Sentences with phrase «effective climate actions in»

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As we approach the global climate negotiations in Paris in just over a week, actions by state governments like New York State provide essential momentum toward a strong and effective agreement.»

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

Garnering support for climate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, Februclimate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, FebruClimate Policy» in Boston, February 19.

Fear, meanwhile, proved to be equally effective across the entire age range, both in raising awareness about climate change's risks and motivating viewers to intend to engage in direct action, although the ominous video was not perceived by respondents to be as informative as the neutral, informational video.

A useful line of future research would be to investigate if framing the problem of climate change collectively is also more effective with people less inclined to support climate action in the first place.

That's good because such carbon capture and storage «may be the single most effective and direct climate action available,» geoscientist R. Stuart Haszeldine wrote in the same issue of Science.

Having left behind him the Cato Institute and other climate «contrarian» partisans, interests, and individual climate science «deniers,» Taylor may yet come to be seen, in this second iteration, as being among the most quotable and effective communicators and proponents for climate action.

But the reality is, scientists are in general agreement, and at this point effective action on climate change does not depend on either strengthening or more precisely measuring that agreement.

The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious climate action, highlights the global public's conviction that governments need to reach a strong and effective new climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December.

An effective action plan includes the whole community working in a sustained manner to change the climate into one that is caring and empathetic.

Climate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserClimate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserclimate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - wide, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

But the reality is, scientists are in general agreement, and at this point effective action on climate change does not depend on either strengthening or more precisely measuring that agreement.

At the same time, in order to ensure an effective and ambitious global post-2012 climate regime, all major economies will need to commit to meaningful mitigation actions to be bound in the international agreement to be negotiated by the end of 2009.

To be fair there are also good things happening (innovations, new determinations followed by effective actions to «do good,» etc), but it seems with all the negative consequences (for humans and other living things), an honest forecast bringining in everything conceivalbe would probably be much much worse than a climate change scenario.....

«The forum further concluded on the importance of transparency in ensuring environmental integrity and enhancing countries» abilities to plan effective and efficient climate action towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,» said Ms. Hinostroza.

Global Climate Scam has been bringing the world the latest news debunking the global warming myths since 2007, engaging in billboard, TV and internet video ad campaigns, aggregating global warming news, providing action items and building effective coalitions to stop the global warming madness from hurting ordinary Americans.

The Secretary also has proven to be just as effective at undermining climate science and stymying climate action as the Secretary of Energy as he has in his previous public offices.

17 April 2018, Hyderabad (India)-- Experts in the areas of climate change and agriculture from eight member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) gather today in Hyderabad, India, to explore effective ways of regional research and action on climate - smart agriculture,... Read more...

Women who are climate experts, gender experts — or both - including grassroots leaders, policy makers, financiers, project developers, and farmers, bring critically important and often different perspectives that can lead to more effective climate policy and action, while advancing gender equality and women's empowerment in the process.

Ireland has particular vulnerabilities to climate change and has a very strong stake in ensuring that global action on reducing carbon emissions is effective, according to Laura Burke (pictured), director general of the EPA.

Examples of harmful climate actions are identified in our briefing paper, Ensuring the right climate actions for ecosystems and people: Recommendations for Paris, prepared by the REDD + Safeguards Working Group (RSWG), a North - South coalition of more than 40 human rights, environmental and indigenous organizations pushing for the effective implementation of REDD + safeguards.

It highlights a general drying in the region and notes that decision making should take these issues into account and develop effective actions to cope with climate change.

A constant theme of the Progressive Left is that the fundamental reason why America is not taking effective action on climate change is that action is being blocked by right - wing politicians in the US Congress and in numerous state governments who are being funded by fossil fuel interests to oppose anti-carbon legislation.

Requires such group, within a year and every four years thereafter, to submit to Congress a report that: identifies gaps in data and recommends actions to fill those gaps; proposes a coordinated strategy for funding and allocating responsibilities among federal agencies for climate and other global change data collection, management, and retention; recommends a federal capital investment strategy; and evaluates optimal design of observation system components to ensure a cost - effective, adequate set of observations detecting and tracking global change.

Tom Fuller, a constant theme of the Progressive Left is that the fundamental reason why America is not taking effective action on climate change is that action is being blocked by right - wing politicians in the US Congress and in numerous state governments who are being funded by fossil fuel interests to oppose anti-carbon legislation.

