Sentences with phrase «focused on climate solutions»

The bimonthly open thread focused on climate solutions, mitigation and adaptation.

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APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise in offering solutions to Asia's climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global influence.

These talks were specifically focused on agro-ecology and the soil solution for climate change.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

The researchers call for a need to move beyond a sole focus on mitigating the effects of climate change to reach solutions that consider global carbon reduction targets as well as local energy and environmental contexts.

We have enough areas of agreement that I believe we can begin to focus on real solutions to both our energy security and climate change problems and that these solutions will involve, at least to some extent, biofuels.

He documents the threat to ice posed by climate change but focuses on practical solutions that will help us mitigate the damage and adapt to a warmer world.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, a group that focuses on engaging Republicans on climate policy, welcomed the plan.

Investigating long - term solutions to the world's energy needs and investing in sustainable technologies are crucial as the climate crisis comes into focus, a set of experts cautioned at Princeton University on Nov. 14.

The solutions to school pushout supported by the Dignity in Schools campaign include shifting funding from school police to counselors and social workers; funding and using transformative and restorative justice, mediation and positive interventions; ensuring that states and districts focus on school climate under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and ending the pushout and arresting of students of color, LGBTQ youth, students who are homeless, and students with disabilities.

Teachers decided the district needs a cabinet - level position to focus on this issue after engaging in desk and field research, surveying hundreds of colleagues and speaking with decision makers teachers decided a climate - focused cabinet position would be the best solution.

Since launching our first discussion course book on climate change in 2008, we've since published two new courses focused on climate action: Powering a Bright Future and Change is our Choice: Creating Climate Solclimate change in 2008, we've since published two new courses focused on climate action: Powering a Bright Future and Change is our Choice: Creating Climate Solclimate action: Powering a Bright Future and Change is our Choice: Creating Climate SolClimate Solutions.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years aheaOn the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years aheaon - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years aheaon solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

Front Page: There were no articles on the front page focused on the problem of climate change as a problem, or offering potential parts of the solution.

The event focused on green design solutions to combat climate change.

RC does noble work on propagating sound science in the face of the billions that Big oil could throw at multifacted disinformation if it felt the need, but, to be effective (i.e. to practice Applied Climate Science) we plainly need to establish a global focus on the discussion & evaluation of the solutions.

When global warming enters the realm of politics, the conversation usually focuses on a few «solutions» — a bill capping carbon dioxide, «clean coal,» a climate treaty (you've read a lot here on «clean coal»; a lot more on treaties is coming shortly).

The solutions, however, must also include a much better focus than present on climate change adaptation and reducing vulnerability to drought — a «no - regrets» strategy that will help both with natural variability, and the variability that could be made more challenging by human - caused climate change.

To those of us focused on climate risks and solutions, and science - based issues more generally, sure.

But in the debate over a response to global warming, there were blinders on a lot of Democrats, as well — blinders that resulted for far too long in a one - solution focus on a comprehensive, and doomed, cap - and - trade climate bill.

As climate models had now proven the existence of climate change, the organization's next focus will be on a different vantage point: «What do we do about it [and] how can we find solutions for the climate we will be living with?»

He is leading efforts to build a national Climate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solClimate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solclimate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

My focus has been on recent global climate change and I have not thought much about the damage function, decarbonisation rate, and expectations for proposed solutions, which I'm happy to leave to others.

In its inaugural Climate Health Solutions Conference, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health welcomed 280 doctors, nurses, and other health professionals from 21 member medical societies and 26 affiliated health and science - based associations to focus on promoting better health by advancing solutions to climate Climate Health Solutions Conference, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health welcomed 280 doctors, nurses, and other health professionals from 21 member medical societies and 26 affiliated health and science - based associations to focus on promoting better health by advancing solutions to climatSolutions Conference, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health welcomed 280 doctors, nurses, and other health professionals from 21 member medical societies and 26 affiliated health and science - based associations to focus on promoting better health by advancing solutions to climate Climate & Health welcomed 280 doctors, nurses, and other health professionals from 21 member medical societies and 26 affiliated health and science - based associations to focus on promoting better health by advancing solutions to climatsolutions to climate climate change.

