• Being able to manage these risks in 2023 and beyond will help companies demonstrate climate resilience and provide access to capital in the long term. (csrwire.com)
  • In the climate sensitive agricultural sector, farmers need timely information on weather and climate variability to adjust their farming practices and minimize adverse impacts on rural livelihoods, agricultural productivity and food security. (worldbank.org)
  • Traditionally we think about the impacts of climate change as gradual: a gradual warming of the planet, a gradual rising of the oceans. (deloitte.com)
  • Mining organisations have the opportunity in front of them today to both prepare for the gradual and prepare for the sudden impacts of climate change. (deloitte.com)
  • As the impacts of climate change become clearer, more organizations recognize that the changing climate poses threats to both national and global security. (sandia.gov)
  • A leaked draft of the IPCC report notes that a warming climate would lead to fewer cold weather-related deaths but the benefits would be ''greatly'' outweighed by the impacts of more frequent heat extremes. (smh.com.au)
  • The consequences of ignoring that science will be devastating climate impacts that threaten the lives and well-being of people around the world. (commondreams.org)
  • This ensures communities can help advance the clean energy economy as the they confront the impacts of the climate crisis. (fema.gov)
  • This devastating disaster shows how climate change-fueled extreme weather events are combining with human factors to create even bigger impacts, as more people, assets and infrastructure are exposed and vulnerable to flood risks," said Julie Arrighi, director at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. (yahoo.com)
  • To combat these pressing issues, Pakistan must urgently prioritize adaptation and build resilience to climate change impacts. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Access to timely, accurate information on climate and weather is critical for building resilience against the impacts of climate change, especially in highly vulnerable regions like Sub-Saharan Africa. (winrock.org)
  • Setting climate impacts aside, not being able to access resources at low cost also has a direct financial impact. (csrwire.com)
  • Rural, small town, and tribal communities are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, from increasing extreme weather events to changes in crop and livestock productivity. (cfra.org)
  • BREAD's research components address fundamental knowledge and scientific issues of global importance, with a focus on Uganda, which is expected to secure the country against the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters. (lu.se)
  • To serve as a credible leader in planning for the public health impacts of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • If environmental peacebuilding aims to foster peace in relation to environmental issues - both to enhance resilience to climate impacts and avoid further contributing to harmful climate change - aligning peacebuilding with climate action should take priority. (lu.se)
  • In this week we explore tools and data for climate action and creating both immediate and long-lasting impacts. (lu.se)
  • This would be important for models to be used in the next major report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Professor Berry is one of three leading academics who have contributed to the health chapter of a Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report due on Monday. (smh.com.au)
  • Additionally, Conservation International will ensure that the projects meet strict environmental and social standards including standards set out by Verra, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the UN Climate Convention. (neowin.net)
  • On Aug. 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, marking a historic commitment to build a new clean energy economy and tackle the climate crisis. (fema.gov)
  • These funds and incentives support FEMA's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan goal of leading "whole of community in climate resilience" and encourage state, tribal, territories, and local partners to make strategic investments to build climate-resilient communities. (fema.gov)
  • Dec. 23, 2022 Climate change could overexpose rare underwater 'marimo' algae balls to sunlight, killing them off according to a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • They analyzed color variation data from 2002 to 2022 and then used climate change models to simulate what would happen to the oceans both with additional planet-heating pollution and without. (cnn.com)
  • According to Nasdaq research , currently 58% of S&P 500 companies have a climate-related goal in their 2022 Proxy Statement. (csrwire.com)
  • The 2022 energy crisis, associated with the geopolitical conflict in Ukraine, made energy costs soar. (csrwire.com)
  • Cite this: Climate Changes are Making Some Bird Feathers Less Colorful - Medscape - Jul 22, 2022. (medscape.com)
  • NIST held a workshop on January 26, 2021 with the goal to connect the U.S. building codes and standards development communities with agencies and organizations collecting and disseminating climate change data. (nist.gov)
  • The project will also support agricultural management information system services to help farmers mitigate climate-related production risks. (worldbank.org)
  • Recognizing the high levels of exposure to climate change risks, in 2009, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) selected Nepal as one of nine pilot countries for the PPCR. (worldbank.org)
  • Climate resilience involves organisations developing the ability to adapt to and respond to climate change to better manage risks and seize opportunities. (deloitte.com)
  • How do we keep Americans safe, not only from the hazards that climate change poses, but also the national security risks that derive from those climate hazards? (sandia.gov)
  • These principles advocate for integrating climate adaptation into all decisions, strategic planning for future climate changes, reliance on scientific data and local knowledge, promotion of nature-based solutions, addressing local risks and opportunities, prioritizing inclusivity and support for vulnerable groups, proactively adapting to changing conditions, promoting social justice, fostering collaboration for practical adaptation efforts, and enhancing capacity and knowledge for adaptation planning and understanding. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Given the critical role of human capital in Pakistan's development, the NAP emphasizes integrating climate adaptation into health and education policies, enhancing climate resilience through disaster emergency preparedness and response, and building workforce capacities to address and adapt to climate risks. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Improving climate resilience involves (1) assessing how climate change will create new, or alter current, climate-related risks, and (2) taking steps to better cope with these risks. (csrwire.com)
