Sentences with phrase «address global environmental problems»

Meanwhile, groups with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo are using the book to promote their «no need to take action to address global environmental problems» agenda.

TOKYO — The Blue Planet Prize strives to highlight both basic and applied research addressing global environmental problems, and this year's laureates represent both ends of that spectrum.

It starts with recognizing that action taken in towns and cities is essential for addressing global environmental problems.

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He is dedicated to addressing our growing global waste crisis and founded FullCycle Energy LP to finance projects that convert our costly environmental problem into clean, valuable fuel to power communities around the world.

That meme has now spread to the United Nations, and is driving ongoing global talks to address environmental problems, including the much - anticipated Rio +20 summit meeting that begins next week in Rio de Janeiro.

The environmental effects of climate change in our modern world are increasingly convincing, and global leaders will gather soon in a major Summit to try to address the problem.

I've said this before: global warming is certainly not our only big environmental problem, but it is an urgent crisis that must be fixed immediately, if we are going to buy the time to address the other problems.

Working with the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, Susan co-authored the Emerging Challenges section of the United Nations Environment Programme's Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) Yearbook for 2003, which addressed the alteration of the nitrogen cycle and over-fishing.

In spite of troubling predictions about Earth's climate, many young people are addressing the problems in positive ways, according to Lynne Cherry, acclaimed author of 30 - plus environmental books for children, whose latest book explores the science of global warming at an eighth - grade reading level.

Since so many environmental issues are global, part of the problem in addressing them is the lack of a planet - wide perspective among many people.