Sentences with phrase «defense against climate change»
«You in this audience are the nation's best defense against climate change, famine, threats to national defense, and much more.»
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Otters might also offer a defense against climate change because healthy kelp forests can grow rapidly and store large amounts of carbon.
The paper, «Intact ecosystems provide the best defense against climate change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long - term.
«Intact nature offers best defense against climate change.»
As we always say: forests are our best defense against climate change.
Not exact matches
He has proposed using lasers against North Korea, putting mirrors in space to increase agricultural productivity, colonizing the moon, reviving a Star Wars — style orbiting missile defense system and solving climate change through geoengineering.
The Vatican gave a shout - out to California Gov. Jerry Brown Sunday, praising him for his war against climate change and his defense of human «dignity and freedom.»
Secondly, city governments are the drivers for addressing risks through ensuring basic services, which are the first line of defense against the impacts of climate change and natural hazards.
Natural Resources Defense Council, California, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont and Washington — State transportation departments will have to to continue to comply with an Obama - era rule and assess the impacts their projects will have on climate change, thanks to the NRDC and the states that filed suit against the Trump administration.
The New York Times has come up with a new defense against so - called climate denialists who happen to point out that most polar bear populations are steady or increasing amidst climate change: The ice hasn't disappeared as fast as we said it would.
The best defense against the harmful impacts of adverse weather / climate change is the construction and maintenance of robust infrastructure.
In the United States, a robust public health infrastructure, such as sanitation and wastewater treatment facilities, has proven the best defense against adverse health effects from climate change.»
And no nation has a viable defense against harms associated with climate change.
... comments like those of James Wang of Environmental Defense, who says that scientists who publish results against the consensus are «mostly in the pocket of oil companies»; and those of the, yes, United Kingdom's Royal Society that say that there «are some individuals and organisations, some of which are funded by the US oil industry, that seek to undermine the science of climate change and the work of the IPCC»
«Mexico's leadership in making this announcement confirms that we are in a new era, in which all nations have a role to play in the collective fight against climate change,» said Nathaniel Keohane, Vice President for International Climate at the Environmental Defense Fundclimate change,» said Nathaniel Keohane, Vice President for International Climate at the Environmental Defense FundClimate at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).