  • All these challenges are linked to transitional climate risks through fuel, energy and emissions. (csrwire.com)
  • In this effort to pass down climate targets, these corporations are working to mitigate their own climate-related risks and improve climate resilience throughout their value chain. (csrwire.com)
  • By not having a climate-related target in place, supply chain participants are exposing themselves to climate-related risks that will directly impact their financial health. (csrwire.com)
  • To improve north-south scientific collaboration through research, education, and publication that generates knowledge crucial for sustainable climate change adaptation and resilience to disaster risks. (lu.se)
  • In May 2008, the World Health Assembly requested the Director-General of WHO to continue close cooperation with Member States, appropriate United Nations agencies and other partners in order to develop capacity to assess the risks of climate change to human health. (who.int)
  • Workplace safety is a primary concern for manufacturing organizations, where risks of accident and injury are significant (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012). (cdc.gov)
  • With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. (worldbank.org)
  • I believe sound science can make a difference in the complex, but necessary, transition to a sustainable society​. (tno.nl)
  • Moreover, the NAP focuses on preserving Pakistan's natural capital by promoting sustainable land management, integrated watershed management, improved water quality through better wastewater management, investment in coastal and marine resources, and addressing the air pollution-climate change nexus. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Recognizing the impact of climate change on urban areas, the NAP addresses urban resilience by mainstreaming climate adaptation, improving land regulation and land-use planning, enhancing climate-smart municipal services, leveraging nature-based solutions, and developing financing instruments for sustainable and resilient urbanization. (eurasiareview.com)
  • As part of the USAID Learning Agenda for Climate Services in Sub-Saharan Africa Program , Winrock is working to evaluate gaps in National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, identify business models to improve sustainable funding, and build partnerships and knowledge for improved climate information delivery. (winrock.org)
  • However, climate protectio projects not only reduce climate-impacting emissions, but also contribute to sustainable development in the project region. (myclimate.org)
  • It's in our power to harness innovation, embrace the newest low-energy technologies, reduce demand (and cost) for people and help build communities that are sustainable and low-impact. (greenbiz.com)
  • I taly is becoming the first country in the world to require climate change and sustainable development to be taught as part of the curriculum for every grade. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Pieter Pauw is policy advisor and senior researcher at the Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy and adjunct assistant professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of Utrecht University. (routledge.com)
  • Therefore, there is a need to reimage sustainable development as a transformative process in society to fight not only social and economic inequalities, but also climate change vulnerabilities. (lu.se)
  • This course explores how we can design, create and achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities. (lu.se)
  • We focus on mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions but also connect to adaptation, resilience, social justice and sustainable development in the context of cities, climate and change. (lu.se)
  • How can we develop transformative skills and capacities to achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities? (lu.se)
  • Our next big opportunity to share our message is da Vinci Days, an annual outdoor festival in Corvallis where we will have a booth with art and information relating to climate change. (sierraclub.org)
  • Last week, there was a CORDEX workshop on regional climate modelling at International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), near Trieste, Italy. (realclimate.org)
  • The once striking plumage color of the blue tit has steadily gotten duller over the past decade and a half, and climate change appears to be the cause, according to scientists from the University of Basque Country in Spain and the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive in Montpellier, France. (medscape.com)
  • Climate science from climate scientists. (realclimate.org)
  • Kiwi scientists have helped build the most complete database yet on how the planet's climate has changed from 1AD to the present. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The database is a goldmine for climate scientists and will help to seriously accelerate and fine-tune our efforts in understanding the regional expression of global change and its future trends. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Wisdom keepers and scientists are sharing many ways that we can make an impact through collective action. (earth911.com)
  • Climate action advocates around the world on Friday celebrated a London-based court's acquittal of five scientists who in April glued research and their own hands to a U.K. government building. (commondreams.org)
  • The members of Scientists for Extinction Rebellion (XR) faced charges of criminal damage for their nonviolent civil disobedience at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) building to stress the danger of new fossil fuel exploration. (commondreams.org)
  • Defendant Abi Perrin, who was acquitted, said that 'when governments ignore the warnings of the world's scientists and even their own climate pledges, it's hard not to feel desperate. (commondreams.org)
  • In a series of tweets about the court's decision, defendant Aaron Thierry said that 'if there are scientists reading this who are considering taking part in civil disobedience, or still uncertain but want to know more, then please check out our recent article' in the journal Nature Climate Change , which argues that the time is now for experts to join activist efforts. (commondreams.org)
  • To quantify the effect of climate change on the heavy rain in the region, scientists analysed climate data and computer model simulations to compare the climate as it is in current times - after about 1.2C of global warming - to the climate of the past in the late 1800s, using peer-reviewed methods. (yahoo.com)
  • In Spain, where most of the rain fell in just a few hours, scientists estimated such heavy rainfall is expected once every 40 years, but could not conduct a full attribution analysis because available climate models poorly represented heavy rainfall on timescales shorter than a day. (yahoo.com)
