Sentences with phrase «environmental campaigners all»

Environmental campaigners say that protecting the rights of indigenous people is the cheapest and most effective way of keeping the forests healthy as supported by mounting scientific evidence.

The environmental campaigners said two climbers also attempted to abseil down from a small roof above the podium, with one stopped by security while the other unveiled a banner to boos from the crowd.

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.

In the past year, three prominent Tibetan environmental campaigners have been arrested after exposing corruption and flaws in wildlife conservation on the plateau.

Between 2010 and 2014, 101 environmental campaigners have been killed in the country.

Environmental campaigners set about restraining the amount of greenhouse gases industry can emit, and industry set about resisting.

Environmental campaigners say the results are «worrying» and reinforce the need for strong measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental campaigners Evergreen agree: «If everyone in the UK bought one reclaimed woollen garment each year, it would save an average of 371 million gallons of water (the average UK reservoir holds about 300 million gallons) and 480 tonnes of chemical dyestuffs.»

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.

While that particular change of heart was less than welcome, environmental campaigners are calling for another government u-turn.

This is not to say that environmental campaigners should ditch all existing efforts around closing coal power plants in favor of advocacy for CCS — instead, CCS can provide another valuable option for which these campaigners can advocate in contexts where the rapid shutdown of coal is undesirable and / or politically infeasible.

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

Between 2010 and 2014, 101 environmental campaigners were killed in the country.

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.

This will instigate an epic online comment submission battle between pro-oil groups, like the American Petroleum Institute and environmental campaigners like 350.org.

Image copyright Getty Images Good news for environmental campaigners: President - elect Trump has finally nominated someone to his cabinet who actually believes in climate change science.

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

The Ministry of Energy and Mines claims that reducing the environmental requirements — weakening the country's environmental framework - will promote investment in the country, but environmental campaigners point out that key stakeholders such as civil society, indigenous peoples, and academics should be consulted about changes in laws that would affect forests and community lands - such as the proposed elimination of environmental impact assessments.

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

Senator John Kerry is set to be announced as President Obama's Secretary of State, a move which could please environmental campaigners.

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.

Environmental campaigners are often concerned about whether they are only preaching to the converted.

The task of environmental campaigners is not to pander to public evasions but to make those evasions untenable, to blast away the pretences people use to blind themselves to the science, to make them see what is coming down the road.

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».

Another minority, which includes many climate scientists and some environmental campaigners, has made the transition to adaptive coping through acceptance and action.

Carbon Brief — a green propaganda outlet, lavishly funded by the European Union — has produced a map depicting the world's most influential environmental campaigners and the world's most dangerous deniers.

Although many climate scientists and environmental campaigners are seriously concerned about the fate of the Arctic sea ice, for other parts of society and other arms of government its degradation presents challenges and opportunities.

But at least one researcher has pointed out that there are problems with the emphasis environmental campaigners are putting on pesticides.

«Environmental campaigners use the so - called ecological footprint — how much area each one of us requires from the planet — to make their point.

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 Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig gave its judgement today on a long running case brought by environmental campaigners.

It's not just environmental campaigners hoping that governments will find a robust replacement to the Kyoto protocol — big business would like to know the roadmap too.

The BES were invited by Scottish Environment LINK to be part of their event «Generation Earth: Celebrating Young Environmental Campaigners»

It's really worth a read - de Rothschild is one of the most practical and thoughtful environmental campaigners out there.

Some climate scientists and environmental campaigners said Mr. Cooney's quick shift from the White House to Exxon was evidence of a near - seamless relationship between the Bush administration and the oil industry.

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

Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order effectively suspends over six measures ratified by his predecessor, and though businesses have welcomed the move, environmental campaigners and many world leaders have condemned the action.

Environmental campaigners called the EPA letter a «gamechanger» and lit up the blogosphere and opinion pages, notching an unexpected victory over industry.

Four of the world's leading climate scientists, Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Tom Wigley, Dr. Ken Caldeira and Dr. Kerry Emanuel, will issue a stark challenge to world leaders and environmental campaigners attending the COP21 climate summit at a scheduled press conference in Paris on December 3.

As a result, US refiners and traders are looking to markets with looser regulation and, say environmental campaigners at both ends of the supply chain, fuelling India's airborne public health crisis.

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

Biofuels were initially championed by environmental campaigners as a silver bullet against global warming.

But the story really only began at the end, given how the battle for Storm King established precedents that have since given environmental campaigners and communities far more influence on such projects.

The meeting was attended by scientists, environmental campaigners, engineers and policy experts aiming to clarify how global warming might be counteracted either by sopping up heat - trapping carbon dioxide or reducing incoming sunlight in a variety of ways — a suite of options known as geo - engineering.

In regarding the spreading slick and unabated seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waters.

Moniz is already taking heat from some environmental campaigners for his work directing the M.I.T. Energy Initiative, which — like many university energy and climate research hubs — receives ample funding from industries selling or dependent on fossil fuels.

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).

This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.

The event is the first Aspen Environmental Forum, a conclave of scientists, policy experts, industry executives, environmental campaigners and communicators (I probably left out a category or two) organized by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic Magazine.

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.