Sentences with phrase «climate as a top priority»

In the fall of 2003, our school community had identified ensuring a positive school climate as a top priority.

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My top priority as governor of this great state is continuing to grow our thriving economic climate that spurs job growth and keeps us at the top echelon for years to come.

One of my top priorities as Governor is to pass the Climate and Community Protection Act.

Earlier today, Governor Cuomo identified climate change and environmental protection efforts as one of the top priorities he urged the Senate to address.

«Reefs that will suffer annual bleaching later — known as climate «refugia» — are top priorities because they have more time to respond positively to efforts that seek to reduce bleaching vulnerability,» said Dr. van Hooidonk.

«I definitely think that we are seeing heightened sensitivity to the economy side of the economy - environment tradeoff,» said Scott Keeter, director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, adding that a number of other polls have shown a slight downward movement in numbers of people who list climate or the environment as a top priority.

pledged yesterday to make climate change a top priority as secretary of State as he sailed through a mostly genial confirmation hearing before the committee he still chairs.

What about his role in ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability, of which climate change research and mitigation is listed as a top priority?

A majority of Americans do not consider the climate crisis to be particularly important: According to a poll carried out in January by the Pew Research Center, only 30 percent of Americans rated global warming as a top priority for President Obama.

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

Moreover, action on climate change has never been perceived as a top policy priority relative to other issues, especially over the past three years given the economic woes.

After all, it would have been impossible for voters three years ago to have expected that Obama would make climate change his top priority, as the president refused to reveal his true intentions.

From climate change to infrastructure, mayors are increasingly listing issues that were once national and state priorities as amongst their top local concerns, according to a new national survey.

You might think that as a member of the Australian parliament, at a time when changing from fossil fuels to renewables is top priority if the damage from climate change and ocean acidification are to be limited, Mr Ramsey would be singing the praises of this wonderful local achievement, but no, all he can manage is negativity.

Moreover, just as was the case with cap and trade legislation, other issues, including immigration, gun control, income inequality, banking regulation, and revisions to the health care bill may take top legislative priority over climate change.

As long as people get away with outrageous propositions of the kind that «climate change is a top important problem the mankind is obliged to wrestle with», the common understanding of justice will have a lower priority than the ideology which is why illegal and unethical behavior will continuAs long as people get away with outrageous propositions of the kind that «climate change is a top important problem the mankind is obliged to wrestle with», the common understanding of justice will have a lower priority than the ideology which is why illegal and unethical behavior will continuas people get away with outrageous propositions of the kind that «climate change is a top important problem the mankind is obliged to wrestle with», the common understanding of justice will have a lower priority than the ideology which is why illegal and unethical behavior will continue.

As attentive readers will recall, the conference concluded that fighting AIDS should be the top global priority in helping developing countries and also that climate change mitigation was a waste of money.

Clearly the climate denial movement views denying the consensus as a top priority.

Barack Obama's statement to the Governors» Climate Summit earlier this week on the subject, as well as comments from his chief of staff, seem to make it clear that this will be a top priority.

Global climatic disruption has been elevated as a national priority to the point that the Obama - Biden administration has acknowledged that it must have one or more top - notch climate advisers in the White House to deal with the problem effectively.

It sort of goes without saying that any organisation claiming to be serious about accuracy in climate science (like the IPCC — no, just joking — maybe BEST, or Hadley even) should now have as a top priority the collection of similar metadata for all stations globally.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies recently asked the governments of the G20 about their top humanitarian priorities (PDF), and while «climate change» was named the leading priority, as Roger Pielke Jr. notes:

Photo: The White HouseIn a newly released interview, President Obama told Rolling Stone magazine that he wants to make energy and climate «one of my top priorities next year,» but that «we may end up having to do it in chunks, as opposed to some sort of comprehensive legislation.»

«Reefs that will suffer annual bleaching later - known as climate «refugia» - are top priorities because they have more time to respond positively to efforts that seek to reduce bleaching vulnerability», said Dr. van Hooidonk.

President Obama has identified climate change as one of his top three priorities in his second term after coming under fire from environmentalists for giving the issue short shrift during the campaign.