Sentences with phrase «leading climate officials»
Leading climate officials from Washington and Delhi will meet in January, when President Barack Obama visits India.
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«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.
The Trump administration plans to withdraw its nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate change skeptic, to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House official said.
So, my vote for next chancellor goes to Adair Turner, former head of the Confederation of British Industry, chair of the official Committee on Climate Change and now leading the Financial Services Authoriry.
NEW YORK - Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg led nearly 1,000 business and government officials declaring they would honor the Paris climate accord on Monday, days after US President Donald Trump announced a US exit from the 190 - plus nation pact.
«We can not, as the OECD, rule on what should or should not count as climate finance relating to the $ 100 billion commitment,» said Simon Buckle, the OECD official who led research for the report.
Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.
And the APS's route to its 2015 statement has been dogged by controversy and its own internal politics, including a coup d'état that led to the resignation of Steve Koonin, the head of the climate statement review committee and a former Obama administration official.
«The greatest risk, again, is climate change,» said Wendy Tubman, an official of the North Queensland Conservation Council, which is leading a legal fight against the Abbot Point expansion.
With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than later.
In response, five environmental organizations led by the Alliance for Climate Protection created the «Reality Coalition» to educate the public, media, and public officials «that in reality, there is no such thing as «clean coal.
Deb Callister, an environment department official, told Climate Home that she had consulted with UNESCO about releasing the emails that lead to the removal of the Australian sections.
IIPT African Conference brings together leading experts in tourism and climate change, Ministers of Tourism and the Environment, senior government officials, and executives from the diverse sectors of the industry
You can read the query below, followed by responses from an official at the United Nations Environment Program and one of the lead scientists for the climate panel's next assessment:
The document, dated March 11, essentially provides talking points for administration officials to use in the months leading to the next big climate - treaty conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December.
Perhaps you would care to explain exactly how these alleged «past exaggerations of climate predictions» compelled numerous GOP elected officials to deliberately and repeatedly lie about climate science, while seeking to abuse their positions of authority to defund climate research and attack and destroy the careers of leading climate scientists.
In an e-mail message to me, Dr. Depledge warned that Saudi Arabia and its lead official on climate, Mohammad al - Sabban, should not be underestimated as they pushed for financial commitments.
Above all, however, Newsom emphasized the urgency of environmental justice for the less affluent, and appealed for support for public officials who are willing to take the lead in dealing with climate change.
A detailed breakdown of the Bush administration's goals in Honolulu is provided in a transcript of a press briefing by James Connaughton of the White House and Paula Dobrianksy, the lead State Department official on climate.
In my recent chat with Ed Miliband, the lead British climate official here, I mentioned my piece from awhile ago examining how even a best - case scenario for emissions of carbon dioxide in a world with that many people leads to an enormous buildup of the gas.
I sat down recently with Ed Miliband, Britain's secretary of state for energy and climate change, and, for the moment, the lead British official here.
Unable to defend the EPA's actions, the climate - change crew — , led by anonymous EPA officials — is doing what it does best: trashing Mr. Carlin as a «denier.»
The latest word from Todd Stern, the lead United States official in talks aimed at building a new climate treaty, powerfully supports Schelling's view.
That would likely mean that also the official UN climate goal of limiting the average world temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius — a target linked to 450 ppm CO2 equivalent stabilisation scenarios (practically ambitious, theoretically weak)-- will eventually lead to many meters of global sea level rise.
«Based on early conversations with senior state officials [Wednesday] from some red - and blue - led states,» she says, «I expect we will see a number of states and cities continuing to lead in promoting clean energy and increasing resilience to climate impacts.»
A week later, Friday, June 9, Illinois Democrat constitutional officers — State Treasurer Mike Frerichs and other top elected officials — joined with radical environmentalists to demand that Governor Rauner join the California - led Climate Alliance.
«U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is leading a formal initiative to challenge mainstream climate science using a «back - and - forth critique» by government - recruited experts, according to a senior administration official.
They are part of growing community of leading climate scientists, business leaders, economists, public officials, and social and environmental leaders supporting I - 732.
We have hosted nine International Conferences on Climate Change attracting nearly 5,000 people including leading scientists, elected officials, and civic and business leaders from around the world.
On June 8, 2005, the New York Times reported in a front page story: «A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play... Continue reading →
Please do not allow the distortions of the facts about CO2 sensitivity and the temperature record by the official climate Team lead to an equal and opposite reaction in the wrong direction.
HimalayaGate — An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action.
Angela Ledford Anderson, director of the UCS Climate and Energy Program, is leading our efforts to persuade government officials to enact policies that support clean energy and result in global warming emissions reductions.
Officials cite environmental and climate concerns, but studies show safe hydraulic fracturing doesn't threaten drinking water supplies, and cleaner - burning natural gas is the leading reason U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation are at their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.
Immediately following her emotional remarks to attendees, EJN journalists interviewed Christiana Figueres, the United Nation's top climate official and a lead figure from the Paris talks.
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It is remarkable how only very recently has the staggering scale of Dr Pachauri's links to so many of these concerns come to light, inevitably raising questions as to how the world's leading «climate official» can also be personally involved in so many organisations which stand to benefit from the IPCC's recommendations.
«A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.
Another outside researcher, Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said the conclusions of the paper clearly support NOAA's temperature adjustments, which were led by the top climate official at the agency, Thomas Karl.
Easterbrook criticized Gore's claims that the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could lead to substantial increases in sea levels, that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, and that Bush administration officials have attempted to tamper with official reports on the threat posed by climate change.
White House pressure to ignore or edit the E.P.A.'s climate - change findings led to the resignation of one agency official earlier this month: Jason Burnett, the associate deputy administrator.
«It makes a lot of sense to pick a developing country person... to build trust,» said Helme, who suggested South Africa's former top climate diplomat, Marthinus Van Schalkwyk, who now is the country's leading tourism official.
Katharine Hayhoe, a lead author of the report and director of Texas Tech University's Climate Science Center, said the motivation of its 50 - plus authors — a mix of government and academic researchers — was to convey to the public and government officials the scope of a building crisis.
Instead of publicly expressing their views, a group of parliamentarians said skeptics should parrot the imploding official narrative: The notion that global warming, which even leading alarmists admit has been on «pause» for 17 years in defiance of every UN climate model, is caused by human activities and requires planetary carbon taxes and more government control.
Back in 2012, the environmental activists now leading the climate litigation campaign met in La Jolla, Calif., to strategize how to convince government officials to demonize and ultimately prosecute energy companies for causing global warming.