Sentences with phrase «unprecedented challenges of climate change»

At the same time, farmers face unprecedented challenges of climate change, high oil prices driving demand for biofuels, and rising costs of land and water.

In 2009, Commission on Social Action to the Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution on the «unprecedented challenge of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions» and need for urgent action.

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One assumes he endorses the use of technology to meet the challenges of global climate change, uses that will amount to an unprecedented attempt to manage and manipulate the earth's ecosystem.

The Bonn Challenge offers an unprecedented opportunity to curb degradation and harness the potential of forest landscapes to improve people's lives and tackle climate change.

Today's coasts face an unprecedented challenge, struggling to cope and adapt in the midst of a changing climate.

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

This allows us to challenge business - as - usual approaches that we consider to be unsustainable in the face of the unprecedented challenge posed by climate change.

I challenge all who, like me, have doubts about one or another aspect of the conventional consensus regarding catastrophic unprecedented anthropogenic global climate change to see our mission as changing Mr Connolley's mind on that topic; not destroying his general opposition.

In coming decades, the planet faces an unprecedented challenge in the form of climate change and the only way to address it is through technological innovation and reduction of energy use.

Demographic transformation, the emergence of new centres of economic dynamism, accelerating inequality within and across nations, challenges to the existing social contract by a disillusioned, mobilized citizenry, technological and organizational transformation linking people directly as never before and climate change are all placing the foundations of our world and our global system under unprecedented stress.

However, the magnitude, accelerated pace and compound effects of climate change today are unprecedented, and present a major challenge to indigenous peoples» capacity to adapt.