Sentences with phrase «social climate change»

Read more about climate change: Desert Soils Losing Nitrogen & Fertility Thanks to Global Warming The Footprint of Flowers: Carbon and Social Climate Change Could Extinguish Two - Thirds of California's Plant Species

But by the end of the 1980s the social climate changed dramatically.

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The Trudeau government believes accepting the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are critical to gaining social licence for pipelines, Carr says.

«For a long time, climate change was pushed by EU diplomacy and the U.S. was largely absent,» said Edward Cameron, managing director of the New York - based Business for Social Responsibility, which organized numerous briefings and panel discussions at COP 21.

After Trump's announcement in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to withdraw from President Trump's advisory councils, saying «climate change is real» — a sentiment shared by many other CEOs and businesses on social media.

Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

Resource development will make the region lucrative for investors, but the climate change and social infrastructure needed to attract people en masse is a long way off.

This climate is even more charged for social entrepreneurs such as Agrawal, whose businesses are designed to affect social change.

Weaned on mobile technology, fluent in social media and networking and immersed in issues such as climate change and sustainability, Millennials seek work environments that reflect their ideals.

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-- Insight Development Grant (2 grants), Standard Research Grant and funding for Sustainable Prosperity Research Network and the Alberta Climate Change Dialogue CURA.

Though they have made their mark in the private sector, these men and women are taking public stands on hot button social and environmental issues ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender equality.

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HADLEY, MA, November 9, 2016: Social entrepreneurs — business owners and leaders who use their business to address issues like hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — face an apparent crisis.

Environmental advocates and Clinton have criticized his stance for underplaying the economic and social risks of climate change.

They're generally highly educated, they've had strong awareness of social and environmental issues from an early age and are keenly aware of the challenges faced by climate change.

Bio: I'm a green and social change business consultant showing business how to profit while solving hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change.

It's time we all meet in the social impact space to tackle big world issues like, hunger poverty and climate change!

«We will explain how shareholder proposals on environmental, social, and corporate governance matters often raise issues with a direct impact on long - term shareholder value (e.g., effective management of climate change risk or encouraging stronger board oversight and independence).

El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that focuses on social justice, education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans on the island view as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.

Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

The Trade Justice Network joined over 30 labour, environmental, social justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate change.

The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

«In your discussions with the Canadian government, we encourage you to raise concerns over the environmental and social problems associated with tar sands production and make no exemption for the tar sands in any binational agreement addressing climate change» says the open letter.

Explaining to its shareholders how it is addressing strategic risks linked to major environmental and social policy issues, such as climate change and human rights, is an important dialogue every corporation needs to engage in with its shareholders.

The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania has supported this project due to its possible social impacts on climate change control.

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These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

«Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main challenges for humanity.

Pope Francis caused controversy with the publication of his encyclical Laudato Si», (LS), concerned with humanity, climate change, social cohesion and spirituality.

Among many Christians, «climate change» has become not a social justice or moral issue, but a political one.

I have always thought that the global warming, or «climate change» debate, was as much about social psychology as science.

He talked about «social justice» and saw a «change in the moral climate of America.»

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

According to utz.com «The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have merged in response to the critical challenges facing humanity: deforestation, climate change, systemic poverty, and social inequity.

Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease Environmental: climate change, aging trees, unfertile soil Social: limited access to education, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women Financial: poverty, lack of access to finance

From fighting deforestation and climate change to building economic opportunities and better working conditions for rural people, the Rainforest Alliance is working to solve urgent environmental and social challenges.

This is especially true, given that many of the problems we face have a longer - term dimension: climate change, pensions and social care, and international economic development are just some of the more obvious examples.

But above all he urged them not to «succumb to cynicism», even if the social problems they were confronting — whether poverty, inequality or climate change — didn't disappear overnight.

Climate change; pensions; social care; social mobility; fiscal deficit; welfare reform - the list is long.

Democrats are by no means the only ones who can contribute to that end but it would greatly benefit working families to have a DNC leadership committed to progressive political change; social, climate and economic justice; and the expansion of our democracy.»

A controversial piece on climate change by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens sparked a «#ShowYourCancellation» movement on social media over the weekend.

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Caution on tax, an emphasis on climate change, social justice and «not banging on about Europe» all have Letwin's fingerprints all over them.

Delaying infrastructure decisions is no longer simply inconvenient, it's a matter of life and death for people in countries most affected by the adverse consequences of climate change, Mr Clarke will claim in a debate to be held during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science

Even climate change, which threatens the living condition of all traditional social orders and civilisations, discloses the scale of calamities brought about by this distinctively novel social sphere.

«However, nothing should stand in the way of any parties seeking to address climate change and social justice.

He said no fewer than five million people living in the Lake Chad Basin countries had been displaced by the depletion of the lake due to climate change, noting that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, a former island sea, had resulted in increased social conflicts, high rates of migration and cross border movements.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.