Sentences with phrase «growing challenge of climate change»

Greening the workplace Background Greening the Workplace aims to encourage trade unions to tackle the growing challenge of climate change.

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APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise in offering solutions to Asia's climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global influence.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

To meet the world's growing food security needs and face the parallel challenges of improving nutrition and reducing poverty under a changing global climate, a second — science - based — Green Revolution in agriculture is already under way.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

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.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Last week's New Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people'sClimate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people'sclimate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.

India's growing population, soon to become the biggest in the world, faces challenges of resource sustainability made worse by its vulnerability to climate change, the paper argues.

With climate change, food security and sustainability for a growing population is one of the most critical challenges facing the planet, Keoleian said, and an area where changes to the food system can have quantifiable emissions impacts.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

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.

«As the world faces monumental health challenges related to climate change, there is a growing need for health professionals with the knowledge and skills to respond in a meaningful way,» says Jeffrey Shaman, director of GCCHE and associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

The Changing Landscape of School Leadership: Recalibrating the School Principalship By M. Scott Norton «Achievement, servicing special needs, implementing change without funding, addressing increasing misbehavior, cultivating a learning climate, and compensating for a lack of role preparation are several areas Norton highlights as significant contributors to a growing list of challenges that principals face.

Achievement, servicing special needs, implementing change without funding, addressing increasing misbehavior, cultivating a learning climate, and compensating for a lack of role preparation are several areas Norton highlights as significant contributors to a growing list of challenges that principals face.

That's one reason I wrote a Science Times article this week describing three books speaking from the middle on the twin challenges of supplying energy to a fast - growing global population and limiting risks from human - driven climate change.

-- the extent to which technical innovations can keep up both with growing food demand (with more or less the same resource use) and the debilitating effects of climate change (a large set of biological challenges)

According to a report at the time by Sovereignty International, Professor Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic conseqClimate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic conseqclimate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic consequences.

There is growing global recognition that climate change is a critical development challenge and one of the most important issues that could undermine sustainable development and poverty eradication if not properly addressed.

In addressing the challenge of food security and climate change, the world faces therefore three inter-related challenges: first, the need to double food production by 2050 to meet growing world demand; second, the need to adapt agricultural production to shifting weather patterns; and third, the need to minimize agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions while maximizing its potential to mitigate climate change.

President Obama began the summit by addressing the attendees: «For all the challenges we face, the growing threat of climate change could define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other.»

A number of countries in Africa already face semi-arid conditions that make agriculture challenging, and climate change will be likely to reduce the length of growing season as well as force large regions of marginal agriculture out of production.

Home - grown wine might provide some solace as Britons contemplate challenges of climate change

This significant new study adds to a growing body of peer - reviewed literature and other scientific analyses challenging former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry may be suitable strategies to address the triple challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the provision of basic services, including food; to a growing number of urban residents.

Research and outreach efforts are underway in the region to help farmers find ways to cope with a rapidly changing climate, take advantage of a longer growing season, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 61,112 but unequal access to capital and information for strategic adaptation and mitigation remain a challenge.

If global - warming emissions continue to grow at today's rates, scientists expect rising temperatures to render about one - third of the Northwest's habitat for salmon and other coldwater fish unsuitable by the end of the century.2, 12 Climate change poses another obstacle to the already monumental challenge of restoring depleted salmon stocks.2

With 70 % of global energy demand currently met through the burning of carbon - based fuels, and demand predicted to double by 20351, the world faces a growing challenge: reducing climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.

Nearly two decades later, after the U.S. and the international community continued to fail to take action, he moved from journalist to activist, founding 350.org, which has grown into a global movement to solve the challenge of climate change.

If all goes well — which for Picarro means, essentially, that the world takes seriously the challenge of climate change, and institutes some kind of cap - and - trade or carbon - tax mechanism that requires detailed analysis of exactly who is pumping what into the atmosphere — then Picarro is looking at a solidly growing market.

As she says, «Climate change isn't just an economic challenge; it represents a great economic opportunity to wean ourselves off our old and dirty ways of getting energy, and replace those with clean renewable energy sources that we can grow here at home.»

It can contribute to our understanding of the everyday challenges of growing old in a changing climate and how we can achieve the «longevity dividend».

Virginia will meet the challenge of climate change head on, and we will do so in a way that grows our clean energy sector and supports our new Virginia economy.»

Bishops from South America are to discuss ways of tackling the «ever - growing environmental challenges resulting from climate change».

This guidance document presents that climate change adds to the urgency of sustainable urban planning and management and to the a broad set of challenges for many city governments revolving around providing jobs, services and housing to growing urban populations.

She's from Los Angeles and shares in this story what it was like to grow up, and be a high school athlete, in the face of challenges like heat waves, air pollution and the threat of climate change.

«The Pacific Coast states and province are working together to build a thriving economy, while reducing harmful carbon pollution,» said Matt Rodriquez, who attended the meeting on behalf of California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. «Through our shared culture of innovation, we view the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to develop new markets, attract investment and create jobs in the growing clean economy.

«We recognize that properly sited and operated wind energy projects may be an important part of the solution to climate change, a contemporary challenge that indisputably poses a rapidly growing threat to species and ecosystems,» Hutchins said.

«Mongolia is facing enormous challenges including growing pressure on food security, traditional nomadic herding and water supplies as a result of the impacts of climate change,» said UN Under - Secretary - General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

Concern over climate change and the ongoing challenges of managing degraded ecosystems have made the field of ecological restoration a growing focus in the agendas of national and international conservation organizations, including the United...

With Singapore's population set to grow along with demand for energy and resources, the city faces the challenge of balancing growth with sustainability amid a growing backdrop of worsening climate change.

Farm challenges ahead will be labour, soil erosion, and climate change will require solutions so that we can meet the demands of growing more in a sustainable setting.