Sentences with phrase «international environmental effort»

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As for our international efforts, as you may know, the U.S. is pleased to have put forth a resolution on the topic of food waste, to build awareness among environmental ministers and encourage action that addresses the unique challenges and opportunities of dealing with uneaten food.

A Canadian environmental group sent a letter warning of drought resulting from the future release of sun - blocking particles and claiming that the test would cause a distraction from international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Tracking the fishing footprint in space and time, the researchers note, can help guide marine environmental protections and international conservation efforts for fish.

In a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, University College London and several other national and international partners, researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Oxford Martin School have investigated the geophysical likelihood of limiting global warming to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

Perhaps we can now expect Southern greens, fresh from their efforts to reform international bodies such as the Global Environmental Facility, to launch a campaign for «transparency» in the activities of international environment groups.

Gerold Wefer, director the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen, Germany, and chairman of the recent international workshop «Marine Science Frontiers,» outlines Europe's current efforts to develop a Marine Science Plan.

ASE activities in support of environmental awareness and better planetary stewardship include the Windows on Earth project, the ASE Near Earth Object mitigation effort, publication of the international best - selling book The Home Planet, partnership in the «Arbor Project» international forest conservation effort, and sponsorship of environmental films, projects and videos.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Over a dozen Academy scientists and international collaborators collaborated on the endeavor that would aid the environmental community's conservation efforts.

In 1999, in keeping with our mission statement of furthering enrichment efforts worldwide, The Shape of Enrichment, Inc. began offering a $ 1000 Travel Grant to be used to help the winning author attend the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment (ICEE).

In 1999, in keeping with our mission statement of furthering enrichment efforts worldwide, The Shape of Enrichment, Inc. began offering a $ 1000 Travel Grant to be use to help the winning author attend the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment (ICEE).

She is currently focused on FAA's reauthorization efforts, corporate management of international engagement through the FAA's Global Leadership Initiative, and overseeing the agency's environmental activities and initiatives in NextGen and ICAO.

UPS's HHV are still in the experimental stage, and are actually a product of a cooperative effort between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Eaton Corporation, the U.S. Army, and Navistar International Corp..

Abroad, the department will increase its investment in the Defense Environmental International Cooperation Program not only to promote cooperation on environmental security issues, but also to augment international adaptaEnvironmental International Cooperation Program not only to promote cooperation on environmental security issues, but also to augment international adaptaInternational Cooperation Program not only to promote cooperation on environmental security issues, but also to augment international adaptaenvironmental security issues, but also to augment international adaptainternational adaptation efforts.

Several of the authors work for large environmental groups such as WWF and Conservation International, which have put a lot of time and effort into showing that «low - impact logging» can co-exist with protecting biodiversity.

The biggest shift since the earlier gathering may be the end of a presumption that international tools like treaties should be a central focus of efforts to drive environmental progress.

Ground - level sustainability efforts were at the forefront of the two - day journalism workshop, organized by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in partnership with the Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists (SIEJ) as part of April's 2018 Asia - Pacific Rainforest Summit in Yogyakarta.

Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science, said: «This new innovation centre will bring together great minds from a variety of disciplines to lead the international effort to tackle environmental change and demonstrate the value of research collaboration in solving some of the greatest challenges of our time.»

The joint assistance project Capacity building for CO2 mitigation from international aviation aims at providing assistance to a selected group of 14 States in Africa and the Caribbean to support their efforts in developing and implementing their States» Action Plans on CO2 emissions reduction from international aviation, to establish aviation environmental systems for emissions monitoring at the State level and to identify, evaluate and implement mitigation measures in selected States.

Highlights of the year include the emergence of green growth initiatives around the world, the innovative approaches to address climate change and ecosystem loss, and the renewed efforts to strengthen international environmental governance.

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director,International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director,international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director,international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

The finding of this research, which were subsequently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, led us to extend the partnership into broader efforts to organize the medical community to respond to climate change.

This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

Efforts to turn environmental alarmism into international treaties and organisations was never set back by public opinion — they were never vulnerable to democratic control.

The hope for California REDD is that it will set a high bar for social and environmental safeguards, and by submitting subnational efforts to the light of international scrutiny, will prevent any further abuses of this sort.

Biodiversity loss, much like climate change, is an environmental crisis that requires a coordinated international effort if it is to be managed effectively.

Historically, media coverage of climate change has followed international and domestic efforts to take action, starting in the mid-1980s by the United National Environmental Program and World Meteorological Organization.

This project is a collaborative effort between the Mains, NativeEnergy, and Environmental Management Group International.

Going forward, international efforts must focus on supporting developing countries to strengthen forest - related institutions, build participatory processes, and ensure proper social and environmental safeguards are in place.

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.»

Core focus areas of Earthjustice's international efforts include combating climate change, protecting the international Arctic, building marine resilience to ocean acidification, and promoting citizen participation in environmental protection.

Last year's promises are part of the efforts to amend the Montreal Protocol, considered the world's most successful international environmental treaty, which was established to phase out of ozone depleting substances (OSDs).

Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the emissions reductions expected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

THE ALLIANCE is a joint effort of the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation Agency, supported by the United States Agency for International Development and companies in the forest sector.

Crichton reportedly met with President Bush last year after the president «avidly read» the novel, «fueling a common perception among environmental groups that Crichton's dismissal of global warming... has undermined efforts to pass legislation intended to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,» according to the International Herald Tribune.

The hubbub was sparked when retired NOAA data scientist John Bates claimed in a blog post that his boss, then - director of the National Centers for Environmental Information Thomas Karl, «constantly had his «thumb on the scale» — in the documentation, scientific choices and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus» and rushed a study published in the journal Science before international climate negotiations.

Tocco has won awards from international environmental groups for its efforts in renewable energy.

But the DOE paper itself, as well as subsequent debates about it, left out many important parts of the environmental movement and their contributions to keeping environmentalism alive: environmental - health advocates, the environmental - justice movement, the international «sustainability» movement, and the dozens of other grassroots efforts related to the environment.

With the publication of Fairly sharing 1.5: national fair shares of a 1.5 °C - compliant global mitigation effort in the journal International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, we finally have a peer reviewed overview of our effort sharing framework.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

In this capacity, she has represented the consortium before international environmental bodies and has also periodically coordinated efforts of the consortium with patient advocacy groups.

The federal Conservatives have dramatically narrowed Canada's environmental laws, in a concerted effort to force through approval of oil pipelines, to get Alberta's bitumen to international markets.

Environmental advocacy organizations will be battling to stave off any Trump administration efforts to pull back from the Clean Power Plan and other U.S. and international initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.