Sentences with phrase «climate change programmes»

It is aimed at climate change professionals working in national governments, non-governmental organisations, regional and international organisations who are involved in managing and implementing climate change programmes.

In order to effectively mainstream gender within their health adaptation to climate change programmes, managers learn to conduct a gender analysis of health vulnerability and adverse health impacts of climate change, and to design gender - responsive adaptation programmes and actions, thanks to the practical and programmatic recommendations.

The Nana Addo led government was again highly went applauded when government in the 2017 Budget Statement and Economic Policy stated that it had placed high premium on combating climate change through prioritization of climate change programmes and projects.

Eating for a Healthy Planet: A Conversation with Canadians has been produced as part of the Human Dimensions of Climate Change programme at the University of Victoria.

The study was carried out with the close collaboration and assistance of the British Council's Climate Change programme and written by James Painter, a researcher at the RISJ.

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Some of the world's largest food companies are rolling out a programme called Grow, promising to apply «market - based solutions» to poverty, food insecurity and climate change.

Launched last week, the project is part of the Wellcome Trust's # 5 million Our Planet, Our Health programme, which aims to improve human health while at the same time protecting a world struggling to cope with the effects of climate change.

The modern, domesticated chickpea has an extreme lack of genetic diversity, leaving it vulnerable to climate change, prompting scientists to seek out wild varieties for crossbreeding programmes.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

James Painter is the head of the journalism fellowship programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and is author of a recent RISJ study on climate change and the media, called «Summoned by Science».

However, in May 2010, the new Coalition government announced that, as part of a programme of measures to tackle climate change and promote a low carbon economy, the third runway would now be cancelled and permission also refused for additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted.

Successive waves of migrants have reached Europe's shores; terrorist groups are rampant in the Middle East, menacing personal safety and regional stability; North Korea, despite warnings and sanctions from the international community, obstinately continues to develop its nuclear programme; and climate change also warrants international collective action.

Speaking on BBC Radio Wales» Sunday Supplement programme, Nathan Gill also appeared to acknowledge that his party would abolish the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Whoever's in charge come May 8th, unless they put climate change at the heart of their programme for office the UK will be building up huge economic and ecological problems for the future.

Speaking on the Today programme this morning, former chancellor Lord Lawson denied there was any link between climate changes and the current extreme weather.

On this basis, Ofcom decided that all the falsehoods in the programme relating to the causes of climate change could simply be ignored.

«Additionally, over a longer timescale, by keeping close connection between astrophysicists and climate researchers, this programme will aid in the understanding of our own changing climate.»

The centre runs research programmes in climate variability and change, the monitoring of sea levels, ocean uptake of carbon dioxide, and Antarctic marine ecosystems.

I don't know how Ceri Thomas, head of programmes at BBC News, has the brass neck to argue that their coverage of the science around climate change is impartial and balanced (19 April, p 33).

The next time Texas purchases science textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, California.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

Other EPSRC - funded programmes and consortia include the Fusion Programme, the «Keeping the Nuclear Option Open» programme (nuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate.

The researchers further recommend that, given that many human influences are driving both climate change and biodiversity loss, conservationists should aim for win - win solutions such as the United Nations program REDD + (an extension of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation programme)-- an initiative that protects forests while also creating benefits for local communities and biodiversity.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Her international research programme focuses on the impacts of global climate change and ocean acidification on coastal marine biodiversity and the consequences for ecosystem structure and functioning, and spans the UK, Europe, USA and NZ.

The paper is one of the outputs from the Ice2Sea programme, an international venture managed by the British Antarctic Survey to improve understanding of how land - based ice will respond to climate change.

The MSc programme offers each student a creative combination of problem - based learning (PBL) and realistic projects with «hands - on» challenges that equip the student to address challenges pertaining to e.g. climate change, temporary urban development projects, urban mobility, projects and strategies of the culture city, the urban landscape and city growth.

While the Nature Climate Change paper reports on European results, the overall effort is a part of a worldwide monitoring programme being coordinated out of the University of Vienna, Austria that extends over more than 90 mountain sites on 5 continents.

The CoW also addressed amended draft resolutions on: the strategic plan for migratory species 2015 - 23 (UNEP / CMS / COP11 / CRP1); the programme of work on climate change and migratory species (UNEP / CMS / COP11 / CRP2); and enhancing the relationship between the CMS family and civil society (UNEP / CMS / COP11 / CRP3).

The research has received funding under the Research Council of Norway's programme Climate change and impacts in Norway (NORKLIMA).

Gisele Bündchen, the model and UN environment programme ambassador, as well as Elle US editor - in - chief Nina Garcia, are confirmed to speak at the three - day event alongside Paul Hawken, author of climate change manifesto «Drawdown.»

As former US Vice President Al Gore continues his global climate change training programme, around which much of this documentary is built, his overriding feeling is clear: frustration.

To date the campaign has had worldwide support from A Greener Festival, Isle of Wight Festival, Radio 6 DJ Nemone, BBC Radio 4's «You and Yours» programme, The Observer, Reading and Leeds Festival, Shambala, Truck Festival, Department of Energy and Climate Change and Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Sounds for Nature Foundation, Hurricane and Southside, Melt, Splash, Highfield, Area4, Rocco Del Schlacko, Taubertal, Rhythm and Vines and many others.

The project certifies youth ambassadors to train other young people to become facilitators of established sustainability programmes that build community resilience to climate change.

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This annual event has accorded wPOWER Hub of the Wangari Maathai Institute a platform to share information with stakeholders on its programme and activities that include promoting the role of women in clean energy solutions to climate change.

PUBLIC PROJECTS / COMMISSIONS 2016 Resiliency and Climate Change, workshop programme with Cabot Institute, commissioned by Bristol University.

In June 2017 he completed a post-graduate programme in moving image at the University of Oxford, focusing his research on existential risks, specifically artificial intelligence and climate change.

The event is part of a broader programme bringing together artists and specialists to consider current issues related to climate change and alarmism.

Check out Ellie's video of her «revolutionary new exercise programme» performed at the «Ways of Seeing Climate Change» conference...

In 2015 he was artist in residence at FACT during the «Build Your Own» exhibition and in 2016 He worked in residence with the outreach department at Manchester School of Art on «A Whisper to a Shout» an educational recourse book and programme of events centred around climate change and the evolution of the peppered moth.

In the original programme we also touch on frogs and the huge amounts of coverage giving to the frogs killed by climate change story.

I can just see the world stumbling towards needed an expensive geotechnical solution to climate change, and the government paying by taxing the lower and middle classes most, cutting entitlement programmes, and borrowing to dump the financial burden on future generations.

The programme is what climate change journalism should be it is challenging and rigourous.

Pramod Aggarwal, Regional Programme Leader for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under the Consortium of International Agricultural Centres (CGIAR), then gave a case study of the agriculture sector, presenting its complex two - way relationship with climate Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under the Consortium of International Agricultural Centres (CGIAR), then gave a case study of the agriculture sector, presenting its complex two - way relationship with climate cChange, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under the Consortium of International Agricultural Centres (CGIAR), then gave a case study of the agriculture sector, presenting its complex two - way relationship with climate climate changechange.

Research programme will send aerosol injections into the earth's upper atmosphere to study the risks and benefits of a future solar tech - fix for climate change

My main gripe about the programme would be that it actually spent too much time on the subject of climate change to the exclusion of other possible topics.

«The resounding message that I will take away from this LACCF is that we must all work together,» said Massamba Thioye, a manager in the Sustainable Development Mechanisms programme at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).