Sentences with phrase «challenges like climate»

Whether it's tackling challenges like climate change and hunger, or working with the soil (and worms!)

From this perspective, providing paid professional opportunities in the environmental sector is a double win — we can help tackle the intractable inequities that still plague our nation, while at the same time equip the young people who are most likely to be impacted by challenges like climate change with the skills and networks to lead the solutions necessary to sustain the environmental movement into the future.

These are radically different from global challenges like climate change, and the act is limited in its reach.

Innovation has been at the heart of our success and we believe that innovative technologies can help us address challenges like climate change and sustainable development.

The solutions to challenges like climate change are not going to be found solely by personal effort and individual action.

At 100, the service is facing challenges like climate change, overcrowding, underfunding and relevancy.

Enabling the poor to be resilient in the face of challenges like climate change may require a fundamental rethinking of the methods used to address both poverty and global warming.

«Leveraging a digital control mechanism means we can give value to the millions of observations collected by volunteers» and «it allows a new kind of science where citizens can directly contribute to the analysis of global challenges like climate change» say Hamed Mehdipoor and Dr. Raul Zurita - Milla, who work at the Geo - Information Processing department of ITC.

«Environmental challenges like climate change; biodiversity loss; desertification; air, water, soil, and ocean pollution; and natural disasters rarely honor human - made borders, so now is the time to start building mechanisms to create environmental wins.

Advocates argue that GM crops could also play an indispensable role in addressing the world's most serious agricultural challenges like climate change.

What is your position on cap - and - trade, carbon taxes, and other policies proposed to address global climate change — and what steps can we take to improve our ability to tackle challenges like climate change that cross national boundaries?

I always enjoyed science at school — particularly in sustainable development and challenges like climate change and water scarcity.

«We need our young people today to embrace science enthusiastically, to realise that challenges like climate change can only be beaten by motivated and dedicated scientists,» he told the Royal Society in Oxford this morning.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

But he wants the firm to take more risks to get its message out, especially as it increasingly takes on deeply political challenges like climate change or health care.

Giving independent bodies a greater say in making progress on a very long term challenge like climate change.

Not exact matches

Our greatest challenges also need global responses — like ending terrorism, fighting climate change, and preventing pandemics.

In fact, Xi has begun to cast China as a defender of economic globalization and inclusivity, as well as a leader in combating global challenges, like climate change.14 Unlike Russia's willingness to take large risks, China's approach is generally cautious, reflecting its desire to safeguard its economic interests.

Connect with groups like the Micah Challenge (www.micahchallengeusa.org) to learn the spiritual elements involved in climate justice.

I always like to gently encourage people to eat seasonally, but realize that this is a challenging thing to live by in a black and white way if you don't live in California or a similarly warm and fertile climate.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

Cuomo, who is running for re-election and apparently seeking to avoid publicity for perceived weaknesses — like a challenging state business climate — declined to engage.

«We have to convince them that the European Union is the best answer to 21st century challenges like globalisation, sustainable growth and competitiveness, political solidarity, energy supply, climate change, and security.»

We will build an outward looking Britain that cooperates with other nations to tackle the great challenges of our time like mass migration, modern slavery and climate change.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

«One of the contributions of research like this is helping humans understand the challenges large animals face today from climate change,» Groves said.

None of these challenges can be solved in isolation but rather require solutions like clean energy supergrids and microgrids that address energy poverty and reduce climate change pollution at the same time.

There is a small minority, including people like Gene Koprowski, marketing director at the Heartland Institute, which has consistently produced research challenging the science behind climate change, who have called into question the pope's wisdom in taking up the issue, even suggesting that he was inspired by «pagan remnants.»

For most climate researchers science went out the window a long time ago, it is such a biased one sided aregument these days that people like me are terrified of being branded a heretic for even challenging the accepted so - called evidence.

As such, determining the role of climate change in increasing or decreasing the present and future likelihood of a rain storm like Harvey presents a challenge.

That's partly because different plants and animals will respond differently to threats like disease, pests, or climate change, but also because if one plant or animal falls victim to such challenges, others will be there to fill the hole left behind, helping to prevent the entire system from collapsing.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

Trying to be stylish in this sort of climate has its challenges, but I like to work my magic and provide inspiration to women everywhere to look great, feel great, and live their best possible lives.

In a climate in which the likes of Ana Lily Amirpour, Julia Ducournau, the Soska Sisters and Karyn Kusama are flourishing, it certainly feels an uncomfortable status quo worth challenging.

The idea has powerful backers, including conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- best known for «stand your ground» self - defense laws — and the Heartland Institute, famous for challenging climate science.

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Each element has their own challenges, but especially in a climate like Minnesota, exterior searches can be real difficult because many folks simply don't practice outside in the winter months.

It goes something like this: «There is a very serious climate challenge facing us, and dealing with it gives us a chance to create a new kind of prosperity and economic growth ---- for Americans and Chinese alike — through investments in technology and infrastructure.

It may be that embracing uncertainty and acknowledging the challenges involved in climate policy don't tip public support the way Rob would like.

With a complicated area like climate extremes and climate - related disasters, the challenge of communicating the science in a way that is not only balanced but also understandable is especially large.

We have probably written more stories on global warming — including special reports like the ground - breaking «Big Melt» series on the Arctic in 2005, the ongoing «Energy Challenge» series, and our «Climate Divide» package earlier this year — than any newspaper in North America.

A «super wicked» problem like the climate / energy challenge will inevitably have no universal solution applicable everywhere.

We are facing the biggest challenge in human history, and our media only has the guts to mention in obscure blogs like this and tip toe coverage like NPR's Climate Connections.

One lesson is that anyone hoping to up - end decades of research pointing to a growing human influence on the climate by challenging a single batch of studies (in this case efforts to chart past temperatures using indirect clues like tree rings) is almost surely on a fool's errand.

I'd like to think he's read our stories on such climate engineering options, including one last year in our Energy Challenge series by Bill Broad (with some help from me) in which the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the atmospheric chemist Ralph Cicerone, endorsed the need to aggressively study such options, even as the world works to limit emissions.

Can scientists or anyone else find new words sufficiently potent to inspire action on long - term challenges, like shifting from unfettered use of coal and oil to limit the odds of climate surprises?

Phil Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, is skeptical of McPherson's predictions: «I've been connected to national and international assessments of the state of the science of climate change, and although my colleagues and I are generally very concerned about what challenges climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, is skeptical of McPherson's predictions: «I've been connected to national and international assessments of the state of the science of climate change, and although my colleagues and I are generally very concerned about what challenges climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.climate change, and although my colleagues and I are generally very concerned about what challenges climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.»

But what I would like to do in the forthcoming series on decision making under climate uncertainty is to explore how we might approach reframing the strategy for identifying robust policy options for dealing with climate change in the context of the broader challenges to sustainability.

Daily Pioneer: Climate change is a major challenge for developing countries like India which are exposed to greater risk from this phenomenon.

This paragraph...: «But what I would like to do in the forthcoming series on decision making under climate uncertainty is to explore how we might approach reframing the strategy for identifying robust policy options for dealing with climate change in the context of the broader challenges to sustainability.»