Sentences with phrase «climate change through»

Among the goals announced by the board are to offer local Realtors access to the online energy efficiency course provided by the NAGAB; to complete costing and review of the recent energy audit of the board's 11,000 sq. ft. offices on Nanaimo Street and make recommendations for energy improvements; to build upon the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources new LiveSmartBC program by offering information to all home sellers; and to educate local Realtors on the new technologies and programs for combating climate change through seminars, website postings and written materials in the coming months.

It is the better option — instead of resolving issues like drug cartels, illegal immigration, swine flu, the economic crisis, and climate change through violence.

They appear motivated in their arguments by opposition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, which seek urgent action to tackle climate change through a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions... Often all these individuals and organisations have in common is their opposition to the growing consensus of the scientific community that urgent action is required through a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

The expected outputs range from integrating climate change risks into development planning and coastal zoning regulation to diversifying livelihoods to finding more secure sources of water in communities where saline intrusion is a problem (Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation).

This project was given CEO approval in December 2008, and is estimated to be completed by February 2013 with the 5.5 million USD funding coming from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)(Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation).

In 2015, Founder and CEO Edward Mazria was honored to receive two major awards that underline Architecture 2030's effectiveness: the Kemper Award from the American Institute of Architects for «catalyzing the architecture community to address climate change through design», and the Chairman's Award from the World Green Building Council for «an outstanding contribution to the global sustainability movement».

(Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation in Bangladesh).

The Corporate Excellence award was presented to Mars Food for the organization's leadership role addressing climate change through its commitments to sustainable sourcing across its supply chains, notably rice.

The exact title has been modified slightly, from the above «Reduction of climate change hazards through coastal afforestation with community participation'to «Community based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation».

With the once controversial idea of battling climate change through geoenginnering slowly gaining popularity, new research from the University of Exeter offers evidence that this untested approach could result in climate chaos.

Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) «reasons for concern»

... leaves readers with such an inaccurate and misleading impression of the evidence on the causes of climate change that is documented in the scientific literature... My analysis indicates that (your company) provided more that $ 2.9 million to organizations in the United States which misinformed the public about climate change through their websites.»

Such visitors love nature, and are contributing to climate change through their flights and other travel.

Andy has even told the story of climate change through song.

AB 32 seeks to slow climate change through a comprehensive program reducing greenhouse gas emissions from virtually all sources statewide.

If we try to tackle global climate change through a primary focus on consumer action, we will fail.

-- McConnell has repeatedly voted against Senate bills recognizing global warming, including a «sense of the Senate» amendment expressing «the need to address global climate change through comprehensive and cost - effective national measures and through the negotiation of fair and binding international commitments.»

Aerosols of anthropogenic origin are responsible for a radiative forcing (RF) of climate change through their interaction with radiation, and also as a result of their interaction with clouds.

We know that addressing climate change through reduction in fossil fuel use will lead to cleaner air and water, to immediate health benefits for Americans, and will help to limit global climate change.

The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP; currently in it's 6th phase) is organized under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and designed to better understand past, present, and future climate change through coordinated international multi-model experiments that have become a central element of national and international assessments of climate change, e.g., IPCC reports.

In conclusion, a solar and heliospheric modulation of the cloud system would greatly contribute to climate change through an albedo modulation (see Eq.

If the company will still downplay the effects of climate change through this new job hiring, it might fuel more debates and pressure from the U.S. government.

Fig. 9 summarizes a chain of mechanisms that, according to the finding of this paper, reasonably links the planetary motion to climate change through solar and heliosphere modulation of the magnetosphere and ionosphere that regulate the cloud cover percentage.

UN Climate Change News, 15 May 2018 — UN Secretary - General António Guterres has renewed his call for governments, industry, and finance to meet the challenge of climate change through innovation, urgent action, and substantial investment.

We support addressing climate change through sustainable populations and appropriate levels of consumption.

