Sentences with phrase «environmental campaigner sauven»

On May 29, Brazilian police confirmed the killing of an Amazon environmental campaigner, Adelino Ramos, who was known for openly denouncing those who illegally fell trees in the rainforest.

Down in Mexico at the COP16 climate conference, Andy Revkin of the New York Times just posted a video interview he did with environmental campaigner and thinker extraordinare Bill McKibben, which is really worth a view.

We'll also speak with longtime environmental campaigner and Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett and National Geographic Your Shot producer Matt Adams.

Prominent environmental campaigner, and author of Kyoto 2, how to manage the Global Greenhouse, Oliver Tickell protests of carbon trading schemes that, «Carbon fortunes are indeed being made, and many of them in the City of London, which dominates the global carbon marketplace».

Gore's graphic of a desperate polar bear has turned out to be a tipping point and there is no more influential environmental campaigner.

The IPCC is made up of several hundred scientists worldwide who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with former US vice-president and noted environmental campaigner Al Gore.

With elections due in July 2013, violence and harassment against land activists increased markedly in 2012, with prominent environmental campaigner Chut Wutty and reporter Hang Serei Oudom amongst those murdered.

The EU's efforts to decarbonise heavy industry are being undermined by ETS benchmarking rules that systematically block cleaner industrial alternatives from getting a foothold, according to environmental campaigner group Sandbag.

Environmental campaigner Bill McKibben has characterized such a strategy as a war effort, but it is actually even bigger than that.

Kate Horner is a longtime environmental campaigner who combines strategic thinking with effective organizational management and fundraising.

The IPCC shared the award with former US vice-president and environmental campaigner, Al Gore.

Liz was previously Head of Communications at the Vegetarian Society and has lots of experience as a voluntary environmental campaigner.

An industry body with vested interests in selling photovoltaics and an environmental campaigner with vested interests in photovoltaic power generation producing a non-peer-reviewed document that is cited in AR4?

A talented designer, an environmental campaigner and an astute diplomat - Zanditon has got it made!

I have changed it to environmental campaigner.

The students also interview Mario Moscatelli, an environmental campaigner focused on the trash and pollution in Rio's waters.

[Grist has some reactions from an environmental campaigner in India.]

Chico Mendes, known internationally as an environmental campaigner, is being honored this afternoon in Washington, D.C., with a memorial service on the 25th anniversary of his assassination in Xapuri, Acre, deep in the Amazon rain forest he had fought to conserve.

Sir Richard Branson, the entrepreneur, balloonist, spaceflight booster and social - environmental campaigner, held forth in a conversation with Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal today, touching on a host of ways to make and lose money and try to build a better planet.

The Prince of Wales, a veteran environmental campaigner, has been aware of issues around synthetic fibres for a long time.

Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: «Some of the characters involved have previously worked to deny the reality of the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain and the link between tobacco and lung cancer.

So tweeted the renowned environmental campaigner and journalist George Monbiot earlier this week, after Gove condemned farmers who «drench» their fields in chemicals and damage soil fertility.

Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.

Bryony Worthington is an environmental campaigner and Labour life peer.

Environmental campaigners, who are concerned about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminating groundwater resources and triggering earth tremors, welcomed the decision.

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

The news comes as scores of UK hospitality firms are beginning to change their policies on plastic waste, while some environmental campaigners are attempting to tax single - use plastic products in an effort to discourage their use.

Environmental campaigners have applauded the UK Government's plan to ban plastic straws, cotton buds and drinks stirrers and are now urging Downing Street to take action against all «problem plastic».

The real attack on freedom of speech has come from the French state itself and it is directed against those it perceives as potential subversives: the school children who will not say Je Suis Charlie, the Muslim families who are subject to raids by police, the environmental campaigners who want to demonstrate in front of world leaders.

Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.

A group of environmental campaigners have temporarily occupied the premises of lobbying company Endelman.

The UK's renewable energy performance is a «national disgrace», environmental campaigners claim today.

Mr Benn confirmed the government will now review plans for a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions after environmental campaigners warned it was not sufficiently rigorous.

Environmental campaigners have claimed a major victory against a plant which has become a symbol of worldwide concern over carbon emissions.

Civil servants advised ministers to seek alternative «statistical interpretations of the target» - prompting environmental campaigners to accuse the government of «wriggling» out of its obligations.

«It's vital that everyone with an interest - private motorists, the business community, central and local government, road safety and environmental campaigners - is given the chance to see how schemes operate in the real world.»

Leaked documents indicate the Crown Prosecution Service may also have misled the public and even the courts when the trial of six environmental campaigners accused of planning to break into Ratcliffe - on - Soar power station in Nottinghamshire collapsed earlier this year.

Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with ageing technology, among other things.

Environmental campaigners argue that simple hydrocarbons such as pentane and butane should replace CFCs in fridges.

Environmental campaigners, who have strongly criticized the German stance, gave a very cautious welcome to the deal, saying at least it provided certainty.

During the last week, three environmental campaigners have been killed in the Amazon.

Koenig says environmental campaigners are deeply concerned about stepped up drilling plans in other parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon but they see merit in supporting the Yasuni Initiative as a means by which to enable Ecuador to extricate itself from its current «oil debt trap.»

Environmental campaigners want the Colorado river to get the right to sue in US courts.

Environmental campaigners and shareholders have also pressured Shell to drop Arctic drilling.

Despite having their hearts and heads in the right place, environmental campaigners all too often come across as doom - mongering, guilt - tripping party poopers.

Environmental campaigners ClientEarth has called on head teachers to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

Headteachers were today urged by environmental campaigners to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

After Tate gallery management appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries» financial relationship with oil company and Tate sponsor BP; the institution has been ordered to give those very details of its BP sponsorship between 1990 - 2006, in a case brought by environmental campaigners.

Alex Gourevitch, a doctoral candidate in political theory at Columbia University, proposed that environmental campaigners were using a «politics of fear» to scare people into action.

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.