Sentences with phrase «global environmental challenge facing»

Climate change is the single most important global environmental challenge facing the world today.

They represent two faces of the same global environmental challenge facing us in the 21st century.

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A second approach is positive screening which promotes investments in companies that meet the environmental, global and social challenges we face today.

We are a global brand, and we want to be a force for change in both reducing our social and environmental impact and confronting head on the challenges facing the fashion industry now and in the future.

In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the DEC today halted Global Companies» proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil.

My experience with the environmental research community suggests that it is critical to sensitize young scientists to the concept of worldview if they want to address the global challenges we face in the Anthropocene.

Today, Saturday 22nd April, is Earth Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of the environmental and climate challenges that we all face as citizens of planet earth.

Here is a way to participate in developing environmental responsibility and awareness that climate challenges facing our planet need to be global.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

According to the National Association of Independent Schools, independent schools in the 21st century face significant challenges to ensure their sustainability in five broad areas: finance, student demographics, curriculum, global perspective and environmental sustainability.

Mr. Nodal states, «The Citizen Artists have employed a collaborative process with a multidisciplinary approach, involving all creative disciplines in collaboration with politicians, environmental activists, scientists, and community organizers to help individuals and communities understand and face the challenges of environmental justice, global environmental degradation, and for the last eight years, US indifference to environmental issues facing our world.

This reflects, perhaps, the deeper challenge facing those trying to make global warming the single - topic environmental issue of our time.

Global Green (USA)- Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity: global climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and clean, safe drinking Global Green (USA)- Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity: global climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and clean, safe drinking Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity: global climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and clean, safe drinking global climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and clean, safe drinking water.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

The Need: «Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of global environmental challenges, from loss of biodiversity to climate change to plastic pollution, that call for action at all levels of government,» said Denis Hayes.

«The world's most high - profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is» undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today» and» a challenge humanity must confront», in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.»

Whether it's in Haiti helping people you've never met and I've never met or in Youngstown, or in San Bruno, or in New Orleans, or future generations, or in the Congo with the women who are facing such great challenges there, or you name it across the world, Global Green's approach is unique because we are helping the other: the future generations to have a healthy future and the others to improve their lives with environmental solutions and eradicating poverty.

Veronica reminds us that the current environmental challenges we face are complex and «being able to have a conversation is the best step toward learning more about that complexity and what the solutions are at different levels, from the personal to the global.»

Environmental journalists face a unique challenge: covering local stories of environmental change requires an understanding of globEnvironmental journalists face a unique challenge: covering local stories of environmental change requires an understanding of globenvironmental change requires an understanding of global processes.

The paper — based on interviews with 25 leaders in the mainstream environmental movement (nearly all of them, like S&N, white men)-- argues that environmentalism is ill - equipped to face the massive global challenges of our day, particularly climate change.