  • While WWA scientists said these results have large uncertainties due to lack of weather data from Libya, the role of the climate crisis was found in earlier assessments too, in making rainfall associated with storms heavier and more disastrous, especially for vulnerable countries. (yahoo.com)
  • By connecting to others through art and educational presentations, we hope to make climate change a topic that's not reserved for scientists or professional environmentalists一we want it to be something that everyone understands and considers as they make decisions, big or small. (sierraclub.org)
  • Recently, as fires burned hundreds of homes in Colorado, Climate Desk explained what scientists have learned about the link between climate change and the worsening wildfires. (motherjones.com)
  • As the world hurtles toward a future with temperatures above the thresholds scientists say will lead to the worst climate disruptions , humanity needs to take all the actions it can-collectively and as individuals-to bring planet-warming emissions down as quickly as possible . (scientificamerican.com)
  • The Government of Nepal has officially started implementation of the Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards (BRCH) Project for a value of $31 million. (worldbank.org)
  • Our active involvement in Climate Group's RE100, EP100, EV100 programmes is pivotal to executing our global sustainability strategy. (theclimategroup.org)
  • Mario Maier, CFO Supaso: "Hardly any company can avoid making concrete statements about the sustainability of its products. (myclimate.org)
  • The entire ministry is being changed," he said, "to make sustainability and climate change the center of the education model. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Few research publications reach outside the realm of academia and even fewer make an impact on sustainability debates and societal issues. (lu.se)
  • Unfortunately, this type of action seems to be one of the few ways left to draw attention to the urgency and scale of action needed to tackle the climate crisis. (commondreams.org)
  • The devastating floods in Libya that killed 11,000 people this month were made "50 times more likely" due to the man-made climate crisis , a scientific assessment has found. (yahoo.com)
  • However, the climate crisis played a role behind the heavy rainfall , researchers have said. (yahoo.com)
  • The study found the climate crisis made the heavy rainfall in Greece, Bulgaria and Türkiye up to 10 times more likely, while in Libya it was made up to 50 times more likely. (yahoo.com)
  • For Libya, they found the climate crisis made the event up to 50 times more likely to happen, with up to 50 per cent more rain during the period as a result of man-made pollution. (yahoo.com)
  • National programs can offer general guidance, but Pakistan will struggle to respond effectively to the climate crisis with a concerted effort to focus on local needs and planning. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Climate resilience has also been challenged this year by the global energy crisis. (csrwire.com)
  • WCAX) - A new podcast from University of Vermont students that tackles the climate crisis and environmental issues is ready for a listen. (wcax.com)
  • The ultimate goal is to protect it - and the real estate behind it - against rising lake waters, and the more intense, more frequent storms, fueled by climate change. (finance-commerce.com)
  • Despite safeguarding 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity, globally Indigenous groups only receive 1% of climate finance. (weforum.org)
  • Over 120 of the world's leading companies are making commitments across almost 100 markets to transition their fleets to EV and install EV charging for staff and customers by 2030. (theclimategroup.org)
  • Based on a detailed analysis of the first round of NDCs by some of the world's most knowledgeable climate policy experts, this book offers critical insights relevant to mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation. (routledge.com)
  • Strengthening Climate Information Services in Africa: Where are the Opportunities? (winrock.org)
  • NORCAP currently has four women deployed in Malawi, Niger, Tanzania and Kenya, to different organisations under NORCAP's "Strengthening Climate Services in Africa" project, funded by Norad. (nrc.no)
  • Financing climate adaptation and resilience is a significant challenge. (eurasiareview.com)
  • To build institutional, national and regional capacities and competencies in disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and resilience through human and infrastructural development at Makerere University and Gulu University, Uganda. (lu.se)
  • Four female NORCAP climate experts are working to counteract that, providing crucial climate information to women in rural communities in Africa. (nrc.no)
  • In November 2010, at the Second Interministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa that took place in Luanda, Angola, African Ministers of Health and Environment adopted a Joint Statement on Climate Change and Health. (who.int)
  • It will be done by strengthening the capacity of municipal authorities in multiple cities in Africa (Free Town, Kampala and Nairobi) when it comes to how they address climate-related displacement into and within their municipalities. (lu.se)
  • Our results shed light on individual, collective, and structural capacities that must be supported to address climate change. (lu.se)
  • We target how to support individuals and organisations in developing transformative skills and capacities for climate action in cities. (lu.se)
  • With efforts to curb Ireland's carbon emissions and renewable energy production ongoing, the Government has put in action a plan to create a think-tank of academics and agencies to ensure targets are met in the future. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • In a European COST-action initiative named 'VALUE', spearheaded by Douglas Maraun, the intention is to include statisticians for improved climate modelling. (realclimate.org)
  • Sandians are invited to Erin Sikorsky's presentation, "Analysis to action: Developing a climate security toolbox," on Monday, April 24, at 10:30-11:30 a.m. (sandia.gov)
  • They say that action on climate change would produce ''extremely large health benefits'', which would greatly outweigh the costs of curbing emission growth. (smh.com.au)
  • Her guidance helps us reframe our thoughts on climate change to facilitate personal and collective action. (earth911.com)
  • But that's no guarantee you're going to vote for a candidate who is going to do anything about it, or demand that those in power put climate action at the top of America's to-do list. (politico.com)
  • This compromises current climate targets and action plans. (tno.nl)
  • When the Trump administration pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement almost exactly a year ago, federal climate action came to a halt. (sierraclub.org)
