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French President Emmanuel Macron stepped seamlessly into the role of global climate leader with his campaign to «make our planet great again.»

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The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

The UN Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate climate change.

In Buffalo, we stand in solidarity with leaders from across the country in condemning President Trump's retreat from the Paris Agreement and reaffirm our commitment to the global community fighting climate change,» he said.

WITH less than 60 days to go before world leaders meet in Copenhagen to thrash out a new global climate deal, how do the chips already on the table stack up?

Even people who don't want to use the phrase «global warming» or «climate crisis» are finding new ways to express what they feel with their own senses, and they're responding to political leaders who are using facts as a basis for new policies.

THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate change.

And we need leaders to deal seriously and honestly with the crux of these talks — global inequality and historical responsibility — and to make progress on a fair, just, equitable and transformative global partnership to combat the ever escalating climate crisis.»

Founder and President at GEC; UNEP Reform Project Leader at Tema at Linkoping University; SCO Project Leader at Vermont University; My mission is to contribute myself in global environmental and sustainable development governance and act to accelerate transitioning the society to green economy with sustainable development, and to join together with world visionary leaders to fight and combat the climate change that threaten life of all.

Starting with a presentation on the repercussions of global warming on the Bay Area by Bruce Riordan, Executive Director of Bay Area Climate Solutions, the Institute presented climate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - importantClimate Solutions, the Institute presented climate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - importantclimate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - important topic.

But for those of us who follow Hansen, Spratt, Monbiot, and many others in the tail of a much more serious climate change story: non-linear, with positive feedbacks, tipping points, time lags and thresholds, we need a much more robust and focused scientific consensus now, without waiting years for the next IPCC reports, in time to win the crucial 08 election because the solution must be now, global and America must be a leader.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

Also on tap are Dan Reicher, the former assistant secretary of energy for efficiency and renewables and now climate change and energy initiatives director with Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the global search giant, as well as state and local leaders including Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona.

For years, Europe had assumed the informal mantle as the leader on global climate initiatives, mainly by pushing for and signing on to the Kyoto Protocol (with Japan and most of the developing world).

Various updates appended The best thing about the Paris climate conference known as COP21, which began today with a round of position - staking and prodding speeches by President Obama and dozens of other world leaders, is that dealing with global warming has become normal, and that's a good thing.

Mr. McCain (a spokesman): «John McCain has been a leader in the fight against global climate change, working with Democrats on this issue since 2003, but no one has more successfully recruited Americans into this effort than Al Gore.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

The prominence of climate risk and policy in the minds of business leaders is reflected in the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016, which found that the risk with the greatest potential impact is a failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Sciencedaily: With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of the environment to slow warming's damage to the planet.

COP18 / CMP8 entered the crucial phase of climate change negotiations on Day 9 with world leaders issuing a clarion call for urgent global action at the opening of the High Level Segment of the conference.

IPS: While world leaders were wrapping up the United Nations conference on climate change (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar this past weekend with the annual vague promise to tackle the enormous crises brought on by extreme weather and global warming, a delegation of youth gathered far from the high - level conference halls to say «no» to [continue reading...]

The UN climate agency, the World Meteorological Organisation, has predictably hyped the global warming associated with this El Nino to encourage political leaders to action in next week's Paris climate conference -LRB-» UN tips 2015 as hottest year», 26/11).

The survey finds both support and skepticism for major efforts to reduce climate change on the first day of a Paris summit, with international leaders aiming to forge consensus on measures aimed at slowing the rise of global temperatures.

With less than two months to go before UNFCCC COP 19 opens in Warsaw, and the UN Secretary - General planning to host a Climate Summit with world leaders in September 2014, the WGI contribution to AR5 is well - timed to influence global climate polWith less than two months to go before UNFCCC COP 19 opens in Warsaw, and the UN Secretary - General planning to host a Climate Summit with world leaders in September 2014, the WGI contribution to AR5 is well - timed to influence global climate Climate Summit with world leaders in September 2014, the WGI contribution to AR5 is well - timed to influence global climate polwith world leaders in September 2014, the WGI contribution to AR5 is well - timed to influence global climate climate policy.

So I'm looking forward to talking with Alaskans about how we can work together to make America the global leader on climate change around the globe.

Through their statement on climate change, Buddhist leaders have crossed this boundary into an area in which, it seems to me, they lack knowledge both of the alleged problems of anthropogenic global warming and of the best policies that might be adopted to deal with an always uncertain future.

