Sentences with phrase «from international climate change»

Meeting the Climate Challenge, a report from the International Climate Change Task Force, warns we're approaching a point of no return.

UNDP Regional Centre: As a matter of national urgency, the Bhutanese Government — with assistance from an international climate change adaptation fund that was established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and partner organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Environment Facility, the World Wildlife Fund and the Government [continue reading...]

Asked if he would withdraw the US from international climate change agreements, Trump said he is «looking at it very closely,» according to Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Mike Grynbaum, who were live - tweeting the meeting.

The incoming administration could quickly withdraw the U.S. from international climate change agreements, but domestic change is likely slower

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The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

The deal in Kigali builds on momentum from other international efforts this past year aimed at addressing 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.

Another participant, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, heads Trump's manufacturing council, but he condemned Trump's decision last week to withdraw from an international agreement to address climate change.

As with some other areas of policy, such as climate change and immigration, California's priorities in the area of international trade differ substantially from those of the Trump Administration.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

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.»

It includes an article from Andre Leu, President of IFOAM - Organics International, titled» The 4 For 1000 Initiative - Increasing Soil Organic Carbon To Mitigate Climate Change», which can be found on page 117 of the publication.

He worked as official representative of Ethiopia in the many official international climate change conferences from Copenhagen to Paris.

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.

The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recently released results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

It includes an article from Andre Leu, President of IFOAM - Organics International, titled» The 4 For 1000 Initiative - Increasing Soil Organic Carbon To Mitigate Climate Change», which can be... more

«The International Rice Research Institute and other research institutions have developed a wide range of sustainable technologies that will help reduce use of water, chemicals and energy in rice, and protect the crop from pests, disease and the impacts of climate change.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Her issue focus has ranged from climate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish Hiclimate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish HiClimate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish History).

Trump's decision to withdraw from international climate agreements, and his seeming climate change denial, may restrict the US from legitimately using climate security rationales for informing grand strategy and foreign policy.

Many of them feel global warming or man - made climate change is real and wish to help with the efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the need for sustained financial, technical and capacity building support from the international community to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change in the country.

Successive waves of migrants have reached Europe's shores; terrorist groups are rampant in the Middle East, menacing personal safety and regional stability; North Korea, despite warnings and sanctions from the international community, obstinately continues to develop its nuclear programme; and climate change also warrants international collective action.

From my conversations with people across the House of Commons, including the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Caroline Lucas of the Greens and Conservatives such as Nick Hurd and Graham Stuart (chair of Globe, the international parliamentarians group on climate change), it is clear there is cross-party support.

· Meeting international climate change commitments of reducing carbon emissions by 80 % (from the 1990 baseline).

«I highlighted the need for the international community to work together to liberate humanity from poverty, save our planet from the devastation of climate change and rid the world of terrorism for a more peaceful and prosperous future,» he said.

At the ceremony, Buhari stressed the need for sustained financial, technical and capacity building from the international community to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country.

Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, and for Climate Change, Barry Gardiner recently told the BBC's Daily Politics «we have to make sure that those people who are in this country illegally are removed from this country... I'm very happy to see a target of the number of those people that we want to remove».

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde told finance ministers in Washington, D.C., in the fall that trillions of dollars will be needed to rebuild from natural disasters associated with climate change (Climatewire, Oct. 16, 2017).

«The sites that have been excavated are those that the international community has prioritized, but you could see Greenlandic scientists targeting other ones, for example sites that are at risk of loss from climate change.»

New estimates from the International Energy Agency depict a world failing to reduce its reliance on burning fossil fuels, which emits the CO2 causing climate change

This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultuInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultuinternational agricultural policies.

The IMO process differs from the international climate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasclimate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasClimate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case last week.

The study involved researchers from the Schools of International Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in ChinInternational Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in Chininternational colleagues in China and the US.

And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.

By studying the chemistry of growth rings in the shells of the quahog clam, an international team led by experts from Cardiff University and Bangor University have pieced together the history of the North Atlantic Ocean over the past 1000 years and discovered how its role in driving the atmospheric climate has drastically changed.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, founded in the early 1980s and based in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, is the only intergovernmental body gathering cross-border environmental information and monitoring climate change across a region stretching from the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan in the west to Yunnan in southwest China in the east.

«Because global mismanagement of plastic is fueling the growing marine litter problem, policy responses are needed at all levels, from the international community of nations down to national and local communities,» said report co-author Cara Horowitz, executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

Working on climate change at all different levels, from nations and international conventions down to regions and cities.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

Collecting ice cores from high - mountain glaciers most at risk from climate change and storing them in Antarctica for future generations of scientists: that is the goal of ICE MEMORY, an international program aimed at preserving the memory of high - mountain glaciers.

«Climate change could trigger strong sea level rise: International research team presents findings from frozen «climate archive» of Antarctica.Climate change could trigger strong sea level rise: International research team presents findings from frozen «climate archive» of Antarctica.climate archive» of Antarctica.»

(in Dutch) relies heavily on quotes, tables, and graphics from reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other international bodies.

The verdict (in Dutch) relies heavily on quotes, tables, and graphics from reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other international bodies.

Even as scientists and politicians from around the world debated in December how to deal with a practical problem of profound importance — global climate change — another international group of physicists was waiting with bated breath for a more esoteric development.

The study, by an international team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge, examined how changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean were related to climate conditions in the northern hemisphere during the last ice age, by examining data from ice cores and fossilised plankton shells.

Although collaborative efforts benefit from as many voices as possible, Llewellyn Smith said that it was important for those running such projects, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, to strike a balance between a desire to include everyone and an overemphasis on doing so at the expense of quality science.