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New Zealand last month chose to align climate efforts with the largest emitters such as U.S. and China by taking its pledge under the United Nations Convention Framework, after passing changes to its emissions trading scheme that critics including the Green Party said weakened its obligations.

Not exact matches

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

«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.

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

Exxon Mobil (xom) has stepped up efforts to persuade investors to vote against climate - related proposals at Wednesday's annual meeting with a campaign of calling, writing and lobbying shareholders in person.

Activists working with immigrant voters say a «climate of fear» — stoked by rising deportation arrests and the failure of Congress and Trump to strike a deal on DACA — is stirring greater interest in their voter outreach efforts for the upcoming midterms.

The Solar Now paddling centre installation was made possible through a collaborative effort between the City of Vancouver, the North Growth Foundation and Clean Energy Canada, along with support from community sponsors the Great Climate Race, Bullfrog Power and the Community Energy Association.

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury's visit to IRRI is part of the minister's efforts to help the Bangladesh rice sector cope with the drastic effects of climate change and degradation of natural resources through the institute's advanced agricultural technologies and innovative farming approaches.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

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«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects of climate change on a global scale.

And, Bradshaw noted, much of the improvement coincides with the Obama administration's efforts to fund research and use its, ahem, bully pulpit to improve school climate.

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In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

In effect, they almost resemble an effort to design the new agreement beginning with a blank sheet of paper, loosened from the norms that have guided the past two decades of the climate negotiations.

De Blasio has sought to position New York City as a leader in the fight against climate change, but even as he has committed to quickly come up with an aggressive plan to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the agency that is supposed to lead that effort is in flux.

In his new role, Mr. Gennaro will further DECs efforts to prepare and make New York City more resilient to meet the challenges associated with climate change and to rebuild after recent storm events.

Many of them feel global warming or man - made climate change is real and wish to help with the efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.

«New York is aggressively working to cut greenhouse emissions and reduce the state's carbon footprint, and with the addition of this new microgrid, the Empire State Plaza will support our ongoing efforts to combat climate change,» Cuomo said in a statement.

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Miliband is making a concerted effort to push next week's Paris climate change talks up the political agenda, with a Guardian article saying the UK should put in legislation a target to eradicate carbon emissions completely.

«Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface are key drivers of their local tourism economies, and with this commitment they are joining New York's nation - leading efforts to fight climate change, reduce our carbon footprint and foster the development of renewal resources,» Cuomo said in the release.

The main focus of the summit, with the theme, «Climate Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.Climate Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.climate change.»

Since Mr. Trump announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, 14 Democratic and Republican governors have announced that they would continue to uphold the accord and push forward with their own efforts to reduce emissions.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

With the scientific community still reeling from the University of East Anglia email hacking scandal, it is clear that a concerted effort needs to be made to ensure that climate science is seen to be robust and open to scrutiny.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

For this effort, he teamed up with Pulitzer Prize - winning political cartoonist Tom Toles to explore public perception of climate change.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

In the amicus brief, the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund sides with the university arguing that E&E Legal Institute's efforts «are part of a broader trend of harassment that threatens the core of the scientific endeavor.»

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develClimate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develclimate - resilient development.

Inhofe attacks «environmental agenda» These messages don't sit well with conservatives who say that a focus on climate change detracts from efforts to contain terrorism and siphons away needed resources.

With plans that incorporate efforts made by the Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation and Defense departments, among others, the administration's effort acknowledges that climate impacts are happening now and require action

It's an effort to replace government - built satellite systems that collect and then share data with much cheaper privately owned systems, which in turn collect and sell weather, climate and other kinds of needed information to governments and private customers around the world.

The issue of curbing deforestation was a rare area of consensus at the climate summit in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, with six countries — the United States, Norway, Japan, Britain, France and Australia — signing on to pay $ 3.5 billion to fund the REDD + deforestation effort over three years.

With such episodes projected to occur more often even if climate change is mitigated, researchers are redoubling efforts to identify the factors that can make a reef resilient to harsh conditions.

«We want to put up a multitower array with connecting cables so we can instrument these gaps [where CO2 may be leaking]» and use this intelligence to inform governments how to move forward with their efforts to control climate change.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climatclimate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green ClimateClimate Fund.

A new effort will be launched to craft research restrictions for geoengineering, or large scale efforts to tinker with the planet's climate system

The effort was dispersed among many different scientific fields, each with something different to say about climate change.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

«This data will be used as a predictive management tool to inform conservation efforts to restore condor populations, particularly with regard to emerging threats such as climate change and wind energy impacts,» added Sheppard

And the Atlantic is not the only ocean on the globe with such mercurial currents: A similar effort to understand the dynamics of the southern ocean around Antarctica would help explain the complexity of ocean and climate interactions.

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

Lin's research effort emerged from a discussion last summer between her and the Climate Group, a nonprofit organization that works with corporations and governments to develop low - carbon technologies and economies.

With the help of the Delta Institute and the Climate Trust, nonprofits focused on market - driven emissions reduction efforts, offsets are paid out to farmers when they document reductions in their nitrogen fertilizer use.

The researchers hope their work will help resource managers and scientists keep a close eye on species that are moving north with climate change over time, and predict their impact on other species so they can concentrate conservation efforts and future research accordingly.

The work could bolster climate modellers» efforts to depict the way soil moisture and vegetation interact with the atmosphere, says Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

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