Sentences with phrase «global issues such as climate change»

Benjamin Barber, senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The Graduate Center at CUNY, argued cities might do a better job tackling global issues such as climate change than whole countries or larger organizations such as the United Nations.

The pressures and complexities of international energy markets and the imperatives of global issues such as climate change, means that countries need to understand and conform to international conventions in monitoring and reporting.

Laudato Si, in short, is Pope Francis» appeal to the faithful to take a closer look at how we are shaping the future of our planet, the effect of humanity on global issues such as climate change and poverty, and the protection and care for what Francis calls «our common home.»

Indeed, simply reading an article that affirmed the power of scientific progress to successfully address global issues such as climate change (vs. reading an article which questioned its efficacy in doing so) was enough to significantly increase the degree to which participants saw order in the world.

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Younger millennials (18 - 24) are more likely to argue that economic opportunities should shape Canada's foreign policy, while older millennials (25 - 34) are more likely to identify opportunities for collaboration on global issues, such as climate change, as shaping our international outreach.

The Banrock Station Environmental Trust also supports internationally and nationally recognised conservation organisations to further their objectives in tackling global environmental issues such as climate change, water conservation, ecosystem loss and species loss.

The stories you'll read here feature some extraordinary women whose passion for discovery, and compassion for our planet and its peoples, fuels their search for answers to difficult issues such as global climate change, famine, drought, and epidemics.

Beyond basic subjects such as climate and weather, this site from the U.K. Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs covers a wide range of pressing atmospheric science issues including acid rain, air quality, climate change, global warming and ozone depletion.

«Obsessed with such global issues as climate change, modern eco-activists are detached from nature»

They have contributed to a stack of books on the issue that could fill a library: all five of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2012 Global Energy Assessment, countless journal articles, and special reports on issues such as adaptation, renewable energy, and more.

«Issues such as climate change, increasing global population, scarcity of agricultural land and rapidly changing consumer preferences, particularly in developing countries where there is increasing demand for high quality animal protein,» Associate Professor Wilkinson says.

The story can be used as a stimulus on issues such as environmental impact, climate change and global warming.

It is a guide about how to incorporate discussion of global issues such as gender, climate change and poverty into your subject area.

However, it crosses into other study areas such as - the SAHEL, desertification, global warming, climate change as environmental issues.

John Akomfrah's environmentally conscious video installation, Purple, offers dialogues about climate change by foregrounding issues such as global warming, animal extinctions and the plastic ocean.

Including photographs by artists such as Dorothea Lange, Richard Misrach, Robert Rauschenberg, Shirin Neshat, and Adi Nes, the exhibition presents artistic responses to a range of global issues including climate change, world wars, financial ruin, and the violation of human rights.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

Other global issues, such as climate change, oceanic acidification, water shortages, etc. can be shown to derive from or be exacerbated by these four.

Still, Tillerson said issues such as global poverty were more pressing than climate change, and billions of people without access to energy would benefit from oil and gas supplies.

The point is that to argue that «there is no such thing as global terrorism», or that «there is no such thing as global warming» is to fail to take issue with the idea that evidence of global terrorism or anthropogenic global warming is sufficient argument for the execution of the «War on Terror», or for «drastic action'to mitigate climate change.

«there is no such thing as global terrorism», or that «there is no such thing as global warming» is to fail to take issue with the idea that evidence of global terrorism or anthropogenic global warming is sufficient argument for the execution of the «War on Terror», or for «drastic action'to mitigate climate change.

As a private citizen, Ettling works to educate Congress about climate change, including bringing Republicans and Democrats to the table to work out consensus solutions to controversial issues such as climate change, global warming and energy usAs a private citizen, Ettling works to educate Congress about climate change, including bringing Republicans and Democrats to the table to work out consensus solutions to controversial issues such as climate change, global warming and energy usas climate change, global warming and energy use.

B. OBSERVED CHANGES IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM: This section was addressed in plenary from Monday to Thursday, with some issues, such as the global temperature increase, also taken up in informal consultations.

The topics were broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.

This statement will provide insight on water issues, also as they relate to other major forthcoming global events on development, such as the UN General Assembly's anticipated confirmation of the Sustainable Development Goals for the post-2015 Development Agenda and the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) on Climate Change, amongst others.

As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»as a «weapon of mass destruction».

Furthermore, while most conferences deal with one specific subject, the World Water Forum is a global event aiming to cover the most critical water issues and their related causes or impacts (such as climate change and its consequence on migration, to name just one).

The first step of defeating an enemy is to know them and by being aware of the issue such as Global Warming and Climate Change, then we are in the road of putting a stop into it.

Issues like the Medieval warm period, different possible causes of climate change (such as solar activity, or even the nature of our climate), studies indicating the last interglacial period was warmer than today, and the failure of recent dire predictions about the climate all show the debate on climate change is not nearly as settled as many global warming proponents would have us believe.

As you might expect from a commentary titled «Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers», he proposes that, with settled issues such as global heating, newspapers return to their glorious «muckraking» days of yore when advocacy journalism was all the rage, and before journalists were stripped by editors and newspaper owners of their authority to advocate for what is righAs you might expect from a commentary titled «Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers», he proposes that, with settled issues such as global heating, newspapers return to their glorious «muckraking» days of yore when advocacy journalism was all the rage, and before journalists were stripped by editors and newspaper owners of their authority to advocate for what is righas global heating, newspapers return to their glorious «muckraking» days of yore when advocacy journalism was all the rage, and before journalists were stripped by editors and newspaper owners of their authority to advocate for what is right.

This is a response to global challenges such as climate change, water scarcity and public health issues.

Nations that are planning to take part will include Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, (take a breath) Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, the Palestinian Authority, (another breath) Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.The meetings will be in a workshop format and are meant to foster collaborative solutions that will address global environmental issues such as greenhouse gases, climate change and water and air quality.

Based on a book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, the film by Robert Kenner purports to show how «Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.»

In particular, it will allow for closer cooperation on global governance issues and support for developing agreements, norms and actions in response to global challenges such as terrorism and transnational crime, climate change, epidemics, pressure on natural resources, humanitarian crises, irregular migration.

They also address global issues, such as unsafe drinking water, climate change, and environmental sustainability.