Sentences with phrase «council debate on climate change»

Ms Beckett led a UN Security Council debate on climate change, insisting that it has become a security threat.

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Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

David Doniger, climate policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the introduction of the Boxer - Kerry bill on Wednesday would signal the beginning of Senate debate on climate change.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who believes that human influence on climate change must be a myth because the Bible says so, said in an interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins last night on «Washington Watch» that climate change denialists like himself have won the debate.

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.

Putting an end to the debate over climate change, the UN Security Council in a presidential statement declared at its meeting on climate change on July 20 that possible adverse effects of climate change may, in the long run, aggravate certain existing threats to international peace and security.

2007/04/18: BBC: First climate debate divides UN The United Nations Security Council has held its first ever debate on climate change with some members arguing it was not the place for such a discussion.

ALEC characterizes climate change on its website as «a historical phenomenon» for which «the debate will continue on the significance of natural and anthropogenic contributions» (American Legislative Exchange Council 2010, 2014; SourceWatch 2014).