Sentences with phrase «environmental campaigners»

But environmental campaigners say it's clear that a little uncertainty goes a long way toward sustaining public inertia on an issue with the time scale and complexity of human - driven climate change.

The developments are likely to fuel concerns among the many environmental campaigners who oppose nuclear power that the industry has unfair access to the government, as well as benefiting from hidden subsidies.

The announcement received widespread criticism from environmental campaigners around the world.

That's why environmental campaigners have spent millions promoting climate - friendly candidates.

It works with the public, the energy industry and environmental campaigners at both the local and the national level.

I've heard quite a few environmental campaigners cite the civil rights movement as a model for the kind of bottom - up activism they are trying to trigger around global warming.

Environmental campaigners highlighted the need for more work to reduce chemical releases into the environment and more research on risks.

Environmental campaigners said they had not known for certain that the company was funding an array of climate denial groups — and that the breadth of that funding took them by surprise.

In Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the Senate.

Review and discussion of the implications for environmental campaigners by Chris Rose.

It also lobbied developmental and environmental campaigners on the need to incorporate population issues in their thinking.

A group of environmental campaigners have temporarily occupied the premises of lobbying company Endelman.

The lack of progress could be seen in the number of points described as «to be elaborated» in a fresh informal text, copies of which flew around the halls like windblown leaves as environmental campaigners, reporters and delegates copied and disseminated it.

The Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) commitment to green schemes and sustainability has been criticised by environmental campaigners in the past.

But as many environmental campaigners rightly warn, there is much much more worth preserving in forests, and there's probably a better way of talking about them then just in terms of utility value in combatting climate change.

With elections due in July 2013, violence and harassment against land activists increased markedly in 2012, with prominent environmental campaigner Chut Wutty and reporter Hang Serei Oudom amongst those murdered.

While environmental campaigners hailed this as a major victory, the threat of an appeal has been looming in the background ever since; councillors were advised at the time that their rulings would likely be subject to appeal.

If starry - eyed environmental campaigners want to big up China's green credentials by being amazed by how much renewable energy the Chinese produce, then that's great too.

Tory backbencher and influential environmental campaigner Zac Goldsmith wrote in the Mail on Sunday he was «ashamed of the plan».

Reactions among environmental campaigners varied from sharp criticism to what you might call guarded grumpiness.

The League of Conservation Voters, which along with other environmental campaigners spent heavily on the contest, noted that it had unseated several members of its «dirty dozen» target list.

Kate Horner is a longtime environmental campaigner who combines strategic thinking with effective organizational management and fundraising.

Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude in a move that will appease environmental campaigners and shareholders who said its project was too expensive and risky.

Even issues where environmental campaigners thought they'd see progress, such as improved management of the high seas which have been rampantly overfished, nations (in this case U.S., Japan, Canada, Russia and Venezuela) were able to kick any meaningful changes down the road for another few years.

To me, it conveys how environmental campaigners, in trying to engage a public for which global warming has little salience, may be helping sustain the still - common view that greenhouse - driven warming remains uncertain science.

We've written plenty exploring that question, and indeed there's no clear answer for CO2 (although environmental campaigners point to success stories like sulfur controls under the Clean Air Act, which ended up far cheaper than forecast).

That's why environmental campaigners spent millions promoting climate - friendly candidates in the midterm elections.

«THIS is the chart climate change sceptic Family First Senator Steve Fielding hopes will convince environmental campaigner Al Gore that global warming is not real.

The EU's efforts to decarbonise heavy industry are being undermined by ETS benchmarking rules that systematically block cleaner industrial alternatives from getting a foothold, according to environmental campaigner group Sandbag.

Mr Benn confirmed the government will now review plans for a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions after environmental campaigners warned it was not sufficiently rigorous.

Environmental campaigners argue that simple hydrocarbons such as pentane and butane should replace CFCs in fridges.

«Cáceres actions in life are a model to environmental campaigners internationally, and her death serves as a painful reminder of the insecurity Latin American Indigenous and environmental leaders face daily,» said Romoser.

Among his most contested findings, Nisbet asserts that a huge influx of contributions and grants to environmental campaigners more than eliminated any advantage once enjoyed by fossil fuel industries and conservatives opposed to restrictions on greenhouse gases.

But the memo also criticises environmental campaigners for misrepresenting scientific evidence and says that green groups and the British media «have been guilty of expressing unjustified certainty about the science of climate change».

The UK's renewable energy performance is a «national disgrace», environmental campaigners claim today.

Civil servants advised ministers to seek alternative «statistical interpretations of the target» - prompting environmental campaigners to accuse the government of «wriggling» out of its obligations.

So tweeted the renowned environmental campaigner and journalist George Monbiot earlier this week, after Gove condemned farmers who «drench» their fields in chemicals and damage soil fertility.

Leaked documents indicate the Crown Prosecution Service may also have misled the public and even the courts when the trial of six environmental campaigners accused of planning to break into Ratcliffe - on - Soar power station in Nottinghamshire collapsed earlier this year.

Finland claims that its timber production is ecologically sound, but environmental campaigners tell another tale

For years environmental campaigners have played on public gullibility and guilt but now the propaganda is wearing thin

Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: «Some of the characters involved have previously worked to deny the reality of the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain and the link between tobacco and lung cancer.

Despite having their hearts and heads in the right place, environmental campaigners all too often come across as doom - mongering, guilt - tripping party poopers.

The Prince of Wales, a veteran environmental campaigner, has been aware of issues around synthetic fibres for a long time.

Environmental campaigners ClientEarth has called on head teachers to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

Scientists with mainstream views and environmental campaigners fire back, saying most of the researchers, lobbyists and private citizens challenging the dominant view on global warming are either representing industry or simply seeking the spotlight that comes with contrarian views.

The bill he co-wrote in 2003 with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Democrat of Connecticut, faded for various reasons, including objections from environmental campaigners when provisions helpful to the nuclear power industry were added.

Environmental campaigners unfurled a banner in Copenhagen intended to press President Obama to attend climate talks there in December.

While staking what he calls a sensible stance on the issue, Lomborg has elicited strong reactions for nearly a decade, including a pie in the face from Mark Lynas, the British environmental campaigner and writer, in 2001.