Sentences with phrase «act on climate change by»

For other environmentalists, opposition to the pipeline is an imperative to act on climate change by moving away from fossil fuel energy and towards clean, renewable energy.

Three Dutch judges sent a shock wave around the world on Wednesday when they ordered the government of the Netherlands to act on climate change by making deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Not exact matches

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

The government is hoping to capitalise on the publicity generated by Live Earth with a new campaign urging people to act on climate change.

He warned governments must act now before the effects of climate change become visible in environmental refugees or conflicts brought on by water shortages.

The 2030 cuts would be a key step on the road to the government's legally binding target of an 80 per cent cut by 2050, as set out in the 2008 Climate Change Act.

«This study is one of the first to show that gradual and subtle changes in forest structure and species composition, driven by climate change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»

In view of the ongoing destruction caused by rampant deforestation, the introduction of alien species and climate change — to name but a few of the forces we are unleashing on the planet — the idea that we might deny future generations the opportunity to perform a small act of creation through cloning seems woefully short - sighted.

However, if we choose a different path — if we act aggressively to both adapt to the changing climate and to mitigate future impacts by reducing carbon emissions — we can significantly reduce our exposure to the worst economic risks from climate change, and also demonstrate global leadership on climate.

By instituting adaptation and mitigation programs, forest managers can act now to lessen the likelihood and magnitude of climate change impacts on Montana's forests.

Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the cClimate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climateclimate.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

Acting on climate change does not necessarily cause an economy to shrink as is evidenced by Sweden, since they established a Carbon tax the economy prospered.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

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And crucially, churches in the U.S. have just begun to take up this issue in big numbers, which they see as a moral issue of not just protecting God's Creation, but also not inflicting direct harm on helpless people around the world.A new coalition of environmentalists, aid groups, and churches have been pivotal in changing the momentum for the new «Climate Security Act» co-sponsored by Senator John Warner.

In the report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's top scientists warned that global warming is unequivocally man - made and will become irreversible if we do not act now to reduce the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

Talking, rather than acting, remains a political option because the electorates on which the pols rely for their jobs are not sufficiently threatened by climate change, personally, to make it an issue on which politicians have to act.

Declare our determination, as low - emitting countries that are acutely vulnerable to climate change, to show moral leadership on climate change through actions as well as words, by acting now to commence greening our economies as our contribution towards achieving carbon neutrality,

Though the United States has (at best) sat on its hands and (at worst) actively hindered constructive action to combat climate change for the past eight years, with the changing of the guard coming (not soon enough), the next president can jump start action on climate change by employing the well established Clean Air Act to unify state carbon projects and administer a national cap - and - trade program.

By Joel Pollak The core problem with President Barack Obama's speech on climate change is that it rejects environmental science in favor of the utopian idea that we can, acting collectively, control the weather.

... the central case we have in the report is that the costs in terms of lost (gross domestic product) GDP from not acting on climate change can be $ 44 trillion dollars by the time we get to 2060.»

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the UK made an early burst with its monumentally crass Climate Change Act but coming up on the outside we now have the Commonwealth of Australia, about to implement an economy crippling and entirely pointles carbon tax and being spurred on by a bunch of brain dead nob - jockeys from Brisbane

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16 That figure, again with no qualification, was used in speeches by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a climate change crusader, such as his call on May 6, 2015 to use the RICO Act — a law intended to combat organized crime syndicates — to put «deniers» in jail.17 The same claim appeared in the U.K. Daily Mail.

That is why Blair and Brown were keen to be seen to be acting on climate change, and that is why, in response to that action, the Tories committed themselves to a policy of an 80 % reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050, against Labour's 60 %.

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide tax refunds from the Climate Change Consumer Refund Account (established by this Act) on a per capita basis to each household.

(Sec. 452) National Climate Service Act of 2009 - Requires the President to: (1) initiate a process through the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council, led by the Director of OSTP, to evaluate alternative structures to support a collaborative, interagency research and operational program to meet the needs of decision makers for information related to climate variability and change; (2) provide a plan to establish such a program; and (3) within three years after enactment of this Act, establish a National Climate Service to accomplish the prograClimate Service Act of 2009 - Requires the President to: (1) initiate a process through the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council, led by the Director of OSTP, to evaluate alternative structures to support a collaborative, interagency research and operational program to meet the needs of decision makers for information related to climate variability and change; (2) provide a plan to establish such a program; and (3) within three years after enactment of this Act, establish a National Climate Service to accomplish the prograclimate variability and change; (2) provide a plan to establish such a program; and (3) within three years after enactment of this Act, establish a National Climate Service to accomplish the prograClimate Service to accomplish the program goal.

