Sentences with phrase «developing climate action»

Matt spent eight years as a local government Climate and Energy Analyst developing climate action plans, conducting greenhouse gas inventories, evaluating climate policy, and implementing climate actions.

Several lessons are devoted to developing climate action plans and deciding what — if anything — students should do about climate change.

Erie County is developing a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations with funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) which is expected to not only reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions but also save the County on energy costs.

The Green Team will develop a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan, while implementing some projects throughout the planning process.

Based on this work, Erie County will set GHG reduction targets and develop a Climate Action & Sustainability Plan (CASP) to incorporate GHG emission reduction into the daily culture of County operations.

The groups want the governor to use that study to develop a climate action plan, which they say would need to include specific timetables, intermediate steps, and benchmarks.

His work involves researching and developing the climate actions and policies necessary to achieve a stable climate.

Not exact matches

This signifies the fact that in the US, cities are taking lead on developing and implementing the solutions needed to take action on climate change.

The province is due to announce its next phase of climate action, but it has not committed to act on any of the recommendations developed by the Climate Leadershiclimate action, but it has not committed to act on any of the recommendations developed by the Climate LeadershiClimate Leadership Team.

While the prime minister and the premiers work to develop a national clean growth and climate action plan, some provinces have already adopted policies that are cutting carbon pollution and driving clean economic development.

Charlie Banana buys offsets for their manufacturing from Climate Action, a Beijing - based company that's developing clean energy for China.

The project will also develop opportunities for local residents to participate in stewardship projects and climate literacy discussions that focus on taking meaningful action at home and in their communities.

There are also policy actions which we have to take - investment climate reforms to improve business and economic competitiveness, focus on developing MSMEs, deepening long term savings through pensions, insurance and sovereign savings, land reform to eliminate constraints in time and cost around land transactions (including a review of the governor's consent requirement), and actions to reduce inflation, interest rates and business operating costs.

Successive waves of migrants have reached Europe's shores; terrorist groups are rampant in the Middle East, menacing personal safety and regional stability; North Korea, despite warnings and sanctions from the international community, obstinately continues to develop its nuclear programme; and climate change also warrants international collective action.

«Immediate action is required to develop a carbon - neutral or carbon - negative future or, alternatively, prepare adaptation strategies for the effects of a warmer climate,» said Dr Goodwin, Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate at Southclimate,» said Dr Goodwin, Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate at SouthClimate at Southampton.

The discussions, they said, should culminate with the adoption of more ambitious economywide emission reduction targets by developed countries and mitigation action plans from developing countries at the next major U.N. climate conference slated for Doha, Qatar, in November.

This funding is meant to provide support to developing countries so they can take action to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to climate change, something they probably could not afford otherwise.

«Building a greenhouse gas emissions inventory enables city leaders to manage their emissions reduction efforts, allocate resources and develop comprehensive climate action plans,» said Rio de Janeiro mayor and C40 Chair Eduardo Paes said in a statement.

He also urged more action by developed nations to curb their emissions and raise climate aid towards a promised $ 100 billion a year from 2020, from about $ 10 billion a year in 2010 - 12.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

-- The Secretary of Health and Human Services, within 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, on the basis of the best available science, and in consultation pursuant to paragraph (2), shall publish a strategic action plan to assist health professionals in preparing for and responding to the impacts of climate change on public health in the United States and other nations, particularly developing nations.

The Polaris Climate Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to global development in the face of climate Climate Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to global development in the face of climate climate change.

At local scales, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs) are being developed to help fund climate mitigation actions that may include coastal ecosystem conservation.

a implement the commitment undertaken by developed country Parties to the UNFCCC to a goal of mobilizing jointly USD100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

«You have the opportunity, in fact the responsibility, to finalize an agreement that enables the achievement of national climate change goals, that delivers the necessary support for the developing world and that catalyses continuously increasing ambition and action by all»

During the webinar, we will share the processes and resources districts can use to: • Develop literacy around school climate / culture and social - emotional learning • Understand survey data in order to surface key insights • Create school site and district action plans for promoting positive school climate and SEL SBCUSD and 400 other districts partner with Panorama Education to collect and use school climate and SEL data and to deliver professional development trainings and workshops.

She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.

Schools should reimagine mission statements as action statements, develop school - based action plans and develop school climate leadership roles for teachers.

The final phase two standards were called for by President Obama's Climate Action Plan, and respond to the President's directive in early 2014 to develop new standards that run into the next decade.

It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisClimate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisclimate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

Many parks already host or are developing climate change education programs that are innovative, locally relevant, and action - oriented.

The public relations efforts of developed nations on climate change are always more effective than ours, but it is more important to look at their actual actions.

Given that Americans, per person, produce many times more carbon dioxide emissions than people in developing countries (at least for a few more decades), the growth in the United States has added significance for climate projections, said Leiwen Jiang, senior demographer at Population Action International, a nonprofit research group.

Developing countries that were once reluctant to join in the first phases of a global response to the climate crisis have themselves now become leaders in demanding action and in taking bold steps on their own initiatives.

Here's a 2009 post on «the climate bill in climate context» with a bit more background on how American legislation relates to the need for global action, mostly in developing countries, to blunt the rising human impact on the atmosphere.

By committing to targets for emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.

«The size of the financial contribution in this context, as decided in the convention, is that the developed countries committed themlves to cover the full incremental costs of developing countries actions to adapt or mitigate against climate change,» is how he put it.

While there have been several attempts to explain the lack of meaningful action regarding climate change, these models have not developed into an integrated and empirically supported approach.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

One of the stranger memes to come from the recent influx of climate skeptic / denialist commenters on this blog has been the idea that the developing world can't afford robust action to cut emissions.

Guided by mountains of carefully and skillfully developed research regarding climate change, top rank scientists are proclaiming the necessity for open discussion and action by government officials, politicians and economic powerbrokers.

An International Tribunal of Climate Justice is hereby established to address cases of non-compliance with the commitments of developed country Parties on mitigation, adaptation, provision of finance, technology development and transfer, capacity - building, and transparency of action and support, including through the development of an indicative list of consequences, taking into account the cause, type, degree and frequency of non-compliance.]

We agree with and appreciate the recognition underscored in your statement of the need for developed countries to provide the promised $ 100 billion annually for developing countries for climate action, and to do so under transparent rules and guidelines.

It's essential to show that developed countries are keeping their commitments so developing countries know they have support for ambitious action when countries meet to forge a new global climate agreement in Paris this December.

Since 2014, the New Climate Economy (NCE) project, of which WRI is the managing partner, has developed agenda - setting analyses, drawing on research from its network of over 100 partners, showing that economic growth and climate action can be mutually reinfClimate Economy (NCE) project, of which WRI is the managing partner, has developed agenda - setting analyses, drawing on research from its network of over 100 partners, showing that economic growth and climate action can be mutually reinfclimate action can be mutually reinforcing.

But many developing countries lack the tools to measure, report and verify progress on their climate commitments and actions.

The strategy will be to couple the biogeochemical - physical climate system to representations of key aspects of the human system, and then to develop more coherent scenarios of human actions in the context of feedbacks from the biogeochemical - physical climate system.

The Bonn climate talks were the first opportunity to develop the rules and tools needed to truly put the Agreement into action.

Ireland had the dubious distinction of sharing a Climate Action Network (Can) «Fossil of the Day» award last week as one of only four developed countries that have yet to pledge money to the Green Climate fund.

Beyond implementing national pilots to engage the private sector in carbon offsetting, some of these governments also view their «voluntary» programs as the first step toward developing national climate action plans and regulated carbon marketplaces.