Sentences with phrase «which challenge climate change»

Typically, cold weather such as the UK is experiencing — an inch or so of snow that brings the country to a grinding halt — is used as the background to stories which challenge climate change orthodoxy.

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These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»

Beijing is acutely aware of its energy challenges, which include dependence on international energy markets, price volatility, regional energy shortages, climate change and deteriorating ecosystems.

In the complete change of religious climate after Constantine most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

In the complete change of religious climate most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

We provide support for municipalities through the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, which assists communities in addressing the challenges of climate change and prioritizing actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

Mass Audubon provides support for municipalities through the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, which assists communities in addressing the challenges of climate change and prioritizing actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.

ICE Scotland challenge policy - makers to commit to infrastructure, setting out recommendations which will help prepare for the challenges of climate change and population growth.

Indeed there is no doubt that the future direction of the European Union will have a major impact on the political landscape of the UK: Completion of the single market, enlargement, climate change and security are some of the salient challenges which Member States will confront over the coming years and we as British Conservatives should be at the forefront of those advocating sensible and workable solutions.

Speaking Friday in Nairobi at an event organised by Rich Management, Kenya, Mr Mahama described climate change as a «new global challenge» which requires sustained focus.

The visitor to the institution who identified series of challenges confronting the nation including «infant mortality, extreme poverty, insecurity, climate change, the rabid activities of terrorists, described these problems as monsters which can not be allowed to prowl the street without being controlled.

The Clean Power Plan, which was already on hold pending the results of a court challenge from Republican governors, was central to President Barack Obama's plan for meeting the emissions reductions the United States pledged as part of the Paris agreement, which updated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

James Hunt, chief of environment and energy services for Boston, says climate change will be a challenge throughout the city, half of which is built on filled tidal lands.

The study included 1,341 people, data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and focused on a specific partisan issue on which scientific consensus has been widely adopted by Democrats but challenged by Republicans.

But addressing the energy challenge, which would go a long way toward addressing the climate change, is ultimately about global moral and economic standing.

There is a small minority, including people like Gene Koprowski, marketing director at the Heartland Institute, which has consistently produced research challenging the science behind climate change, who have called into question the pope's wisdom in taking up the issue, even suggesting that he was inspired by «pagan remnants.»

Also gone is the 2008 platform's proposal for a government - sponsored «Climate Prize,» which would award millions of dollars to «scientists who solve the challenges of climate change.Climate Prize,» which would award millions of dollars to «scientists who solve the challenges of climate change.climate change.»

The challenge is to investigate the consequences and viability of different schemes, while being careful that it is not being (ab) used as an alibi not to work on emission reduction, which should be the first and foremost strategy to prevent dangerous climate change.

Thus, research aimed at fully understanding the mechanisms by which plants either defend against, or succumb to infection / infestation is of paramount importance to facing the global challenges of feeding a burgeoning population amidst a changing climate.

In 2012, a controversial study challenged previously accepted ideas about the mechanisms through which climate change will affect our weather: Warmer temperatures will result in more heat waves, hotter summers will bring worse droughts, the warmer atmosphere will hold more water, resulting in heavier precipitation and flooding.

He also co-directs Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasClimate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coasclimate change poses to the world's coastlines.

This module will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long ‐ term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards.

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If climate change exceeds the temperature target, scientists warn, there is a greater risk that the world's ice sheets will be destabilized, leading to sharply rising seas, and increasing climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves and floods, which could pose daunting challenges for food and water availability for growing populations.

Attribution of hurricane characteristics to climate change is extremely challenging, and the authors have focussed only on the precipitation response, which is perhaps the most well understood, and is particularly important given the nature of the flooding in Texas due to Harvey.

«New challenges arise due to climate change and decreasing resources, which is why we need to keep revisiting our agenda and stay responsive to the needs of our farmers and consumers.»

