Sentences with phrase «climate change in our strategies»

«The findings have clear implications on how we need to accommodate climate change in our strategies to reduce nitrogen pollution.»

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And Savage says he and other officials within Alberta Environment have been asked to prepare more research in anticipation of talks to consider changes to the province's climate strategy.

The national security strategy the Trump administration released in December made no mention of climate change whatsoever, despite the fact Defense Secretary James Mattis has acknowledged it as a threat.

Since ending his tenure as mayor in 2013, Bloomberg has been an environmental activist focused on climate change, and this has made him consider business strategy in its relation to society.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

Scientists have told an Australian government committee that the current strategy to protect the reef — the Reef 2050 Long - Term Sustainability Plan — is unachievable in light of recent mass bleaching events, especially since the plan doesn't include steps to counter climate change.

For our May 2017 panel, we discussed trends in Catholic investing strategies including impact, climate change, benchmarking performance and more.

As director of the Nathan Cummings Foundation's Corporate & Political Accountability program, Laura employs both grant making and active ownership strategies to address the ways in which corporations can both advance and hinder progress on climate change and inequality.

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

By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

During the training in Seattle I learned skills and strategies for effectively communicating about climate change.

The First Ministers» Meeting on climate change and clean growth, happening this week in Ottawa, is the next step in the process as provincial and territorial premiers work with Ottawa to develop a national climate strategy.

Auditor General on Climate Change A July 2014 report from Auditor General Merwan Saher found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development properly monitored the performance of the PC Government's climate change strategy, which was first implemented iClimate Change A July 2014 report from Auditor General Merwan Saher found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development properly monitored the performance of the PC Government's climate change strategy, which was first implemented inChange A July 2014 report from Auditor General Merwan Saher found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development properly monitored the performance of the PC Government's climate change strategy, which was first implemented iclimate change strategy, which was first implemented inchange strategy, which was first implemented in 2008.

He became a portfolio manager for Europe, Australasia, and Far East (EAFE) mandates in 2009 and has managed the Global Climate Change strategy since its launch in 2007.

The strategy, as well as the PR surrounding the «Growing the Gulf» initiative, indicates a company that recognizes the changes in the political climate as well as the energy market.

And finally, Tim McMillan, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, who said: ``... the province's climate strategy may allow our sector to invest more aggressively in technologies to further reduce per barrel emissions in our sector and do our part to tackle climate change.

Equity analysts now consider climate change - related factors in company valuations, translating sustainability into a new value driver distinct from a marketing strategy.

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

Crown has achieved an A - ranking for the climate change strategy outlined in its first annual CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) submission.

As a respected leader in what is arguably the most vibrant land conservation community in this country, Mass Audubon is well - positioned to shape climate change response strategies by land trusts and our government partners.

As a respected leader in what is arguably the most vibrant land conservation community in this country, Mass Audubon stands well positioned to shape climate change response strategies by land trusts and our government partners.

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.

Mass Audubon President Henry Tepper, who provided an overview of the prominent conservation organization's accomplishments during the past year — including advances in nature - based education, land and species protection, and addressing climate change — noted those strategies echoed McCarthy's themes.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

«Ed, I'm inviting you to share in my advance planning and strategy for the critical global conference on climate change in December 2015», Davey declared.

President Donald Trump removed climate change from the list of worldwide threats menacing the United States, a shift that underscores the long - term ramifications of the «America first» world view he laid out in his new National Security Strategy.

Our panel will explore various financial strategies for how we can keep fossil fuels in the ground to prevent catastrophic climate change.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

Because of black carbon's short residency in the atmosphere, reducing black carbon emissions is considered a short - term strategy for mitigating global climate change.

But climate change will shift atmospheric currents in the tropics, which could endanger the frigatebird's migratory strategy, says Rob Suryan of Oregon State University.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Change, IPCC.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission capIn a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission capin the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

«A Harper loss will send a strong signal, ahead of Paris and to Republicans in the U.S., that climate inaction is increasingly becoming a losing political strategy even in developed countries with large fossil fuel resources,» said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate change official.

The paper, «Intact ecosystems provide the best defense against climate change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long climate change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long -change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long -Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long - term.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

The work fleshes out a host of climate - linked threats that were laid out almost a year ago in the Pentagon's 20 - year security strategy, which recognized climate change as an «accelerant of instability» (E&E Daily, Feb. 2, 2010).

Co-author of the study Prof. Rod Wilson, a climate change marine biologist based at Exeter University, said in light of this research separate environmental management strategies may be required.

The Australian government recently invested nearly $ 500 million in climate change research, including $ 126 million specifically earmarked to identify the best strategies for adaptation to hotter days, storm surges, drought, and rising sea levels.

Environmental management can potentially devise separate strategies to target key phases in the lifecycle of males and females, respectively, with the aim of minimising the influence of climate change on their development and ultimately the success of the species.»

In February 2007, AAAS organized a town hall - style meeting to highlight the human impacts of climate change, and to showcase science - and technology - based strategies for confronting the issue.

An international team of scientists has developed a strategy to boost people's ability to adapt to climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate Cchange, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate Climate ChangeChange.

Still, he believes there's room for the candidates to talk in positive terms about climate change, even if it's driven by strategies of self - promotion.

However, both of these strategies create a major risk that average temperatures will rise above the 2 °C goal — a target set by international agreement in order to avoid the most dire consequences of climate change.

The study explored strategies to reduce stranded capacity in coal power plants, while limiting future climate change to the internationally agreed 2 °C target.

In climate change mitigation with interactions, assessment leaders must consider the public perception of theories such as land - based strategies to compensate for industrial emissions, which may not meet expectations if they are described out of context.

Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy President Barack Obama will unveil details about his climate change strategy this Tuesday at a talk at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

«We simply can't quantify right now how useful those strategies are going to be, especially in the context of this climate change,» Deutsch says.

At a climate finance forum hosted by the International Finance Corp. last week in Beijing, Xu Huaqing, deputy director general of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of earclimate finance forum hosted by the International Finance Corp. last week in Beijing, Xu Huaqing, deputy director general of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of earClimate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of early May.