With the election of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (known as PPK) as its new President, Peru is poised to be a major leader in combatting climate change and, in particular, the global effort to preserve tropical forests.

The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with... Instead of organizing meetings with free and open debates on the basic physics and the likelihood of AGW induced climate changes, the leaders of the society... have chosen to fully trust the climate models and deliberately avoid open debate and discussion... My interaction (over the years) with a broad segment of AMS members... have indicated that a majority of them do not agree that humans are the primary cause of global warming.»

Each of those organizations represents a particular constituency with a wide range of interests; each takes public positions or seeks to influence political leaders on many issues, most of them unrelated to Global Warming / Climate Change.

Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, leader of WWF's global Climate & Energy Practice says, «Climate change is one of the biggest threats of our future, with fundamental impacts on places, species and people everywhere.

«These findings point to potential public health effects associated with global climate change,» study leader Dr. Gregory Tasian, a pediatric urologist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a hospital news release.

She has attended key climate events with world leaders, participated in youth activism actions, met one - on - one with the Minister of Environment and Energy of the Maldives and participated in launching a global youth climate initiative.

Times News Network: President of the Warsaw climate conference (COP19) and Poland's secretary of state, Marcin Korolec, has said the «nature of contributions» from countries to deal with menace of global warming would be the «main political questions» in Peruvian capital Lima where leaders \ negotiators from across the globe assemble for the next marathon meeting in December.

Roger Pielke Jr recently made the remarkable discovery that, in addition to his university salary from George Mason University (reported by Pielke as $ 250,000), Jagadish Shukla, the leader of the #RICO20, together with his wife, had received a further $ 500,000 more in 2014 alone from federal climate grants funnelled through a Shukla - controlled «non-profit» (Institute for Global Environment and Security, Inc.), yielding total income in 2014 of approximately $ 750,000.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

The round - the - clock event will also include presentations from government leaders and climate experts and activists broadcasting from Paris and eight other countries around the world (United States, Australia, Brazil, India, Canada, China, the Philippines, and South Africa) to provide viewers with compelling, entertaining and informative content on the local and global impacts of climate change, as well as promising solutions that can be found around the world today.

For more than a decade, officials in Ecuador's mountainous capital have been studying the effects of global warming on nearby melting glaciers, developing ways of dealing with potential water shortages and even organizing conferences on climate change for leaders of other Latin American cities.

With a global movement more than 5 million strong and a grassroots network of trained Climate Reality Leader activists, we are spreading the truth about the climate crisis and building popular support for clean energy solClimate Reality Leader activists, we are spreading the truth about the climate crisis and building popular support for clean energy solclimate crisis and building popular support for clean energy solutions.

With world leaders poised to gather in Bonn for COP 23, Oxfam stressed that reductions in global climate emissions must be made far more rapidly and called on rich countries to step up their adaptation support for poorer ones.

With that whopping amount, average global temperatures will rise by at least 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit)-- five times the 2 degrees Celsius limit set by world leaders during the Paris climate talks.

This week, leaders from around the world are gathering in Davos to discuss the most pressing global issues of our time under the theme «Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World», with climate change likely to feature high on the agenda.

The cold wave is obviously due to Russian collusion with Trump to make the global warming, climate change religious leaders look bad.

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gases on the table at the UN's climate change conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: the time to take climate action is now!

Even China seems to be on board with this particular line of criticism: «I believe a wise political leader should take policy stances that conform with global trends,» Xie Zhenhua, the country's climate chief, told Reuters at the beginning of the month.

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions on the table at the UN's climate conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: we want a clean, healthy, and prosperous future — and getting there starts with stopping climate chaWith a global deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions on the table at the UN's climate conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: we want a clean, healthy, and prosperous future — and getting there starts with stopping climate chawith stopping climate change.

Global warming believers across the board trust that the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation has evidence to back it up, trusting in the notion that their leaders speak with authority about it being exposed by a «Pulitzer Prize - winning investigative journalist.»

Now here's a thought: if our leaders were able to leave the politics and vested interests aside for just seven days, we could come out of this week's meetings in Bonn and Brussels with across - the - board support for an international deal on HFCs and a meaningful EU emissions target, inspiring other countries around the world to raise their game and opening the way for an ambitious global climate agreement in 2015.

Leaders from around the world came together to try and achieve a new common international agreement on the climate, with the aim of maintaining global warming below 2 °C.