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A number of provisions in the 2018 agenda have already been released over the last several weeks, including measures aimed at combatting climate change, bolstering airports and encouraging shared services on the local government level.

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A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

RGGI, at the time, was the first - in - the - nation plan to combat climate change by charging polluters and using the money for alternative energy and other programs.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

Challengers hoping to unseat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) largely agreed that Congress should take a robust role in strengthening environmental safeguards, including passing legislation to combat climate change while bolstering regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

The «new energy» economy rolls forward even as hopes for an international deal to combat climate change at Copenhagen shift into reverse.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

Launching his long - awaited plan to combat climate change today, Obama explicitly linked current hardships to our planet's warming trend: «Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and the higher food prices get passed on to you,» he told an audience at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Unfortunately, jet fuel derived from coal results in even more CO2 emissions, which makes it no alternative at all if the goal is to combat climate change.

The White House fact sheet also hints at new investments in clean energy and efforts to combat climate change, but provides no details.

Despite some drama and tension at the COP21 meeting, world leaders and their negotiators are surprisingly optimistic Le Bourget, Paris — Momentum continues to build here for a landmark agreement to combat climate change.

Over 250 SLM techniques that, at once, combat land degradation and build its resilience to drought and climate change are available through the Convention alone.

Founder and President at GEC; UNEP Reform Project Leader at Tema at Linkoping University; SCO Project Leader at Vermont University; My mission is to contribute myself in global environmental and sustainable development governance and act to accelerate transitioning the society to green economy with sustainable development, and to join together with world visionary leaders to fight and combat the climate change that threaten life of all.

With COP16 kicking off in Cancún, Mexico at the end of the month, UNEP is hoping to get people jazzed up about all the different ways of combatting climate change — considering, that all signs point to little progress on the political front this year,

* First, our dialogue at political, policy, and technical levels has built confidence among our nations and deepened mutual understanding of the many challenges confronting the world community as we consider next steps under the Convention and continue to mobilize political will to combat global climate change.

Steve Stockman, a former Congressman from Texas, put blinders over his eyes and pulled out a dollar bill as a way of deriding what was happening down the road at the Bella Center, where delegates are busy trying to find agreement on cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions and a treaty to combat climate change.

Rigg doesn't just point a finger at President Obama though, she also has words for developing nations (who need to recognize too that they need to get on board with commitments to low - carbon energy and not just stand behind historical obligations to combat climate change) and the EU (who have tried to eliminate language on fisheries reform, no doubt under domestic political pressure).

Though the United States has (at best) sat on its hands and (at worst) actively hindered constructive action to combat climate change for the past eight years, with the changing of the guard coming (not soon enough), the next president can jump start action on climate change by employing the well established Clean Air Act to unify state carbon projects and administer a national cap - and - trade program.

There are many uncertainties as to when the glaciers will be entirely gone > Jimbo's link (his 4th) on the Science news story, which is identical to the recent tempest in a teapot about the Himalayan glaciers > At a time when governments are baulking at taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility of the IPCC could not have come at a worse time.&raquAt a time when governments are baulking at taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility of the IPCC could not have come at a worse time.&raquat taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility of the IPCC could not have come at a worse time.&raquat a worse time.»

At most one person in a thousand cares enough to try to get serious action to combat climate change, even though we could stop it if there was a will to do so.

In January, the governor announced a «comprehensive agenda to combat climate change» that called for aggressive increases in energy storage, development of at least 800 MW of offshore wind resources and new energy efficiency targets.

An article from Financial Times yesterday jumped the gun when it concluded that China «had abandoned its demand for funding from the developed world to combat climate change, the first apparent concession by one of the major players at the Copenhagen climate talks.»

Nov. 12, 2006: Rona Ambrose represents Canada at a UN conference in Nairobi to combat climate change.

This analytical report proposes ideas regarding what can be done to combat climate change at the household, microbusiness, microfinance institution, and systemic levels.

Researchers studying the West Antarctic Peninsula marine ecosystem will recognize President Obama's efforts to combat global warming by collecting climate data at an oceanographic station they named for the 44th president.

Leaders from around the world convened at the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris to discuss how to combat climate Climate Change Conference in Paris to discuss how to combat climate climate change.

The ratification of the Paris Agreement, less than a year after it was approved by 197 countries under the French Presidency at COP21 last December, marks an unprecedented milestone in the global effort to combat climate change.

Opposition from the United States, Saudi Arabia and others has forced Germany to drop a reference to financing programs to combat climate change from the draft communique at a G20 finance and central bankers meeting.

In addition to working for the Niskanen Center, Bookbinder also served as a senior policy advisor at the prestigious Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate climate change.

It is past time for our elected officials at the local, state and federal level to take action that combats climate change and moves Virginia toward a clean energy future.

Hansen uttered one of his most - outlandish public statements on global warming in a lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2012, in which he compared the fight to combat climate change to ending slavery.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

The third biggest greenhouse gas emitter in Australia's power sector also recognises the reality of climate change: GDF SUEZ reaffirms its commitment to combatting climate change at the Climate Summit in New climate change: GDF SUEZ reaffirms its commitment to combatting climate change at the Climate Summit in New climate change at the Climate Summit in New Climate Summit in New - York.

bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.

Writing at Project Syndicate, Bjorn Lomborg argues that geoengineering is a viable solution to combatting climate change.

Obviously the situation in the US is a peculiar one, and from where I'm sitting it seems pretty obvious that for the time being any hopes of meaningful legislation (or any legislation at all) to combat climate change are dead — Obama had his chance in the earlier part of his term and didn't take it.

Similar ideas surfaced in a less formal context at the University of Chicago last month, in a debate over what Milton Friedman might do to combat climate change.

IFIEC, also member of the AEII (Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries), has given constructive input to the EU commission to combat climate change and at the same time ensure competitiveness and encourage industrial growth in Europe.

In this file photo, he announced that New Jersey is going all - in on wind energy in an attempt to combat climate change and create a new industry to drive the economy, at the fifth annual International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum held in Princeton recently.

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On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced a sweeping plan to combat climate change that would greatly build upon the significant but insufficient efforts of President Barack Obama and, at first glance, is very close to a dream scenario for environmentalists.

This December will be the 21st year that the COP (the Conference of Parties) has met, in which governments from around the world meet at UN talks with the mandate of working towards global action to combat climate change.

Around two - thirds of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stem from energy production and use, which puts the energy sector at the core of efforts to combat climate change.

«I strongly hope that this summit, as well as other initiatives that go in the same direction, will foster a clear awareness of the need to adopt genuinely effective measures to counteract climate change and, at the same time, to combat poverty and promote integral human development,» he added.

This panel considered SDG9 which looks at the urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (and the role of the Paris Agreement).

«The task for us is to avoid catastrophic climate change,» she declared at an event that focused on REDD +, the UN programme to combat deforestation.

Another is Caleb Rossiter, a left - leaning statistician at American University, who spoke out against the alarmists when he discovered that their statistics were junk and that the measures being introduced to «combat» climate change were harming the world's poorest.

Especially at this time, given that much of the rest of the world is pulling back against commitments to reduce emissions and combat climate change.»