Sentences with phrase «environmental campaigners at»

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

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.

Not exact matches

At the same time, opposition is so strong,» said Nikki Skuce, a resident of Smithers, B.C., and a campaigner for the environmental group Forest Ethics Advocacy.

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.

Environmental campaigners, who have strongly criticized the German stance, gave a very cautious welcome to the deal, saying at least it provided certainty.

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

Headteachers were today urged by environmental campaigners to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

Alex Gourevitch, a doctoral candidate in political theory at Columbia University, proposed that environmental campaigners were using a «politics of fear» to scare people into action.

(The acronym, a four - letter word to animal welfare campaigners, was creatively deconstructed by students in the environmental policy class I co-teach at Pace University.)

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

Former Vice President Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmental and social campaigner, with Dan Rather between them, promoting forest conservation at a meeting on Monday.

Still, the decision to stop serving shark fin soup at official functions was welcomed by environmental campaigners.

Those against will be Daniel M. Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on renewable and «appropriate» energy technology and a senior energy adviser to the Obama campaign; Oliver Tickell, an environmental writer / campaigner in search of what he calls Kyoto2, a framework for controlling greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient and equitable; and Adam Werbach, who gained fame as the youngest president of the Sierra Club (elected at 23), but now is focused on «blue» marketing for business growth framed around sustainability, as the head of Saatchi & Saatchi S. I'll have to ask him about how that works.

Steingraber is a much - lauded environmental * campaigner and public health analyst at Ithaca College who has become a prominent critic of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for signaling that he is going to approve limited fracking in the state.

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.

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.

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.

It is accompanied by a short film, which looks at the possible effects of REDD on forest communities and contains interviews with different stakeholders including environmental journalists on reporting the subject, and by a video news release on REDD, which includes interviews with forest communities, campaigners, economists and politicians.

Liz was previously Head of Communications at the Vegetarian Society and has lots of experience as a voluntary environmental campaigner.

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

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

Campaigners from Greenpeace, the environmental group, scaled the mountain in November 2002 and held a news conference via satellite with reporters at climate - treaty talks in Morocco.

«The environmental movement in total is all in for the removal of Scott Pruitt,» Lukas Ross, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth, told Bloomberg.

Clémence Hutin, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said, «Today has shown cross-party recognition of the social and environmental benefits of energy savings, for people and the climate.

Down in Mexico at the COP16 climate conference, Andy Revkin of the New York Times just posted a video interview he did with environmental campaigner and thinker extraordinare Bill McKibben, which is really worth a view.

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.