Sentences with phrase «collective climate efforts»
Among other things, it means that our collective climate efforts haven't even prevented greenhouse - gas levels from increasing, at a point when we need to be radically cutting them.
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Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.
After writing — either about personal responsibility for climate change, collective responsibility, or their everyday activities — all of the participants were asked, should they win, how much of that $ 100 they would be willing to donate to Audubon's climate - change efforts.
The only way to truly solve the climate crisis and to protect the Amazon rain forest is through a collective effort comprised of a range of strategies from all fronts.
«The scientific talent leading these studies, the partnership with industry and access to their facilities, and the diverse research methods used, gives us the confidence that when the project concludes in late 2014, we'll be able to greatly increase our understanding of the climate impacts of switching to natural gas from other fossil fuels, through this unprecedented collective research effort,» said EDF Chief Scientist Steve Hamburg.
If an army of activist groups around the world were to mount an organized effort to force governments to address the coming climate nightmare in a collaborative — rather than competitive — effort to manage the upheavals, it could provide a very different direction for our collective future.
The report outlines areas where USCA states will focus collective efforts, including to expand clean energy finance tools, modernize the power sector, design energy efficient buildings, develop a green transportation system, build climate resilient infrastructure, and protect natural resources.
If the critical threshold for climate catastrophe could be identified with scientific certainty, their research suggests that countries very likely would propose a collective target certain to avoid catastrophe, would pledge to contribute their fair share to the global effort, and would act so as to fulfill their promises.
It is more evidence, heaped upon an ever - growing pile, that collective effort to forestall climate disruption is encountering headwinds from behavioral finance,... Continue reading →
All of these questions are good and necessary, but following the 2015 UN Climate Conference in Paris, we must accept that we have a problem that is in large part of our own making and that it will get worse without a collective global effort to address it.
The United Church of Christ, a liberal Protestant denomination and the fifteenth - largest religious collective in the United States, has been at the forefront of faith - based climate efforts.
Set a collective aim of reducing climate vulnerability and strengthening resilience; commit parties to implement adaptation efforts; and periodically assess adaptation progress (see Articles 7.1, 7.9, and 7.14).
As another long season of climate diplomacy gets underway, hopes for success rest on fresh ideas, momentum and a re-energised sense of collective effort sharing, today's collection of papers concludes.
My view is that Muller's efforts to promote himself by belittling the collective efforts of the entire atmospheric / climate research community over several decades, though, really does the scientific community a disservice....
Perhaps Gelbspan has no direct current involvement in global warming political efforts, but regarding the question of where he is these days, the answer seems to indicate that his collective past efforts are worthy of deep professional level investigation in relation to all the current focus on using racketeering laws to persecute skeptic climate scientists and the organizations having any association with them.
Though the book covers much of the same ground, albeit at a lower reading level, as Al Gore's famous global warming presentation, it is never alarmist, and instead focuses on the grounded evidence for global climate change and the collective efforts of many different kinds of scientists.
Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and international level, for: assessing the international community's collective and individual efforts to address climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.
In response to all the threats, Climate Solutions is part of a broad constituency as part of the Stand Up to Oil campaign, opposing with a collective voice the industry efforts to turn our region into a fossil fuel highway, supporting efforts to make existing transport safer and working to hasten our transition to clean energy.
UN News Center: Senior United Nations officials hailed the opening in the Republic of Korea today of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund as a significant step in the collective effort to support mitigation, adaptation and resilience measures in developing countries.
Regarding climate change skeptics, remember that conservatism prizes individual action over collective efforts.
Nearly 200 nations came together to sign a climate treaty in Paris last year, but even their collective efforts to reduce emissions will not be enough to keep the planet at a safe level of temperature rise.