Sentences with phrase «international climate change development»

Lastly, the study reveals that Exxon found it necessary to also focus its research on international climate change development and research programs.

Not exact matches

The combined budget for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, would fall by 28 %, with funding cuts for the United Nations, climate change and cultural exchange programs.

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

International development charity Christian Aid is calling on world leaders at this week's G20 meeting to show the US President that he has relegated himself to the side - lines of climate change negotiations.

Is it time to make climate polluters pay for the losses and the damage they cause, asks International Centre for Climate Change and Development's Saleemclimate polluters pay for the losses and the damage they cause, asks International Centre for Climate Change and Development's SaleemClimate Change and Development's Saleemul Huq.

The impacts of climate change will be countered by greater investment in Research and Development to boost productivity and international food production and processing competitiveness.

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.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

This is especially true, given that many of the problems we face have a longer - term dimension: climate change, pensions and social care, and international economic development are just some of the more obvious examples.

That is yet another reason why tackling climate change and maintaining the commitment to International Development is so key to Labour.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

Other moderates appointed without a contest were Emma Reynolds (health), John Woodcock (defence), Barry Sheerman (environment), Tristram Hunt (communities and local government), Gavin Shuker (transport), Stephen Timms (work and pensions), Ivan Lewis (international development), Shabana Mahmood (justice), Caroline Flint (energy and climate change) and Peter Kyle (business).

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

The Cabinet appointees are: • Nick Clegg (Lib Dem): deputy prime minister • George Osborne (Cons): chancellor of the exchequer • William Hague (Cons): foreign secretary • Theresa May (Cons): home secretary, minister for women • Liam Fox (Cons): defence secretary • Kenneth Clarke (Cons): lord chancellor, justice secretary • Andrew Lansley (Cons): health secretary • Vince Cable (Lib Dem): business secretary • Chris Huhne (Lib Dem): energy and climate change • Michael Gove (Cons): schools secretary • Patrick McLoughlin (Cons): chief whip • David Laws (Lib Dem): chief secretary to the Treasury • Michael Gove (Cons): education secretary • Philip Hammond (Cons): transport secretary • Danny Alexander (Lib Dem): Scottish secretary • Eric Pickles (Cons): communities secretary • Owen Paterson (Cons): Northern Ireland secretary • Iain Duncan Smith (Cons): work and pensions secretary • Jeremy Hunt (Cons): culture, Olympics, media and sport • Cheryl Gillan (Cons): Welsh secretary • International Development Secretary (Cons): Andrew Mitchell • Leader of the House of Lords (Cons): Lord Strathclyde • Minister without Portfolio (Cons): Baroness Warsi

Reaching the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, as agreed to at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), will require an unprecedented level of international scientific cooperation in both climate science and technology develClimate Change Conference (COP 21), will require an unprecedented level of international scientific cooperation in both climate science and technology develclimate science and technology development.

The study involved researchers from the Schools of International Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in ChinInternational Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in Chininternational colleagues in China and the US.

Colin Quinn (2011 - 13 Executive Branch Fellow at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and 2013 - 15 at US Agency for International Development) is helping a port city in Mozambique respond to the severe effects of climate change.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, founded in the early 1980s and based in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, is the only intergovernmental body gathering cross-border environmental information and monitoring climate change across a region stretching from the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan in the west to Yunnan in southwest China in the east.

This is not a fable, it's a tale of how people are already adapting to climate change, as revealed at the International Institute for Environment and Development's sixth conference on community - based adaptation to climate change held in Vietnam in April.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

The United States said Tuesday it plans to use its leverage within global development banks to limit financing for coal - fired power plants abroad, part of Washington's international strategy to combat climate change.

This productive partnership has been providing Canadian researchers and their international colleagues with the ability to monitor and understand the impacts of climate change and resource development on Arctic marine and coastal ecosystems and northern communities since 2003.

