Sentences with phrase «climate change interesting»

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Certain countries susceptible to climate change have seen a spike in travel interest over the past year, according to a new report from travel insurance comparison web site Squaremouth.

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.

Like any good entrepreneur, Leo wouldn't let me talk about the app here, but I assure you, it's a great idea, and focuses on Leo's big interest in global warming and climate change.

There is probably no accommodation to be made between the pipeline interests and the climate - change crowd.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

Other factors that may affect the timing of a sale are availability of bank financing, interest rate trends, changes in tax law, and the general economic climate.

It would signal that the United States has no interest in cooperating with other nations on climate change,» said Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The addition of new signers to the White House initiative show how corporate America is increasingly interested in reducing emissions and fighting climate change.

To move that kind of big money, Harris began an organizational expansion of the foundation when she took over in 2010, building an outfit that has gone beyond Bloomberg's core interests of global public health and climate change to tackle new issues, like overfishing.

It's maybe one reason why people are so easily misled into climate change denial when there don't seem to be any definitive and reliable sources of data that are open to the public where information is presented in various different ways that most ordinary people are interested in.

In fact, Xi has begun to cast China as a defender of economic globalization and inclusivity, as well as a leader in combating global challenges, like climate change.14 Unlike Russia's willingness to take large risks, China's approach is generally cautious, reflecting its desire to safeguard its economic interests.

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

With decades of experience in both the business and environmental spheres — helping companies braid them together profitably for more than 15 years — Shel helps you identify profitable business opportunities within your organization's existing expertise and interests that help turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

«Christy Clark went to the Paris climate change negotiations with a personal videographer but as soon as the photo opportunity passed, so did her interest.»

It's about the oil industry's — and perhaps Premier Notley's — short - term interests, which are plainly contrary to a credible climate change plan.

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NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

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.

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

This really interesting article looks at what will happen to population centers and climate change if, as expected, the number of livestock doubles by 2050.

It will be interesting to see, Aran, how your cooking changes living in a cooler climate... just the way here in Spain, meals are much heartier in the north — your beautiful Euskadi, Asturias and Galicia — than further south.

The food system is in an interesting predicament — it's a significant contributor to one of its own biggest threats — climate change.

On the program's launch, Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise said, «The industry's key decision - makers are now in Bordeaux to address the most important topics affecting our shared interests, from the economy to e-commerce, international agreements and climate change.

The initiative is an international collaboration that provides technical assistance to coffee mills interested in battling climate change.

His main fields of scientific interest include food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural, food system analysis, regional and urban food systems, sustainable transitions, ecosystem services, climate change impacts, and climate change adaptation.

municipalities may be more amenable to changing laws given the current economic climate and the interest in local food.

I'd like to say I have this highly interesting and educational NEW post put together all about climate change, but the truth is I don't.

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

His particular interests include marine and coastal habitats, wildflowers, birds, climate change, and alpine ecology.

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

The IBFAN team will be following the topics that relate to infant and young child feeding, climate change, conflicts of interest and governance.

This marks it as unmissable for anyone remotely interested in the climate change debate, whether believers or sceptics.

In Britain, an interest in climate change can still look like a middle class luxury.

Certainly environmental groups are trying to reinvigorate interest in climate change, at a time when the general public in many Western countries is climate change - weary.

More interesting are the other aspects of the climate change «mega-story» that journalists choose to cover beyond the negotiations.

And in the United States, Hurricane Sandy's impact on lower Manhattan and the New Jersey shore has raised interest in the work of scientists who identify freak storms as an early warning of climate change.

Change comes to those with the courage to will it; 20 years from now let people say this great generation created a decade not of austerity, but shared prosperity, not of conflict, but of peace, not of inequality and climate chaos, but of sustainable development in the interests of all.

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.

4) By highlighting the «public» nature of climate change the EU should become more aware of the difference between its own strategic interests and the global benefits of its action.

«We are in a global fight to combat climate change, and today's ruling ensures our progress will not be blocked or rolled back by fossil fuel interests and others seeking to maintain the status quo,» Cuomo said in a news release.

In March 2006 Norman stood down from his portfolio to pursue other research interest and was joint runner - up for the 2006 Epolitix Environmental Charity Champion Award with Oliver Letwin for their work trying to establish a Cross Party Consensus on Climate Change.

Alex Johnstone, who speaks for the Conservatives in the Scottish Parliament on Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change, made an interesting speech on the Scottish economy on Thursday.

«It is unfortunate that your organization has decided to deal with a serious issue — climate change — with a cheap stunt that not only misleads, but offers no workable alternatives,» wrote Richard Kauffman, the state's energy and finance chairman, to New York Public Interest Group Executive Director Blair Horner.

Former VP - turned - climate - change - activist Al Gore said he had an «extremely interesting» meeting with the president - elect, a climate change skeptic, at Trump tower that was a «sincere search for areas of common ground.»

«By seeking to repeal the Clean Power Plan — especially without any credible commitment to replacing it — the Trump Administration's campaign of climate change denial continues, once again putting industry special interests ahead of New Yorkers» and all Americans» safety, health, and the environment,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

Year on year targets were «very, very difficult to deliver», he argued, saying that although it was vital to take action on climate change, «it's also got to be practicable and workable.and entirely compatible with the interests of business and consumers as well».

He added: «The important thing is that you work with people who are like - minded and interested in pursuing the same sort of things where you can, and we will, whether the subject is stem cell or whether the subject is climate change.»

«This shows we can meet the national interest of tackling climate change and reducing our dependence on foreign energy at the same time as we help people save money,» energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband said.

His close relationship with Russia, his coolness on Nato, his protectionist trade policies and his dismissal of climate change, all make it incredibly difficult to spot where the British interest in being close to him lies.