Sentences with phrase «climate change we»

Keystone XL is strongly opposed by environmentalists both in the United States and Canada, and President Obama says he won't approve the project until he's convinced it won't seriously contribute to climate change.

«Over the last year the global march to tackle climate change has been unwavering,» Andrew Light, a fellow at the World Resources Institute and a former State Department climate official, said in a statement.

Of course, this idea may not factor into Musk's motivation, but in the world of climate change mitigation and adaptation, perceptions matter.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

«He's looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don't have the votes to override,» Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal opponent of Obama's climate change agenda, said in an interview.

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

«You don't even need to believe in climate change and carbon and all that stuff,» says Keller, who supports a mandatory 10 - to 15 - year phaseout of fossil - fuel imports.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Between rising oil prices and ongoing concerns over climate change, there is growing pressure on the global shipping industry to cut its fuel consumption.

Both pipelines face two forms of opposition: widely dispersed environmentalists worried about climate change, and stakeholders along the route more concerned about oil spills.

The combined budget for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, would fall by 28 %, with funding cuts for the United Nations, climate change and cultural exchange programs.

In time, climate change is expected to spur a slow, global northern migration as temperatures become more hospitable closer to the Arctic.

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.

Continually refining its curriculum, JMSB has added eight new courses in the past year alone, including a summer finance course based in New York and the timely Global Climate Change: Business Opportunities and Threats course.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

Check out below which tech companies could have their offices flooded if climate change continues unabated.

Entrepreneur's are striving to make the world a better place, whether through eliminating climate change or poverty.

Perhaps you also could add in a question to Marco Rubio about climate change, given that it was put in the context of Rubio's position that «federal efforts to fight climate change will cost U.S. jobs and hurt the U.S. economy.»

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

Chase says the environmental risks posed by climate change mean companies need to find «platforms for participation,» or ways to trade resources with one another to limit environmental drain.

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

DiCaprio is a vocal campaigner for climate change awareness and has donated $ 20 million to combat its impact and causes through his foundation.

Trump may see some pushback from the other heads of state, however, for his contrarian views on climate change and free trade.

Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

Kasich is probably the only Republican candidate who acknowledges climate change, though he does not think the Environmental Protection Agency should regulate emissions.

Climate change has always been a hotly - debated issue.

Mother Jones» Kevin Drum, in «Our Approach to Climate Change Isn't Working.

In 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businesses.

Saildrone offers government researchers and private companies more easily accessible data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

Read: Exxon Has to Release Decades of Internal Climate Change Documents, a Massachusetts Judge Rules

Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

As the world population grows and concern about dwindling resources and climate change increase, there has been a push globally towards creating more sustainable cities.

«More capital at the early stage is going to drive the breakthroughs that will drive costs down,» said Brian Deese, Obama's senior adviser on climate change who announced the private - public sector initiative to reporters in Washington.

«With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, the world took a decisive step toward avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change,» the page used to read.

But the Pentagon maintains that climate change impacts, including refugees from drought - stricken areas of the world and rising sea levels, are a significant threat to national security, as The New York Times reported.

Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «No, New York Mag: Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behind it.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

'» — Robin Chase, the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, on climate change.

Grist's Meteorologist, Eric Holthaus, in «Stop scaring people about climate change.

Then Letterman kept grilling him on terrorism, the Middle East, pollution, and even climate change.

Slate's Science Editor, Susan Matthews, in «Alarmism Is the Argument We Need to Fight Climate Change» said the «global - warming horror story isn't too scary.

«Leo is serious about climate change,» Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown tells Fortune.

Cutmore covers the biggest business gatherings for CNBC including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos and China, the IMF / World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. and the United Nations Climate Change Conferences.

While explaining climate change in a single year is a lofty, if unrealistic, goal, Saildrone is already making use of the data it gathers.

Ant Financial's Ant Forest app has lured 450 million users in China to do just that, in fulfillment of parent Alibaba Group's pledge to use financial technology to tackle climate change.

China itself is suppressing its appetite for coal, albeit more for reasons of pollution than climate change.

Pruitt himself has gone on television telling the demonstrable lie that the science on climate change is unsettled.

Some want to generate green energy to combat climate change.

CalPERS, the California Public Employees» Retirement System, which voted in favor of the climate change proposal at Exxon's shareholder's meeting Wednesday, also released a statement.