Sentence examples for climate-sensitive sectors from inspiring English sources
These experiences demonstrated how much has changed since 2005 and how tantalizingly close climate services are to delivering real utility in climate-sensitive sectors in Africa.
This poses a serious challenge to social and economic development particularly because the economies of most African countries depend on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, water fisheries, energy, tourism etc.
A Climate Outlook Forum COFF) is a regional meeting in which climate scientists present a forecast to decision makers in climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, disaster planning and health.
By using tailored seasonal forecasts, decision makers in agriculture and other climate-sensitive sectors can reduce the risk of negative outcomes associated with droughts, flooding and other extreme events.
Pilot projects were implemented at a local scale in different climate-sensitive sectors by ICPAC in partnership with representatives from those sectors.
The interview also indicates that after each climate forecast COF ministries from climate-sensitive sectors in Kenya meet separately from ICPAC at the national level in order to discuss their understanding of the implications of the seasonal predictions on each climate-sensitive sector.
With the goal to better link climate experts and stakeholders, capacity-building workshops were held as parallel events to the COFs during the program; representatives of climate sensitive sectors (users) were invited to attend.
In coastal areas people at risk greatly depend on climate sensitive sectors, such as fishery, forestry, and tourism, for their livelihoods and very often need to adopt a number of strategies to cope with shocks inflicted by different climate hazards (Parvin et al. 2009).
A great deal of leisure tourism, which relies on natural features like snow-covered mountains or sunny beaches, is dependent on the weather, making it one of the one of the most climate-sensitive economic sectors.
Overall, climate change has become a source of uncertainty for climate-sensitive economic sectors like agriculture and energy.
