Sentences with phrase «climate emergency and»

The SA Greens call on the Australian Parliament and all levels of government to declare a Climate Emergency and initiate a society - wide mobilisation to restore, as quickly as possible, a climate that is safe for all people, species, and ecosystems, and 2.

WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration prepares to sign the Paris climate agreement, 350 environmental, social - justice, health and faith organizations filed a legal petition today urging President Barack Obama to declare a national climate emergency and end all U.S. crude oil exports.

«The trains are still coming and new fossil fuel projects are still being proposed; we're in the midst of a worldwide climate emergency and we're fighting back.»

Currently there is no legislation under which Parliament could declare a Climate Emergency and mobilise resources accordingly.

The Model Act drafted by Philip Sutton, the 40 - page «Climate Emergency (Restructuring & Mobilisation) Act», is an example of the type of legislation that would be required in order to declare a Climate Emergency and establish the mechanisms necessary for an orderly and effective restructuring of the economy.

You denounced the Paris climate agreement as a disastrously incremental approach to the climate emergency and called for a World War II - scale effort instead:

But far too many of the slogans on display asserted or implied that ending the climate emergency and avoiding climatic catastrophes like those that would occur months later — hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the mega-wildfires in the U.S. West — will be a simple matter of getting Donald Trump out of office and converting to 100 - percent renewable energy.

«That this House notes that on the first of January this year climate activist and adventurer Steve Posselt began a 1,330 kilometre kayak journey down the NSW coast from Ballina to Moruya and is today pulling his kayak inland to Canberra where later this week he will call on the Federal Government to declare a climate emergency and take urgent action to address climate change.

Darebin City Council to decide on Climate Emergency Plan on 21 August Darebin City Council has unanimously declared that we are in a state of climate emergency and committed to take strong action to address this.

«I respectfully request that your government put the mistakes of the last three years with respect to Climate Change to rights by declaring a climate emergency and adopting 100 % renewable energy target by removing our dependence on fossil fuels, immediately, by enabling legislation to achieve a liveable planet.»

Votes were approximately 30 for, 10 against the proposal that it does help to call it an emergency, and to call on governments to declare a climate emergency and mobilise society - wide resources at sufficient scale and speed to protect civilisation, the economy, people, species, and ecosystems.

So spake Deputy White House Press Secretary Raj Shah in November, in response to a long - awaited report from 13 Federal agencies that underscored the climate emergency and contradicted the Trump Administration's position.

Declaring a climate emergency and mobilising accordingly is a top - level ask.

Declaring a climate emergency and acting on it is a top - level ask that fundamentally encompasses many of the asks climate - motivated people in Australia are currently campaigning on.

We also ask the [state or territory] Parliament to urge the federal government to declare a climate emergency and mobilise resources accordingly to restore a safe climate as rapidly as possible.

The details of the petitions vary, but they all ask governments to declare a climate emergency and mobilise resources accordingly.

We wanted to raise the alarm on the climate emergency and urge greater action from the Scottish Government.

Not exact matches

If Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps incorporated future climate conditions, that move would send a ripple effect into real estate and insurance markets, forcing people to pay attention, he said.

The federal department of Environment and Climate Change asked KM to give it access to product information before shipment because having to chase after this information after a spill hinders emergency preparedness and delays response time.

Since that time he has been traveling to college campuses and churches preaching the gospel of climate emergency (and lamenting that there's nary a word about it in the churches, though were he to go to the liberal churches he would hear plenty about it).

It follows that through an unprecedented number of high level meetings and summits, our heads of states have attempted to manage the consequences of the crisis in a «trial and error» mode and always in a climate of emergency.

«Official forecasts will show George Osborne's emergency Budget hitting growth and costing jobs in the short term, government sources said last night, but the austerity measures will also create a brighter climate for the economy by the end of the parliament.

At 2 p.m., environmental justice advocates, community groups, and city officials will meet to stage an emergency drill to test and evaluate community preparedness for future hurricanes and other major climate disasters, THE POINT Community Development Corp., 940 Garrison Ave., the Bronx.