  • Corvallis is one such city and its chapter of Youth Climate Action Now (YouCAN) is a group of young people dedicated to making sure that their city can live up to its promises. (sierraclub.org)
  • Climate action should be carried out in an equitable manner. (sierraclub.org)
  • Involvement from the community is critical to propel and maintain any serious attempts at climate action. (sierraclub.org)
  • A law that reduces emissions but disproportionately affects the poor is unacceptable and the importance of hasty climate action is not an excuse for us to ignore our responsibility to all members of our society. (sierraclub.org)
  • The tide of climate action is rising, and smaller and mid-size companies now face challenges beyond responding to investor pressures and regulatory requirements. (csrwire.com)
  • Together we can drive climate action, fast. (theclimategroup.org)
  • A global community of state and regional governments committed to ambitious climate action in line with the Paris Agreement. (theclimategroup.org)
  • Fortunately, rural communities are full of people taking action to address climate change. (cfra.org)
  • The group met through a club called the Climate, Communication, Action and Literacy Laboratory, or CCALL. (wcax.com)
  • These national climate action plans were key to the landmark adoption of the 2015 Paris Agreement. (routledge.com)
  • The findings reveal that, in general, individual and public climate action is perceived as leading to improved (rather than reduced) wellbeing and welfare. (lu.se)
  • At COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 the Global Mayors Action Agenda on Climate and Migration was launched. (lu.se)
  • Furthermore, the participants got to work together to start developing action plans for how they will build profiles of displacement issues from the perspective of local authorities. (lu.se)
  • In this week we begin with looking at visions for climate action and the plans or strategies on how to achieve ambitious goals. (lu.se)
  • In this week we tackle the key challenge of financing climate action and the vital role of partnerships. (lu.se)
  • In this week we delve into community and citizen engagement and how it underpins climate action. (lu.se)
  • In this week we connect climate action to research, evaluation and innovation. (lu.se)
  • Lecture films on the 5 core topics of the course as well as highlights on leading international initiatives on climate action in cities. (lu.se)
  • Mrs Maathai told the journalists, attending a climate workshop organised by Unep's GRID-Arendal office: "There's no reason why our African governments can't control greenhouse emissions, but quite often we make excuses. (bbc.co.uk)
  • A third of the food raised or prepared does not make it from farm or factory to fork … Hunger is a condition of life for 800 million people worldwide … The food we waste contributes 4.4 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere each year - roughly 8 percent of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. (earth911.com)
  • During the pandemic, labor shortages created clogged marine ports and made companies rely on air freight for logistics and transportation, increasing overall expenses and emissions. (csrwire.com)
  • Supaso then made a contribution to the myclimate climate protection project " Savings Groups Enable Women to Afford an Efficient Cook Stove in Kenya " in the amount of the calculated CO₂ emissions and the packaging was awarded with the myclimate label. (myclimate.org)
  • All myclimate projects meet the highest standards (CDM, Gold Standard, Plan Vivo) and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, thus directly protecting the climate. (myclimate.org)
  • Building industry groups find themselves reminding negotiators in Paris that energy efficiency is the first and best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (greenbiz.com)
  • But even a relatively small rise in the percentage of people who use more climate-friendly transportation can reduce emissions more than a larger shift in behaviors such as recycling, which has a smaller effect on emissions. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Speaking at the launch of South Asia's Hotspots he added: "We need to both scale up actions and strategies to build a more resilient world, and target interventions to help the most vulnerable. (worldbank.org)
  • Now is the time to invest in climate capability for a resilient mining sector. (deloitte.com)
  • We have a decision to make now as to how we invest in our climate capability for a resilient mining sector. (deloitte.com)
  • Congressman Matt Cartwright provided a Congressional perspective and motivation for the workshop, Alice Hill (Council on Foreign Relations) delivered plenary remarks on Building Resiliently in a Changing Climate, and Francis Zwiers (U. Victoria) and Zoubir Lounis (National Research Council - Canada) provided an overview of Canada's Initiative on Climate-Resilient Buildings and Core Public Infrastructure. (nist.gov)
  • These clean, climate-resilient considerations are applicable to materials and projects through FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC), and Public Assistance (PA) Programs. (fema.gov)
  • The Inflation Reduction Act authorizes FEMA to fund costs associated with low-carbon materials, even when the costs are higher than those for conventional materials, to help cut carbon pollution, and build back cleaner and more resilient. (fema.gov)
  • The vision of the NAP is to create a climate-resilient Pakistan where communities collaborate to pursue prosperity while protecting ecosystems and ensuring social inclusivity. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The NAP mainly focuses on empowering vulnerable groups such as women, youth, persons with disabilities, transgender individuals, and religious minorities to cope with climate-related challenges and create climate-resilient livelihoods. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Mike LeBeau, construction project supervisor for the city of Duluth, talks about the reconstruction of the shoreline while standing in the midst of thousands of boulders that were trucked in to help build up the shoreline and make it more resilient to the whims of Lake Superior. (finance-commerce.com)
  • While Republicans and Democrats are far apart in their climate outlook, a 2016 Gallup assessment of issue priorities found that Democratic passion tends to be channeled toward issues such as economic inequality and health care. (politico.com)
  • The draft National Climate Assessment report, prepared by more than 240 authors, says, "There is strong evidence to indicate that human influence on the climate has already roughly doubled the probability of extreme heat events like the record-breaking summer of 2011 in Texas and Oklahoma. (motherjones.com)
