Sentences with phrase «for effective climate action»

As a by - the - by, perhaps if you focus on the health impacts of climate change in public debate, this might help strengthen your arm for effective climate action.

I know of at least a dozen thoughtful, experienced, engaged, public spirited people that would have joined a movement for effective Climate action - but are sitting out Keystone.

Form your own UU Climate Action Team CAT and network with the other CATs nationwide for effective climate action.

Not exact matches

We are evaluating which messages and which programs motivated participants to action on climate change, and are compiling effective messages for a wide range of environmental topics relevant to New England.

Scientists would be wise to connect climate change to religious identity and engage with churches because houses of worship are not only engines for social action, but highly effective communication vehicles, said Nisbet.

Garnering support for climate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, Februclimate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, FebruClimate Policy» in Boston, February 19.

For years scientists have urged national leaders to tackle climate change, based on the assumption that prevention efforts would require the coordinated actions of entire nations to be effective.

Having left behind him the Cato Institute and other climate «contrarian» partisans, interests, and individual climate science «deniers,» Taylor may yet come to be seen, in this second iteration, as being among the most quotable and effective communicators and proponents for climate action.

Through effective and persistent petitioning actions, we have cultivated a more favorable climate for our schools by increasing awareness amongst legislators of the specific needs of the schools we represent.

Climate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserClimate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserclimate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - wide, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

The right way is to ensure that all major economies are bound to take action and to work cooperatively with our partners for a fair and effective international climate agreement.

That treaty set mandatory limits on greenhouse gases for the three dozen industrialized countries that ratified it, but is seen by a growing number of climate and economic experts as a faltering model for effective action to limit global warming.

To be fair there are also good things happening (innovations, new determinations followed by effective actions to «do good,» etc), but it seems with all the negative consequences (for humans and other living things), an honest forecast bringining in everything conceivalbe would probably be much much worse than a climate change scenario.....

«The forum further concluded on the importance of transparency in ensuring environmental integrity and enhancing countries» abilities to plan effective and efficient climate action towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,» said Ms. Hinostroza.

17 April 2018, Hyderabad (India)-- Experts in the areas of climate change and agriculture from eight member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) gather today in Hyderabad, India, to explore effective ways of regional research and action on climate - smart agriculture,... Read more...

The plan also highlights the need for mainstreaming gender into climate action across societies, because it is critical to effective climate policy and action and it is critical that the needs, perspectives and ideas of all people impacted by climate change are taken into account.

This flyer highlights that the effective participation of women is important for effective action on all aspects of climate change.

Examples of harmful climate actions are identified in our briefing paper, Ensuring the right climate actions for ecosystems and people: Recommendations for Paris, prepared by the REDD + Safeguards Working Group (RSWG), a North - South coalition of more than 40 human rights, environmental and indigenous organizations pushing for the effective implementation of REDD + safeguards.

This analytical report illustrates how public finance can catalyze climate action by 1) piloting innovative ways to leverage both climate and development finance; 2) exploring new opportunities to expand the scope for market mechanisms; and 3) strengthening the capacity to facilitate access to resources and their effective use.

Requires such group, within a year and every four years thereafter, to submit to Congress a report that: identifies gaps in data and recommends actions to fill those gaps; proposes a coordinated strategy for funding and allocating responsibilities among federal agencies for climate and other global change data collection, management, and retention; recommends a federal capital investment strategy; and evaluates optimal design of observation system components to ensure a cost - effective, adequate set of observations detecting and tracking global change.

They do not want to go down in history as being responsible for blocking effective action to stabilize climate.

The most effective «possible action» for curbing climate change, population is being ignored — enabling and encouraging people to have smaller families and fewer children is an essential component of a climate change strategy, and especially important in high consumer nations like the UK

In this document wide - ranging potential sources for finance for climate action are described, and suggestions are made for more - effective responses to climate investment challenges in cities.

His work is a much needed kick in the pants for policymakers, grassroots environmentalists, and the public to induce us to develop effective motivational tools to help us take action to face the reality of climate change before it's too late.»

Long - term, the environmental movement faces soul - searching about its own direction, and how to turn widespread popular support for environmental protection into an effective political force for urgent climate action.

The following categories of people then bear primary responsibility for the impending climate catastrophe, if they do not soon change their course by attempting to radically change the course of the institutions they are involved in (which is not always possible), agitate in the public sphere for immediate and thoroughgoing climate action and / or to publicly leave those institutions, transferring a substantial portion of their financial gains to investments in or contributions to effective climate action.

