Sentences with phrase «weather vulnerable areas»

Q / How will funds be used to help those most affected by climate change, such as energy workers, low - income families, agricultural workers and people in extreme weather vulnerable areas?

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Urban planners zero in on the areas of the Gulf Coast most vulnerable to the threat of extreme weather.

The millions who raise livestock in more arid areas of Africa are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather, as the current drought affecting Somalia and Kenya demonstrates.

In the United States, while more and more people are moving to vulnerable coastal areas, insurance companies are retreating, unwilling to pick up the hefty tab of future weather devastation.

As climate change makes vulnerable parts of the world more susceptible to weather - related problems, people move from an afflicted region to neighboring areas, bringing them into conflict with the existing populations.

Entergy serves Louisiana, among other southern Gulf Coast states, as an energy generator and transmitter and is vulnerable to adverse weather events that may strike the area as Hurricane Katrina did in 2005, he said.

There was enough of a probability of severe snowfall in the areas of those two states that were most vulnerable to that kind of weather to justify the actions that were taken.

• Human security — Increasingly displacing people, global warming - related extreme weather events in both rural and urban areas expose vulnerable populations to high risk of social upheaval.

The review found that efforts to improve social infrastructure must consider populations in areas particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events.