo Frankl, Head of IEA's Renewable Energy Division, commented: «Given that global energy demand for heat represents almost half of the world's final energy use - more
than the combined global demand for electricity and transport - solar heat can make a significant contribution in both tackling
climate change and strengthening energy
security, The IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Roadmap outlines how best to advance the global uptake of solar heating and cooling (SHC) technologies, which, it notes, involve very low levels of greenhouse - gas emissions.
Rather
than wait for a series of extreme, or disruptive, events to occur and then react, an alternate way to approach our
changing climate may be to adopt some proven tenets from the
security community.
2007/04/17: CanWest: Darfur war,
climate change linked A violent conflict that has claimed more
than 300,000 lives in Darfur is one of the early signs of threats to global
security prompted by
climate change, a senior representative of the British government warned yesterday on the eve of a special United Nations debate.
OSLO, October 16 — More
than 100 experts from 52 countries met in Oslo on Monday 16 October to begin work on the IPCC's special report on
Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecos
Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosy
Change and Land: an IPCC special report on
climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecos
climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosy
change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food
security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
«Most adults consider
security, potable water, education, etc., much more important
than climate change.