Here's where this «loophole of uncertainty» comes into play - because China has implemented actions that address climate change through its Eleventh Five - Year Plan since 2005 and has internally funding all of its energy efficiency measures and mitigation actions (and furthermore hasn't asked for any funding with regards to their 40 - 45 % reduction in carbon intensity by 2020 from 2005 levels), China would therefore be exempt from international MRV if this text is eventually agreed upon.

Even though the Protocol has prevented a reduction of 220 Gt CO2e since the 1990s, which is more than the approximate emissions 60,000 coal powered plants would release in a year, the Montreal Protocol risks negating its contribution to combating climate change through its unintentional commercialization of the super greenhouse gases, HFCs.

As a purely technical matter, almost certainly yes, we can alter climate change through geo - engineering.

From Proceedings of the National Academy's Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) «reasons for concern».

We compiled our findings in a new working paper, Reducing Risk, Addressing Climate Change Through Internal Carbon Pricing: A Primer for Indian Business.

Lucia Green - Weiskel works with The Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET) a professional organization based in Beijing dedicated to mitigating climate change through low - carbon fuels, vehicles and policies.

Indeed, it can be argued that one of the problems with current climate science is that it contains too many meteorologists (who have access to thermometer records spanning a grand total of 150 years) and too few geologists (who view climate change through the prism of much longer time frames).

The Centre's mission is to respond to this need by advancing public and private action on climate change through innovative, rigorous research.

The competition's goal is to draw widespread attention to the issue of climate change through highly visible online and offline actions.

People saw climate change through the filter of their world - views about how nature works, what makes for a fair society, and so forth, views that they had developed since childhood.

All with their heads in the clouds, chasing IPCC and other funding to prove CO2 causes climate change through some atmospheric effect, only able to prove they both change together, w / o cause and effect, of course.

The Committee recognized Gore for his part in raising awareness of climate change through his lectures, his political work, his nonprofit and the broad visibility of his Oscar - winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Koonin had become deeply concerned with energy issues and climate change through Jason, through his work on US Department of Energy fusion research committees, and through his own research studying «earthshine» (a phenomenon that allows the state of the earth's climate to be monitored by the brightness of sunlight reflected off the earth onto the dark part of the lunar disk).

With its low opportunity costs, dryland could therefore provide a unique chance to mitigate climate change through large - scale conservation and afforestation actions.

Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a proposed scheme to mitigate climate change through forest conservation.

To understand the Earth's climate change through changes of the oceans behaviour, some appreciation of the changes that the Earth exerts on the above mention currents appears to be an essential prerequisite, sadly ignored by many.

This conclusion is based on multiple lines of evidence, from basic physics to the patterns of climate change through the layers of the atmosphere.

«Climate engineering can not be seen as a substitute for a policy pathway of mitigating climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,» they conclude in the paper.

Despite all of its success, the Montreal Protocol risks negating its contribution to combating climate change through its commercialization of HFCs.

Additional goals set with WWF include covering the equivalent of 100 percent of electricity consumption at Avery Dennison's U.S. operations with renewable energy by 2025 and addressing climate change through other areas of operations, such as maximizing use of paper made with recycled or certified wood fiber (sourcing only from certified sources by 2025).

This seems to suppose that environmentalism, or anything which is productive in the effort to mitigate climate change through carbon emissions reduction is above ideological interest, and not something which can be manipulated for private gain.

The EPA spoke of the health and other benefits of reining in climate change through reduced C02 emissions, while utility industry officials decry a «war on coal» that will cost jobs and raise electric rates.

Indeed, the AR5 report will help to accelerate the trend of insurance companies looking to encourage risk reduction to climate change through the hardening of key infrastructure and other vulnerable capital assets.

At times, the report reads like a White House press release, gushing, for example: «President Obama has outlined a comprehensive plan to address global climate change through investments that will save or create many jobs.»

«Global Green's annual Sustainable Design Awards celebrate and honor those who are changing the world and fighting climate change through innovation,» said Global Green President & CEO Matt Petersen.