Sentences with phrase «using ocean resources»

Backing off on the humpback hunt today is a small part of a larger effort to push to the limit on using ocean resources.

Though there will never be 100 % agreement, this has been a consensus - seeking process and the Council aimed to balance current and future needs to use ocean resources.

Not exact matches

Stanford Research Institute: «In the coming decade, science and technology will provide new means to use the vast resources of the oceans, to exploit the Arctic and Antarctic, to explore space, perhaps to affect climates.

From our oceans and coasts, landscapes and inland waters, to our atmosphere and climate, CSIRO research is helping to maintain the integrity of our environments and ensure our natural resources are used sustainably.

In America, President Akufo - Addo will participate and address the UN Oceans Conference, the high - level UN Conference being held in New York to support the Implementation of SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Life under WOceans Conference, the high - level UN Conference being held in New York to support the Implementation of SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Life under Woceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Life under Water).

The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.

«It's a way to utilize an available resource instead of discarding it into the ocean, where it's instantly no longer of use as freshwater,» says environmental health scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University.

She and her brother, Philippe, use the media and speak about their environmental experiences to educate people about the importance of protecting the oceans and freshwater resources.

As governments and industries expand their use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean bottom for resources, experts from eight universities and environmental organizations are calling for new global standards and mitigation strategies.

«New international standards needed to manage ocean noise: Growing use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean for resources poses increased risks to vulnerable marine life, experts say.»

«The results of this paper demonstrate that it is possible to use acoustic technologies to generate information about marine resources inside MPAs in a faster and less expensive way, reducing the costs for governments in ocean conservation.»

«The whaling ships provide a rich resource for us to use for the region north of Bering Strait,» said project leader Kevin Wood, a research scientist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean, a partnership between the UW and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

It is the policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.

(3) uses a stakeholder process to identify and prioritize needed monitoring and research that is of greatest relevance to the ongoing needs of natural resource managers to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification; and

The blue economy is the concept for sustainable use of ocean resources, aiming for economic growth, livelihoods improvement, and ocean ecosystem health.

Two of NOAA's four mission goals are to «protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management,» and to «understand climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to plan and respond.»

Our philosophy emphasizes the importance of understanding the processes that govern change and sustainability in the world's oceans to best use and protect our vital marine and coastal resources.

It is important to closely monitor how climate change and our increasing use of the oceans are affecting important marine resources and ecosystems.

The medal was awarded to H.E. Ban Ki - Moon for his work in securing the successful launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the stand - alone goal on the oceans — SDG 14 concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Oceans, Seas & Marine Resources for Sustainable Develooceans — SDG 14 concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Oceans, Seas & Marine Resources for Sustainable DeveloOceans, Seas & Marine Resources for Sustainable Development.

The InSTEP GK - 12 program uses ocean discovery as a common theme to integrate concepts and perspectives, taking advantage of the county's proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and other marine resouocean discovery as a common theme to integrate concepts and perspectives, taking advantage of the county's proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and other marine resouOcean and other marine resources.

She helped to fashion the constitution of the ocean — the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)-- as an instrument for the peaceful use of ocean services and resources for the benefit of all humankind.

Economics and policy analysis of marine resources and the ocean environment; optimal management of ocean and coastal resources and their uses; distribution and allocation of property rights in coastal and ocean resources; economic impacts of marine natural hazards.

Professor Todd demonstrates the value of using our resources and conservation efforts to protect the ocean environment itself, as opposed to addressing the plight of any species.

OceanObs ’19 seeks to improve response to scientific and societal needs of a fit - for - purpose integrated ocean observing system, for better understanding the environment of the Earth, monitoring climate, and informing adaptation strategies as well as the sustainable use of ocean resources.

14.c ensure the full implementation of international law, as reflected in UNCLOS for states parties to it, including, where applicable, existing regional and international regimes for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by their parties

GOAL 14 — Life Below Water — Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.

A collection of resources that could be used as part of an oceans and seas of the world topic for KS1 students.

A collection of ocean themed resources that you can use as part of your World Oceans Day activities in June.

effective management of the uses and resources of oceans depend on improved access to information, public education, and scientific awareness.

