Sentences with phrase «address climate crisis»

«The news today, that some stations have measured concentrations above 400 ppm in the atmosphere, is further evidence that the world's political leaders — with a few honorable exceptions — are failing catastrophically to address the climate crisis,» former Vice President and a vocal proponent of climate action Al Gore wrote to the AP.

Applications are now open for the three - day training, where former US Vice President and Climate Reality Founder and Chairman Al Gore will train people from around the world to become Climate Reality Leaders and take action to address the climate crisis.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This morning, 48 environmental, civil rights, and community leaders from across the country joined together for a historic display of civil disobedience at the White House where they demanded that President Obama deny the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and address the climate crisis.

Simon is increasingly focusing on climate change, with a particular interest in the way in which the fossil fuel industry has corrupted and co-opted global politics to such an extent that it has been able to prevent appropriate action to address the climate crisis.

After years of wrong turns and failed attempts to address the climate crisis at the international level, a turning point was finally in sight.

Developed countries are also denying developing countries the necessary finances and technology to address the climate crisis.

Passive House is an affordable method of design and construction that results in unsurpassed thermal comfort, indoor air quality and resilience, while reducing heating and cooling energy demand by up to 90 % - meant to aggressively address the climate crisis.

This is a live internet broadcast, intended to unite people around the world in demanding action to address the climate crisis.

This provocative paper makes a convincing case for why the environmental community must embrace post-growth economics and community resilience in their efforts to address the climate crisis.

Pope Francis» words today meet the surge in popular demand for urgent, ambitious and equitable action to address the climate crisis.»

From the 1991 «Ice Campaign» run by the coal and utility industries to the Marshall Institute's bogus «Study» of 1998 (which was designed to resemble a National Academy of Sciences document) to the recent efforts of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy to eviscerate efforts to address the climate crisis, in tandem with the Bush White House, the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people about the reality of warming - driven climate change.

Two years ago today in Paris, we made a historic commitment as a country and as nations around the world, uniting to address the climate crisis.

If we address the climate crisis only through the transition to renewable energy sources we may not be able to provide solutions to the whole environmental crisis.

While we work very hard to move our own country in a fairer, more just and more ecologically - sound direction, we would ask that you not discourage other countries from supporting this tax as one equitable solution to address the climate crisis, cuts to public services, and widespread job loss faced by their populations.

The letter was sent in light of next week's UN climate meeting on «long - term finance» to help enable developing countries to address the climate crisis.

This petition is a first step in a growing campaign by grassroots climate action groups to pressure our political leaders to step up and do what is needed to address the climate crisis.

New report exposes how the industries most responsible for climate change, especially fossil fuel TNCs, are obstructing real progress to address the climate crisis

The clear path required to address the climate crisis is one that breaks humanity free from the current stranglehold of fossil fuels on our lives and the planet.

«Not only does it solidify New York City's leadership in sustainability, but it makes clear that we can successfully address the climate crisis with advanced standards, like Passive House, which are achievable today.»

While many of the defecting companies said their anti-Kyoto posture had not changed, this was a major blow to a 10 - year campaign by oil, coal and automotive interests to prevent public action to address the climate crisis.»

But as it becomes increasingly clear that the world's political institutions are unwilling and unable to effectively address the climate crisis, many activists, including Pope Francis himself, are questioning the underlying economic forces that are perpetuating the ecological destruction of the planet.

«The U.S. still must drastically reduce its emissions and provide the requisite funding to help developing countries address the climate crisis, commensurate with what science and equity demand.»

Both the President's Office of Management and Budget and Congress's Government Accountability Office also say we need a strategic federal plan to address climate crisis.

Let us furthermore rededicate ourselves to moving our communities, businesses, organizations, and governments to effectively and urgently address our climate crisis.

Not only are students and faculty pressuring their schools to address the climate crisis, but trustees are looking to energy efficiency and renewable energy to help reduce long - term energy costs.

Researchers examined what individuals can do to help address the climate crisis while also providing data about how individual actions do indeed add up to make impact.

It was issued at the height of the tea party movement and, arguably, at the nadir of congressional Republicans» willingness to address the climate crisis.

In a new report, GRAIN outlines the contributions of industrial meat and dairy to global climate change, arguing that reducing their production and consumption is one of the most important actions we can take to address the climate crisis now.

Preserving New York's vast natural resources, addressing the climate crisis head - on, and protecting our air and water are more important than ever,» Niccoli said.

It fundamentally addresses the climate crisis imperative.

This ruffles feathers, including mine, because it leads Killian to depreciate measures conventionally thought to be beneficial in addressing the climate crisis.

Our Climate and Energy program is addressing the climate crisis by challenging fossil fuel extraction and use, promoting energy efficiency and promoting appropriate sustainable energy choices.

The first step to putting our country on the path to addressing the climate crisis is for President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Addressing the climate crisis, and the social inequity that is both a cause and a symptom of this great threat, will require deep cuts in climate pollution as well as large troves of money.

will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People's Climate March and United Nations Climate Summit 2014 with a rally hailing a Robin Hood Tax — a tax on Wall Street also known as a financial transaction tax — as a key solution to addressing the climate crisis.

As you move forward on those climate - friendly resolutions you made for the New Year, you might want to consider joining one of the social networking sites aimed at creating communities dedicated to addressing the climate crisis.

Addressing the climate crisis calls for an «all of the above» approach to reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration, and although many of us are inclined to supporting organic farming practices, it's high time we started focusing on carbon farming practices as well.

Not exact matches

Having been called upon by global leaders to use its technology to address the global crises of climate change and poverty, Cisco opts to pursue sustainability...

HADLEY, MA, November 9, 2016: Social entrepreneurs — business owners and leaders who use their business to address issues like hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — face an apparent crisis.

Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change.

To address the economic crisis and climate crisis together, we want an investment packages of # 44bn to create one million new jobs.

In this current economic climate, we could learn much from her resolve in addressing the economic crisis that she inherited.

Echoing a theme of his opening address, he mourned the failure of both the summit and the negotiators for the Climate Convention to act effectively to control the greenhouse effect, «the most urgent crisis we face».

President Obama used his final address to the U.N. General Assembly yesterday to warn that climate change would worsen the kind of unrest and inequality that has spurred a global refugee crisis.

«This effort helped rescue the food security and livelihoods of more than 271,000 rural households and 1.6 million individuals in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNP regions, and strengthened seed systems to address future climate, disease, and pest crises,» said Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT wheat scientist who led the seed relief initiative.

We're going to have to address great crises globally in the 21st century — catastrophic climate change, mass extinction, nuclear proliferation, income inequality.

Attempts to address climate change that remove land and control from local communities will only result in greater susceptibility to future droughts and further crises like the one we are seeing now.»

«Global challenges such as the recent economic crisis and the climate imperatives can only be addressed in a global cooperative manner and in fora such as the UN or the G - 20»

This is why waiting until climate change is «really bad» before taking radical, expansive action to address the crisis is not going to work.

We are here today to talk about how we as Americans and how the United States of America as part of the global community should address the dangerous and growing threat of the climate crisis.