Sentences with phrase «for special climate»

If you read our many other posts on this site, you will see that our argument is that the fact (or otherwise) of climate change isn't a good basis for special climate change politics, and special political institutions, and for the reorganisation of global society according to the demands of environmentalists.

For people who have limited acess to academic journals, I will put in a plug for the special climate issue of Limnology and Oceanography published in late 2009 («Lakes and Reserviors as sentinels, integrators and regulators of climate change»).

Not exact matches

Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «No, New York Mag: Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behind it.

The ceremony itself received praise for pulling off a dazzling spectacle on a budget and for a show which highlighted Brazilian history and culture, the urgency of climate change, and even a special appearance from Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, wife of New England Patriots superstar Tom Brady.

Northampton has an advertisement for a special day soon on «Climate Change».

Also contributing to an increasingly inhospitable climate for mediating structures have been the special characteristics of the technocrats who predominate in modern governments, political parties, corporations, and mass media.

Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confclimate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfClimate Conference.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

Professor Sir David King is the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Special Representative for Climate Change.

A new «politics driven» diplomatic approach is required to tackle global warming, the Foreign Office's special representative for climate change said yesterday.

When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.

«As New Yorkers are faced with a punishing economic climate fueled by Gov. Cuomo's special interest donors and liberal career politicians, Congressman Gibson's announcement of an exploratory committee for governor is a light at the end of the tunnel,» said Nojay, a conservative lawmaker from the Rochester area and a talk - radio host.

Reflecting the growing concern about the target's absence from the Bill, on 16 May the former Special Representative for Climate Change, John Ashton CBE, said «it is vital that the target be restored.

«Revitalizing the public sector will do much more for the economy and the business climate across the board than tax breaks and subsidies for special interests.»

Chris Huhne, at Energy and Climate Change, has started to lobby for special treatment by announcing the discovery of a # 4bn black hole in his budget for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations.

«I can't imagine a scenario where U.S. companies are not in that game,» echoed U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing.

In this issue, a special report reveals how we have fundamentally altered Earth — its climate, its resources, its ecosystems — and offers ideas for what we can do about it.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

Deese's agenda includes meetings with Executive Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and Xie Zhenhua, special representative for climate change, according to the White House.

That has meant steadily breaking down what U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has called the «firewall» between developed and developing countries.

For me and my colleagues, this shameful piece of television was the final straw that persuaded us to do a special setting out the science behind the many climate myths and misconceptions.

Kerry will speak at the conference and author a summary document capturing its «key outcomes,» according to Karen Florini, deputy special envoy for climate change at the U.S. State Department.

«But mayors, as we know, have never waited for Washington to act here in the United States,» said Bloomberg, who is also the United Nations» special envoy for cities and climate change.

That was the message from James Steinberg, the United States's new deputy secretary of state, and Shyam Saran, the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Issues and Climate Change, at an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., today.

Nick Sundt of WWF says if turning down White House lights wasn't possible for security reasons, the Administration could highlight climate change impacts around the country in a special event, promote energy - efficiency measures, or generally rally Americans to participate in an event that began with 2.2 million people in Sydney in 2007 and involved millions more last year in 35 countries.

Banks, special assistant to the president for international energy and environment, has emerged as a leading voice for staying in the climate agreement.

Brown, who is now the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's special envoy for states, will host a summit on subnational action next year in San Francisco to be co-chaired by UNFCCC chief Patricia Espinosa.

«Parties understood exactly what was going on in the discussions in Durban about this new legal agreement,» said Todd Stern, the United States» special envoy for climate change.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

That's when the first internal conversations began between U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's office and the White House, allowing Stern to say publicly in Warsaw that a post-2020 process was underway and lobby, successfully, for countries to formally unveil their targets during the first quarter of 2015 (ClimateWire, Nov. 18, 2013).

Peter Ogden, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, DClimate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Dclimate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The week after Warsaw, Stern met with Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Dan Utech, White House Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Domestic Policy Council Rick Duke, and others to discuss the goals with the State Department pushing for what one person called «maximum ambition.»

A new federal report strengthens our understanding of global climate change, providing policymakers with scientific evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following the release of the Climate Science Special Report on climate change, providing policymakers with scientific evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following the release of the Climate Science Special Report on Climate Science Special Report on Friday.

«The risks are serious and should be a cause for concern,» writes David King, the U.K. Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change, in a foreword to the report.

Before the summit, Secretary - General Ban inaugurated Gujarat's first 10 MW solar power plant and announced he would be sending former New York Mayor and now U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change Michael Bloomberg to a major renewable energy summit in New Delhi next month.

For alpine plant species, climate change presents a special challenge: To escape increased greenhouse warming, the species have to move to a higher - altitude habitat.

Zaelke credited Obama and his team — including Kerry, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and former Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern — with working to till the ground for an HFC amendment even as they worked toward other objectives, like the Paris deal.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has said the United States» submission will be released by tomorrow.

Now for the really bad news: the Asian Tiger mosquito has a special affinity for the hotter, wetter conditions that climate change will bring to places such as the northeastern U.S.

«We know that the market for dairy products is characterised by an increasing willingness to pay more for milk with special qualities or values, especially organic, and we hope that in the project we will have a good and balanced dialogue with consumers about the climate and cattle production,» says Kai Grevsen.

They boil down to climate (warm and friendly behavior), input (the tendency for teachers to devote more energy to their special students), output (the way teachers call on those students more often for answers) and feedback (giving generally more helpful responses to the students for whom teachers have the highest hopes).

Mustafa Santiago Ali, a former U.S. EPA official during the Obama administration who is now the senior vice president of climate, environmental justice and community revitalization for the Hip Hop Caucus, argued that a special committee should be created regardless of which party controls Congress.

For more on climate change in the future, check out our recent special report and our climatology topic page.

This is the issue that is probably, historically, the most contentious in these negotiations,» said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern.

Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?

They have been voluntarily considering and disclosing their strategic response to climate change for a decade,» said Mary Schapiro, Special Advisory to the Chair of the TCFD and former Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Climate of the Past are kindly offering a discount of 200 euros on the page charges for all manuscripts submitted to this special issue (only for manuscripts received by the deadline).

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.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).