Sentences with phrase «based global climate action»

«When countries adopted the historic Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise, they also recognized that achieving that goal would take broad - based global climate action in all sectors, public and private,» she added.

«When countries adopted the historic Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise, they also recognized that achieving that goal would take broad - based global climate action in all sectors, public and private,» she said.

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He cited the Paris climate accord, in which governments committed to capping heat - trapping emissions, as an example of taking action to fight global warming based on scientific evidence.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

Based on the available scientific knowledge it is only by concerted global actions and smart science - informed policies that we can provide solutions to limit warming of the climate system to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and thus reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences of climate change.

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Projects of particular interest are those that apply a systemic lens to the root causes of global warming; enroll the leadership of frontline communities most vulnerable to the impact of climate change; push for broad - based civic engagement and community action; and wherever possible leverage the value artists and culture bearers bring to processes for devising and deploying practical solutions to this global crisis.

Key Message 3: Long - Term Strategy Rapid, sustained, and effective mitigation based on coordinated global and regional action is required to avoid «dangerous climate change» regardless of how it is defined.

The abstract certainly says so by concluding «The validity of the anthropogenic nature of global warming and climate change and that of the effectiveness of proposed measures for climate action may therefore be questioned solely on this basis.»

And within the United States, there's been this huge We Are Still In movement of states, cities, business, faith - based communities, reaffirming their commitment to climate action and global cooperation.»

See the video of Prof. Mike Hulme for a resounding challenge to political arguments for action on climate change, based on the idea that the consensus is that global warming will cause catastrophe.

5 As long as global climate policy is supposed to be based on the precautionary principle, this is the only justifiable course of action in my opinion.

A new global climate agreement based on voluntary national pledges of domestic action is expected to be finalized in Paris in December.

«Over the course of 2018, I will be working to expand the adoption of science - based targets not only across the Mahindra Group, but amongst my business colleagues so that by the Global Climate Action Summit in September, 500 companies step up and commit to set science - based targets,» he said.

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant pClimate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant pclimate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

Anand Mahindra, chairman of the Mahindra Group, is challenging all businesses around the world to set a science - based emissions reduction target ahead of this September's Global Climate Action Summit in California.

Innovate4Climate 2018 will convene global leaders from industry, government and multi-lateral agencies for a one - day Summit, workshops and a Marketplace, to work and dialogue on development of innovative financing instruments and approaches to support low - carbon, climate - resilient development pathways; mobilization of private investments in climate action; support to developing countries in their NDCs implementation; development of ideas on how market - based and non-market based climate finance instruments identified in the Paris Agreement can best be designed to maximize impact and minimize costs.

The 20 - year effort by environmentalists to establish climate science as the primary basis for far - reaching action to decarbonize the global energy economy today lies in ruins.

If a nation emitting high levels of ghgs refuses to reduce its emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends for tens of millions of others, should that nation be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

Setting the Scene Paris Agreement: Unlocking the potential of forests to achieve a 1.5 degree and climate resilient world November 12, 10:35 - 11:20 — Bonn Zone, meeting room 5 As part of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action — Forests Day session, Bronson Griscom, Forest Carbon Science director for The Nature Conservancy will present, «Nature based solutions for achieving the Paris Agreement and bridging the mitigation gap: An Analysis on Nature Climate Solutions&climate resilient world November 12, 10:35 - 11:20 — Bonn Zone, meeting room 5 As part of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action — Forests Day session, Bronson Griscom, Forest Carbon Science director for The Nature Conservancy will present, «Nature based solutions for achieving the Paris Agreement and bridging the mitigation gap: An Analysis on Nature Climate Solutions&Climate Action — Forests Day session, Bronson Griscom, Forest Carbon Science director for The Nature Conservancy will present, «Nature based solutions for achieving the Paris Agreement and bridging the mitigation gap: An Analysis on Nature Climate Solutions&Climate Solutions».

Skeptic climate scientists and organizations associating with them point straight to highly detailed science - based assessments when they criticize the idea of man - caused global warming, an action that saints and axe murderers can do.

200 Companies Commit to Science Based Targets, Surpassing Expectations for Corporate Climate Action WASHINGTON (November 16, 2016)-- Just 18 months after its launch, the Science Based Targets initiative announced that 200 companies have committed to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold.

The countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives and Afghanistan — jointly asked rich nations to fulfill their promises of emission cuts during the pre-2020 phase (second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol) as this action alone would convince the rest of the world about their intention and commitment post-2020 based on next year's global climate deal.

