Sentences with phrase «weather shocks»

But as climate change brings more frequent and severe weather shocks such as droughts and floods, and makes rainfall patterns less predictable, these gains are under threat.

At the moment, population and income growth are the big drivers, with random weather shocks causing more problems today than they would have in the past.

Wealthier countries can expect to feel the direct and indirect effects of weather shocks from manmade climate change in poorer, less resilient countries.»

Farming in Africa is often done in marginal areas — such as flood plains, deserts, and hillsides — where ever more frequent weather shocks cause severe damage to soil and crops.

Smallholder farmers facing weather shocks and other climate - change related events are already using a variety of adaptation measures.

Pastoralists have long coped with — even thrived on — wide variations in temperature and rainfall, but they are extremely vulnerable to the harsher weather shocks brought about by climate change in three ways: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity.

This analytical paper published by Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality - level incidence of dengue and malaria.

Establishing clear and quantitative causal links is tricky because although climate change is known to increase the frequency and severity of weather shocks over the long term, it's not possible to attribute specific droughts, floods, and storms to climate change.

The recent extreme flooding in the UK and Ireland has highlighted the devastating effect our changing climate can have; but if we do not take action fast, future generations will experience weather shocks on a far greater scale.

Sun - dappled streams, swaying trees and an almost palpable sense of weather shock with their photorealism — if this is what animation has become, the computers have won.

Macroeconomic policies in these countries will need to be calibrated to accommodate more frequent weather shocks, including by building policy space to respond to shocks; infrastructure will need to be upgraded to enhance economic resilience.

The research adds to a growing body of evidence that weather shocks can destabilize societies, stoke conflict and force people to flee their home countries.

The Potatoes on Mars project was conceived by CIP to both understand how potatoes might grow in Mars conditions and also see how they survive in the extreme conditions similar to what parts of the world already suffering from climate change and weather shocks are already experiencing.

The 2010 weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases but also with a decrease in its incidence (particularly in the presence of extreme rain events).

Suggesting that weather shocks are somehow not related to climate change seems a rather bizarre distinction.

«The key difference is that weather shocks are unexpected, but climate change is not.»