Sentences with phrase «g4c climate challenge»

But the country has a number of business climate challenges that must be addressed before it can reach its full potential as an investment destination.

It is time to be equally frank about the costs that all citizens must bear to address the climate challenge.

Regardless of the climate challenge, policymakers and development banks in developed and emerging economies are facilitating more cities to tap into bond markets for their infrastructure requirements.

Climate challenges are not going away.

Climate Day at Natural Products Expo West moved beyond companies talking about climate challenges to committing to real change.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

Cuomo said clean energy is a business opportunity for the state, as well as an important step to address increasing climate challenges.

While at ITIF, he tracked federal energy R&D investments and innovation activities, and authored several white papers and policy briefs exploring the role of innovation in solving the nation's energy and climate challenges.

«Because the complexity of the climate makes accurate prediction difficult, the APS urges an enhanced effort to understand the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate, and to provide the technological options for meeting the climate challenge in the near and longer terms.

Assessment practitioners must grapple with the ethical dimensions of making sure important assumptions are transparent, especially when one generation is «kicking the can of the climate challenge on to the next,» she said.

Teams of researchers in the American Southwest and North Atlantic Islands have found that historic and prehistoric peoples in these regions who had created vulnerabilities to food shortfall were especially susceptible to impacts from climate challenges.

Their «natural» disasters were human made in conjunction with climate challenges.

One early success is the Campus Climate Challenge, which organizes university students to get their school's administrators to commit to making the campus climate - neutral; to date, more than 550 schools have agreed to a plan.

Understanding human capacities to address climate challenges is as important today as it was in the past.

A Four - Step Plan Given the scale of the climate challenge and the consequences of delay, four steps need to be taken to mobilize a more effective strategy.

How is the military addressing the energy and climate challenge?

Since then, it has declined sharply and reached a plateau around $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion a year — a tiny fraction of the roughly $ 100 billion of total public research and development funding in the U.S. Public support for energy research is now inching up, but the effort falls short of that needed to tackle the climate challenge.

Scientists unaffiliated with the study said it shows better data is needed to fully understand the extent of the climate challenge posed by landfill methane emissions.

Scientists say that even though the cooling effect from aerosols is real, the biggest climate challenge from the tar sands is their carbon dioxide emissions.

The success of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica marks an important development in the philosophy of sustainable development, demonstrating how the climate challenge can be met through goodwill and collaboration between civil society, business and governments.

Resolving the climate challenge will take decades, but we must get started, since some additional warming is already «locked - in» due to inertia in the climate system.

Technologies needed to meet the climate challenge are already available today.

CGIAR scientists wielding big data tools to blunt the impacts of climate change on Latin America's rice production have been named one of two winners of the Big Data Climate Challenge at the recent United Nations Climate Summit held in New York City, U.S.A.

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.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

Here is a way to participate in developing environmental responsibility and awareness that climate challenges facing our planet...

Governments and food and agriculture organizations join today at the Lima - Paris Action Agenda Focus on Agriculture to respond to the urgent climate challenges facing agriculture with six cooperative initiatives that will protect the long - term livelihoods of millions of farmer and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This is the approach British game developer Red Redemption takes in two games addressing carbon emissions, Operation: Climate Control (for teens) and Climate Challenge (for older players).

The nations of the world gathered on Monday in Paris to reach a new and universal climate change agreement, in the knowledge that they have already delivered an almost universal set of national responses to meet the long - term climate challenge before the conference even begins.

Here is a way to participate in developing environmental responsibility and awareness that climate challenges facing our planet need to be global.

The school climate challenge.

U.S. - China Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) The CCWG was established pursuant to the Joint Statement on Climate Change issued on April 13, 2013 during Secretary Kerry's first trip to China and is intended to spur large - scale, cooperative efforts to address the climate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already underway.

The alignment in goals evolved into a multi-team partnership that produced the G4C Climate Challenge.

Art has the ability to change our perceptions and perspectives on the world, and Ice Watch makes the climate challenges we are facing tangible.

Together, his artworks and research seek to facilitate an increased understanding of the shared social, political, environmental, and cultural climate challenges we face, both within our local communities, and in the international arena.

Of course, the urgency with which we must address the climate challenge makes this a very worrisome approach.

It goes something like this: «There is a very serious climate challenge facing us, and dealing with it gives us a chance to create a new kind of prosperity and economic growth ---- for Americans and Chinese alike — through investments in technology and infrastructure.

But if such a biofuel is grown and manufactured without much fossil - based energy, if it doesn't come from fields or forests (Mr. Charles stressed there is no palm oil involved), this might be the first hint that aviation — still a small fraction of the overall greenhouse - gas pie, but one of the fastest - growing wedges — could avoid adding greatly to the climate challenge while subtracting just a little bit from the world's energy challenge.

Last week The Financial Times selected the Kyoto Box as the winner in its FT Climate Challenge, over 300 other entries.

On almost any aspect of the climate challenge, from the pace of coastal retreats to the fate of hurricanes in a warming world, there is a wide range of informed opinion — leaving aside intentional distortions.

I need to ask you a few questions about your framing of the climate challenge.

In essence, it's utterly human to have varied responses to change and challenges — in this case humanity's intertwined energy and climate challenges.

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

The climate challenge is PART OF the energy challenge, not vice versa.

Growing awareness of this element of the climate challenge has already spawned a new Web site, maintained by faculty members at Pennsylvania State University, called www.climateethics.org.

For a different take on the climate challenge, watch Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian *, describe her research on scientists as sentinels and her new book of fictional future climate history, «The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future,» co-written with Erik M. Conway.

Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climatologist immersed in climate science and policy for decades, framed the question a different way in the title of the last chapter of his new book on the climate challenge: «Can Democracy Survive Complexity?»

The goal was to split the climate challenge — a «super wicked» lacework of science, policy, diplomacy and economics — into manageable parts and foster productive online discourse aimed at distilling solutions.

AR: Read «The Climate Divide» and all of the stories my colleagues and I have been writing for two years and counting on the Energy Challenge that underlies the climate challenge.

40:00 He provides a reality check, using simple calculations, on whether carbon dioxide from coal burning can be captured at a scale remotely applicable to the climate challenge.