Sentences with phrase «change the climate into»

An effective action plan includes the whole community working in a sustained manner to change the climate into one that is caring and empathetic.

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Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

He dug into the numbers, consulting with a friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's models were too conservative about the rate and impact of climate change.

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

While other entrepreneurs sprinkle a pinch of green into their product lines, Surace's phalanx of the climate - change army is waging a war — a «third industrial revolution,» in his characteristically exalted vernacular.

Throw into the mix the proximity of so many major cities to the coast and it's no surprise that climate change - related flooding is estimated to cost the world's 136 largest coastal cities US$ 52billion per year by 2050.

Of course, this idea may not factor into Musk's motivation, but in the world of climate change mitigation and adaptation, perceptions matter.

Turning cities into sponges: how Chinese ancient wisdom is taking on climate change The Guardian

But Brown added that California will take combatting climate change through similar policies into their own hands.

The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

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

Environmentalists, meanwhile, warn that, in an era of climate change, the costs of relentlessly pursuing GDP growth — transforming trees into lumber, farmland into malls, fossil fuels into CO2 — now outweigh the benefits.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

BOSTON — President Donald Trump has courted coal miners and cast doubt on whether fossils fuel contribute to climate change, but that hasn't translated into hostility for renewable energy — particularly offshore wind.

The report also notes that wildfires may be be pumping even more carbon into the atmosphere, furthering the very changes in climate that are producing more wildfires.

The Paris Agreement went into effect November 2016 and is considered the world's most comprehensive plan for fighting climate change.

Third, he criticizes the Liberals for pursuing their progressive trade policies in these talks: «Did anyone really think that the Liberals could somehow force the Trump administration into enacting their agenda — union power, climate change, aboriginal claims, gender issues?

The new legislation will achieve the following: Set in law Alberta's carbon levy and rebate Ensure revenue from the carbon levy is invested into actions that address climate change Establish Energy Efficiency Alberta as a provincial agency.

Recently, he's focused on the profit motive as a powerful tool for turning hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

Climate change is way too big to fit neatly into an Environment Minister's portfolio.

It's maybe one reason why people are so easily misled into climate change denial when there don't seem to be any definitive and reliable sources of data that are open to the public where information is presented in various different ways that most ordinary people are interested in.

Weaving clean growth into our economic fabric builds jobs and investment — but also the support and momentum we'll need to keep tackling climate change.

The section of the «Impossible is a Dare» chapter that proves we already know how to turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance

Develop and market profitable new products and services that actually turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance — and improve the perception of your company

The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups on ongoing or potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the impact their business had on climate change.

There is a collateral vulnerability, but more into climate change affecting weather and, therefore, exposure of insurance companies to more events and those kinds of things.

Climate change has all the potential of turning into a major corporate governance issue.

The Fund into which these revenues flow is the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund (CCEMF)-RRB-

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

His mission is to help businesses turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated Friday during a tour of eastern Ontario that he wants climate change, reducing emissions and moving to a low - carbon economy to be written into the new NAFTA when Canada, the U.S. and Mexico begin renegotiating the deal later this month.

With decades of experience in both the business and environmental spheres — helping companies braid them together profitably for more than 15 years — Shel helps you identify profitable business opportunities within your organization's existing expertise and interests that help turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Climate change could severely impact the world's coffee - producing nations and turn a cup of decent java into a luxury in the years to come.

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.

An equally unprecedented wave of complex risks, from climate change to cyber threats, calls into question the value of citizenship in even the most powerful economies in the world.

Don MacIntyre, Wildrose MLA for Innisfail - Sylvan Lake, sidelined his party's attack on the carbon tax as a «tax on everything» when he dove into climate change denying rhetoric during a January 2, 2017 press conference at the Legislature.

We were among the first to look into the topic of investments and climate change.

Equity analysts now consider climate change - related factors in company valuations, translating sustainability into a new value driver distinct from a marketing strategy.

The email indicates that early research by Exxon into CO2's contribution to climate change apparently was one reason the company put off exploring Natuna.

Exxon's early research into climate change was revealed in a 2014 email from a former company scientist that

A decade after the controversial documentary An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the national conversation, Al Gore is back with an updated look at the state of our planet.

Fighting climate change is like getting into Princeton: disciplined behavior ordered to measurable goals.

Maybe this local isolationism spills over into larger issues, like a war in Iraq and even climate change.

Al Gore's persona has been polarizing enough to help make climate change one of the most politicized topics of the day — turning even «science» itself into something of a wedge issue.

Delegates attending the gathering at St Andrews & St George's West church were urged to avoid channelling funds into firms which may be worsening climate change.

if you look at the data — that sharp spike alllll the way on the right side of the x / y chart that illustrates global climate change over the last 150 years — has been attributed to the industrial revolution and «man» belching tons of crap out into the atmosphere.

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

A study by Historic Environment Scotland into the effects of climate change on buildings in Scotland... More