Sentences with phrase «on most climate change»

On most climate change sites I go on there are articles on gas and electric heating but little on the effects of heating oil.

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Most reef experts agree that whether we can save reefs depends on when can stabilize climate change.

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth, teems with marine life and will be the focus of Australia's Earth Hour — a global campaign which encourages individuals and organisations to switch off their lights for one hour on April 29 for climate change.

We are most concerned about Mr. Pruitt's reluctance to accept and act on the strong scientific consensus on climate change.

That's because today, even the most profit - minded companies know climate change is a huge limitation on economic growth.

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

In a speech on Monday, Obama called the plan «the single most important step that America has ever taken in the fight against climate change.»

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

«Assembling a workable public consensus on energy and climate change is the most challenging agenda item in Canadian politics today.

Meanwhile, the most important thing to us is that the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change moves from a plan to an on - the - ground reality.

These two firms showed the most growth since 2014 in the total times that they've met with companies to voice their concerns on issues ranging from executive pay to climate change.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2018 / PRNewswire / — At OhmConnect, our goal is audacious — help people tackle and take action on one of the world's most pressing challenges: climate change.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

«Most of the climate resolutions ask companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to re-port on the risks from climate change on business operations,» Passoff of Proxy Impact said.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

Most Canadians believe action should be taken on climate change, and of all the options available, carbon pricing comes with the lowest economic costs

And they are; we see in polls, they are more liberal than their parents on most issues: climate change, immigration, you name it, they're probably more liberal than their parents.

As one of the most staunch opposers, Greenpeace said that the permit is a sign that the United States is «moving backwards» on progress in climate change.

Unfortunately, it is also one of the most sensitive to climate change given its dependence on weather conditions, both directly and through climate - dependent stressors (pests, epidemics and sea level rise).

Bill McKibben, whose book The End of Nature was one of the first to protest against the effects of climate change, offers us, in Eaarth, one of the most important books on environmental justice in the 21st century.

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

The Bolivian text is broadly in keeping with the Principles of Organic Agriculture.The current UNFCCC agriculture text is likely to be adopted at Mexico unchallenged with most countries not wanting to risk failing to achieve an overarching agreement on climate change due to what is sure to be huge differences on agriculture.

Panel discussion will feature climate policy experts and leading vintners at Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017, Sunday, June 18 NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this -LSB-...]

On the program's launch, Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise said, «The industry's key decision - makers are now in Bordeaux to address the most important topics affecting our shared interests, from the economy to e-commerce, international agreements and climate change.

NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this June for Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017.

Climate change is one of the world's most pressing issues and, as recognised in the Paris Agreement on climate change, businesses need to take Climate change is one of the world's most pressing issues and, as recognised in the Paris Agreement on climate change, businesses need to take climate change, businesses need to take action.

Hear the most up to date information on the state of the European market for sustainable palm oil and how the RSPO standard supports implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

Instead, the most successful bullying prevention programs focus on changing the climate that supports bullying behavior.

I know of one highly experienced research press officer, who had worked on controversial issues like human animal hybrids, GM crops, animal research, minimum alcohol pricing and climate change, who admitted: «Nothing had prepared me for the most polarising, knee - jerking subject of all: breastfeeding.»

The Conservatives under Mr Cameron are currently leading the polls as the most trusted party on the environment, although the government has now agreed to Tory and Liberal Democrat demands to introduce a climate change bill in the Queen's speech this month.

The most signifi cant book published in the last 10 years was the Stern Review on climate change.

The Committee on Climate Change advises the UK government, and administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on how to meet these challenging goals in the most cost - effective way.

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

His job as chair of the Commons» energy and climate change committee makes him one of the most influential policy influencers in the country on energy and climate change.

The Liberal Democrat most under threat from the shadow of scandal this year was energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who faces a police investigation over newspaper allegations that he tried to dodge speeding points on his licence.

Set up groups and opt - ins for your top campaigns or issues areas (one group might be «medicare» for example «or climate change» or «oil subsidies») and then send most email on those campaigns to people who've taken an action on that campaign in the last 3 months.

A new study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examined.

And while most congressmembers aren't going to change their minds on climate change, women's reproductive rights, guns or immigration (the issues listed as priorities in Carson's email), rallies or meetings to put pressure on them can get local public and media attention.

What has struck me most about Avaaz in its relatively short lifetime is its ability to mobilise imaginative ways to show how positive pressure for change is possible on issues from climate change to the Middle East that are too often prone to debilitating pessimism.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have handed Democrats their most potent opportunity in half a decade to hammer Republicans on climate change.

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

And when others won't lead, whether it is on climate change, infrastructure, economic inclusion, fair housing, or the protection of the most vulnerable amongst us, you know we will.

And yet all of us sat to hear Sir Mark Walport, the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, when he came last month and explained to the Government that the recent IPCC report - which made clear the threats posed by man - made climate change - was the most exhaustive, authoritative, peer reviewed report on climate change ever published.

Climate change - the issue David Cameron described a year ago as «one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces» and on which all three leaders signed an important pledge as recently as February — has been studiously avoided in this campaign.

For most of my life I have stood firmly against expansion of Heathrow airport, largely on the grounds of aviation's impact on climate change.