Sentences with phrase «in climate action»

Risk - reduction mechanisms for zero - emission investments are significantly scaled up, and consequently the cost of capital for investment in climate action in emerging economies is lowered.

All low emission technologies have a role to play in climate action.

The land sector already plays an increasingly important role in climate action.

Each city creates their own, targeted strategies to reduce barriers and increase motivation to engage residents in climate action.

We are concerned at increased corporate involvement in climate action that encourages profit motives and moves away from social commitment and compassionate involvement.

Businesses that want to join a working group must be ready to commit resources, implement the program and demonstrate leadership in the climate action arena.

Then just last week, President Obama in his Climate Action Plan outlined how the United States would take domestic action on HFCs by «identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internationally.

During their first commitment period, from 2008 to 2012, 37 industrialised countries and the European Community (an organization that is also a Party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), agreed to assume a leading role in climate action by reducing their average emissions above 5 percent compared to 1990 levels.

Speaking at the press briefing will be a range of international experts from NGOs organized in the Climate Action Network (CAN)- a network of more than 700 organisations from over 90 countries - including Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The YVFP films are also included in their Climate Action handbook.

The Asia - Pacific Carbon Forum (APCF) is the leading regional conference on investment in climate action through market - based approaches and carbon pricing instruments.

To this end, I have introduced the Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act, or iCAP.

The brief suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action.

The administration has yet to release the calculations behind the new targets, but EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said yesterday that the «entire target was based on a thorough interagency review of the available tools in each of the agencies — the ones that are outlined in the Climate Action Plan, but also other tools and initiatives that could be teed up and brought to fruition quickly enough.»

First Climate has successfully supported a diverse array of companies in climate action and renewable energy.

Professional lobbyists from North Carolina were not only able to teach us how we can become active in climate action in our governments, but guided us in engaging conversation on how we would lobby to protect the environment.

Prior work has shown that students are more likely to engage in climate action if they not only understand the causes of climate change, but also have knowledge of specific action strategies (McNeill and Vaughn 2012).

The only candidate that will ban fracking, fight for a $ 15 minimum wage and fairness for the 99 %, while focusing on New York becoming a world leader in climate action by going to 100 % clean energy by 2030 which will create millions of jobs.»

ECO longs to believe that emphasis in the Paris Agreement and Article 6 on the need to respect human rights in climate action really will mean something on the ground.

This sounds positively wooly unless you read the press release, which explains that the European Environment Foundation — which arranged for the publication of the ad — now intends to contact foundations directly, «asking them to use their financial power to create a tipping point in climate action.»

• Engaging people on the right of politics in climate action A lot of our natural allies are on the left of the political spectrum.

Frank Bainimarama, prime minister of Fiji and president of the last UN climate summit (COP23), said: «We must ensure that the Talanoa Dialogue leads to more ambition in our climate action plans.

In the last fortnight I have witnessed the quite amazing shift among investors and «non-state actors» that signals a sea - change in climate action that now seems unstoppable.

This submission shows OHCHR's emphasis on the importance of promoting and protecting women's human rights and gender equality in all climate action, including at the UNFCCC.

In Kenya, there is a lot of hope for the newly devolved county government which will allow for investment at a jurisdictional level in climate action plans and an integrated landscape approach.

US Climate Action Centre will be hosted in Climate Action's domes, where the 8th Sustainable Innovation Forum will take place alongside COP23, in 13 - 14 November.

The Paris Agreement marked the beginning of a new era in climate action.

With the Paris Climate Agreement concluded in December 2015, developing countries are now also facing the question of how to frame and deliver their contributions in climate action.

A new decision on gender and climate change is on the table during COP22, which, if implemented, would compel parties to consider traditional knowledge in climate policy planning and encourage grassroots women's participation in climate action.

The UNFCCC is beginning to recognize the critical role for women in climate action.

Many people assume that the Paris Agreement means the end of coal but, on the contrary, the Paris Agreement demonstrates a strong role for HELE in climate action.

President Obama called for an end to overseas financing of new coal - fired power plants in his Climate Action Plan, and since then the U.K., the Nordic countries, and the Netherlands have joined the pledge.

«This solar power purchase agreement will reduce the college's greenhouse gas emissions by three percent compared to the baseline year of 2007, completing one of the objectives listed in the Climate Action Plan,» said Gerald Hector, Ithaca College vice president for finance and administration.

Budget proposal would see major increase in climate action funding from 2021, but some governments are set to call for greater ambition

This is the question that climate - policy analysts, scientists, and activists have been toiling over, in great detail, since President Obama unexpectedly mentioned Keystone XL in his Climate Action Plan speech this past summer — and even before.

Every year, the Department of the Environment engages over 60 city departments in the climate action planning process, by providing data and education on environmental policies to departmental climate liaisons.

Kaniyah's personal goal for working in climate action is to educate more people about what climate change really is and how they can help; she wants to use the knowledge she has gained to educate and encourage others to get involved as well.

While not all the elements in the Climate Action Plan were achieved, and President Obama was limited in what he could do because he could not rely on Congress to pass climate - friendly legislation at any time throughout his two - term presidency, there were several notable achievements, the most notable being his refusal to allow the Keystone Pipeline to go forward as planned.

Given the importance of coal in the climate action equation, some sort of fast - tracking may be necessary by the next US administration.

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Support for Your Congressmen in Climate Action A big concern for many politicians in considering the climate bill was whether voting in favor would hurt their reelection chances — congressmen who live in coal, oil, or manufacturing heavy areas were worried their constituents would react negatively against them if they supported a climate bill.

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