Sentences with phrase «environmental change leaders»

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A remarkable number of them — people who say they value environmental action — openly share how they consider themselves leaders while in the same breath saying they haven't actually changed behavior conflicting with their values, but they're aware.

In the seven years that the application languished under the Obama administration, it faced rising opposition amid a successful play among environmental leaders to make it a crucible in the fight against climate change.

Heyman noted that he and New Democrat Leader John Horgan met with members of the Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming months.

Here is what energy industry executives, environmental leaders and opposition politicians had to say about today's climate change announcement:

Pigs continued to fly in Alberta politics today as energy industry leaders and environmental groups joined Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips at a press conference to release Alberta's much anticipated plan to take action against Climate Change.

Many of those executives stood on stage with Phillips and Premier Rachel Notley, along with environmental leaders, when the climate change plan was released in November 2015.

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

To achieve the needed change, the openmindedness, flexibility, and environmental concern of business leaders has also been important.

Nevertheless, the fact that many environmentally favorable actions can be profitable indicates, at least, that goodwill, environmental sensitivity, and moral concern among corporate leaders can lead to some of the urgent changes without violation of their responsibility to stockholders.

Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians have issued a joint appeal for political leaders to «support the consensus of the world» that climate change and other environmental ills have created an ecological crisis that is harming the world's poorest the most.

We develop young leaders who are committed to social and environmental justice and are equipped with a sense of awe for natural and human beauty, tools for non-violent multicultural community building, as well as the confidence to make positive change in our families, communities and world.

The Conservative leader will call on his party to be «the champions for real change in Europe» and face up to the union's damaging economic and environmental policies.

At 11 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey and environmental leaders host a news conference on local effects of President Trump's climate change agenda, Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades.

Monroe has been meeting with environmental leaders and Cuomo's top environmental staff, advocating for changes to the Adirondack Park State Master Plan, to bring the document that was drafted decades ago in line with issues facing the park today.

«The New York City Council was proud to stand with environmental advocates, community groups, faith leaders and New Yorkers to pass legislation to make New York a more green and sustainable city and we're confident Speaker Heastie and the State Legislature shares our commitment to protecting the environment and combatting climate change,» Council spokeswoman Robin Levine said.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

Basil Seggos, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner, said Cuomo is making New York «a global leader» in the fight against climate change.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

As world leaders meet this week and next at a historic climate change summit in Paris, a new study by Michigan State University environmental scientists suggests opponents of climate change appear to be winning the war of words.

Nuclear energy supporters, renewable power purists and all flavors of environmental activists in between gathered in Paris last December and applauded as world leaders inked a global agreement to combat climate change, the fruit of 20 years of fraught negotiation.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

While some environmental leaders now cautiously support development of more nuclear reactors (which are free of fossil fuels) to help stave off climate change, others remain concerned that the risks to human health and the environment are still too high to go down that road.

Instead, Catholic leaders like Wenski and Carolyn Woo, who heads Catholic Relief Services in the United States, chose to focus on adaptation efforts and providing relief to communities that are affected by the changing climate and other environmental hazards.

The environmental effects of climate change in our modern world are increasingly convincing, and global leaders will gather soon in a major Summit to try to address the problem.

Karpinski climbed onto a stage and told several hundred activists, lawmakers and environmental leaders attending a reception that now is the time to leverage climate change as an electoral asset for Clinton.

The findings were published online Dec. 2 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, just as world leaders gather in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Founder and President at GEC; UNEP Reform Project Leader at Tema at Linkoping University; SCO Project Leader at Vermont University; My mission is to contribute myself in global environmental and sustainable development governance and act to accelerate transitioning the society to green economy with sustainable development, and to join together with world visionary leaders to fight and combat the climate change that threaten life of all.

The students were briefed about the institute and informed that it continues to walk the legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai and therefore keen on training transformative leaders and change agents with a multidisciplinary practical knowledge on resource economy, policy, legal pluralism, community mobilization skills and appropriate participatory approaches handy in assisting communities to sustainably utilize resources besides developing policy and generating research data that would guide integrated environmental governance and management.

Starting with a presentation on the repercussions of global warming on the Bay Area by Bruce Riordan, Executive Director of Bay Area Climate Solutions, the Institute presented climate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - important topic.

Industry leaders representing a diverse cross-section of expertise and perspectives will gather at the Institute to forge solutions to today's most pressing environmental issues — from climate change and the health of the oceans to water conservation, waste management and wildlife preservation.

This year, current participants in I - YEL (Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders, a youth - driven leadership program for high schoolers working on environmental and social change) will have a chance to meet these I - YEL alumni.

Featured: Dr Pandora Hope, climate scientist, Bureau of Meteorology Dr David Karoly, new leader of CSIRO's Climate Change Hub Professor Ian Wright, lecturer, environmental science, University of Western Sydney Professor Stuart Khan, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univenvironmental science, University of Western Sydney Professor Stuart Khan, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UnivEnvironmental Engineering, University of NSW

• Build an institutional architecture to bring about change: transition to sustainability depends on the collaborative and coherent actions of political and business leaders, governments (from city to nation), and an effective international environmental regime.

Alex Williams had an interesting story in the Styles section over the weekend examining whether the cacophony of messaging from environmental groups and leaders in recent years has resulted in meaningful change or amounts more to a sonic barrage that dulls as much as it inspires — what some call «green noise.»

Traditionally referred to as a scientific, environmental or political issue, climate change is now being cited as a moral and spiritual issue by religious leaders.

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.

This flurry of research and review is of course timed to help world leaders at Davos concentrate on the longer - term problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and food security, in addition to immediate problems of economic stagnation, poverty, conflict and so on.

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

That critical mass should help provide stronger moral ground, moral support, and morale to the leaders of scientific organizations, climate change groups, and environmental groups, helping them to generate «critical mass» in terms of the ethical dimensions of their messages and the verve of their efforts.

California is redoubling its environmental efforts less than three months before world leaders gather in Paris for a United Nations summit to create a new global pact for fighting climate change.

In the latest attempt to greenwash the tar sands, Canada's Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver has been roaming the United States trying to convince American politicians and thought leaders that Alberta's dirty crude is a clean, responsible, sustainable — even «green» — source of energy, and that Canada's environmental record and climate change policy are as good as it gets.

In particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable communities and build resilience to climate change.

Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will defend his handling of a crisis that has shaken the world's faith in his organisation at a meeting of environmental leaders in Bali.

Environmental leaders have welcomed a rare cross-party deal to tackle climate change struck between Britain's leading political parties ahead of the general election.

«The organisation's positive impact and the fact that it is run by passionate leaders with a vision to use the power of business to create real social and environmental change to the benefit of us all.»

By Ben Webster The head of the UNâ $ ™ s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.

President Aquino, who spoke in Paris this week and launched the manila - Paris Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), is the very first leader in his country's history to create an environmental and climate change cluster in his cabinet.

«The single best thing [the United States] could do would be to become a leader on climate change,» said Tom Lovejoy, director of the Heinz Center, an environmental policy group.

After virtually ignoring the nation's biggest environmental issue for years, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are planning a major hearing on climate change on Sept. 18 and are inviting leaders of 13 federal agencies to testify.