The information section is also interesting with biographies of anthropologists; information on the oceans, solar system, and world populations; a resource room where teachers can find lesson plans and links to other useful information on the Web; a tutorial for using the Internet; and a visit to Our World Today through Web cams.

Photo pack — Colourful A4 poster pack showing key things related to the water cycle, such as sun, snow, rain, ocean etc Water cycle diagram to label and colour Several versions of images showing the complete water cycle with varying levels of difficulty Extra large images to make a full water cycle display — eg A4 size sun, clouds, rain drops, etc Fact cards — half 4 size with facts about water and the water cycle — great for reading or display Key word cards — half A4 size showing all words relating to the water cycle Water cycle booklet to complete Presentation to make with cue cards for pupils to complete Draw a water cycle worksheet Acrostic poem to complete True or false quiz Sentence writing sheet to summarise topic understanding Mind map Weather types matching cards to use as memory card game World map to demonstrate size of oceans Long banner to head display Extra large patterned lettering to head wall display (patterned with raindrops) 3 patterned and plain display borders Writing booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Writing border with water cycle image to use for generic writing tasks Word search Sack tag to keep resources organised

The Parrish Kauai Beach Explorer has become a resource in this effort to promote ocean safety by covering topics from using rescue tube stations to handling a rip current.

Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin is ideal for use as a classroom and educational teacher resource.

The vast subsurface ocean under the crust is used as a transport route between the colonies and a source of natural resources.

Humans have used the sea as a livelihood, for transport and for its natural resources for thousands of years — however the modern era has seen us seriously damage the oceans that make up 71 % of our earth.

The proposed goals include promoting actions at all levels to address climate change, attaining conservation and sustainable use of marine resources, oceans and seas, and protecting and restoring terrestrial ecosystems and halting all biodiversity loss.

Thinking of the Oceans as a System is MUCH more helpful than thinking of the individual resources within them and how each of them are getting «used up»... (We do indeed call them «bodies of water» right?)

Most of these perturbations, tied either directly or indirectly to human fossil fuel combustion, fertilizer use, and industrial activity, are projected to grow in coming decades, resulting in increasing negative impacts on ocean biota and marine resources.

But the region has a lot of resources that could be used to create clean energy, such as the ocean currents.

A sustainable environment and climate development are prerequisites for a sustainable use of ocean and its resources.

Given the rapid climatic changes affecting the region, the identification of taxa and geographic areas in the Southern Ocean that are likely to be the most affected by climate and oceanographic changes should, therefore, be a major priority to enable the best use of limited funds and resources and to highlight the early signs of any changes.

In an earlier study the One - dimensional (1 - D) water column models have been used extensively to determine the limit of OTEC resources [Nihous, G.C., Ocean Engineering, 34, 2210 - 21, 2007], estimated to be around 3 - 5 TW (resource is self - limited by large flow rates required and temperature differences).

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

The optimal solution from a free - market perspective is to either privatize the resource (practical in the case of a field or a forest, less so as regards the oceans or the atmosphere) or mimic «ownership» by imposing a cost (like a rent) on those whose use damages the resource or make it less useful to others.

Not only does this have important implications for the use of the ocean as a food resource, there is also the potential for increased fluxes of CH4 and N2O from the ocean to the atmosphere (Fuhrman and Capone 1991).

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleause (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleaUse more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleaUse animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

In June 2009, the State Water Resources Control Board issued a draft policy on the use of ocean water for power plant cooling, which effectively requires generation units using once - through cooling (OTC) to undertake substantial investment, which means refitting their cooling systems or repowering, or to retire.

We use technology to identify and monitor threats to the planet's natural resources such as offshore drilling and oil spills, urban sprawl, fracking, mountaintop removal mining, and overfishing of the oceans.

The most pervasive effects of global climate change on human uses of the oceans will be due to impacts on biotic resources; transportation and nonliving resource exploitation will be affected to a lesser degree.

Efficiency is very important in the case of fossil fuel power stations because fossil fuels are a finite resource — once we use them they are gone — and when burned they produce carbon dioxide and other substances that kill people and cause climate change and ocean acidification; so it is very important to get as much electricity as we possibly can per tonne of fossil fuel.