Sentences with phrase «climate change to its portfolio»

To make sure that doesn't change, the NCSE announced this week that it is adding climate change to its portfolio.

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

This comes after a year in which ALEC, with help from groups like the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change, failed in all of their coordinated attempts to roll back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs).

Climate change is way too big to fit neatly into an Environment Minister's portfolio.

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.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

That's why he continues to engage portfolio companies to address the risks that climate change poses to investments.

The Cabinet appointees are: • Nick Clegg (Lib Dem): deputy prime minister • George Osborne (Cons): chancellor of the exchequer • William Hague (Cons): foreign secretary • Theresa May (Cons): home secretary, minister for women • Liam Fox (Cons): defence secretary • Kenneth Clarke (Cons): lord chancellor, justice secretary • Andrew Lansley (Cons): health secretary • Vince Cable (Lib Dem): business secretary • Chris Huhne (Lib Dem): energy and climate change • Michael Gove (Cons): schools secretary • Patrick McLoughlin (Cons): chief whip • David Laws (Lib Dem): chief secretary to the Treasury • Michael Gove (Cons): education secretary • Philip Hammond (Cons): transport secretary • Danny Alexander (Lib Dem): Scottish secretary • Eric Pickles (Cons): communities secretary • Owen Paterson (Cons): Northern Ireland secretary • Iain Duncan Smith (Cons): work and pensions secretary • Jeremy Hunt (Cons): culture, Olympics, media and sport • Cheryl Gillan (Cons): Welsh secretary • International Development Secretary (Cons): Andrew Mitchell • Leader of the House of Lords (Cons): Lord Strathclyde • Minister without Portfolio (Cons): Baroness Warsi

Reducing emissions through energy efficiency With respect to its own multibillion - dollar portfolio of drilling operations, refineries and pipelines, Exxon Mobil said it «addresses the risk of climate change in several concrete and meaningful ways,» including through energy efficiency measures, deployment of less carbon - intensive technologies at its facilities and even the development of products that help consumers use energy more efficiently.

The portfolio effect is also expected to help species adapt to climate change.

However, to date, countries have not incorporated coastal blue carbon into their portfolio of climate change mitigation or coastal management policies and actions, largely because the mechanisms for assessing blue carbon were not well defined or standardized.

Investing to profit from the evolution in the market as a result of climate change should allow for a portfolio to weather any financial conditions over the long - term.

CLIMATE CHANGE PORTFOLIOS Legendary value investor Jeremy Grantham is devoting much of his time and wealth to combating climate change through his Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the EnvirCLIMATE CHANGE PORTFOLIOS Legendary value investor Jeremy Grantham is devoting much of his time and wealth to combating climate change through his Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the EnviroCHANGE PORTFOLIOS Legendary value investor Jeremy Grantham is devoting much of his time and wealth to combating climate change through his Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Envirclimate change through his Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Envirochange through his Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment.

Instead of being a weatherman, we pay serious attention to «climate change» — significant shifts in the global economy that can impact your portfolio.

Ritholtz pointed to a recent Bloomberg piece saying «hedge funds were betting on Sugar due to dryness» as evidence that portfolio changes are already being made in relation to climate change, but this is quite a ways off the mark in our opinion.

Strategies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are limited by cost and technological immaturity, but they could contribute to a broader portfolio of climate change responses with further research and development.

Through its climate change portfolio of over 300 projects worldwide, FAO is supporting countries to both mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change as an integral part of the 2030 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

However, instead of considering negative carbon emissions as potentially undermining to the proliferation of carbon free energy, the climate change mitigation community at large should consider the portfolio of options that can permanently sequester carbon as an enabler and accelerant.

So while the CPP may be political ambitious, it represents is only a small piece of what needs to be a more aggressive climate mitigation portfolio to align us with 2 degrees C warming scenarios that avoid dangerous climate change.

The charts in question are among the best known in the portfolio of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the established curators of the scientific consensus on global warming and the UN's chief scientific advisors to climate treaty negotClimate Change (IPCC), the established curators of the scientific consensus on global warming and the UN's chief scientific advisors to climate treaty negotclimate treaty negotiators.

Working together, South Pole Group and Global Footprint Network aim to further their common objectives of supporting the wider disclosure of carbon exposure of investor portfolios and mobilising investors and policymakers to act to minimise climate change.

As the public learns more about climate engineering technologies, they will look to ENGOs to understand what the policy issues are, and understand how these ideas fit in, it at all, with a climate change response portfolio.

This document argues that access to and development and use of a wide portfolio of genetic resources is an essential insurance policy that enables responses to future changes in production conditions due to the impact of climate change.

«Less land - intensive technologies like Direct Air Capture (DAC) have to be urgently considered as part of the climate change mitigation portfolio.»

Climate change adaptation research not only improves our ability to understand and define climate change impacts on western water resources, but it also develops a portfolio of tools for adapting water management as the climate cClimate change adaptation research not only improves our ability to understand and define climate change impacts on western water resources, but it also develops a portfolio of tools for adapting water management as the climate cclimate change impacts on western water resources, but it also develops a portfolio of tools for adapting water management as the climate cclimate changes.

