The research presented here focuses on the perceptions of the vulnerability of forests to climate change and the impediments that limit the ability of forest owners and managers to prepare and respond to climate change.
The survey carried out in this research assesses how forest stakeholders in Belgium perceive the role of their forest management in the context of climate change and the impediments that limit their ability to prepare and respond to these changes.
"The state's unpredictable and unfavorable legal climate has become an impediment to our ability to write business profitably in Florida," the chief executive, Kevin Clinton, said.
In a sharply-worded letter sent to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Tuesday, a coalition of environmental and climate-action groups identify the United States as a bad-faith negotiator and an unprincipled impediment to global climate talks now underway in Durban, South Africa.
Nowadays, the absence of suitable data that describes the urban landscape in climate relevant terms for climatic models is a significant impediment to progress, even if the physics that underpins these models is universal.
In all scenarios large-scale ecosystem drivers, such as climate change and salinity, will become major impediments to improvements in the ecological condition of aquatic ecosystems.
Not only must we do a better job at addressing key impediments to youth development, like climate change, we must also create decent jobs for the world's current and future youth.
Read on for a few reactions to my talk, in which I posed the question "Is the Internet Good for the Climate?" and proposed that the answer, despite huge impediments, is yes.
Climate change is one of the most serious impediments to agricultural prosperity in Ethiopia, especially where livestock is concerned.
We view development and expansion of these fuels as a major impediment to reaching the nation's climate protection goals.
However, a number of significant impediments are identified in the respective national climate change policy schemes.
