Sentences with phrase «challenging political climate»

In such a challenging political climate, it was imperative, insisted one speaker after another, that the labor movement remain united.

Not exact matches

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.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

Several important influencers affected the foodservice industry's performance last year, including the country's unstable political climate and increased labor challenges.

Today, however, both sides appeared to have put aside their differences when they urged Mr Miliband to agree to their agreement in recognition of the «need for political parties to work together as far as possible to meet the challenge of climate change».

So the threat of catastrophic climate change is an unusual political challenge, and an especially distinctive international negotiation.

Indeed there is no doubt that the future direction of the European Union will have a major impact on the political landscape of the UK: Completion of the single market, enlargement, climate change and security are some of the salient challenges which Member States will confront over the coming years and we as British Conservatives should be at the forefront of those advocating sensible and workable solutions.

Today's political climate is very different to that of the interwar years but political engagement continues to be a challenge.

In this conversation with host Grant Reeher, Ravitch looks back on some of those experiences, and argues that a sense of collective responsibility and shared sacrifice were the keys to overcoming the challenges, and considers how those qualities are faring in today's political climate.

«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.»

In a political climate increasingly challenging the value of science, scientists and engineers need to summon their scientific knowledge and play a larger role in helping inform public policy with solid evidence, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt during a webinar that explored the outlook for science and technology during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Stephen Waldron / AAAS In a political climate increasingly challenging the value...

They challenged the world to do better, and they challenge the political system to realize the unacceptable risks posed by climate disruption.

These plant chemicals help to regulate our immune, physiological and neurological responses to stress, allowing us to survive not only rough environmental / weather challenges, but also to adapt and adjust our often neurotic mental habits and crazy social / political climates as well.

Finding a patriotic partner in today's political climate has been challenging.

Ann Hart Coulter (/ ˈ k oʊ l t ər /; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa - based International Climate Science Coalition, which challenges the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

Not only is developing a new funding policy a great challenge in itself, but seeking to enact that policy in a volatile political climate is a fraught undertaking.

Such investments in struggling public schools seems all but impossible in the current political climate, but with more light being put on these issues of leadership rather than strictly teachers, these schools will be able to better combat the challenges they face.

Unfortunately, in this climate of political angsts and «keyboard commandos,» the list of banned and challenged books is growing, not due to their content but due to public outcry over the author.

Together, his artworks and research seek to facilitate an increased understanding of the shared social, political, environmental, and cultural climate challenges we face, both within our local communities, and in the international arena.

Taking its name from the birthplace of Juan de Fuca (b. 1536 as Ioannis Phokas on the Ioanian island of Kefalonia), cefalonia is committed to working with artists and locales that reveal issues of ecology and the socio - political climate of our time while promoting public discourse through the presentation of challenging art.

Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.

In a climate where much of contemporary art is increasingly political, challenging, pedantic or even obscure, it's not often that a contemporary art exhibition is described as «totally fun.»

Johnson has described this series as a response to the current global social and political climate, and the challenge that people worldwide face in navigating and negotiating their own positions therein.

Two stories this week, a paper in Nature (Stainforth et al, 2005) describing preliminary results of the climateprediction.net experiments, and the Meeting the Climate Challenge report from a high level political group have lead to dramatic headlines.

With vast economic, political, and eco-problems (other than climate change) to ponder, and with the challenges of making a living and raising a family in increasingly daunting circumstances, the attention of many people is on a lot of other things in addition to climate change.

* First, our dialogue at political, policy, and technical levels has built confidence among our nations and deepened mutual understanding of the many challenges confronting the world community as we consider next steps under the Convention and continue to mobilize political will to combat global climate change.

But the prime value lies in Roberts's simple reminder, amid floods of glossy optimistic rhetoric, that taking the climate - warming carbon out of a growing global energy menu is a challenge requiring far more than better messaging or political tactics.

In essence, the piece illustrated that people staking starkly different positions in the country's political spectrum face the same challenge in trying to move the public on climate.

