Sentences with phrase «for climate leadership»
By not doing as much as the science suggests we need, they've demonstrated the need for environmentalists to also look elsewhere for climate leadership.
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«Today, New Yorkers made the bar for climate leadership clear: a fossil free world with 100 % renewables for all and no new fossil fuels — one that truly puts our communities and our climate first.
The G7 Presidency is being led by Canada in 2018 and must also set a high bar for climate leadership.
«Brown's false climate solutions are a disgrace to a nation that is desperately looking for climate leadership.
The letter, sent in advance of the country's national elections in mid-September, is an appeal for climate leadership.
The odds that voters will be clamoring for climate leadership in meaningful numbers soon enough to limit building climate hazards are pretty low, a lot of analysts insist.
Not exact matches
Inslee commended British Columbia for leadership on climate protection.
In fact, Goleman reported not only that EI - based leadership may be the most important driver of climate but also that climate may account for 20 to 30 percent of organizational performance.
With stronger climate leadership, B.C. would attract up to $ 5 billion in additional investment for renewable energy development alone over the next 10 years.
British Columbia faces a crossroads: either we take new action to cut carbon pollution and restore B.C.'s legacy as a climate leader, or we fail to meet our commitments and forfeit our hard - won reputation for leadership.
Scheer had been noticeably tightlipped about Trump's exit; some Conservative supporters were pretty happy that Trump was giving the bum's rush to climate science they view as hokum, while others had, well, supported Michael Chong and his carbon taxes for the Conservative leadership.
Smith is also a 2014 recipient of the Clean 16 Award for leadership in clean capitalism, serves on the board of the Canadian Climate Forum, and is a fellow of the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.
That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.
When politicians like Sask premier Brad Wall make snarky comments on twitter which trigger an onslaught anti-Quebec insults and Brian Jean ignores the fact that Notley got tentative support for Energy East from Ontario premier Wynne and focuses instead on the «failure» of Notley's climate strategy to knock all the provinces in line right now, they're engaging in cheap politics, not leadership.
«The federal government has taken a leadership position on climate change policy while also enabling greater access to international markets for our natural resources, which ensures that Canadians receive full value for those resources.»
It forces those called to leadership tasks to live in an unnecessarily harsh climate, one in which they pay dearly for any mistake.
But, unlike Teitelbaum, Heschel opted to be a professor and a political activist, and not only on behalf of his fellow Jews, for Heschel was actively concerned with the moral climate of his adopted America and made that concern manifest in his leadership in both the civil rights movement and the fight against the Vietnam War.
In 2015, Obama stopped the proposed thousand - mile pipeline citing that it would not be a good idea for America's position of leadership in the global fight against climate change.
Last year saw a «surge» in climate leadership, prompting environmental disclosure platform the Climate Disclosure Project (CDP) to praise food and beverage companies including Nestlé, Ajinomoto, Coca - Cola, Kellogg and Unilever for their supplier engageclimate leadership, prompting environmental disclosure platform the Climate Disclosure Project (CDP) to praise food and beverage companies including Nestlé, Ajinomoto, Coca - Cola, Kellogg and Unilever for their supplier engageClimate Disclosure Project (CDP) to praise food and beverage companies including Nestlé, Ajinomoto, Coca - Cola, Kellogg and Unilever for their supplier engagement...
Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease Environmental: climate change, aging trees, unfertile soil Social: limited access to education, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women Financial: poverty, lack of access to finance
As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US CoClimate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.
Where as a climate of Sexual corruption in the Assembly and Senate has made the lives of Woman staffers morally base and degrading for well over a decade, to the extent that many woman are too frightened to come forward I must act to gain justice and equality for woman anywhere and everywhere and expose leadership that is part of the problem and not the solution.
The former vice president praised the governor for his «extraordinary leadership» on promoting renewable energy and fighting climate change.
«Such a scheme would effectively be the death - knell for the Government's promise to be the greenest ever, and would undermine its ability to show international climate leadership.
