Sentences with phrase «global efforts against»

According to the Greenpeace Union, the activities of environmental groups and, especially the launch of the «Anti-coal usage league», are some of the positive signs of the impetus for further global efforts against the use of coal.
An example of a public blacklist is the list of countries maintained by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which lists countries that the FATF considers to be uncooperative in the global effort against money laundering and terrorist financing.
Our Portfolio includes projects that benefit the local environments in which they take place and contribute to the global effort against climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Advocates for efforts against global warming expressed relief that the other countries had remained unanimous in support of the Paris accords.
Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.
Nigeria's President expressed readiness to align with United States» efforts in the global war against terrorism.
The minister who was speaking at the opening of the 4th session of the Nigeria - Cameroon Trans - Border Security Committee in Abuja, also said, «In the same vein, we call on the international community to sustain their support in our fight against Boko haram, and to see this effort as part of the global campaign to defeat terrorism».
World Bank President Jim Kim yesterday put climate change at the center of the fight against extreme poverty, part of an effort since he began his tenure to link the two looming global problems.
If we want to save anything, proactive and efficient conservation efforts but, above all, coordinated global action against global warming should start now.»
«Experts urge a defensive stance in efforts against antimicrobial resistance: Global population of antimicrobial - susceptible microbes is a shared resource that is falling victim to the tragedy of the commons.»
To make mortality estimates, the researchers took temperature projections from 16 global climate models, downscaled these to Manhattan, and put them against two different backdrops: one assuming rapid global population growth and few efforts to limit emissions; the other, assuming slower growth, and technological changes that would decrease emissions by 2040.
Faced with a possible U.S. retreat on climate efforts, European officials fear a leadership vacuum will embolden those seeking to slow the fight against global warming
Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity's few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
Scientists at Southern Research are heavily involved in the global fight against Zika, and are examining five different strains of the virus in a broad - based effort to penetrate the mysteries -LSB-...]
Marine scientists from Australia and the USA today called for global efforts to protect deeper coral reefs as insurance against the widespread destruction of shallow reefs and their fish stocks now taking place around the world.
«We continue to find attractive values in the global health care sector where demographics, accelerating emerging market health care spending, refocused research and development efforts, and cost cutting opportunities support long - term earnings against well - known pressures, which is not reflected in depressed valuations.
We have to do more efforts fighting against global warming.
The two most vivid examples on my mind at the moment are «It's Global Warming, Stupid,» a much - shared essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, and an effort by Anthony Watts, inspired by a ridiculous U.S. News Sandy - warming poll, to list scientists and commentators for and against global warming as the storm's Global Warming, Stupid,» a much - shared essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, and an effort by Anthony Watts, inspired by a ridiculous U.S. News Sandy - warming poll, to list scientists and commentators for and against global warming as the storm's global warming as the storm's cause.
Green leaders issue a global, social media - based rallying call to push back against an effort to pass the tar sands oil pipeline through the Senate tomorrow.
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.
A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisGlobal Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisglobal warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.
Considering recent news about the Exxon corporation sending out document retention request letters against those who accuse it of hoodwinking its shareholders about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, there is perhaps some chance that my work may be used as a guide on «who» needs to preserve «what» in such efforts.
He rejects any form of government action against global warming, although he does support efforts to develop renewable energy sources.
What began as a «vendetta» against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to «split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn't depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore,» the official said.
It should not, therefore, be surprising that formal efforts to weigh the near - term costs of emissions abatement against the long - term benefits from avoided global warming show few net benefits, even in theory.
Consider Dr Singer's account of slander efforts against him in the situation involving Al Gore's mentor professor recanting his position about the certainty of man - caused global warming....
Global efforts to dramatically reduce super greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change saw a major advance today as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol got the go ahead to crack down on harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
With most scientists now recognizing that the jihad against CO2 emissions was not really supportable by the empirical evidence, new scientific efforts are being conducted to determine what are the major factors influencing global warming / cooling.
If we want to save anything, proactive and efficient conservation efforts but, above all, coordinated global action against global warming should start now.»
Legal action has been filed and is now underway in Canada that will greatly assist with the global effort to expose and halt the ongoing climate engineering assault against the planet and the entire web of life.
While the climate science establishment continues its costly and misallocated efforts against «catastrophic» global warming, the empirical evidence indicates the worlds» elites are pursuing a laughably ludicrous Don Quixote quest against an imaginary climate - evil.
After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»
What I can do is tell how particular people reveal a one - and - the - same character assassination effort against critics of global warming and ozone depletion.
In an effort to model actions in the fight against global warming, houses of worship are starting at home.
In Beyond Kyoto: Advancing the International Effort Against Climate Change, Aldy et al., Report prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 2003.
An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice knowing it was worthless?
I've been privileged to have guest posts by Lord Monckton, Drs Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels and Jonathan DuHamel here at GelbspanFiles regarding character assassination efforts against people who dare to question the certainty of man - caused global warming.
Big coal — in the form of the National Rural Electric Association, Koch Industries, American Electric Power, the Southern Company, the National Association of Manufacturers and others are planning a major blitz against efforts to fight global warming.
This, coming from a historian who apparently needs some kind of time travel ability in order for her tale to be plausible regarding her discovery of who her «tobacco - associated critics» were, and this overall concern coming from a side of the issue which doesn't merely believe global warming mitigation efforts are just a sensible thing to do, there's a moral imperative to stop those who are committing crimes against humanity.
The Green Policy Fairness Coalition already cites efforts by global warming alarmists to use lawsuits against the federal and state governments bypass the legislative process.
«Discredited global warming scientist, Michael Mann, sees his last - ditch efforts to hide data fall apart as legal experts reveal a mountain of legal precedents against him.»
The memo notes that such an effort has strong allies in Washington in the form of will receive help from people like Sen. James Inhofe (R - OK), who has called global warming «the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people» and Rep. Joe Barton (R - TX) who has been leading a witch hunt against Dr. Michael Mann, one of the country's pre-eminent climate scientists.
Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will only know in a few years whether December's Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the beginning of a global effort to counter it.
People have been putting in efforts to improve a different source of energy by harnessing the sun's potential, all while continuing the fight against the bad effects of global warming.
«Suffice to say, the Manufactured Doubt campaign against global warming — funded by the richest corporations in world history — is probably the most extensive and expensive such effort ever.
Todd Stern, the State Department's special envoy for climate change, said de Boer was «an enormously dedicated leader in the fight against global climate change and has made a major contribution in advancing that effort
What legal changes are needed to ensure that the United States» withdrawal does not undermine the global efforts to fight against climate change?
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