Sentences with phrase «combat international climate»

We're not going to stop pursuing efforts to combat international climate change in the face of one threat where we're able to do both.

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But HFCs are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound - per - pound basis, making them an obvious target for international efforts to combat climate change.

His action plan decreases carbon pollution, prepares the U.S. for increasingly severe weather patterns and spearheads an international effort to combat climate change.

Cuomo has joined 11 other governors prodding Trump to participate in international efforts to combat climate change.

The current administration is working on new, more stringent targets for international negotiations to combat climate change

The «new energy» economy rolls forward even as hopes for an international deal to combat climate change at Copenhagen shift into reverse.

The United States said Tuesday it plans to use its leverage within global development banks to limit financing for coal - fired power plants abroad, part of Washington's international strategy to combat climate change.

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

An international deal to combat climate change is meant to be agreed in December but a meeting in Bonn, Germany, last week ended with little progress toward an agreement to keep average temperature rises within 2C.

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No state can combat disease, climate change, or international terrorist organizations on its own — but any state can play a destructive and destabilizing role on its own.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the largest dedicated international climate fund, is expected to channel billions of dollars to help developing countries combat climate Climate Fund (GCF), the largest dedicated international climate fund, is expected to channel billions of dollars to help developing countries combat climate climate fund, is expected to channel billions of dollars to help developing countries combat climate climate change.

Every year, members of the international community meet to negotiate steps to combat climate change, a global problem desperately in need of a global solution.

The letter urges Theresa May to ask president - elect Donald Trump not to weaken efforts to fight global warming, to acknowledge the risks of climate change and to declare his support for international efforts to combat it.

Now after 21 years - meanwhile the Paris Agreement had been adopted and has entered into force - we welcome that the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is joining the world to combat climate change.

The EU is keen to work with the new US Administration to build a transatlantic and indeed global carbon market to act as the motor of a concerted international push to combat climate change.

Political momentum to combat climate change has grown remarkably since 195 adopted the Paris Agreement last December, with international agreements recently adopted for how to tackle emissions from aviation [1] and HFCs (Hydrofluorocarbons)[2].

WASHINGTON / OSLO, March 15 (Reuters)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has bashed international efforts to combat climate change and questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is dangerous and driven by human consumption of fossil fuels.

In addition to working for the Niskanen Center, Bookbinder also served as a senior policy advisor at the prestigious Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate climate change.

Hansen uttered one of his most - outlandish public statements on global warming in a lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2012, in which he compared the fight to combat climate change to ending slavery.

This Climate Plan focused on three major efforts: cut carbon pollution in America, prepare the Unites States for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to combat global climate Climate Plan focused on three major efforts: cut carbon pollution in America, prepare the Unites States for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to combat global climate climate change, and lead international efforts to combat global climate climate change.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

«Both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community»

In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.

Brown, who passed away in February, led arguments in the international negotiations to include forest management and protection as critical tools to combat global climate change.

3 October 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $ 13 million grant to Forest Trends and its Forest - Based Livelihoods Consortium to strengthen the role of indigenous and historically marginalized forest communities in combatting climate change.

In this file photo, he announced that New Jersey is going all - in on wind energy in an attempt to combat climate change and create a new industry to drive the economy, at the fifth annual International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum held in Princeton recently.

But in his international engagements, the President has worked hard to secure commitments from other countries with respect to reducing their emissions, and also supporting a Green Climate Fund that can facilitate the type of development that allows us to combat climate change while also allowing countries to continue to lift people out of pClimate Fund that can facilitate the type of development that allows us to combat climate change while also allowing countries to continue to lift people out of pclimate change while also allowing countries to continue to lift people out of poverty.

Millions of dollars spent on scientific research comes to the same conclusions our elders warned us of years ago — that «Combatting climate change is an urgent common challenge for the international community and requires immediate global action».

And it should not be forgotten that it was Monckton's former boss, Thatcher, who was instrumental in bringing climate change to the attention of the world's governments, and the creation of UK and international institutions to combat climate change.

If the international community aims to combat climate change and remain within carbon budget, then strong commitments to phase out fossil fuel use by

If the international community aims to combat climate change and remain within carbon budget, then strong commitments to phase out fossil fuel use by mid-century must be made by politicians around the world.

The search for international agreements and legal frameworks to «combat climate change» is a way of externalising what can not legitimately be done domestically.

... A group of international investors responsible for more than $ 15 trillion in assets called Tuesday for the world's nations, particularly the United States, to move decisively to combat climate change....

Signers of the attached petition include the U.S. and international atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, physicists, professors and others taking issue with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC], which was formed in 1992 to combat «dangerous» climate Climate Change [UNFCCC], which was formed in 1992 to combat «dangerous» climate climate change.

The International Monitory Fund (IMF) and World Bank have been calling on finance ministers to remove fossil fuel subsidies and use policies such as carbon taxes to reallocate resources and combat climate change.

The article, written by «nationally recognized financial writer» Chriss W. Street, then revisited the smear campaign known as «Climategate» (which had implicated Nature) and asserted that the study was «a tectonic rejection by academia» of international efforts to combat climate change.

In case anyone had their doubts that president - elect Barack Obama's commitment to combatting climate change (especially reengaging with the international community) and in promoting renewable energy, check out this video clip which was prepared for presentation at a Governor's Global Climate Summit happening in Caliclimate change (especially reengaging with the international community) and in promoting renewable energy, check out this video clip which was prepared for presentation at a Governor's Global Climate Summit happening in CaliClimate Summit happening in California.

He said at international meetings others had argued that measures to combat climate change would hurt their countries» economic development.

WHO's job will be made harder by the growing threat and worsening impacts of climate change For nearly seven decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has served as the international authority on issues in global health, working continuously to combat disease, promote public health, and support countries and communities who have been struck by natural disasters and other health emergencies.

Kadyszewski presented ACR's Climate Leadership award to Todd Stern, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2009 to 2016 in recognition of his leadership, insight and singular determination to secure international commitments to combat climate Climate Leadership award to Todd Stern, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2009 to 2016 in recognition of his leadership, insight and singular determination to secure international commitments to combat climate Climate Change from 2009 to 2016 in recognition of his leadership, insight and singular determination to secure international commitments to combat climate climate change.

* Aringhoff, R., C. Aubrey, G. Brakmann, and S. Teske, 2003: Solar thermal power 2020, Greenpeace International / European Solar Thermal Power Industry Association, Netherlands * ESTIA, 2004: Exploiting the heat from the sun to combat climate change.

The Kyoto Protocol binds the signatory countries to combat climate change and reduce carbon emission to serve overall goal of this international agreement.

As part of its international commitments under the Kyoto Protocol and its constitutional mandate to combat climate change, the EU adopted Directive 2008 / 101 / EC, by which the scope of the EU ETS, enacted by Directive 2003 / 87 / EC, was extended to include the air transport sector.