Sentences with phrase «issue around climate change»

The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

«With the issues around climate change and the way technological innovation is going, that seems to me like a very risky bet.

The BBC reported Schools Minister Jim Knight as saying, «Climate change is one of the most important challenges facing our planet today -LSB-...] This pack will help to give young people information and inspiration to understand and debate the issues around climate change, and how they as individuals and members of a community should respond to it.»

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One of the tweets had noted the changing language around certain issues, including climate change, on the new White House website.

The two were also agreed that larger national discussions need to be held around climate change, economic development and accommodation of aboriginal rights and title — and that LNG development should be seen as an opportunity to move on these issues.

By Kaz Janowski, editor at SciDev.net I have become aware of a growing weariness with the pessimistic narratives around climate change, migration and other global environmental issues and events.

As the global conversation grows around climate change and other political or environmental issues, innovative companies are working to solve those major problems.

It's the first meeting of the leaders since Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, in which countries around the world committed to a series of targets on the issue of climate change.

The deafening silence around climate change in the US presidential campaign has left leading climate scientists baffled by the absence of debate about the «greatest issue of our time».

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

«Climate change really is an issue that can split conservative parties around the world,» said Tim Montgomerie, editor of the ConservativeHome website.

ES: I think that climate change is happening today, but I believe that we need to tackle the issue with partners around the world.

Trevor Tompson, director of the AP - NORC Center, said the bipartisan agreement on climate change's existence could be reason to hope for policy action: «Public opinion around many energy issues tends to be fluid, with people often defaulting to partisan starting points.

REP. BOEHNER: When it comes to the issue of climate change, George, it's pretty clear that if we don't work with other industrialized nations around the world, what's going to happen is that we're going to ship millions of American jobs overseas.

The positive messages framed the topic of climate change around one of four major issues: economic opportunity, national security, Christian stewardship and public health.

The goal of his latest research is to better understand the widespread political polarization occurring around environmental issues such as climate change.

The movie follows the 44th president and a team that includes former Secretary of State John Kerry, ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and senior strategist Ben Rhodes in the West Wing and around the world as they apply their brand of engaged globalism on issues ranging from climate change to Syria.

The movie follows the 44th president and a team that includes former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and senior strategist Ben Rhodes in the West Wing and around the world as they apply their brand of engaged globalism on issues ranging from climate change to Syria.

After organizing a series of game jams last year around serious social issues — immigration, climate change, future cities — I discovered the answer to be an overwhelming yes.

Gaston has more than fifteen years of experience in participative and transdisciplinary research on governance related to issues such as sustainable development, energy, climate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commclimate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commichange and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European CommClimate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European CommiChange (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commission.

Whilst particularly in the primary sector many educators would say that there is an issue with respect to over-crowding of the curriculum, we would be concerned about some of the discussion around removing things such as sustainability and climate change and environmental issues from the curriculum.

KEY FEATURES — Stunningly detailed pixel graphics — 10 challenging, well - designed boss battles — Hypnotic electronic score by composer Karl Flodin — Modern take on the classic Metroidvania genre: Players can freely explore the world at their own pace — Organic storytelling: The environments tell the story, along with some holo - tapes that are scattered around the drowned cities — Plausible plot driven by real - life issues: Explore the effects of climate change and technological progress

Contemporary artists aged 18 to 80 from around the world have created these artworks that were inspired by such issues as racism, sexism, discrimination, health care, climate change, transgender rights, white supremacy, gender equality, and gun control, among others.

But many young children are in danger just from being exposed and breathing the air around them, bringing the issue of climate change forward in everybody's minds.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

He was one of the first contemporary artists to build his career around exploring environmental issues, from evolutionary biology and genetic engineering to deforestation and climate change.

The book is structured around chapters which integrate a particular climate change element's effect on one or more health issues, often involving a personal story of some type.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

Setting aside the price of oil and its immediate impact on food, there is still enough going on with climate change and related water and agriculture issues to cause a prudent soul to glance around for an exit.

Discussions around the climate favor the hypothesis that no real problem of fuel supply will occur, and that climate change will dominate by far all the other issues.

[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on issues like greenhouse - driven climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.

And crucially, churches in the U.S. have just begun to take up this issue in big numbers, which they see as a moral issue of not just protecting God's Creation, but also not inflicting direct harm on helpless people around the world.A new coalition of environmentalists, aid groups, and churches have been pivotal in changing the momentum for the new «Climate Security Act» co-sponsored by Senator John Warner.

Amazon, Arctic, Darfur and Napa Valley Stephan Faris, a correspondent for Time, Fortune, and Salon, who wrote Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley, addressed land use and how global warming is responsible for drought, water issues, malaria spreading, health, and immigration pressures around the world.

As climate change leads to dramatic changes in the day to day weather patterns, with hurricanes and floods frequently headlining the news around the world, it makes you wonder why people are still turning a blind eye to this ginormous issue.

Last month the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication released its «Faith, Morality and the Environment: Portraits of Global Warming's Six Americas» report, which explores Americans» receptivity to a moral framing around the issue of climate Climate Change Communication released its «Faith, Morality and the Environment: Portraits of Global Warming's Six Americas» report, which explores Americans» receptivity to a moral framing around the issue of climate cChange Communication released its «Faith, Morality and the Environment: Portraits of Global Warming's Six Americas» report, which explores Americans» receptivity to a moral framing around the issue of climate climate changechange.

Religious leaders from various faiths have already provided guidance to their constituencies and are mobilizing around the issue of combating climate change.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

Obama's speech to foreign ministers of 20 nations and his three - day trip around Alaska are intended to draw attention to climate change in the run - up to a major United Nations conference on the issue to be held in December in Paris.

«Climate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» OlsoClimate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olsoclimate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olson said.

IRIN News: Several issues around the UN mechanism that aims to curtail greenhouse gases by preventing forest loss were resolved in Warsaw at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the meeting is being described by many as the «Forest COP».

We can't talk about the need to organise global productive economy around the issue of climate change until we have discussed the same order of claims that were made, in living memory, about population, resources, and race.

Environmental NGOs are a primary source of information for the public on environmental issues, and play an important role shaping public thinking on conversations and decisions around climate change.

Around the world, hundreds of similar climate - action events took place that same day to bring attention to the issues of climate change.

Having to take climate change in consideration is difficult for most, but important, and the feelings around the issue a measure of the extremity of the situation — and how urgently we need to take action.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

A large number of mayors have also more formally allied and joined city - to - city networks and compacts around climate change and other issues.

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«The issue of global climate change is now extensively debated around the world.

There will not be enough time to fundraise around an issue that billions of dollars will have been spent on to market and brand the benefits of geoengineering to civil society as the cure all to the devastating impacts of climate change.

The agreement also set the stage for further work to resolve issues around financing to help developing and vulnerable countries become more resilient to climate change impacts and reduce their own emissions.