Sentences with phrase «climate cahnge»

For Obama, however, killing the pipeline allows him to claim aggressive action on the environment, potentially strengthening his hand as world leaders prepare to finalize major global climate pact within weeks that the president hopes will be a crowning jewel for his legacy.

Still, last year, environmentalists appeared to score a victory the biggest global agreement to address and combat climate change was signed on Earth Day.

Trump and his team became irrelevant to the global discussion of climate change.

The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

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.

This federal policy reversal will be discouraging to many, particularly since conventional wisdom suggests that American action on climate change is a necessary predicate to strong action by China and India.

«Please do not withdraw from the Paris climate accord, this is not in the best interest of Americans,» Whitman said on «Squawk on the Street.»

Earlier in the week, Trump signed an executive order cutting back on some Obama era clean energy and climate policies.

The Ifo Business Climate Index fell to 109.8 points this month from 111.0 points in December.

U.S. gas prices were then soaring toward $ 3 a gallon, and climate change was looking like an ever more dire threat.

An NDP government would establish a comprehensive upstream cap - and trade system to meet our international commitments to fight climate change and rigorously enforce environmental laws here in Canada.

The other part of the Paris agreement is a vague provision that starting in 2020 a $ 100 billion - a-year fund will be established to help developing nations address climate change.

In this climate, just attending events isn't enough.

Avoiding Lottery Fever Darrel Rhea of Cheskin Research says that taking an equity approach shows a greater sophistication among service - based companies — an awareness that, in today's complex business climate, they must transcend their narrow disciplines.

«Forcing people to have claims adjudicated in a foreign climate is bad policy and divorced from the way capital markets function today.»

But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically, unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts of fuel for the flames.

These predictions make sense given the strong support for Trump in coal - producing states and the fact that the Trump EPA transition team is led by a climate science denier.

Nearly 200 nations, including the United States under President Barack Obama's administration, agreed in 2015 to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change.

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

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.

Hewlett Packard CEO, Meg Whitman told CNBC that leaving the Paris climate agreement would put the U.S. behind in jobs in the future.

Although there's overwhelming scientific consensus behind the concept that human behavior is affecting the climate, most of the world and the U.S. in particular is still dealing with climate change deniers.

Trump claimed before taking office that climate change was a «hoax» created by the Chinese to hurt the U.S. economy.

Trump called this claim a «joke» during a January appearance on Fox & Friends after Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out the 2012 tweet but he quickly added that, «this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change.»

That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor — a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel.

Silicon Valley has been vocal about its opposition to the U.S. abandoning the Paris climate accord, a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions.

We're hitting climate change.

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

I think the articles of open climate sceptics like Joe reduces the credibility of WA Business News as a paper.

She has also advocated charitable causes such as domestic violence and climate change.

The outdoor clothing and gear retailer regularly donates 1 percent of its sales to nonprofit environmental groups, ranging from New York - based Waterkeeper Alliance to Climate Cycle in Chicago — adding up to $ 74 million since 1985.

The United Nations» main Twitter page quoted Secretary - General Antonio Guterres as saying, «Climate change is undeniable.

Perhaps Joe would like to go and ask the people of Pakistan what they think of climate change...

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

Travelers worried about climate change are ticking these destinations off their bucket lists.

The history of climate change denialism since the 1980s has really been the culmination of the attack on environmental science.

Voicing support for a carbon tax through the Climate Leadership Council is good, but it's time to start actively lobbying for such policies, and supporting politicians who will enact them.

In that encyclical, the Pope described climate change as a «global problem with grave implications.»

I believe these companies have the technical skills, the financial scale, and the business savvy to successfully address climate change, if governments and investors step up as well.

Last year, he failed on a similar mission to convince Trump to remain in the Paris climate deal.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

ExxonMobil remains the industry benchmark for everything from profitability to safety standards, but its rocky relationship with climate change remains its Achilles» heel.

Donald Trump was wrong to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement but may soon change his mind, according to the CEO of aluminium giant Rusal.

Announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump misplaced the blame for what ails the coal industry and laid a shaky factual foundation for his decision.

When Stuart Vevers wants to reconnect with the DNA of the Coach brand as he sets about designing a collection, he hangs out in the climate - controlled archives on the ninth floor of company headquarters, where it houses 28,000 Coach items going back decades.

And I think that's just the way that we're going to have to navigate this landscape, particularly in this climate.

He appealed to the U.S. to rejoin the Paris climate accord and create a «low - carbon economy» because «there is no Planet B.» He said remaining with America's allies in the Iran nuclear deal, at least until some replacement is negotiated, is the best path for fighting terrorism, preserving peace and avoiding nuclear proliferation.

WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: «If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,» curbing temperature rise by «less than.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.»

Somewhat surprisingly to us, such a shift would not lead to major progress on climate change.

«A strong speech,» said conservative Alabama Rep. Bradley Byrne, although like other Republicans he disagrees with Macron on the climate accord and Iran deal.