Sentences with phrase «climate crisis by»

The Climate Reality Project is working to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.

Founded by Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore, The Climate Reality Project is working to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.

Dirty Oil: How the tar sands are fueling the global climate crisis by Andrew Nikiforuk for Greenpeace, September 2009

How cool would it be to solve a big slice of the climate crisis by solving an even bigger slice of the biodiversity crises?

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate is a very child friendly, easy - to - read book that helps readers better understand the climate crisis by giving solid evidence, such as bird migratory patterns and the melting icecaps, to explain what is happening.

Our Climate and Energy program is addressing the climate crisis by challenging fossil fuel extraction and use, promoting energy efficiency and promoting appropriate sustainable energy choices.

Suncor and Exxon «knowingly and substantially contributed to the climate crisis by producing, promoting and selling a substantial portion of the fossil fuels that are causing and exacerbating climate change, while concealing and misrepresenting the dangers associated with their intended use,» the complaint says.

Their mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.

Patrick McCully, Climate and Energy Program Director of Rainforest Action Network, said, «RAN is pleased to keep its money at a bank that supports sustainable businesses and non-profits and shares our values, unlike the big banks who are fueling the climate crisis by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into extreme fossil fuels every year.

It all started with a school presentation and today Plant - for - the - Planet is a global movement with an ambitious goal: to fight the climate crisis by planting trees around the world.

Climate Reality's mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.

Those processes and practices by Think Eco-Logical are intended to help get data centers and IT businesses through the down economy by saving them money, as well as help the global climate crisis by shrinking the giant carbon footprint of the industry.

Rather than looking to forests to solve the current climate crisis by capturing carbon dioxide, he suggests targeting our «energy system,» which continues to create the pollutant.

Not exact matches

Having been called upon by global leaders to use its technology to address the global crises of climate change and poverty, Cisco opts to pursue sustainability...

How the Vatican is improving our climate, global poverty, and our waste crisis By Ibrahim AlHusseini Dec 3, 2016 I was recently invited to participate in an unusual investment conference hosted at an even more unusual venue: the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, at the Vatican, in Vatican City, Rome.

With negotiations under way for the UK to leave the European Union, he argued for a cross-party approach and stressed that a partnership with Europe, needed to deal with the challenges posed by the refugee crisis and climate change, would require that Britain's «parting is carried out well».

Mr. Cohn - Bendit began the debate by characterizing the current climate as «a turning point in European history, because the European Union is confronted with one of its most serious crises, caused by the financial crisis».

... only the privileged can afford the status quo represented by Hillary Clinton, from growing inequality and persistent poverty to the climate crisis and endless wars.

The Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned that the havoc caused by recent storms and floods shows Britain is sleepwalking into a climate change crisis.

«Action against the climate crisis has been stymied by pressure from the same special business interests that are wrecking our economy, depressing wages, and pressing Congress and the White House to repeal labor rights and protections.

That mirrored other polls showing a growth in climate skepticism over the same time frame, a phenomenon that has been explained by the economic crisis, weather and the «Climategate» scandal, which revealed scientists wrangling in hacked emails (ClimateWire, Dec. 3, 2009).

These examples underscore the many options available to alleviate a growing global water crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation groups.

The report was accompanied by endorsements from a long list of climate change luminaries, including former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose blurb reads: «Without immediate action to solve the climate crisis, catastrophic warming will fundamentally change our planet and disrupt the climate balance in which human civilization has flourished.

The national security establishment needs to prepare for a series of global crises sparked by climate change, a group of experts wrote in a report released today.

Unsustainable, inefficient, often violent, and marked by stark inequalities of wealth and opportunity, cities are increasingly vulnerable to social and economic crises, natural disasters, climate change, and other challenges of the coming era.

The water crisis is being driven by several factors: climate change, an expanding population, local mismanagement and a greater demand on farmers.

The coral reefs of the world are in crisis, endangered by a number of coastal threats such as overfishing, pollution, and coastal development as well as global threats such as climate change.

It's ridiculous enough politicians are blaming the refugee crises on man - made climate change, even though everyone knows they are really caused by foreign policy ineptitude and debacles.

