Sentences with phrase «great challenge of climate change»

Via a video message, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner underscored that, while the science keeps evolving, the great challenge of climate change demands new policies in all sectors.

«This should encourage us to display the same level of urgency and unity to tackle the even greater challenge of climate change.

Extreme droughts are believed to be one of the greatest challenges of climate change facing commercial forestry in the medium term, the researchers said.

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Here's the answer: every one of these very different companies creates products and services that address one or more of the most challenging issues of our time — such as hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — and makes a great profit.

In a letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the CEOs noted «climate change poses one of the greatest global challenges and threatens to roll back decades of development -LSB-...]

Managing for healthy forests and diversifying BC's forest product mix to include a greater number and array of higher value, solid wood products are also important tools that can be used to address the ongoing challenges of climate change.

In addition to suggesting Trump was out of touch «with many of his own people», Bishop Nicholas said: «Climate change is one of the great challenges of our times.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

Species extinction, forest destruction and climate change are some of the greatest challenges facing our generation.

The Climate Change Act provides the framework for the UK to find solutions to one of the greatest challenges facing humanity.

Progressives in all these parties are committed to greater equality and dealing with the challenge of climate change, but the binding value is pluralism.

We will build an outward looking Britain that cooperates with other nations to tackle the great challenges of our time like mass migration, modern slavery and climate change.

In a Guardian interview this month, for instance, Ed Miliband said that what he saw as the great challenges of 2008 - globalisation, climate change, immigration - «all lend themselves to Labour solutions.

The greatest challenges the world faces: food security, climate change, loss of biodiversity, the aging population and disease can all ultimately be addressed through biology based research,» Mark Downs, head of the Society of Biology said in a statement.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

«Plant science is a great topic because people are much more aware of the effects of climate change and the challenges of food and energy production right now,» said Burke.

«Plant science is a great topic because people are much more aware of the effects of climate change and the challenges of food and energy production right now,» says Burke.

The winner of the election will face challenges at the interface of science and diplomacy related to health, economic growth, and climate change and the environment that will play an ever - greater role.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

This STEM challenge would be great for a science or STEM club, to use British Science week, as the focus of collapsed curriculum timetable day, or to enhance a lesson on climate change.

Empowering students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to meet the greatest challenge of their lives is a necessity, says Tony McNally, managing director, Climate Change Solutions

Our aim was to create greater transparency and accountability in terms of what countries are doing — or, in some cases not doing — on some of the biggest challenges our world faces today, such as climate change, water, energy, conservation, and the management of our natural resources.

This article minimizes what credibly could be the largest challenge in dealing with climate change: Holding the atmosphere to a CO2 content no greater than 450 PPM to prevent an increase of no more than 2 degrees C, beyond which runaway growth in CO2 could occur from natural sources.

Climate change is one of the great global challenges of our time.

One of the great challenges in assessing the meaning of changes in Arctic climate and other environmental conditions is putting today's observations in long - term context.

The world's most powerful established and emerging nations — together responsible for more than 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — concluded a day - long meeting after the Group of 8 summit in Japan and emerged on Wednesday with a joint statement calling climate change «one of the great global challenges 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 water.

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The right bill can create good jobs, strengthen our national security and give us cleaner air — all while finally tackling the great challenge of global climate change.

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«No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» said Obama in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.

It's understandable how, if a person had never once consulted a scientific paper or sat down for a serious, ideology - free conversation about climate change with one of the overwhelming majority of scientists who agree that man - made climate change is a real, observable phenomenon, he could be confused into thinking that the greatest challenge of our time is comparable to the medieval superstitious that arose in the absence of scientific understanding.

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Climate change exacerbates global injustice for present and future generations, and poses one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time.

While Australia has long been bound in a Sisyphean approach to climate change that has scarcely shifted since Kevin Rudd's 2007 proclamation of the greatest moral challenge of our generation, other countries have acted.

In his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama claimed that «no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.»

And in early 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry called climate change «the greatest challenge of our generation,» more so than poverty, terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today.

That was ten years ago, when Al Gore and the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize, and Kevin Rudd said that climate change was «the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time».

I find it a little difficult to believe that the politicians don't connect the dots, at least those who claim that «Climate Change is / was the greatest moral challenge of a generation».

The suggested news release begins, «Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and also one of the greatest opportunities.»

«I am convinced that one of the greatest challenges of our time is climate change... Today we declared that we want to work together in several key areas related to climate change and energy.

The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»

«We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age.

This analytical report argues for a bold re-imagining of prevailing models in order to steer the ongoing city transitions towards greater sustainability based on a thorough review of all available options, including a close look on climate change challenges and opportunities.

The chemical industry has created solutions to many sustainability issues over the course of modern history, and Matt believes that a transparent market - based price on CO2 emissions is the signal the chemical industry needs to once again rise to the challenge of solving the great 21st Century sustainability issue that is climate change.

Climate change is one of the great moral issues of our age, but the scholars in the strongest position to challenge the industry responsible are, instead, lending it what Benda calls their «moral prestige».

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing society today.

We are heartened that despite the domestic and international political challenges that have limited actions to address climate change, the year brought broader recognition and acceptance of the science of climate change along with a greater understanding of its likely costs.

I see the Administration's treatment of the 2000 National Assessment, and the abandonment of high - level support for an ongoing process of scientist - stakeholder interaction, as the central climate science scandal of the Administration — the action that has done, and continues to do, the greatest damage in undermining national preparedness in dealing with the challenge of global climate change.