Sentences with phrase «global climate action while»

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The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

«While there are small marginal groups within evangelical Christianity who are often quoted in the press in opposition to climate change action, almost all major global evangelical bodies including the Lausanne Movement have declared their commitment to care for God's creation and to serve the poor affected by climate change impacts.»

While there is no single silver bullet solution that will address the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies is an obvious way to harvest low - hanging fruit, and, despite the odd framing, this study's findings seem to confirm that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies has the potential to make a major contribution to global climate action.

The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

There are multiple causes of the detailed processes involved in global amphibian declines and extinctions [107]--[108], but global warming is a key contributor and portends a planetary - scale mass extinction in the making unless action is taken to stabilize climate while also fighting biodiversity's other threats [109].

In The Phoenix Greg Cook reports that Alexis Rockman, whose earlier work is often compared to the Museum of Natural History's diorama painting, has adopted an «expressionist action - painting style while holding to the disasters - of - global - climate - change theme.

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

As brief as it is (3 pages to be exact, or 5 pages if you count the Appendix), Copenhagen Accord is comprehensive in that it covers all the major issues (including forestry - Article 6 - as some media outlets have incorrectly claimed was dropped) and is * somewhat * operational immediately — once the parties declare their mitigation commitments by the end of January, they can proceed to implement them, while the $ 30 billion quick - start fund commences next year as well; other aspects such as transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceed.

According to Christy, «The actions being considered to «stop global warming» will have an imperceptible impact on whatever the climate will do, while making energy more expensive, and thus have a negative impact on the economy as a whole».»

While scientists continue to explore the consequences of climate change, there is essentially no debate among scientists about global warming's «connection to the actions of mankind.»

Oh, and something to remember: while the actions taken to «fight global climate change» will have enormous impact on you, your children, and grandchildren, they will have essentially NO impact on the nomenklatura who are making the rules and enforcing energy austerity on the proletariat — us.

«While world leaders gather in Paris at the biggest global climate summit of this decade, Maryland leaders are stepping up to put concrete solutions into motion,» said Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and member of the Maryland Climate Coaclimate summit of this decade, Maryland leaders are stepping up to put concrete solutions into motion,» said Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and member of the Maryland Climate CoaClimate Action Network and member of the Maryland Climate CoaClimate Coalition.

One has recognised the impact that global efforts to cut emissions will have on its bottom line while the other denies climate action will have any adverse impact.

At the G - 7 summit over the weekend, President Trump refused on Saturday to recommit to the Paris agreement, while the six other leading industrialized nations reiterated their support for the accord, which sets out a global action plan to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

Deniers are losing their influence, while the global campaign for climate action has shifted to a much higher level over the last three or four years and will only gain strength through new avenues like the divestment campaign.

The resulting compromise safeguards the vested interests of global dependency on fossil sources of energy, while constraining the capacity of the international community to take any effective action to deal with the threat of dangerous climate change.»

There are multiple causes of the detailed processes involved in global amphibian declines and extinctions [107]--[108], but global warming is a key contributor and portends a planetary - scale mass extinction in the making unless action is taken to stabilize climate while also fighting biodiversity's other threats [109].

Fast action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) could slow the rate of global warming while saving millions of lives over the next several decades from air pollution — which now kills more than 6 million people a year.

Just three months before Shell withdrew from the Global Climate Coalition, Herkströter detailed his company's complex relationship with climate change by acknowledging the need for action while emphasizing fossil fuels as a large part of the soClimate Coalition, Herkströter detailed his company's complex relationship with climate change by acknowledging the need for action while emphasizing fossil fuels as a large part of the soclimate change by acknowledging the need for action while emphasizing fossil fuels as a large part of the solution.

, Ross McKitrick continues to try to move the goalposts on climate action with a misleading argument about global climate models, while harping on the tired old «warming pause» meme.

While Kartha noted that other nations have «reaffirmed their commitment to global climate cooperation,» many nations are joining the U.S. in failing to take meaningful actions to reduce carbon emissions.

While additional analysis and policymaking will certainly be needed to meet 2050 goals, Greenblatt's study highlights the importance and potential of near - term action to work towards global climate stabilization targets.

Denial Is Not A River In Egypt While the fossil fuel industry continues to hawk its wares in total denial of the devastating global effects of its actions, the new International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report confirms the necessity for immediate and sustained action.

You will find opportunities and potential partners, while contributing to momentum in global climate action.

While ECO found it extremely pleasant to hear Chile, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Kenya, Bolivia and Cote d'Ivoire's plans to contribute to global climate action during yesterday's workshop on Non Annex 1 mitigation action, ECO wonders why some of the big emitters from the developing world tried to hide under their desks.

While the fossil fuel industry continues to hawk its wares in total denial of the devastating global effects of its actions, the new International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report confirms the necessity for immediate and sustained action.

While the window for global decisive action is rapidly closing, climate scientists should not make careless promises about their ability to reduce uncertainties in climate scenarios over the next few years, and thereby provide our governments with excuses to shun their responsabilities until they know more detail about how fast and adverse their regional impacts of global warming will be (compared to those in other countries).

But according to Reilly, this metaphor doesn't capture the challenge faced by any one city, state or region because while they can contribute to climate action, they can't alone stop what is a global problem.