  • However, there are practical solutions that can help us prevent these disasters from becoming routine such as strengthened emergency management, improved impact-based forecasts and warning systems, and infrastructure that is designed for the future climate. (yahoo.com)
  • We bring life-saving relief in emergencies and use food assistance to build peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. (wfp.org)
  • The goal of BREAD is to enhance societal resilience to disasters and climate change under varied ecological conditions in Uganda. (lu.se)
  • To enhance science-policy interface that builds community resilience and safety to disasters through knowledge generation and transfer. (lu.se)
  • An introduction was held by Prof. Mo Hamza and Dr Matthew Scott to human mobility in the context of disasters and climate change. (lu.se)
  • For example, "those who know someone who has stopped flying because of climate change are more likely to curtail their own flying-and the effect is increased if it's a high-profile person that's stopped flying," adds Hassol, who was not involved with the new study. (scientificamerican.com)
  • While Australia's mining companies responded to the events of 2020 with great strength and resilience, environmental and market forces are putting pressure on the industry to accelerate climate efforts. (deloitte.com)
  • The study was based on mathematical modeling in collaboration with Utrecht University and TNO, using a moderate or an extreme climate scenario by the UN climate panel IPCC. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Source: "Field Interventions for Climate Change Mitigation Behaviors: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis," by Magnus Bergquist et al. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Their research article, The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions , is unique in the way it has reached, and is continuing to reach, a very large audience. (lu.se)
  • changes in attitudes of how individual behavior can impact the climate, initiating societal dialogue on climate change mitigation, environmental and policy impact. (lu.se)
  • In building engineering, a climate-adaptive building shell (CABS) is a facade or roof that interacts with the variability of its environment in a dynamic way. (wikipedia.org)
  • Current projections predict increased climate variability and increased frequency and higher intensity of extreme events. (worldbank.org)
  • New Zealand researchers contributed three ice core records to a new global climate database, helping provide a detailed reconstruction of temperature variability in the Ross Sea region. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • They encompass incentivizing farmers to adopt climate-smart water and land management practices, modernizing irrigation systems to support climate-smart agriculture, developing a long-term agriculture growth strategy, and formulating plans for managing projected river flow and rainfall variability under different climate scenarios. (eurasiareview.com)
  • An initial summary of global temperature history, developed using the database, confirms a long-term cooling trend until the 19th century, which is then followed by a sharp warming trend - something consistent with the large body of current climate research. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The event is still extremely unusual, the report says, and can only be expected to occur around once in 300-600 years in the current climate. (yahoo.com)
  • Climate change poses the most serious development challenge to countries whose livelihoods are largely ecosystem dependent. (lu.se)
  • Obama's second-term climate achievements-the Paris pact and the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Act-necessitated a bypass of Congress, which left them vulnerable to Trump's pen and the courts. (politico.com)
  • Environmental activists have long been frustrated at their inability to galvanize the public around climate change. (politico.com)
  • We recently had the opportunity to work with the incredible international artist Esteban Camacho Steffensen to create a mural that reflects Corvallis' environmental values. (sierraclub.org)
  • We suggest that degrowth ideas open key opportunities for environmental peacebuilding, such that peacebuilding processes might foster more peaceful societies as well as help communities address climate change. (lu.se)
  • Environmental peacebuilding allows the possibility of simultaneously considering challenges of building peace and addressing climate change. (lu.se)
  • Evidence (e.g. here and here ) shows that although environmental peacebuilding efforts often call for climate sensitivity, the field has largely focused on economic growth, prioritizing resource extraction, economic recovery, and livelihood creation in post-conflict contexts. (lu.se)
  • If environmental peacebuilding strategies rely on economic growth and post-conflict economic recovery in order to facilitate peace, this approach may be impractical and potentially harmful in light of climate change. (lu.se)
  • Moreover, relying on economic growth for building peace perpetuates a system that leads to conflict in the first place: reproducing environmental injustice, unequal access to natural resources, inadequate accounts for indigenous land rights, and social inequalities. (lu.se)
  • If environmental peacebuilding should account for climate change, there seems to be potential in moving beyond reliance on economic growth. (lu.se)
  • We compared 2 climate classification systems describing georeferenced environmental Cryptococcus gattii sensu lato isolations occurring during 1989-2016. (cdc.gov)
  • The CEC has a number of research groups working on different approaches to address environmental and climate challenges. (lu.se)
  • ABSTRACT Pakistan is seriously confronted by many complex and difficult environmental challenges related to air, water, soil, forests and food including issues such as climate change. (who.int)
  • A systematic process for identifying environmental health needs and issues as well as the efforts made by the government of Pakistan and the World Health Organization in establishing and launching an environmental health protection unit are described. (who.int)
  • Its current population of Need & process for that Pakistan is still lagging behind in around 170 million makes it the most establishing the some of the key environmental health populous country in the Region [1]. (who.int)
  • You must take the results in context, and this was looking at sandwiches simply to create awareness of their potential impact. (newscientist.com)
  • He used the example you picture here (the dice), saying essentially that anthropogenic forcing could be thought of as loading the climate dice towards undesirable outcomes. (realclimate.org)
