Sentences with phrase «global climate conversation»

Because we had a long and fruitful conversation on topics ranging from galvanizing moments and the Clean Power Plan to his own role in the global climate conversation and much more (and because we want you to learn as much as we did), we'll be bringing you the conversation in its entirety, with new installments each Friday for the next few weeks.

Aside from its impact on sea levels, weather and the economy, researchers say climate change is also an urgent public health concern, a matter that has been largely left out of the global climate conversation until recently.

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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.

As the global conversation grows around climate change and other political or environmental issues, innovative companies are working to solve those major problems.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen traces the artist's long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.

It's one thing to cave to a wave of naysaying climate rhetoric and build a new American energy conversation on points of agreement rather than clear ideological flash points like global warming.

Since the early 1990s we have made basically no progress in cutting global emissions — in part, as Kerry says, because the conversation about climate change policy strategy hasn't really changed.

I encourage you to read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

Likewise, Americans are two times more likely to say they personally use the term «global warming» in their own conversations than climate change.

Meat has not been part of the global conversation about climate change for far too long, as governments fear backlash from powerful meat lobbies and the angry public, and as a result many individuals have not yet learned about the impact it has.

As the «Six Americas» surveys run by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication have shown, there's plenty of common ground on energy innovation and incentives for efficiency, so it's possible to have a constructive conversation on global warming science and at least some solutions across a range of ideologies.

On This American Life this weekend, Ira Glass tried to jog the climate conversation out of the «mire and muck» with an hourlong discussion of impacts and options related to human - driven global warming.

When global warming enters the realm of politics, the conversation usually focuses on a few «solutions» — a bill capping carbon dioxide, «clean coal,» a climate treaty (you've read a lot here on «clean coal»; a lot more on treaties is coming shortly).

It is rare for questions to flow in two directions between a scientist and a science journalist, but on an issue as fraught and complex as human - driven global warming — with both the physical climate and communications climate in flux — there's never been a more important moment for such a conversation.

I've also recommended that Francis watchers read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

Guest Post from Guy Lomax: Recap from the first global Climate Engineering Conference: how long can CDR stay in this conversation?

He recounts, for example, a conversation with a top television network editor who was reluctant to run stories about global warming because a previous story had» triggered a barrage of complaints from the Global Climate Coalition» — a fossil fuel industry lobbying grglobal warming because a previous story had» triggered a barrage of complaints from the Global Climate Coalition» — a fossil fuel industry lobbying grGlobal Climate Coalition» — a fossil fuel industry lobbying group...

Most of the conversation about research into such technologies has been broadly about responding to the phenomenon of climate change, specifically global warming.

«Positioning NYBG to be a convener of this important global conversation around climate is a welcomed endeavor and was well executed.»

«24 Hours of Reality sparked a global conversation about the climate crisis and its solutions for a full 24 hours,» said Stacie Cobos, senior vice president of communications and marketing at The Climate Reality Pclimate crisis and its solutions for a full 24 hours,» said Stacie Cobos, senior vice president of communications and marketing at The Climate Reality PClimate Reality Project.

In my experience engaging with the UN, this discourse greatly reflects the current state of the global conversations and actions meant to combat climate change.

As part of an important and increasingly global conversation on climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon policy.

In his book «Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming,» author and freelance journalist McKenzie Funk moves the conversation on climate change beyond whether or not it is happening to focus on people around the world who are finding ways to profit from it.

As part of an important and increasingly global conversation on climate change in the months leading to

Frank Bainimarama, President of the UN Climate Conference COP23 and Prime Minster of Fiji, has called everyone to take part in the so - called «Talanoa Dialgoue», an important international conversation in which countries will check progress and seek to increase global ambition to meet the goals of...

Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about action.

Which do you prefer to use in normal conversation, Global Warming, Enhanced Greenhouse Effect, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, Carbon Pollution or Mickey Mouse?

Eric Michelman, the Seattle - based climate activist behind the campaign, said he started the project to get more climate scientists» voices into public conversations about global warming.

This reflects greatly in the current state of the global conversations and actions to combat climate change, which are currently doing very little to address the root cause of the crisis and transform the systems in order to ensure a more just and equitable world for all, but most importantly for women.

Likewise, Americans are twice as likely to say they personally use the term global warming than climate change in their own conversations.

Our sun is without doubt the single greatest force impacting the global climate, but it is a remarkably stable star — which is why we're all here to have this conversation.

While the press releases around the paper have emphasized the conclusion that climate engineering offers no easy solution and the analysis favors mitigation (i.e. «Cutting Carbon Emissions Our Best Option for Slowing Global Warming Study Finds «-RRB-, I do not see this paper as the end of the conversation or providing an answer.

Without bringing dietary issues to the forefront of conversations about environmental issues, then we, as a global population, don't stand a chance of solving the enormously terrifying problem of climate change.

Peak Oil, or the inevitable peaking and then decline of global oil supply, has become such a topic of conversation in environmental circles that it almost rivals climate change.

Personal highlights for me include a lively conversation as with author Guy Dauncey on his book «101 Solutions to Global Climate Change» (audio - file here, Real Player here, and Flash here).

By demanding that those who profit the most from climate change pay their fair share, BC local governments can dramatically reshape the global conversation about climate change and the fossil fuel industry.