Sentences with phrase «other climate change initiatives»

Other climate change initiatives are being implemented in the country, and Maung Thein encourages more of them.

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Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing of coal - fired generating stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.

The minute someone begins to talk about climate change, Earth Day or any other «green» initiative, what image pops in your head?

Aquiares participates in several other initiatives in an effort to battle climate change as well — in fact, it was the first farm in Costa Rica to fulfill the requirements of the Rainforest Alliance climate module.

Other papers in the Sustainability Initiatives session discuss the role of sustainable agriculture in food security and climate change.

• In support of these and other initiatives, including continuing cooperation on nuclear power, Prime Minister Singh and President Obama agreed the Governments of India and the United States will continue to engage regularly through the new U.S. - India Agriculture Dialogue, the U.S. - India Energy Dialogue and the U.S. - India Global Climate Change Dialogue.

But effective communication also will be essential for building public interest and support for initiatives in climate change and other global issues.

Beside the climate change mitigation goal, the initiative contributes to many other challenges as biodiversity conservation, food security, governance and fight against land degradation.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajeChange Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

«The UMI highlights the need for new imaging and omics technologies, such as those currently being developed at PNNL, to understand how microbes function and interact in complex environments and how they are impacted by climate change and other perturbations,» said Jansson, who also leads the Microbiomes in Transition initiative at PNNL.

At those talks, in Milan in 2003, Mr. Watson listed a variety of initiatives begun by states and communities, which he said were like «laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy — a truly bottom - up approach to addressing global climate change.»

Some international groups are helping to foster synergies, including the World Health Organization's recent conference on Climate and Health, the Convention on Biological Diversity's initiative on Health and Biodiversity, the Lancet - Rockefeller Commission on Planetary Health, and the DIVERSITAS - Future Earth ecoHEALTH project, which brings together public and animal health, development, ecology, economics, and other sectors to investigate connections between health and environmental change to generate science and policy outputs that can inform sustainability solutions.

«With the exception of some international initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD +), development agencies, governments, and others have failed to give enough weight to the connection between strengthening community forest rights and mitigating climate change,» it says.

Other initiatives, including America's Pledge, are also planning to compile and quantify efforts from U.S. states, cities, businesses and other actors to address climate change in alignment with the Paris AgreeOther initiatives, including America's Pledge, are also planning to compile and quantify efforts from U.S. states, cities, businesses and other actors to address climate change in alignment with the Paris Agreeother actors to address climate change in alignment with the Paris Agreement.

Other initiatives include the CARPATCLIM project, which produces a high - resolution gridded climatology for the Carpathian region, and the production of information that governments can use to prepare documents for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or for impact studies.

As we recommended in the paper, systematic investment in these strategies along with other recommended initiatives are likely to increase substantive news attention to various health threats associated with climate change, and thereby increase the capacity of communities to pursue mitigation and adaptation actions.

As part of his climate change initiative announced in June, President Obama declared, «Today I'm calling for an end of public financing for new coal plants overseas unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.»

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

As those in development or public health are aware, local initiatives have been developing for years, despite the lack of international agreements to address climate change and other impacts on natural resilience and biodiversity.

Cap - and - trade and Europe's other climate change - fighting and renewable energy building initiatives, she declared, are considered incipient successes, especially since they proved themselves during the Great Recession.

He has been a founder member of several industry initiatives including the Intuitional Investor Group on Climate Change and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and has provided advice to numerous others.

«With Momentum for Change: Planetary Health we will shine a light on outstanding initiatives by communities, cities, companies, NGO and other institutions: ones where climate action is generating innovative, positive impacts on health in ways that can inspire others to greater ambition.»

In the meantime, companies can balance the potential liability of their fossil - fuel products, e.g. coal or gas, with climate change initiatives in other parts of their business which produce «carbon credits».

Comprehensive intersectoral programs that combine measures to control deforestation and forest degradation with measures to increase agricultural productivity and sustainability will likely contribute more to reducing vulnerability of forests to climate change, land use change and other stress factors than independent sectoral initiatives.

«I strongly hope that this summit, as well as other initiatives that go in the same direction, will foster a clear awareness of the need to adopt genuinely effective measures to counteract climate change and, at the same time, to combat poverty and promote integral human development,» he added.

Sebastián del Valle, responsible of Origination and Strategy of ALLCOT, presented the Allcot Climate Change Fund (ACCF) during the event Marketplace: CDM's fair and other initiatives of Carbon Market, which took place in Bogota and organized by the UNFCCC and CAF.

Listing a variety of initiatives begun by states and communities, Dr. Watson said they were like «laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy, a truly bottom - up approach to addressing global climate change.»

The report analyzes 135 projects, policies, and other initiatives from the developing world that may help communities and nations adjust to the changing climate.

Through ALEC, Duke works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental model bills across the country that delay policy solutions to climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating coal pollution, fasttrack coal mining projects and other dirty energy initiatives.

Long - term finance is the other side of Fast Start Finance, an initiative semi-adopted in Copenhagen in 2009 to mobilize funds for climate change projects by 2012.

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, showed that reaching the 3 energy - related objectives proposed by the United Nations in their Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative, launched in 2011, would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level oClimate Change, showed that reaching the 3 energy - related objectives proposed by the United Nations in their Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative, launched in 2011, would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level ofChange, showed that reaching the 3 energy - related objectives proposed by the United Nations in their Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative, launched in 2011, would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level oclimate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level ofchange and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level of 2 °C.

The lawyers in the group routinely counsel clients on addressing sustainable practices such as using renewable and alternative energy, recycling and conserving water and other resources, financing green initiatives, following LEED and green construction practices, implementing corporate sustainability programs, managing climate change risks through adaptation and mitigation, and establishing clean - tech ventures.