Sentences with phrase «u.n. climate change programs»

This summer the first thirteen companies including Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Walmart (WMT) and Coca - Cola (KO) committed to President Obama's climate change program.

Employees work in approximately eight branches of the OCE, including Sustainable Development, Agricultural Labor Affairs, World Agricultural Outlook Board, Climate Change Program Office, and the Offices of the Chief Meteorologist, Environmental Markets, Energy Policy and New Uses, and Risk Assessment and Cost - Benefit Analysis.

Republican state lawmakers in the Senate are pushing a $ 100 million bailout of the state's nuclear power industry using funds from a climate change program meant to cut greenhouse gases from power plants.

The so - called «skinny budget» also proposes eliminating international climate change programs, climate change research and partnership programs, as well as research funding and monies to clean up Superfund sites.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

Much of USDA's climate change communication focuses on risk management practices that improve production and reduce costs, said William Hohenstein, director of the Climate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief Economist.

That's something that Janani Vivekananda, a senior climate change program officer with the peace - building organization International Alert, said she understood firsthand when she visited eastern Nepal.

Researchers must detail effects at the local and regional levels, members of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Sustainability and Climate Change Program said as they met at the University of California, San Diego.

China still draws 82 percent of energy from coal, but large dams are crucial to the country's climate change program, which aims to increase its proportion of electricity from renewable resources from the current 7.2 percent to 15 percent by 2020.

NASA's Global Climate Change Program has reported that «the 10 warmest years in the 134 - year record all have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998,» and the year 2015 ranks as the warmest on record.

«Washington screwed around and couldn't get it done,» says Sperling, who is also a member of the California Air Resources Board that set up the climate change program.

Other countries may reduce their ambitions as well — especially because Trump has said he would «cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs.»

«A review of the literature exploring the effects of climate change on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.

Trump has also declared that he wants to «cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure.»

«Our findings clearly demonstrate that if future protected area expansion continues in a «business - as - usual» fashion, threatened species coverage will increase only marginally,» said Associate Professor James Watson, WCS's Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and senior author on the study.

«The Paris agreement has not yet been sealed, but is already raising our sights about what's possible,» Jennifer Morgan, global director of the World Resources Institute's climate change program, said in a statement.

NASA's Global Climate Change Program has reported that «the 10 warmest years in the 134 - year record all have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998.

Exxon Education Foundation 1997 report containing grant to Competitive Enterprise Institute for «Climate Change Program»

was specifically earmarked for climate change programs in disclosure reports by the corporation.

It is not possible to uphold that fiduciary duty while failing to consider, let alone, mitigate against climate change and its associated costs to the economy and environment,» said Cunningham, who heads CLF's clean energy and climate change program.

«Dr. Goodall is calling attention to an important provision of California's climate change program that could multiply two - or three-fold its contribution to slowing climate change.

«We can't successfully tackle climate change unless we reduce this source of the problem, and California can again lead the way,» said Louis Blumberg, California Climate Change Program Director for The Nature Conservancy.

(SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 22, 2013) Today U.S. environmental organizations lauded a letter from world - renowned scientist Dr. Jane Goodall to Governor Jerry Brown, calling for California to open a pathway to accept credits for reductions in tropical deforestation in its climate change program.

in a plaid fit - and - flare dress and chic oxfords at Ice & Sky Climate Change Program Launch Event in N.Y.C.

It is because of this that the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has a Climate Change Program that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to take action against climate change.

Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist who helped assemble the attendees and is the chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute, forwarded a note summarizing the conclusions:

Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist who helped assemble the attendees and is the chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute, forwarded a note summarizing the conclusions: Read more...

The U.S. National Science Foundation's Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change program provided funding for recent further developments of the RegEM algorithm.

Among developed countries, however, «Australia is expected to be one of the first and worst impacted,» says Victoria McKenzie - McHarg, [7] climate change program manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation, «because we have such an extreme climate very vulnerable to changes in temperature.»

-- Mike MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute, former senior global change scientist to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, former President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

-- One maker of Science programs for schools NCSE announces that they are making a new climate change program — 5 weeks later a story pop up over multiple green websites using a loaded title «Anti-science» which reveals another conservative organisation has a secret agenda to flood US schools with «climate denier» material.

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Nov. 30, 2006: Mr. Harper axes a further five climate change programs at Agriculture Canada, bizarrely asking the soon - to - be-redundant public servants to help with media spin control.

Symons left the EPA in April 2001 and now works for the National Wildlife Federation as head of its climate change program.

Ted Hinds, BS (Engineering Science), MS (Atmospheric Science), PhD (Physical Ecology, U. Washington, Seattle), Quantitative empirical analyses regarding climatological, meteorological, and ecological responses to environmental stresses, consultant for USA EPA research on global climate change program.

Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC, has shared with us his response to the AP's questions, with full text posted below and as a PDF file here MacCracken-Gore-AP.pdf.

Under the simplification, the Department of the Environment and the Department of Resources and Energy will run all of the climate change programs under the Coalition's direct - action program.

The Stimulus sent more than $ 26.1 billion in funding toward climate change programs, of which the GAO estimates about 2.5 %, or $ 641 million, went to climate science.

The proposed GCSDC was intended to be a «one - stop resource on climate science for members of Congress, the media, industry and all others concerned» with global climate change programs and policies.

One last inconvenient truth lies at the center of this dispute over funding: all the nonprofit funding on both sides can't compare to what the federal government spends on climate change programs and messages.

Six years earlier, the former Vancouver mayor had terminated his predecessor's climate change program within months of taking power, created a tax loophole for gas - guzzling luxury vehicles and reduced provincial fuel taxes.

It is not possible to uphold that fiduciary duty while failing to consider, let alone, mitigate against climate change and its associated costs to the economy and environment,» said Cunningham, who heads CLF's clean energy and climate change program.

One last inconvenient truth: all the nonprofit funding on both sides can't compare to what the federal government spends on climate change programs and messages.

In other words, advocates of climate change action, respond to claims of opponents to climate change programs by denying the factual claims of the opponents.

``... the IPCC has clearly indicated that most of the global warming observed over the past 50 years was likely induced by the increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases...» — China National Development and Reform Commission, «National Climate Change Program,» June 4, 2007

Speakers: The Honorable Ricardo Lara, California State Senate; Jona - than Parfrey, Executive Director, Cli - mate Resolve; Ellie Cohen, CEO, Point Blue Conservation Science; Nicolas Muller, UNFCCC Moderator: Louis Blumberg, Director, California Climate Change Program, The Nature Conservancy Hosted by: The Nature Conservancy

Obama Energy Department officials have said they will not name any of the staffers who worked on climate change programs or even attended any such meetings, with Energy Department spokeswoman Eben Burnhan - Snyder saying the inquiries from the Trump transition had «left many in our workforce unsettled.»

Funding decisions regarding climate change programs should be guided by scientific criteria, and must take into account the importance of long - term, continual climate observation programs and models.

Wojick participated in shaping the Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Program (SPCC) final report in July, 2003.

«It's clear that Congress is fairly split on this,» says Jennifer Morgan, global director of the Climate Change Program at the World Resources Institute, an international think tank, in a telephone interview Tuesday.