Sentences with phrase «global environmental challenges»

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

It aims to develop new artistic practices, which will speak across communities, and seeks to address global environmental challenges on a local level.

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

It found the concept of «planetary boundaries» to be deeply flawed and a poor basis for understanding global environmental challenges.

The value, role and contributions of Agroforestry and protection of endemic habitats, in light of current global environmental challenges, can not be over-emphasised.

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience covering global environmental challenges from the Amazon to the White House, the Hudson Valley to the North Pole, the journalist and author Andrew Revkin argues that old top - down, finger - pointing approaches have mostly failed.

With climate change now the most important global environmental challenge, the United States and a long list of other countries have proposed amending the Montreal Protocol to phase out the use of HFCs.

It will be fun, energetic and participatory but will be based on the message that novel thinkers are needed to provide transformatory ideas to address global environmental challenges.

A new United Nations report reminds us that: - «Desertification — land degradation in arid and semi-arid areas — is a pressing global environmental challenge, currently affecting an estimated 100 - 200 million people.

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 global environmental challenges of the 21st century are matched only by the growing social, technological, and economic capacities of human societies to combat them.

Caroline focuses on bringing together diverse stakeholders around critical local to global environmental challenges to realize meaningful and sustainable impact.

Interdisciplinary research on local and global environmental challenges, plus solutions for creating more sustainable technologies and societies

That, and the fact that doubling the incomes of the world's poorest 650 million would take the same amount of money as adding one percent to the incomes of the richest 650 million, suggests where the solution to our global environmental challenges rests: changing behaviors among rich people.