Sentences with phrase «by new climate»

According to a report by New Climate Economy, most future global air traffic will come from Latin America and Asia.

Nobody will ever be accountable for decisions informed by the New Climate Economy.

I awake this morning to find my timeline awash with spam from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, furiously retweeting the launch of a report by the New Climate Economy group, a group of green - minded economists headed by Lord Stern and including such eco-figureheads as Ottmar Edenhofer.

This is likely to include the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals in September, followed by a new climate change agreement in December.

The level of investment needed was highlighted this week by the New Climate Economy report, which said over US$ 90 trillion will be invested in infrastructure in the world's cities, agriculture and energy in the next 15 years.

Organized by the new climate justice initiative Commit2Respond, participants will make commitments to new long - term actions that will help us collectively shift to a low carbon future, advance human rights, and grow the climate justice movement.

«These are new weather extremes made possible by a new climate.»

C40 cites a recent report by the New Climate Economy, a research organization, which estimates there is a $ 17 trillion opportunity worldwide by 2050 from investments in smarter, low - emission cities.

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«For a long time, climate change was pushed by EU diplomacy and the U.S. was largely absent,» said Edward Cameron, managing director of the New York - based Business for Social Responsibility, which organized numerous briefings and panel discussions at COP 21.

Given recent political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax created by the Chinese, Patagonia decided to take their donations to a new level.

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «No, New York Mag: Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behind it.

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al - Falih has said it would be a risk to list in New York because of liabilities and litigation, including the climate change lawsuits against other oil companies by New York City.

Almost 200 nations are aiming to agree a new global pact to combat climate change by 2015 that would enter into force in 2020.

If the worst climate - change predictions come true, hundreds of coastal US towns and cities — from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Galveston, Texas — could disappear underwater by 2100.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has once again offered to step into the void left by the United States when President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

As of last week, the Market Climate in stocks remained characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yields syndrome that has historically produced periods of marginal new highs, slight declines, and yet further marginal highs, followed somewhat unpredictably by nearly vertical drops.

These results come from a survey of 1,848 Canadians conducted December 12 to 14, 2016, by Abacus Data at the request of Clean Energy Canada, measuring Canadians» views of climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Climate Change.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Peabody Energy has a responsibility to be honest with investors and the public about the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in announcing the settlement with Peabody Monday.

By continuing to spur the creation of new small businesses and providing high - quality living wage jobs, solar's dramatic growth under the Obama Administration enables more Americans to provide for their families while also helping the United States to achieve its clean energy and climate goals.

Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.

In environmental policy, the Party has introduced Alberta's New Climate Change Pan, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 200 megatons by 2050.

Recent cancellations of Alberta tar sands / oil sands projects point to the uphill battle the industry will face as innovation transforms the global energy economy, Jerry Oppenheim of the New Climate Economy project told an event last month hosted by Corporate Knights and Sustainable Prosperity.

The conference was seen at the time as something of a diplomatic triumph for the Rudd government, with Rudd highlighting Australia's new approach to climate change by formally ratifying the Kyoto protocol, personally handing the document to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon, and using the conference to signal a new diplomatic shift towards Asia.

Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

By the thirties these voices became a major force in creating a new climate in which adherents of the earlier synthesis were increasingly on the defensive in intellectual circles.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

My own inclination is to think that the attention given to certain new developments, and their effect on the general theological scene, are largely explicable in terms of the social climate, but that the ideas themselves can only be understood by study of their separate histories.

Whereas the Niebuhrian generation was concerned that what is said theologically make sense in the intellectual climate shaped by modern thought, the new approach is to recognize that all thought is a function of language, and that all language is culturally specific.

This is due, I believe, to the postmodern climate of thought, particularly evident in neopragmatic philosophy and deconstructionist literary criticism, and characterized by a new pragmatism, pluralism, meliorism, relativism, and historicism — all congenial to the empirical theology that grew out of earlier American versions of these same modes of thought.

«The disputes brought about by this new theological reflection,» the generals state,»... have fostered a favorable climate and given a new tone to the Marxist penetration of Catholic — and in general, Christian — theology and practice.»

In the complete change of religious climate after Constantine most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

In the complete change of religious climate most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.

Organized by the Governments of the Netherlands, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Norway as well as FAO and the World Bank the event is significant given the forthcoming annual decision - making meeting (CoP16) of the UN for Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico in December.

These positive changes may be enhanced by the publication of the new SAN Standard this September, which significantly strengthens climate - smart criteria.

As of October 2016, the project has enrolled 7,000 farmers (88 % of the project's total target), who are registered in the Olam Information System (OFIS); completed basic training in order to optimize sustainable yields and other income opportunities; introduced record keeping practices by distributing log books to 1,000 farmers; promoted farmer group development in a Training of Trainers (ToT) session; trained 10 new lead farmers on best agricultural practices that were then integrated with climate - smart agricultural Practices (CSA) and the Sustainable Agricultural Network (SAN) Standard; as well as conducted a baseline sampling monitoring survey that is currently being analyzed by the program team.

These include the development of new strategies and activities to promote climate change adaptation by building on our scientific research, strengthening internal capacity, and preparing producer - oriented tools for implementation.

How can Australian research and industry work together to help developing regions improve their resilience to an increasingly volatile world (geopolitical instability, warzones, and climate change) by helping them produce more food domestically, stabilising their markets and ultimately creating a new customer base?

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A new report and campaign by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake by 50 per cent by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.