Sentences with phrase «to prepare for climate change»

Part one explored how planners have come to see clean energy as a tool for preparing for climate change impacts.

It has been eight months since the launch of global reporting guidelines aimed at helping companies and investors better prepare for climate change and the low carbon transition.

The survey shows that most health insurers are not preparing for climate change - related temperature extremes, decreasing air quality, and the increased spread of diseases.

How much has your state done to prepare for climate change related threats?

Cities and businesses are separately preparing for climate change and building their resilience to impacts.

Insurance regulators are calling for insurers to become more prepared for climate change Insurance regulators in the United States may be growing more supportive of efforts to combat climate change.

The Commission's Subcommittee on Fish, Wildlife, and Habitat Restoration completed this report to outline a plan for preparing for climate change in natural systems.

In Coping with Climate Change, Proceedings of the 2nd North - American Conference on Preparing for Climate Change, Dec. 6 - 8, 1988.

Mountain geographer Alton Byers is helping remote Himalayan villages prepare for climate change.

The Sea Ice Research Team collected a comprehensive dataset on the physics of the ice, ocean and atmosphere in the area and these data will contribute to the understanding of these events and assist Canada in preparing for climate change driven increases in marine ice hazards.

I hope that our calculations for worst - case - scenarios will be taken into consideration as the countries prepare for climate change,» says Aslak Grinsted.

Paulson, Rubin and Shultz, all members of climate research group the Risky Business Project, said investors deserve to know how the private sector is preparing for climate change hazards.

Corporations in sectors like agriculture, mining and energy are already preparing for climate change to shock supply chains, according to a 2013 report from PwC.

MD / STL food forager Tattfoo Tan takes a positive approach to preparing for climate change with a number of projects, most recently his NEAKA — a catamaran - like sculpture that serves as a vitrine for his New Earth MREs — was on display at Smack Mellon as part of FOODShed: Art and Agriculture in Action, a program curated by fellow Marfa... Read More >

n Capacity building of key stakeholders: Knowledge management at the grass - root level is a basic necessity for preparing for climate change eventualities.

Proactively preparing for climate change can reduce impacts while also facilitating a more rapid and efficient response to changes as they happen.

Three years later, I was preparing for a climate change Toastmasters speech.

Such studies are calculated to help provoke governments, states and water authorities into preparing for climate change, but it just may be that the western US is already feeling the heat.

See November 16 CSW post: ClimAID science report: New York state must prepare for climate change now

The earliest reports from Barbuda indicate that 90 percent of the houses on the small island were destroyed by the storm, an unsustainable level of damage, according to Carl - Friedrich Schleussner, a researcher with Climate Analytics who helps island nations prepare for climate change impacts.

«Resilience means more than just preparing for climate change,» says Toronto - based filmmaker Gregory Greene.

The Dutch have been relatively good at preparing for climate change largely because of their long history of consensus - based water management and their shared belief in social planning.

A government advisory body has called for urgent action to prepare for climate change risks, but has also highlighted opportunities

CartoDB, a company that creates tools to help people visualize and analyze geospatial data, is launching a grants program to help nonprofits and communities understand and prepare for climate change impacts using data.

Addendum Dominick A. DellaSala, the president and chief scientist of Geos Institute, an organization helping communities prepare for climate change, sent an email criticizing several points in Lindon Pronto's post.

Cuomo, who has had to cope with the aftermath of two major storms in his two years in office — Irene in 2011, and now Sandy — says the state could be better prepared for climate change that the governor believes could be the new normal.

A goal is to provide entrepreneurs materials they can use to innovate ways the U.S. can be more prepared for climate change.

A new report on extreme climate events in Europe is just published: «Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change adaptation `.

The past several months have seen BC communities publicly demand that the fossil fuel industry pay a share of climate costs, while in California 5 communities have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies for the costs of preparing for climate change.

Proceedings of the First North American Conference on Preparing for Climate Change, October 27 - 29, 1987.

«My vision is to promote research that is responsive to people's needs and to influence individual and collective action and behavior in preparing for climate change.»

Mass Audubon is uniquely suited to demonstrate and advocate for actions that prepare for climate change and avoid the worst impacts.

Independent advice to government on reducing emissions and preparing for climate change.

The Committee on Climate Change provides independent advice to government on reducing emissions and preparing for climate change.

It will offer guidance for how to use land for economic growth, coordinate housing and transportation investments, prepare for climate change and make it easier and cost effective to grow food and distribute it locally.

New York state is investing money in nearly three dozen local farms to help them curb carbon emissions and prepare for climate change.

Provide independent advice to Government on setting and meeting carbon budgets and preparing for climate change.

The purpose of the Committee on Climate Change is to advise the UK Government and Devolved Administrations on emissions targets and report to Parliament on progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for climate change.

Priorities in Eldridge's platform, according to Quintana, include «small business and economic development in the region,» sustainable jobs, reproductive freedom for women, getting the nation «prepared for climate change,» opposition to hydrofracking and campaign finance reform.

«Experts agree that this level can not be sustained for many decades without potentially catastrophic consequences,» reports the Geos Institute, an Oregon - based non-profit and consulting firm that uses science to help people predict, reduce and prepare for climate change.

Misleading to suggest that efforts to prepare for tomorrow's disasters equates to preparing for climate change.

«The tools that we use to tell us something about climate change can not give us an answer about how to prepare for climate change for most of the continent,» Jenkins said.