Sentences with phrase «to adapt to global warming»

We're working for solutions that will reduce emissions to levels compatible with a healthy planet, preserve forests and help nature adapt to global warming.

The world will have to adapt to global warming no matter what — but higher levels of global warming will be much more difficult to adapt to.

Saving $ 500,000 out of a $ 120 million federal budget by eliminating such an important example of one rich country working to assist many poor countries adapt to global warming is unconscionable.

In addition to Kyoto wrangling, WaPo reports that the other top goals of the conference are largely technocratic: «Delegates to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change will focus largely on technical details, such as how to administer a future fund to help poor nations adapt to global warming and how to transfer clean technology to developed nations.»

To many, that finding was illustrative of a lack of commitment from richer countries to help developing ones adapt to the global warming that they have done the most to cause.

Gentoo penguins have adapted to global warming faster than other Antarctic penguins.

In Britain, the Department of the Environment promises to publish its strategy for adapting to global warming by the end of the year.

Further divisions appeared in the fragile developing - country bloc when the US offered to take part in setting up a $ 30 billion «fast start» fund over the next three years to help developing countries adapt to global warming and grow on a more climate - friendly path.

The brown anole lizard in the Bahamas is raising questions about whether some cold - blooded species may be able to adapt to global warming.

Big ski resorts have the resources to adapt to global warming but smaller hills may be wiped off the map as New England's winters change

REDUCING their body size over the generations is known to help take the heat off animals struggling to adapt to global warming.

In the future this could help breed plants that are adapted to global warming.

However, the big unknown remaining is whether corals can adapt to global warming, which is now occurring at an unprecedented rate — at about two orders of magnitude faster than occurred with the ending of the last Ice Age.

Last week it was time for a new announcement, when the Brazilian government presented the draft for a plan to fight and adapt to global warming.

Many of the world's poorer countries and those who'll feel the effects most keenly of climate change have been calling on the more wealthy nations to make greater financial pledges towards helping them adapt to global warming.

It is no exaggeration to say that mitigating and adapting to global warming is now a global industry which generates billions of dollars in revenue.

For example, China has used its climate pledge as leverage to get more international aid from rich countries, like the U.S., to help poorer countries adapt to global warming.

Scientists say that millet cultivation needs to be further encouraged to adapt to global warming that leads to losses in crop yields

Meanwhile, poorer countries have often asked for financial aid from wealthier countries to adapt to global warming.

At stake is the wide gap between the billions raised by developing nations and the billions more needed for developing countries to endure and adapt to global warming's dire impacts — roughly $ 10.3 B billion in cash has been raised so far toward a pledge of $ 100 billion a year starting in 2020, along with a pledge for access to financing from global banks.

The fund would cover plans to reduce emissions, protect tropical forests, and adapt to global warming.

You may have read about how the Brazilian government unveiled a draft plan on how it can fight and adapt to global warming, even saying that Amazonian deforestation could be stop by 2015.

As for «adapting to global warming»: First, consider how little we «adapted» in the aftermath of Katrina — just as at risk as before with faulty dikes ready to collapse in the next big hurricane, and this is in OUR country and LOCALIZED.