Lead UK researcher Prof Dabo Guan, of UEA's School of International Development, said the key contributor to the new estimates was fuel quality, which for the first time was taken into consideration in establishing emission inventories — something the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and most international data souInternational Development, said the key contributor to the new estimates was fuel quality, which for the first time was taken into consideration in establishing emission inventories — something the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and most international data souinternational data sources had not.

Even as scientists and politicians from around the world debated in December how to deal with a practical problem of profound importance — global climate change — another international group of physicists was waiting with bated breath for a more esoteric development.

To enact a fully fledged Delta Plan, says Saleemul Huq, a senior fellow in the climate - change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, will require several billion dollars over the next few years.

The International Polar Foundation actively supports polar scientific research, as well as championing informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

Like the queen in a chess game, she said, «land will fill a place as the Queen of both international development and climate change actions.

Efforts to reform the single - sector approach to marine spatial management should incorporate expected climate - induced changes in temperature, oxygenation, pH, and POC flux to the seabed in the development of regional and international management scenarios.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

The International Polar Foundation conceives and implements ambitious projects to support polar scientific research, promote informed action on climate change, and drive development of a sustainable society.

The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

Huge international decisions in the areas of energy policy, climate change and sustainable development need to be reached.

Alain founded The International Polar Foundation in 2002 in order to support polar scientific research for the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

UEA is also home to to the Climatic Research Unit; the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; International Development UEA; and the Water Security Research Centre, as well as important research groups in the areas of Science, Society and Sustainability; Global Environmental Justice; and Globalisation and Corporate Social Responsibility.

The International Polar Foundation and SANAP will join forces on the development of the Polaris Climate Change Observatories (PCCO) in Cape Town, state of the art venues informing public understanding of the mechanisms driving climate change and exploring ways of adapting to the transformations the Earth is experiClimate Change Observatories (PCCO) in Cape Town, state of the art venues informing public understanding of the mechanisms driving climate change and exploring ways of adapting to the transformations the Earth is experieChange Observatories (PCCO) in Cape Town, state of the art venues informing public understanding of the mechanisms driving climate change and exploring ways of adapting to the transformations the Earth is expericlimate change and exploring ways of adapting to the transformations the Earth is experiechange and exploring ways of adapting to the transformations the Earth is experiencing.

Malone was the principal author on a U.S. Agency for International Development report, Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Glacier Melt Impacts, which assessed how USAID programs could respond to the effects of climate change in this region of the world.

The Institute contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural and social capital, as well as the enabling role of communication technologies in these areas.

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It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development oInternational Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisClimate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development orgDevelopment held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development ointernational organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisclimate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development orgdevelopment banks and development orgdevelopment organisations.

With a focus on the impact that climate change is having in the region, the Belize International Film Festival will also screen documentaries and short films that encourage the development and use of green technologies and social changes to safeguard the environment.

The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association is backing calls by Caribbean leaders for the international community to keep the devastating impact of climate change on the global development agenda.

I videotaped a short interview with Saleemul Huq, a longtime analyst of climate change adaptation needs and options at the International Institute for Environment and Development, that reflects this emphasis.

Some international groups are helping to foster synergies, including the World Health Organization's recent conference on Climate and Health, the Convention on Biological Diversity's initiative on Health and Biodiversity, the Lancet - Rockefeller Commission on Planetary Health, and the DIVERSITAS - Future Earth ecoHEALTH project, which brings together public and animal health, development, ecology, economics, and other sectors to investigate connections between health and environmental change to generate science and policy outputs that can inform sustainability solutions.

I think this is a welcome development as it indicates that climate change is becoming more accepted within the international community leading to action.

It's naïve to think any work at the nexus of science and international development is immune to geopolitics (family planning and climate change are wracked by it).

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration project).

The comment came from He Jiankun, a professor at Tsinghua University and deputy director of China's Expert Committee on Climate Change, speaking at an international forum on market mechanisms for low - carbon development sponsored by Tsinghua and Harvard University.

«This is a major, major topic of discussion and debate at the moment,» said Saleem Huq, head of the climate change group at the U.K. - based International Institute for Environment and Development.

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;