Sentences with phrase «future social climate»

The founding artists, along with contributions from Ambassador Andrew Young, Jesse Williams, Rashid Shabazz, and Delroy Lindo, will introduce and contextualize the body of the work and provide closing remarks on our current and future social climate.

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The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

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A statement read: «In a social and political climate such as ours, it often takes a gathering of unlikely individuals to shape the future of our nation on issues of faith and inner city initiatives.

Cutting energy bills by scrapping outright social and green levies punishes the fuel poor and punishes the future generations who will confront the full force of climate change.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

«One of the big challenges we always face in getting people engaged and take action on climate change is they keep thinking this is going to happen to someone else, somewhere else, or to someone in the future, far away,» said Susanne Moser, an independent social science researcher on climate change analyzing the project's results.

Understanding exactly how such a social transformation occurred in the past may prove key to understanding how individuals might alter their behavior to help combat climate change in the future.

While climate researchers struggle to refine their projections of the changing global climate and to anticipate the social impact of those shifts, a growing number of scientists are realizing that the past may contain valuable lessons about our future.

The impact of these events on historical societal development emphasizes the potential economic and social consequences of a future rise in sea levels due to global climate change, the researchers write in the study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports.

The team will couple their social, ecological and phytochemical data with climate data to develop models that predict the future of maple syrup production.

The paper joins other academic research focused on the social cost of carbon, a measure used in climate regulations that estimates the total cost of future damage from additional carbon emissions.

Yoshua Bengio says that another possible important application is in computerized dialogue, and Schaeffer says that in the future these programs might be able to come up with answers to abstract social issues that can be expressed as games, like national politics or international climate negotiations.

linking probabilistic simple climate models, complex Earth system models, and econometric analyses of historical weathering and climate impacts to project future risks associated with climate change and improve estimates of the social cost of carbon.

After organizing a series of game jams last year around serious social issues — immigration, climate change, future cities — I discovered the answer to be an overwhelming yes.

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Offering a visual metaphor of empowered young women coming of age and representing the future of Cuba, he juxtaposes them against the shifting social and economic climate of the city.

re: # 34 John Philips As it happens, in the near future, you may want to revisit the Wegman Report... — For example, Wegman & co were so expert at Social Network Analysis that pp.17 - 22 of the WR bear «striking similarity» (that's the legal term, most people say plagiarism) from Wikipedia, Wasserman & Faust (1994) and deNooy, Mrvar, and Bateglj (2005), as shown by Deep Climate in April.

The Drawdown EcoChallenge provides the tools and inspiration to turn intention into action, and gives participants a fun and social way to reduce carbon and reverse climate change, one of the biggest threats to our planet and to future generations.

Available strategies and actions can increase resilience across a range of possible future climates while helping to improve human livelihoods, social and economic well - being, and environmental quality.

Climate scientists are perhaps under the most serious threat, however, because their findings carry with them grave implications for the future of our social and economic order.

The I.P.C.C. continues to be dominated by natural scientists who may be well intentioned but seem not to be aware that there are equal level (i.e., academic, «scientific») studies of communication and that such a discipline, together with other social sciences, can give crucial contributions to understanding the current and future realities of climate change.

Future scenarios of climate change necessarily consider social change as well, and fuel prices are a component of these scenarios; fuel use being relatively inelastic affects consideration of social change, which affects emissions, which effects climate.

The children become active Climate Justice Ambassadors and pass on their knowledge and encourage other children to take on social responsibility and shape their future.

All 5 possible future EU budget scenarios outlined in the paper call for a stronger or exclusive focus on «social inclusion, employment, skills, innovation, climate change, energy and environmental transition».

In this presentation, Bob Doppelt shares two examples of projects intended to foster the development of «We» oriented social resilience: The Resource Innovation Group's Climate Futures Forums, and its recent assessment of the strengths, limitations, and potential of organizations making a moral call to action on climate disrClimate Futures Forums, and its recent assessment of the strengths, limitations, and potential of organizations making a moral call to action on climate disrclimate disruption.

• COREM (Community - Owned Renewable Energy Mullumbimby)-- website • CORENA (Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia)-- website • Dandenong Ranges Renewable Energy Association — website • Darebin Climate Action Now — website • Eastern Climate Action Melbourne — website • Environment Centre NT — website • Future Environment Defenders (FED Up)-- website • Geelong Sustainability — website • Groundswell Bass Coast — website • Healthy Futures — website • HOPE (Householders» Options to Protect the Environment Inc)-- website • Jesuit Social Services — website • Journeys for Climate Justice — website • Lake Wollumboola Protection Association Inc — website • Lighter Footprints — website • LIVE (Locals Into Victoria's Environment)-- website • Long Future Foundation — website • Market Forces — website • Nature Conservation Council of NSW — website • Parramatta Climate Action Network (ParraCAN)-- website • Psychology for a Safe Climate — website • RSTI (Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation)-- website • Save the Planet — website • Shoalhaven Transition Inc — Facebook • St Andrews Uniting Church Fairfield — website • Stonnington Climate Action Network — Facebook • Surf Coast Air Action — website • Sustainable Engineering Society (SENG)-- website • Transition Byron Shire — Facebook • Transition East Geelong — Facebook • WATCH (Wodonga Albury Towards Climate Health)-- website • Western Region Environment Centre — Facebook • Yarra Climate Action Now — website • Zero Emissions Byron — website

