Agriculture and climate change issues are closely linked.

Agriculture is at the heart of climate change issues.

These include climate change, ozone depletion, chemical issues and loss of biodiversity.

As climate change cuts across other environmental issues, many Parties recognized the benefits of, and emphasized the need for, an integrated approach in dealing with overall environmental issues, including climate change.

They regard climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation as critical sustainable development issues.

The lack of experts working on climate change issues is partly due to the high turnover of experts involved in climate change.

The issues of air quality and climate change are closely coupled on several levels.

Several Parties provided information about their activities to educate communities about climate change issues.

Public awareness The involvement of the public in climate change issues depends in part on the level of their knowledge of those issues.

Any change must improve the capacity of the international system to deal with development issues.

Increase in print and television coverage on climate change issues was also observed when Parties hosted the COP and workshops relating to climate change.

Environmental issues and, in particular, climate change and sea level rise are security issues for countries comprising low lying coral atolls, such as Kiribati.

Several Parties in the Caribbean are researching climate change and related issues under the Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Global Climate Change project in Guyana.

These policies are aimed at integrating environmental issues and climate change into basic subjects in education.

Parties reported that the technical nature of climate change issues is a constraint to public education.

Moreover, on issues like terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and climate change, the US needs Russian and Chinese help.

Many crucial issues, such as financial stability or climate change, simply are not amenable to military force.

China used the Internet to disseminate latest information about progress on climate change issues, policies and projects.

Establishment of a standing UNU Panel on Global Change to advise the UNU on emerging global issues

Of course, this still leaves unresolved other multilateral issues, like the International Criminal Court and global climate change.

The protests launched a countrywide movement, spurring nonstop media coverage of women s issues. So, has significant change followed?

It must be acknowledged, however, that other global change issues pose far more complex challenges in this respect.

Child protection issues often challenge long held beliefs and practices and can provoke denial and resistance to change.

In the Programme of Action, forests are linked to other issues, including agriculture, food security and climate change.

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

Others adopted a more top down approach, i.e. to include climate change issues in the overall national planning.

If we resolve those issues we may be able to change the living conditions of the Palestinians there.

So when I started thinking about these issues and how I was going to change what kids ate,

Mr. Klein highlighted some issues outlined in the draft paper, including concepts and definitions of adaptation to climate change implications for developing and transferring technology a proposed conceptual framework for addressing technologies for planned adaptation to climate variability and change and policy issues.

Scientific, technical and socio economic aspects of impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change Scientific, technical and socio economic aspects of mitigation of climate change Methodological issues

In addition to issues like climate change, there is also a sense that other players are flexing their muscles.

The global environmental agenda also calls for the pressing issues of desertification, biodiversity and climate change to be addressed.

Work on the many issues before us should continue with great intensity and must lead to greater real change.

Recognizing also that the submission of national communications is very important for Parties to better understand climate change issues,

Networks of NGOs are reported to be involved in climate change issues at the local, regional and international level.

Such coordination is today required over a broad spectrum of interrelated issues ranging from climate change to human rights.

Norway has also strongly emphasized research on economic issues related to climate change, inter alia cost effective mitigation measures.

As regards climate change, IAEA supports technical work dealing with energy related issues and also with the impact of climate change, using radioisotope methods to understand the global carbon cycle.

Many Parties also reported on plans to incorporate or integrate climate change concerns and issues into their planning processes as a strategy for adaptation to climate change over the long term.

That is not a good basis for future cooperation between rich and poor countries on issues such as climate change.

Trade and economic openness, financial stability and regulation, energy security, climate change, and many other issues confront the world collectively.

Fifthly, it had renewed commitments to sustainable development, including addressing issues of water, human settlements, biodiversity, desertification and climate change.

The action plans were also expected to improve the interaction of climate change actions with those on other environmental issues.

Parties also identified the need for support in strengthening academic and research institutions to serve as centres of excellence on climate change by educating students that are interested in climate change issues.

However, media exposure to climate change issues depends on the ability of journalists to write articles on environmental issues and translate technical terms into the language that the public can easily understand.