Sentences with phrase «victims of climate change»

It is the tens of millions of potential victims of climate change impacts that have the most to lose by waiting until all scientific uncertainties are resolved.

Call them climate refugees, climate migrants, or climate - displaced people, the number of victims of climate change is growing rapidly and will keep growing till it encompasses all of us.

People across the study sites were not passive victims of climate change.

Farmers are among the first victims of climate change as they rely on the weather and the environment in its...

The first victim of the Climate Change purge is the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a wonderful non-profit organization dedicated to protecting free enterprise from being undermined by progressive activists of all stripes.

An agreed work program on loss and damage to help victims of climate change will start immediately anda decision «to establish institutional arrangement, such as an international mechanism, at COP19»

«These two or three thousand individuals are direct victims of climate change policy and their number is only expected to increase.»

The report warned that poor and marginalized communities around the globe will be some of the first and hardest hit victims of climate change: «The poorest people in the world, who have had virtually nothing to do with causing global warming, will be high on the list of victims as climate disruptions intensify.»

This oversight is not only to the detriment of affected women, but to anyone who either is now or will be affected by climate change (read: all of us), because women are not only victims of climate change, but have a lot of potential to be part of the solution.

Not surprisingly the countries of the global South are the main victims of climate change even though their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions is relatively insignificant.

In the letter, Clement also expressed deep concern for other victims of climate change impacts, such as the recent set of devastating hurricanes, more frequent and severe flooding, marine life die - offs as a result of warmer ocean temperatures, forests at risk from invasive insects, and so on.

«We are the No. 1 victim of climate change, of course through no fault of us.

«If you look at who will be the victims of climate change, it will be small holder farmers [in equatorial nations]... and that brings you back to energy.»

The sequence was animated because no one had, so far, captured photos or video of drowning bears, which some environmental groups described as victims of climate change.

You can not say that these particular bears were the victims of climate change.

He stressed that China was a victim of climate change, and that its increased emissions was inevitable as the country goes through necessary industrialisation as it develops.»

Third, many small island countries are reluctant themselves to have their international migrants designated as being victims of climate change (McNamara and Gibson, 2009; Farbotko, 2010; Barnett and O'Neill, 2011; Farbotko and Lazrus, 2012).

They, the fisherfolk are victims of climate change and not the cause!

Similarly, one might argue that geoengineering as civil disobedience can avoid the objections to self - defense because it purports to benefit all victims of climate change.

I think it's the most callous thing I've ever heard, it must certainly run the risk of coming across as callous when put to the victims of our climate change fuelling lifestyles.

We are victims of climate change and we want to exacerbate it?

Victims of climate change and sea level rise demanding justice for climate refugees during the Global Climate March, in Kutubdia Island, Cox's Bazaar District in Bangladesh, on 28/11/2015.

In two other recent studies, the Cornell team of researchers have found that communications about climate change are more persuasive among political conservatives when framed in terms of localized, near - term impacts and if they feature compassion appeals for the victims of climate change disasters, such as drought.

(c) Whether the victims of climate change have a right to participate in decisions that must be made in the face of uncertainty?

Finance is not an add - on to our work on climate; it is what drives our work, and it's what gives the victims of climate change at least a fighting chance in adapting to the impacts.

At 12:58 p.m. there was a moment of silence for the victims of climate change, and at 1 p.m. there was a wave of sound that erupted symbolizing the climate alarm.

The purpose of the red lines was that they symbolized the victims of climate change.

Kilimanjaro's glaciers are not victims of climate change.

They are affected by the climate by being the victims of climate change.

If we look at past climate events, we can see that mainly the oppressed ones are the victims of these climate change effects.

Thus far fossil fuel companies have been able to reap billions of dollars of profits from their fossil fuel sales, all the while banking on the assumption that taxpayers and victims of climate change will pay the price.