Sentences with phrase «climate change gets»

Experts from UNEP and other organisations keep pointing out that every dollar invested in cutting GHG emissions and adapting to climate change gets double the bang for the buck because the results directly support the only sustainable future possible, which is captured in the international community's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

And the more prosaic reduction in soot pollution caused by the partial substitution of gas for coal matters a lot, given that, while climate change gets the headlines, coal causes an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 deaths per year in America today.

«The «where do we land when climate change gets crazy?»

When someone who cares about climate change gets solar panels on their roof, the temptation to keep looking at how much energy you are generating is virtually irresistible.

But everyone who has looked at the costs vs benefits comes up with a net negative, and increasingly so as climate change gets worse.

Believe me, if global climate change gets that severe, pythons will be the least of our worries.

As the science of climate change gets better, thenews gets worse.

This is about as fast as climate change gets.

«Whenever climate change gets introduced, the conversation tends to turn political,» she said.

Living in a landscape of fear means more of the greenhouse gas driving climate change gets stored in plants.

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

To have a military budget that exceeds 400 billion a year solely to blow to smithereens every single person in the world, some ten times over, then hear meager appropriations to help less fortunate people survive and cope with global climate change get «stop gapped».....

The important question isn't what impact will climate change have on geopolitics, but rather how geopolitics will shape what kind of climate change we get.

A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change Get your passport ready!

Climate change got only a passing mention in President Obama's lengthy Vox interview, but what at first seemed like a largely forgettable exchange has since generated a decent amount of buzz in Washington.

They are already short of water in the north, and that's going to get much, much worse if climate change get much more severe.

However, I would recommend that people who want to get educated about climate change get their information from web sites not associated with a politician; perhaps the least politicized source of information is the latest scientific summary (PDF File) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of over 2000 scientists from 100 countries working under a mandate from the United Nations in the largest peer - reviewed scientific collaboration in history.

Not exact matches

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

The smog has a difficult time getting aired out considering Milan is in a valley, and it's made even worse when the climate is dry and warm, as it was this winter — an issue that will likely only intensify as climate change progresses.

But he wants the firm to take more risks to get its message out, especially as it increasingly takes on deeply political challenges like climate change or health care.

Now, thanks to climate change and increasing carbon dioxide levels, each year's pollen season gets worse.

«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

Wildfires have gotten worse in recent years because of climate change, and that trend is expected to continue as Earth's average temperature rises.

For example, if the government decides that climate change doesn't exist, «then we as entrepreneurs just got to get in there and and fill the gap and and create hundreds of thousands of jobs and make sure that» we're living in a carbon - neutral world by 2050.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

Cleantech entrepreneurs got a jolt of energy today from President Barack Obama's rollout of climate - change initiatives.

Getting photo bombed by climate activists during an appearance before the Vancouver Board of Trade in January is unlikely to change Stephen Harper's commitment to diversifying Canada's energy markets.

Over the longer run, things may get even better: a team of American researchers recently claimed that Canada's farmers may actually benefit from climate change.

The world is changing too fast and the business climate is getting more and more competitive — to stand still is to fall behind and inevitably disappear, according to professional services consultant firm Deloitte.

The bottom line is that the agreement gets us far closer to containing climate change than we were two weeks ago, but still far short of where we need to go.

«When it comes to climate change policy, governments make a lot of promises, but all too rarely do they get around to delivering on them.

Here in Paris, there is a palpable sense of solidarity and excitement as the United Nations climate change conference gets underway.

So that is certainly something that is going on with Houston's big development and urban sprawl, and with climate change storms are getting stronger.

From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

«I also can't see her getting behind the Keystone pipeline in a serious way given the emphasis on climate change within her party, particularly the more progressive left,» Hagle said.

Canada's newest Prime Minister wants to get serious about climate change.

The long - planned pipeline has become a symbol both of Canada's efforts to get land - locked bitumen to international markets and a flashpoint in the battle over climate change.

«We know we can get our resources to market more safely and responsibly while meeting our climate - change goals.»

As leader of the B.C. New Democrats, I'm committed to getting B.C. back on track to meet our climate change targets,» Horgan said.

Many industries were already coming to terms with the reality that climate change regulations are getting more stringent.

They've still got an uphill battle to make sure that they meet the very stringent environmental conditions put forward in their partnership with the Squamish First Nation, but the proponents have respectfully engaged with First Nations, will provide job training and good, family - supporting jobs to local people, and will proceed in a way that minimizes climate changing emissions at the plant.

The EPA also suggested that the State Department revisit its conclusion that the Keystone XL would not impact climate change because, in the absence of Keystone, oilsands producers would use rail to get their oil to market.

It is hard to get a fix on Romney regarding climate change, the 2nd amendment, abortion rights, a coherent strategy of deficit reduction and reform of the tax code, health care and so on.

Now, if you told me that getting Isreal to convert would reverse global climate change, I might be interested.

reason you do nt have peer reviewed anti human based climate change research is that it wont get past the gatekeepers.

You get deniers claiming climate change is a scam.

Gordon described the current refugee crisis as the worst yet and one that will get worse for 65 million displaced people due to impacts of climate change and unresolved conflict.

«It's really useful, if you get the chance to speak to your candidates, for them to hear that climate change is something that their voters care about and something that the Church cares about.»

We're getting increasingly paranoid about «climate change,» forgetting that we have no «natural right» to a stable climate, one that will support lives such our ours.