She also manages G4C's design challenges, which invite professional game developers to submit game concepts and / or prototypes that address specific social issues such as Migration, Climate Change, Nuclear disarmament and more.

In addition to the outdoor sculptural works (which apparently remain accessible even in winter) 2016 also saw the start of the Verbier 3 - D Glacier Project, four years of interplay between artists, locals and environmentalists looking at the challenges of climate change and chronicling its impact on the local environment.

This collection of essays, which emerged from a 2012 conference of the same name at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Center for 21st Century Studies, assembles texts by a group of scholars who expand on numerous challenges involving engagement with the nonhuman, such as climate change, biotechnology, genocide, terrorism, and war.

NONE of them have questioned the science behind climate change for more than a decade; they may argue about which policies are the best way to address the problem, what mix of government regulations and private sector actions is best, but not one challenges the science.

This article minimizes what credibly could be the largest challenge in dealing with climate change: Holding the atmosphere to a CO2 content no greater than 450 PPM to prevent an increase of no more than 2 degrees C, beyond which runaway growth in CO2 could occur from natural sources.

The project also helps bridge the «climate change information gap» and aid researchers in developing countries because the files are smaller and more easily downloadable, and also in text format which can be easier to work with.: UNDP Country Climate Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.climate change information gap» and aid researchers in developing countries because the files are smaller and more easily downloadable, and also in text format which can be easier to work with.: UNDP Country Climate Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.&change information gap» and aid researchers in developing countries because the files are smaller and more easily downloadable, and also in text format which can be easier to work with.: UNDP Country Climate Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.Climate Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.&Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.&Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.&Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.&Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.»

Organizers say that the meeting is larger than last year's, which centered on challenging the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

So Southgate, too, presents a picture with no cliffs or collapses, but instead a transition to an era in which food supplies will most likely progressively tighten (unless countries get serious about a research push, which is particularly important with climate change posing fresh challenges).

-- the extent to which technical innovations can keep up both with growing food demand (with more or less the same resource use) and the debilitating effects of climate change (a large set of biological challenges)

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

Debuys» main takeaway from his extensive interviews and travels amounts to simple arithmetic involving the above points: (1) climate change makes (2) droughts and (3) growth even more challenging for the Southwest, which is (and always has been) vulnerable to rapid population expansion and resource depletion.

Even more challenging are the policy design issues that will decide the extent to which a REDD instrument will interact with the over-arching climate change mitigation strategy.

And in a world of accelerating sea level rise and climate change, in which farmland is being degraded and turned to desert, in which ever more land is set aside for carbon storage in the form of forest, and in which the strains of survival increase social divisions and social conflict, there is a new challenge: where will the 2bn climate refugees find new homes?

In selecting his team to carry us forward into a future in which the weather and climate patterns of the past can no longer be assumed to be valid indicators of future climate conditions affecting the economy and society, we hope the next President will swiftly and skillfully select a set of strong «climate leaders» with honesty, integrity, and dedication to bringing the best scientific and technological intelligence we can muster to bear on the host of climate change challenges we face.

It is to be seen whether his remark was merely a «rhetoric» or something which meant real works on the ground to fight the challenge of climate change.

The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.»

Daily Pioneer: Climate change is a major challenge for developing countries like India which are exposed to greater risk from this phenomenon.

Given the multiple drivers of migration (Black et al., 2011a and b) and the complex interactions which mediate migratory decision - making by individual or households (Raleigh, 2008; McLeman and Smit, 2006; Kniveton et al., 2011; Black et al., 2011a and b), the projection of the effects of climate change on intra-rural and rural - to - urban migration remains a major challenge.

The wager was inspired by Wharton School of Business professor Scott Armstrong's similar $ 10,000 challenge to Al Gore over climate change, which the former vice president declined.

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

«From 1993 through 1998, I pooh - poohed climate change as an imaginary problem,» he said about his attitude during his first three terms in Congress — which he left to unsuccessfully challenge incumbent Democrat Ernest Hollings for his U.S. Senate seat.