Sentences with phrase «understand the climate challenge»

One might think about studying them, not drunk driving or war, to better understand the climate challenge.

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«The biggest challenge now is to make sure that everyone understands what's at stake,» DiCaprio said of the dangers of climate change during his speech onstage at the gala.

Another was challenged to engage with fisherman in a nearby coastal city to understand how they were being affected by climate change.

«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

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APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise in offering solutions to Asia's climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global influence.

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

This virtual issue provides a unique opportunity to exchange research knowledge, ideas and innovations, and develop an understanding of how primary industries can tackle the challenge of a changing climate.

With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully understand the situation (though the match official, knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters from Madrid, simply by virtue of having already come so close considering the current climate of the Spanish game.

Still, land use in some ways might be a trickier challenge to understand, and maybe even solve, than climate change, said Ackerly.

«Because the complexity of the climate makes accurate prediction difficult, the APS urges an enhanced effort to understand the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate, and to provide the technological options for meeting the climate challenge in the near and longer terms.

The publisher of Science Translational Medicine, AAAS / Science, understands the challenges that many libraries are facing in this current economic climate.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

«We wanted to understand what challenges and opportunities the country faces due to climate change.

Co-author of the study Professor Ian Hall, from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our results highlight the challenge of basing our understanding of the climate system on generally short observational records.

A major challenge in predicting Earth's future climate state is to understand feedbacks that alter greenhouse - gas forcing.

Only by understanding the geologic record of diversity, adaptation and climate variability can we hope to face the challenges ahead.

Understanding human capacities to address climate challenges is as important today as it was in the past.

Nelson stresses that not only does the work identify the role of the past in informing the present but also the importance of exploring diverse conditions for understanding how to meet current challenges related to climate - induced disasters.

«We can say that Enhanced Weathering is not just a crazy idea but could actually help climate policy, yet it is still a challenge to get a precise understanding of the involved processes,» says Amann.

FAO is also warning governments to do more to understand the likely effects of climate change on fishing and how best to adapt to the challenge.

«One of the contributions of research like this is helping humans understand the challenges large animals face today from climate change,» Groves said.

«Climate change, energy, distribution and supply of water, and agriculture — these are the major challenges of the 21st century, and we'll have a leader at the national academy who understands these.»

Scientists unaffiliated with the study said it shows better data is needed to fully understand the extent of the climate challenge posed by landfill methane emissions.

The researchers believe that the Arctic is not only a bell - wether of climate change to come at lower latitudes, but can provide us with an understanding of the challenges to come in adapting to climate change.

Given aging U.S. infrastructure, limited public resources and the challenges created by a changing climate, the need to understand the most cost - efficient approach to the design, construction and maintenance of structures is more important than ever.

This partnership supports the DOE efforts to better understand and predict Earth's climate in order to develop sustainable solutions to the nation's energy and environmental challenges.

Understanding the potential dynamics of the climate system is a critical challenge as GHG emissions continue.

Understanding global sea - level change assessments can be challenging, even for climate scientists.

Thus, research aimed at fully understanding the mechanisms by which plants either defend against, or succumb to infection / infestation is of paramount importance to facing the global challenges of feeding a burgeoning population amidst a changing climate.

With climate change representing an important challenge for society, such research is crucial in our quest for understanding how our planet and its climate system functions.

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Teach kids about critical thinking, let them understand that to try to find the human fingerprint on climate is a big challenge.»

Leung describes a hierarchical framework to systematically evaluate climate simulations at regional scales and insights from several studies that analyzed simulations generated as part of the hierarchy to understand discrete challenges in regional climate simulations.

To meet this societal need, the world climate research community is challenged by underlying science questions and the quality and coverage of the observational data that are used to monitor and understand extremes.

Note: In April 2017 the leadership of the «Grand Challenge on Understanding and Predicting Weather and Climate Extremes» changed its name to the «Grand Challenge on Weather and Climate Extremes».

Attribution of hurricane characteristics to climate change is extremely challenging, and the authors have focussed only on the precipitation response, which is perhaps the most well understood, and is particularly important given the nature of the flooding in Texas due to Harvey.

From the Prize Council: «If we are going to talk about hydrology in the 21st century, and the challenges hydrologists face, clearly the overwhelming challenge is to understand hydrologic variability, and the likely impact on hydrology of anticipated climate change.

UNLV Ph.D. candidate's research in Russia challenges widely held understanding of past climate history; study appears in latest issue of top journal Nature Geoscience.

«This changes the way we think of the nitrogen cycle and, more generally, anaerobic metabolism in the ocean, and suggests that both could respond to climate change in ways that challenge our current understanding.»

Without focused support and resources, military children face social and emotional challenges, difficulty understanding policies and adjusting to curriculum and school climate, difficulty qualifying for or continuing with special education services, and elevated stress and a risk of depression and anxiety.

It is challenging to create a climate of inclusion if there is little diversity on campus, so developing strategies for increasing diversity — and collecting data to clearly understand their progress — is important.

They then complete a series of focused tasks based on a bespoke resource pack to develop an understanding of both opportunities and challenges based around a fly - in - fly - out mining industry including, remoteness, inaccessibility and climate as well as the inevitable social problems that come with migrant based mining towns.

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Both teams supported as subject matter experts in their domains (climate science and technology) and the challenge invited experienced game designers to create working prototypes for games that help players understand their role in addressing climate change.

Out of Alternatives, the first public initiative by CPNY will examine the ways in which small - scale organizations are perceived and understood by audiences, artists, and funders; identify the challenges of operating in today's climate; and revive discussions of obstacles and inequalities which have persisted since the rise of the alternative space.

Together, his artworks and research seek to facilitate an increased understanding of the shared social, political, environmental, and cultural climate challenges we face, both within our local communities, and in the international arena.

The paper suggests that these physicists joined the environmental backlash to stem changing tides in science and society, and to defend their preferred understandings of science, modernity, and of themselves as a physicist elite — understandings challenged by on - going transformations encapsulated by the widespread concern about human - induced climate change.