Sentences with phrase «kind of climate fund»

9th GCF Board meeting in Songdo, South Korea: Why 2015 will determine what kind of climate fund the GCF will be

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For the 2018 letter, the couple opted to organize their thoughts in the form of frequently asked questions about their priorities, how the current political climate is impacting the organization, how they decide where to donate funds and what kind of thought goes into their corporate partnerships.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The developing world has demanded that this year's climate talks in Morocco provide a road map to that figure that would provide more details on where the money is coming from and the kinds of activities it would fund.

«Evolutionary biology projects are very disadvantaged in that kind of funding climate because it's very difficult to identify a private - sector funder that would be interested in putting money into a project that doesn't have a clear economic spin off,» he says.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

To be sure, today's overall funding climate does not have the combination of will and resources to back this kind of work.

I vote to collect a travel fund (to which I'd contribute with unsurpassed elation) and send YOU BOTH to the next climate meeting as representatives of the U.S. Along with many others in this column, you both consistently demonstrate superlative communication skills exemplifying the kind of compassionate stewardship this living but ailing planet needs.

In reference to Michael Glantz's program and the funding by the government - controlled National Science Foundation, the action to terminate the program smacks of the kind of silencing tactics used by the government on James Hansen of NASA who also spoke out on climate change.

Tallbloke, I agree that this makes sense and is where science should be going — ``... realign research / funding priorities to include parallel lines of investigation into the causes of climate change...» But there is no place for the kind of structure you describe, not in USA science anyway.

It seems to me that these guidelines need to be broadened to consider the kinds of conflicts associated with the emerging UN climate funds.

The answers insiders provided to the questionnaire also highlight the fact that 22 years of ongoing IPCC reports (including 4 large assessments, with a fifth underway) have — inadvertently or not — begun to exert an influence on the kind of climate research that is judged to be necessary, relevant, and worthy of funding by governments and research institutes.

So a man who heads an institute that conducts and funds climate - related research has spent the past 12 years leading a body that is supposed to dispassionately appraise precisely that kind of research.

(Bernie Fraser, Chairman, Climate Change Authority): «The funding of the kind of scale that would be necessary to deal with the extra emissions reductions that Australia will have to pursue to do its bit to reduce global emissions makes it quite fanciful I think to think that the ERF could be scaled up and funded to the degree that one would think would be necessary»... (John Connor, CEO Climate Institute): «The debate is shifting into even deeper reductions that we need to have beyond 2020 and it shows that the emissions reduction fund is just an inadequate tool to be the primary tool for emission reductions, while the renewable energy target is a critical target that we need to be strengthening, not weakening.

If it does not warm then there will be more and more people like me realizing either that «climate catastrophe» was either GROSSLY overstated, (to be kind), or, worse, it was a politically motivated and funded agenda of deception.

Shultz concluded that robust funding of clean energy research and development, plus a revenue - neutral carbon tax, «starting small and escalating to a significant level on a legislated schedule» would «do the trick» and are the kinds of policies Reagan would advocate to avert climate disaster.