  • 2012). In particular, there is now widespread recognition of the role of work safety climate in contributing to such safety outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • The present study aims to contribute to the safety literature on manufacturing workers by examining the association between one particular facet of psychological safety climate -- work safety tension -- and several important stress -linked physical health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Independent of its implications for safety behavior and direct safety outcomes, such as accidents and injuries, we argue that the facet of safety climate known as work-safety tension acts as a workplace stressor that increases the experience of occupational stress , which mediates indirect effects on other aspects of physical health. (cdc.gov)
  • According to the solar definition (the predominant definition used in the C. gattii literature to describe isolation climates), tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions are denoted by latitudinal boundaries ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The second version of the PAGES2k dataset , just featured in the journal Scientific Data , pools data from a vast array of sources - including records from tree rings, corals, glacier ice, and for the first time, marine and lake sediments - to create a crucial tool to model or reconstruct climates. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Climate resilience is crucial for all market participants up and down the value chain. (csrwire.com)
  • Climate services are crucial to food security, providing weather and seasonal forecasts as well as advice on which crops to sow in a changing climate. (nrc.no)
  • Access to effective and accurate climate and weather information is crucial if vulnerable communities are to be prepared when irregular or extreme weather events occur. (nrc.no)
  • A crucial question has been how best to spur people toward more climate-friendly behaviors, such as taking the bus instead of driving or reducing home energy use. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The historic law authorizes the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Recovery and Emergency Act to provide financial assistance for costs associated with low-carbon building or construction materials and incentives that encourage low-carbon and net-zero energy projects. (fema.gov)
  • This fits into a wider disaster risk financing strategy where, in the long term, WFP will introduce additional Climate and Disaster Risk Financing Instruments. (wfp.org)
  • Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. (lu.se)
  • Our programme 'Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement', carried out with financial support from the Swedish Institute , is designed to contribute directly to this. (lu.se)
  • For this study, we focused on two aspects of physical health that represent known health issues in the manufacturing sector: cardiovascular issues (represented by clinical assessments of blood pressure and heart rate), and musculoskeletal disorders (represented by clinical assessments of cervical rotation flexibility and self-reported trunk and extremity pain). (cdc.gov)
  • Could green accountability help communities in places like Mali, which are already experiencing catastrophic effects of climate change? (weforum.org)
  • As extreme weather events continue to intensify, the effects of climate change are felt all over the world. (nrc.no)
  • Kathmandu - Nepal ranks as the fourth most climate-vulnerable country in the world and is highly exposed to a range of water related hazards such as floods, droughts and landslides. (worldbank.org)
  • It intends to enhance government capacity to mitigate climate related hazards by improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warnings for climate-vulnerable communities. (worldbank.org)
  • Extreme weather events dominate the news but changing average weather patterns are proving equally devastating to poor and vulnerable people in climate hotspots across South Asia. (worldbank.org)
  • Climate change makes these sinks more vulnerable, in some cases even turning them into carbon emitters. (tno.nl)
  • Pakistan has emerged as a significant hotspot for climate change, ranking among the top-ten countries most vulnerable to its devastating effects. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Although this makes them highly vulnerable to climate change, they nonetheless have less access to networks, household radios and other communication tools such as phones or computers. (nrc.no)
  • To reach the most vulnerable women and girls, female climate services providers play a key role. (nrc.no)
  • Four UVM students are taking a climate podcast idea from 2019 off the ground. (wcax.com)
  • Climate-related occupational hazards have historically received little attention. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2009, NIOSH began work to address this gap and developed a framework to identify climate-related occupational hazards . (cdc.gov)
  • With attention to potential hazards in new technologies, workplaces can be engineered with prevention through design (PtD) so that they meet Green environment goals while creating new safer jobs. (cdc.gov)
  • The BRCH project, signed on April 30, 2013 between the Government of Nepal and the World Bank, aims to transition Nepal's hydro-meteorological services into a modern service-oriented system that will build resilience today as well as adaptive capacity for the future. (worldbank.org)
  • The book also discusses key elements of the Paris Agreement and broader climate policy, including the Enhanced Transparency Framework and the Paris Committee on Capacity Building, as well as considerations of equity and development. (routledge.com)
  • To create decision support tools to build capacity to prepare for climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • It is delivered with the support of Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE) , the department at the university focusing on professional development and capacity building programmes. (lu.se)
  • In Europe alone, buildings account for 40 percent of energy consumed, yet somehow they are largely overlooked by politicians trying to tackle climate change. (greenbiz.com)
  • First, the researchers created a computer model that predicted carbon dioxide's "fertilization effect" on plants. (livescience.com)
  • While the researchers are still working to unpick exactly what the changes mean, what is clear, they said, is that the changes are being driven by human-induced climate change. (cnn.com)
  • It is a must-read for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and civil-society experts working on climate policy. (routledge.com)
  • In contrast, the Köppen-Geiger system ( 5 ) uses precipitation, temperature, and vegetation traits to produce 5 main climate groups (tropical or equatorial, arid, temperate, continental, and polar) and subgroups and is the most widely used climate classification system by researchers, including medical geographers, worldwide ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The BRCH project is part of the global Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). (worldbank.org)
