Sentences with phrase «to limit the impacts of climate change»

For the carbon in a tree to be able to offset other emissions and help limit the impacts of climate change, it must remain locked up in that tree for at least a hundred years...

Stephane Hallegatte, the lead economist at the Word Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, has written or co-written a host of reports on strategies for limiting impacts of climate change and disasters, particularly on the poor.

Science has presented us with an overwhelming amount of solid evidence that current climate change is real, caused primarily by us, it is real, it is bad, almost 100 % of climate scientists agree with this science, and we can limit the impact of climate change if we choose.

The IEA estimates that in this scenario there is only a 6 per cent chance of keeping temperature rises to an average 2C (the level at which scientists say offer an even bet at limiting the impact of climate change).

There are technical as well as political risks associated with geoengineering approaches to limit the impact of climate change (6 August, p 3).

There are technical as well as political risks associated with geoengineering approaches to limit the impact of climate change (6...

President Obama says time is running short to limit the impact of climate change, and that it's going to take a unified, global effort to make that happen.

'' We are convinced that the Natural Capital Protocol has the power to revolutionize the way that businesses evaluate their operations and make decisions, helping them to reduce pollution, protect biodiversity, and limit the impacts of climate change», says First Climate CEO Sascha Lafeld.

This will help us limit the impacts of climate change and reduce our reliance on oil from petrodictators.

LONDON, 8 February, 2016 − Here is the big challenge: can 21st - century agriculture deliver the right levels of nourishment for nine billion people by the end of the century, and at the same time protect nature, save on energy and soak up ever more carbon from the atmosphere to limit the impact of climate change?

They think the world should concentrate on higher yields per hectare so as to leave more land free for nature to do its thing − which is absorb carbon, deliver clean water and oxygen, and limit the impact of climate change.

The southern New Zealand city of Dunedin has become the latest to vote to drop millions of dollars of investments in fossil fuels, in a bid to slash carbon emissions and limit the impacts of climate change...