Sentences with phrase «important climate progress»

While the United States has made important climate progress and increased its energy security largely apart from RFS contributions, the RFS itself continues to have difficulties that could impact consumers and the overall economy.

There is indeed critically important climate progress being made in the United States, thanks to an energy transition — though perhaps not precisely the one EPA's Gina McCarthy had in mind.

There is indeed critically important climate progress being made in the United States, thanks to an energy transition — though perhaps not precisely the one McCarthy had in mind.

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What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

Progress in the simulation of important modes of climate variability has increased the overall confidence in the models» representation of important climate processes.

It is challenging to create a climate of inclusion if there is little diversity on campus, so developing strategies for increasing diversity — and collecting data to clearly understand their progress — is important.

And insiders credit Cartagena meetings with having helped patch up the relatively successful outcome seen at Cancun, which cleared up the mess of Copenhagen and made progress on important issues like technology transfer and the $ 100 - billion - a-year Green Climate Fund.

Basic Conclusion: While there is still a need to bridge the gap between physical impacts and the resulting monetary values for economic damages, ongoing research shows important progress in this direction, such as efforts on health impacts and agricultural impacts, and continued focus should be devoted on this aspect of climate impact research.

But I also think it is important to increase our efforts in making further progress in terms of our ability to get a clearer picture of how a global warming may affect the local climate and what that may mean for adaptation.

In the welter of climate discussion, nothing is more important than sober, fact - driven, hardheaded analysis to drive the hard choices and important investments for progress now in securing a safer climate future.

While the past decade has witnessed much progress and reason for hope, there are still many important problems to tackle: malnutrition, sanitation, education, civil conflicts, climate change, and natural disasters, to name some of the most prominent.

If hundreds of regular men and women taking the time to train as a climate activists doesn't immediately strike you as an important indicator of progress, there are plenty of other things happening in Toronto and the larger province of Ontario that will.

FAR revealed, for example, that on the most important indicator of uncertainty in climate science — the likely range of warming for a given increase in carbon dioxide emissions — progress was actually retrograde.

While important progress has been made in New York, there is considerable room to utilize green roofs and walls to fight climate change, create jobs and improve equity and social justice across the Five Boroughs.

China's announcement, combined with commitments Tuesday from South Korea and Brazil, show «we are continuing to make important progress in this process,» Brian Deese, a climate adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, said in a conference call.

«This year coming up is the most important opportunity the world has ever had to make progress in really solving the climate crisis.»

Getting this context clearly understood as the premise for policy discussion is important now if progress is to be made in shaping the future in ways that avoid potential political pitfalls as the impacts of climate change accelerate.

This is important, market - driven progress on climate, which API and its member companies consider an important issue for constructive engagement — engagement that also is seen in approximately $ 90 billion in oil and natural gas industry investments in zero - and low - emissions technologies since 2000, nearly as much as the federal government and more than twice that of the next largest industry sector.

Tracking adaptation progress at country level is increasingly recognized as an important element of climate change adaptation.

Since RGGI went into effect, the nine states have cut carbon pollution by 51 percent, making important progress toward the 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say we must reach by 2050 to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change.

Now, that's important and unprecedented progress, but still above the 2 degree threshold that the scientific community acknowledges is necessary to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.

What's progress in requiring NOAA and the Inspector General to uphold and enforce the Information Quality Act for this climate data which appears to definitely come under «Important Scientific Information (ISI)?

Frank Bainimarama, President of the UN Climate Conference COP23 and Prime Minster of Fiji, has called everyone to take part in the so - called «Talanoa Dialgoue», an important international conversation in which countries will check progress and seek to increase global ambition to meet the goals of...

But I fear that rigidly promulgating the idea that climate science is «settled» (or is a «hoax») demeans and chills the scientific enterprise, retarding its progress in these important matters.

Examples of some processes in the climate system and its components that have been dealt with in the Second Assessment Report (IPCC, 1996)(hereafter SAR) and still are important topics of progress:

The Senate climate change committee's leadership on climate and energy issues has been critical for Massachusetts's progress, and this bill is an important next step.

The budget includes some priorities which are important to advocates of clean energy and climate progress, and directs money to education, public safety, and environmental protection.

Join Surfrider and dozens of organizations as we march to raise awareness about climate change and urge the Trump Administration to not undo progress our country has made on this important issue.

It's important that they make progress toward establishing an international climate agreement in 2015 — one that's ambitious enough to keep temperatures within the 2 degree C target.

Both types of nesting are critically important and some of the most significant progress to date on developing compliance systems is being led by states and provinces (e.g., under the Governors» Task Force on Climate and Forests, a subnational collaboration between 15 states and provinces).

When negotiators from almost 200 countries arrived in Marrakech two weeks ago for the latest annual climate change conference, COP22, it was being touted as an opportunity to showcase progress and start the important process of turning the UN's Paris Agreement into a detailed blueprint for action.

Anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) has progressed to a point where it is, literally, changing one of the most important ocean circulatory currents in the world.

Large forests will become more and more important as climate disruption progresses.

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.»

The question of how fast a transition society could tolerate is important in public health, too, says Nick Watts, executive director of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change.

The Paris Agreement provides an important new foundation for meaningful progress on climate change, and represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of international climate negotiations.