Sentences with phrase «change secretary world»
By: Heherson T. Alvarez former Senator who served as Environment and Climate Change Secretary World Ocean Day is observed on June 8 with the theme «Our Oceans, Our Future» geared inform, mobilize, unite the world's population for the sustainable management of the world's ocean, considered the lungs of our planet.
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And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.
Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.
Tonight's Katie's last night, and she'll have the Secretary of State on to talk about Obama's speech today and the changes in the Arab world.
David Willetts: «The Shadow Universities Secretary was full of praise for Mr McCain's experience and independence, but said an Obama victory would restore «the world's faith in America» and would represent the more «vivid change»... When the show's presenter later interpreted this as support for Mr Obama, Mr Willetts did not contradict him.
The energy and climate change secretary said the moves ensuring no new coal energy is permitted without CCS made the UK one of the most «environmentally ambitious» countries in the world.
Business secretary says the party's methods of communication have to change because the world has changed since 1997
U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon urged world leaders on Thursday to make «bold pledges» for cuts in greenhouse gases by next September to guide a deal to fight climate change but acknowledged that many nations would be late.
Secretary general Ban Ki - moon has invited world leaders to «bring bold announcements and actions to the summit that will reduce emissions, strengthen climate resilience, and mobilize political will» to address climate change.
As world leaders including President Obama gathered in Paris to discuss climate change last week, Ames, Iowa, Mayor Ann Campbell joined a conference call of U.S. mayors with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz — all part of the 21
The movie follows the 44th president and a team that includes former Secretary of State John Kerry, ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and senior strategist Ben Rhodes in the West Wing and around the world as they apply their brand of engaged globalism on issues ranging from climate change to Syria.
The movie follows the 44th president and a team that includes former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and senior strategist Ben Rhodes in the West Wing and around the world as they apply their brand of engaged globalism on issues ranging from climate change to Syria.
Education Secretary Justine Greening responded by saying that «no country in the world» has managed to «crack the issue of social mobility yet» and argued that «grammars can have potentially a transformational impact in some of the most deprived communities where we want to see the biggest changes».
As world leaders prepare to gather for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon's Global Climate Change Summit, this evidence calls for action to be taken to reduce disaster risk and to help communities adapt to changing and more unpredictable weather patterns, without which much more displacement will occur in the future.
As world leaders prepare to gather for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon's Global Climate Change Summit, this evidence calls for
of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP Global Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S. Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.
Dr. Taleb Rifai the Secretary - General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) discusses the emerging market of Chinese tourism and the importance that has on the economy and changing the perspectives throughout the wWorld Tourism Organization (UNWTO) discusses the emerging market of Chinese tourism and the importance that has on the economy and changing the perspectives throughout the worldworld.
Citing Lipman's commitment over 40 years as Executive Director at IATA (International Air Transport Association), President of WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council), and Assistant Secretary General of UNWTO (UN World Tourism Organization), Aidi said that «He has always been a leading advocate of travel and tourism as a force for positive change — economic, social, and above all environmental.»
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
Speech of Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the World Coal Association International Coal & Climate Summit Warsaw, 18 November 2013 Read more...
DiCaprio attended and spoke at the Cop21 conference in Paris earlier this month, where he met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and urged local representatives from around the world to act quickly to strike a climate change agreement because the world is «fundamentally running out of time.»
On 2013/10/23, during the disastrous NSW fires, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhere).
The next international climate change conference is scheduled for December, 2015, but in acknowledgment of the urgency of the issue, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon has organized a summit of world leaders at the organization's New York headquarters in September.
Trump could have the United States immediately submit a written notice to the Secretary General of the United Nations that it is leaving the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which includes nearly all the world's nations among its membership and coordinates international deals on climate.
A high - level panel chaired by Farhana Yamin of Track 0 and featuring Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, and Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group Vice President & Special Envoy for Climate Change, will underline why the Paris talks must signal decarbonization of the global economy and built environment.
«Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy.»
On a day of 2,700 simultaneous climate events from Melbourne to Manhattan, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, reinforced the calls from the streets for action by calling on world leaders to take the threat of climate change as seriously as Isis or Ebola.
As Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres said, «The Paris Agreement... sends a powerful signal to the many thousands of cities, regions, businesses, and citizens across the world already committed to climate action that their vision of a low - carbon, resilient future is now the chosen course for humanity this century.»
At a news conference in February 2015 in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, then executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
Despite the ongoing rhetoric projecting Britain as a potential world leader in the field of green energy, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has acknowledged that the country looks set to remain reliant upon gas for years to come.
Speaking with a small group of reporters here yesterday, UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said there is such a «history of mistrust» that the developing countries still do not believe the rich world will keep its word.
Breitbart News reported extensively about Governor Brown's hopscotching around the world to sign climate change agreements with some of the world's worst polluters, such as Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping.
Unwilling to settle for a mere $ 100 billion a year, UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon is demanding that First World nations dramatically increase their commitment to the wealth redistribution schemes planned for the UN Conference on Climate Change next month in Copenhagen.
of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP Global Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S. Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday that he doesn't believe man - made carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of climate change, contradicting virtually all of the world's climate scientists.
Pitted against Energy Secretary Ed Davey, Mr Carter described the findings of the most authoritative report ever undertaken into the science of climate change — put together by hundreds of scientists around the world — as «hocus - pocus science».
The event, endorsed by the COP23 Presidency and presided by World Water Council Honorary President Loïc Fauchon and H.E. Charafat Afilal, Secretary of State for Water and Environment of Morocco, brought high level participants, such as international experts and political leaders at the forefront of the debate on climate change and water, as well as several environmental ministers, including, Istiaque Ahmad, Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests of Bangladesh and Sindra Sharma - Khushal, from the UNFCCC COP23 Presidency Team for Fiji.
We know that in 2007 UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon described the war in Darfur as the world's first climate change conflict.
Denver Business Journal: The boom in oil and natural gas production in North America, largely due to the new technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is changing the balance of power across the world, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told attendees at the Vail Global Energy Forum.
The secretary general of the United Nations has now said he will invite world leaders to New York next fall to deal with climate change.
ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Secretary of Environment & Natural Resources: Victor Lichtinger Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 6.18 quadrillion Btu * (1.6 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 103.2 million metric tons of carbon (1.6 % of world total carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 62.5 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 16,509 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.28 metric tons of carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.18 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 11th, 1993).
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called climate change perhaps the world's «most fearsome» destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence or question its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat.
The document includes the Davos Declaration, the Resolution adopted by the UNWTO General Assembly, held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (23 - 29 November 2007) and a Statement by Francesco Frangialli, Secretary - General of the World Tourism Organization, on the occasion of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.
By the Associated Press — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called climate change perhaps the world's «most fearsome» destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence or question its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat.
AP: The United Nations secretary - general is calling on world policymakers to show greater effort in addressing the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming pact next year.
And they've just gotten their most public, most official shout out yet — Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has recommended that the world should try to have «white roofs everywhere to help fight climate change» — remarks that were carried in hundreds of news wires around the world.According to Bloomberg,
Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon himself is calling on people around the world to add their voices to the petition demanding a fair and effective climate change agreement: Climate Deal Smart Investment for the Future Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to action,
Christiana Figueres is a world authority on global climate change and was the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC from 2010 - 2016.
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon's three new special envoys on climate change, also headed up the 1987 U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development where the concept of sustainable development was first floated.