Sentences with phrase «climate change in the world»

This is why we were able to, together, sign an agreement for ameliorating Climate Change in the world.

«Britain has been very influential in taking Europe along that process, and it has been, I think, the greatest force for change on climate change in the world,» said King.

In addition to this class, they are covering climate change in world cultures and English / Literature.

Most discussions about adapting to inevitable climate change in a world with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases have focused on seawalls, drought - resistant crops and the like.

By Omer Akif Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world.

Susan Joy Hassol and colleagues published an article about communicating the connections between extreme weather events and climate change in the World Meteorological Organisation Bulletin, Nov. 2016.

Climate change in the world can be caused by various activities.

Susan was the lead author of a November 2016 article titled (Un) Natural Disasters, about communicating the linkages between extreme weather events and climate change in the World Meteorological Organisation's Bulletin.

It is fundamentally people's ability to adapt spontaneously and autonomously to climate — changing or not — that explains the outcome of climate change in the world that was looked at by the WHO.

It said grants and highly concessional loans were essential for adapting to climate change in the world's most vulnerable countries, including small island developing States.

Growing Arctic ship traffic will bring with it air pollution that has the potential to accelerate climate change in the world's northern reaches.

Not exact matches

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.

If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

Although there's overwhelming scientific consensus behind the concept that human behavior is affecting the climate, most of the world and the U.S. in particular is still dealing with climate change deniers.

Withdrawing would leave the United States aligned only with Russia among the world's industrialized economies in rejecting action to combat climate change.

Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

Cutmore covers the biggest business gatherings for CNBC including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos and China, the IMF / World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. and the United Nations Climate Change Conferences.

«With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, the world took a decisive step toward avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change,» the page used to read.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourceIn his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Of course, this idea may not factor into Musk's motivation, but in the world of climate change mitigation and adaptation, perceptions matter.

«Over the last year the global march to tackle climate change has been unwavering,» Andrew Light, a fellow at the World Resources Institute and a former State Department climate official, said in a statement.

In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh - Guldberg said the world heritage site was at a turning point.

The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

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.

Policy - makers from around the world are currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23).

Laurence C. Smith, a UCLA earth sciences professor and author of The World in 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquin 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquIn Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquin particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.»

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

«There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars,» Tesla said in on its website.

China said on Thursday it will stick to the Paris climate deal as the world awaited an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to keep the United States in the global pact to fight climate change.

«The critical factor in my determination was this: moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combating climate change,» Kerry wrote.

Over the last two weeks, the world's politicians, businessmen, scientists and environmentalists have gathered in Paris to discuss one thing: how to save the world from the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Heavy hitters in the B.C. green world, including the Dogwood Initiative, the Wilderness Committee and Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, have all launched anti-coal campaigns over the past few years.

If a climate coalition reduces its emissions, world prices change and nonparticipants typically emit more; they may also extract the dirtiest type of fossil fuel and invest too little in green technology.

Only if there is a serious attempt, with all countries of the world taking part to fight climate change, will there be a big enough drop in oil consumption to really affect price.

While it may be surprising to some, Canada's mining sector can play an essential role in enabling the technologies that will help the world address climate change.

Employees work in approximately eight branches of the OCE, including Sustainable Development, Agricultural Labor Affairs, World Agricultural Outlook Board, Climate Change Program Office, and the Offices of the Chief Meteorologist, Environmental Markets, Energy Policy and New Uses, and Risk Assessment and Cost - Benefit Analysis.

When even energy - friendly bodies such as the International Energy Agency say the world needs to act now if we're to avoid the worst outcomes of what climate change has to offer the planet, then Canada should realize it can ill afford to stick its head in the sand any longer.

In a world before climate change became a household term that may have been the case, but not any more.

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

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

Canada ranks among the worst performers in the developed world on climate change.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

It's time we all meet in the social impact space to tackle big world issues like, hunger poverty and climate change!

Climate change could severely impact the world's coffee - producing nations and turn a cup of decent java into a luxury in the years to come.

An equally unprecedented wave of complex risks, from climate change to cyber threats, calls into question the value of citizenship in even the most powerful economies in the world.

A report for the Rio +20 climate change conference last year, «Leadership in a Rapidly Changing World,» interviewed top CEOs from multinational firms to determine what skills they are looking for when hiring.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

«The utter lack of a credible climate policy plan on the part of the Harper government has gone a long way towards undermining Canada's standing in the world, even as a clear majority of Canadian citizens seek action and leadership on climate change.»