Sentences with phrase «climate change leaders»

Inspired by what they learn in the classroom, the school's Climate Change Leaders are cutting their carbon footprints everywhere from the energy they use to the food they eat, challenging their parents to take action too.

It is strange that China and India are so often cited, while climate change leaders such as Germany rarely get the spotlight.

You like to give the world the impression that you're tough — well, show us that you're brave enough to be climate change leaders.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

Climate change leaders from around the world are applauding the French government's decision to press on with a landmark U.N. conference in Paris at the end of the month, even in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks.

Together, we can all help to secure the UK's position as a global climate change leader and seize the opportunities of the low - carbon transition.

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Recognizing that carbon emissions resulting from consumption of these fuels is driving catastrophic global climate change, my role as leader of the company is to ensure that Virgin provides financial support to non-profit groups that are exploring renewable energy and seeking market - based solutions to climate change, like the Carbon War Room.

The history is important, as a problematic front - page story in The New York Times, How GOP Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science, illustrates.

The fact that Musk has posed for photo - ops with Trump is particularly galling, Derwin said, because Musk is «recognized as being a leader on climate change».

The leader went onto discuss the importance of fighting climate change and explaining why the nuclear deal with Iran must remain intact until a replacement is fulfilled.

But Trump's chief White House economic adviser, Gary Cohn, told reporters during the trip abroad that Trump's views on climate change were «evolving» following the president's discussions with European leaders.

China saw an opportunity to replace the U.S. as a leader of the world's effort to combat climate change.

«Climate Change is Real»: Business Leaders React to President Trump's Withdrawal from Paris Agreement

The absence of the US prompted many world leaders, including France's Emmanuel Macron and the UK's Theresa May, to signal that the US was threatening to give up its leadership position on climate change.

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.

It may sound prosperous that President - Elect Donald J. Trump could learn anything from leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules a country he has accused of stealing American jobs and concocting the hoax of climate change.

Now our oil imports have plummeted, our clean energy industry is booming, and America is a global leader in the fight against climate change.

Having been called upon by global leaders to use its technology to address the global crises of climate change and poverty, Cisco opts to pursue sustainability...

«In a nutshell, it looks like Canada is becoming a leader in just transitions in the same way that they've been a leader on climate change policy for the past two or three years,» McGowan said at the time.

One trend we've identified is that American cities are positioning themselves as the true US leaders in combating climate change, making it clear that action is wanted, needed, and possible.

Closer interactions are needed between the climate change adaptation research community, business leaders and innovators.

A survey of more than 5,500 business leaders from all over the world from the 2016 Global Opportunity Report revealed widespread support of the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals, including the ones relating directly to climate change (SDG 7, 11 and 13).

«Climate change is a global issue, and the Premier has made it clear that B.C. will remain a climate action leader,» Minister of Finance Michael de Jong said this week in his budget Climate change is a global issue, and the Premier has made it clear that B.C. will remain a climate action leader,» Minister of Finance Michael de Jong said this week in his budget climate action leader,» Minister of Finance Michael de Jong said this week in his budget speech.

The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are expected to walk away from their meetings this week with new continental commitments to tackle climate change and boost clean energy generation.

American cities are positioning themselves as the true leaders when it comes to tackling climate change, making it clear that action is wanted, needed, and possible.

The budget's clean technology section opens by saying that the «global campaign against climate change is an economic opportunity for Canada,» an opportunity where Canada «can be a true global leader.»

After spending $ 2.5 million renovating the Arctic Institute of North America's Kluane Research Station, the Harper government just eliminated the funding for the global leader in climate change and boreal mammal research.

HADLEY, MA, November 9, 2016: Social entrepreneurs — business owners and leaders who use their business to address issues like hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — face an apparent crisis.

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.

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There's a reason Canada's business leaders are prioritizing climate change: it's going to cost companies, our economy and Canadians.

In the 2008 federal election, Opposition Leader Stéphane Dion also tried but failed to convince the public of the need for a carbon tax, despite Canadians» support for action on climate change.

We need leaders who can address pressing problems like climate change and open up new opportunities for productive commerce and relationships.

With economic growth strengthening around the globe, business leaders are finding it easier to stiff - arm worries over geopolitical conflagrations, cyberattacks, climate change - related events and the rest of the lineup of potentially destabilizing calamities that form part of the Trump era.

In the seven years that the application languished under the Obama administration, it faced rising opposition amid a successful play among environmental leaders to make it a crucible in the fight against climate change.

Heyman noted that he and New Democrat Leader John Horgan met with members of the Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change in the coming months.

Climate change activists around the city, including the leader of a Sunset Park group, are praising a decision by the de Blasio administration to divest $ 5 billion in pension holdings from companies dealing in fossil fuel.

Looking back at the visit, it stands in stark contrast to Modi's recent meetings with leaders of the United States, Germany and France, where we saw both political focus and media attention on climate change and clean energy.

Global warming is once again on the agenda as world leaders gather for the Paris climate change summit.

Here is what energy industry executives, environmental leaders and opposition politicians had to say about today's climate change announcement:

As a diverse group of leaders from different sectors and regions across the country, we applaud your initiative in developing the Pan-Canadian Framework for Clean Growth and Climate Change.

Pigs continued to fly in Alberta politics today as energy industry leaders and environmental groups joined Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips at a press conference to release Alberta's much anticipated plan to take action against Climate Change.

Many of those executives stood on stage with Phillips and Premier Rachel Notley, along with environmental leaders, when the climate change plan was released in November 2015.

In October 2013, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, and business leader and philanthropist Tom Steyer, founded a new initiative to assess and publicize the economic risks to the U.S. associated with climate change.

The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

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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.

Chief Executive Officer Asim Ghosh has a stern warning for Canadian political leaders considering changes to climate policy: don't go it alone with a carbon tax.

Leaders from the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths have joined forces to call for more action to tackle climate change.

Do you honestly think — and someone please answer me — by changing the name from «leader» to «elder» will change the climate in your church?