Sentences with phrase «climate leadership roles»

Schools should reimagine mission statements as action statements, develop school - based action plans and develop school climate leadership roles for teachers.

State Leadership: A Conversation with Governor Kate Brown followed by a U.S. State and Provincial Panel Tuesday, November 14th 14:30 - 16:00 Paris Dome The climate leadership role of U.S. states has been magnified as they step in to continue reducing emissions to meet state and Paris Agreement goals.

The climate leadership role of U.S. states has been magnified as they step in to continue reducing emissions to meet state and Paris Agreement goals.

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At the same time, Trump has been seen withdrawing America from its global leadership role, after exiting both the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Such efforts have become more prominent under Xi as the Chinese president vows to take on a leadership role in global affairs from trade to climate change to cyberspace governance.

Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease Environmental: climate change, aging trees, unfertile soil Social: limited access to education, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women Financial: poverty, lack of access to finance

To maintain its leadership role in the fight against poverty, Britain needs to commit to playing its part in tackling global challenges and implementing the SDGs to address poverty, climate change and other issues.

«We will not ignore the science and reality of climate change which is why I am also signing an Executive Order confirming New York's leadership role in protecting our citizens, our environment, and our planet.»

Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.

«The fact is that China has taken an undisputed leadership role,» U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said during a recent talk in Washington, adding, «Who would have been able to tell us that China would have been able to accept or even propose a peaking of coal?»

He described it as a sign that the Chinese leadership is thinking differently — not just about climate change, but about its role in the world.

Two more Republicans who have publically denied the role of human activity in climate change — Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — have assumed leadership of two influential subcommittees of the Senate commerce, science and transportation committee.

One manager at Exxon Research, Harold N. Weinberg, shared his «grandiose thoughts» about Exxon's potential role in climate research in a March 1978 internal company memorandum that read: «This may be the kind of opportunity that we are looking for to have Exxon technology, management and leadership resources put into the context of a project aimed at benefitting mankind.»

Vision PNNL will take a leadership role in the incorporation of aerosols into climate models, through integrative research on atmospheric aerosol interactions and through development of innovative instrumentation and measurement techniques.

She teaches 7th / 8th grade students and serves her school community in leadership roles, including being part of the school climate committee and running an after - school mentoring program.

Of the six elements, one — distributed leadership — speaks specifically to the principal's vital role, while the other five refer to elements that principals have significant influence on, such as teaching, climate, and family engagement.

We also encourage applicants who aspire to be in leadership roles in schools, especially as they relate to SEL, character development, and / or culture and climate.

The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).

In her role at the department she provides leadership to 143 school districts on School Safety, Extended Learning, School Climate, Coordinated School Health, Alternative Education, and Project AWARE.

In that role, Dr. Mone worked with the campus» senior leadership, governance groups, and all stakeholders to develop UWM's 2020 strategic plan, and campus - level programs to improve the organizational climate.

The students were also challenged to consider taking up leadership role as climate change negotiators and be the future ambassadors in the climate change forum.

The Catholic Church, working with the leadership of other religions, can now take a decisive role by mobilizing public opinion and public funds to meet the energy needs of the poorest 3 billion people, thus allowing them to prepare for the challenges of unavoidable climate and eco-system changes.

Conscious of our leadership role in meeting such challenges, we, the leaders of the world's major economies, both developed and developing, commit to combat climate change in accordance with our common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and confront the interlinked challenges of sustainable development, including energy and food security, and human health.

To move this leadership forward, Alberta is also hosting the Cities & Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton, as part of the CitiesIPCC campaign led by C40 and ICLEI, to ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to focus on the active role of cities — and per extension, of sub-national governments at every level — on tackling climate Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton, as part of the CitiesIPCC campaign led by C40 and ICLEI, to ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to focus on the active role of cities — and per extension, of sub-national governments at every level — on tackling climate Climate Change to focus on the active role of cities — and per extension, of sub-national governments at every level — on tackling climate climate change.

This means, as Reuters explains: «the Obama administration, which has said the United States will play a leadership role at the Paris climate negotiations, will not risk the possibility of having its signature climate policy blocked at the U.N. summit.»

As stated during the October 11 edition of 60 Minutes, he sees his role in Paris as more important than fighting ISIS: «My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that potentially we'll get in Paris.»

Likewise, we look to you to guide ExxonMobil to capitalize on its significant resources and prominent industry position to assist this country in taking its appropriate leadership role in promoting the technological innovation necessary to address climate change and in fashioning a truly global solution to what is undeniably a global problem.

