Sentences with phrase «critical environmental challenge»

Fabius, who also served as president of the successful 2015 Paris climate negotiations, adds unrivalled experience and diplomatic weight to the push for international consensus on critical environmental challenges.

The lack of adequate, safe and sustainable waste management has been one of the most critical environmental challenges facing the world's developing countries; island nations in particular must grapple with growing consumption and finite space for waste disposal.

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WASHINGTON, Sep. 19 / CSRwire / - RESOLVE, known for forging sustainable solutions to critical environmental, social, and health challenges appointed new governors and strategic partners at its annual meeting today.

There is no better opportunity to help feed the hungry and reduce our environmental footprint than tackling the challenge of food waste and the communications subcommittee is the a critical component of reaching our goals.

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

My experience with the environmental research community suggests that it is critical to sensitize young scientists to the concept of worldview if they want to address the global challenges we face in the Anthropocene.

In a recent paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Shapira, who studies the gut microbes of the nematode C. elegans, reviews evidence that demonstrates how microbiotas affect and contribute to host evolution, either by evolving along with the host, or by stepping in at critical moments to help the host adapt to a new environmental challenge.

Research at EMSL, located on the PNNL campus, focuses principally on developing a molecular - level understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that underlie the nations» most critical environmental and energy challenges.

To increase opportunities for research, education and training that strengthen scientific capacities in developing countries to understand, communicate and motivate action on critical global environmental change challenges.

«Seismic Shifts» will showcase artists and architects whose work challenges disciplinary boundaries and raises critical social, environmental and political...

«Seismic Shifts» will showcase artists and architects whose work challenges disciplinary boundaries and raises critical social, environmental and political issues and will include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media, video, and architectural models created between 2005 and 2012, with a number of new works featured.

The local economy failed and its citizens faced critical health challenges caused by the environmental hazards left behind.

This curated exhibition of new work by our current 3D Design students will explore how today's most pressing challenges — such as social and economic inequalities, rampant material consumption, and environmental degradation — can become subjects for critical and poetic reflection in design objects.

We are proactively working to assemble a diverse group of industry, labor, and environmental interests who are not going to simply preach the values of IP, but demonstrate its critical role of IP in creating jobs, generating solutions to global challenges and revitalizing our economy.

And, having the molehill the other direction with the figures tripping over it would have added another valuable implication to the cartoon: dealing with the «Fiscal Cliff» almost certainly will not help in addressing climate challenges since critical climate science, environmental, and clean energy programs are going to suffer fiscally — whether there is some form of bipartisan agreement to «solve» the Fiscal Cliff or whether Republican intransigence pushes the nation over it.

While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD +, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so - called innovative solutions by releasing the «Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.»

IER maintains that freely - functioning energy markets provide the most efficient and effective solutions to today's global energy and environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well - being of individuals and society.

For New Yorkers, the choice is ours whether we embrace green infrastructure as a critical solution to our environmental and societal challenges, or whether this technology remains underutilized,» said Rob Crauderueff, Co-Chair of CitiesAlive Legacy Committee and CEO of Crauderueff & Associates.

However, given the critical importance of having high - quality models for decision making, such investments are essential if environmental regulatory modeling is to meet challenges now and in the future.

The Sustainable Innovation Expo showcased the latest developments in environmental problem - solving, and the Nexus Dialogue on pollution, cities and health gave participants the chance to discuss cross-cutting solutions to critical urban challenges.

As in previous Integrated Energy Policy Report proceedings, the Committee recognizes that close coordination with federal, state, and local agencies is essential to adequately identify and address critical energy infrastructure needs and related environmental challenges.

But there are a number of reasons why even the staunchest environmental advocates can applaud this project as a critical stepping stone to solving the climate challenge.

Yet environmental officials and groups that spent years fighting General Electric's efforts to challenge the need to remove the mud were more critical.

GLOBE's vision is to create a critical mass of legislators within each of the parliaments of the major economies that can agree common legislative responses to the major global environmental challenges and demonstrate to leaders that there is cross-party support for more ambitious action.

In commenting on the new partnership, NRDC President Frances Beinecke called Planet Green «a critical voice for the solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges.»

The company does however point out, «It's critical that we recognize that recycling clothing is not a cure - all for our environmental challenges.