As a result, they are dangerously overstretched and vulnerable to any change in interest rates.
Coastal cities that are vulnerable to climate change are also powerful magnets drawing people from the countryside.
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Another way that energy and environment come into conflict is when energy systems themselves become vulnerable to climate change.
Vulnerable to climate change, many are in desperate need of even the most basic skills to protect their livelihoods.
Ultimately, they want to be able to predict how much might be vulnerable to temperature change and in what timescale.
Hard-to-sell long-term securities had been bought with short-lived debt, which left borrowers vulnerable to a change in sentiment every time the debt fell due.
What's more, the parts of the world where populations are growing fastest are also those most vulnerable to climate change, and a rising population will exacerbate the consequences of global warming water shortages, mass migration, declining food yields.
Moreover, our reliance on so few plants and animal breeds makes human populations that much more vulnerable to climate change: as growing conditions change, the most suitable species, breeds or strains in a given region may likewise change.
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Of course, rain-fed agriculture is even more vulnerable to climate change than the irrigated variety, as Ms Parcak's Cambridge colleague Lauren Ristvet showed the conference with her study of northern Syria during the same period as the fall of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
They found that more than half of these zones were vulnerable to projected climate change.
Number three, we must have financing that helps developing countries adapt, particularly the least developed and most vulnerable countries to climate change.
Those that don't change will be vulnerable to deepening reforms as competition intensifies and as China upholds pledges to open the industry wider.
We agreed to join an international effort to provide financing to help developing countries, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable, adapt to climate change.
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Farming is thus highly vulnerable to climate variability and change.
However, one legal group said such a change would leave victims vulnerable.
But according to this research, wheat will face a difficult future in the developing world, where higher prices for cotton, maize and soybeans have pushed wheat to marginal land, making it more vulnerable to stresses induced by climate change.
Gerry Sutcliffe said a change was needed to protect vulnerable women on the UK's streets.
Citing the example of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, he underlined that even the most developed countries are vulnerable to natural disasters exacerbated by climate change.
Climate change will exacerbate stressful conditions unless vulnerable populations, especially the poorest, are assisted in building climate-resilient livelihoods, Ehrhart said.
Mr Mayo was seen by City analysts as the brains behind Marconi's transformation from a diversified group into a firm focused on telecoms, a change which left the company worryingly vulnerable to the downturn in technology markets.
Its overall objective is to provide actors responsible for disaster management, risk prevention, civil protection and also spatial planning with EO-based solutions contributing particularly to an improved preparedness and mitigation planning for areas highly vulnerable to natural disasters and already noticeable climate change trends.
Anti-euthanasia groups say a change in the law would make people vulnerable and cheapen the value of life.
Almost 60% of those opposed to a change in the law agreed that "vulnerable people could be, or feel, pressured to die".
And doesn't that make you significantly vulnerable to a Republican who might run on a message of change?
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Scottish Labour MSP Claudia Beamish said to combat climate change required a common endeavour to help all the most vulnerable on earth and she welomed the Climate Justice Fund.
The poorest and most vulnerable and our children and grandchildren would pay the heaviest price for climate change, he added.
If he really thinks that, why then, ask opponents of the change, is he comfortable to export the sickest and most vulnerable newborns in North Wales directly into that system?
Mr. SMITH: When I said protect their reputation, that's because there are some companies who could be very vulnerable, as companies such as utilities, to new regulations on climate change.
How can we best protect vulnerable adults in some of the most deprived parts of England as all this change takes place?
He claimed the move to the new system would caused upheaval to millions of "extremely vulnerable people", and called for a "precautionary approach" to introducing change.
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