Sentences with phrase «key climate change efforts»

Chopping many of Obama's key climate change efforts is part of Trump's plan to encourage fossil fuel production.

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More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

«Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface are key drivers of their local tourism economies, and with this commitment they are joining New York's nation - leading efforts to fight climate change, reduce our carbon footprint and foster the development of renewal resources,» Cuomo said in the release.

Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.

The World Bank argues that combating climate change is now a key part of any effort to eliminate poverty

The word represents harmony, balance and health, which campaign group 350.org sees as key goals in the global effort to tackle climate change.

«The results of our study suggest that efforts to mitigate local perturbation such as nutrient enrichment in the Baltic Sea could pay off in the future, because it might help key species such as the bladder wrack to better cope with the effects of climate change and to maintain their ecosystem services.»

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajeChange Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

«His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is a well established consensus and certain — two key points that are effective at persuading teachers to teach the science.»

9/19/16 — Taxing carbon released from burning fossil fuels could be a key part of a comprehensive effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to human - caused climate change, two economists have argued in Issues.

It seeks to help those teams to address a relatively narrow topic in the context of those policies: how their countries should deal with climate change in urban areas, and to empower local authorities as key actors in that effort.

This guidance document focuses on the need to enhance understanding of the region's key urban stakeholders on climate change, discusses how it affects efforts to realize sustainable urban development, and explores what actions can be taken to synergize continued commitments to poverty reduction alongside urban climate resilience.

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Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Another key finding: From 2003 to 2007, Koch Affiliated Foundations and the ExxonMobil Foundation were «heavily involved» in funding climate change denial efforts.

It's a key part of global efforts to slow climate change.

His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain — two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science.

The US Chamber of Commerce has been a key part of the corporate effort to block federal action on climate change and undermine the scientific consensus on the issue.

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

«It would seem that Richard Muller has served as a useful foil for the Koch Brothers, allowing them to claim they have funded a real scientist looking into the basic science, while that scientist — Muller — props himself up by using the «Berkeley» imprimatur (U.C. Berkeley has not in any way sanctioned this effort) and appearing to accept the basic science, and goes out on the talk circuit, writing Op - Eds, etc. systematically downplaying the actual state of the science, dismissing key climate - change impacts and denying the degree of risk that climate change actually represents.

In 2001, Holmstead was appointed to Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation, where he played a key role in the George W. Bush administration's efforts to roll back clean air and climate change protections.

In a continued effort to provide key resources that are aimed at developing water resources resilience to climate change, five additional items are now available in the Water theme.

Identifying key vulnerabilities can help guide efforts to increase resiliency and avoid large damages from abrupt change in the climate system, or in abrupt impacts of gradual changes in the climate system, and facilitate more informed decisions on the proper balance between mitigation and adaptation.

Climate change and Energy and Poverty are indeed two key challenges the energy world is facing today, and I do believe that a major international concerted effort can deliver a solution with co-benefits for both the issues.

It confirmed and widened the opportunities for countries to sequester carbon through better management of forests, croplands, pastures, and wetlands, while adding to the urgency of this opportunity as a key element of our efforts to prevent disruptive climate change.

«Key among these challenges are the announced nuclear phase - out, reform efforts in electricity and natural gas markets, and overall climate changes policies.»

In a continued effort to provide key datasets that support the process of developing resilience to climate change, eleven additional datasets are now available in the Ecosystem Vulnerability theme.

This workshop was designed to address a key issue for the USGCRP's National Climate assessments: providing information about climate - related hazards, risks, and opportunities in formats that are understandable, credible, and useful to decision makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change in the regions or sectors for which they are respoClimate assessments: providing information about climate - related hazards, risks, and opportunities in formats that are understandable, credible, and useful to decision makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change in the regions or sectors for which they are respoclimate - related hazards, risks, and opportunities in formats that are understandable, credible, and useful to decision makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change in the regions or sectors for which they are respoclimate change in the regions or sectors for which they are responsible.

In addition to this conspiracy of silence, the administration disbanded the developing networks of scientists and stakeholders that were identifying key issues and producing reports as part of a national preparedness effort and has refused to initiate a follow - on second National Assessment of climate change impacts.

Another key point of contention will be the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama's effort to reduce climate change.

Setting standards, providing information, encouraging research and development, and — where necessary — restricting choices that compromise efforts to tackle climate change are all key parts of a regulatory toolkit.