It features chapters on: promoting quality education in islands; building island resilience, with an emphasis on reisilience to climate change; valuing and sharing island heritage and identities; building knowledge societies in islands; enabling island cohesion and social well - being; managing natural resources for a sustainable future; and the UNESCO participation programme in SIDS.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

Limited availability of data and a variety of uncertainties relating to future changes in climate, social and economic conditions, and the responses that will be made to address those changes, frustrate precise cost and economic loss inventories.

Until the roots are cleared of a bias towards European style authoritarian modes of economic / social / political action as evidenced by what we saw in Europe / Soviet Union / PRC in the late 19th and all of the 20th centuries, then PNS is stillborn wrt to future climate matters.

The transformation to sustainability covers much ground, including energy transitions, climate change, atmospheric pollution, world population, food and water, poverty and equity, social justice, world financial and monetary structures, and strategies around the future of the key geopolitical hotspots.

For social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone.

After 23 years of United Nations summits on climate change, the time has come for radical thinking and radical action — a social movement with the power to demand a better future.

After attending a Climate Reality Leadership Corps training led by former Vice President Al Gore, he's taken a 21st - century approach to activism, using his sizeable and active social media following to spread the word about climate solutions and inspire thousands and thousands of his followers to stand up and speak up for their Climate Reality Leadership Corps training led by former Vice President Al Gore, he's taken a 21st - century approach to activism, using his sizeable and active social media following to spread the word about climate solutions and inspire thousands and thousands of his followers to stand up and speak up for their climate solutions and inspire thousands and thousands of his followers to stand up and speak up for their future.

Note that estimates of the social cost of carbon are necessarily uncertain as it depends, by definition, on projections of the future — and not just on projections of the climate system but on projections of everything that affects the climate system or is affected by it.

Or take for instance, the federal court ruling last week that halted a proposed coal mining operation in Colorado stating that the «social costs» of contributions the mine would make to worsening impacts of climate change in the future were not taken into consideration.

I'd encourage you to share the results on social media — and start a conversation there about how and why climate science matters to the future of the planet.

«Climate change will be a key issue that future citizens of Texas will need to understand and confront, and they deserve social studies textbooks that reinforce good science and prepare them for the challenges ahead,» she said in a statement.

Political and social settings of the future will be governed by a mix of energy - price, energy - security and climate - change - mitigation realities that MUST be faced.

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

We argue that an «applied forward reasoning» approach is better suited for social scientists seeking to address climate change, which we characterize as a «super wicked» problem comprising four key features: time is running out; those who cause the problem also seek to provide a solution; the central authority needed to address it is weak or non-existent; and, partly as a result, policy responses discount the future irrationally.

We know that climate change and unsustainable and unjust social and economic structures are painful in the immediate, but we also know that these untenable ways of living can be transformed and that a more wholesome, abundant, interconnected, and enjoyable future is already being created.

The damages from climate change that will accrue 50, 100, or 250 years into the future are impossible to verify, and how much present value to assign them is purely a matter of social preference.

Bob Doppelt shares two examples of projects intended to foster the development of «We» oriented social resilience: The Resource Innovation Group's Climate Futures Forums, and its recent assessment of the strengths, limitations, and potential of organizations making a moral call to action on climate disrClimate Futures Forums, and its recent assessment of the strengths, limitations, and potential of organizations making a moral call to action on climate disrclimate disruption.

In the same way, traditional owners require information about the Government's policies before they can make informed decisions about land and future social, cultural, and economic opportunities relevant to climate change.

The Northern Australian Water Futures Assessment of which the Department is a joint delivery partner, has a strong Culture and Social program which aims to identify the key cultural and social assets across northern Australia and gain an understanding of their watering needs to enable future development proposals to take these needs into account in the context of a changing clSocial program which aims to identify the key cultural and social assets across northern Australia and gain an understanding of their watering needs to enable future development proposals to take these needs into account in the context of a changing clsocial assets across northern Australia and gain an understanding of their watering needs to enable future development proposals to take these needs into account in the context of a changing climate.

This 5 - week foundational course explores the theories, research, and key dimensions of social - emotional learning (SEL), and school culture and climate, and the role they play in shaping children's emotional development, academic success, and future life and career choices.