Sentences with phrase «unavoidable impacts of»

the Arctic Inuit people petitioned the American Government at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in December 2005 to establish mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions and help Arctic Inuit people adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

In December 2005 the Arctic Inuit people petitioned the American Government at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission to establish mandatory limits on GHG emissions and help Artic Inuit people adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

(International climate finance is the provision of funds by developed countries to help developing nations adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and embark on environmentally - sound development pathways.)

A future where people are lifted out of poverty, have access to clean safe energy, and the unavoidable impacts of climate change managed.

It funds projects in developing countries that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help vulnerable communities adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

Nor is there clarity on support to enable the poorest to recover from unavoidable impacts of climate change.

The main purpose of the GCF is to help build the capability of developing nations to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through low carbon development pathways and to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

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Receiving negative online feedback is an unavoidable part of having an online business presence, but there are ways to mitigate the impact they have on your reputation.

It is an unavoidable preoccupation of our political class to speak and write obsessively about the political impact of, well, everything.

«Although mitigation measures would be investigated and provided based on final site and equipment design, the addition of the noise source at pump stations would be an unavoidable adverse impact,» Pilgrim officials wrote.

Under the New York State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) process, the Town Board is required to review the potential environmental effects of a project, identify the ways to mitigate the unavoidable impacts and balance the environmental impacts with the benefits that will be achieved by the proposed project.

DB: However one interprets the evaluations of demonstration projects like the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, the unavoidable conclusion is that the measured impacts of three national programs that seek to implement their approach — Head Start, Early Head Start, and Even Start — have been tragically «disappointing,» the word used by most objective observers.

Everyone is baking in redundant systems — elaborate sets of sensors, cameras, and mapping technology — designed to check and recheck one other with the promise of dramatically minimizing unavoidable impacts.

If the driver fails to react even after automatic, partial braking action, this new version of PRE-SAFE ® Brake activates maximum braking pressure around 0.6 seconds before an unavoidable collision — this emergency braking action can significantly mitigate the severity of the impact.

If a collision is unavoidable, the feature can engage the brakes to help reduce both the speed of the impact and the severity of the collision.

This system will utilizes sensors in the front of the vehicle to check for pedestrians or vehicles - providing you with alerts in the event of an accident, and applying the brakes before an unavoidable impact.

If an impact is unavoidable, those sensors help determine how much the force of the impact was reduced.

If a collision is unavoidable, the feature will engage the brakes to help reduce both the speed of the impact and the severity of the collision.

If a crash is unavoidable, application of the brakes by PCS strives for a minimized impact.

The process of selling through a third party seller has an unavoidable negative impact upon the welfare of puppies.

Battered, displaying bullet holes, twisted out of shape, each narrates a different, moving story: simultaneously historical objects and musical instruments, their sound quality shaped in unavoidable ways by the impact of war.

The possibility of quick and seemingly inexpensive geoengineering fixes could distract the public and policy makers from critically needed efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build society's capacity to deal with unavoidable climate impacts.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

Pakistan is also highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and faces immense associated challenges in coping with its unavoidable effects and economic implications.

Committee chair Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the work of the IPCC «highlights our moral obligation to reduce global warming pollution and prepare for those impacts that have become unavoidable.»

TransCanada could and should work closely and cooperatively with farmers and farm bureaus, state governors, agencies and legislators, mayors and other affected parties, to address concerns and compensate landowners for the use of their property, unavoidable impacts and damages in the unlikely event of an accident.

The Co-operative will be able to offset some of its UK carbon emissions through this and future projects, taking responsibility for its unavoidable environmental impact and at the same time building supply chain resilience and adaptability to the impacts of climate change.

We have repeatedly lost thousands of lives, communities and livelihoods and we are still left with little means to build resilience and adapt to present and future impacts of climate change, much less to rebuild and recover from massive unavoidable losses and damages.

The latest study from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the inevitability of drastic global warming in the starkest terms yet, stating that major impacts on parts of the world — in particular Africa, Asian river deltas, low - lying islands and the Arctic — are unavoidable and the focus must be on adapting life to survive the most devastating changes.

Especially because of past emissions of long - lived heat - trapping gases, some additional climate change and related impacts are now unavoidable.

But even if we do manage to rapidly decarbonize the global economy, some impacts of climate change are probably still unavoidable, according to HELIX project leader and University of Exeter professor Richard Betts.

We know that some impacts of increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations are unavoidable, that human populations will suffer immediately and that natural disasters will be compounded and have lasting effects.

Another notable victory by the United States was to include language making clear that no system of assisting the poorest states with the unavoidable impacts from global warming — storm, flood, drought and pestilence — would constitute a legal liability claim for compensation from the rich countries.

Mrs. Watt - Cloutier, and the petition's 62 other signatories, are calling on the US to work with the Arctic communities to help them adapt to the impact of unavoidable climate change.

In managing the environmental impact, it's minimizing consumption of energy, water, materials, waste, and emissions with renewable energy, energy - efficiency projects, and for the unavoidable impact, carbon offsets will neutralize 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide produced at the 2010 Winter Games, estimated by Suzuki for air travel.

And we should expect fossil fuel corporations to pay for a share of the harms resulting from the use of their products, both for the damages that have already occurred and the costs of preparing to limit the damages from further, now unavoidable impacts that responsible actions by these companies could have, and should have, helped to avoid.

One of the most regrettable and usually unavoidable aspects of separation and divorce is the impact it can have on the children of the marriage.

While systemic risks are usually unexpected and unavoidable, a diversified portfolio can reduce the impact of non-systemic risks.

I am deeply concerned that the passage of a few decades (even where unavoidable, significant impacts are experienced), is enough to see native title, as recognised by Australian law, gone forever.