In a leaked memo titled the «Global Climate Science Communications Plan,» the task force laid out a strategy to «build a case against precipitous action on climate change based on the scientific uncertainty.Climate Science Communications Plan,» the task force laid out a strategy to «build a case against precipitous action on climate change based on the scientific uncertainty.climate change based on the scientific uncertainty.»

Questions That Should Be Asked Of Politicians And Others Who Oppose National Action On Climate Change On The Basis Of Scientific Uncertainty Or Unacceptable Cost To The Economy Given That Climate Change Is A Profound Global Justice And Ethical Problem

It would appear that Romney is objecting to US expenditures to reduce greenhouse gases as long as other nations are not also committing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions although it is not clear why Romeny would object to US action on climate change on the basis that is a global problem.

Based on these consultations, the champions finalized their proposal for the future of global climate action and on 17 November presented and published the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Aglobal climate action and on 17 November presented and published the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate climate action and on 17 November presented and published the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Aaction and on 17 November presented and published the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate AGlobal Climate Climate ActionAction.

Delivered on a daily basis by the Climate Action Network (CAN) at the COP, the «award» denounces those countries that have contributed least to the progress of the negotiations, and further distancing themselves from meeting global warming targets.

Mr Mahindra called on companies worldwide to commit to the Science Based Targets initiative ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit hosted in California in September 2018.

In addition to committing all of his own companies to science based targets, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra, as a Co-Chair of the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit, has challenged all companies to set science - based targets and to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

Second, the Philippines has also agreed that the collective INDCs shall be the basis for global action toward a low - carbon, climate - resilient future.

This event will convene global leaders from industry, government and multi-lateral from industry, government and multi-lateral agencies to work and dialogue on development of innovative financing instruments and approaches to support low - carbon, climate - resilient development pathways; mobilization of private investments in climate action; support to developing countries in their NDCs implementation; development of ideas on how market - based and non-market based climate finance instruments identified in the Paris Agreement can best be designed to maximize impact and minimize costs.

1) Diplomatic win: Set a precedent that global climate actions need to be based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibility and equity

«The momentum behind the Science Based Targets initiative proves that companies are ready, willing and able to take serious climate action,» said Lila Karbassi, Chief of Environment at the UN Global Compact.

«In this case, Exxon scientists knew about fossil fuels causing global warming and Exxon took internal actions based on its knowledge of climate change,» according to DeSaulnier and Lieu's letter.

The campaign is based on a recent survey which shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about our ability to address climate change, with 64 % of global citizens believing it is solvable if we take action now.

The validity of the anthropogenic nature of global warming and climate change and that of the effectiveness of proposed measures for climate action may therefore be questioned solely on this basis.

To achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention to stabilize greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, we shall, recognizing the scientific view that the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees, on the basis of equity and in the context of sustainable development, enhance our long - term cooperative action to combat climate change.

Rapid, sustained, and effective mitigation based on coordinated global and regional action is required to avoid «dangerous climate change» regardless of how it is defined.

Instead, we prefer to stay in the reality - based world of those (the E.U., the Climate Action Network) who draw the line at 2C maximum (which is itself not by any means safe) and who admit that avoiding a global climate catastrophe is going to be difficult Climate Action Network) who draw the line at 2C maximum (which is itself not by any means safe) and who admit that avoiding a global climate catastrophe is going to be difficult climate catastrophe is going to be difficult indeed.

The occasion is the sixth climate conference sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a Chicago - based libertarian organization dedicated to questioning the science of global warming and opposing government actions to combat it.

It also needs to be recorded in passing that the 1990s saw the emergence of well - funded politically - based bodies promoting opposition to climate science, one of the first being the so - called Information Council on the Environment in 1991; by the closing years of the decade there was also the American Petroleum Institute with its 1998 «Global Climate Science Communication Action Plan», an excerpt from which may be seen below (screengrab of a PDF copy available from the climatesciencewatch.org weclimate science, one of the first being the so - called Information Council on the Environment in 1991; by the closing years of the decade there was also the American Petroleum Institute with its 1998 «Global Climate Science Communication Action Plan», an excerpt from which may be seen below (screengrab of a PDF copy available from the climatesciencewatch.org weClimate Science Communication Action Plan», an excerpt from which may be seen below (screengrab of a PDF copy available from the climatesciencewatch.org website).

The 18 corporate members agree; the group was created «to underline the need for urgent action by the global community and to influence the post-Kyoto process by demanding a global framework supporting a market - based solution to the climate change issue.

As well as this, the Science Based Target Initiative announced that 100 companies have now adopted emissions reductions targets in line with the scale required by global climate goals, showing the unstoppable momentum for climate action among global businesses.