By attacking the level of certainty that people may hold with regard to either the existence of or human causation of global warming, climate change denial has attractions for those outside the inner circle of beneficiaries from the fossil fuel industry who do not want to reckon with either changes in their own lifestyle or with the increased role of government required by effective climate action.

Meaning, initiatives like President Obama's Climate Action Plan — the motivation for such things as the EPA's just - announced effective moratorium on future coal - fired power plants — would be even more unnecessary and ineffective than they are already.

In Response to Supreme Court Denial, Youth Climate Advocates Continue Quest For Effective Federal Climate Action

I did blog about this earlier this year, To be effective, do mentor folks seeking your advice for climate action.

There is considerable potential for the actions of state and local government, the private sector and individual citizens to contribute to the nationwide response to climate change, but better information and coordination with federal policies would make these decisions more effective.

Under the precautionary principle agreed in the climate change convention, nations promised not to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking cost - effective action.

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

But this structure also became highly divisive and unable to generate agreement and compliance, which is desperately needed for action on climate change to be effective.

For the new international climate agreement to be universal, countries acknowledged that effective capacity building is vital to enable developing countries to take strong climate action.

We know that successful civil disobedience actions like those on May 8th — coupled with pressuring our cities, churches, universities and local non-profits to sever ties with the banks enabling the climate crisis — represent the most effective way for us to tell CEOs like Chase's Jamie Dimon that we will not stand idly by as you profit from the destruction of our planet.

For U.S. climate policy to be effective, today's action has got to be just the tip of the (melting) iceberg.

«Why Revoking the EPA GHG Endangerment Finding Is the Most Urgent Climate Action Needed Reducing CO2 Emissions Is Not a Useful Substitute for Effective Stormwater Management»

This includes identifying the values that may be at risk; synthesizing information on how climate risk management problems can be prioritized and manageably bounded; providing concrete options for managing risks, including how to create or identify such options; summarizing lessons learned in how to defensibly select among options by making explicit the inevitable tradeoffs that will arise when objectives conflict; evaluating the conditions under which such actions would be more or less effective; and providing guidance on how to manage continuous change over time, since climate risks are unlikely to be static.

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.

The course will allow participants to delve deeper into the importance of adequate adaptation planning, and to acquire tools to identify and prioritize adaptation options in agriculture sectors, ensure effective coordination and governance for climate change adaptation actions, and explore mechanisms for funding and safeguarding livelihoods.

Help connect UUs together working on the front lines of environmental and climate justice work, thus building movement capacity and collaboration for effective action

[DC: Last time I looked, the political parties accepting climate science and the need for effective action were in the majority in both Canada and the U.S. I suppose those opposed to science will keep «asking questions» and perpetrating falsehoods until they get the answers they like or manage to elect enough obstructionist legislators.

Perhaps the options are basically, either continual squabbling and differences of opinion at taxpayers» expense (because the climate research centres are usually government funded), or a tacitly understood agreement that a consensus of opinion is the best approach in order to maintain funding for the research centres and to provide effective advice to governments that at least gives the governments a chance of initiating effective action to reduce CO2 emissions.

2 March: ABC The World Today: Fad not facts: call for new approach to climate change ELEANOR HALL: An Australian National University science academic says it is time to call in the advertising industry to make sure that the warnings from climate scientists hit home... Dr Rod Lamberts, says scientists have done all they can to alert governments to the need for action, but that professional marketing may be more effective..

At the just - concluded U.N. climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland, Earthjustice attorneys Martin Wagner and Erika Rosenthal advocated for rapid action to reduce emissions of black carbon, now considered one of the most effective strategies to slow near - term global and Arctic warming.

Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon himself is calling on people around the world to add their voices to the petition demanding a fair and effective climate change agreement: Climate Deal Smart Investment for the Future Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to climate change agreement: Climate Deal Smart Investment for the Future Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to Climate Deal Smart Investment for the Future Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to action,

But I'm left concluding that it would be a whole lot less complicated, and likely far more effective, if we just had a sane Republican party that could cooperate with the administration and Democrats in Congress to pass a new, modern piece of legislation that would establish a national plan for climate change action.

This misses enormous opportunities for effective action to reduce human suffering due to climate and weather disasters, and to lay a stable foundation for cooperative international efforts to address both climate adaptation and mitigation.