Sentences with phrase «climate change an area»

So what we have in the climate change area (and what I find fascinating for cynical reasons) is that everyone and their grandmother, whether they be lawyers, anthropologists, economists, semi-retired mineral engineers, poets, old academic codgers, weigh in on this scientific issue often with more aplomb and fanfare than the actual scientists (earth obs through modellers) themselves.

Not exact matches

The U.S. president is moving to roll back climate - change related regulations, but clean tech is an international growth area for ambitious Canadian firms

But the Pentagon maintains that climate change impacts, including refugees from drought - stricken areas of the world and rising sea levels, are a significant threat to national security, as The New York Times reported.

So far Coady's work at Enbridge has been about conducting outreach around specific areas such as water stewardship and updating climate change policies.

Leach's primary research areas are climate change policy, oil sands regulation and clean energy innovation and policy.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Now DeepMind is turning its attention to applying its algorithms to areas that can benefit humanity, including healthcare and climate change.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

This billionaire entrepreneur says that «it is amazing how focusing your mind on issues like health, poverty, conservation and climate change can help to re-energize your thinking in other areas.»

Similarly, we need both Ottawa and the provinces at the table: climate change is an area of shared jurisdiction.

And as Florida's state climatologist David Zierden, who is also a researcher at Florida State University, told me, «It's this continued development in vulnerable areas that's increasing our hurricane risk much more than climate change itself.»

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

2016.05.18 Canadian Water Attitudes Study: climate change ranked the top threat to our fresh water But three - quarters of Canadians do not believe they live in an area prone to drought or flood...

May 1, 2018: Yesterday, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada released the first ever section 63 report under the Species at Risk Act, (SARA), where the Minister found that outside of protected areas, provinces and territories have failed to protect almost all of boreal caribou critical habitat.

As with some other areas of policy, such as climate change and immigration, California's priorities in the area of international trade differ substantially from those of the Trump Administration.

Being one of the most liberal areas in the U.S. — there were more than a few cars sporting «Bernie Sanders 2016 ″ bumper stickers — the discussion revolved around climate change and the environmental impact of the tarsands.

Climate change risks stretch beyond the familiar areas of utilities and fossil fuel producers.

A combination of climate change (which has significantly shortened the cycles of drought), massive migration to the cities and market pressures to grow cash crops that require huge amounts of water have depleted India's already taxed water supply for rural areas.

Storms like Sandy have been routinely hitting the same area as noted by the historical record which started way before any potential climate changes were observed.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

Over time, through hunting as well as climate change, and migration to less hospitable areas, dinosaurs were simply hunted to extinction and the survivors couldn't survive the climate.

International advice has become invaluable to WeFarm's farmers, particularly because crop pests and diseases are becoming prevalent in areas where they have never been seen before because of climate change.

The importance of connectivity between coffee and protected areas is tremendous, given the overlap and proximity of biodiversity hotspots and coffee - growing regions (Hardner and Rice 2002) and the importance of shaded coffee in the face of global climate change.

Napa on the Sound: Climate change turning Puget Sound area into prime terrain to grow valuable vines

Members work on areas such as water stewardship, climate change, and future scenario.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

Our program requires these five focus areas above to flourish, as well as three cross-cutting themes: women's empowerment, child labor and climate change.

I encourage farmers and ranchers in rural areas throughout the world to learn about the positive impact organic farming can have on protecting the environment, mitigating climate change and improving the health for future generations,» Straus added.

The companies, co-ops and individuals were nominated by their peers for expanding the boundaries of industry practices in at least one of the nine areas identified by the Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate climate change.

Those areas started to appear in August, if I recall correctly, and I can't say for sure if this is related to a particular climate change.

The reports show the progress we've made in our five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), and how we are on track to meet our ambitious 2020 sustainability goals.

Additionally, as hosts, we would set new standards in environmental responsibility by minimizing the footprint of the event in six core areas: water, waste, energy, transportation, procurement and climate change.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

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.

You can learn more about Mass Audubon's efforts to identify areas that are critical for conservation in the face of climate change by reading our Losing Ground report.

Respected for its longtime successes in the areas of biodiversity and land protection, Mass Audubon has more recently made a commitment to promoting green infrastructure and strategies to address climate change.

Environment spokesman Chris Huhne said the measures outlined in the document are the only realistic approach to averting climate change, and are designed to target emissions across all areas of the economy.

Climate change is an area where working with our European partners can help us to achieve national goals which would be out of reach if we were isolated and alone.

European governments and peoples largely approve of President Obama's greater respect for multilateralism, emphasis on non-traditional security areas such as climate change, and attempts to privilege diplomacy over more coercive mechanisms.

Set up groups and opt - ins for your top campaigns or issues areas (one group might be «medicare» for example «or climate change» or «oil subsidies») and then send most email on those campaigns to people who've taken an action on that campaign in the last 3 months.

In this post I look at Trump's proposals for trade, health care, financial regulation and climate change and conclude that his administration is likely to run into major obstacles in each of these areas.

In the area of climate change, for example, after 1993 China moved from being an oil exporter to an oil importer.

The agency's main thrust is to promote sustainable development using the notion of a forested and green north to catalyze climate change reversal and improve livelihoods of the most vulnerable citizens in the area.

Some of the areas elected leaders, including Congressman Brian Higgins, are calling on the community to join them in supporting President Obama's plan to fight climate change.

It follows that, under the present conditions, to remain relevant in increasingly important policy areas such as climate change, the EU must reinforce its negotiating capacity.

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Secondly, to streamline its diplomatic action so to encompass the various areas of shared and exclusive competence (e.g. trade, energy, climate change), and thirdly, to aim at reinforcing the legalisation of those international agreements and institutions that are deemed as capable to protect the EU's strategic endowment and interests.

He added: «People believe climate change is happening in the UK, most people don't think it's a plot or something made up, but most people don't seem to think it will happen in their area.»

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: There's a lot that can be done legislatively to protect the environment, from supporting the many local farmers in our area to ensuring everyone has clean drinking water and combating climate change.