Sentences with phrase «in addressing the threat of climate change»

The EnergyVision 2030 Progress Report for Maine gauges the state's progress toward necessary clean energy targets and summarizes policies that together will allow the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the path to meet a 75 % to 80 % reduction from 2003 levels, consistent with the Act to Provide Leadership in Addressing the Threat of Climate Change.

Last year's Paris Agreement is considered a major global step in addressing the threat of climate change.

AP: The United Nations secretary - general is calling on world policymakers to show greater effort in addressing the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming pact next year.

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Yogyakarta, Indonesia — The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), Department of Agriculture brought together key stakeholders in a 3 - day conference to tackle solutions toward addressing hybrid rice adoption challenges in Southeast Asia amid climate change threats.

«Along with 16 of my colleagues, I am proud to introduce a resolution calling on the House of Representatives to commit to working on economically viable solutions that address the threat of climate change,» Stefanik said in her remarks on the House floor.

Dr McIntyre said: «Using data in this way can help us address the major threat of new diseases and the spread of existing diseases caused by climate change.

In his second inaugural address, Pres. Barack Obama said the U.S. must respond to the threat of climate change and lead the development of sustainable energy

This represents a major step forward in U.S. — India partnerships to strengthen their economic growth and energy security, while also addressing the threat of global climate change.

With food shortages and increased threats of climate change, interest in agroforestry is gathering for its potential to address various on - farm adaptation needs.

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.

In his address, Brown said that climate change is «the biggest threat of our time» after nuclear annihilation.

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.»

The IWC is the body charged with regulating whaling and addressing the vast number of other threats to whales, dolphins and porpoises in our oceans such as shipping, climate change, and bycatch.

Lord Barker of Battle was appointed in September 2014 to the position, which Cameron created days before he addressed a high - profile UN summit and warned climate change was «one of the most serious threats facing our world».

This policy document presents IFAD's approach to address climate change and promote rural development in the context of increasing environmental threats.

As leaders of the industrialized world continue to squabble at home over how to address the threat of climate change — and even as they battle internal factions who don't believe the science of climate change — one group of leaders has come out in favor of swift, comprehensive action to prevent global catastrophe.

We are encouraged by the consensus on a need for action, as highlighted by President Obama in his inaugural address in which he boldly stated, «We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

For example, first work on preventing catastrophic climate change, and use the research from that to address the more general problem of getting shaved monkeys to worry about threats they can't see that will kill them in the impossibly far distant future (viz, later than next fiscal quarter).

«Crazy as it may sound, this is the perfect time to enact a sensible policy to address the dangerous threat of climate change,» wrote the economists Martin Feldstein and Gregory Mankiw in The New York Times in February.

In a December 4 address to the high - level segment of COP18, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon spoke in apocalyptic terms of the «existential» threat to humanity and the planet posed by the «crisis» of climate changIn a December 4 address to the high - level segment of COP18, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon spoke in apocalyptic terms of the «existential» threat to humanity and the planet posed by the «crisis» of climate changin apocalyptic terms of the «existential» threat to humanity and the planet posed by the «crisis» of climate change.

The greatest fire management challenges lie in addressing simultaneously the threat to human well - being posed by fires, particularly at the wildland - urban interface; the uncertainties associated with various fire - related land - management practices, such as thinning and controlled burns; and the complicating factor of climate change.

In his 2013 State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama stood before the nation to warn of the threat of climate change and declared, «But if Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will.»

Inside National Stadium, the huge new football arena festooned in Poland's colors of red and white, delegates from 194 countries are gathered for yet another attempt to hammer out an international treaty to address the threat of climate change.

Appropriate actions need to be taken in the near future to address this issue including: the development and establishment of resistant coffee cultivars; the creation of early warning systems; the design of crop management systems adapted to climate change and to pest and disease threats; and socio - economic solutions such as training and organisational strengthening.

Include the health sector in national and international policy - making meetings that address the threats of climate change.50

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

It is important that they apply this knowledge to a very practical concern: assessing the impact of climate change in their cities, and planning public health interventions to address this threat in support to their communities.

, but the health impact on the people of Porter Ranch demonstrates two important things: first, SoCalGas, whose response to the leak has been active but conservative, is disingenuous when it comes to the threat the leak creates to local residents; second, for those who still remain unconvinced that climate change is an issue that must be addressed, how do you feel about toxic gases in populated areas?

On climate change as a security threat: In an October debate, Sanders said climate change was the greatest threat to U.S. national security: «The scientific community is telling us that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we're going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable.

And in the area where currently division runs deepest, protecting the environment and addressing global warming, I find myself agreeing with President Obama that our country must take strong action to reduce pollution from fossil fuels that fouls our air, makes our water impure, and helps to create one of the greatest threats to our children's future, climate change.

The new global climate change agreement establishes a revised goal of keeping average global temperature rise «well below 2 degrees Celsius,» sets up a clear mechanism for countries» greenhouse gas reductions to be revisited every five years and, for the first time, commits every nation - state on Earth — 196 different entities — to do something to address this collective threat... The Paris agreement marks a real turning point in history.

In a study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a group of retired four - star generals and admirals concluded that climate change, if not addressed, will be the greatest threat to national security.

However, I believe that given the severity of climate change and the threat that it poses, our first priority should be that of addressing it in the most effective way possible, and I would prefer to avoid individuals attempting to use the issue of climate change as a vehicle for one version or another of ideologically - motivated syndicalist or socialist «social justice.»

So the two organizations are harnessing some of that talent to dream up ways to use the city's harbor and coastline to address the serious threat of sea - level rise resulting from global climate change, from creating oyster reefs to incorporating porous streets.Earlier this month, the five multidisciplinary teams participating in the «Rising Currents» project presented their fruits of their eight - week architects - in - residence workshop to curious New Yorkers.