Sentences with phrase «which focus on climate change»

Two additional working groups, which focus on climate change impacts and responses, will release their reports early next year, followed by a synthesis volume.

On 17 — 21 October, the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome.During the first day, FAO launched its flagship publication on The State of Food and Agriculture, which focused on climate change this year.

She was selected by the World Bank to co-direct its prestigious World Development Report 2010, which focused on climate change and development.

Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change science and policy.

Sullivan said the exhibit, which focused on climate change in the Arctic as observed by scientists and local indigenous peoples, deliberately highlighted any scientific ambiguity in the data.

He joined us last year as the Green Man on the Street for 24 Hours of Reality and has founded the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, which focuses on climate change as well as animal rights.

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The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth, teems with marine life and will be the focus of Australia's Earth Hour — a global campaign which encourages individuals and organisations to switch off their lights for one hour on April 29 for climate change.

El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that focuses on social justice, education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans on the island view as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

When the Tory leader returned to the dispatch box for his second set of questions, he focused on the climate change bill, which his party has been championing and which the government is expected to introduce in the Queen's speech next month.

Norgaard was surprised Morano had noticed her, because although her university had written a press release, she hadn't seen much coverage of her research, which focuses on why it is so difficult for societies to take action to respond to climate change.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

The proposal appears in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, which focuses on «Geoscale engineering to avert dangerous climate change.»

The first morning lecture series for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which is focused on physics for this, its 62nd anniversary year, got off to a cosmic start, tracing the origins and evolution of the universe, before crashing back to Earth with a discussion of climate change.

An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last year — which came to similar conclusions as the new report — did include the United States, but it focused more on North America as a whole.

Harstad acknowledged that such an approach would be a «radical departure» from the more popular view, embodied in such agreements as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which places much of its focus on end - of - stack emissions.

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.

In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.

This represents a shift in the usual analysis of climate change, particularly in international negotiations, which tend to focus on how much concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will rise by a particular date.

«Since some of those disease causes may include swings in temperature or precipitation, ultimately which may be related to climate change, we need to focus our efforts on remediating climate change,» he said.

The United States will begin its leadership of the Arctic Council at an international meeting in Iqaluit, Canada, on Friday, beginning a two - year term in which the State Department has signaled it will focus heavily on climate change.

The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of climate change and population growth.

According to Sharp, the focus of the findings also marks an important milestone from the perspective of glaciology, which traditionally focuses on sea level as the most direct consequence of the impact of climate change on glaciers.

With the agreement in effect, COP22 has been designated «the COP of action,» and the focus will be on implementation of the agreement and detailed questions of enforcement, commitment, and issues such as the loss and damage due to climate change, which are already occurring.

«The Assyrians can be «excused» to some extent for focusing on short - term economic or political goals which increased their risk of being negatively impacted by climate change, given their technological capacity and their level of scientific understanding about how the natural world worked,» adds Selim Adalı.

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.

The gallery celebrates 10 years of supporting exceptional artists, filmmakers and musicians, but the benefit (which raised $ 765,000 this year) extends beyond Texas» art scene: Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa's co-founder and executive director, told DuJour before dinner, «We're going to continue doing what we've been doing, but also expand our Marfa dialog,» the forefront of which is a focus on climate change and environmental issues through programs involving grants and partnerships in New York this fall.

The work, which first premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale and will have its first New York presentation at the New Museum, focuses on the ocean as an environmental, cultural, and historical force, connecting literature and poetry, the history of slavery, and contemporary issues of migration and climate change.

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Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

The presentations, nearly all of which are online, are focused on food, health and energy, but also on the value of slowing climate change and conserving the planet's biological bounty, called by some participants «natural capital.»

At a time when melting polar sea ice is causing so many to focus on which political power will place its flag over the Arctic, controlling the Northwest Passage shipping lanes and the petroleum resources beneath the sea ice, Miami artist Xavier Cortada has developed a project that engages people across the world below to plant a green flag and native tree to help address global climate change.

Focusing especially on anything in that which might enhance our solving the coming climate change catastrophe before it happens or enabling climate models to be enhanced in their predictive power.

I have just written a report for the Council on Foreign Relations on climate change and national security which is a little different than the others in that it focuses on what needs to be done, if you take the problem to be a real one.

Postscript, 5:25 p.m. ** Via Twitter, I was pointed to a Heritage Foundation blog post by Joel Griffith criticizing Young Conservatives for Energy Reform for supporting renewable - energy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate change.

He points to the lack of close - focus climate analysis in the region, which was a point made in «The Climate Divide,» our 2007 special report on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan climate analysis in the region, which was a point made in «The Climate Divide,» our 2007 special report on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan Climate Divide,» our 2007 special report on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan climate change in places like sub-Saharan Africa.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

Discovery Channel has announced that it will, in fact, air the last episode of the new series Frozen Planet, which focuses solely on the impact of climate change at the...

McIntyre and others are more restrained, focusing on the decline shown by tree ring data, which is one form of climate change evidence.

There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between climate and fields such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.

He instead focused on his attacks on the Clean Power Plan, which set the first - ever national limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that contribute to climate change.

There has been renewed focus on the science of climate change since Blanchett appeared in an advert supporting the proposed carbon price, which is set to be introduced on 1 July next year.

Billions of dollars are committed each year to the international fight against climate change, but the majority of these funds focus on mitigation initiatives, mainly renewable energy, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«Books on climate change tend to focus on what is expected to happen this century, which will certainly be large, but they often neglect the even larger changes expected to take place over many centuries.The Long Thaw looks at climate effects beyond the twenty - first century, and its focus on the long - term carbon cycle, rather than just climate change, is unique.»

I'm going to try to [snip then do so] focus on what I was invited to comment on, which were Richard's list of statements on climate change.

Carbon Tracker believes that fossil fuel management are overly focused on demand and price scenarios that assume business as usual and so there may be a risk assessment «gap» between a management's view of the future and that which would result from action on climate change, technology developments and changing economic assumptions.

By focusing on the consequences of climate change rather than its scientific causes, some experts suggest that Mr. Nash succeeded in circumventing a divisive political debate over global warming and the extent to which human activity contributes to it.

My focus has been on recent global climate change and I have not thought much about the damage function, decarbonisation rate, and expectations for proposed solutions, which I'm happy to leave to others.

Shell is almost solely focused on CCS as a mechanism for tackling climate change, sources at the company say, although most independent advisers believe CCS, which has still not proved itself to be commercially or technologically possible on a large scale, will not be ready until 2020 at the earliest.