They do not want to go down in history as being responsible for blocking effective action to stabilize climate.

The most effective «possible action» for curbing climate change, population is being ignored — enabling and encouraging people to have smaller families and fewer children is an essential component of a climate change strategy, and especially important in high consumer nations like the UK

In this document wide - ranging potential sources for finance for climate action are described, and suggestions are made for more - effective responses to climate investment challenges in citieIn this document wide - ranging potential sources for finance for climate action are described, and suggestions are made for more - effective responses to climate investment challenges in citiein cities.

«Improving energy efficiency is the most cost - effective concrete action governments can take in the short term to address climate change and energy security concerns,» said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

His work is a much needed kick in the pants for policymakers, grassroots environmentalists, and the public to induce us to develop effective motivational tools to help us take action to face the reality of climate change before it's too late.»

Effective climate policy must include location - based analysis and actions at each step in the process.

The work of greens and liberals is to challenge the Democratic demagogues, the left - wing bullies, and the Climate McCarthyites who narrow and polarize the debate in ways that make effective policy action all but impossible.

The following categories of people then bear primary responsibility for the impending climate catastrophe, if they do not soon change their course by attempting to radically change the course of the institutions they are involved in (which is not always possible), agitate in the public sphere for immediate and thoroughgoing climate action and / or to publicly leave those institutions, transferring a substantial portion of their financial gains to investments in or contributions to effective climate action.

Also, because the way to effective climate action is not clearly in mind, people who do not feel themselves to be in positions of power or influence might resent people pointing out, as I am doing now, their role, moral or otherwise, regarding climate change.

These sponsors (who may also be profiteers from delay of effective climate action) cloak their activities in the rhetoric of «freedom» or the fictions of free market economics, distracting themselves from the physical consequences of our emissions trajectory as well as distracting others from their often substantial financial interests in climate destruction.

Even the institution and maintenance of an effective demand - side policy, advertised as the more moderate and «reasonable» solution, would in reality require a high degree of ethical commitment by the polity to effective climate action, more than the neoclassical economic fantasy of what constitutes the human being could accommodate.

By attacking the level of certainty that people may hold with regard to either the existence of or human causation of global warming, climate change denial has attractions for those outside the inner circle of beneficiaries from the fossil fuel industry who do not want to reckon with either changes in their own lifestyle or with the increased role of government required by effective climate action.

In Response to Supreme Court Denial, Youth Climate Advocates Continue Quest For Effective Federal Climate Action

If you want to muster effective action, especially in the current climate, you can not just make emotional appeals to wavering democrats or independents while further alienating the right by embracing partisan rhetoric.

Under the precautionary principle agreed in the climate change convention, nations promised not to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking cost - effective action.

You can find «The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions» recently published in Environmental Research Letters at:

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about action.

This includes identifying the values that may be at risk; synthesizing information on how climate risk management problems can be prioritized and manageably bounded; providing concrete options for managing risks, including how to create or identify such options; summarizing lessons learned in how to defensibly select among options by making explicit the inevitable tradeoffs that will arise when objectives conflict; evaluating the conditions under which such actions would be more or less effective; and providing guidance on how to manage continuous change over time, since climate risks are unlikely to be static.

The take - home from this latest research is that simple and / or visual messages are effective in closing the consensus gap, which is one of the more important steps required to achieve climate action.

The course will allow participants to delve deeper into the importance of adequate adaptation planning, and to acquire tools to identify and prioritize adaptation options in agriculture sectors, ensure effective coordination and governance for climate change adaptation actions, and explore mechanisms for funding and safeguarding livelihoods.

[DC: Last time I looked, the political parties accepting climate science and the need for effective action were in the majority in both Canada and the U.S. I suppose those opposed to science will keep «asking questions» and perpetrating falsehoods until they get the answers they like or manage to elect enough obstructionist legislators.

Perhaps the options are basically, either continual squabbling and differences of opinion at taxpayers» expense (because the climate research centres are usually government funded), or a tacitly understood agreement that a consensus of opinion is the best approach in order to maintain funding for the research centres and to provide effective advice to governments that at least gives the governments a chance of initiating effective action to reduce CO2 emissions.

Regarding the upcoming Copenhagen Conference, both sides agree on the importance of actively furthering the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in accordance with the Bali Action Plan.