It highlights the potential of CSP technologies to scale up renewable energy at the utility level, diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and mitigating climate change.

This policy document offers recommendations to the UNFCCC on how Carbon Capture Use and Storage, including carbon capture and storage for enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons, can positively contribute to net climate change mitigation outcomes as part of the policy portfolio established to support the post-2015 instrument.

Highlights elements of a long - term solution to global climate change including shifts in technology, reliance on a portfolio of technological options, and the critical role of government.

They believe «The entire portfolio of USACE Civil Works water resources infrastructure and programs, existing and proposed, could be affected by climate change and adaptation to climate change.

As water supplies become more vulnerable due to drought and the effects of climate change, it is critical that we diversify our water supplies to add more local sources into our water portfolio.

This is an initiative that seeks to encourage systemic change in national adaptation - related policy through evidence based results from a portfolio of community - driven climate change risk management projects.

Although Pennsylvania voters agree that climate change is causing problems now — and 69 % want the state to prioritize renewable energy over fossil fuels to drive down greenhouse gas emission — legislators haven't updated the state's woefully outdated Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard for fourteen years.

In April 2012, Pakistan's government elevated the issue of climate change to a cabinet level portfolio by renaming the Ministry of National Disaster Management the Ministry of Climate Change, and tasking it with overseeing research and implement projects to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce the risks to the cclimate change to a cabinet level portfolio by renaming the Ministry of National Disaster Management the Ministry of Climate Change, and tasking it with overseeing research and implement projects to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce the risks to the cochange to a cabinet level portfolio by renaming the Ministry of National Disaster Management the Ministry of Climate Change, and tasking it with overseeing research and implement projects to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce the risks to the cClimate Change, and tasking it with overseeing research and implement projects to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce the risks to the coChange, and tasking it with overseeing research and implement projects to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce the risks to the cclimate change and reduce the risks to the cochange and reduce the risks to the country.

The authors find that although Sweden's ambitions at the political level to integrate climate change considerations throughout its development portfolio have been made clear, this high - level message does not translate into concrete guidance for the staff of the Swedish development agency (Sida).

Other financial service activities can be affected depending on the exposure of invested assets / loan portfolios to climate change.

Our Portfolio includes projects that benefit the local environments in which they take place and contribute to the global effort against climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Used correctly, geo - engineering can stave off the worst effects of human - created climate change and buy the industrialized societies of the world time to shift their energy portfolios from fossil fuels to carbon - free sources.

On Tuesday, the new Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency will officially employ them, after Mr Rudd's decision to remove the home insulation responsibilities from Peter Garrett and his Environment portfolio.

Prior to joining IISD, he spent three years (2006 — 2008) with the Official Opposition Caucus in the Manitoba Legislature as a substantive policy researcher specializing in the portfolios of Science, Technology, Energy and Mines (including climate change) and Manitoba Hydro.

This would constitute the essence of a comprehensive, mutually reinforcing portfolio approach to risk management of climate change.

CCS offers the opportunity to meet climate change objectives while providing energy security, as part of a portfolio of options including energy efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear energy, more efficient coal technologies and fuel switching from coal to gas.

All that can be told — and certainly should be told — is that climate change brings new and changed risks, that these risks can have a range of significant implications under different conditions, that there is an array of political considerations to be taken into account when judging what needs to be done, and there are a portfolio of powerful, but somewhat untested, policy measures that could be tried.

The report, considerably more cautious, describes geoengineering as one element of a «portfolio of responses» to climate change and examines the prospects of two approaches — removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and enveloping the planet in a layer of sulfate particles to reduce the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

With new climate change legislation all but guaranteed, fossil fuel depletion a reality, and more and more states initiating new renewable portfolio standards, power plant developers are going to find it in their best interests to seek cleaner, safer forms of power generation.

It recognizes that a portfolio of adaptation and mitigation actions is required to reduce the risks of climate change.

As global concerns about climate change grow and implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement ramps up, the portfolio of decisions that could be made by nations and cities to avert the most deleterious effects of climate change are so consequential and so long - lasting that public deliberation stands as both an ethical and practical requirement.

Dr. Morrow walks carefully through the main arguments against support for SRM research — moral hazard, slippery slope, un-governability, and «inherent immorality» — and offers a careful weighing of the strengths of those contentions against what he terms the «core argument» in favor of SRM research, namely that SRM should be examined as a potentially valuable component of a portfolio of responses to climate change.

Despite established theory and proven practice regarding public participation and engagement, citizen consultation, and related fields, their application to climate change management, and in particular to assessing geoengineering as part of the portfolio of policy options, remains nascent.

She was most recently the Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the Regional Plan Association where she oversaw a diverse portfolio of issues ranging from climate change to greenspace preservation across the New York metropolitan region.

«The success of the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition is a clear signal to both governments and companies that climate change, and the corporate response to it, is critical to shareholder value and investor interests going forward,» said Solheim.