Tom is a policy adviser to indigenous communities on environmental protection and more recently on climate policy focusing on mitigation, adaptation and concerns of false solutions.

Is vastly more expensive and unreliable energy really the solution, or should we focus our efforts, and money, on mitigation of all the vagaries of climate, weather and the natural environment?

It addresses key issues concerning climate change in the broader context of global change and focusses on moving from present knowledge to future solutions.

Responses to climate change tend to focus on scientific and economic solutions rather than addressing the vitally significant human and gender dimensions.

In addition to highlighting the challenges faced there, the training in Miami will focus on the area's unique position to combat climate change through renewable energy solutions, policy changes and resilience strategies.

In particular, Bach said, the show will «focus much more this season on solutions that individuals, communities, companies and even governments can use to address worldwide climate change.»

I was expecting her new video campaign to focus more on solutions to climate change for everyday citizen.

Successful mitigation of climate change is not about finding «a solution,» but developing appropriate institutional and policy options for technological innovation — options that allow experimentation and progress on multiple fronts, tolerate risk, accept that there will be both successes and failures, and focus on creating the initial conditions for progress.

Prior to that, Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions.

Gregory directs LDF's Climate Program grantmaking and investment portfolio, focusing on domestic and international climate change solClimate Program grantmaking and investment portfolio, focusing on domestic and international climate change solclimate change solutions.

The conference convened 280 doctors, nurses, and other health professionals to focus on promoting better health by advancing solutions to climate change.

There's a meaningful dialogue to be had on climate change, one that focuses on collaborative actions and the search for solutions.

Convening cross-sector participants from the private sector, Government, Investors, UN agencies and international NGOs, a strong focus will be placed on discussions around national climate targets and the drive towards business innovations and solutions that need to be implemented in order to achieve these ambitious goals.

Despite a thirty - five year debate on climate change, for the most part, governments, NGOs, organizations, and individuals are ignoring the ethical dimensions of climate change even though an increased focus on ethics and justice is needed to move the world to a global solution to this immense threat.

These efforts are part of an overall organizational mission focused on advancing smart solutions to climate change.

Climate policy is going through exactly such a phase, in which a focus on magical solutions leaves little room for the practical.

The Climate Reality Project operates around the world through various branch offices focused on driving local, regional, and planet - wide action for climate solClimate Reality Project operates around the world through various branch offices focused on driving local, regional, and planet - wide action for climate solclimate solutions.

Curry, who has been invited several times by Republicans to testify at climate change hearings regarding alleged uncertainties on manmade climate change, focused on how the climate debate has been politicised and that science has been «caught in the crossfire» leading to «oversimplification» of the problem of and solutions to climate change.

If we don't want to screw up our climate, it is time to put the fruitless debates on climate - engineering techniques to rest, and focus on the only real solution, which is a tremendous challenge requiring all our intellectual resources: The mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.

Because of the Climategate scientists fraudulent science, and their propaganda of imminent world catastrophes if nothing was done about CO2 emissions immediately, it caused all the focus to be on a questionable, nebulous problem with an impossible political / economic solution, instead of actually focusing on real world climate and environment problems that could be solved.

Solutions to the climate crisis lie in shifting the focus towards citizens, alongside strong leadership on climate and energy targets from Europe.

With a focus on addressing global megatrends such as demographic and social needs, increased urbanization and climate change, BASF works to increase the proportion of its products and solutions that make an extensive sustainability contribution along the value chain.

It presents a «People's Test on Climate» with the criteria: did the agreement catalyze immediate, urgent and drastic emission reductions; provide adequate support for transformation; deliver justice for impacted people; and focus on genuine, effective action rather than false solutions.