Sentences with phrase «involves challenging climate change»

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«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

This collection of essays, which emerged from a 2012 conference of the same name at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Center for 21st Century Studies, assembles texts by a group of scholars who expand on numerous challenges involving engagement with the nonhuman, such as climate change, biotechnology, genocide, terrorism, and war.

Debuys» main takeaway from his extensive interviews and travels amounts to simple arithmetic involving the above points: (1) climate change makes (2) droughts and (3) growth even more challenging for the Southwest, which is (and always has been) vulnerable to rapid population expansion and resource depletion.

I've also challenged people involved in climate science, campaigns or policy to come up with strategies that might help bring not only clarity, but actual real - world change (whichever change they seek).

Bishop Davies looks at the environmental challenges confronting humanity under the headings of environmental destruction, involving biodiversity loss, habitat destruction and pollution of our life support systems; political violence, poverty and climate change.

There is a lot of money being thrown around and a lot of politics involved; I actually applaud those who choose to challenge the mainstream ideas of Climate Change; true science is skepticism.

In recent weeks, I have been writing frequently about legal challenges involving climate change.

This report intends to make an assessment of what the fight against climate change — prevention, mitigation and adaptation — means for the world of work, of the challenges and opportunities involved, and of how to contribute to the just transition to environmental sustainability that will serve to advance both decent work opportunities for all and the protection of the planet.

Read on to learn what inspires Cari, how she got involved in Scenic Hudson and what she thinks about the challenge that climate change poses to agriculture in the Hudson Valley.

The creatives associated with Cape Farewell have all been aware of the challenges involved in developing artworks driven by a single subject matter; climate change.

«Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic, social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right into the picture,» said Zhao.

Each of these projects involves strategies for addressing the climate change - related challenges specific to the individual countries in the region.

Decentralised strategies that involve the scientific community are needed to overcome the large scale climate change challenges ahead of us, say experts in disaster risk reduction.

Breyer Group plc v Department of Energy and Climate Change [2015] EWCA Civ 408 — representing the Appellant defendant in ongoing multi-million pound litigation involving legitimate expectations and A1P1 challenges relating to the Government's Feed - In Tariff Scheme.