The climate challenge is particularly tough, even «beyond super wicked,» because it is the ultimate mashup, one in which variegated nations and blocs are weighing economic prosperity, available energy menus, environmental vulnerability and — most important for many — political realities on the home front.

Yes, but climate change is fundamentally a scientific, economic, and political challenge.

-- My exposure of political interference with government climate science from 2002 through 2006, — Our ongoing Energy Challenge series, — The Big Melt package from 2005 — My North Pole reports in 2003 (and the resulting New York Times book for younger readers on the changing Arctic), — The «Climate Divide» package this spring revealing how rich countries are already insulating themselves from climate hazards while poor ones most in harm's way are left swinging in the climate science from 2002 through 2006, — Our ongoing Energy Challenge series, — The Big Melt package from 2005 — My North Pole reports in 2003 (and the resulting New York Times book for younger readers on the changing Arctic), — The «Climate Divide» package this spring revealing how rich countries are already insulating themselves from climate hazards while poor ones most in harm's way are left swinging in the Climate Divide» package this spring revealing how rich countries are already insulating themselves from climate hazards while poor ones most in harm's way are left swinging in the climate hazards while poor ones most in harm's way are left swinging in the wind...

Now that political victory on climate change has been declared, its time to look at the engineering (not to mention economical) challenges.

Bishop Davies looks at the environmental challenges confronting humanity under the headings of environmental destruction, involving biodiversity loss, habitat destruction and pollution of our life support systems; political violence, poverty and climate change.

Overall, this year's report findings illustrate growing corporate interest in incentive payments to protect forests as a climate response, despite political and economic challenges to carbon price mechanisms more broadly.

In the end, the main value of the climate calculations spurred by Trump's election could be in refocusing attention on the true scope of the challenge, which some researchers have described as «super wicked» given how hard it has been, using conventional political, legal or diplomatic tools, to balance human energy needs and the climate system's limits.

See the video of Prof. Mike Hulme for a resounding challenge to political arguments for action on climate change, based on the idea that the consensus is that global warming will cause catastrophe.

The conferences bring together climate change skeptics to, as the New York Times described, «challenge what has become a broad scientific and political consensus: that without big changes in energy choices, humans will dangerously heat up the planet.»

Fifteen experienced young people identified social political upheaval and climate shifts as the two most important challenges they'll face.

The study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in climate variability men and women farmers are facing and their responses to ensure food security in the context of larger socio - economic and political challenges to their livelihoods and well - being.

She is working on a manuscript on environmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustainability.

Clearly, many supposedly conservative or skeptical groups not only fail to challenge the alarmist view of climate change, they even endorse significant parts of alarmism and often go so far as to support the very political actions that Brulle most greatly desires.

Doctors must respond to protect human health against an unprecedented challenge The current federal political climate in the United States bodes ill for the future of the world's climate, and...

The idea of the Holocene as a dropped spaghetti rather than a straight line was never challenged, never controversial, till climate became political.

Powerful supranational political and financial institutions have been created to «meet the challenge» of climate change.

We are heartened that despite the domestic and international political challenges that have limited actions to address climate change, the year brought broader recognition and acceptance of the science of climate change along with a greater understanding of its likely costs.

Of course, climate orthodoxy and environmentalism can be challenged from political or ideological perspectives.

So while sceptics have attempted to challenge climate politics by questioning climate science and the over-statement of its consequences, this approach leaves the political character of environmentalism unchallenged.

In 2005, during the peak of climate hysteria and the drive to create an international political response to climate change, the Royal Society entered the political debate forcefully and published A Guide to the Facts and Fictions About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challeclimate hysteria and the drive to create an international political response to climate change, the Royal Society entered the political debate forcefully and published A Guide to the Facts and Fictions About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challeclimate change, the Royal Society entered the political debate forcefully and published A Guide to the Facts and Fictions About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challeClimate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challeclimate science and those who dared to challenge it.