It cooperates with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, other conventions, and related organizations engaged in climate change impact assessment, systematic observation and mitigation of climate change.

Recognizing the impact of climate change on forests and sustainable forest management, as well as the contribution of forests to addressing climate change,

Our global world demands concerted global action to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change.

Mr. Richard Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and UNFCCC consultant, presented the draft background paper on Technology to understand and manage climate risks .

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

The overwhelming majority of scientists now agree that human activity is having a significant impact on the climate.

Cross sectoral dialogue and cooperation are needed to achieve best practices to combat climate change, as well as coordination and integration of sector policies having an impact on climate change.

This fact has also been confirmed by the results of the independent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004.

(h) Forest fires, pests, diseases and abiotic factors affecting forests, including storm damage and the impact of climate change

That process would have a positive impact on economic development and on the climate for foreign investment in Kosovo.

Thus, in most national communications climate change scenarios were presented in greater detail than the results of impact assessments.

And I reasoned that if we could make those transformative changes, and get rid of T1 altogether, we could reduce our impact to zero, including our impact on the climate.

Many Parties reported specific scientific research on the effect of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on their countries' climate, and the need to conduct detailed studies of the impact of climate change on vulnerable sectors using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios of climate change.

Global scientific simulation models, which have become more robust during the last decade, have significantly increased our capacity to anticipate future risks related to the impact of climate change although they still remain insufficient as regards projections for specific regional and subregional patterns of climate change and their impact.

Despite the improved climate for peace, I continued to express grave concern about the Israeli barrier and its humanitarian impact.

Regionally funded investment guarantees and non discriminatory region wide tax incentives would also impact favourably on the region's investment climate.

Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us. The current drought covering much of East Africa far more severe than past droughts has been directly associated with climate change.

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

Yet considerable uncertainty remains about the magnitude of the impact of rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases on temperatures and climate. This uncertainty must be taken seriously when formulating strategies to combat climate change.

Fisheries A few countries examined the impacts on fisheries as a part of their climate change and sea level rise impact assessments.

Others expressed their concerns about the impact of climate change and contamination of soil and water on natural resources that cause permanent damage.

Prominent among the emerging issues highlighted in 2006 are the farming of marine species, and the impact of climate change on food production.

We must keep on pressing for the development and adoption of strategies that mitigate, and build resilience to, the impact of climate change.

IFRC was concerned about the prospect of an increasing number of climate related disasters that would principally have an impact on the poor.

We know what the impact of periodic droughts have been on the lives of tens of millions of Africans. We can therefore imagine what the impact of a drier climate on agriculture is likely to be.

The special report includes quantitative estimates of the impact that the possible measures it describes would have on climate change if they were implemented.

Furthermore, pledges at the Lima conference by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Norway, and Peru bring the Green Climate Fund to nearly 10.2 billion. And the impact of climate change is increasingly, though still inadequately, being factored into national and local budgets.

The scientific communities must continue to increase our understanding of the climate and the Earth system, to refine our predictive tools and to reduce remaining uncertainties in efforts to project future climate and the impact of change, in particular at the regional level.

There is broad consensus among scientists that the scientific understanding of the ongoing climate change is sufficient to warrant taking urgent action in order to mitigate the impact of future climate change, including both the environmental impacts and the socio economic consequences.

We now understand that those microbes have more impact on our climate and regulating CO2 and oxygen than plants do, which we always thought oxygenate the atmosphere.

Like the Montreal Protocol, which designates the impact of each ozone depleting substance relative to CFC 11, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change designates the impact of the global warming potential of the gases it controls relative to carbon dioxide (CO2).

Because the impact of climate change is global, it is essential that the world as a whole take specific measures to adapt. But it is already clear that the capacity of some communities to adapt will quickly be exceeded if climate change goes unmitigated.

The roofs not only temper urban heat island impact but they save energy, and therefore money, the emissions that cause climate change, and they also reduce stormwater runoff.

Our discussions have been considerably influenced by the current climate of reform in the United Nations system, which is likely to have considerable impact on the humanitarian sector.

The threat of the impact of climate change, sea level rise and variability on the entire global environment continues to be a matter of serious security concern to all.

The impact of recent environmental calamities had shown that even the richest and most powerful country in the world was not immune to the devastating effects of climate change.

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Bearing in mind the importance of addressing disaster risks related to changing social, economic, environmental conditions and land use, and the impact of hazards associated with geological events, weather, water, climate variability and climate change, in sector development planning and programmes as well as in post disaster situations,

Noting that environmental degradation, desertification and global climate change are exacerbating destitution and desperation, causing a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular in developing countries,

It does not take a great deal of wisdom to realize that, as a small island developing State, my country is vulnerable to the extremely adverse impact of global climate change.

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We can therefore imagine what the impact of a drier climate on agriculture is likely to be. Conditions in this vital economic sector will become even more precarious than they currently are.

The inaction argument makes us spend vast resources on policies that will do virtually nothing to deal with climate change, thereby diverting those resources from policies that could actually make an impact.

The devastating impact of the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean region and the United States had further impressed on the international community the urgency and importance of the issue of climate change.

Policy options for adequate monitoring systems and response strategies for climate change impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems Policy frameworks for implementing adaptation measures and response strategies in the context of coastal zone management, disaster preparedness, agriculture, fisheries, and forestry, with a view to integrating climate change impact information into national planning processes.