Rebuilding efforts have been slow and little action has been taken either to reduce the impact of future weather emergencies, or to slow down accelerating climate change.

Defenses against storms and floods, built on past events, will fail unless emergency planners use forward - looking data that account for rapid climate change

Communities should plan defenses and emergency responses based on the climate of the future, not the past

The organization is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and is trying to help promote more volunteer programs to deal with climate justice.

At that point we probably won't have time to wait around to see the benefits of cap - and - trade systems or research in photovoltaic technology, which raises the question: In case of a climate emergency, what can we do?

No mainstream scientists are advocating using geoengineering techniques right now, but more and more researchers feel that a worsening picture of global climate change warrants studying such interventions in case of a climate emergency in the future.

Such events can cause injuries and emergency room visits, but the changing climate also has oblique effects on health, such as reducing food security, altering the range of disease - spreading ticks and mosquitoes and harming mental health.

«The unfortunate thing is that with more and more extreme events, we are being requested with increasing frequency by emergency managers, by citizens, by the business community, by farmers... for more information on climate - scale events, which we define as anything beyond 14 days,» Lubchenco said.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

Climate change and pollution will combine to send more people to hospital emergency rooms in coming years, new research concludes.

The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

Instead of a single global climate emergency, a state of emergency just goes on as floods, fires, extreme storms, intense rainfall are pushed higher and higher by climate heating.

There was the Category 4 hurricane hitting land (unexceptional), the sustained heavy rainfall (exceptional), the exposure of the city to flooding and then the emergency response (little to do with «climate change» as such).

Most importantly, we are bringing together community members, parents, school principals and vice principals, teachers, local authorities, officials responsible for emergency situations, media and national authorities to discuss the importance of taking joint and coordinated action on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and biodiversity conservation, in a comprehensive manner and towards long - term solutions.

School Safety Plans Working together, schools and community partners can focus their emergency planning using time - tested national guidance, including efforts to build a positive school climate to establish relationships of trust and respect among students and staff in order to encourage them to share information about threatening behavior before an incident occurs.

The Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS) is seeking peer reviewers to evaluate FY14 grant proposals for the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program, the Project Prevent Grant Program, Grants to SEAs for Emergency Management, and the School Climate Transformation Grant Program.

The FY14 budget request also proposes new money to support school safety, including $ 50 million for school climate transformation grants that would help schools create positive learning environments and reduce bullying, and $ 30 million for emergency management grants that would help schools prepare for and respond to crisis events.

The Department of Education's budget includes $ 50 million for new School Climate Transformation Grants to help reduce behavior problems, and bullying, as well as $ 30 million for emergency management planning grants.

While the individual school reports provide assessment findings specific to each school, the master strategic report provides an overall picture of the safety, security, climate, culture and emergency preparedness at the district level.

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Standard equipment includes automatic climate control, power windows and locks, 10 - way power front seats with three - position memory, a navigation system and Mercedes - Benz's Tele Aid system, which offers emergency and theft - tracking services.

Standard equipment for the Touring trim includes 19 - inch alloy wheels, dual - zone climate control, low - speed automatic emergency braking, automatic headlights, and rain - sensing wipers.

Land Rover's InControl Protect emergency communication system is standard, and the standard InControl Remote system now lets you remotely start the engine, lock and unlock the doors, and activate the climate control system with your smartphone.

The 2017 Audi A4 comes with a tempting amount of flashy standard treats, including Xenon headlights with LED running lamps, LED taillights, three - zone automatic climate control, a sunroof, power front seats, keyless entry, a rearview camera, and Audi pre sense city emergency braking.

Interior packages include a $ 1600 Climate Comfort Package (heated and cooled front and heated rear seats, heated steering wheel, heated windshield), $ 1750 Row 3 Package, $ 800 Audio Upgrade (11 - speaker audio system, SiriusXM and HD radio), and $ 1295 Driver Assist Plus Package (Autonomous Emergency Braking, Lane Departure Warning with Traffic Sign Recognition, navigation system).

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