Sentences with phrase «dollars funding climate»

Because, despite having this breadth of knowledge within its walls, and for many years after these climate science programs were run at Exxon, the company has spent years and millings of dollars funding climate deniers and think tanks who attack the scientific consensus, spreading doubt and uncertainty.

Not exact matches

Climate - friendly investments will proceed through the government's green infrastructure fund and its forthcoming infrastructure bank — but the budget also allocates dollars specifically to clean energy priorities like smart grids, energy storage, electric vehicle charging, stronger building codes, and moving remote communities off diesel.

Climate Bonds Initiative's mission is to grow capital into climate solutions by promoting green bonds to investors, primarily pension and insurance funds filled with trillions of dollars of investment - ready cClimate Bonds Initiative's mission is to grow capital into climate solutions by promoting green bonds to investors, primarily pension and insurance funds filled with trillions of dollars of investment - ready cclimate solutions by promoting green bonds to investors, primarily pension and insurance funds filled with trillions of dollars of investment - ready capital.

Spelling out the next steps on carbon pricing (p. 127): A good illustration of movement without dollars: while the budget doesn't allocate any funding for carbon pricing specifically, it does map out the way Ottawa plans to move ahead on its highest - profile climate commitment.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, accuses Cuomo of wasting millions of taxpayer dollars «to fund his ludicrous Start - Up New York campaign,» which, Romney contends, has done virtually nothing to improve the state's business climate.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde told finance ministers in Washington, D.C., in the fall that trillions of dollars will be needed to rebuild from natural disasters associated with climate change (Climatewire, Oct. 16, 2017).

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climatclimate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green ClimateClimate Fund.

But Bloomberg sidestepped a question about whether private dollars might replace some or all of the public commitments the Obama administration made to the Green Climate Fund if Trump withdraws U.S. support.

As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy poClimate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy poclimate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy poclimate and clean energy policies.

Greenpeace activists confronted Bast at Heritage after the event, asking him to reveal whether Chicago magnate Barre Seid funded the multimillion - dollar climate - denial initiative.

The dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, but the Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged because the return / risk profile of this particular Climate hasn't been favorable on average.

Those at the top of the list — if ever such a list is developed and agreed upon internationally — could decide who is first in line to tap a multibillion - dollar Green Climate Fund.

George Soros, the American philanthropist and financier, offered a new way to fund the multibillion dollar price tag for helping poor countries adapt to climate change.

What if industrialized countries live up to their existing pledges to funnel billions of dollars, and eventually hundreds of billions of dollars, to funds for climate adaptation?

Foundations have donated over a billion dollars to fund campaigns to stop global warming but it appears that many of these campaigns have not had their desired effect and have been, in fact, counterproductive, sending the public running into the arms of the climate «ostriches» who are telling them exactly want they want — and psychologically need — to hear.

So that's a good development, but what saddens me is the fact that he spent millions of dollars of Virginia taxpayer money and forced the University of Virginia to come up with significant funds themselves, wasted on this witch hunt, wasted on this personal vendetta, this effort that he was using to try to discredit climate science, to do the bidding of the fossil fuel interests that fund his campaigns.

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 chaFund (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 chafund, is expected to channel billions of dollars to help developing countries combat climate climate change.

ExxonMobil and the Koch Brothers, who stand to gain hundreds of billions of dollars in profits from the denial of climate science, have been major funders of the Heartland Institute in the past.

The Dollars go right down the rathole into the UN maze of tyrants and despots and eventually funds the ISIS Global Climate Change initiative.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by S&N in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

These scientists (and, for that matter, anyone with a public profile who has anything critical to say about global warming) are whores — «industry shills», «corporate toadies», or part of the «well funded denial machine» — who not only prostitute themselves, but also sell us all out to an apocalypse for dirty, dirty dollars... Those who «deny» climate change are in fact, denying a «holocaust ``.

In terms of overall dollars, the numbers seem large, but the funds get eaten up in various ways that don't translate directly into climate research (cost overruns on satellites, etc).

Thanks to these efforts, billions of dollars have been put into the Climate Change Fund to help implement the many changes that are needed to prevent climate change from continuing at such an alarminClimate Change Fund to help implement the many changes that are needed to prevent climate change from continuing at such an alarminclimate change from continuing at such an alarming rate.

