Sentences with phrase «climate challenge campaign»

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In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

Today, Saturday 22nd April, is Earth Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of the environmental and climate challenges that we all face as citizens of planet earth.

Learning how the market works and somehow designing an effective promo campaign in an ever changing climate is challenging.

That bodes very ill for humans (with or without disinformation campaigns) getting the climate challenge right.

I've also challenged people involved in climate science, campaigns or policy to come up with strategies that might help bring not only clarity, but actual real - world change (whichever change they seek).

In the view of Brant Olson, campaign manager for climate change awareness initiative Forecast the Facts, one of the most important ALEC - related challenges is halting Google's ongoing participation in and support of the group.

The Tribune: Research, awareness campaigns and the integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies in planning and development are essential to help Pakistan cope with future climate change challenges.

But what is one to make of a climate - change law that withstands a $ 35 million campaign supported by conservative oil interests only to be thrown off course by a legal challenge from the leftier edges of the environmental movement, particularly its environmental justice wing?

Are there lessons for other social campaigns, such as those addressing other global health challenges, human trafficking, and climate change?

The Campus Climate Challenge is planning a new and more energetic clean energy campaign.

In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007).

The publicâ $ ™ s waning interest in global warming poses a challenge for Mr. Obama, who emphasized climate change throughout his campaign and pledged to seek a cap on emissions in the United States of heat - trapping gases, led by carbon dioxide, which come mainly from burning coal and oil.

«I personally believe climate change is a challenge of such magnitude and urgency that we need a president who will set ambitious goals,» she said in a video posted to her campaign website.

The debate was developed in partnership with the British Council as part of their ZeroCarbonCity initiative — a two year global campaign to raise awareness and stimulate debate around the challenges of climate change.

The challenge faced by the Obama administration as it seeks to secure support for the Waxman - Markey Climate Change bill was again underlined when it emerged oil and gas industry lobbyists are planning a nationwide campaign designed to create the impression of widespread grassroots opposition to the legislation.

... If you believe that solving the climate change problem «is fundamentally a technological challenge,» then we are in this mess not because of the power of the fossil fuel lobby, not because of the influence of the campaign of denial, not because of money politics, not because persuading consumers to accept a price on carbon seems too hard, and not because getting international cooperation has been fraught.

When the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon.

We run campaigns, provide education, inspiration, practical tools, creative ideas, and leadership to challenge our cultural acceptance of fossil fuels, and to get New Zealand and the rest of the world back on track to 350ppm and, consequentially, climate safety.

Note: the author is a 2006 graduate of the Climate and Society Masters Program, but is in no way involved in the conference.: 350 Conference: Climate and Society More on 350 ppm 350: The Most Important Number of Your Lifetime 350 Presidential Election UN Climate Talks Invite Campaign Launches Today 350: Bill McKibben Inspires UK Audience to Join His Campaign Brighter Planet and 350.org Challenge Bloggers to Offset Carbon Emissions with Onsite Badge More on James Hansen Climate Expert James Hansen Supports Cap - and - Dividend System Dr. James Hansen Calls on Americans to Join Him at the Largest Protest on Global Warming in U.S. History Nature and Stop Kingsworth Interview James Hansen about His Clash with Big Coal James Hansen's Declaration of Stewardship For the Earth and All Creation

Tom Steyer, who will be launching a major bipartisan climate change campaign in October with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, first challenged President Obama on this issue at a private fundraiser he hosted in his San Francisco home.