Diane Holdorf, Chief Sustainability Officer, Kellogg, said the business risks posed by climate change impacts was a reason to act on renewable energy, and underlined that consumers expect global brands to act responsibly.

Stossel writes that even if America reaches Obama's «absurd» pledge to put 1,000,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2015, the impacts of climate change would only be delayed by «one hour,» according to Lomborg, and the mitigation measure was merely a «symbolic act.»

Are you aware that the claim frequently made by opponents of US and other national action on climate change that if the country acts to reduce its ghg emissions and China or other developing country does not act it will make no difference because climate change will still happen is not true because ghg emissions from nations exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions are responsible for rising atmospheric concentrations of ghgs?

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In the final years of the Obama presidency, despite the attention generated by McKibben and Steyer's campaign strategies, the most significant progress on climate change may occur by way of a traditional insider legal strategy with roots dating to the 1970 Clean Air Act.

Back in 2008, for instance, the ink on the UK's new Climate Change Act was barely dry by the time the COP meeting was underway.

And it's unclear when the Court will actually tackle this question: In Bond, the Court whiffed on a narrower interpretation of the treaty question, and the Obama administration has argued that the Clean Air Act and the United Nations Framework on Climate Change signed by former President George H.W. Bush are all the authority the government needs, per the Washington Post — a maneuver designed to avoid provoking a response from the Supreme Court.

We must see climate change as an ethical problem because: (a) it is a problem caused by some people in one part of the world that puts others and the natural resources on which they depend at great risk, (b) the harms to these other people are not mere inconveniences but in some cases catastrophic losses of life or the ability to sustain life, and (c) those who are vulnerable to climate change cant petition their governments to act to protect themselves but must rely upon a hope that a sense of justice and responsibility of those causing the problem will motivate them to change their behavior.

Thus, while the model predicts that the perceived level of scientific agreement acts as a key psychological motivator, its effect on support for action is assumed to be fully mediated by key beliefs about climate change (H3).

In addition, economic arguments for not acting on climate change ignore obligations that nations have if they are creating human rights violations and duties entailed by distributive justice.

The Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action supports implementation of the Paris Agreement by enabling collaboration between governments and the cities, regions, businesses and investors that must act on climate Climate Action supports implementation of the Paris Agreement by enabling collaboration between governments and the cities, regions, businesses and investors that must act on climate climate change.

For the reasons detailed below, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness («CRE») respectfully requests that you withdraw dissemination of the first National Assessment on Climate Change («National Assessment»)(http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/default.htm), Withdrawal of the National Assessment is necessary because: (1) there are numerous data quality and scientific flaws in it; and (2) it does not comply with the Federal Data Quality Act («FDQA»), 44 U.S.C. § 3516 note, and with guidelines promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget («OMB») implementing the FDQA, 67 Fed.

On November 5, 2015, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman used the state's powerful Martin Act, similar in nature to national RICO laaws, to issue a subpoena to ExxonMobil, demanding extensive financial records, emails and other documents, as reported by the New York Times, Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General.

Its work on the arena complements the Town's commitment to the Partners for Climate Protection's Five Milestone Framework for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, a roadmap for sustainable action developed by a network of municipal governments that have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and acting on climate Climate Protection's Five Milestone Framework for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, a roadmap for sustainable action developed by a network of municipal governments that have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and acting on climate climate change.

But this report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change did not satisfy the editors of the Wall Street Journal, who called for delay in acting upon this science.

Other affiliate events included the world premiere screening of Years of Living Dangerously Season Two, launched by National Geographic Channel at the American Museum of Natural History, where celebrity correspondents highlighted the urgency of acting on climate change and spreading the message globally in a rigorous, engaging way.

Instead they are wasting taxpayer money and protecting their big polluter allies by trying again to block the enormous health and safety protections that will be delivered by the Clean Power Plan, and keep our country from acting on climate change.

This statement at one time denied the urgent need to act on climate change; a need on which all clear - thinking people in the world agree, and is a contradiction of the claims commonly made by wind farm opponents who make statements such as:

It seeks to «inspire» and enable» action on climate change adaptation, acting as a «guide to responsible actions by natural resource managers and other decision - makers at all levels of government.»

The power of these impacts to disrupt fish, wildlife, and plants (and by extension the humans that rely on these resources) results from a variety of climate change factors acting in combination.

Perhaps the question is — will we be committing suicide by failing to act on climate change.