Sentences with phrase «to adapt to climate change»

The revenues would be used to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

By making informed choices now, we can reduce risks for future generations and ourselves, and help communities adapt to climate change.

Instead, we should concentrate on adapting to climate change.

Strategies for adapting to climate change impacts vary significantly from country to country — and even community to community.

Second, to help the most vulnerable countries including small island nations adapt to climate change by building barriers against rising seas or developing drought - resilient crops.

With creativity and determination, communities can act and invest in ways that help adapt to climate change while also reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that would otherwise cause future climate change.

Sometimes emission reductions weren't enough AND people can't adapt to the climate change.

We should be more concerned about adapting to climate change, natural or anthropogenic, than about its causes.

Sadly, only 6 % of it is devoted to helping vulnerable societies adapt to climate change.

«It's great to see an answer to the important question of whether behavior always prevents tropical animals from adapting to climate change,» he said.

The portfolio effect is also expected to help species adapt to climate change.

While some promising compromises were made, the absence of a strong commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions and help vulnerable populations adapt to climate change was evident in the conference's 39 decisions.

And animals will just adapt to climate change, huh?

The water flea has genetically adapted to climate change.

Third, coping with and adapting to climate changes require ingenuity, technology, energy and wealth.

The great majority of organisms and ecosystems will have difficulty adapting to climate change.

These levels should be attained within a term sufficient to allow ecosystems to naturally adapt to climate change, ensuring that food production is not affected and permitting sustainable economic growth.

With few exceptions, even at this time, such organizations are at early stages of developing strategies by which to adapt to climate change risks.

Is there any difference on how women are adapting to climate change now?

Once built, the hotel and conference center will provide an ideal venue for corporations and institutions to develop strategies to combat and adapt to climate change in their fields.

But he pointed out that it concluded that less than a fifth of the $ 62 billion went to projects designed exclusively to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

One reality is that strategies for adapting to climate change will have to be adaptable themselves, the authors note — flexible in the face of evolving information.

These purchases helped improve capacities for farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change while simultaneously increasing productivity.

It used to be environmentalists did not want to talk about adapting to climate change.

Last year at COP21 in Paris, development banks like the World Bank — whose «ambitious» targets are laid out in a Climate Change Action Plan also revealed Thursday — were deemed instrumental in financing poor countries to help enable them to cut their carbon emissions as well as adapt to climate change effects.

We found ample evidence in the literature that shows that marine species are adapting to climate change through shifting distributions and timing of biological events, while evidence for adaptation through evolutionary processes is limited.

«Of the roughly one billion U.S. dollars spent every day across the world on climate finance, only 6 % of it is devoted to helping people adapt to climate change in the present.

This project is a part of the Columbia Basin Trust's Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative, a pilot project focused on selected communities in the basin.

To say that the United States can adapt to climate change does not imply that the United States will adapt.

The first time I visited Pemba, Mozambique to begin a project that would help the port city adapt to climate change, I was not prepared for what I saw.

Gaye said that governments in West Africa are eager to get started adapting to climate change, but they don't have any idea what that change might be.

This is not a fable, it's a tale of how people are already adapting to climate change, as revealed at the International Institute for Environment and Development's sixth conference on community - based adaptation to climate change held in Vietnam in April.

Recognizing that poorer countries are among the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, we will continue and enhance cooperation with developing countries, in particular least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states, in their efforts to adapt to climate change including disaster risk reduction.

The fiscal 2018 budget fight could reveal how much those agencies will continue adapting to climate change, Femia said.

Given that global warming is unequivocally happening [2] and there has so far been a failure to outline, let alone implement, global plans to mitigate the warming, then adapting to the climate change is an imperative.

By only speaking of climate change, this statement leaves out the biggest drivers of climate vulnerability on the continent in the next few decades, and contributes to the murkiness that will create ever more problems if and when rich countries finally divvy up money to help poor ones adapt to climate change.

Top executives at an ethical company would feel compelled to respond promptly, forcefully, and publicly to a published letter from a company vice president suggesting that we ought not to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions because people can simply adapt to climate change.