Sentences with phrase «to respond to climate change»
The imperative to respond to climate change, as well as recent progress with electric vehicles and other alternatives to gasoline, has emboldened many countries to mandate a transition to zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) through a ban on internal combustion engines.
ENVIRONMENT
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The report provides guidance for local officials across the country on how to respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
IceBridge is a six-year campaign to survey and monitor areas of Earth's polar ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice and how they are responding to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
In the end I suppose I agree mostly with what you wrote, particularly that we can't necessarily expect high oil prices due to peak oil to put enough pressure on governments to respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
I think it's too early to say if this is purely down to specific weather conditions, or whether the sea ice in the Antarctic is starting to respond to climate change in an analogous fashion to its boreal cousin.
ENVIRONMENT
Similarly, the concept of using geoengineering to respond to climate change has moved from science fiction to an area of serious research.
ENVIRONMENT
The paper is one of the outputs from the Ice2Sea programme, an international venture managed by the British Antarctic Survey to improve understanding of how land-based ice will respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
When it comes down to the question of why the finding emerged, it appears that much of the result had to do with the way different models handled one of the biggest uncertainties in how the planet will respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
UNISDR supports these efforts at the highest levels by developing specific policies at the international level on the linkages between reducing disaster risk and responding to climate change, guiding national and regional action to integrate policies and practices, and strengthening capacities to support the integration of disaster reduction and climate change by all actors.
ENVIRONMENT
Scientists conduct experiments like Simpson's to predict how ocean life will respond to climate change, and most of those studies point to bad news for marine life.
SCIENCE
Despite considerable interest, we still have a lot to learn about BC salmon — factors that determine juvenile survival during migration, susceptibility to disease, as well as how the six salmon species will respond to climate change stressors.
SCIENCE
Proposals to respond to climate change by geoengineering the Earth's climate system, such as by regulating the amount of sunlight reaching the planet, may be seen as a radical fulfillment of Heidegger's understanding of technology as destiny.
ENVIRONMENT
However, if Government are serious about Indigenous peoples leveraging economic benefits from the Indigenous estate, they must fully acknowledge that traditional practices, and caring for country can be of particular value in the new world of responding to climate change.
RELATIONSHIPS
The following chart from Carbon Brief depicts the enormous importance of speed in responding to climate change if the international community can retain any hope of limiting warming to non-dangerous levels.
ENVIRONMENT
A report by the Institute of Policy Studies shows that only $ 5 billion of the $ 30 billion in fast start funding developed countries committed to deliver to help developing countries respond to climate change is actually «new and additional,» as originally promised.
ENVIRONMENT
Water quantity and quality issues are expected to exacerbate existing economic and social issues for the 65 Native American tribes in the Great Plains, where populations on rural tribal lands have limited capacities to respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
The poor track record of rich nations in meeting their fast start finance pledges has raised serious concerns that these countries will also renege on their bigger promise to ensure that US$ 100 billion flows to developing nations each year by 2020 to help them to respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
THE intensity of hurricanes follows a simple mathematical law — a finding that could help predict how the storms will respond to climate change.
SCIENCE
That is why discover is teaming up with NBC and the National Science Foundation for two more town hall events exploring how we can best respond to climate change.
SCIENCE
I would suggest some other dimensions to the problem of interpreting and responding to climate change science.
ENVIRONMENT
«We support the bank's current strategies of building infrastructure, improving governance, boosting economic growth and helping Africa respond to climate change,» he explained.
POLITICS
Wild species have responded to climate change, with three-quarters of marine species shifting their ranges poleward as much as 1000 km [44], [103] and more than half of terrestrial species shifting ranges poleward as much as 600 km and upward as much as 400 m [104].
SCIENCE
Anicka Yi, Tom Burckhardt, and Maya Lin respond to climate change with their own ecosystems.
ART
Mike Berners-Lee is the founding director of Small World Consulting which helps organisations understand and respond to the climate change agenda.
POLITICS
In addition to N availability, soil N2O emissions are regulated by temperature and soil moisture and so are likely to respond to climate changes (Frolking et al., 1998; Parton et al., 1998).
