Sentences with phrase «about fighting climate»

If we were serious about fighting climate change, wouldn't private jets have been banned long ago?

We are passionate about fighting climate change.

As European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said, rejection of Keystone XL would send a strong message internationally that the US is serious about fighting climate change.

«Since the COP21 climate accord, an increasing number of corporations are concerned about fighting climate change and about reducing their carbon footprints, also when they plan meetings,» says Inge Huijbrechts, Vice President of Responsible Business for Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group.

«Make commitments to show that the U.S. is serious about fighting climate change with India by providing clean energy access,» she said.

«British Columbians care deeply about fighting climate pollution and creating good jobs while adding value to our resources responsibly, but we aren't seeing any of this from Christy Clark and her government.

Not exact matches

Perhaps you also could add in a question to Marco Rubio about climate change, given that it was put in the context of Rubio's position that «federal efforts to fight climate change will cost U.S. jobs and hurt the U.S. economy.»

The traditional approach to climate negotiations has been to fight about the allocation of pain: Who will make the deepest cuts?

Right now, a major climate fight is blowing up in Australia — the government is about to pass a law that would cut carbon emissions and get polluters to pay.

Is Rubio one of the guys that road / bridge engineers have to fight off when talking about climate change, too?

Why Bother by Crunchy Domestic Goddess â $» CDG discusses a NY Times article by author Michael Pollan about reasons to NOT give up and throw in the towel in fighting climate change.

«I think it is a very serious value statement about whether you will fight against global climate change,» she said.

«Now the government may need to think about rationing carbon if we are to win the fight against climate change.»

Environmentalists are bringing a giant yellow oil barrel across New York State to bring attention to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's fight to extract internal research from Exxon Mobile about climate change.

«For years, Senate Republicans have been one of the main obstacles to progress on some of the issues working families care most about, like fair elections, the DREAM Act, reforming our broken criminal justice system, and fighting climate change,» the email states.

He said he had «some very heated arguments» with Gordon Brown about it, but in the end decided it was better to fight on the climate change issue from inside the cabinet.

One way that awareness about the importance of energy conservation is being promoted around the world is through «Earth Hour,» which began in 2007 when two million individuals and 2,000 businesses in Sydney, Australia turned their lights off for one hour to make a statement about the need to fight climate change.

In May, citing a law designed to fight misuse of state contracts, Cuccinelli filed a request for e-mails, files, and software relating to two scientific papers about climate change that Mann wrote while at the university, where he worked from 1999 to 2005.

THERE is a pervading myth that efforts to fight climate change and other environmental perils will be to no avail unless we «do something» about population growth.

But arguably more impressive than the pretty food on the plates is that this ambitious LEED Gold Certified restaurant has taken an often talked about aspiration in the food world — fighting climate change through better dining choices — and made it a reality.

We live in a heated political climate, so for men and women who are passionate about their beliefs and fighting for them, Organizing for Seattle is a fantastic organization to join.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

This echoes some points explored by readers after I wrote about «The «Porn» Factor in the Climate Fight» on Oct. 31.

It's especially important to fight the efforts of demagogs to claim that uncertainties about climate change and its effects are reason for inaction.

We have been fighting about pernicious effects of human - forced climate change since the time of Dr. Rachel Carson.

My job, to steal a phrase from a climate scientist I quoted in the tipping points story, is to be «caustically honest» about such murkiness where it's real, and to be similarly probing when someone is trying to manufacture murkiness — as has happened a lot in recent years in the climate fight.

What I'm arguing is that the idea that we can win the climate fight without engaging in ideological battle over these core questions about the role of government has always been a fantasy.

I understand that some may have reservations about passing climate legislation — the idea may seem daunting, especially during a time of great financial crisis — but this is just fighting dirty.

In the fight against climate change, every bit counts, but to make an argument that is based on a leverage ratio of somewhere between 90 and 500 times the actual damage caused by a particular project is not the right way to go about it....

There are right ways and wrong ways for scientists to fight back against the climate skeptics who are trying to confuse the public about global warming.

While it's fashionable these days to fight over who's in denial about what facts on climate change, a focus on known uncertainty goes way back.

All in all the science of hurricanes does appear to be much more fun and interesting than the average climate change issue, as there is a debate, a «fight» between different hypothesis, predictions compared to near - future observations, and all that does not always get pre-eminence in the exchanges about models.

(Some of the released documents contain information about Heartland employees that has no bearing on the climate fight.)

Humility is always difficult, most of all for those of us fighting for an end to climate abuse: it is hard to be humble, when there is nothing in our cause to be humble about.

But cost effectiveness is even more important during financial hard times and the whole point about halting deforestation is that, along with improved energy efficiency, it is the most cost effective, and immediate, way to fight climate change.

Considering that China, India, and South Africa said they could use about $ 200 billion a year to fight climate change — and that would be a small percentage of the combined GDP of the world's rich nations — the lower figure of $ 10 billion is indeed just a beginning.

They all are talking about an end to the rhetoric of catastrophe that permeates the fight over energy and climate policy.

On popular food news sites, there's a lot more talk about tractor - free no - till farming than there is about how to harness big data to fight climate change or the enormous potential of anaerobic digestion.

My talk, on Wednesday, was about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks, such as those by global warming deniers.

I commend Mr. Flannery for writing about such an important topic, but I think his article could have benefited from framing carbon removal solutions as a missing piece of the climate change mitigation portfolio, rather than as a «third way» for fighting climate change.

Think about all the wasted energy fighting the «deniers» when they could have been listening, trying to understand their arguments, and making progress to increase our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change.

The rise of Donald Trump adds urgency to the fight for climate justice — and reminds us what that fight is really about.

«It's absurd to watch governments sit and point fingers and fight like little kids while the scientists explain about the terrifying impacts of climate change and the fact that we have all the technology we need to solve the problem while creating new green jobs,» Tove Maria Ryding, coordinator for climate policy at Greenpeace International, said in a statement.

Some have already started to think about how climate change can be fought at the state level.

As for the EU, they have other things to worry about than picking a drawn out fight with America over climate change as many countries, especially east European ones, are fairly indifferent to it and the UK now has other fish to fry.I think it's high point of alarmism has been reached, whether that is merely a temporary lull or more permanent, the next few years will tell.

Jim2, we can pretty confidently reckon that David Titley know something about both climate and war - fighting:

We're no longer talking about the future; the world's poorest countries and communities are already fighting for their lives against disasters intensified by climate change.

The fossil free divestment movement has been successful because it knows that fighting for climate justice is about changing the power dynamics of our political system and standing up to the fossil fuel industry.

They announced on Wednesday that they're supporting a clear statement about the risks associated with climate change, as well as principles for how best to fight it.»

«As we are all vulnerable to climate change, we have shared experiences about facing the same issue and we have the same dedication to fighting climate change, to make a big difference for women» said Chrisda Kaeti, of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Kiribati at one of the gender events in Bonn.