Sentences with phrase «chance against climate»

In a speech in New Delhi last week, Obama said the world does not «stand a chance against climate change» unless developing countries such as India reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.

McQuaig's comments differed little from those of Bank of England Governor Mark Carney or the World Bank or the International Energy Agency — all have publicly acknowledged that two - thirds of the world's known reserves of fossil fuels will have to be left undeveloped if humanity has a fighting chance against climate change.

US President Barack Obama added to the pressure in January, saying the world did not «stand a chance against climate change» unless developing nations like India reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

New fishery regulations based on science are needed in the Caribbean to give coral reefs a fighting chance against climate change, according to an international study published today.

Not exact matches

«Our members are long standing activists in the fight against climate change and this march is another chance for us to mobilise and demand a green, more sustainable future.»

Rather than placing ourselves in a «fight» against climate change, or lament a lost Eden, we should take the chance to rethink how we live, says Mike Hulme

Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well - being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments

The team is now investigating the risk from climate change to bird and butterfly populations across Europe and how existing assessments may have underestimated their chances of survival against a changing climate.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

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The stakes also are huge for Obama, who has little chance of pushing major climate legislation through a divided Congress but has vowed to take meaningful action against emissions that raise carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

Ellestad got a chance to deliver his «climate's changed before» and «CO2 lags temperature» arguments and nobody present were qualified or got the chance to argue against him.

The ready stream of cash set off a conservative backlash against Barack Obama's environmental agenda that wrecked any chance of Congress taking action on climate change.

If global energy policy isn't focused on developing and deploying all of these technologies, we will underutilize the tools at our disposal and reduce our chances of winning the fight against climate change.

For starters, climate models are not simple multiple regressions of several variables against the climate record which capitalize on chance.

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