ENVIRONMENT
All the insects will respond to climate change.
SCIENCE
Dr. Koppes is a glacial geomorphologist whose main interest these days is how glaciers respond to climate change; her co-author, David R. Montgomery of the University of Washington, is a geomorphologist, too, but a fluvial one — he comes at the subject from the river side.
ENVIRONMENT
This survey was conducted to facilitate the development of guidelines to assist forest managers to effectively respond to climate change challenges and opportunities.
ENVIRONMENT
The new findings stem from an analysis that links a widely-used framework for projecting how sea level around the world will respond to climate change to a model that accounts for recently identified processes contributing to Antarctic ice loss.
SCIENCE
In response to Adam Lea, there is an interesting article in NYT about how the international and massive response to the perceived Y2K threat serves to inform how we might successfully respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
- Make informed decisions on practical adaptation actions and measures to respond to climate change on a sound scientific, technical and socio-economic basis, taking into account current and future climate change and variability.
ENVIRONMENT
The site, designed to exploit grasslands as models for understanding how ecosystems may respond to climate change, hosts a number of studies of the...
ENVIRONMENT
«It allows private sector actors from all over the world to step into a leadership role and find new ways of responding to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
Corporate leaders, government ministers and international development banks leading the transition to a green economy were also in Paris to highlight the multi-trillion dollar business opportunities in responding to climate change at the Sustainable Innovation Forum, the largest business-focused event held during the COP21 Paris Climate Summit.
ENVIRONMENT
We know that genetic diversity is being lost at rates unseen in 65 million years, and against this background we are challenging an already impoverished fauna and flora to respond to climate changes that are unprecedented in perhaps tens of thousands of years.
ENVIRONMENT
What's precisely wrong about modifying human beings to respond to climate change?
ENVIRONMENT
Understanding that species can evolve rapidly to local climates is important for predicting how invasive species spread and how native and non-native species alike will respond to climate change.»
SCIENCE
The conference supported the Paris agreement, and according to preliminary results released Saturday morning from an ongoing nationwide survey, the vast majority of U.S. mayors want to work together and with the private sector to respond to climate change.
SCIENCE
«Since 2007 I have been working on Drowning World, a long-term global project about flooding as my way of responding to climate change.
BUSINESS
Obama told the packed room of foreign ministers from 20 nations and hundreds of others packed into the Denai» na Civic and Convention Center that the United States recognizes its responsibility to lead the world in responding to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
This report includes chapters on Mitigation, Adaptation, and Decision Support that offer an overview of the options and activities being planned or implemented around the country as local, state, federal, and tribal governments, as well as businesses, organizations, and individuals begin to respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
The Fund is a unique global initiative to respond to climate change by investing into low-emission and climate-resilient development.
ENVIRONMENT
Similar to the debate on fracking, public opposition to the gas port became part of a larger discussion about New York State's energy policy and how the state should respond to climate change.
POLITICS
I was responding to a climate change contrarian challenging me on the evidence of climate change.
ENVIRONMENT
A key aim of these integrated scenarios is to facilitate research and assessment across a number of research communities that can characterize the range of uncertainty in mitigation efforts required to achieve particular climate outcomes and in adaptation efforts that could be undertaken to prepare for and respond to the climate changes and impacts associated with those pathways.
ENVIRONMENT
Debate over the tradeoffs and values of how to respond to climate change is appropriate for environmental education, Buhr and other educators say.
SCIENCE
With just weeks until COP21 - when the world will gather in Paris to seek an agreement on how to respond to climate change - the ECMWF Copernicus breakfast briefing event took place to examine the potential of data driven technology to help us to mitigate, adapt and succeed in a changing environment.
ENVIRONMENT
The scientists found that two genes associated with migration, DRD4 and DEAF1, were influential in determining how well the species respond to climate change.
SCIENCE
Establishing marine protected areas would allow species to recover from overexploitation; higher numbers would give their populations and gene pools more resilience in responding to climate changes.»
ENVIRONMENT
Yesterday, President Trump exited the Paris Climate Agreement, a 2015 pact that was intended to bring the world community together to respond to climate change.
ENVIRONMENT