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Scientists say that even though the cooling effect from aerosols is real, the biggest climate challenge from the tar sands is their carbon dioxide emissions.

There's more on the challenges and opportunities in storytelling in relation to our energy and climate challenges from Randy Olson in «Beware the Simple Storyteller.»

Not exact matches

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

The book's short chapters address the economic underpinnings and challenges of everything from climate change to global governance to the imbalance between savings and investment in China.

Moreover, looking «outside - in» means acknowledging that business does not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from climate change to sustainable development.

WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

They're generally highly educated, they've had strong awareness of social and environmental issues from an early age and are keenly aware of the challenges faced by climate change.

If Canada wants to benefit from Asia's development and growth, and remain a relevant and important energy partner in Asia, we must «think big» about exporting to multiple countries within the Asia Pacific, and «think beyond» oil and natural gas to include all of Canada's energy related assets, particularly the renewable and clean technologies that will help Asia mitigate its own climate - change challenges.

As the Obama administration pushes a new plan to fight climate change, many businesses, from start - ups to multinationals, already are adapting to ensure their businesses can grow and profit amid sustainability challenges.

At Global Citizen, we believe that taking action on the world's most challenging issues — from education to health to climate — can make the world a better place and help eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.

Facing unprecedented economic challenges, emotional baggage from seeing so many of their parents divorced and having core values tested by a shifting cultural climate has given many millennials pause when it comes to «settling down.»

Take it from Woody Allen: A big family meal is no place for challenging your in - law who doesn't believe in climate change or rehashing the juicy details of your hot date last Saturday.

Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scale.

From fighting deforestation and climate change to building economic opportunities and better working conditions for rural people, the Rainforest Alliance is working to solve urgent environmental and social challenges.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

The bottom line is that Asia must grow more food using less land, water, and labor, while overcoming new challenges from climate change.»

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully understand the situation (though the match official, knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters from Madrid, simply by virtue of having already come so close considering the current climate of the Spanish game.

Eleven representatives from Piedmont attended the Challenge Success Fall Conference to discuss the social and academic climate at participating high schools on Sept. 25 and 26 at Stanford University.

Healthy, intact natural systems provide many benefits to the challenges posed by climate change, from forests that sequester and store carbon dioxide to wetlands that act as natural flood absorbers.

The exhibit's four areas introduce different climate change challenges, such as how natural features can protect coastal homes, ways for houses to save energy, and sustainable strategies that come from natural materials.

«New York State is facing unprecedented environmental challenges — from climate change, to poisoned water, to failing infrastructure, the list goes on and on,» Krueger said.

But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.

Also at 11 a.m., the state Nurses Association, Transit Workers Union and climate change activist challenge New York to step up after Trump's exit from Paris Agreement on climate change, outside Senate lobby, state Capitol, Albany.

The Clean Power Plan, which was already on hold pending the results of a court challenge from Republican governors, was central to President Barack Obama's plan for meeting the emissions reductions the United States pledged as part of the Paris agreement, which updated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

The plan is one of the most comprehensive yet from the Westchester County executive, who is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bid for a second term, and highlights an issue that both candidates say is a top priority: how to boost New York's business climate and increase jobs, particularly in upstate regions grappling with decades of economic malaise.

The statement and the radio appearance are part of a series of outreach efforts AAAS has made to encourage the new administration to leverage scientific evidence and fact - finding in forging policy prescriptions to address challenges from climate change to infrastructure improvements that it confronts.

A change in wind patterns suggests the wind industry may face challenges from El Nino, other climate patterns

Common problem but differing approaches Climate change is every country's problem, but the developed and developing worlds have very different challenges ahead of them in transitioning their energy systems away from fossil fuels, according to the IEA report.

And potential triggers are multiplying as wilder weather from climate change, rising concerns over terrorism and fluctuating power from renewable energy sources heap new challenges on aging grids.

«One of our biggest challenges was to make it possible to compare various measured data and climate archives from a wide variety of regions and filter out the natural noise that can greatly distort the signal of climate archives.»

If technology is to save us from climate change, it has some tough challenges to master: taming wave, wind and sun, cheaply scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air or mastering fusion.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

But even if CO2 emissions are curbed, reefs face challenges from climate change.

The 45th president of the United States will confront a broad range of global challenges, from addressing climate change and securing our energy future to sustaining investments in scientific research efforts in numerous areas, including medicine.

Now, as the world faces the daunting challenge of trying to curb climate change by weaning itself from fossil fuels, Smil's work on energy transitions is getting more attention than ever.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

This year's session included many interesting presentations including «Climate Action Plan Challenge for Librarians: Supporting Sound Science to Manage Climate Impacts» by Frederick Stoss, Science Librarian from the University at Buffalo.

«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»

From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that will challenge the ill - prepared U.S. public health infrastructure

This represents a big challenge for projecting future climate changes because we have no good comparison from the past,» said Zeebe.

From tasteless carrots to sunburned apples, a new report by two University of Melbourne researchers paints a challenging picture for Australia's agricultural sector and the impacts of climate change in the decades to come.

The biggest challenge to come from climate change is a hotter, drier country.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

Salazar said he would also be open to broader changes to ESA regulations — since the act faces new challenges as more species are protected due to threats from global climate change.

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Co-author of the study Professor Ian Hall, from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our results highlight the challenge of basing our understanding of the climate system on generally short observational records.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

Although the heat from impacts may not have been a limiting factor for life, asteroid bombardment introduced numerous other challenges, affecting the climate, surface or even convection of the mantle.