Sentences with phrase «job of addressing climate change»

75 % think the federal government has done a somewhat to very poor job of addressing climate change.

Not exact matches

«Clean energy innovation is critical, and this resolution brings together the priority of addressing the risks of climate change with the importance of protecting and creating American jobs.»

The good news is though that I think he does feel that it is still possible to take some kinds of actions to respond to problems of climate change, to do a better job of trying to conserve top soil, to try to address the problems of water scarcity all over the world and so forth; that we can actually head off a lot of these problems.

«The concern we have: Unless we do a really good job of reducing local stressors now, we're not going to be able to buy sufficient time to address climate change,» said Richmond.

If you need help justifying this work, or want ideas for starting points, the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom campaign has done a brilliant job addressing the issues that stop schools taking learning outdoors www.lotc.org.uk www.realcoolfutures.com contains real case studies of young people who have already found or created jobs to do with climate change and sustainability.

Regarding global warming and population growth, in my view anyhow, «job one» should be to try to face and address them wisely, and a subsidiary (but still important) task should be to prepare / adapt / adjust to those aspects of climate change and population growth that we can't fully address.

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

Four years ago, the Danish Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, Bjorn Lomborg, gathered together a panel of Nobel Economic Laureates and tasked them with the job of identifying the most and least cost - effective actions to address climate change... Let me just summarise.

Collectively, Maryland's policies to address climate change are expected to create 26,000 to 33,000 new jobs and grow wages by tens of billions of dollars by 2020, according to state data.

Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.

Our events in Seattle and Portland have featured keynote speakers such as author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, green jobs visionary Van Jones, philanthropist Bill Gates on how to address climate change through clean energy innovation, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, business innovator Tom Steyer, Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) Danny Kennedy, the creators of Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously series, Nike's VP of Innovation Accelerator Hannah Jones, and Mindy Lubber of Ceres.

The PBS Frontline program Climate of Doubt did a masterful job in exposing the tactics climate denialists have used to delay meaningful action in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change in tClimate of Doubt did a masterful job in exposing the tactics climate denialists have used to delay meaningful action in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change in tclimate denialists have used to delay meaningful action in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change in tclimate change in the USA.

Yet in an atmosphere of vast economic uncertainty and Republican fear - mongering about government spending, the rhetoric of green jobs has been unable to motivate widespread public support for addressing climate change and has opened the door to predatory attacks from those seeking to exploit scientific uncertainty for political ends.

James Slevin, President, Utility Workers Union of America Local 1 - 2, said, «As a union leader who represents thousands of workers currently employed in New York's energy system and whose livelihoods depend on those jobs, I am very concerned about protecting their jobs and addressing climate change which affects my members, their families and their communities.

John Samuelsen, International President, Transport Workers Union of America, said, «Today's announcement represents New York seizing the opportunity and responsibility to address the growing crisis of climate change in a way that creates good jobs and begins to reverse inequality.

Keynote speakers at past breakfast and dinner events have included author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, green jobs visionary Van Jones, urban revitalization strategy consultant Majora Carter, philanthropist Bill Gates on how to address climate change through clean energy innovation, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, business innovator Tom Steyer, Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) Danny Kennedy, the creators of Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, Nike's VP of the Innovation Accelerator Hannah Jones, and Mindy Lubber of Ceres.

A couple of years later Roberts landed a job at the liberal on - line publication Vox where he continues to promote the idea that solar and wind power is reliable and nuclear energy isn't needed to address climate change.

«Many supporters of the Murkowski resolution argued passionately that climate change is real but that addressing it is a job for Congress not the EPA.

Investments in clean energy and other actions to address climate change at the state level have already proven to be an engine of job creation.

The only question is whether things change so that we address all the threats that confront us, or do we screw it up and do a half - assed job by ignoring development, climate change, water quality, soil depletion, or any of a number of threats that confront us.