Sentences with phrase «environmental challenges of climate change»

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They're generally highly educated, they've had strong awareness of social and environmental issues from an early age and are keenly aware of the challenges faced by climate change.

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

A Europe that has the ability to support the development of tomorrow's technologies and tackle environmental and climate change challenges.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Examples of challenges that judges would expect to be addressed by applicants include climate change, water conservation, environmental improvement and an ageing population.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

This ubiquity, Bales shows, means that all of us have a role to play in ending slavery and that doing so will also help remedy some of the biggest environmental challenges on earth, such as climate change.

With the backdrop of massive peat land fires sending carbon into the atmosphere and the fast - approaching U.N. climate talks, environmental advocates expect today's visit between Indonesian President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo and President Obama to touch on climate change and deforestation challenges.

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

«Our findings suggest that large - brained animals might be better prepared to cope with environmental challenges such as climate change and habitat destruction,» said Dr Szekely, who worked with researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Pannon University (Hungary) and McGill University (Canada) on the project.

On top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on Earth.

During the event Anna Shiweda, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Water and Forestry, called for collaborative efforts to fight climate change and Kiki Gbeho, UN Resident Representative in Namibia, reconfirmed UN Namibia's commitment to finding answers to the environmental challenges of the country.

«As the world faces monumental health challenges related to climate change, there is a growing need for health professionals with the knowledge and skills to respond in a meaningful way,» says Jeffrey Shaman, director of GCCHE and associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

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«Under the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training, Viet Nam Man and Biosphere Programme, UNESCO and the Biosphere Reserve Management Board, children have increased their knowledge on the challenges linked to Education for Sustainable Development such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental issues.

The Conservancy founded this program to advance the role of parks in addressing environmental and social challenges, including public health and climate change through innovation, civic engagement, and cross-sector collaboration.

The paper suggests that these physicists joined the environmental backlash to stem changing tides in science and society, and to defend their preferred understandings of science, modernity, and of themselves as a physicist elite — understandings challenged by on - going transformations encapsulated by the widespread concern about human - induced climate change.

Updated, 1:47 p.m. A richly variegated four - day climate change conference, concluding yesterday in Paris, provided a sobering look at the mix of environmental, social and technological trends that have created humanity's planet - size challenge — fitting seemingly infinite aspirations safely in a climate system that is showing signs of disruptive human - driven change.

On the one hand, climate change is perhaps the single largest environmental of our time, and in fact of the grandest scientific challenges of the modern era.

Given the potentially exponential growth in the magnitude and intensity of environmental challenges such as Climate Change, putting one's faith in continued solid economic growth and sufficient technological innovation seems foolhardy to say the least.

One of the great challenges in assessing the meaning of changes in Arctic climate and other environmental conditions is putting today's observations in long - term context.

Global Green (USA)- Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity: global climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and clean, safe drinking water.

* Assessments of current mechanisms for governing global environmental change show why existing international arrangements are not dealing quickly enough with current global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

Climate change is a global problem with serious environmental, social, economic, distribution and policy implications, and make up one of the main current challenges for humanity.

The projected rapid population increase in Africa may well exacerbate a range of challenges: environmental, health and social, including climate change.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

In light of the urgency of tackling climate change and nuclear power's essential role in limiting temperature rises, the four scientists will therefore challenge environmental leaders who still hold anti-nuclear positions to instead support development and deployment of safe and environmentally - friendly nuclear power.

Bishop Davies looks at the environmental challenges confronting humanity under the headings of environmental destruction, involving biodiversity loss, habitat destruction and pollution of our life support systems; political violence, poverty and climate change.

Coal accounts for 55 % of Polish primary energy supply and 92 % of electricity generation, raising significant climate change and environmental challenges.

The Department will remain ready to operate in a changing environment amid the challenges of climate change and environmental damage.

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

The new policy brief examines the design, enactment, implementation, and performance of the SO2 allowance trading system, with an eye toward identifying lessons learned for future efforts to apply cap and trade to other environmental challenges, including global climate change.

It features chapters on: the year in review, which highlights environmental extremes, including record extreme weather and climate events and increasing degradation of marine ecosystems, but notes progress towards new investments in renewable energy and towards a green economy; the benefits of soil carbon; the closing and decommissioning of nuclear power reactors; and on key environmental indicators, which underscores the need to address mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and soil degradation.

But what is one to make of a climate - change law that withstands a $ 35 million campaign supported by conservative oil interests only to be thrown off course by a legal challenge from the leftier edges of the environmental movement, particularly its environmental justice wing?

She is working on a manuscript on environmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and suenvironmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and suEnvironmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustainability.

It stresses that main challenges and priorities related to climate change have provoked a national shift, which will require the creation of new green jobs, re-training or greening of existing ones in order to meet specific environmental goals.

First, the need to understand the basic dimensions of sustainability for biofuels (economic, environmental and social), their linkages and how they relate to the central challenges they address, namely land - use change, food security and climate change.

This report intends to make an assessment of what the fight against climate change — prevention, mitigation and adaptation — means for the world of work, of the challenges and opportunities involved, and of how to contribute to the just transition to environmental sustainability that will serve to advance both decent work opportunities for all and the protection of the planet.

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing society today.

Climate change is the most pressing environmental challenge of our time, and it is already taking a heavy toll on our communities and our economy.

[12] They also set out to challenge the World Health Organization (WHO) and decry health and environmental activism based on so - called junk science, especially where it related to environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS, and the possibilities of climate change through air pollution.

The Need: «Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of global environmental challenges, from loss of biodiversity to climate change to plastic pollution, that call for action at all levels of government,» said Denis Hayes.

Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report directly challenges findings of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which publishes regular assessment reports used by governments worldwide, including our own, to form public environmental policy.

The study by Heartland Institute, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) says «mankind will be much better off in the year 2100 than it is today and therefore able to adapt to whatever challenges climate change presents.&Change, and Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) says «mankind will be much better off in the year 2100 than it is today and therefore able to adapt to whatever challenges climate change presents.&change presents.»

half of the lobbyist groups mentioned are legally challenging the threat of manmade climate change, with court petitions against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas endangerment finding:

Sladek has addressed climate change and energy security from the grassroots level, illustrating how social entrepreneurship and environmental stewardship can come together to tackle two of the world's most urgent challenges.

Ceres is a national coalition of investors and environmental groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as climate change.