Sentences with phrase «climate challenges requires»

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There are major challenges that require attention, such as fighting climate change.

With negotiations under way for the UK to leave the European Union, he argued for a cross-party approach and stressed that a partnership with Europe, needed to deal with the challenges posed by the refugee crisis and climate change, would require that Britain's «parting is carried out well».

Speaking Friday in Nairobi at an event organised by Rich Management, Kenya, Mr Mahama described climate change as a «new global challenge» which requires sustained focus.

Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.climate agreement as «an important step forward.»

But he notes that climate change policy «requires integration and coordination across almost all sectors; there is no magic bullet to address all the challenges.»

These same climate change imperatives are likely to require scientists to acquire, often informally, a unique and challenging blend of skills.

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.»

Each nation has employed its own methodology for maintenance and repairs, but new, daunting challenges created by climate change — extreme heat, extreme cold, and severe flooding — require yet more rigorous solutions.

It's unclear whether ARB has the authority to go beyond 2020 currently, thanks to a combination of potentially limiting language in the original climate law, A.B. 32, and a lawsuit challenging the legality of cap - and - trade auctions under a law requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to approve taxes.

None of these challenges can be solved in isolation but rather require solutions like clean energy supergrids and microgrids that address energy poverty and reduce climate change pollution at the same time.

But there, challenges also arise, as models that simulate changing climate at a global scale do so at relatively coarse resolution, of around hundreds of kilometers, while hurricanes require resolutions of a few kilometers.

Enabling the poor to be resilient in the face of challenges like climate change may require a fundamental rethinking of the methods used to address both poverty and global warming.

To meet this need, through addressing specific barriers in scientific progress, the WCRP Grand Challenge promotes research on weather and climate extremes that require international partnership and coordination, and that yield «actionable information» for decision makers.

«21st century biology challenges, such as climate change and food security, are complex and require different disciplines working together,» Johnson said.

Setting the climate for educators to openly discuss strategies, techniques, and challenges requires peer support and the exchange of information.

«While the statement may appear as a movement forward, we are concerned that it may, in effect, be a regression from what is required to make a meaningful contribution to meeting the challenges of climate change,» van Schalkwyk said in a statement.

Solving the challenge of climate change requires ambition, dedication, and leadership from governments, the private sector, and civil society, in addition to the scientific community.

Key Message 6: Meeting the Challenge To achieve the societal transformation required to meet the climate change challenge, we must overcome a number of significant constraints and seize critical opporChallenge To achieve the societal transformation required to meet the climate change challenge, we must overcome a number of significant constraints and seize critical opporchallenge, we must overcome a number of significant constraints and seize critical opportunities.

While the Statement may appear as a movement forward, we are concerned that it may, in effect, be a regression from what is required to make a meaningful contribution to meeting the challenges of climate change.

Regardless of what the factually challenged may believe, we should be doing most of what will be required for AGW reduction irrespective of the climate situation.

The challenge of current Climate Change will not be over come until most of us understand and accept the changes required, empowering our leaders to act.

There's a lot of evidence that the intertwined energy and climate challenges will require a leader to step out ahead of public opinion, a rare thing in politics.

[ANDY REVKIN says: As I said in my talk, the main benefits of local actions on energy and related issues (transportation, sprawl) would be economic or social, with the grand challenge of climate stability requiring generations of sustained effort to accelerate the inevitable eventual shift away from traditional uses of finite fossil fuels.

But the prime value lies in Roberts's simple reminder, amid floods of glossy optimistic rhetoric, that taking the climate - warming carbon out of a growing global energy menu is a challenge requiring far more than better messaging or political tactics.

Almost all the experts I've talked to in 20 years of exploring the entwined climate and energy challenges agree that satisfying global energy demand while limiting human influence on climate will require revolutionary advances in both policy and technology.

Is the climate challenge — which would require moving away from conventional use of fossil fuels even as the world's energy appetite grows threefold or more in the next few decades — fundamentally a bad fit for Washington?

To make progress at the scale and pace required to meet the challenge of climate change, we need to take advantage of every pathway we have.

Climate change presents a profound challenge to this cautious centrism because half measures won't cut it: «all of the above energy» programs, as U.S. President Barack Obama describes his approach, has about as much chance of success as an all of the above diet, and the firm deadlines imposed by science require that we get very worked up indeed.

The challenge to keep warming below 2 °C — which requires essentially every country to have zero net fossil fuel emissions by century's end — is enormous, as this chart from Climate Interactive makes clear:

But beyond these tactical approaches, climate change communication is fundamentally a structural and institutional challenge that requires broader strategy and focused investment to manage.

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

This policy document stresses that two points are becoming clear regarding the challenge of adapting to climate change: the total bill is going to be enormous, and much of the investment required will have to occur in urban areas.

Even with rapidly decreasing battery costs, ramping production of EVs to 20 million by 2020 — the level required to remain on track for climate goals — remains an ambitious challenge.

It stresses that main challenges and priorities related to climate change have provoked a national shift, which will require the creation of new green jobs, re-training or greening of existing ones in order to meet specific environmental goals.

The global challenges of climate change and energy security require urgent action.

Given the complexity of some climate challenges, some efforts will require more than two actors.

But meeting more ambitious climate goals will be extremely challenging and require a step change in the pace of decarbonization and efficiency.

Tar sands projects present a particular challenge, because they generally require initial investments in the billions of dollars and then are expected to operate for decades, over which time climate regulations presumably will tighten.

Because cutting GHG emissions requires interventions — such as regulation or increased taxation — that interfere with laissez - faire free - market economics, people whose identity and worldview centers around free markets are particularly challenged by the findings from climate science.

As any sane person today knows, combating climate change and environmental degradation requires substantial challenges resulting in substantial sacrifices.

The US media has utterly failed to communicate to the American people about five essential aspects of climate change that they need to understand to know why climate change is a civilization challenging problem that requires dramatic, aggressive, and urgent policy action to avoid harsh impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

So we had a look at that and worked on it and many things we have done have followed from that, both on the impact side, mitigation, emission reduction, modelling, climate finance, a lot of the central organising principle has become about how to take the steps required to enable countries to deal sustainably with the challenges of meeting the 1.5 C limit.

But the broader challenges of protecting communities against climate change require much stronger efforts on all fronts.

Our success in navigating the challenge of climate change will no doubt require skillful engagement in all three.

Some of the policy changes required to address the climate change challenge may strike at the heart of political and economic interests of Pakistan's political elite.

If all goes well — which for Picarro means, essentially, that the world takes seriously the challenge of climate change, and institutes some kind of cap - and - trade or carbon - tax mechanism that requires detailed analysis of exactly who is pumping what into the atmosphere — then Picarro is looking at a solidly growing market.

The global development community has taken up the challenge of improving cooking technology, but achieving health and climate benefits will require greater focus on clean fuels and broader use of...

Developing community adaptation plans is challenging, and requires a team of committed scientists, project implementers and community members who are willing to work together to understand the local impacts of climate change.

The potential for monster taming through the blogosphere may be the best hope for enabling the highly multi - and interdisciplinary investigations required to address the climate change challenge and to enfranchise the public to secure its common interest.

Millions of dollars spent on scientific research comes to the same conclusions our elders warned us of years ago — that «Combatting climate change is an urgent common challenge for the international community and requires immediate global action».