Sentences with phrase «climate change set»

Even without climate change set to give the nation a one - two punch (rising sea levels and increased storms coming in off the Bay of Bengal, and increasing run - off from the Ganges, Brahmaputra

Nuclear's travails represent a major setback in the global quest to curb carbon emissions; if solar's rise similarly stalls, then the world won't get a third try at decarbonization before the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change set in.

«The time for talking is long past,» said Shafqat Kakakhel, a former U.N. Environment Programme official and a member of Pakistan's original task force on climate change set up by the government in 2008.

And these severe conditions related to human - forced climate change set a very hot and grim stage for India during 2017.

With climate change set to bring about profound changes to global food production, Canada may come to find itself in something of an unforeseen sweet spot.

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It says Britain must assume next year's UN Framework Convention on Climate change sets a target of cutting carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020, not the current 20 per cent.

Oxfam estimates that by 2015 almost 400 million a year may be affected by climate - related disasters, and this number will continue to grow as already unavoidable climate change sets in.»

This would provide valuable data that could be used to more accurately model how Australia's more than 11,000 beaches are changing, and predict how they will respond as climate change sets in.

His technical approach to making the case for climate change sets him apart from other «deniers» who are more politically motivated — though he does lament that Al Gore's once calming voice has become more shrill and made him popular with international media.

That's because so much of the action isn't taking place in big, headline - grabbing climate change settings like the recent conference of 195 nations in Paris; it's taking place in hearing rooms and farmers» fields across this continent (and other continents, too).

On the website onehundredmonths, conceived by the NEF and others, we can see a second - by - second countdown of one hundred months (8.3 years) until irreversible climate change sets in (their data).

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change.

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«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia tweeted: «This would erode US leadership in tackling climate change & set us back years in hastening clean energy & job creation.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

The new legislation will achieve the following: Set in law Alberta's carbon levy and rebate Ensure revenue from the carbon levy is invested into actions that address climate change Establish Energy Efficiency Alberta as a provincial agency.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

Climate change is set to make Miami warmer and wetter for more of the year, making the region an even more friendly home for mosquitoes, some of whom could bear diseases like Zika, Yellow Fever and Dengue.

It means giving up on B.C. workers, turning back our climate change commitments, and letting industry call the shots when it comes to setting their tax rate, cutting it in half.

This makes it clearer than ever that any system of carbon pricing, whether based on taxes, caps or some combination of the two, can only be one part of a comprehensive set of policies to achieve climate change goals.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

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It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

That document had a number of well - known evangelical signatories and, Wilkinson argues, served as a «watershed document» in setting the tone for current climate change discussions in the evangelical church.

In 2015, the planet reached «alarming» and «unprecedented» rates of climate change, according to the United Nations — and 2016 is set to be another record - breaking year.

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

This year's program is set to probe critical global issues from Brexit to climate change, explore the growing sustainability movement, delve into new technology available to the wine trade, and shine the spotlight on small and organic growers.

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Enter the Low Carbon Lifestyle, a new set of commitments that we can live for the foreseeable future and continue our dedication to reducing the climate - changing impacts of our food choices.

Additionally, as hosts, we would set new standards in environmental responsibility by minimizing the footprint of the event in six core areas: water, waste, energy, transportation, procurement and climate change.

The Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report (September 2011) sets the stage for developing a statewide, comprehensive, quantifiable adaptation plan that protects the health, welfare and nature of Massachusetts.

Amid the fear of terrorism, war, climate change and intense division on a number of issues, we wanted to put forward a message of hope in the next generation, hence the launch of the «Generation Hope» organic baby gift set.

Although they're mainly setting out to scaremonger and sell papers, the tabloids are right that, as climate change causes fluctuations in weather, the temperature is becoming bitterer in those winter months.

Wildlife corridors will play a particularly important role in the age of climate change, where many species will need to shift location to find a more comfortable setting.

A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) refused to confirm what would be in the Queen's speech - which sets out legislation for the coming year - but said ministers were looking at «all the options» on climate change.

The committees suggested setting up a national climate change adaptation program to empower communities by using local, indigenous knowledge to help decrease disaster risk and support recovery efforts.

Set up groups and opt - ins for your top campaigns or issues areas (one group might be «medicare» for example «or climate change» or «oil subsidies») and then send most email on those campaigns to people who've taken an action on that campaign in the last 3 months.

Tony Blair and Mr Miliband have repeatedly argued that annual targets would be too restrictive but the environment secretary said yesterday that legislation setting out the government's approach to climate change could be useful.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

She opposed setting a target to reduce carbon emissions, backed plans - which were later reversed - to sell off Britain's forests, and last year, after being appointed energy minister, asked officials whether climate change really existed.

The United States set a new record last year for the total cost of weather and climate change - related disasters that exceeded $ 1 billion, driven largely by wildfires and hurricanes.

ICE Scotland challenge policy - makers to commit to infrastructure, setting out recommendations which will help prepare for the challenges of climate change and population growth.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

«On his watch we have an environment secretary who doesn't believe in climate change, our carbon emissions are rising rather than falling and the government has failed to set a target a clean up our power system by 2030.»

President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, are looking to set aside differences on trade and climate change and find common ground as they meet today ahead of Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

The Climate Change Act 2008 made the UK the first country in the world to set legally binding targets of greenhouse gases reduction.

The measures set out in the Climate Change Programme Review and Energy Review show our progress domestically and our intentions for the future.