Sentences with phrase «climate challenge now»
A clear majority of Europeans expect their politicians and business leaders to address the serious climate challenge now.»
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WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.
«The biggest challenge now is to make sure that everyone understands what's at stake,» DiCaprio said of the dangers of climate change during his speech onstage at the gala.
Now the challenge will fall to Ms. Notley, Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and Energy Minister Marg McCuaig - Boyd to win the policy war on climate change.
In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chain.
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How this relates to the comments above:» Paly... been a Challenge Success poster school for as long as I can remember: TA, block scheduling, pre-break finals, many class projects, homework free days, now homework time limits, a school climate coordinator, more de-laned subjects, fewer APs / student than peer high schools I've read, and a later start / no zero period that promotes sleep.
Chris Huhne «got» climate change long before his new job — the challenge for him now is to deliver real cuts in emissions.
«We now know that climate change impacts bees in major ways,» says Rebecca, «but the challenge will be to predict how those impacts play out.
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.
In 2004, Science published a climate change study — now widely known as the «wedges» paper — that drew attention to the question of how to tackle the challenge of mitigating carbon pollution in the 21st century.
Now sea otters and other important predator species face the challenges of a changing climate.
Since then, it has declined sharply and reached a plateau around $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion a year — a tiny fraction of the roughly $ 100 billion of total public research and development funding in the U.S. Public support for energy research is now inching up, but the effort falls short of that needed to tackle the climate challenge.
«Environmental challenges like climate change; biodiversity loss; desertification; air, water, soil, and ocean pollution; and natural disasters rarely honor human - made borders, so now is the time to start building mechanisms to create environmental wins.
Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»
Now the president - elect of AAAS, Sharp predicts that biology will be crucial in addressing global challenges in climate change, food security, energy, and health.
I'm Alex Smith, with two of the world's top climate scientists talking about the severe challenges we face right now, and in the future.
«Plant science is a great topic because people are much more aware of the effects of climate change and the challenges of food and energy production right now,» said Burke.
With the Agreement now ratified and in force, the next challenge is actually meeting its ambition, says the study's lead author Dr Glen Peters, senior researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO) and project manager of the Global Carbon Project.
«Plant science is a great topic because people are much more aware of the effects of climate change and the challenges of food and energy production right now,» says Burke.
The scientists around the two lead authors Ulrike Kornek and Jan Steckel have now published their results in the study «The climate rent curse: new challenges for burden sharing» in the scientific journal International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.
Probably the most serious and urgent challenge faced by the physical world now is the threat of climate change.
If you are interested in getting involved, whether this be putting on an event, or participating in the 2012 Climate Week Challenge, you can contact us now to ensure that 2012 Climate Week is bigger and better than ever.
The Climate Week Challenge Registrations are now open for the Climate Week Challenge, Britain's biggest ever environmental competition.
Two years after our first in - depth feature on the company, we revisit Tose to find out how Nintendo's market dominance in Japan is affecting the development climate, about the challenges Japanese developers face in reaching Western audiences, and whether Tose — who primarily develops now for Wii, PS2 and DS — is prepared to make the move onto next - gen consoles.
The Catholic Church, working with the leadership of other religions, can now take a decisive role by mobilizing public opinion and public funds to meet the energy needs of the poorest 3 billion people, thus allowing them to prepare for the challenges of unavoidable climate and eco-system changes.
I have a lot more coming in print later [now online] on Mr. Obama's challenge — and opportunities — for sustaining action on the long - term climate challenge, and will add some expert voices here tonight that don't fit into the print piece.
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.
This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»
«Naval forces need to monitor more closely and start preparing now for projected challenges climate change will present in the future.»
Now, though, a new study by Matthew Menne and other scientists at the National Climatic Data Center, the federal office charged with tracking climate trends, directly challenges the underpinnings of arguments that Bad Weather Stations = Faulty Climate Conclclimate trends, directly challenges the underpinnings of arguments that Bad Weather Stations = Faulty Climate ConclClimate Conclusions.
«Now, we face a new and critical challenge — global climate change — and leadership in the United States is coming from visionary state governors.»
But, in his defense, he clearly did have vast challenges on his plate then, fending off heaps of unwarranted attacks and now dealing with a mountain of Freedom of Information requests (not to mention his ongoing research into climate change).
Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.
Thomas Crowley (now in Edinburgh) has sent me a note essentially challenging you to develop your own time series [of past climate patterns](kind of a «put up or shut up» challenge).
The entwined climate / energy / development challenge is the world's worst problem, with every single facet posing challenges to a species that is mainly «here and now» and with any generation only prodded to powerful action by powerful events.
Now, with oil prices crashing while the cost of production does not; with campaigners scoring victories from the Paris climate agreement to major institutional divestment from fossil fuels; and with increasingly viable competition from electrified transportation, efficiency and renewables — oil companies may be facing a unique confluence of uphill challenges.
Part of the story here is that it is this very sort of very careful work done by John Kennedy and Phil Jones and other colleagues working on these datasets that has allowed us to start challenging the models and our understanding in such a detailed way — in some ways it is quite remarkable that the observational data is now good enough to identify this level of detail in how the climate varies and changes.
With the developing world now generating half the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, one of the thorniest challenges facing climate change negotiators in Copenhagen will be apportioning national reduction targets in coming decades.
Now that political victory on climate change has been declared, its time to look at the engineering (not to mention economical) challenges.
Prior to AGW, one could happily conclude that any climate change was within normal parameters, but now that AGW is on the table, previously accepted understandings, such as what constitutes «normal» climate change, have become open to challenge.
On CNN, conservative commentator S.E. Cupp challenged Nye: «I want you to look me in the eye and tell me in good conscience that climate change is our most urgent No. 1 priority right now.»
So we now have two climate skeptics voicing dissent from nic Lewis's result (but only after I challenged them), but skeptics (including perhaps the two mentioned) demand the ipcc should be convinced.
A new scandal is now emerging that fundamentally challenges the accuracy of climate - change data provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
By now it should be apparent that EVs represent a complex and challenging (but it the face of the poor alternatives of liquid fuels, probably necessary) solution to our energy - climate crisis, with lots of institutional, technological and social considerations.
In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.
Climate Access is now accepting submissions for our next problem - solving case challenge, where an organization facing a public engagement dilemma will receive advice from a panel of experts and network peers.
These tools, particularly cap - and - trade, are politically toxic right now, but the climate problem is a multidecade challenge, and there is no reason to assume that the old toolkit is permanently useless.
Considering the severe challenges posed to the global climate system, to species, and to human civilizations by rampant carbon emissions now in excess of 11 gigatons each year (nearly 50 gigatons CO2e each year), the new and increased availability of solar energy couldn't come soon enough.
In this regard, the staggering enormity of the current challenge to the world to prevent dangerous climate change is rarely commented on in the US media despite the fact the 25 year delay in facing this problem has now made the problem a civilization challenging problem.