Sentences with phrase «issue of climate equity»

In the next issue of Climate Equity Observer, well give our views on how September 11 has changed the terrain of global environmental politics.

We, for our part, still believe that realism (the real thing, not the ersatz neo-con variety) is the best ground for an honest optimism, and in that spirit we'd like to start off this issue of Climate Equity Observer with an effort to look reality in the eye.

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Shareholder resolutions have seen rising support on key issues ranging from governance practices to climate change to pay equity, and the recent expansion of proxy access provides long - term investors with an opportunity to shape the board itself.

Indeed, limiting the effects of climate change raise issues of equity, justice, and fairness and is necessary to achieve sustainable development and poverty eradication.

«This report's findings should help support wider agreement on climate policy, where costs and equity of the cleanup burden between rich and poor are key issues.»

We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.

The initiative is considering a broad range of issues including school choice, racial equity, and school culture and climate.

The week includes workshops by writers and artists whose work focuses on social and political issues, including the environment, climate change, gun violence, racial violence, police brutality, violence against women, racial equity, homophobia, and immigration, all through the lens of creative action.

It is our hope that by providing insight into the operations, strategies, and climates of these museums, the case studies will help leaders in the field approach inclusion, diversity, and equity issues with fresh perspectives.

There are still a number of articles that we are hoping to see surface in the next few days as well, including some more in - depth pieces around carbon trading, fossil fuels, offsets, and global equity issues around climate initiatives.

For example, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated how vulnerable these populations were to extreme weather events because many low - income and of - color New Orleans residents were killed, injured, or had difficulty evacuating and recovering from the storm.239, 240 Other climate change related issues that have an equity component include heat waves and air quality.241, 235,242,234

Despite many of the broad issues around climate equity being well known1, well - funded global mechanisms that are being implemented still do not exist.

Recognized as a Champion of Change by President Obama in 2016, Michael was honored for his focus on climate change as an equity issue.

For the past two years, Pakistan has topped the list of the Global Climate Risk Index produced by Germanwatch, a non-governmental organisation that works on global equity issues.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

In the first entry in this series we concluded that although the recent IPCC AR 5 Working Group III report is laudable improvement over prior IPCC reports in regard to identifying ethical and equity issues that should be considered in developing climate change policy, some criticisms are also warranted of how IPCC has articulated the significance and implications of the ethical, justice, and equity principles that should guide nations in developing climate change policies.

The Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - Issue 2, Equity and National GHG Emissions Commitments in the Medium - and Long Term

For a discussion of this issue, see: On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To What Equity Requires of Them In Their Responses to Climate Change.

NGOs who support stronger climate change policies in many nations, including those in Australia, Canada, and the United States, are failing to frame climate change issues on the basis of ethics, justice, and equity.

And so, there is an important need to increase awareness of the equity and justice issues entailed by national climate change policy debates.

Some of the issues that proponents of other equity frameworks have argued should be considered in allocating national emissions targets such as historical emissions or the level of economic development in poor countries are already in serious consideration in international climate change negotiation agenda focused on such matters as: (a) financial responsibility for adaptation, (b) responsibility for loses and damages for climate change, and (c) financing of climate friendly technologies for developing countries.

NGOs who support stronger climate change policies in many nations are failing to frame climate change issues on the basis of ethics, justice, and equity including those in Australia, Canada, and the United States

For this reason C&C holds the best chance of being accepted by the international community compared to other equity frameworks provided other issues that raise legitimate equity concerns including historical emissions levels are taken into account in some way in climate negotiations.

It consists of 11 chapters covering the scope of the analysis, decision making under uncertainty, equity issues, intertemporal equity and discounting, applicability of cost and benefit assessments to climate change, social costs of climate change, response options, conceptual issues related to estimating mitigation costs, review of mitigation cost studies, integrated assessment of climate change, and an economic assessment of policy options to address climate change.

As a delegation, Earth in Brackets is committed to bringing the message of equity and climate justice to negotiators and civil society, so keep checking back here for updates and blog posts on major issues during COP 22.

EcoEquity works by emphasizing the importance of equity principles in all aspects of the policy response, by producing political and economic analyses that highlight equity issues, and by developing practical proposals for equitable climate policies.

«Altobello went to Durban as an imbedded journalist with seven other College of the Atlantic students working for equity in climate change issues.

Currently at the Royal Institute for International Affairs and at University College, London, Grubb has written on all aspects of the climate problem, focusing especially on issues of equity, emissions trading, and European leadership.

As identified by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), Governments must work together at all levels with the full participation of Indigenous people on a «holistic» response to climate change that takes account of not only the ecological dimensions of climate change, but also the social impacts and principles of human rights, equity and environmental justice.