Sentences with phrase «from most climate change»

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Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Meanwhile, the most important thing to us is that the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change moves from a plan to an on - the - ground reality.

Environmental and energy - related resolutions, mainly concerning climate change, have been the most common so far this proxy season, accounting for 27 percent of all ESG resolutions, up from 19 percent as of mid-February last year.

These two firms showed the most growth since 2014 in the total times that they've met with companies to voice their concerns on issues ranging from executive pay to climate change.

An equally unprecedented wave of complex risks, from climate change to cyber threats, calls into question the value of citizenship in even the most powerful economies in the world.

«Most of the climate resolutions ask companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to re-port on the risks from climate change on business operations,» Passoff of Proxy Impact said.

And there have been some celebrated deserters from the dominant orthodoxy, like Bjorn Lomborg who favors adaptation over an attempt to change the climate, and most recently James Lovelock, he of the «Gaia» hypothesis, who recanted his past climate pessimism rather dramatically.

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

As Andre Leu, the current president of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) noted, «Dec. 1, 2015 will be seen as one of the most important days in history... as the tipping point when the world was saved from catastrophic climate change.»

«We must all do everything we can to help indigenous and local people who too often suffer the worst environmental degradation, and are most at risk from climate change,» added Mr. DiCaprio.

On the program's launch, Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise said, «The industry's key decision - makers are now in Bordeaux to address the most important topics affecting our shared interests, from the economy to e-commerce, international agreements and climate change.

«Who will suffer most from climate change?»

While only 13 percent of electricity in the U.S. is generated from renewable energy sources, it's one of the most critical ways to fight climate change.

From defending endangered species to mitigating climate change impacts, one of the most effective ways to protect the nature of Massachusetts is through sound environmental policy.

It is the most vulnerable populations that are most affected by more - violent and less - predictable natural disasters resulting from climate change.

The Liberal Democrat most under threat from the shadow of scandal this year was energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who faces a police investigation over newspaper allegations that he tried to dodge speeding points on his licence.

What has struck me most about Avaaz in its relatively short lifetime is its ability to mobilise imaginative ways to show how positive pressure for change is possible on issues from climate change to the Middle East that are too often prone to debilitating pessimism.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

From that perch she ushered through some of the most significant, and controversial, legislation in decades, including President Obama's healthcare reform law, the Dodd - Frank Wall Street reform law and a climate change bill that Senate Democrats never took up.

«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

The Cuomo administration issued a response to Nixon's comments, saying, «The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country.»

«From the Right, fringes of the Conservative party and Ukip are parroting the arguments of the most discredited climate change deniers, seizing on any anomaly in the climate data to attempt to discredit the whole,» he said.

Already, 400,000 people die annually worldwide from the effects of climate change, primarily children, elderly and the poor who are most vulnerable to heat waves, drought, flooding and famine.

Marcia Bystryn, President of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said, «The most important lesson New York can learn from Superstorm Sandy is that we must do a better job planning for a changing climate and extreme weather events.

Billionaire philanthropist puts focus on protecting small farmers saying they are likely to suffer the most from climate change.

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

Developing countries stand to suffer the most from climate change — and they have the fewest resources to prepare for it.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.

But critics like Fugere said that Exxon Mobil may be missing the bigger picture, especially in light of the most recent findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, MarClimate Change, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, MarcChange, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, Marclimate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, Marcchange and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, March 31).

Most daunting global problems, like climate change, come from so many sources that solutions are complex.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reiterated that we must prepare for climate variability rather than for any particular Climate Change reiterated that we must prepare for climate variability rather than for any particular climate variability rather than for any particular threat.

Another complicating factor making present climate change different from events in the past is that most ecosystems are now dominated by human use, making it harder for species to adjust their geographic ranges in response to the changing climate.

The award presentation will provide some of the conference's most hopeful news for marine mammals in peril from threats ranging from climate change to chemical contaminants.

That is well short of the 25 to 40 per cent cuts that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says are required from developed nations to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate Climate Change says are required from developed nations to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate cChange says are required from developed nations to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate climate changechange.

The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

Future scarcity affected by climate change will most likely lead to different water pricing needs than the schemes we know from the past.»

But the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.climate system is clear.»

Yet, due to climate change, this area is drifting south, away from the islands where most King penguins currently live.

He points out, however, that «most data on the effects of climate change on penguins are not derived from banded studies.»

In this episode, University of Wisconsin - Madison public health expert Jonathan Patz talks about the ethical issues raised by climate change — who's causing it and who suffers most from it.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

It will be clear that, for the most part, climate change is bringing more of what we already know and suffer from.

Start with climate change: most roses in the U.S. and Europe are imported from warmer climes.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.