Sentences with phrase «climate challenge head»

Instead, it's a broad cross-section of our economy — a cross-section that increasingly sees both risk in inaction, and opportunity in taking on the climate challenge head on.

Local leaders are taking the climate challenge head - on, with bold moves that have an immediate, on - the - ground impact.

Not exact matches

She is also the Head of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Global Challenges Congresses arranged by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and was the chair of the Danish Governments Climate Commission.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

The greatest challenges the world faces: food security, climate change, loss of biodiversity, the aging population and disease can all ultimately be addressed through biology based research,» Mark Downs, head of the Society of Biology said in a statement.

Dr Jonathan Clarke, Head of Business Development at JIC said, «The continuity of food production is being challenged by changes in our climate.

Bjorn Stevens has a lot going on: scientific member of the Max Planck Society, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, head of the department Atmosphere and the Earth System, professor at the University of Hamburg, lead author of an IPCC AR 5 Chapter 7, co-lead of a WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity.

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

Bishop Davies looks at the environmental challenges confronting humanity under the headings of environmental destruction, involving biodiversity loss, habitat destruction and pollution of our life support systems; political violence, poverty and climate change.

Martin Manning talks about some of the challenges faced by the IPCC and its scientists from his perspective as head of the Support Team for the IPCC Working Group I (Science of Climate Change) for the Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007.

Exposing the ongoing climate engineering insanity is challenge we must all face head on, make your voice heard in this battle.

«CFACT delegation headed to Paris to challenge UN climate pact,» PR Newswire, November 24, 2015.

James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and arguably the world's most eminent climate scientist, has recently expressed the challenge in the starkest terms:

• Energy and Climate Change, Marco Baroni, Senior Energy Analyst, IEA • Coming challenges for Europe in meeting decarbonisation objectives, Geoff Blanford, Program Manager, EPRI and Ifo Institute • Resource adequacy forecasts to 2030 under different scenarios, Jean Verseille, Board member, ENTSO - E • Power plant retirements and mothballing, Tomas Björnsson, Head of Business Strategy, Vattenfall

This fear of mine is the driving force behind my active involvement in the Climate Change Debate and behind my being the only head of state who in September 2007 at the UN Climate Change Conference, only a few blocks away from here, openly and explicitly challenged the current global warming hysteria.

The lawsuit, headed by California and its coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia, represents an important step in California's ongoing battle with the Trump administration over climate change regulations — the challenge marks California's 10th lawsuit against the EPA and its 32nd since Trump took office.

Working closely with farmers, we have seen the benefits of dealing with the challenges of climate change head on.

Virginia will meet the challenge of climate change head on, and we will do so in a way that grows our clean energy sector and supports our new Virginia economy.»

Political challenges One of the first things that come up when China and climate change are mentioned together is that the richest countries, historically and today, are by far the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases per head of population, and have the responsibility to act first.

, an outgoing lawmaker with nothing left to lose after having his fate sealed through a primary challenge from the right earlier this year, expressed his frustrations with the GOP's trajectory toward climate change denial Wednesday in a harsh rebuke that blasted his party's hard - headed refusal to listen to scientific experts.

Underlying the price jump is a tight balance between supply and demand, and it has come to a head at a time when people are becoming more aware of the challenges that climate change will pose to food production.

Your insight on the regulatory climate that is sure to rear it's head as the market turns and consumers seek scape goats for the decisions they have made since 2008, is one more commonly understood by LTTPs with 30 years of experience in the profession who worked through the challenging 1990 - 1998 period.