Each local climate will respond differently, so will the animals and plants that live in those places.
Areas most suitable for growing seed crops will be identified, taking into account factors such as soil types and local climate.
The details, though, remain obscure which serves as a reminder of just how much remains to be found out before even the local climate truly becomes explicable.
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However, the challenge posed by the North Sea structures - because of their heavier weight and the local climate - represents a major challenge on a totally different scale.
Sandwatch is a climate change and coastal monitoring programme which encourages the development of sustainable approaches to address beach environment challenges, while also stimulating local climate change adaptation measures.
The 2-megawatt project is much smaller in scope but will provide a good opportunity for First Solar to show how well its solar panels will fare in the local climate.
While correlations had been observed between disease transmission and local climate changes in some regions, "there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales, " it said.
Changes in agricultural practices and the local climate - thought to be brought about by global warming - as well as housing, industrial and transport developments have all taken their toll on good species-rich grassland in the county.
Bloomberg is the current chairman of C40, which was started in 2005 and is a network of cities around the world looking to implement local actions that can impact climate change.
The EU Climate Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, said climate policies would cut local pollution, reduce dependency on fossil fuel imports, improve resource efficiency, save money on energy and even make people fitter if they left their cars at home and cycled to work.
It provides layers of observations on local shifts in the environment relevant to climate change issues today.
In some local matters, even right-wing climate sceptics and climate-conscious lefties concur.
China's rulers should meanwhile note that, besides cooking the climate, aviation also causes local pollution, which poor countries suffer more grievously than rich ones.
Today, many people say that local power struggles, a poor economic climate and elements of basic banditry are fueling the simmering insurgency in Dagestan, apart from grander Islamist or separatist aims.
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Outside these core areas, and at lower altitudes, the culture and farming practices of mountain people can have profound effects on local ecology, making the effects of climate change difficult to distinguish from those directly due to human activities.
China's rulers recognise that they face serious consequences from local pollution and from changes to the global climate.
The WLGA recently warned of a "bleak financial climate that will be faced by local councils in Wales potentially up until 2021".
The main draw for such luminaries, apart from the rock-star status accorded them by the local press, is Singapore's permissive climate for research.
Up on the committee corridor there's the first meeting of the new Energy and Climate Change sub-committee on local energy (2pm) looking at the contribution small and medium-sized projects could make to the UK's energy supply, and at barriers to medium-sized and community-owned projects.
This session focused on recognizing that climate change adaptation must be rooted in local priorities.
According to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, turbines can raise the local temperature -- albeit slightly.
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Yet one local businessman says revolving-door governments make the climate so volatile that he has shifted his investments next door to Kazakhstan.
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The meeting provides an opportunity for senior members of the Obama Administration to hear local and regional ideas, questions and concerns about climate change impacts in Hawaii and the Pacific and to describe federal planning efforts already underway.
The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes.
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By the end of the project, each of the participating pilot schools will have formulated a school DRR and climate change response plan in collaboration with the local community.
Instead of having former Vice President Al Gore be the face of efforts to counter climate change, Obama needs the images of local protesters gathering to make sure that Congress deals with the issue.
In Totnes, Transition have created local food guides, formed a sustainable building company, given talks and lectures to landowners and local government officials to show them how peak oil and climate change affect their management decisions.
Contamination worries from local governments due to hydraulic fracturing and ongoing concerns about the climate impacts from burning natural gas continue to hamper development efforts.
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With other rainforest regions such as the Amazon also being depleted rapidly -- the percentage of the earth's land surface covered by rainforest is estimated to have slipped from 14 percent to around six percent -- the sudden disappearance of millions of hectares of the earth's natural defenses against climate change is likely to have consequences far beyond local communities and wildlife.
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