Sentences with phrase «global environmental leaders»

Costa Rica has emerged as an global environmental leader, with its frequent 100 percent renewable energy streaks and its 2021 goal of becoming carbon neutral — a deadline set a decade ago.

The Beer Store expands its environmental commitment from recycling to green power Toronto — Today, Bullfrog Power ®, Canada's leading green energy provider, and the Beer Store, a global environmental leader, announced the launch of a green energy pilot program in Beer Store locations across Ontario.

Tom Goldtooth, global environmental leader and executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, sat directly across from me.

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«Business schools must equip the next generation of leaders with the knowledge, skills and perspective they need to meet the global economic, environmental, humanitarian and policy challenges of the future.»

During the global climate talks in Paris in December 2015, Polman drummed home the point to business leaders and politicians that companies» survival depended on averting environmental catastrophe.

As the world's demand for energy continues to increase, the Business Council is strongly committed to making Canada a global leader in sustainable development through showing that healthy economic growth, high living standards and environmental protection can be mutually supportive.

«The support and expertise of a global exchange leader will be invaluable as the Centre strives to harness the momentum of the impact investing agenda to tackle Canada's social and environmental problems in new and innovative ways.»

Halki Summit II: Theology, Ecology, and the Word Heybeliada, Turkey June 8 - 10 The Halki Summit is a gathering of activists, scientists, journalists, business leaders, theologians, and academics engaging and working across intellectual boundaries to bring the global environmental discussion to a new and richer place.

Liberal church leaders were disposed to look kindly on environmental issues, and global warming joined the list.

CCN is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it use technology from international green energy leader Global Water Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner effluent.

Supported by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Created by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Banrock Station is now the global wine industry leader in environmental issues, with part proceeds of every sale contributing to conservation projects around the world.

China, the world's largest importer and consumer of timber products, has emerged as a leader in global environmental governance.

Abt Associates is a mission - driven, global leader in research and program implementation in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development.

Basil Seggos, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner, said Cuomo is making New York «a global leader» in the fight against climate change.

Once a clear environmental leader, the European Union is likely to set a more cautious tone for the global debate on a U.N.

Nuclear energy supporters, renewable power purists and all flavors of environmental activists in between gathered in Paris last December and applauded as world leaders inked a global agreement to combat climate change, the fruit of 20 years of fraught negotiation.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

The environmental effects of climate change in our modern world are increasingly convincing, and global leaders will gather soon in a major Summit to try to address the problem.

Renowned Indigenous Leaders, Environmental Experts Unite to Address Global Efforts to Reduce Tropical Deforestation

The Neitzes are internationally recognized for developing a potential gene therapy cure for color blindness and are among the world's thought leaders on genetic and environmental factors that may be influencing a global epidemic of myopia...

London, United Kingdom About Blog Green Alliance is a think tank working to ensure UK political leaders deliver ambitious solutions to global environmental issues.

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.

By 2015, the leaders pledged, the world would achieve measurable improvements in the most critical areas of human development: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, global partnership for development.

About Fen Wang 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 -LSB-...]

The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón is the certified Global Leader in Green Racing and is the only motorsports series to comply with the Green Racing protocols developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and SAE International (SAE).

The Japanese automaker has partnered with Earth Day Network to sponsor the Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day celebration, April 17, 18 and 19, featuring environmental voices, government leaders, star - studded performances and a Mirai activation.

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 - important topic.

On a global level, Crissy Field Center staff attended the last International Conference on Environmental Education in Ahmedabad, India — a gathering of 1,500 delegates from 90 countries, organized by United Nations agencies UNESCO and UNEP — and for the past six years, they have hosted a youth forum for the Goldman Environmental Prize winners to give budding youth leaders a chance to meet and exchange ideas with these courageous activists.

In June of 2015 I helped bring 60 global environmental, natural health, and climate leaders together at Finca Luna Nueva for the founding meeting of Regeneration International.

Ecotourism Australia is a global leader in accrediting operators who make a commitment to «ecologically sustainable tourism with a primary focus on experiencing natural areas that fosters environmental and cultural understanding, appreciation and conservation».

The company, which has signed on to the UN Global Compact for sustainability, has made a name for itself as an environmental leader in the tourism industry for a number of reasons.

I would suggest again in the strongest possible terms that matters of environmental protection and resource preservation are not more than afterthoughts for many too many of today's similarly situated leaders within the global political economy.

Environmental leaders delivered a petition with more than 350,000 signatures to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch Thursday afternoon calling on her to launch an investigation into whether ExxonMobil misled the American public on global warming.

... They deserve nothing less than our collective best efforts to that end, and they are counting on us to put into place realistic energy policies that enhance our nation's energy security and national security, promote job creation and responsible environmental stewardship, economic growth, and status as a global energy leader.»

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

His address officially begins the United Nation's Sustainable Development Summit where global leaders aim to tackle numerous topics, including poverty, literacy, health and environmental issues.

The UN summit, which marks twenty years since the landmark UN Rio summit in 1992, is being seen an opportunity for world leaders to take action on strengthening environmental protections while reducing global poverty.

California is redoubling its environmental efforts less than three months before world leaders gather in Paris for a United Nations summit to create a new global pact for fighting climate change.

Outraged and angered local front - line communities and environmental justice groups get little media attention, and Gov. Jerry Brown continues his posture as a global climate leader.

For over 15 years, Winrock has been a global leader in designing and implementing science - based methods to measure, monitor and report GHG emissions reductions in the agriculture, land use and forestry sectors for clients including the United Nations, the World Bank and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Myron Ebell, director of global warming and international environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), was listed as the «group leader» when the the Cooler Heads Coalition was initially formed, and appears to maintain an important role.

Fittingly, that same year Peter Gleick helped to co-found the Pacific Institute, a global think tank that would become a leader in global environmental and California water issues.

«Nancy Pfund is a global leader in the growing field of impact investing and has been instrumental in helping to tap the power of venture capital to promote social and environmental change.

Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

The erosion of American engagement in climate diplomacy has already allowed China to become the de facto world leader on global environmental policy.

Political and business leaders will meet in Davos in Switzerland to discuss economic growth, global health and environmental sustainability.

Starting in 2017 and extending past our 50th anniversary in 2020, Earth Day Network plans to launch a campaign that will inspire global leaders to commit to comprehensive environmental and climate literacy programs for all K - 12 students around the world.

Former Executive Director, Sierra Club; founder, Friends of the Earth; founder, League of Conservation Voters; founder, Earth Island InstituteWidely considered one of the environmental leaders with the greatest global impact, the late David Brower was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.