Sentences with phrase «environmental campaigners said»

The environmental campaigners said two climbers also attempted to abseil down from a small roof above the podium, with one stopped by security while the other unveiled a banner to boos from the crowd.

Some climate scientists and environmental campaigners said Mr. Cooney's quick shift from the White House to Exxon was evidence of a near - seamless relationship between the Bush administration and the oil industry.

But environmental campaigners said they were outraged that the document so clearly showed that countries involved in the negotiations are aware of the gap.

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.

Some environmental campaigners say climate trumps all.]

But environmental campaigners say it's clear that a little uncertainty goes a long way toward sustaining public inertia on an issue with the time scale and complexity of human - driven climate change.

Environmental campaigners say the results are «worrying» and reinforce the need for strong measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental campaigners say that protecting the rights of indigenous people is the cheapest and most effective way of keeping the forests healthy as supported by mounting scientific evidence.

Not exact matches

At the same time, opposition is so strong,» said Nikki Skuce, a resident of Smithers, B.C., and a campaigner for the environmental group Forest Ethics Advocacy.

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.

FoE's Planning Campaigner, Hugh Ellis said: «With no reference to climate change in the planning bill, people have no guarantees that ministers will take climate change into account when considering major projects such as roads, airports and power stations which will lock us into the path towards climate change and environmental destruction.

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

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.»

«It's a double - edged sword,» says Julian Newman, a senior campaigner with the London - based Environmental Investigation Agency, which has tracked the ivory trade extensively.

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

Mr. Romm and many environmental campaigners and energy entrepreneurs say that markets, laws, public campaigns and leadership can prompt the technological transformation, and that government research money has mainly been a distraction and a delaying device promoted by industries or political operatives wedded to fossil fuels.

Some environmental and climate campaigners have said they are willing to be «a big fan of a lousy climate bill,» as Joe Romm of Climate Progress described himself not long ago (around the 34th minute in this video)-- as a step toward breaking longstanding gridlock.

This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.

As a result, US refiners and traders are looking to markets with looser regulation and, say environmental campaigners at both ends of the supply chain, fuelling India's airborne public health crisis.

6 Jan: Daily Mail: Richard Hartley - parkinson: Prince Charles says becoming a grandfather has boosted his environmental beliefs saying he doesn't want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» The Prince of Wales has spoken about how the prospect of becoming a grandfather is spurring his environmental beliefs, saying he does not want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» Prince Charles, an outspoken campaigner on environmental issues, told ITV's This Morning that he did not want the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's child, due to be born next summer, to ask him why he had not done more to tackle issues like climate change... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257993/Prince-Charles-says-grandfather-boosted-environmental-beliefs-saying-doesnt-want-hand-increasingly-dysfunctional-world.html

«Given the vast profits made by the European fluorochemical industry, it is absolutely scandalous that they are not destroying all HFC - 23 produced by their factories,» said Clare Perry, Senior Campaigner for the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

But the memo also criticises environmental campaigners for misrepresenting scientific evidence and says that green groups and the British media «have been guilty of expressing unjustified certainty about the science of climate change».

Clémence Hutin, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said, «Today has shown cross-party recognition of the social and environmental benefits of energy savings, for people and the climate.

The Times said the assertion actually «was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise,» «authored by two green activists» and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group.

This is not to say that environmental campaigners should ditch all existing efforts around closing coal power plants in favor of advocacy for CCS — instead, CCS can provide another valuable option for which these campaigners can advocate in contexts where the rapid shutdown of coal is undesirable and / or politically infeasible.