Sentences with phrase «action around climate change»

It also involves long - term planning and unified action around climate change.

Inspired by their experiences in Alaska and Crater Lake, Lazar and Ettling became involved with the Climate Reality Project, an organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore with a mission to inspire social action around climate change.

She was a big part of the HOME (Heal Our Mother Earth) album in 2014, which was released by People's Climate Music, a project organized by the Hip Hop Caucus that works with artists to inspire action around climate change.

Of all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growth.

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Wilkinson's published dissertation, Between God and Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.Climate Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.&Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.&change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.&Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.»

During Earth Hour, cities, towns and individual families from around the world were encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. People in more than 92 countries participated in a global call to action for, and to demonstrate the urgency of, climate change.

Trevor Tompson, director of the AP - NORC Center, said the bipartisan agreement on climate change's existence could be reason to hope for policy action: «Public opinion around many energy issues tends to be fluid, with people often defaulting to partisan starting points.

As the moral implications of climate change become more apparent, faith communities around the world are taking action, both personal and political

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

Young people around the world have started suing their governments to take stronger action against climate change, claiming that they have «willfully ignored this impending harm» for too long.

On the eve of the COP21 conference, 184 countries covering around 95 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions had delivered their national climate action plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate action plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Change (UNFCCC).

From 2004 to her untimely death in 2011, Prof Maathai travelled the world, urging action on climate change, environmental justice, the protection of forests, good governance, participatory democracy, and women's rights within Kenya, across Africa, and around the world.

A group of London Hilton hotels plan to mark Earth Hour 2012 from 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 31, 2012 as people and organisations around the world turn off their lights in support of action on global climate change.

Groups of seemingly disconnected people in California --- venture capitalists, farmers, politicians --- collaborate around opportunities for profitable action on climate change.

[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on issues like greenhouse - driven climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.

«The goal is to depict the very real impact that climate change is having on people's lives and to unite thousands of Earth Day events around the world into one call for climate action,» said Franklin Russell, director of Earth Day at Earth Day Network.

Of course, Earth Hour 2009 is just around the corner... And Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action.

A) Those who think that governments around the world should take action to reduce CO2 emissions because data collected in the last 30 years indicates that recent changes in climate can be traced to CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels during various human activities.

As climate change begins to affect water around the world, from acidification in the oceans to glacial melting in the mountains, nationwide awareness and action programs like these will be welcome, and necessary.

Times of India: World climate change negotiators faced warnings on Thursday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in Bangkok.

As we take bold actions by getting involved with groups like Citizens» Climate Lobby, it does change the world around us.

The report's worst - case scenario, where little concrete climate and development action is taken, projects that up to 143 million people — around 2.8 % of the population of these three regions — could move internally across the three regions due to climate change by 2050.

Around the world, hundreds of similar climate - action events took place that same day to bring attention to the issues of climate change.

Because around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions originate with EU nations, getting those governments to take stronger action, faster, would have a big impact on curbing climate change's worst impacts.

Climate Change awareness actions such as this will happen in over 170 countries around the world on that day.

For the third year in a row, Sustainia, C40, and Realdania have collected the 100 best urban solutions to climate change from cities around the world, and the 2017 edition of Cities100 presents some extraordinary cases of city climate action within the categories of energy, adaptation, transportation, mitigation, and waste.

In southern Africa, scientists expect a migration of species toward cooler and moister areas.13 If we do nothing to reduce our emissions, 12 Etosha faces a net loss of around eight species of mammals by 2050.13 Unless we take meaningful action today, climate change could render Etosha and other national parks in dry or desert regions unable to fulfill their mandate: to protect mammalian biodiversity.13

Meanwhile, dozens of U.S. governors, mayors and lawmakers who disagree with Trump's disengagement on climate change have set up a large pavilion in Bonn showcasing climate action around the country.

On October 14, 2015, the People's Climate Movement (PCM) brought together climate activists around the U.S. to stand together and demand action on climate Climate Movement (PCM) brought together climate activists around the U.S. to stand together and demand action on climate climate activists around the U.S. to stand together and demand action on climate climate change.

House Democrats pressing for action on climate policy are having to resort to various work - arounds, in a situation where it is difficult even to get a meaningful climate change hearing, and for now impossible to move significant legislation.

Having to take climate change in consideration is difficult for most, but important, and the feelings around the issue a measure of the extremity of the situation — and how urgently we need to take action.

ACR remains steadfast in our commitment to demonstrate the value of market - based mechanisms to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and we are eager to collaborate more closely with organizations and institutions in the U.S. and around the world to pioneer new approaches to incentivize climate action.

«Two weeks of negotiations have not altered that path and that politicians need to reflect the consensus around climate change through funds, targets and effective action.»

In his testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in July 2009, OSTP Director John Holdren took note of the National Research Council recommendation to restructure the (USGCRP) around «`... the end - to - end climate change problem, from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope with the impending societal problems of climate change.

Women from around the world are mobilising today to call for action on climate change as international leaders meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly.

Strategic partnership based around a shared vision to catalyse action on climate change and sustainable development at scale

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Miami is on the forefront of the climate fight, and the training will highlight climate issues specific to the region, the political and social conversation around renewable energy deployment and the key leadership role the Latino community has on climate change action.

By the late 1980s, scientists around the world agreed that action by the world governments was needed to avoid the threat of climate change.

On the other hand, campaigns that focus only on demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years ago.

Organizations around the world to join with IUGG and its member Associations to encourage scientists to communicate freely and widely with public and private decision - makers about the consequences and risks of on - going climate change and actions that can be taken to limit climate change and promote adaptation; and

When you argue that a nation emitting high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change policies because there is scientific uncertainty about adverse climate change impacts, are you arguing that a nation need not take action on climate change until scientific uncertainties are resolved given that waiting to resolve all scientific uncertainties before action is taken may very likely make it too late to prevent catastrophic climate change harms to millions of people around the world?

In a time of great uncertainty over the future of global climate action, the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews» Earth Journalism Network (EJN), will bring 14 journalists from around the world to report directly from the upcoming climateclimate action, the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews» Earth Journalism Network (EJN), will bring 14 journalists from around the world to report directly from the upcoming climateClimate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews» Earth Journalism Network (EJN), will bring 14 journalists from around the world to report directly from the upcoming climateclimate talks.

These projects are inspired by people around the world who are showing that we can prepare for unavoidable climate change while also taking action to stop root cause of future climate change.

Winrock believes that climate change will have a profound impact on the poorest populations and the most fragile ecosystems around the world and that markets are the most effective path to mobilize actions to reduce emissions.

We stand in solidarity with, and offer our full support for, the growing wave of impacted communities around the world who are taking action to defend and protect their lives and livelihoods in the face of fossil fuel extraction and climate change.

This speech also acknowledged that it is probably too late to avoid the need of nations to adapt to climate change's adverse impacts.This is so because even if aggressive action it taken on climate change around the world, some adverse climate change impacts are inevitable.

The US media has utterly failed to communicate to the American people about five essential aspects of climate change that they need to understand to know why climate change is a civilization challenging problem that requires dramatic, aggressive, and urgent policy action to avoid harsh impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

If he thinks the challenge is «for policymakers to take action on climate change» then he is indeed talking about getting around the skeptics.

Yet as McKibben's article makes clear, the movement has been forced to work around the Obama administration, rather than to prompt the kinds of transformative government - led actions on climate change that Obama's election was thought by many to herald.