Sentences with phrase «serious risk from climate change»
Unfortunately for coral reefs (and for us), they face a serious risk from climate change; experts estimate that as much as RELATED TAGS: OCEAN, IMAX
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The bottom line is that from every perspective - scientific, risk management, economic, etc. - there is no reason not to immeditately take serious action to mitigate climate change, and failing to do so would be exceptionally foolish.
The U.N. report gets two things right: 1) there is a risk of serious damages from climate change if left unabated for a century and 2) poor countries in the low latitudes are likely to bear the greatest share of that risk.
Amid all the progress on this planet — declining losses from terrible diseases and war, rising literacy and the rest — there remain plenty of planet - scale risks requiring serious focus, from pandemic flu to centuries of locked - in climate change to, yes, collisions with space rocks.
The bottom line is that from every perspective - scientific, risk management, economic, etc. - there is no reason not to immeditately take serious action to mitigate climate change, and failing to do so would be exceptionally foolish.
The activists declare their faith in the doctrine «that the problem of human - caused climate change is real, serious and immediate, and that this problem poses significant risks» to everything from national security via health and agriculture to biodiversity.
The FSB is chaired by the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, who in September created waves in the global financial sector with a speech to insurers warning of serious risks to investors from climate change due to, among other factors, a sudden asset write down with «jump - to - distress prices».
Because any additional warming from current levels could have serious consequences to those most vulnerable to climate change, those who are most vulnerable should have as a matter of procedural justice rights to consent to put at risk by the additional 2 °C goal adopted in the Accord.
Dr. Makhijani concluded, «Were there no alternatives, the severity of the threat facing humans and the environment from global climate change might warrant serious consideration of the risks of nuclear energy.
CLimate Change and Peak Oil are serious risks from which idealogical stalemates distract.
Most recently, a report from The Carbon Tracker with a forward by Lord Stern of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change (London School of Economics), argued that serious risks are accumulating for investors in high carbon assets, such as coal mining companies and the oil and gas industry.
ExxonMobil now faces the prospect of civil lawsuits and possible criminal penalties, for allegedly suppressing its internal awareness about the serious risk to the environment as well as to shareholder value, from climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
From rising sea levels to more severe storms and more intense droughts, climate change will present serious risks to, and create major opportunities for, nearly every industry.
Within Australia, it has been predicted that northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with more than 100,000 people facing serious health risks from malaria, dengue fever and heat stress, as well as loss of food sources from floods, drought and more intense bushfires.