Sentences with phrase «international climate change efforts»

Relative - gains concerns incited by the international resource transfers implicit in climate change policy may compel some states to be prudent in their international climate change efforts and conserve resources domestically for future contingencies, including their own adaptation and resiliency.

As the dust settles after a decidedly unconventional climate convention, delegates and experts are turning their attention to the outcome, and what it means for the future of international climate change efforts.

In her address to the COP - 19 assembly, Canada's Environment Minister, Leona Aglukkaq claimed that, «Canada is taking a leadership role in international climate change efforts by focusing on delivering significant environmental and economic benefits for all Canadians.»

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More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

The deal in Kigali builds on momentum from other international efforts this past year aimed at addressing climate change.

But HFCs are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound - per - pound basis, making them an obvious target for international efforts to combat climate change.

His action plan decreases carbon pollution, prepares the U.S. for increasingly severe weather patterns and spearheads an international effort to combat climate change.

The long - planned pipeline has become a symbol both of Canada's efforts to get land - locked bitumen to international markets and a flashpoint in the battle over climate change.

But a new chapter in the international climate change negotiations begins this year — and could be a unique moment in efforts to craft international agreement on how the world will collectively attempt to slow global climate change.

Instead, Cameron and Osborne were fighting against a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), a policy backed by Germany, France, Bill Gates and the Pope among others, which, even on modest estimates, could raise billions for domestic and international efforts against poverty and climate change.

Cuomo has joined 11 other governors prodding Trump to participate in international efforts to combat climate change.

As the Montreal Protocol marks its 25th anniversary — the UN Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer — its legacy lives on, tugging and pulling at the sleeves of international efforts to address climate change.

Many of them feel global warming or man - made climate change is real and wish to help with the efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.

3) The EU should make an effort to reconcile climate change, energy and trade policies, both at domestic level (e.g. though inter-service consultations) and at international level.

The committee also drew a firm line on international efforts to halt climate change which sidestep the UN.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

It could also jeopardize America's current role in international efforts to confront climate change.

Speaking at a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars forum yesterday, Brady noted what she called a «missing middle» between the international scope of the U.N. climate change discussions and the very local, grass - roots efforts to help communities adapt to weather - reInternational Center for Scholars forum yesterday, Brady noted what she called a «missing middle» between the international scope of the U.N. climate change discussions and the very local, grass - roots efforts to help communities adapt to weather - reinternational scope of the U.N. climate change discussions and the very local, grass - roots efforts to help communities adapt to weather - related impact.

His time at the U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), during which he helped write a four - page brief about international efforts to reduce deforestation ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, was a tremendous learning experience, says Richardson, who is now a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

As time ran out on the latest international climate change negotiations, an agreement was reached that includes all significant countries in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

Although collaborative efforts benefit from as many voices as possible, Llewellyn Smith said that it was important for those running such projects, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, to strike a balance between a desire to include everyone and an overemphasis on doing so at the expense of quality science.

President Barack Obama on Friday will announce a $ 3 billion U.S. contribution to the green climate fund, an international effort to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change, according to an administration official.

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

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.

In the January issue of the journal «Nature Climate Change» Ulf Riebesell, professor for Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso from the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) urge the international scientific community to undertake a concerted interdisciplinary effort.

In 2014, Climate Central helped create the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a groundbreaking international effort to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events such as storms, extreme rainfall, heat waves, cold spells, and drClimate Central helped create the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a groundbreaking international effort to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events such as storms, extreme rainfall, heat waves, cold spells, and drclimate change on extreme weather events such as storms, extreme rainfall, heat waves, cold spells, and droughts.

NASA is also involved in an international effort called the High Mountain Asia Project, which seeks to understand how climate change is affecting glaciers in the Himalayas and water resources for more than 1 billion people in that region.

While the United States» participation in international forums — including the Paris accord and the Arctic Council — has been reported, its continued, broad and constructive support for climate change efforts in these gatherings has not.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

The International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group supports efforts to integrate blue carbon in existing international policy frameworks such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group supports efforts to integrate blue carbon in existing international policy frameworks such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) international policy frameworks such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) among others.

Interestingly enough, regarding climate change, there are efforts to have a resolution passed in the UN General Assembly that would ask the ICJ for an advisory opinion that would define states» obligations and responsibilities with respect to greenhouse emissions under international law (see policy brief issued by The Hague Institute for Global Justice).

Summarizes GAO's prior and ongoing work examining (1) actions that federal, state, local, and international authorities are taking to adapt to a changing climate, (2) the challenges that federal, state, and local officials face in their efforts to adapt, and (3) actions that the Congress and federal agencies could take to help address these challenges.

Taking as a starting point the «backfire effect» — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand changes in the international political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

Lead International Efforts to Address Global Climate Change.

In support of this, the international scientific community calls for a framework for regular global sustainability analyses that link existing assessments that build on the foundations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and other ongoing efforts.

Rising Tide is an international network of all volunteer grassroots activists who target corporations responsible both for climate change and for blocking efforts to find solutions to it.

As several recent international reports suggest, without such an effort, we have little chance of successfully managing climate change in this century, or beyond.

Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and action on climate change, an international group of energy and environment scholars say in a new report, Our High - Energy Planet.

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International efforts on abating climate change, focusing on reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, have thus far proved unsuccessful.

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It will be the biggest and boldest pollution trading scheme ever conceived and its success is critical to the future of international efforts to tackle climate change.

The NAI Newsletter is designed to focus on national, regional and international efforts to support Non-Annex I Parties in the implementation of the UN Convention on Climate Change.

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The new report, written by Christian Aid, WWF - UK, Greenpeace, Oxfam GB, CAFOD, Practical Action and CARE International, says it is now clearer than ever that without action to tackle climate change, efforts to eradicate poverty will be fruitless.

The letter urges Theresa May to ask president - elect Donald Trump not to weaken efforts to fight global warming, to acknowledge the risks of climate change and to declare his support for international efforts to combat it.

The survey finds both support and skepticism for major efforts to reduce climate change on the first day of a Paris summit, with international leaders aiming to forge consensus on measures aimed at slowing the rise of global temperatures.

«Although Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the country is committed to joining international efforts and [continue reading...]

As part of the international effort, That Uppity Theater Company in St. Louis partnered with US Green Building Council - Missouri Gateway Chapter and Missouri Interfaith Power & Light to present «Playhouse Emissions: A Climate Change Theatre Action.»

America and India will unveil joint efforts to fight climate change when Barack Obama visits New Delhi next month, as the US tries to keep up the momentum of international negotiations.