Inadequate efforts to change behaviour among the population.

Population change happens slowly, but its effects can be forecast early.

Climate change, population growth, and other factors are driving up the risks.

Sustainable population growth Some Parties identified the link between size of population and climate change as part of their policy framework in achieving sustainable development.

Likewise, Russia s demoralized intellectuals and political class, on whom the population relies to advocate change, neglect to act.

The Conference provoked a profound change in the population debate by placing priority on issues of human rights.

We are experiencing a step change in the growth rate of energy demand due to rising population and economic development.

In others, the population remains in place but experiences a change of citizenship or runs the risk of becoming stateless.

Indeed, the converging effects of population growth, climate change, and energy depletion are setting the stage for a looming triple crisis.

2010 was the third successive year in which natural change contributed more to population growth than net long term international migration.

How will global climate change alter climates at the regional level? For example, given that monsoons provide water to more than half of the global population, any change could have a dramatic impact.

Uganda mentioned that population pressure leads to changes in land use practices that contribute to climate change and climate variability, and projected that impacts of climate change will be severe on densely populated areas.

The world is struggling to fight climate change, sustain a growing global population, and find decent jobs for millions of young people.

Given economic stagnation, the political system s weaknesses, the aging of the population, and resistance to immigration, fundamental change will not be easy.

The Cairo population and reproductive health agenda is a means to both influence macrodemographic change and reduce poverty at the household level.

A recent study conducted by the International Foundation for Global Economic Development reveals that, since 2000, the economically active population (EAP) has tended to increase for demographic reasons, owing to a change in the ratio between the population reaching working age and the population reaching retirement age.

Accommodating a rapidly urbanizing population, and ensuring that incentives are structured to bring about as orderly a process of social change as possible

Yet climate change will hit Africa hardest, because it will cripple the continent s vulnerable agricultural sector, on which 70 of the population depends.

Accommodating a rapidly urbanizing population, and ensuring that incentives are structured to bring about as orderly a process of social change as possible

Accounting for only 15 of the world's population, they cause 50 of global carbon dioxide emissions with all their implications for climate change.

Projects have covered the following programme areas children's health population and women biodiversity renewable energy and climate change and peace, security and human rights.

Donors should lend their support by backing long term solutions aimed at increasing food production, slowing population growth, and mitigating long term global climate change.

In the absence of a credible and readily available political alternative, deadlock will likely continue, with the pace of change slower than the population demands.

To preserve the livelihoods of farmers and support the growing world population, adaptation and mitigation measures are both essential responses in planning for climate change.

The Japanese demography will drastically change so that more young people will have to support for the older population, which implies that this change in demography is the main culprit for the last two decades of deflation and stagnant economic growth.

When a distribution is skewed and not symmetrical around a middle value, the mean can fail to describe properly the population and its change over time.

The US, for example, encouraged a population boom in its arid southwestern states in recent decades, despite water scarcity that climate change is likely to intensify.

The impacts are made worse by the urbanization of the world's population, increasingly vulnerable to the natural disasters attributable to environmental degradation and global climate change.

Furthermore, a better educated population would likely change its demographic behaviour with respect to nuptiality, fertility, health and migration in ways leading to greater well being.

He did not have in mind the future of science and technology, or a global population of nine billion, or the challenges of climate change and biodiversity.

But I think we're in for another change, about two generations after the top of that curve, once the effects of a declining population start to settle in.

Will they exacerbate conflict, or will they be developed and widely accessible in time to solve the problems caused by a growing population, rapid urbanization, and climate change?

Had more attention been given to the country s most glaring inequalities in access to water, shelter, or jobs, this population might not have chosen violence as an instrument of change.

Partly due to such efforts, as well as to a change in family values, the rate of growth of the world s population, began a long decline, to 1.1 in 2005.

Syria, which once welcomed thousands of Christians fleeing war torn Iraq, is experiencing an analogous change, as the country s increasingly sectarian civil war generates fear and mistrust throughout the population.

As a result, their inability to reform, combined with rapid population growth and a rising cohort of young people, is placing them under pressure, creating a possibility of explosive change.

Immigration to the United States is a complex demographic phenomenon that has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States.

As a coastal nation with a significant population in low lying areas, my country emphasizes the need for new action to ensure environmental sustainability, particularly as it relates to climate change.

The world today encompasses, therefore, countries at all stages of the demographic transition, that is to say, the transition from a regime of high fertility and high mortality producing low population growth to one where both fertility and mortality are low and produce again low rates of population change.

Demand change the light bulbs, but change the laws. Change the global treaties.

Rapid population growth means a bulging youth population.

Despite efforts to change existing narratives, the African continent is still widely known as a leading recipient of international aid and the place where international NGOs come to 'save' the fragile local population.

Rural population makes up 8.5 of the general population.

This is real, tangible change, real, tangible change.

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