Sentences with phrase «with climate change projects»

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«The critical factor in my determination was this: moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combating climate change,» Kerry wrote.

Campbell also said the project «meshes» with British Columbia's climate change goals.

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«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Even addressing climate change — Project Drawdown analyzed more than 100 different climate change - reversing solutions, and it turns out that eight of the top 20 solutions with the greatest impact can be found in the food system.

Launched last week, the project is part of the Wellcome Trust's # 5 million Our Planet, Our Health programme, which aims to improve human health while at the same time protecting a world struggling to cope with the effects of climate change.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

With increased attention to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsets, the goal of the project partners is to provide a free, easy - to - use, wine industry specific, greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol and calculator that will measure the carbon footprints of winery and vineyard operations of all sizes.

For three years, UTZ and the DE Foundation worked on an ambitious Coffee Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate climate change.

Keeping abreast of the new scientific discoveries and tools related to climate change, designing and implementing our own research and monitoring projects, encouraging scientists to use our wildlife sanctuaries, and sharing lessons learned with our partners are appropriate high impact strategies for a science - based organization like Mass Audubon.

Individuals, classes, or stewardship teams may help with projects relating to climate change or invasive species.

The two - year project, called Building Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to action.

Also, should China manage to shape the climate change regime to its favour, it could even gain an advantage vis - à - vis India, which already share with the PRC the highest number of projects under the KP's Clean Development Mechanism.

Two gubernatorial hopefuls marched with more than 1,000 climate change protesters to call on the Cuomo administration to implement more environmentally friendly policies, starting with a new microgrid project that heats and cools the Empire State Plaza.

«AfDB has chosen to support this project because its goals are consistent with our institution's reaffirmed commitment to help African countries like Ghana meet their climate change and sustainable development goals,» said Richard Fusi, Task Team Leader.

With climate change and other environmental issues part of the political dialogue in the Democratic primary for governor, Cuomo says the state is again soliciting for large - scare renewable energy projects.

FoE's Planning Campaigner, Hugh Ellis said: «With no reference to climate change in the planning bill, people have no guarantees that ministers will take climate change into account when considering major projects such as roads, airports and power stations which will lock us into the path towards climate change and environmental destruction.

Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has attacked the plans after a climate change amendment - which would have created a statutory requirement to consider climate change when approving major infrastructure projects - was defeated by 15 votes (with 24 Labour MPs rebelling).

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

That said, Chiazza said he will look at whether the climate in Amherst toward development changes, and that will determine whether the company moves forward with future projects there.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said ministers should change their mind and use the cash specifically for projects such as improving energy efficiency of homes, investing in low - carbon technologies and helping poorer countries cope with climate change.

So Jones and his colleagues combined data from 11 standard climate change models with their own models on projected population patterns.

Meanwhile, the new study suggests the effect will intensify in the future with continued climate change, based on computer models that attempt to project how rising temperatures would affect the Arctic's chemical reservoirs.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

With global climate models projecting further drying over the Amazon in the future, the potential loss of vegetation and the associated loss of carbon storage may speed up global climate change.

The ability to make and study cubic ice in the laboratory could improve computer models of how clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere — two keys to understanding climate change, said Barbara Wyslouzil, project leader and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Ohio State University.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

With such episodes projected to occur more often even if climate change is mitigated, researchers are redoubling efforts to identify the factors that can make a reef resilient to harsh conditions.

ICLEI will be joining with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Project, which represents the largest cities in the world and just sponsored a climate change conference in São Paulo, to complete the prClimate Leadership Project, which represents the largest cities in the world and just sponsored a climate change conference in São Paulo, to complete the prclimate change conference in São Paulo, to complete the protocol.

The UTSA researcher says the shift in collective action and climate change advocacy began in the mid-to-late 2000s with 350.org, the Climate Reality Project and the «Keep It in the Ground» campaign, which depended on the Internet and other digital platforms to gain trclimate change advocacy began in the mid-to-late 2000s with 350.org, the Climate Reality Project and the «Keep It in the Ground» campaign, which depended on the Internet and other digital platforms to gain trClimate Reality Project and the «Keep It in the Ground» campaign, which depended on the Internet and other digital platforms to gain traction.

«Stronger» results than IPCC Even after the Berkeley project's initial findings last year agreed with prior analyses by NASA, NOAA and the Hadley Centre, Muller resisted pinning the blame for climate change on man - made greenhouse gas emissions.

Authors project with high confidence that continued growth in emissions from global passenger and freight activity could «outweigh future mitigation measures,» says a preliminary version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study obtained by ClimateWire.

But global CO2 emissions are still on track to meet or exceed the most extreme emissions scenarios outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, and by the scenarios the panel will use in the report it will release next year, scientists with the Global Carbon Project said.

«Climatic changes are threatening highly prized native trout as introduced rainbow trout continue to expand their range and hybridize with native populations through climate - induced «windows of opportunity,» putting many populations and species at greater risk than previously thought,» said project leader and USGS scientist Clint Muhlfeld.

And Sawe has started working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to explore some of their Pacific Ocean data for another data sonification project down the road that could add another song to the soundtrack of climate change.

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

It's difficult to project the rate of sea - level rise 90 years in the future, though its assumptions are in line with the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The group notes that streams that have the optimal combination of several imperiled mussel species, low chance of a significant temperature swing with projected climate change and being in a protected area are few, but are a good bet to start conservation efforts.

Although computer models used to project climate changes from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations consistently simulate an increasing upward airflow in the tropics with global warming, this flow can not be directly observed.

That threat may be growing — a recent study projected that lightning will become more frequent with climate change.

It was interesting to note, however, that most of the projects described are based in the US, with its high proportion of vocal climate change naysayers.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic condProject leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic condproject was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

Formerly a project director Florida Atlantic University's Center for Environmental Studies, Hammer has consulted with Union of Concerned Scientists and now serves Florida field manager for the Moms Clean Air Force, a group seeking to «further the public's awareness of climate change on children's health,» the White House says in a blog post.

«Sometimes they produce gas just to burn it and get some CDM money, and it's not at all an honest way of behaving,» said Chaim Nissim, an engineer with Noe21, a Geneva - based climate change advocacy organization that has researched carbon offsetting projects at industrial gas companies.

Jeremy Hess, an Emory University physician and epidemiologist who has studied the relationship between climate change and health conditions, said in an email that the WHO findings are «a significant step forward in the global estimation of projected disease burden associated with climate change.»

This research is part of multi-pronged project funded in 2014 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation aimed at partnering with local organizations to develop science - based climate change solutions for coastal communities.

«By understanding the patterns of the vegetation and termite mounds over different moisture zones, we can project how the landscape might change with climate change,» said Greg Asner, a scientist at Carnegie.