With 26 Articles, consisting of objectives, principles, commitments and recommendations, the FCCC became a blueprint for precautionary action against the threat of global climate change Cause . [ ENCY 0 TK 19/07/2012 ]

Everyone contributes to global emissions of greenhouse gases, but it is not only governments which can take action to reduce the threat of global warming Cause . [ ENCY 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

At the Rio Earth Summit, Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) agreed to stabilise emissions of greenhouse gases at 1990 levels by the year 2000, in an attempt to mitigate the threat of global warming Cause . [ ENCY 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

Mention of the threat of climate change Cause by an increase in human emissions of greenhouse gases began appearing in scientific literature in the 1970s, although the Swedish Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Svante Arrhenius forecast this possibility even earlier at the beginning of the twentieth century. [ JACLET 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

While this process of consensus building on principles for action on climate change was underway, the United Nations General Assembly began its own deliberations on the threat of climate change Cause . [ 5CANADAICC 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

Extending discussions of how nations might respond to the mitigation challenge so that they include issues of cost-effectiveness and efficiency, distribution narrowly defined, equity more broadly defined, and sustainability, adds enormous complexity to the problem of uncovering how best to respond to the threat of climate change Cause . [ 8IPCCATTENUATION 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

The IPCC documents the threat of gradual climate change Cause and its impact to food supplies and other resources of importance to humans will not be so severe as to create security threats. [ RAPPORTPENTAGONE 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

Prescribed fire Cause may pose a threat to marginal and fragmented habitat for this species in the Peloncillo Mountains Patient . [ THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES OF MEXICO 0 MCLH 08/10/2016 ]

Disease, which is often linked to pollution or habitat destruction Cause , was a threat to 5 % of birds and 17 % of amphibians Patient . [ ENDANGERED SPECIES MANAGEMENT 0 MCLH 08/10/2016 ]

Climate change Cause would exacerbate current Time threats to biodiversity Patient resulting from land-use/cover change and population pressure in Asia (medium confidence). [ 3IPCCCONSEQUENCE 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

Deforestation can also reduce rainfall in certain areas, increasing the threat of desertification Result . [ ENCY 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

Wet areas are likely to become wetter, with more frequent episodes of flooding, whilst dry areas may become drier, with longer periods of drought leading to an increased Degree threat of desertification Result . [ ENCY 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

Aquatic invasive species Agent pose a threat to all native aquatic biota and ecosystems in New Mexico Patient (NMDGF 2008). [ THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES OF MEXICO 0 MCLH 09/10/2016 ]

There will be redistribution of species, with, in some instances, a threat of extinction Result due to lack of possibility to migrate upward Cause , either because they cannot move rapidly enough or because the zone is absent. [ 2IPCCBIODIVERSITE 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]

Climate change could have profound impacts on coastal zones due to sea level rise and changes in frequency and/or intensity of storms. This would result in threats to ecosystems, infrastructure and settlements, the tourism industry and human health Patient . [ VULNERABILITY 0 TK MCLH 19/07/2012 ]