  • The confluence of a global health pandemic, social and political unrest, and worsening climate events upended the private and public sectors around the world, and Western Australia was not immune. (deloitte.com)
  • I think the most important take-home message from the workshop is that the stake holders and end users of climate information should not look at just one simulation from global climate models, or just one downscaling method. (realclimate.org)
  • For global climate services, science and infrastructure is not enough - we also need to interpret the information into knowledge, based on science. (realclimate.org)
  • This is important because global climate models can therefore test how well they capture or represent conditions and changes in New Zealand, which is important to provide meaningful projections for our future. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • This new year, I invite you to make climate change, reversing global warming, personal. (earth911.com)
  • After a summer of devastating heatwaves and wildfires with a very clear climate change fingerprint, quantifying the contribution of global warming to these floods proved more challenging," said Friederike Otto, co-founder of WWA and senior lecturer in climate science at Grantham Institute in Imperial College London. (yahoo.com)
  • I seek to identify, investigate and understand the consequences of human activities on the environment, especially on air quality and global climate change. (tno.nl)
  • Despite contributing minimally to global warming, Pakistan bears substantial costs due to climate change, exacerbating its already challenging economic situation. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Bringing together pioneering organisations to create a global market for net zero concrete. (theclimategroup.org)
  • Almost every country has formulated its Nationally Determined Contribution to the global response to climate change. (routledge.com)
  • A global systematic framework is needed to define climates where pathogens are detected. (cdc.gov)
  • The lack of consensus might largely be rooted in the lack of a global systematic framework to define climates where pathogens are detected. (cdc.gov)
  • Here, we compare the 2 solar climate definitions and the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system to determine whether the 1999 Vancouver Island outbreak was the first-ever detection of C. gattii s.l. in a temperate environment and which system should be used for a global systematic climate classification framework. (cdc.gov)
  • We act as if it is something to own, use, and dominate, resulting in unlimited resource extraction, pollution of our environment, degradation of our food and water, climate change, the extinction of species, and more. (earth911.com)
  • But now that Trump is about to follow through on his pledge to abandon the Paris climate pact, Democrats are hoping he will spark a renewed commitment to protecting the planet, and unwittingly turn the environment into a powerful wedge issue-just as he did with health care. (politico.com)
  • The goal of his work is to create a healthier living environment by improving the air quality around us. (tno.nl)
  • Have each student write an index card reflection on the class by completing these two sentences: 1 thing I do well now that will help make and keep a safe classroom environment is. (teach-nology.com)
  • 1 thing I can improve on to help make and keep a safe classroom environment is. (teach-nology.com)
  • Lorenzo Fioramonti, Italy's education minister, told Reuters , "I want to make the Italian education system the first education system that puts the environment and society at the core of everything we learn in school. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Richard Klein (Stockholm Environment Institute) has conducted research and provided policy advice on climate adaptation since 1992. (routledge.com)
  • Organizational climate can be characterized as a set of perceptions, shared by workers, of different aspects that make up the organizational environment, being one of the most investigated constructs in the field of Organizational Behavior. (bvsalud.org)
  • Changes in the built environment. (cdc.gov)
  • We are also studying farmer and farmworker perceptions of climate change and their current and future plans in regards to changing weather and agricultural health and safety. (cdc.gov)
  • See how findings on mineworker perceptions about safety climate can help companies develop improved health and safety management systems. (cdc.gov)
  • FLUXES, the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin is a new publication by ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, which aims at highlighting climate issues to an audience of policymakers, policy advisors, and climate journalists. (tno.nl)
  • The NAP aims to access international climate finance, mobilize domestic funding through innovative mechanisms, promote private sector investment in adaptation efforts, and prioritize climate-positive projects in the government budget. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Ripple Effect" aims to foster and encourage conversation on climate change and a clean energy transition. (wcax.com)
  • Increased rainfall and storm frequency have created conditions conducive to swarms of desert locusts. (mongabay.com)
  • Williams says climate change, which has affected storms and rainfall patterns in this region, is an important driver of locust population dynamics. (mongabay.com)
  • The negative change in plumage color appears to coincide with climate change in the blue tits' habitat, where there has been a combination of a rise in temperature and a drop in rainfall . (medscape.com)
  • says that: A climate adaptive building shell has the ability to repeatedly and reversibly change some of its functions, features or behavior over time in response to changing performance requirements and variable boundary conditions, and does this with the aim of improving overall building performance. (wikipedia.org)
  • Students will promote behavior in themselves and in others that ensures a safe classroom climate. (teach-nology.com)
  • To get people to shift to more climate-friendly behavior, what works best? (scientificamerican.com)
  • While governments say they are trying to get greenhouse gases under control, subsidies 'marry bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for climate change,' says the Overseas Development Institute. (cbc.ca)
  • Countries of the African Region are ill-prepared to cope with the negative consequences of climate change, particularly on health, because their health systems are weak and already over-stretched. (who.int)
  • However, the Köppen-Geiger system is more precise and should be used to define climates where pathogens are detected. (cdc.gov)
  • After the first of those mega storms, Larson said city officials talked about making piecemeal, shorter-term repairs. (finance-commerce.com)
