Sentences with phrase «issue like climate change»

The summit is also seeking to to develop closer ties in areas like education, science and culture and increase cooperation on global issues like climate change, development and international security.
Many homeowners, businesses and non-profits go solar because they are focused on minimizing environmental issues like climate change and health problems related to carbon emissions.
These are good tools for reporters when explaining a very complex issue like climate change.
Until issues like climate change are included in the discussion, any energy plan is just a lot of hot air.
«It is defined by leadership on life - threatening issues like climate change,» he said.
Can one person's behavior help combat major issues like climate change, or are green programs simply a creative way to benefit a hotel's bottom line?
The news media's financial woes make it difficult to adequately cover issues like climate change, human rights and global poverty.
I think the linking between different physical Earth related issues like climate change, energy, environment AND population growth came well through in the interview.
Will it be defined by a decade issue like climate change or terrorism or genocide.
That is a useful reminder that storytelling tactics only get you so far if your goal is to boost engagement on tough, complex issues like climate change or feeding 9 billion people sustainably.
It's a dynamic that generates intense conflict on issues like climate change, the HPV vaccine, and gun control.
If Americans are not well - enough informed to successfully tackle issues like climate change, Otto contends that seeing political leaders directly address the issues will foster greater public interest in the topics, help Americans distinguish scientific finding from rhetoric, and encourage our children to devote their education to the subject.
Nuttall does this well personally, ridiculing Labour for obsessing about issues like climate change and Palestine when their core voters care about immigration, the NHS and jobs.
Green Guerrilla Marketing, developed by Shel Horowitz, takes it a step farther: as consumers become more aware of issues like climate change, buying local, etc., they want to patronize companies that understand that.
We've seen in the past how games can touch critical issues like climate change, hunger, and obesity, but World Without Oil is different in that it is a «historical pre-enactment,» crowdsourced from the minds of global citizens who know this scenario is all but upon us.
«Indeed from my vantage point the direction he gave me about wanting me to use the diplomatic channels to pursue issues like climate changes was absolutely clear and is part of a much bigger picture.»
Turnout and messaging problems The Democrats» demotion raises questions about the effectiveness of emphasizing issues like climate change to drive «drop off» voters — including young people, unmarried women, African - Americans and Hispanics — to the polls in a year without a presidential election.
Multinational companies are facing tough issues like climate change, poverty and human rights.
«Local and Indigenous communities that have tended to be marginalized from environmental management decisions have much to offer,» says Armstrong, adding that «issues like climate change need to be approached with diverse knowledge sets, and take into account multiple perspectives.»
Until we reclaim this connection to our humanity, our bodies, and nature, we won't be able to completely connect with issues like climate change because a chasm exists between us and what's happening.
Yet those films were addressing micro-issues that can be targeted much more easily than a widespread issue like climate change.
She delves deeply into broad issues like climate change in a way that is both eloquent and pared down, pushing viewers to extend their own process of thought and interpretation, and allowing them to feel their way through each gesture of weaving, tufting, encasing, and assembling in her material process.
What strikes me is how little faith the captains of Industry seem to have in capitalism to resolve difficult issues like climate change.
Yaun sees a kind of division in the discourse over issues like climate change that is far more profound than party affiliation, yet perhaps is more bridgeable once identified:
Original post As regular readers know, amid heated arguments on contentious issues like climate change, energy policy or feeding 9 billion people, I'm always on the lookout for areas of agreement among factions that more generally are locked in relentless tussles.
«It makes issues like climate change real and personal and these kids have dome back and made a difference.
With life - dependent issues like climate change, biotechnology, and the availability of clean water facing us, we need to empower our youth with problem solving skills that will help them address these problems.
«We need more discussion between scientists, journalists and policy - makers on how to keep highly significant, slow - burn issues like climate change interesting and engaging to different audiences around the world.»
We decided to emphasize consumer opposition, but also to make the case that New Jersey should retain oversight over utilities to deal with long - range issues like climate change.
Campaigning environment journalist Oliver Tickell told the conference that, unlike issues like climate change where it took years to get international legislation in place to reduce greenhouse gases, treaties were already agreed that should prevent plastic reaching the oceans.
In addition, the end of last year's anti-government protests in Pakistan freed up space for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his administration to focus on other issues like climate change.
A May 15, 2007, posting in the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) website featured an article titled, «Help Keep SEJ And The environment In The Spotlight,» lionizing Borenstein for his loyal service to the ideology espoused by Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Ross Gelbspan: «Sensational, sordid or even silly stories always seem to crowd out serious coverage of important issues like climate change, environmental health and sustainability.
«The Utah State Board of Education greenlit plans Thursday [April 12, 2018] to begin drafting new school science standards, a process likely to touch on divisive issues like climate change and evolution,» according to the Salt Lake Tribune (April 13, 2018).
Scientists have been alarmed by these moves, as well as the overall tenor of the administration on scientific issues like climate change (Trump has not yet appointed a White House science adviser) and some are even now planning a march on Washington, D.C.
Others, however, question the port neighbours» right, as Vancouver Sun columnist Craig McInnes put it, to act as «an ethical troll under the bridge to foreign markets» for industries spanning Canada and now the U.S. And Port Metro Vancouver, which reports to the federal government, has made it clear its mandate in reviewing terminal projects is to consider only local environmental concerns, not global issues like climate change.
The fallout from unintentional gene transfer could be decades away, but stalling on decisions that tackle issues like climate change and habitat loss also carries enormous risks, says George Church, the unofficial godfather of biological engineering.
Parents appear to be more likely to express concern about critical environmental issues like climate change and more interested in changing their behavior to be smarter consumers when it comes to purchasing energy -LSB-...]
I also think the authors of this study offer wise advice to those of us writing today about issues like climate change: Rather than cede the useful concept of uncertainty to those who would deny scientific consensus, we'd do better to embrace and explore uncertainty for what it is... a valuable and inevitable part of scientific discovery.
Similarly, students don't shy away from learning about complex issues like climate change, macroeconomics, or limited natural resources when they are compelled by tangible problems.
The environmental organization that is trying to counter President Donald Trump on issues like climate change has released a video giving Attorney General Eric Schneiderman a starring role.
Trump's platform often runs counter to those endorsed by other G7 members, especially as it relates to issues like climate change, immigration, and trade.
We're getting used to hearing this pontiff speak differently and unexpectedly about issues than his predecessors — issues like climate change, qualifications for communion and global poverty.
He mentions that issues like climate change, genocide, fair trade, and peace are becoming more important to evangelicals and may even affect their how they vote in this election cycle.
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