Sentences with phrase «growing threat of climate change»

Whether it's overfishing, marine pollution, loss of coastal habitats like mangroves, or the ever growing threat of climate change and ocean acidification, there are plenty of reasons for this disturbing decline — and I suspect most TreeHugger readers are familiar with the disastrous way that human beings have managed our oceans.

Every year, the billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) we release into the atmosphere add to the growing threat of climate change.

During a speech Monday at the Paris summit, President Barack Obama said the «growing threat of climate change could define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other.»

Concerningly, there is no clear trajectory in MDB finance for fossil fuels between 2011 and 2015, despite the growing threat of climate change and rapidly worsening climate impacts around the globe.

In my inaugural address, I pledged that America would respond to the growing threat of climate change, for the sake of our children and future generations.

The president said Monday that «the growing threat of climate change could define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other.»

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment has been developed to enhance understanding and inform decisions about the growing threat of climate change to the health and well - being of residents of the United States.

Here, a concerted effort to extend the benefits of the Green Revolution to those who have missed out — Africa being the most notable example — could be a rapid and substantial counterweight to the growing threat of 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.»

In this week's address, President Obama tells the American people about a plan he unveiled a few days ago to confront the growing threat of climate change.

We're now two minutes from the end of the world as we know it, thanks to the growing threat of climate change and nuclear holocaust, and growing technological threats like cyberwar and the fracturing of our shared reality.

A recent expedition has revealed that the reefs around Kiritimati have suffered a catastrophic mass die - off — an event that epitomizes what may be an ugly truth about the ability of coral reefs around the world to adapt to the growing threat of climate change.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment has been developed to enhance understanding and inform decisions about the growing threat of climate change to the health...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Applauding legislation introduced by Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman to reduce the threat of global warming, the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy (ACEEE) today released its analysis dramatizing the triviality of the Bush climate plan in the face of the growing threat of climate change.