Sentence examples for devastating impacts of climate change from inspiring English sources

"Clearly, large new oil and gas reserves would be inconsistent with our overriding imperative to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and combat the devastating impacts of climate change," Brown wrote.

Andrew Norton, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development, said: "The voices of the people who will be hit hardest by the devastating impacts of climate change need to be heard.

Oil companies may be strange bedfellows in the fight against climate change, but, in this case, joining forces to put a real price on carbon presents the best chance for the world to minimize the devastating impacts of climate change.

But the overall efforts aren't nearly enough to help deal with the potential devastating impacts of climate change, from increasing droughts and wildfires to the mass extinction of species.

Most sustainability experts recognise that there will need to be a fundamental change to the business and economic landscape if we are to avoid the potentially devastating impacts of climate change, loss of biodiversity, resource depletion, etc.

Meanwhile, the UN Adaptation Fund, the source by which poor countries can most easily access grants for projects to help them cope with the devastating impacts of climate change, has yet to receive a single penny from the UK, despite significant public pressure.

This year the world experienced devastating impacts of climate change--forest fires in Russia, flood in Pakistan, hottest first six months globally since recording began in 1880... the list goes on.

Mayors of large cities that hold statutory responsibilities for large-scale infrastructure such as transportation systems, regional energy production, social housing, water and solid waste management can have a tremendous impact on both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and taking steps to address and forestall the sometimes devastating impacts of the climate change that has already begun.

What's more, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, from devastating floods to rising seas to wildfires, we must keep the vast majority of the world's fossil fuel reserves in the ground.

At the end of a year that has seen the impacts of climate change devastate homes and families in your country and around the world, it is the perfect time to refute the discredited claims of politicians underwritten by polluters who profit from inaction.

"Last winter's devastating floods showed there's no drawbridge Britain can pull up to keep safe from the impacts of climate change.