Sentences with phrase «back on climate action»

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The headline we took from this year's edition is that Ottawa is not backing off on climate action.

Gale Norton floats price adjustment theory Industry groups balked at yet another example of presidential action on climate, carried on the backs of reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Leading doctors are backing legal action against UK government ministers on the grounds that they have not fulfilled their commitments to cutting carbon emissions in line with the Climate Change Act of 2008 and the Paris Agreement objective of limiting warming to 1.5?

Statement on behalf of Climate Action Network Europe, Carbon Market Watch, European Environmental Bureau, Sandbag, Transport & Environment, and WWF European Policy Office EU governments must step back from irreparably weakening Europe's biggest climate law, six of Europe's leading environmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended in deadClimate Action Network Europe, Carbon Market Watch, European Environmental Bureau, Sandbag, Transport & Environment, and WWF European Policy Office EU governments must step back from irreparably weakening Europe's biggest climate law, six of Europe's leading environmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended in deadclimate law, six of Europe's leading environmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended in deadlock...

Thumbnail of the 8/31/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Help for Houston Tweet of the week: A terrible teachable moment on climate change https://tinyurl.com/ybo4wf2n #HelpforHouston PAA News: Don't miss Public School Shakedown's back - to - school special.

But he's soon back in the thick of the action, this time called on to check out the climate non-meteorological, that is in Myanmar.

I looked through the HDR last night online, and what struck me was not the call to action on climate change, but all those tables in the back of the report.

Titled «Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,» it centers on the same mantra at the core of his message for years now — that the only missing link holding back action is political will.

@lindsayiversen weighs if China can assume global lead on climate action if #POTUSTrump pulls U.S. back.

This statement on its own would be an acknowledgement that climate engineering processes are underway and now we can not turn back as switching off the aerosols would be more damaging than any other course of action.

Trump has called global warming «bullshit» and he has said he would «cancel» the Paris global warming accord and roll back President Obama's executive actions on climate change.

This, combined with the Paris deal, has convinced investors governments are committed to action on climate change and are ready to back it with cash.

Right now, we are at an interesting juncture in light of what occurred at the negotiating session in South Africa last December — a juncture from which we can look back and reflect on what we have learned over the past three years, and from which we can look ahead to a revised model of international climate action.

We will look back at this as a lost opportunity to create history in Washington State, but also as a catalyst for much needed U.S. leadership on climate action.»

What happened in Washington State is a perfect illustration of what will happen if the left and right attempt to negotiate for their other goals on the back of climate change action.

In this next election, we need to decide whether we are going to build on the successes of the Obama administration — which has used a combination of bold executive actions and international diplomacy to achieve action on climate change even in the presence of intransigence, denial and outright hostility from congressional republicans — or whether we are going to retreat back into the energy - equivalent of the stone age, continuing to degrade our planet through the profligate burning of increasingly dangerous fossil carbon even as the rest of the world moves forward, embracing the renewable energy revolution destined to be the hallmark of the 21st century.

At the high level conference organised on the side of to the UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, co-hosted by the government of North - Rhine Westphalia and The Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.

As the Ki - moon has made clear before, his summit can not merely be a stepping stone to a new agreement in 2015, but must deliver «concrete action» to ensure that global emissions peak before 2020, and get us back on a pathway to a safe climate future.

But possibly because Trump never made any promises related to revoking the USEPA Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding (EF), there has been no public announcement of any proposed EPA action on this, the most critical step needed to bring sanity back to climate policy.

This «web of denial» has held back action to cut greenhouse gas emissions while confusing the public on climate change.

Together the delegation portrayed the true needs of U.S. - based communities, successfully pushed back on the Trump delegation to COP23 by revealing their close ties to the fossil fuel industry, and built momentum for climate action throughout the conference.

He promised that Canada was «back» on the International stage as a major contributor to global action on climate change, he promised to make real reconciliation with Indigenous peoples a pillar of his agenda, and he promised to overhaul the shattered National Energy Board review process for every single pipeline project.

I would like my granddaughters to be able to say «my granddad walked 740 km back in the olden days to try to get serious action on climate change».

President Trump, his top officials, and Republican leaders in Congress propose to dial back action on climate change, arguing that the scientific consensus on human induced - climate change is unconvincing.

A new Media Matters analysis found that when corporate broadcast TV news programs reported on climate change last year, they spent 79 percent of the time on statements or actions by the Trump administration — and even that included little coverage of efforts to roll back the Clean Power Plan and other climate regulations.

Despite its advanced knowledge of the climate disruption fueled in large part by oil, gas and coal pollution, ExxonMobil turned its back on crafting responsible solutions and instead funded a sophisticated campaign to sow doubt and delay action to curb carbon emissions — honing the tobacco industry's playbook with even more advanced public relations, advertising and lobbying muscle.

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IOL Scitech: There are simple, inexpensive ways to cut back on two major pollutants — soot and methane — and taking action now could slow climate change for years to come, international scientists said on Thursday.

(CNN) Protesters backing action on climate change are braving the sweltering heat Saturday in the nation's capital as part of the People's Climateclimate change are braving the sweltering heat Saturday in the nation's capital as part of the People's ClimateClimate March.

«Cities are where the action is on climate, and there will be no turning back,» he said.

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.

We are working to hold the Trump Administration accountable not only for their inaction but also for the actions they are taking, such as pushing through new fossil fuel infrastructure and cutting back on environmental regulations, which puts the climate and all people of the earth in danger.

And back in the US courts, the polar bear is bearing the burden of action on climate change.

Way, way back in the 2000s, when everyone believed in Hockey Sticks, the UK's Labour government commissioned somebody nobody had ever heard of to write a report on the economics of climate change, so that it could make an argument for domestic and international political action.

During a press briefing today, Ambassador Yu Qingtai, China's Special Representative on Climate Change Negotiations from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reiterated China's stance on the MRV issue, pointing back to the Bali Action Plan and stressing that China will not agree to anything beyond the Bali Action Plan.

«The scope of Walmart's coal consumption is staggering — as is its refusal to forego even a penny of short - term profits to invest in a meaningful shift to renewable power, and its financial backing of lawmakers who protect fossil fuel interests and block action on climate pollution.»

They set back action on climate change by a decade.

Sure, he's taken executive action that attempts to address climate change, but if he and Democrats were as radical as some people think they are, we'd be seeing either an end to all drilling and mining on public lands or a nationalization of the process, with royalties coming back to the taxpayer instead of filling the pockets of Big Oil.

And while cities, states and businesses have committed to taking climate action in the United States, federal leadership is non-existent, with the Trump administration rolling back climate policies and announcing its intent to pull the country out of the international Paris Agreement on climate change.

Previous surveys from the Center for Climate Change Communication, going back to 2008, have consistently found substantial public support for policy action on climate Climate Change Communication, going back to 2008, have consistently found substantial public support for policy action on climate climate change.

Over the next month we'll be in resistance mode, fighting back against Trump's Climate Denial Cabinet and other dangerous appointees (including on January 9th with the #DayAgainstDenial national day of action, and then 100 hours after his inauguration with a national student walkout).