Sentences with phrase «to adapt to climate change»
Humans are already adapting to climate change, and further adaptation efforts will be necessary during coming decades.
ENVIRONMENT
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Animals and bird species that migrate around the world struggle to adapt to climate change.
SCIENCE
In this paper, we consider a new kind of solution to climate change, what we call human engineering, which involves biomedical modifications of humans so that they can mitigate and/or adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
Experts from UNEP and other organisations keep pointing out that every dollar invested in cutting GHG emissions and adapting to climate change gets double the bang for the buck because the results directly support the only sustainable future possible, which is captured in the international community's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
ENVIRONMENT
They're more about adapting to climate change,» says Laura Diaz Anadon, a science-policy researcher at Harvard University.
SCIENCE
Water, our most essential and irreplaceable resource, is the thread that connects a number of significant challenges of the 21st century — from feeding the world to adapting to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
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.
SCIENCE
A climate-resilient pathway for development is a continuing process for managing changes in the climate and other driving forces affecting development, combining flexibility, innovativeness, and participative problem-solving with effectiveness in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
His recent projects are aimed at: increasing sow longevity, developing an alternative, humane method of euthanizing piglets, increasing neonatal piglet survival, investigating affective states in swine, and understanding the methods in which animals adapt to climate change.
PETS
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) helps high-risk, low-income developing countries better understand and reduce their vulnerabilities to natural hazards, and adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
«European farmers: Importance of adapting to climate change.»
SCIENCE
With few exceptions, even at this time, such organizations are at early stages of developing strategies by which to adapt to climate change risks.
ENVIRONMENT
«This science will be taken out into the community and a conversation will be held between the community and people on our project on the best ways to adapt to climate change in the future.
ENVIRONMENT
Earth Journalism Network journalists joined policy leaders and climate experts from around the world for a three-day discussion on adapting to climate change impacts in the wake of the historic agreement reached in Paris.
ENVIRONMENT
One key sticking point so far is the failure of developed countries to produce the previously promised US$ 100 billion a year by 2020 to allow poor and vulnerable countries to adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
The film follows the former vice president as he travels the world and tells a more optimistic story about how the earth is adapting to climate change.
MOVIES & TV
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.
SCIENCE
Sometimes emission reductions weren't enough AND people can't adapt to the climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
With this amount of uncertainty in how species will react and adapt to climate change, it looks like mitigating greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible and protecting landscapes, particularly those with elevation gradients, are the most clear-cut answers to conserving wildlife.
ENVIRONMENT
«How ecosystems, and, probably, societies adapt to climate change has a tremendous amount to do not only with the amplitude of that change but the speed with which it happens,» he says.
ENVIRONMENT
Ironically, these are the countries least able to adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
At COP22, this requires a clear commitment to scale-up finance for helping the poorest people to adapt to climate change impacts, and to strengthen the UNFCCC mechanism to address unavoidable loss and damage.»
ENVIRONMENT
«Protecting our water sources is a critical component of adapting to climate change impacts like drought, sea level rise, stronger storms, and warmer temperatures — which is why EPA and the Army have finalized the Clean Water Rule to protect these important waters, so we can strengthen our economy and provide certainty to American businesses.»
ENVIRONMENT
And it suggested that Americans devote «our limited dollars» to adapting to climate change rather than slowing it by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
ENVIRONMENT
-- Bill McKibben responding to a conservative who thinks we can adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
However, current federal legislation does not authorize federal or state agencies to assist communities in relocating, nor does it authorize them to repair or upgrade storm-damaged infrastructure in flood-prone locations like Newtok.51 Newtok therefore can not safely remain in its current location nor can it access public funds to adapt to climate change through relocation.
ENVIRONMENT
The nonpartisan Georgetown Climate Center, based at Georgetown Law, seeks to advance effective climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States — policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate change.
AUTOMOBILES
The administration also suggested eliminating language in the draft calling for «sufficient, predictable, additional and sustainable financial resources» to help poor nations adapt to climate change, on the grounds that it is vague.
ENVIRONMENT
In this segment, BNN speaks with Al Gore's right-hand man at Climate Reality Project, Stefan Sjöstrand, the president of IKEA Canada, and Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada about what businesses are doing to adapt to climate change.
BUSINESS
This precise breeding method offers wildlife managers a targeted way to activate disease resistance that may be inherent, but dormant, in a species» genome, or to help a species adapt to climate change.
SCIENCE
As evidenced by cities» enthusiastic presence at the Paris negotiations, urban areas are rapidly innovating and sharing solutions for adapting to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
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.
ENVIRONMENT
Robert Grumbine points out that the recent derecho that hit Washington DC demonstrates the folly of thinking we can simply adapt to climate change:
ENVIRONMENT
Metro Vancouver's ability to adapt to climate change requires specific information on how changes in temperature and precipitation will play out locally, how expected changes may vary throughout the seasons, and about new climate extremes.
ENVIRONMENT
These projects seek to mitigate or adapt to climate change.
BUSINESS
President George W. Bush created three marine monuments during his final days in office in early 2009, setting aside nearly 196,000 square miles of oceanic reserves intended to address overfishing and pollution and to help the ocean adapt to climate change.
SCIENCE
It used to be environmentalists did not want to talk about adapting to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
Climate change is having a disproportionately harsh impact on the least developed countries and particularly on marginalised communities, which do not have the ability to adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
This would help deal with the «externalities» that burning fossil fuels brings, including the social cost of having to adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
Thirdly, developing a new value orientation is a means of adapting to climate change in a healthy way.
ENVIRONMENT
As adapting to climate change becomes increasingly necessary, projects such as the Western Arnhem Land Fire Management project are breaking ground in their approaches to utilising land, traditional knowledge, and the evolving carbon markets.
RELATIONSHIPS
«Without an effective plan to prepare for the risks from climate change the country may sleepwalk into disaster,» said John Krebs, chairman of a group that advises Britain's government on adapting to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
The two dont seem linked to me, except that if we dont move to a low/no emission power generation then the costs of adapting to climate change will do economic damage (and a great deal worse to poor countries).
ENVIRONMENT
Reducing the Environmental Impacts of EU Agriculture» produced by IFOAM EU and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FIBL) highlights organic agriculture's potential to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
FOOD & BEVERAGES
As temperatures rise beyond 2 degrees to 4 degrees — our current trajectory — there are limits to how far society can adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
The aim is to provide best practice guidance and assist these managers in assessing their evolving adaptation needs and help them to prepare action plans for adapting to climate change in the coastal zone.
ENVIRONMENT
Personally, I would prefer the funds be used to mitigate some areas to adapt to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
They also learn methods to adapt to climate change and reduce the negative impact on the environment.
FOOD & BEVERAGES
Also in Vietnam, fellow Anh Tung Pham will provide analysis to support policy-making decisions related to helping cities adapt to climate change.
SCIENCE
The administration has not taken a strong stance on mitigating or adapting to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT