Sentences with phrase «action on climate protection»

Baden - Württemberg promotes action on climate protection.

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Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Carol M. Browner, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Board Chair of the League of Conservation Voters said: «By building victories in different states and on multiple policies, we can demonstrate strong public support for climate action, demonstrate success that others will want to replicate, and drive down the costs of clean energy».

The success of the Montreal Protocol should encourage further action not only on the protection and recovery of the ozone layer but also on climate.

They undermine action on climate change and environmental protections; promote school privatization; defund unions and stop progressive wage and benefits policies; and, among other things, call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to restrict the federal budget.

This study identifies long range transportation planning (LRTP) best practices for climate protection and energy efficiency outcomes, which were selected based on interviews with LRTP professionals, a literature search, and a review of state LRTPs in the 29 states with Climate Action Plans, or gubernatorial initiatives directing state agencies to coordinate planning for climate and energy efficiency ouclimate protection and energy efficiency outcomes, which were selected based on interviews with LRTP professionals, a literature search, and a review of state LRTPs in the 29 states with Climate Action Plans, or gubernatorial initiatives directing state agencies to coordinate planning for climate and energy efficiency ouClimate Action Plans, or gubernatorial initiatives directing state agencies to coordinate planning for climate and energy efficiency ouclimate and energy efficiency outcomes.

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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.

By committing to targets for emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.

«We develop new technologies and reduce the costs of renewables, new nuclear, environmental protection in natural gas production, carbon capture and sequestration, really across the board,» Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a May teleconference, describing his agency's actions on climate change.

At COP23 a delegation of frontline communities, indigenous communities, communities of color, youth, advocates, and policymakers, pushed for climate action on the city and state level despite the U.S withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate proteclimate action on the city and state level despite the U.S withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate proteClimate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate proteclimate protections.

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On Monday, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed the new rules, which constitute — in Mr. Podesta's words — the «crown jewels» of the Climate Action Plan that Mr. Obama unveiled last summer.

The call to action was sparked from the fact that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change does not offer legal protection for the average 21.5 million people that are displaced every year by the adverse impacts of climate Climate Change does not offer legal protection for the average 21.5 million people that are displaced every year by the adverse impacts of climate climate change.

On Thursday November 10th, civil society mobilized with a series of events to ask for legal protection and immediate action for climate migrants.

It focused on the Obama Administration's Climate Action Plan, with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Earnest Moniz testifying.

The delegation included members from frontline communities, Indigenous communities, communities of color, youth, advocates, and policymakers who are pushing for climate action on the city and state level despite the U.S withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate proteclimate action on the city and state level despite the U.S withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate proteClimate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate proteclimate protections.

The stunning upset by Trump, who has routinely suggested that climate change is a hoax, threatens to unravel President Obama's climate action agenda, built on executive orders and regulations, including the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon clampdown at power plants.

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Cities Initiative members passed resolutions on Climate Impacts, Water Levels, Asian Carp, Protection and Restoration, St. Lawrence Action Plan, Water Demand, and Ballast Water.

WASHINGTON — Continuing the Obama Administration's commitment to take action on climate change and protect public health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is...

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.

Organized by Our Task — a non-profit group dedicated to helping young adults become leaders in creating a more sustainable world — the two - day event featured speakers and representatives from many other organizations as well, including: Climate Progress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Center for a New American Dream, Population Institute, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Worldwatch Institute.

With the Trump Administration rolling back climate protections, expanding fossil fuel development, ramming through dirty infrastructure, and withdrawing the U.S. from its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement, the People's Delegation and the organizations involved are taking action to protect communities and isolate the Administration by demanding a fossil free future and real climate action on the localclimate protections, expanding fossil fuel development, ramming through dirty infrastructure, and withdrawing the U.S. from its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement, the People's Delegation and the organizations involved are taking action to protect communities and isolate the Administration by demanding a fossil free future and real climate action on the localClimate Agreement, the People's Delegation and the organizations involved are taking action to protect communities and isolate the Administration by demanding a fossil free future and real climate action on the localclimate action on the local level.

Zaelke and his team at IGSD are continuing to focus on other fast - action climate mitigation strategies, including black carbon, other non-CO2 gases, protection of forests, bio-char sequestration, and renewable energy.

Then just last week, President Obama in his Climate Action Plan outlined how the United States would take domestic action on HFCs by «identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internatiClimate Action Plan outlined how the United States would take domestic action on HFCs by «identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internatioAction Plan outlined how the United States would take domestic action on HFCs by «identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internatioaction on HFCs by «identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internaticlimate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internationally.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) information on how States and lower government levels establish a Climate Action Plan is shown below.

The lawsuit, which is brought by a collective called Our Children's Trust and is often described as «kids versus climate change,» is built on an appeal to the equal - protection clause, namely, that in failing to take action on warming, the government is violating it by imposing massive costs on future generations; it is scheduled to be heard this winter in Oregon district court.

-- A package of details on how to monitor, report and verify emissions reductions by developed countries and climate protection actions taken by poorer ones, or MRV in UN jargon.

The proposed regulations, to be announced at the National Press Club by Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, are an aggressive move by Mr. Obama to bypass Congress on climate change with executive actions he promised in his inaugural address this year.