Sentences with phrase «vulnerable regions of»

It aims to not only help advance the climate change and food security dialogue in Nepal, but also provide concrete inputs for adaptation planning to build resilience in the most vulnerable regions of the country.

The intelligence community uses Weather Analytics» database to assess the role of climate change in the political destabilization of vulnerable regions of the world.

Pro-inflammatory cytokines circulate all over the body and cause systemic inflammation, which, in turn, can cause considerable problems in certain vulnerable regions of the brain such as the hippocampus.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

Today in PLOS Pathogens, scientists report that they've designed small molecules to target a particularly vulnerable region of hemagglutinin, one of the two proteins that jut from the viral surface like a flower.

In a particularly vulnerable region of the brain called the striatum, HD mutation carriers show shrinkage as long as 15 years before they'd be predicted to have symptoms of HD.

Not exact matches

As the region with the highest percentage of EEA - born workers, rising from 7 % in 2004 to 14 % in 2016, London is most vulnerable to a drop in migration, the report said.

In addition to paying fair prices for the herbs used in its beverages, REBBL donates 2.5 percent of its net revenue to Not For Sale to support regions of the world that are vulnerable to exploitation and human trafficking.

With lower external debt than other regions, Asian economies have been less vulnerable to a strengthening U.S. dollar, which remains one of the main risks to our outlook for emerging markets.

Bonds of Europe's most - indebted nations slumped as speculation resurfaced that the euro region remains vulnerable to shocks as it emerges from the sovereign debt crisis.

«Additionally, the UK Government's # 1.1 billion commitment is helping hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people in Syria and the region to rebuild their lives and next month's Syria conference in London will raise significant new funding from the international community.

Open Doors is petitioning Secretary of State John Kerry and USAID ambassador Alfonso Lenhardt, asking them not for immigration help but to ensure that aid is reaching the most vulnerable, that efforts to defeat ISIS are strengthened, and that there is long - term investment in the region.

Particularly vulnerable are the delicate soil systems of tropical and subtropical regions.

«The position of Christians in the region [the Middle East] is more vulnerable than it has been for centuries.»

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

The years - worth of free rice from USAID and the UN after the earthquake put an entire region of Haitian rice farmers out of work, driving their families into abject poverty, and now their children are vulnerable to child trafficking.

The Rainforest Alliance will continue its commitment to reduce the effects of climate change by building climate resilience in some of the world's most vulnerable regions through forest conservation and sustainable agriculture.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

The company donates 2.5 percent of revenue to Not For Sale to support regions of the world vulnerable to exploitation and human trafficking.

The IEF invests in Early Childhood Development for the most vulnerable children within the Winelands region of South Africa.

In the Harran region in the south - east Turkey, where refugee camps are home to some 14,000 Syrian refugees, Ebru Baybara Demir leads the Harran Gastronomy School Project, an initiative to improve the employment prospects of economically vulnerable Turkish and Syrian women through culinary training.

A look back at our decades - long partnership with indigenous and rural communities to build a sustainable forest economy in one of Guatemala's most valuable, vulnerable regions.

Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the region and as a result, it is particularly vulnerable to accepting incentives from foreign companies.

The problem with the sorts of ideas being batted around at the moment — primarily devolution for the English regions — is that they are at once too concrete and too unsystematic, while also being too «top down», and too vulnerable to short term swings of public opinion.

In our target regions of Eastern and North - West, especially, we think that UKIP are highly - vulnerable to losing a seat to us.

The leader of the United Renaissance Party, Kofi Wayo says he is touring remote villages in the Volta Region to provide relief and support to the vulnerable.

«The Democratic field for Mayor this year was comprised of candidates who are passionate about improving the quality of life for workers, the middle class, and New York's most vulnerable, such as the poor and senior citizens,» said UAW Region 9A Director Julie Kushner.

Addressing women and vulnerable groups in Bolgatanga during a familiarization tour of the Upper East Region, Afisah Djaba was optimistic of government's commitment to settling all its debts.

The Upper East Region will soon have a register of all vulnerable groups and households to guide the execution of government social intervention programmes.

The minister told health workers in the region that the government is aware of the numerous challenges facing them in their quest to provide healthcare for the people, especially the vulnerable in the rural communities.

Adds D'Amato: «It's very similar to an Ohio kind of thing,» meaning that vulnerable New York Republicans are in much the same spot as their endangered congressional colleagues in former industrial powerhouse regions to their west.»

Addressing supporters of the governing NDC at Savelugu in the Northern Region, President Mahama said the promise to provide free temporary housing for such vulnerable girls is insulting to the dignity of northern girls.

The bill is being drafted by Republican Assembly members including Jim Tedisco of the Capital Region, who says police are most vulnerable when sitting in thier vehicles.

Stein pointed out that these neurons are in a region of the brain known to be particularly vulnerable to neurodegenerative conditions from Alzheimer's disease to stroke.

One of the eight vulnerable grid segments they identified was the quintet of lines north of San Diego whose shutdown would seal the region's fate.

Methods included using pipes called thermosiphons along the sides of the tracks to refrigerate vulnerable parts of the soil along the highest parts of the plateau, an area that comprises the largest continuous sub-Arctic permafrost region on the planet.

Analysis of underground stresses could help predict vulnerable regions elsewhere in the United States

Many of these regions of high SGD — 12 % of the overall coastline — overlapped with areas of heavy development, and Sawyer says these areas are the most vulnerable to contamination.

«Though poorer countries in hotter regions are most vulnerable to climate change, our findings highlight the extent to which countries are interlinked, and Europe will see increasing numbers of desperate people fleeing their home countries.»

From the 1970s to 1990s, the population dropped by 80 percent, and similar to other exploited species the fish have started to aggregate in smaller regions of the sea, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure.

«We found the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has an «Achilles heel,» a vulnerable spot in the North Atlantic Ocean in the region south of Greenland.»

«The marine calcifiers that live in polar regions are particularly vulnerable to the effects of ocean acidification, a progress which is reducing their mineralization capacity and forming calcium carbonate (CaCO3) skeletons used as a protective and supporting structure against predators» says Blanca Figuerola, main author of the scientific study.

Experts should take note of local knowledge and beliefs when making plans about how to help people in vulnerable regions cope with the impacts of climate change.

But now, a vulnerable glacier on the other side of the island, part of a massive flow of ice known as the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceans.

Dr Sealey - Huggins suggests that the lack of capital resources in the Caribbean results in the region being particularly vulnerable to manipulation through the use of financial aid in this way.

All told, the most vulnerable regions included much of southern Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America and southern Australia thanks to a combination of degraded landscapes and shifting climates.

(The brain samples, obtained through the Banner Sun Health Research Institute, were taken from a region known to be vulnerable to the most devastating effects of Alzheimer's.)

The retreat is especially severe in West Antarctica, widely acknowledged as the most vulnerable part of the continent and the region whose glaciers are losing the most ice.

One of the members, senior project coordinator Jim Sipes of the Atlanta office of EDAW, a landscape architecture and planning firm, exploited existing data to model which low - lying regions are most at risk from storm surges and flooding and where the most vulnerable populations are concentrated.

«It can amplify and unmask ecological and socio - political weaknesses and increase the risk of adverse health outcomes in socially vulnerable regions.»