Sentences with phrase «security under a changing climate»

Dr Paschalis added: «Understanding the responses of plants to elevated concentrations of CO2 is of major importance with potential implications on the global economy and water and food security under a changing climate.»

Adaptation outcomes focusing on ensuring food security under a changing climate could have the most direct benefits on livelihoods, which have multiple benefits for food security, including: enhancing food production, access to markets and resources, and reduced disaster risk.

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* A side event under the title «Bio-sequestration vs. geo - sequestration (CCS)- Organic solutions to Climate Change and Food security» was held jointly with the World Future Council on Thursday, December 17.

To meet the world's growing food security needs and face the parallel challenges of improving nutrition and reducing poverty under a changing global climate, a second — science - based — Green Revolution in agriculture is already under way.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

The forum appears to be President Obama's effort to build on exchanges and partnerships that began under the Bush administration as the Major Economies Meetings on Energy Security and Climate Change.

Pramod Aggarwal, Regional Programme Leader for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under the Consortium of International Agricultural Centres (CGIAR), then gave a case study of the agriculture sector, presenting its complex two - way relationship with climate Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under the Consortium of International Agricultural Centres (CGIAR), then gave a case study of the agriculture sector, presenting its complex two - way relationship with climate cChange, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under the Consortium of International Agricultural Centres (CGIAR), then gave a case study of the agriculture sector, presenting its complex two - way relationship with climate climate changechange.

Mr. Abe congratulated Dr. Birol on his recent appointment as the next IEA Executive Director and expressed his expectation that under his leadership the IEA would help Japan improve its own energy policy while also making a strong contribution to overcoming global energy security and climate change challenges.

The only hope of federal support for climate change is its economic and national security implications, both niches that agency scientists could carve out under Trump (though the administration just dropped it as a national security threat so...).

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The Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in the Agriculture Sector and Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was developed under the leadership of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which identified the need for a common tool to foster the collaboration and coordination among its member states with regards to DRM and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in the agriculture sector.

The joint study, published by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), models the global suitability of arabica cultivation to see how production will be affected in 2050.

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It finds that climate change will potentially destabilize transboundary river basins, and outlines the linkages among climate change, water variability and security; identifies elements in treaty design that could reduce conflict; and assesses the resilience of treaties ratified between 1948 and 2001, examining the effect of institutional and allocation mechanisms under conditions of variability on cooperation and conflict over time.

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It outlines the linkages among climate change, water variability and security; identifies elements in treaty design that could reduce conflict; and assesses the resilience of treaties ratified between 1948 and 2001, examining the effect of institutional and allocation mechanisms under conditions of variability on cooperation and conflict over time.

Topics for consideration included but were not limited to: a) Modalities for implementation of the outcomes of the five in - session workshops; b) Methods and approaches for assessing adaptation, adaptation co-benefits and resilience; c) Improved soil carbon, soil health and soil fertility under grassland and cropland as well as integrated systems, including water management; d) Improved nutrient use and manure management towards sustainable and resilient agricultural systems; e) Improved livestock management systems; f) Socioeconomic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural sector.

«Mongolia is facing enormous challenges including growing pressure on food security, traditional nomadic herding and water supplies as a result of the impacts of climate change,» said UN Under - Secretary - General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

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Schmidhuber, J., and F.N. Tubiello, 2007: Global food security under climate change.

In Virginia, 14 - term Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher, who voted for the climate change bill, has come under attack in a TV ad sponsored by Americans for Job Security for putting «Pelosi's job - killing agenda ahead of Virginia coal.»