Sentences with phrase «from environmental lessons»

We know many of these signs from our own experience — from environmental lessons learned the hard way.

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«We're glad the governor went to global warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with climate scientists.

In the aftermath of hurricane Harvey, controversial New York Times columnist Bret Stephens concluded: «The best lesson the world can take from Texas is to follow the path of its extraordinary economic growth on the way to environmental resilience.»

«We are in the midst of a major environmental change that will continue to stress corals over the coming decades, so the lesson from this study is that there are these systems such as coral reefs that are sensitive to environmental change and can go through this kind of wholesale collapse in response to these environmental changes,» Cobb said.

Those of us who are used to thinking and writing about environmental affairs at a loftier level might learn a few valuable lessons from Gore about the nitty - gritty of real - life decision making.

If we do not learn any lessons from the past about the creation of environmental justice communities... we're going to create new ones.

Many of the lessons that Florida has learned since 1992 have parallels in the unfolding disaster in Texas, experts say, and what was already a trend toward factoring in environmental threats and climate change to land and property values looks certain to become the standard nationwide as Houston begins to mop up from the misery of Harvey.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, panelists will examine economic, environmental, political and historical issues in addition to those of health and medicine to draw lessons from the current outbreak and devise methods to prevent modern plagues going forward.

There's much to learn in British classrooms today, however, Garry Campbell from environmental charity Groundwork, explains how moving lessons outdoors can be a practical way to boost schoolchildren's learning potential while reconnecting them with nature

This is lesson 7 of 9 lessons on Environmental and Medical Issues from Islam and Christianity.

Each individual Metroplex site has its own individual challenges as it pertains to scope and environmental requirements, and the Metroplex program will continue to use lessons learned from implemented sites to better engage communities earlier in the design process for current and future implementation sites, and improve how community feedback is utilized.

Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.

This activity report provides an overview of international experiences that combine social and environmental objectives within one programme and extract some lessons learned from existing Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes that may be useful when designing, implementing and monitoring social protection programmes such as the Bolsa Verenvironmental objectives within one programme and extract some lessons learned from existing Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes that may be useful when designing, implementing and monitoring social protection programmes such as the Bolsa VerEnvironmental Services (PES) schemes that may be useful when designing, implementing and monitoring social protection programmes such as the Bolsa Verde programme.

This technical document outlines current approaches to applying social and environmental standards and principles, and highlights current REDD + safeguard initiatives from the Forest and Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), UN-REDD and REDD + Social and Environmental Standards, including lessons learned and anticipated challenges to safeguardsenvironmental standards and principles, and highlights current REDD + safeguard initiatives from the Forest and Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), UN-REDD and REDD + Social and Environmental Standards, including lessons learned and anticipated challenges to safeguardsEnvironmental Standards, including lessons learned and anticipated challenges to safeguards application.

The most powerful lesson from the talks to solve acid rain is that, for any hope of success, addressing environmental issues must be linked with larger foreign...

This activity report presentsthe results of a workshop on lessons learned from Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) explored approaches, ways and arrangements under MEAs of relevance for the UNFCCC's work in facilitating results on pre-2020 ambition.

Lesson from History II: The Science of Ozone - Layer Protection The UW Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains a terrific web - page titled The Science of Ozone Layer Depletion, to which the attention of Climate Etc readers is directed.

If Europe learns from the biofuels lesson, it will stop promoting false solutions to the climate crisis that at the end present more environmental damage and degradation than relief for the planet.

The lesson Smil does not draw, but that flows inevitably from his work, is that for modern societies to do less environmental damage, every country must move toward more reliable and denser energy sources.

A lesson to glean from the Korean example is that poor countries are not poor because of pollution and environmental damage, but polluted and otherwise damaged because of poverty.

Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming.

As an Environmental Studies major I knew I would be taking a lesson from this, but I did not expect the physical and mental changes that came along with it.

The committee reiterates the recommendation from its first report that the CCSP should «build upon the lessons learned in applied climate studies and stakeholder interaction from prior environmental and climate assessment activities.»