So, for instance, if in 2020 the annual funding requirement amounted to one trillion dollars (about 1 % of the projected Gross World Product, which is well within the range of published estimates of the cost of a global climate transition), the US, with 29.1 % of the global RCI, would be obligated to pay about $ 291 billion.

And the billion - dollar + government - funded climate model (s) that actually predicted this very inconvenient climate cooling outcome.

This year in Cancun, it was agreed that the Climate Change Fund will remain in control of a large percentage of the UN's one hundred billion dollar a year budget.

They denigrate realists as «climate deniers» (deliberately suggesting Holocaust denial) and «oil industry shills» (while hiding their own suspect ethics, data «adjustments,» and Big Green billion - dollar Russian and other funding sources).

It holds that countries that historically caused the recent atmospheric carbon dioxide build - up must lead in cutting their emissions, while helping developing countries eventually do likewise, by pouring trillions of dollars in cash and free technology into the Green Climate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compenClimate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compenclimate change adaptation, mitigation and compensation.

Billions of dollars are committed each year to the international fight against climate change, but the majority of these funds focus on mitigation initiatives, mainly renewable energy, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In spite of publishing this statement and reducing funding to a number of prominent climate denial organizations over the past few years, ExxonMobil continues to support dozens of organizations who are part of the climate denial movement with millions of dollars in annual funding.

Indeed, most of the improvements in our climate monitoring abilities occurred after the public interest in «global warming» began in the late 1980s, i.e., when governments began increasing funding for climate research with multi-billion dollar research programmes such as the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

But congressional Republicans this week attached a rider to the $ 1.1 trillion spending bill that would block the government from contributing the three billion dollars Obama had pledged to the Green Climate Fund in November.

The United States government has spent enormous sums on global warming / climate change issues, including science research, although the ocean of funding is so large, fed by so many rivers of tax dollars, that it's hard to tally it all up.

Under the agreement, the United States was required to cut its carbon - dioxide emissions 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 and provide billions of dollars in funding to the United Nations» Green climate Fund.

The UN's Green Climate Fund reached its 2014 goal of raising ten billion dollars this week.

Brulle and Roberts blamed the great conspiracy for «decades of inaction on climate change» and claimed that «Scholarly research shows that these institutes received nearly a billion dollars in funding to promulgate a series of neoliberal causes, including misinformation on the causes and impacts of climate change.»

I believe there has been zero progress since the Charney report in better defining climate sensitivity, in spite of hundreds of billions of dollars of public funding since then.

As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy poClimate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy poclimate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy poclimate and clean energy policies.

Climate prostitutes, parasites and charlatans have been devouring billions in US taxpayer dollars, year after year, plus billions more in corporate shareholder cash, activist foundation funds and state government grants.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by Shellenberger and Nordhaus in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

But, warns the IEA, the coal industry — and the funds management industry and the banks that finance it — are carrying on as if it's business as usual, making decisions about hundreds of billions of dollars of investment as if nothing would change, and not even lip service was paid to the climate change problem.

In reality, far - left «charitable» foundations have given pretend conservatives millions of dollars to advance a climate chaos, renewable energy agenda — channeling the funds through intermediary groups, to OxiClean the transactions and limit transparency and accountability.

It is NO secret, though, that climate science is getting millions of dollars in government money (including stimulus funds — remember the stimulus???)...

During his final days in office, President Obama transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to the UN's «Green Climate Fund.»

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

The idea has since gained momentum as a wide range of interests, including the private sector, development experts, policymakers, and environmentalists, have embraced REDD as a means to fund forest conservation and poverty alleviation efforts to the tune of billions of dollars per year while, at the same time, fighting climate change.

Put another way, these billion - dollar, taxpayer - funded super-computer model simulations have performed atrociously, and are entirely worthless at predicting future climate scenarios.

An «omnibus» spending bill to fund the federal government through October 2015 throws up roadblocks for the Obama administration's climate agenda, namely by blocking taxpayer dollars from going to the United Nations global warming fund.

Jagadish Shukla, a George Mason University climate professor with a rare aptitude for snaffling millions of dollars in taxpayer funded grants but rather less of a skill — you suspect — when it comes to producing research of any damn use to anyone.