Sentences with phrase «advance climate change action»

The 207 - page report contained about 200 recommendations on how President Barack Obama can use executive authority to advance the climate change action plan he announced in June.

«This alliance brings together mayoral political leadership and the pragmatic policy expertise of C2ES to advance climate change action and sustainable development, including by working with states to implement the Clean Power Plan» said Tom Cochran, CEO and Executive Director of The U.S. Conference of Mayors.

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March 3: Take Action: Advancing Justice and Equity in Today's Climate Activists, policymakers, scholars, and researchers will join forces to discuss systems of activism and how to motivate and create lasting change in education.

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White - Newsome, J., M. S. O'Neill, C. Gronlund, T. M. Sunbury, S. J. Brines, E. Parker, D. G. Brown, R. B. Rood, and Z. Rivera, 2009: Climate change, heat waves, and environmental justice: Advancing knowledge and action.

The award honours individuals whose actions and leadership have had a far - reaching positive impact on the environment, in advancing clean energy technologies to mitigate the threats of climate change.

The past five years have brought a sea change in urban climate action: increased awareness of the critical role that local leaders play in carbon reduction; new capacity in local governments to tackle climate change; and a sharper focus on strategies that advance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and clean transportation.

Much of the case advanced by opponents of the climate - change law like the so - called Association of Irritated Residents, the West County Toxics Coalition and the Society for Positive Action, consisted of arguments that the California Air Resources Board demanded too little of the polluters, not too much.

The International Climate Action Initiative works to advance national and international cooperation on climate change and to catalyze ambitious, equitable action and implementation of the Paris AgrClimate Action Initiative works to advance national and international cooperation on climate change and to catalyze ambitious, equitable action and implementation of the Paris AgreAction Initiative works to advance national and international cooperation on climate change and to catalyze ambitious, equitable action and implementation of the Paris Agrclimate change and to catalyze ambitious, equitable action and implementation of the Paris Agreaction and implementation of the Paris Agreement.

UNEP News Center: The high - level political dialogue of Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers and international experts produced an agreement to advance a regional cooperation framework on the global sustainable development agenda, climate change, biodiversity, chemicals, waste, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), among other crucial areas of action.

Also included in this larger figure is $ 86 million to support clean energy regulatory actions that focus on energy efficiency; $ 48 million to develop transportation sector regulations and next - generation clean transportation initiatives; $ 58 million for projects that improve our understanding of climate change impacts; and $ 25 million to advance Canada's engagement in international negotiations and support the Canada-U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue.

When and if the urgency of climate change dawns on more of the political spectrum, they may be ready for immediate action by any means, perhaps even advanced nuclear (but non-carbon) power.

With Clinton — who believes in climate change and advanced a fairly clear, if inadequate, roadmap to carbon neutrality — there was hope of pushing her toward a more progressive position on climate action.

The Centre's mission is to respond to this need by advancing public and private action on climate change through innovative, rigorous research.

LONDON / NEW YORK, November 25 — Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $ 2.2 trillion in the next decade, threatening substantially lower investor returns, by pursuing projects that could be uneconomic in the face of a perfect storm of factors including international action to limit climate change to 2 ˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies, think tank the Carbon Tracker Initiative warns today.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

And here's the thing about these game - changing advances in the broader context for climate action: Donald Trump can't really do much about them.

Last year, in advance of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen, 350.org coordinated what has been described as the biggest day of action ever on climate change.