Sentences with phrase «bold climate action on»

Launching this spring and escalating throughout the summer, the plan will manifest this fall in hundreds of climate action events across the country, tens of thousands of engaged climate - minded people taking to the streets, and even more civically - engaged Americans demanding bold climate action on September 8th and in the months that follow.

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Mr. Gore, a Democrat who has made drawing attention to global warming his signature cause, called the governor's proposed mandate «a terrific and bold action,» noting that it comes a week before the United Nations will hold a conference on climate change in Paris.

Representing $ 180 billion, New York City's pension funds have yet to take necessary bold action on par with what the climate crisis requires, explained the organizers of the action.

«Government has recently made some bold statements about taking action on climate change.

Mr. Peralta, whose victory in 2010 made him the first Dominican - American to be elected to the State Senate, said in a statement released by the conference on Wednesday that «today's political climate demands that progressive legislators take bold action to deliver for their constituents,» adding that he wanted results on issues like affordable housing, homelessness and school funding.

Developing countries that were once reluctant to join in the first phases of a global response to the climate crisis have themselves now become leaders in demanding action and in taking bold steps on their own initiatives.

This is the time for business and government leaders to take bold climate action, and build strong economies that rely primarily on renewable energy and low carbon technology.

The case for the reality of climate change, and action on it, needs to be led from the front, with a bold visionary clarion call.

Americans spoke up in record numbers to support the plan, calling for bold action on climate and shifting to clean energy across the country.

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.

We're ready to pass a price on carbon pollution in Massachusetts and beyond, make our communities more resilient to climate change, and push for bigger and bolder action every day.

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.

In this panel, hear from the representatives from We Are Still In and America's Pledge on this new form of American climate leadership and how they are working with a coalition of over 2700 U.S. cities, states, businesses, faith groups, indigenous people and cultural institutions committed to bold climate action, thereby waving the flag that the US is still in.

«Millennials like us want to see bold action on climate change and Indigenous rights, and we know that means rejecting projects like the Kinder Morgan pipeline,» said Gabriel D'Astous, a recent UBC grad and Climate 101 organizer in the Ottawclimate change and Indigenous rights, and we know that means rejecting projects like the Kinder Morgan pipeline,» said Gabriel D'Astous, a recent UBC grad and Climate 101 organizer in the OttawClimate 101 organizer in the Ottawa area.

I think maybe the best - case scenario in terms of what this is going to look like is that progressives do a much better job of connecting the dots between climate change, economic inequality, a shredded safety net, a political program that has waged decades of war not only on the idea of bold climate action but on the idea of investing in a serious way in the public sphere, really connecting the dots.

In 2011, drawing on the city's long history of taking positive climate action, the Mayor of Vancouver set up the Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world byaction, the Mayor of Vancouver set up the Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world byAction Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020.

«Following the Paris climate agreement, we must now take bold action to protect our planet for future generations,» says its president Jim Yong Kim, harping on the need to help nations transition to renewable sources of energy, produce green transport, and build livable, sustainable urban cities.

Macron pulled off a shock election victory on a platform that prioritized bold climate action.

With expanded oil drilling looming on the horizon, we need bold action on climate change now.»

The aim is to get political officials to agree «equitable, immediate, and bold action on climate change» as we enter the final two months before the COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris in December.

PARENTEAU: It's testing these theories which are very similar against a body of state law, in different states as you just mentioned, and so it's probing, it's trying to find a breakthrough case where you can find a state supreme court willing to make a really bold decision finding not only a right to a healthy environment, or a safe climate, stable climate, but also finding a duty on the part of the government to take real tangible action to address that.

This is the inspiring message that our leaders need to hear: With bold action on climate change, it's still possible to prevent the worst - case scenario.

Will California's business leaders join him on bold climate action?

-- Thomas Loster 14 Corporate leaders urging the Prime Minister to take bold action on climate change «In May 2005 the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate climate change «In May 2005 the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate climate change.

Download our free resource guide, Be the Voice of Reality: 12 Ways to Make a Difference, and learn how to educate and inspire your friends, family, and community to take bold action on climate change.

President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change.

Priority areas of EU policy include not only climate change, but also nature and biodiversity; environment and health and quality of life, and natural resources and wastes.EU actions on sustainable energy and bold energy plans exemplify the leadership which the fast - growing European Union demonstrates on the world stage.

The Royal Society - A guide to facts and fictions about climate change (PDF) «This document examines twelve misleading arguments (presented in bold typeface) put forward by the pponents of urgent action on climate change and highlights the scientific evidence that exposes their flaws.

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Greenpeace will be on hand standing with Coast Salish leaders and hundreds of others during the coming days to help train people who want to take bold action to protect the water, protect the land and exercise their right to peaceful protest,» said Mike Hudema, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Canada.