Did ExxonMobil violate any Congressional rules by giving Soon a grant just two months after Soon told Congress he had no financial conflicts of interest, after telling them that climate change isn't a crisis?

Stem cell breakthrough by Lanza and colleagues was voted the year's top story, beating the Ebola outbreak, climate change crisis, entangled photons, cosmic inflation, as well as the year's other science stories ranging from topics in space exploration to mathematics, technology, paleontology, and the environment.

Time to Choose (Unrated) Eco-documentary, directed by Oscar - winner Charles Ferguson (Inside Job) and narrated by Oscar Isaac, exploring solutions for the climate change crisis.

Such thinking — recently popularised by Timothy Morton's book «Being Ecological» — has emerged partly from the environmental crises of the moment: climate change, mass extinction and widespread plastic pollution.

We wanted to provide an opportunity for social justice activists who had dissociated from their investment portfolio to invest their money and their trust in communities most impacted by racial, climate and economic crises.

Within that, events caused by war, terrorism, political unrest, racism, sexism, immigration, economic crisis, climate change, pollution, epidemics, mental illness, and the tenuous boundaries between the real and the virtual can be described as ruptures.

According to Finkel, «a personal sense of crisis» brought on by the current political climate in the U.S. pervades Tomorrow is Another Day, which was named after the last line of Margaret Mitchell's epic Civil War novel Gone with the Wind.

Chin's work often reflects on current events — this time around, his concerns include the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and rising sea levels brought on by climate change — while also seeking ways to bring art to a broader audience.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

This encampment explores how the queers and activists who struggled through the crisis of the 80s and 90s are surviving / dealing / getting by in a present marked by gentrification, evictions, the migration of more and more of our lives onto online spaces, pronounced income inequality, the advent of high - deductible health care, and a political climate that asks us to celebrate the legalization of same sex marriage but leave behind many of our radical queer aspirations.

The mediatorship has by now completely buried the climate crisis deep below the «financial crisis» even as the climate crisis completely dwarfs the «financial» (which not one economic theory is able to explain or was able to foresee, but those «theories» are met with enormous respect in the same media industry which ridicules overwhelmingly consensual climate science).

How about BAU with carbon dioxide buildup partially masked by aerosol - induced global dimming, building climate crisis leading to a major economic recession?

For those who seek to curtail travel in a feeble attempt to fight global warming: Given the non-emergency that climate change has thus far proven to be and the real and dire crises that presently plague the planet, should we also deny transportation (by aid organizations and concerned citizens) to regions, like the Darfur or Sierra Leone, that require our immediate attention?

After the stunning victory, one of the scientists on the side promoting the belief in a climate «crisis» appeared to concede defeat by noting his debate team was «pretty dull» and at «a sharp disadvantage» against the skeptics.

I speak to college and high school kids all the time, and I know one can not simply be negative in discussing the climate crisis or they will turn off and become paralyzed by despair (as many grown - ups already have).

The message would resonate with more people if it were launched during a heat wave or following some other natural calamity that could be blamed on global warming (which I assume is the global climate crisis referred to by video).

I just heard the Keenlyside cooling prediction used on the radio to argue that there is no such thing as a climate crisis (by a guy from the office of Sen. James Inhofe, he of the hoax comment).

Dr. Somerville was on the team attacking that premise, but he offered a definition of the word «crisis» that was very different than those used by many climate campaigners, including former Vice President Al Gore.

A majority of Americans do not consider the climate crisis to be particularly important: According to a poll carried out in January by the Pew Research Center, only 30 percent of Americans rated global warming as a top priority for President Obama.

Basically the argument is that we who live in the industrialized countries that emitted most of the carbon that created the climate crisis have to acknowledge our historical responsibility, first by leading the way on emission reductions, then by offering assistance to countries that did little or nothing to cause the crisis but are suffering the worst effects.

More importantly, the conclusion is that, perhaps, there is no «climate crisis», and that currently - fashionable efforts by governments to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions are pointless, may be ill - conceived, and could even be harmful.»

Naval forces will also need to meet growing demands for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts in response to a range of predicted crises created by climate change, including floods, droughts, intense storms, and geopolitical unrest.