There are few people to handle difficult cross-regional topics such as water resources or climate change, and few linguists fluent in tongues helpful beyond Asia.
Without money or resources, climate refugees will likely stay within their own borders, accelerating movement from rural areas to urban centers and crowding into cities already bursting at the seams.
The most formidable challenge that the Convention will have to face over the coming years are related to global phenomena such as population explosion, diminishing financial resources and climate change.
The note summarizes the broad scientific consensus on the potential impact of climate change on water resources and water users as well as helps us understand the environmental, social and economic implications.
We now need to focus on specific governance issues required for a successful Copenhagen deal -- such as ensuring balanced, equitable representation for countries in the institutions that provide resources for climate change.
Among the permanent members the U.S., Russia, Canada, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark the Nordic countries represent a view that allowing in more participants could bolster the forum's clout on such issues as natural resources and climate change in the region.
This final Plan will be the foundation for Federal agency efforts to manage freshwater resources as the climate changes.
She said she thought it unlikely the offer would be refused "in the currently climate and given our limited resources".
In a climate of ever diminishing public resources for health care, physicians of all stripes seek a back door to economic stability, often through cosmetic surgery.
Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends.
"The wider risks to our interests and way of life, whether from terrorists, failed states, conflict between other states, nuclear proliferation, climate change and competition for resources are growing, " he said.
Climate change will stress water resources.
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Climate change will affect water resources.
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Its members have been asked to reflect on and reinvent the construction of peace founded on justice, respect for human rights, gender equality and solidarity in the context of globalization, and the challenges its poses, such as climate change, management of resources and ethical and economic issues, to which we must respond by consistently using the strength and impact of dialogue.
Engineering has many solutions for strengthening the resilience of our societies -- while tackling poverty, nurturing our resources and responding to climate change.
In the current climate, Israel's diplomatic resources are limited to popular opinion in the US, and shared interests on specific issues with a number of governments throughout the world.
On June 2, 2011, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released a draft "National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate, " for public review and comment.
Second, we need to pull our energy and resources to stave off the climate catastrophe.
Ms. FRANCES BEINECKE (President, Natural Resources Defense Council): Climate is upfront and center in everything.
While Facebook is a concept of the mind that can migrate its human capital to the tax climate it deems best, Continental Resources cannot change the location of the Bakken oil field.
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As far as fixing the problem, it helps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.
During the next three days they will look at how TVET systems cans be reinforced and expanded to deal with rapidly changing and uncertain labour markets and high levels of unemployment coupled with diminishing natural resources, environmental deterioration, climate change and rapid population growth.
This bill assesses how growth and climate change will affect our access to water resources, especially in the West and Southwest, and it includes solutions to complex and long-simmering water disputes.
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"I think unfortunately, 2012 really may well be the new normal, " said Daniel Lashof, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group.
The climate changes and our growing needs in natural resources require the engagement of more scientists in order to contribute in the observation of our planet and thus the understanding of natural phenomena and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public.
It is hard to overstate the size, importance and resources of the industry that the young climate-change movement is taking on.
These are ambitious goals, but our grid can support more renewable power, climate science requires it, and companies are shifting resources toward it.
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But while its geography and population limit its overall carbon footprint, the emirate is still remarkably inefficient at using natural resources, thanks largely to its desert climate and oil-fueled wealth.
It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
Obama certainly promised to devote resources to support green tech development and fight climate change.
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