  • To counteract this, the Government will put together a panel of 10 of the country's leading authorities on climate change to hone in on how the targets can be met, according to sources who spoke to The Irish Times . (siliconrepublic.com)
  • Large corporate clients are asking their suppliers to provide their GHG inventories, and in some cases, requiring them to set climate-related targets of their own. (csrwire.com)
  • Almost half of the 4000+ have already set Science Based targets and almost 1500 companies have made Net Zero commitments (Figure 1A). (csrwire.com)
  • Drive real-world progress by joining programmes with clearly defined targets and actionable strategies to reach your climate goals. (theclimategroup.org)
  • Meanwhile, the U.K. Green Building Council announced the launch of a new research project to assess the potential for banks to offer "green mortgages" that reward the most efficient homes. (greenbiz.com)
  • It's harder to get someone to ride a bike or take the bus instead of driving, compared to turning off the lights when they leave the room," says study co-author and psychologist Matthew Goldberg, director of experimental research at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. (scientificamerican.com)
  • This is a summary of the article, "Research suggests that change in bird coloration is due to climate change," published by The American Naturist on July 14. (medscape.com)
  • Her research started with a question, asked by friends and students: what can I do for the climate that really makes a difference? (lu.se)
  • The hundreds of media stories, blogs, and social media mentions in outlets around the world are a testament to how the research truly has contributed to increasing public understanding and awareness of how ones' individual choices affect the climate. (lu.se)
  • The frequent and ongoing mentions of the research in media also illustrate how the research is contributing to changes in attitudes and to an emerging discourse on what responsibility we have as individuals, and how our individual choices can connect to larger communities and systems in stabilizing the climate. (lu.se)
  • As a result of the research publication, Kimberly Nicholas is now a sought after public speaker on how individuals can make a positive impact for the climate. (lu.se)
  • The research has brought the issue of lifestyle choices and climate change to the fore in Swedish society: the research has been mentioned by columnists in various papers and by municipality representatives in for example Umeå kommun in relation to a project where ten households out of 170 applicants were selected for a pilot project to live car-free for three months. (lu.se)
  • Our research findings show how citizens perceive and act on climate change (individually, cooperatively, and by supporting others), their underlying values, beliefs, emotions and paradigms, inter-group variations, and obstacles and enablers for change. (lu.se)
  • The Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety is conducting research on how climate conditions, especially heat, affect agricultural workers. (cdc.gov)
  • I once heard John Holdren (President Obama's science advisor) speak on the issue of uncertainty in climate predictions. (realclimate.org)
  • As an organization focused on addressing emerging national security issues, Sandia is strategically working to advance not just climate science but climate security. (sandia.gov)
  • Becky Oskin covers Earth science, climate change and space, as well as general science topics. (livescience.com)
  • many states and cities, including Oregon, have passed their own climate laws and are committed to meeting the science-backed goals laid out by the Paris Agreement. (sierraclub.org)
  • There's a strong tendency to conform to social norms," says Susan Joy Hassol, director of Climate Communication, a nonprofit science and outreach project. (scientificamerican.com)
  • To translate climate change science to inform states, local health departments and communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses. (weforum.org)
  • We therefore created a format that provides a diversity of ways to learn and creatively engage with the content. (lu.se)
  • One of YouCAN Corvallis' fundamental goals is to spread climate awareness throughout our community. (sierraclub.org)
  • And in my talk, I address that need for partnership, and for building bridges between the scientific and the national security community. (sandia.gov)
  • Facial expressions, comments, trying to practice some of the ways to keep a safe classroom climate) ***As a teacher, am I prepared to address any actions that do not promote a safe classroom climate? (teach-nology.com)
  • We work alongside rural Americans, small business owners, farmers and ranchers, and community leaders to advocate for measures that address climate change and create new opportunities in rural places. (cfra.org)
  • WFP is introducing its flagship integrated climate-risk management approach, the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), to address both the climatic and non-climatic drivers of vulnerability in Haiti. (wfp.org)
  • They draw attention to the need to develop new forms of citizen involvement and of policy that can explicitly address these human interactions, inner dimensions of thinking about and acting on climate change, and the underlying social paradigms. (lu.se)
  • As well as the key drivers pushing this transition and the climate capabilities miners need now and in the future. (deloitte.com)
  • We protect displaced people and support them as they build a new future. (nrc.no)
  • To ramp up ambition and effectiveness, future NDCs must build on and learn from experience. (routledge.com)
  • Responding effectively to climate change requires an understanding of what shapes people's individual and collective sense of agency and responsibility towards the future. (lu.se)
  • More specifically, in order to understand the social and institutional prerequisites that must be in place to develop inclusive climate responses, we investigate how citizens perceive their everyday life and future, and the implications for their sense of responsibility, agency, and political engagement. (lu.se)
  • Otherwise, the future generations are endangered because of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • We excluded studies in which only the country of sampling was specified because many countries extend through multiple climates. (cdc.gov)
  • Because physical health has implications for functioning in all facets of an employee's life, it is important to understand ramifications of safety climate that extend beyond the sphere of accidents and injuries. (cdc.gov)
  • There is also growing interest in poor work safety climate as a type of organizational stressor that has implications for other aspects of worker health and well-being, including both physical and psychological health (cf. (cdc.gov)