Sentences with phrase «conversation about climate»

By demanding that those who profit the most from climate change pay their fair share, BC local governments can dramatically reshape the global conversation about climate change and the fossil fuel industry.

He talks about how stuck the country's conversation about climate change has been, but how for the first time in a long time, it seems that might change.

The artist Jane D Marsching has invited you all to join the ongoing conversation about climate change over at Climate Commons.

Offsets have been a useful mechanism to start conversation about climate change.

Let us start any conversation about climate change with this data.

Shifting the Conversation about Climate Change: Strategies to build public demand for action.

«24 Hours of Reality sparked a global conversation about the climate crisis and its solutions for a full 24 hours,» said Stacie Cobos, senior vice president of communications and marketing at The Climate Reality Project.

This year, Zoë and her club are planning a Youth Climate Summit in order to encourage conversation about climate change among younger generations.

The farther you are from the Beltway, the more you can have a conversation about climate no matter how people vote.

What's the best way for someone to engage in a productive conversation about climate change with someone who dismisses the facts?

It's understandable how, if a person had never once consulted a scientific paper or sat down for a serious, ideology - free conversation about climate change with one of the overwhelming majority of scientists who agree that man - made climate change is a real, observable phenomenon, he could be confused into thinking that the greatest challenge of our time is comparable to the medieval superstitious that arose in the absence of scientific understanding.

FCEA was constituted in 2013, out of a recognition that the conversation about climate engineering responses to climate change was growing rapidly in importance, yet was narrowly restricted in terms of the scope of actors and interests.

Hamilton's voice is an important one in the emerging conversation about climate engineering.

As was reported on Earthblog, no one I spoke to could recall a recent conversation about climate change.

But the Vatican - led campaign is a significant sign that the conversation about climate change may be shifting.

Meat has not been part of the global conversation about climate change for far too long, as governments fear backlash from powerful meat lobbies and the angry public, and as a result many individuals have not yet learned about the impact it has.

Since the early 1990s we have made basically no progress in cutting global emissions — in part, as Kerry says, because the conversation about climate change policy strategy hasn't really changed.

The Institute also shared its new initiative, Climate in the Parks, with leaders around the country, beginning a grassroots park movement to shift the conversation about climate across our nation.

The dating sites plastered all over the news and radio, such as Eharmony and Match.com, don't cater to us nerds and geeks, and it might be hard to fall in love with someone who refuses to even go, forget cosplay, with you at the next anime convention, or who doesn't want to sit and have a marathon of your favorite sci - fi show, or have an intellectual conversation about climate change..

They wanted to have a nice conversation about climate change.»

«I think that art and comedy and humor — if you put those first, you might get past that emotional barrier, and have an honest conversation about climate change.»

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

They still do: virtually every conversation about climate change in Canada these days includes the words «Trump» and «competitiveness.»

In February unusually high tides — «higher than anyone has ever remembered,» Stege says — sparked conversations about climate change among Marshall Islanders.

«It is now so big that it will inevitably be part of conversations about climate change, pollution and migration.

In conversations about climate change, two different worlds tend to emerge: the scientific community and public opinion.

Suggested Topic: Conversations about climate and sustainability seem to have a way of making no progress.

Conversations about climate and clean energy, great meals with wonderful people, any kind of writing and going to events with inspiring speakers that change the way I see the world

This presentation is designed for distribution to schools, teachers, students, and other groups for use in support of deeper conversations about climate recovery and the remedy being requested in Juliana v. U.S..

You will have many conversations about climate change and they will be varied, because people are all different.

How could you incorporate your story into your communications / conversations about climate change?

In 2004, Nordhaus and Shellenberger coauthored «The Death of Environmentalism,» igniting a national debate that continues to influence conversations about climate, energy, and the environment.

Not exact matches

Canada's climate conversation can't just be about what we're going to cut.

A podcast conversation about the impact that food technology can have on climate change, sustainability, and healthcare costs.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

So, in an effort to inspire a bit of «climate change,» at least in this little corner of the blogosphere, I thought I'd start a conversation about hope.

While some lawmakers have leveled criticism toward ESD because of the funds spent promoting START - UP, the real problem it poses is the distraction it causes from conversation about the actual culprits behind New York's difficult business climate.

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

It may enable the restarting of the discussion (Rosina Bierbaum [a PCAST member and professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor] called it the «conversation») about climate change.

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

That's the conclusion of a 5 - year study, which found that when news organizations ran a number of stories on controversial topics like water quality and climate change in close succession, they significantly boosted public conversations about these topics — and even changed some people's minds.

Beginning of an international conversation A State Department spokeswoman declined to offer details about the climate finance meeting preparations or its goals.

«But if we change the conversation to bullying can actually damage the entire school climate, then that motivates and galvanizes the overall will of the school community to do something about it.»

«I think I'm about as young as you can get for being a person who started in glaciology at a time when climate change was not a primary part of the conversation,» says Moon, who is 35.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

His weekly show Radio EcoShock is broadcast on about 100 radio stations around the globe, and we always have great conversations about the latest climate change zeitgeist.

You can even propose questions for a POT SD to answer as a conversation starter with you like, How do you feel about climate change?

Fink and Geller: We believe that conversations about the Common Core must include a sustained focus on character education, social - emotional learning, and positive school climate.

We can have a much better conversation about academies in this new climate.