Sentences with phrase «in national climate»

Flooding • CoreLogic estimates flood losses in the U.S. this year at approximately $ 10.67 billion, based on various flooding and storm events recorded in the National Climate Data Center.

The same is true in Australia — and it is clear that this traditional knowledge will be a valuable resource in national climate change mitigation efforts.

The oilsands are Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, but Trudeau has said that his decisions to approve the Trans Mountain project was part of a «trade off» to persuade Alberta to put a cap on the pollution from the oilsands and participate in a national climate change strategy.

You will find more general information about climate change and its impacts on America in the National Climate Assessment, and more information about administration plans for addressing them at the White House.

Yes — the Bureau provides the public with raw, unadjusted temperature data for each station or site in the national climate database, as well as adjusted temperature data for 112 locations across Australia.

The Bureau maintains the unadjusted or «raw» digital data in its national climate database known as ADAM (Australian Data Archive for Meteorology).

KC is a leader in the national climate movement, serving on the boards of 350.org (where he is Interim Board Chair) and the US Climate Action Network.

STEVE ELBERT, Vice Chairman, BP America: BP believes that all emitting sectors of the economy, including the transportation sector, both fuels and vehicles, must be included in any national climate change policy.

«The findings in this National Climate Assessment underscore the need for urgent action to combat the threats from climate change, protect American citizens and communities today, and build a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids,» the White House said in a statement.

President Hu Jintao (pictured right) of China announced that China will build on existing domestic climate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestry cover.

At the event, Greenpeace investigator Connor Gibson questioned Marc Morano's role in the national climate discussion, illustrating his role in attacking the science, attacking anyone who questions his relevance in conversations around climate change.

Unlike earlier attempts to forge a climate deal, this agreement called for countries commit to action well before they reached Paris, which they did in their national climate plans.

This is the power of reflexive law, something I wrote extensively about when I was in law school with respect to corporate environmental disclosure, and would be equally applicable in the national climate change context.

Washington greens were not alone in drawing that conclusion, of course — it is reflected in the national climate movement as well, which has focused in recent years on allying with local and indigenous groups to fight coal plants and fossil fuel pipelines.

KC is an active leader in the national climate movement in the USA, serving on the boards of several national climate groups.

(B) facilitate ongoing dialog and information exchange with regional, State, and local governments and other user communities through programs authorized in the National Climate Program Act (15 U.S.C. 2901 et seq.).

This report provides an analysis of the status of gender equality in national climate policy in light of the Paris Agreement.

By 2011, there would be 467 organizations in the national climate change movement, many following CAN - I's lead.

-- What factors in our national climate could create the on diction for a storm of Typhoon Trump's magnitude to arise?

They have figured prominently in two working group reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in the last two months, and they figured prominently once again in the National Climate Assessment, released by the Obama Administration this week.

Researchers Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Jessica Hockett have explored these institutions, asking if their «whole school» focus on high achievers might play a larger role in educating top students in a national climate «consumed with gap closing.»

That northward expansion is expected to continue, as shown in the National Climate Assessment, while a much smaller retraction on the southern end of their range is also anticipated.

An in - house briefing note circulated by ICI last November said HFC 134a was unlikely to be «singled out» in national climate strategies, as its «contribution would be too small to make any difference, scientifically or politically».

Last year UPROSE marched with the It Takes Roots contingent along with our sisters and brothers in the national climate justice movement.

Not exact matches

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.

The jaunty outlook is recharging animal spirits in corner offices: In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 201in corner offices: In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 201In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 2016.

Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, struck a similar tone in television interviews on Sunday in which he said Trump had always been willing to consider changes on the climate pact.

The national security strategy the Trump administration released in December made no mention of climate change whatsoever, despite the fact Defense Secretary James Mattis has acknowledged it as a threat.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

Research group Climate Central has created a plug - in for Google Earth that illustrates how catastrophic an «extreme» sea - level rise scenario would be if the flooding happened now, based on projections in a 2017 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Clark: With that in mind, do you think that this show comes at the perfect time with everything going on on the national stage in regards to immigration and climate change?

In addition to launching and hopefully landing the rocket, it will carry the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) «Deep Space Climate Observatory.»

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

In December, Prime Minister Trudeau got his provincial and territorial counterparts (well, most of them) to agree to a new national climate plan, a Canadian first.

Ms. Freeman formerly served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the White House from 2009 to 2010 and as an independent consultant to the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling in 2010.

Among those who were aware of the meeting, which resulted in the adoption of a new national plan to tackle climate change and spur clean energy, reactions to the outcome were broadly positive, with little evidence of anxiety.

In Quebec, hearings on Energy East are on hold, as that pipeline's would - be builder chafes at the National Energy Board's new plan to weigh the impact of its upstream climate - change impact.

Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

Today, our federal and provincial governments are in the throes of crafting a national climate plan, which they've said will come into effect in early 2017.

Canada's climate target — 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 — is described as our Paris target in national media and by the Trudeau cabinet.

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

In December 2016, Trudeau and every provincial premier except Saskatchewan's Brad Wall signed a national climate plan.

Making the Pan-Canadian Framework happen (p. 126 — 130, 150): The national climate plan that (most) premiers agreed to in December will mean a lot of work for governments.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed to negotiate a national climate strategy with the provinces before the end of the first quarter in 2016.

The report — «Power Surge: How the DoD Leverages Private Resources to Enhance Energy Security and Save Money on U.S. Military Bases» — is the third in a series of influential studies issued since 2011 by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate.

The «logical corollary,» Smith adds, «is that the Paris climate agreement is not really in the national interest,» since the project would undermine the country's ability to meet a 2030 carbon reduction target that is already moving farther out of reach.

So not only is this proposal not in the national interest, it is not in the global interest for it will further erode Canada's and the world's prospects for meeting the climate accord.