Sentences with phrase «efforts against climate change»

This could be anything from helping women in Ghana build businesses or support a local environmental group contribute to efforts against climate change.

Coupled with news of the recent gathering at 10 Downing Street, we might conclude that the British government is turning its efforts against climate change and environmental degradation up a notch... or, at least, trying to create the appearance that they're tackling these issues.

Decision - making based on social - justice principles could be more effective than democratic efforts against climate change.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon in Queens on Friday unveiled an environmental policy platform that is geared toward shifting the state to 100 percent renewable energy, strengthening the state's efforts against climate change and rejecting new infrastructure for gas pipelines and other fossil fueles.

Nevertheless, they all have connections to the UNFCCC where the bulk of the world's effort against climate change is managed....

Our Portfolio includes projects that benefit the local environments in which they take place and contribute to the global effort against climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In Beyond Kyoto: Advancing the International Effort Against Climate Change, Aldy et al., Report prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 2003.

Not exact matches

Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.

Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.

The Make the Switch campaign is a collaborative effort between nonprofit Mass Energy Consumers Alliance and Mass Audubon to help residents take a meaningful action against climate change.

Instead, Cameron and Osborne were fighting against a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), a policy backed by Germany, France, Bill Gates and the Pope among others, which, even on modest estimates, could raise billions for domestic and international efforts against poverty and climate change.

De Blasio has sought to position New York City as a leader in the fight against climate change, but even as he has committed to quickly come up with an aggressive plan to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the agency that is supposed to lead that effort is in flux.

After moving last month against former President Obama's efforts to limit fossil fuel exploration and combat climate change, Trump will complete his effort to overturn environmental policy this week, signing two executive orders to expand offshore drilling and roll back conservation on public lands.

Over the next year we will go further in our efforts to eradicate fuel poverty and to deliver against our ambitious climate change targets.

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague has called on the government to step up its efforts against nuclear proliferation, comparing the issue in importance to climate change.

Lower Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Cap by 30 Percent Between 2020 and 2030 - Cuomo «has called upon RGGI states to join New York in an effort to continue to lead the fight against climate change and drive the nation's transition toward a clean energy economy.»

Democrats say the state should push back against Trump if he cracks down on people in the country illegally, seeks to restrict abortion rights or rolls back efforts to address climate change.

World Bank President Jim Kim yesterday put climate change at the center of the fight against extreme poverty, part of an effort since he began his tenure to link the two looming global problems.

«Climate value of Earth's intact forests: Conservation efforts and the fight against climate change risk failure unless intact forests are preserved.Climate value of Earth's intact forests: Conservation efforts and the fight against climate change risk failure unless intact forests are preserved.climate change risk failure unless intact forests are preserved.»

Indian coal plants under the CDM received financial backing from the World Bank, sparking an outcry against that organization by groups that argue that the bank's support for the coal industry is inconsistent with its other efforts to tackle climate change.

To make mortality estimates, the researchers took temperature projections from 16 global climate models, downscaled these to Manhattan, and put them against two different backdrops: one assuming rapid global population growth and few efforts to limit emissions; the other, assuming slower growth, and technological changes that would decrease emissions by 2040.

Ecosystem - based approaches provide an important route to sustainable action and represent a vital insurance policy against irreversible damage from climate change, whereas failure to acknowledge the relationship between climate change and biodiversity and failure to act swiftly and in an integrated manner could undermine efforts for improvements in both areas.

And the National Sea Grant College program pays for university - based efforts to shore up coastal economies and communities against the ravages of climate change and extreme weather.

Taking as a starting point the «backfire effect» — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand changes in the international political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

It is absolutely a fair argument to say that individuals who knowingly funded dishonest efforts to confuse the public about the climate change threat are participating in what might reasonably be defined as crimes against humanity.

But back - to - the - land efforts can only take the fight against climate change so far.

Mr. McCain (a spokesman): «John McCain has been a leader in the fight against global climate change, working with Democrats on this issue since 2003, but no one has more successfully recruited Americans into this effort than Al Gore.

Each year, governments and firms estimate and report CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, and their efforts to slow climate change are measured against these annual emissions.

Gary — If you view the Richard Alley videos (see my several comments above), it appears that they are investing considerable money and effort into protection against potential adverse climate change impacts, and that this has become a priority item in the QDR for the first time.

How many people have campaigned against efforts to curtail man - made climate change because of the misinformation he has published?

Just watch Fox News rail against the agency's efforts to spread «propaganda» to children about climate change.

The country isn't getting behind on efforts to change that status, though, as it's now leading the fight against climate change.

Efforts to search for alternative causes of climate change have been vigorously resisted by all variety of means, and those who try to speak out against it have suffered one form of derision or another.

Pawa's firm was absorbed by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro earlier this month «in an effort to pursue climate change litigation against companies.»

Regardless of the size, location or purpose of your organization, your «Contribution» reflects your part of a national effort to step up the fight against climate change.

As they tend to do from time to time in an effort to distract from the climate science consensus, a group of scientists who are also climate «skeptics» have published an opinion - editorial (op - ed), trying to make the case against taking action to address climate change.

«On March 29, 2016, you and other state attorneys general — the self - proclaimed «Green 20» — announced that you were cooperating on an unprecedented effort against those who have questioned the causes, magnitude, or best ways to address climate change,» the letter said.

Pawa's firm was acquired by Hagens Berman earlier this year «in an effort to pursue climate change litigation against companies,» and Pawa is now leading the San Francisco and Oakland cases.

Donald Trump's presidency has climate scientists concerned about the implications for U.S. environmental policies, the worldwide effort to curb the impacts of climate change, and the ability of scientists to freely to continue their research, which can be insidiously undermined through funding cuts, gag orders, or punitive measures and retaliatory attacks against scientists who publicly discuss their research.

Global efforts to dramatically reduce super greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change saw a major advance today as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol got the go ahead to crack down on harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

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And through those experiences, and through my efforts to try to push back against the misinformation and disinformation and to try to inform the discourse over climate change, I've become convinced that we play a critical role.

«This report makes it clear that our efforts to clean up the trucks and buses on our roads and highways also help us in the fight against climate change.»

But the broader challenges of protecting communities against climate change require much stronger efforts on all fronts.

«New York is a leader in the fight against climate change and the development of a green economy and at the heart of these efforts are the individuals across the state,» said Governor Cuomo.

Lauded by Vice President Gore as «the best, most hopeful step in years» in this effort, the AGs United for Clean Power coalition brings together attorneys general from 25 states, territories, cities and counties to explore ways to jointly support the fight against climate change.

Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will only know in a few years whether December's Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the beginning of a global effort to counter it.

It will be a national effort to help all Americans make a difference in the fight against climate change.

Todd Stern, the State Department's special envoy for climate change, said de Boer was «an enormously dedicated leader in the fight against global climate change and has made a major contribution in advancing that effort.»

In each situation, these two scientists spoke out against efforts to address climate change by reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.