Ed is running in the Labour leadership contest, and is shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change.
«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.
«With the recent elections, the need for local governments to provide leadership on climate change is more imperative than ever,» said Mark Dunlea of 350NYC.
We need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change deal than we saw in the face of the global financial crisis.
«What better way to welcome them than for you to demonstrate the power of state leadership on climate action?»
The projects include the construction of a leadership centre at the Legon campus of the University of Ghana, scholarship scheme for brilliant but needy students, and a climate change project.
And we were right when we showed this nation true leadership and passed marriage equality; and we were right when we stood up for the women of this state and we passed the Women's Equality Act; and we were right when we passed the most aggressive law stopping sexual violence on college campuses in the nation; and we were right when we stopped fingerprinting for food; and we were right when we led the way on climate change; and we were right when we stopped discrimination based on sexual identity; and we were right when we passed commonsense gun safety laws.
«One of my biggest disappointments of the election so far is that neither candidate has shown the leadership that we're hoping for on the climate crisis,» Lowe said.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling, Chair for Palaeoenviromental Research at FAU, who has also recently been appointed as lead author for the sixth World Climate Report, and Dr. Dieter Korn from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the scientists examined fossils in largely unresearched geological profiles in Iran.
«We have to set goals in order to get work done,» a Senate Democratic aide explained today about the leadership's aggressive schedule for moving a climate bill.
Mark Brownstein, a climate expert at the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund, said the countries, two of the world's largest petroleum drillers, showed real leadership in «setting a mark for other major oil and gas producing nations.»
A report published earlier this month by the Washington - based Bipartisan Policy Center, for instance, called for greater federal leadership on climate - tweaking science.
«This is important, as it shows that Mexico is serious about addressing climate change even if there is a change in leadership,» agreed Jake Schmidt, international climate change policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The Society credits Merkel for boosting German research funding and for «the leadership she has provided on the European and world stages in promoting science - based policy making over issues such as climate change.»
One manager at Exxon Research, Harold N. Weinberg, shared his «grandiose thoughts» about Exxon's potential role in climate research in a March 1978 internal company memorandum that read: «This may be the kind of opportunity that we are looking for to have Exxon technology, management and leadership resources put into the context of a project aimed at benefitting mankind.»
The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.
Leung was cited for her outstanding individual contributions and leadership in the development and application of regional climate models.
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Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Calvin who received a 2015 Ronald L. Brodzinski Early Career Exceptional Achievement award for leadership in research that integrates environmental and climate change research and their socioeconomic implications for the future.
Clarke, working at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, was acclaimed by the group for his skillful and tireless leadership to ensure the significant work of the Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) community was objectively and prominently represented in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Create a positive school culture and climate that includes high - quality teaching and learning, safety, caring relationships, supportive, and challenging learning environments, sense of community and inclusion for all students and subgroups, and distributed staff leadership
By developing a framework for effective teacher teams that includes five criteria — leadership, task focus, collaborative climate, structure and process, and personal accountability — Troen and Boles provide school leaders with the tools needed to navigate this relatively new terrain and to make effective teacher teams a reality.
Some of the strategies the report suggests include conducting a survey of the school climate, cultivating student leadership to address troubling aspects of the school's climate, building student's capacity for empathy and self - regulation and their commitment to the common good, and ensuring that all students have a positive relationship with an adult mentor.
Lesli A. Maxwell is an assistant managing editor for Education Week who oversees coverage of school district news and leadership, English - language learners, charter schools and school choice issues, and school climate, discipline, and nonacademic factors that affect students.
Robinson, Lloyd and Rowe noted that: «Instructional leadership theory has its empirical origins in studies undertaken during the late 1970's and 80's of schools in poor urban communities where students succeeded despite the odds... these schools typically had strong instructional leadership, including a learning climate free of disruption, a system of clear teaching objectives, and high teacher expectations for students.»
New opportunities for principal leadership: Shaping school climates for enhanced teacher development.