Their Chief Sustainability Officer Niklas Gustafsson, who has spent almost 30 years at the company, spoke at the Climate Savers Business Event about their engagement on the road to Paris and their role and ambition within climate leadClimate Savers Business Event about their engagement on the road to Paris and their role and ambition within climate leadclimate leadership.

While the Climate REDI program does not omit China from consideration, its absence from a leadership role is noteworthy.

It is a future in which the IWC plays a primary role in the health and protection of our oceans, a future in which the body exerts greater leadership in respect to the raft of threats that jeopardize all marine life, whether it be oil spills, radioactive contamination, entanglement in fishing gear and marine debris, ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, emerging diseases, climate change or all of these cumulatively and synergistically.

China and the European Union have used the Trump moves on climate and energy to assume, at least rhetorically, a leadership role in the public discourse over limiting global warming.

We will not ignore the science and reality of climate change which is why I am also signing an Executive Order confirming New York's leadership role in protecting our citizens, our environment, and our planet.

The leadership of the United States and China played a critical role in spurring such early action, but year after year, European countries have championed the fight against climate change.

Opposition politicians said it showed Cameron had given up any pretence of leadership on climate change and that he was sending out the wrong signals by not filling the role.

At the very moment President Obama is committing the U.S. to a leadership role in combating so - called «global warming» and «climate change,» scientists are breaking with the hypothesis that temperatures around the world are on a steady increase for the foreseeable future.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is the nation's first program to use an innovative market - based mechanism to cap and cost - effectively reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that cause the climate to change, and New York State took a leadership role in adopting regulations that lowered the emissions cap.

Energy Policies of IEA Countries: France 2016 The IEA praised France's leadership role in climate change mitigation and green finance around the world and at home.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) might have played this important role, but its leadership was quickly captured by political operatives, determined to support climate alarmism, even when this was at odds with the findings of honest scientists who wrote technical parts of IPCC rClimate Change (IPCC) might have played this important role, but its leadership was quickly captured by political operatives, determined to support climate alarmism, even when this was at odds with the findings of honest scientists who wrote technical parts of IPCC rclimate alarmism, even when this was at odds with the findings of honest scientists who wrote technical parts of IPCC reports.

Monsanto, a global agricultural company headquartered in St. Louis, says it is taking a leadership role as the sector deals with climate change.

Now it's likely — as during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration — that the U.S. will go AWOL, abandoning its international climate change policy leadership role and its responsibilities to the international community and to the planet.

The ECF was established in early 2008 as a major philanthropic initiative to promote climate and energy policies that greatly reduce Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and to help Europe play an even stronger international leadership role to mitigate climate change.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to highlight the role of corporate leadership on renewables in developing a cleaner economy, The Climate Group has hosted a RE100 high - level roundtable event, «Scaling Corporate Renewable Electricity Demand In India».

Miami is on the forefront of the climate fight, and the training will highlight climate issues specific to the region, the political and social conversation around renewable energy deployment and the key leadership role the Latino community has on climate change action.

In the lead - up to the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, most Australians expect their government to take a leadership role internationally on emissions reductions.

His industry experience includes leadership roles in strategy development and scenario planning, alliance management, and energy trading, with a background in alternative energy, climate policy, global refining & marketing, and logistics.

«Political credibility of the EU's leadership role in international climate negotiations will be seriously undermined if there is no transparency about the achievements made cutting carbon dioxide emissions at home,» Ms Bollendorff explained.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the nation's first program to use an innovative market - based mechanism to cap and cost - effectively reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that cause the climate to change, and New York State took a leadership role in adopting regulations that lowered the emissions cap.

(Gothenburg, Sweden, 7 May, 2015): WWF's flag ship business programme Climate Savers is marking 15 years of corporate leadership in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by introducing a new measuring standard, reflecting the global shift in the role of business in fighting climate Climate Savers is marking 15 years of corporate leadership in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by introducing a new measuring standard, reflecting the global shift in the role of business in fighting climate climate change.

For me, being engineering trained in chemistry and physics and quantitative methods and with 40 years working on the science of Climate Change (both cooling and warming), including nearly 30 as a Board Member of the NOAA Program in Climate Change and 14 with IPCC leadership roles, I seriously doubt there is enough CO2 or any other trace gas to really matter significantly.

We have heard from Ambassador Yu Qingtai and from the Chinese UN Mission Climate Advisor Liu Yuyin that China's demand for a robust financial structure to an agreement is informed by China's sense of responsibility in taking a leadership role among developing countries (see previous posts «China in Copenhagen Day 3: It's getting hot in here — Tuvalu raises the bar, China reacts» and «A Stern Warning?