Sentences with phrase «about climate challenges»

Climate Day at Natural Products Expo West moved beyond companies talking about climate challenges to committing to real change.

Not exact matches

Well, it just so happens people are starting to talk about it — and it's exposing a yawning gap between two worldviews affecting the way the world responds to the climate change challenge — not least within the energy industry itself.

He hasn't been kidding around about climate change and how the challenge should be addressed.

«I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,» he told CNBC.

It is time to be equally frank about the costs that all citizens must bear to address the climate challenge.

If Canada wants to benefit from Asia's development and growth, and remain a relevant and important energy partner in Asia, we must «think big» about exporting to multiple countries within the Asia Pacific, and «think beyond» oil and natural gas to include all of Canada's energy related assets, particularly the renewable and clean technologies that will help Asia mitigate its own climate - change challenges.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

«Is her failure to propose a Brexit bill on the greatest challenge that we face because she simply doesn't care about the environment and climate change?

«My Pope came out with a document some few years ago titled «Care for our Common Home»... He talked about sanitation, climate change and a whole lot of challenges.

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

A group of about 20 religious activists associated with Young Evangelicals for Climate Action traveled to the debate to hold prayer sessions asking that both candidates embrace the «moral» challenge of climate Climate Action traveled to the debate to hold prayer sessions asking that both candidates embrace the «moral» challenge of climate climate change.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

Charles Godfray, a professor at the Department of Zoology at Oxford University who recently co-authored a paper in the journal Science about the challenges of feeding 9 billion people, said that the impact of climate change on agriculture will be negative.

While previous indexes have mostly stressed progress made by some of the world's best - known brands in addressing the complex challenges around climate change, the latest report also sounds a cautionary note about how much more needs to be done to make meaningful change in the world's climate profile.

Will the Wall Street Journal's editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change?

«It's a new breed of climate change challenge we have to think about.»

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

«A challenge for the coming years is to use these kinds of climate models to be able to make predictions about populations and ecosystems in the future.

So said U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday while addressing the United Nations, talking about the twin challenges of climate change and energy consumption.

Improved data about the oceans from the Argo floats caused a splash this week as two studies in Nature Climate Change challenged conventional thinking.

«We can't run away from this issue,» argued Senator Bernard Sanders (D - VT), who also tried to systematically challenge Inhofe's doubts about climate science.

But addressing the energy challenge, which would go a long way toward addressing the climate change, is ultimately about global moral and economic standing.

«This drill core is likely to fill in the gap in our current environmental record and to provide exquisite details about the climate dynamics and the adaptive challenges during the Acheulean - to - Middle Stone Age transition,» he said.

In 2009, he wrote emails to his Exxon Mobil funders where he exulted about challenging former Vice President Al Gore during a climate conference on the practical implications of climate change.

For example, a farm with trees will suffer less to the impacts of climate change because it will absorb some of these impacts so agroforestry is a good response to develop resilience of agrosystems to the challenges brought about by climate change» he says.

A forest that grew between 5 and 10 degrees from the South Pole about 260 million years ago is challenging ideas about the climate in the Permian period.

Specifically, Newell and a co-author from the Air Force named Thomas Dopplick challenged the prevailing view that a doubling of the earth's CO2 blanket would raise temperatures about 3 °C (5 °F)-- a measure known as climate sensitivity.

I'm Alex Smith, with two of the world's top climate scientists talking about the severe challenges we face right now, and in the future.

In 2012, a controversial study challenged previously accepted ideas about the mechanisms through which climate change will affect our weather: Warmer temperatures will result in more heat waves, hotter summers will bring worse droughts, the warmer atmosphere will hold more water, resulting in heavier precipitation and flooding.

Teach kids about critical thinking, let them understand that to try to find the human fingerprint on climate is a big challenge.»

The Arctic and the Antarctic, and the scientific research done in these regions can be used to communicate about climate change and the challenges our societies must meet to mitigate its effects.

Through many of those years, Taylor was a frequent spokesperson for those scientists who regularly challenged whether climate change is real, human - caused, or, in either event, worth worrying about or doing anything to address.

The endeavor becomes more scientifically challenging in light of the large variety of information sources about past climate, including tree rings, coral, glacier ice, and marine and lake sediments, not to mention the complicated array of data that are used to establish the timelines that underlie the paleoclimate records.

However, they said it challenges the focus of global climate negotiations since they began in earnest in about 1990.

Though the APS statement about climate change is more nuanced than the AAAS letter, stating — for example — «scientific challenges remain in our abilities to observe, interpret, and project climate change,» it in no way disputes the scientific consensus on climate change or the risks it poses.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

From the Prize Council: «If we are going to talk about hydrology in the 21st century, and the challenges hydrologists face, clearly the overwhelming challenge is to understand hydrologic variability, and the likely impact on hydrology of anticipated climate change.

I echo the other comments about his broad - stroke dismissal of the media but also, one of the biggest challenges we face and our children will face is climate change and it's weird that that didn't come up.

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Their teacher Andy McFadden has described the Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.»

In parallel to the Rio +20 gestation process, the UN Secretary - General and his senior advisors, after more than two years of wholehearted efforts to bring about a major global agreement on climate change, had come to the conclusion that climate change was part of a broader package of global sustainable development challenges, and could probably be better addressed in conjunction with the rest.

Students are not exempted from the challenges faced by adults, and in their education, they learn about intractable problems such as economic inequality or global climate change.

Has many global challenges about that, including the development of actions for mitigation and adaptation to climate changes.

Join Climate Generation for its 12th annual Summer Institute, designed to guide teachers through challenges teaching about climate change, and help teachers gain the confidence and competence to bring this relevant topic to today'sClimate Generation for its 12th annual Summer Institute, designed to guide teachers through challenges teaching about climate change, and help teachers gain the confidence and competence to bring this relevant topic to today'sclimate change, and help teachers gain the confidence and competence to bring this relevant topic to today's youth.

«We believe that to accelerate the positives and tackle the daunting challenges, we must have courageous conversations about the current state of affairs and take action with renewed urgency to transform climate and culture at scale in Kentucky's public schools — and in Kentucky's communities.»

My best advice for a first - year teacher is to be intentional about building a classroom culture and climate where scholars feel safe and challenged.

Students will have the knowledge and ability to think critically about some of America's complex energy and climate change challenges and recommend developmentally appropriate solutions.