Sentences with phrase «by environmental campaigners»

The Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) commitment to green schemes and sustainability has been criticised by environmental campaigners in the past.

The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig gave its judgement today on a long running case brought by environmental campaigners.

Biofuels were initially championed by environmental campaigners as a silver bullet against global warming.

This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.

In the meantime, the United States and China, with the world's biggest economies and greenhouse - gas emissions, rejected the pact's mandatory restrictions on the gases and were often portrayed by environmental campaigners as stifling progress.

In Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the Senate.

As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.

Still, the decision to stop serving shark fin soup at official functions was welcomed by environmental campaigners.

The European stance — insisting on a harvest in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean 50 percent above the limit recommended by scientists — was sharply criticized by environmental campaigners, marine biologists and United States fisheries officials.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

After Tate gallery management appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries» financial relationship with oil company and Tate sponsor BP; the institution has been ordered to give those very details of its BP sponsorship between 1990 - 2006, in a case brought by environmental campaigners.

Headteachers were today urged by environmental campaigners to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

Not exact matches

The real attack on freedom of speech has come from the French state itself and it is directed against those it perceives as potential subversives: the school children who will not say Je Suis Charlie, the Muslim families who are subject to raids by police, the environmental campaigners who want to demonstrate in front of world leaders.

Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.

Koenig says environmental campaigners are deeply concerned about stepped up drilling plans in other parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon but they see merit in supporting the Yasuni Initiative as a means by which to enable Ecuador to extricate itself from its current «oil debt trap.»

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.

I'm running this post by some environmental lawyers and campaigners to get some sense of whether this can take hold in the real world.

(The acronym, a four - letter word to animal welfare campaigners, was creatively deconstructed by students in the environmental policy class I co-teach at Pace University.)

The installation above, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was organized by Vanessa Dalmau, an artist and campaigner who founded 350 Dominicana, a youth group focused on the ethical issues raised by an environmental problem when the source of emissions is mainly rich countries and anticipated impacts are mainly in poorer ones.

Notably, the meeting, organized by a coalition called Avoided Deforestation Partners (an offshoot of the Center for International Policy), also saw some environmental campaigners who had long opposed the inclusion of forests in carbon markets strongly endorsing the idea.

General Electric in 2002 dropped its decadeslong resistance to efforts by environmental agencies and campaigners to force the dredging of PCB hot spots from the Hudson River.

Mr. Romm and many environmental campaigners and energy entrepreneurs say that markets, laws, public campaigns and leadership can prompt the technological transformation, and that government research money has mainly been a distraction and a delaying device promoted by industries or political operatives wedded to fossil fuels.

Among his most contested findings, Nisbet asserts that a huge influx of contributions and grants to environmental campaigners more than eliminated any advantage once enjoyed by fossil fuel industries and conservatives opposed to restrictions on greenhouse gases.

The event is the first Aspen Environmental Forum, a conclave of scientists, policy experts, industry executives, environmental campaigners and communicators (I probably left out a category or two) organized by the Aspen Institute and National GeograpEnvironmental Forum, a conclave of scientists, policy experts, industry executives, environmental campaigners and communicators (I probably left out a category or two) organized by the Aspen Institute and National Geograpenvironmental campaigners and communicators (I probably left out a category or two) organized by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic Magazine.

For the last several years, the public discourse on this momentous, multi-layered economic and environmental issue has largely been shaped from the edges — by vocal and histrionic campaigners seeking a blanket ban on the process and industry groups and property owners resisting regulation and bitterly fighting any talk of a ban.

The meeting was attended by scientists, environmental campaigners, engineers and policy experts aiming to clarify how global warming might be counteracted either by sopping up heat - trapping carbon dioxide or reducing incoming sunlight in a variety of ways — a suite of options known as geo - engineering.

It is accompanied by a short film, which looks at the possible effects of REDD on forest communities and contains interviews with different stakeholders including environmental journalists on reporting the subject, and by a video news release on REDD, which includes interviews with forest communities, campaigners, economists and politicians.

Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order effectively suspends over six measures ratified by his predecessor, and though businesses have welcomed the move, environmental campaigners and many world leaders have condemned the action.

«I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric... Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions?»

The BES were invited by Scottish Environment LINK to be part of their event «Generation Earth: Celebrating Young Environmental Campaigners»

«Given the vast profits made by the European fluorochemical industry, it is absolutely scandalous that they are not destroying all HFC - 23 produced by their factories,» said Clare Perry, Senior Campaigner for the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

The EU's efforts to decarbonise heavy industry are being undermined by ETS benchmarking rules that systematically block cleaner industrial alternatives from getting a foothold, according to environmental campaigner group Sandbag.

Carbon Brief — a green propaganda outlet, lavishly funded by the European Union — has produced a map depicting the world's most influential environmental campaigners and the world's most dangerous deniers.

Hence the need for a fallback position — an environmental theory which would justify the massively expensive and disruptive ongoing decarbonisation programme so assiduously championed by politicians, scientists, green campaigners and anyone making money out of the renewables business.

The Times said the assertion actually «was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise,» «authored by two green activists» and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group.

For too long it has been held hostage by a minority of hard left, deep green activists whose anti-capitalist agenda has been given a veneer of respectability by the intervention of high end law firms, glossy environmental consultancies, Hollywood campaigners, «caring» grassroots pressure groups, expert scientific witnesses, «independent» moviemakers and sympathetic mainstream media coverage.

The hearings were presided over by three judges: Brett Fleishman, senior finance campaigner for 350.org; Aurélie Trouvé the co-president of the french branch of «Attac», an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives, and Marie Toussaint President of «Notre affaire à tous» an organisation that specialises in using law as an advocacy tool to protect the environment and the climate.

Campaigners have previously worried that Mayor de Blasio may try to roll back recent environmental initiatives in NYC, and his refusal to bail out Citibike may be seen by some as a nod in that direction.

The environmental campaigners said two climbers also attempted to abseil down from a small roof above the podium, with one stopped by security while the other unveiled a banner to boos from the crowd.

Environmental campaigners say that protecting the rights of indigenous people is the cheapest and most effective way of keeping the forests healthy as supported by mounting scientific evidence.