Sentences with phrase «challenge of climate change»

«We know we've got so much to do to combat the global challenge of climate change so we need holistic approaches like this,» she says.
This could create a delay in the city's efforts to address the urgent challenge of climate change.
At the same time, farmers face unprecedented challenges of climate change, high oil prices driving demand for biofuels, and rising costs of land and water.
Our lawyers offer substantial experience and innovative solutions to help companies confront the emerging challenges of climate change.
To really understand the future challenge of climate change we need to understand the climate of the past.
One of the biggest challenges of climate change is the uncertainty and expense it is imposing on communities and businesses.
It seems that more and more communities are getting together to take on the looming challenges of climate change and energy descent.
Our decisive action at home empowers us to make more progress internationally on the shared global challenge of climate change.
And this truth brings us back to the question of the political challenge of climate change in the United States, because national legislation of scope and reach requires a broad base of engaged public support.
Extreme droughts are believed to be one of the greatest challenges of climate change facing commercial forestry in the medium term, the researchers said.
The fate of the Paris deal lies largely in the hands of voters in democratic countries, and we can not expect democracies to produce good policy responses to challenges of climate change if voters have a confused understanding of reality.
After five decades researching, writing, advocating, and providing leadership development and technical assistance on educational equity with an emphasis on immigrant and English Learner education, language access and rights, Laurie is trying to find her way towards retirement with more time for grandchildren, quilting, singing, hiking in the wilderness and, oh yes, taking on the political challenge of climate change.
Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry may be suitable strategies to address the triple challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the provision of basic services, including food; to a growing number of urban residents.
«I am also proud that the UK is rising to the much more demanding challenge of climate change.
So said U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday while addressing the United Nations, talking about the twin challenges of climate change and energy consumption.
Flagship Project 5 will speed up genetic gain for the development of improved and climate - resilient rice varieties to increase farmers» income, overcome challenges of climate change, and increase farmers» and consumers» food and nutritional security.
They started to talk about the cholera outbreak situation that Haiti is facing now and also the serious challenge of climate change in their countries.
Managing for healthy forests and diversifying BC's forest product mix to include a greater number and array of higher value, solid wood products are also important tools that can be used to address the ongoing challenges of climate change.
Greening the workplace Background Greening the Workplace aims to encourage trade unions to tackle the growing challenge of climate change.
We know that our interests are bound up with millions of others across the world, whether that's in order to tackle the huge challenge of climate change, build a more peaceful world or clamp down on the tax dodging elite, who think by bestriding the globe they can avoid paying their share for vital public services.
The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»
Physics Nobel laureate and U.S. energy secretary, Steven Chu, offers his thoughts on the paired challenge of climate change and clean energy in Cancun.
While my departure may be satisfying to ExxonMobil, I can assure you that this will not make the scientific challenge of climate change and its impacts go away.
In 2009, Commission on Social Action to the Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution on the «unprecedented challenge of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions» and need for urgent action.
This paper identifies areas in which the Fund has a contribution to make in supporting its members deal with the macroeconomic challenges of climate change, consistent with national circumstances.
The plan seeks to implement the concept of using the campus as a kind of «living laboratory» to explore innovative and scalable ways of tackling the daunting challenges of climate change, and to use that living laboratory to enhance the educational experience of MIT's students and provide new hands - on teaching opportunities for its faculty.
Home - grown wine might provide some solace as Britons contemplate challenges of climate change
Using input from the scientific community, the report identifies priority areas that advance the dual role of atmospheric chemistry: first to advance fundamental understanding of the Earth system; and second to advance research needed to address the societal challenges of climate change, human health, and ecosystem health.
We discussed my new cat album, as well as my appearance at the US Senate - and the competing national security challenges of climate change, jihad and large women.
As new dynamics settled in and emerging challenges of climate change moved in Kairo was compelled to think deeper.
This is a statement by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Under - Secretary - General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT at the United Nations High - Level Event on Climate Change «The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change», in which she highlights how UN-HABITAT is supporting national and local authorities in their efforts to cope with the impacts of climate change.
«Healthy forests are an important part of the natural capital and offer us the most cost - effective means of confronting the many environmental challenges of climate change and increased demand for forest products.»
SAN JOSE, California — Africa will be the source of the «innovation and intellectual power» necessary to confront global challenges of climate change, threats to energy security, and pandemic disease, predicted Naledi Pandor at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Via a video message, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner underscored that, while the science keeps evolving, the great challenge of climate change demands new policies in all sectors.
To commemorate the opening of the High Level Segment of the «African COP» in Durban, ECO invited African NGOs to submit thematic articles on the often urgent challenges of climate change and the compelling opportunities for response.
So said U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday while addressing the United Nations, talking about the twin challenges of climate change and energy consumption.
-- the president himself warned Congress about the «serious challenge of climate change
Firstly, the political challenge of climate change is much bigger than saving both the rainforests in Mato Grosso and car manufacturers in Detroit from destruction by making their emissions and sequestrations equivalent.
As coral reef researcher Terry Hughes, lead author of a recent study that showed the dire condition of the Great Barrier Reef, said on Twitter, «We're not going to fix the challenge of climate change for coral reefs by killing a few starfish in Queensland.»
On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»
We should meet the challenges of climate change and aging population.
Rand is a clean energy champion who looks at the challenges of climate change through a pragmatic economic lens.
Food group and beverage giant Danone and Veolia, the global resource management group, have announced an innovative strategic partnership focusing on the water cycle, waste management, sustainable agriculture and energy efficiency, to meet the challenge of climate change.
Rather than being distracted by the shiny technocratic solutions of the GMO industry, FAO should continue its important work on promoting farmers» access to native and locally adapted seeds and breeds, markets and value chains, and on promoting agroecology as the best way to feed the world and face the challenges of climate change.
Check out this bipartisan group that explores policy options that address the challenges of climate change.
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