Sentences with phrase «climate change initiatives»

Their focus on overcoming disease, improving education, and lobbying for climate change initiatives is having a powerful impact.

It provides basic information and learning tools needed to understand and advocate for the integration of gender perspectives into regional, national, and community - level climate change initiatives.

In the meantime, companies can balance the potential liability of their fossil - fuel products, e.g. coal or gas, with climate change initiatives in other parts of their business which produce «carbon credits».

The department is increasing its use of renewable energy supplies and reducing energy demand to improve operational effectiveness, reduce greenhouse gas emissions in support of U.S. climate change initiatives, and protect the department from energy price fluctuations.

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

By encouraging the development of renewable energy in Ontario, the FIT Program will help Ontario phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2014 - the largest climate change initiative in North America.

In August 2007, Cape Farewell began its three year artists residency at London's Southbank Centre, operating as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives.

«The 2020 target does seem to be in reach,» agrees Kevin Kennedy, who heads the US climate change initiative at World Resources Institute, also in Washington DC.

Other climate change initiatives are being implemented in the country, and Maung Thein encourages more of them.

In an appearance on CBS's «Face the Nation» on Earth Day, Bloomberg said he would give $ 4.5 million of his personal fortune towards the U.S.'s pledge of up to $ 3 billion by 2020 to support climate change initiatives.

«We needed the minister to step up and make it clear that the government's climate change initiatives included just transition, and the good news is that she has done that.

Neither federal nor provincial climate change initiatives make any reference to diet as a significant way individuals can reduce their carbon footprint,» she says.

The Climate Change Research Program was part of Australia's Farming Future, an Australian Government climate change initiative for primary industries.

Appearing with former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday at Columbia University, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged to make New York a leader on climate change initiatives, pushing a plan that says other states and Canada should follow.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

With the world watching, China's president Hu Jintao offered his country's biggest climate change initiative yet at the UN this morning, saying China would establish emissions intensity targets — not absolute targets, but cuts in emissions per unit of

; a co-founder of the U.S. based Environmental Justice Climate Change initiative and a member of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change that operates as the indigenous caucus within the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The victory that tops RAGA's list of accomplishments on its website: Convincing the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 «to halt implementation of Obama's signature climate change initiative.»

Rev. Bingham will also describe the work of the Regeneration Project, which promotes renewable energy and conservation as part of Interfaith Power and Light, an interfaith climate change initiative.

That figure is based on business signing up to five key climate change initiatives:

While China has balked on calls to limit its greenhouse gas emissions, earlier this month it announced its first climate change initiative.

It's kind of like that revenue - neutral climate change initiative voters defeated here in Washington state last fall.

The former California governor spoke Tuesday at the R20 Austrian World Summit, an offshoot of a Schwarzenegger climate change initiative.

Hornung expects further improvements in 2015 through new climate change initiatives, as well as expectations of new wind contractawards in Ontario.

California's cap - and - trade program is only one element of its broader climate change initiative, as authorized in the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and the 2016 extension bill SB 32.

Ontario's program is approaching some key milestones, but across Canada, various climate change initiatives are taking off.

It will be interesting to see if Saskatchewan starts its own climate change initiatives with Premier Brad Wall stepping down.

Implemented climate change initiatives bridging student volunteers and various NGO's such as the IUCN, WWF and WCS.

The program is part of the largest climate change initiative in North America.

So the President of the United States over the past several years has been working on a series of climate change initiatives.

The Dollars go right down the rathole into the UN maze of tyrants and despots and eventually funds the ISIS Global Climate Change initiative.

This training module, the third in a series of 5, provides the basic information and learning tools needed to understand and advocate for integrating gender perspectives into regional, national and community - level climate change initiatives.

In August 2007 Cape Farewell began a three year artists residency at the Southbank Centre, where we operated as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives»

The World Bank vows to boost its funding for climate change initiatives, according to its statement released Thursday.

Adrian Dix and the New Democrats have an environmental plan that would reinvest in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

The B.C. New Democrats have proposed an environmental plan that would reinvest carbon tax revenue in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

He is a «London Leader» in sustainability and founded «Project Genie» (a schools» climate change initiative).

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

«We have an obligation to the world to deliver clean, reliable, low - cost energy that is hopefully low carbon, too,» adds chemical engineer David Rogers, general manager for climate change at Chevron, a California - based oil company that did not join efforts to suspend California's climate change initiative.

To boost coal power, Trump has promised to dismantle the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate change initiatives, regulations dubbed the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that would restrict greenhouse gas pollution from electricity plants.