Sentences with phrase «know the climate crisis»

The state's leaders know the climate crisis threatens their future — and they're taking action.

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As with climate change, we have ample evidence that we're facing a biodiversity crisis, we know what's causing it and we have numerous solutions.

One of the key goals of the subsidy is to prevent the emergence of resistance against ACTs, which would be a major crisis; for individual countries, investing in such a common good is no more attractive than investing in measures to prevent climate change, he adds.

It's ridiculous enough politicians are blaming the refugee crises on man - made climate change, even though everyone knows they are really caused by foreign policy ineptitude and debacles.

I'm sure you've heard this term a lot in the past four years — «climate crisis» — but you should know that in my days as a student in America, we never used the phrase.

I speak to college and high school kids all the time, and I know one can not simply be negative in discussing the climate crisis or they will turn off and become paralyzed by despair (as many grown - ups already have).

I would be delighted if more Republicans accepted mainstream climate science and took the climate crisis seriously, but it appears that is no longer acceptable behavior within the GOP.

Farmers and ranchers in the U.S. and around the world need to know that they can be part of the solution; • The assurance that developing countries will have access to mechanisms and resources that will help them adapt to the worst impacts of the climate crisis and technologies to solve the problem; and, • A strong compliance and verification regime.

If we knew everything we needed to know about navigating the climate and ecological crises, we would have done it already.

IPS: While world leaders were wrapping up the United Nations conference on climate change (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar this past weekend with the annual vague promise to tackle the enormous crises brought on by extreme weather and global warming, a delegation of youth gathered far from the high - level conference halls to say «no» to [continue reading...]

«The climate crisis offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: a generational mission.»

This legislative session is an incredible opportunity to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis — as we know that while it's not too late to act, it's definitely not too early.

I know it will take massive change for us as a species to survive let alone thrive in the converging global crisis around climate, food, water, fuel and the economy.

So educate people about the climate crisis, and once they know the real danger we are in, they will voluntarily step up to make a positive difference.

With that in mind, below are 10 key facts to know about the climate crisis.

Happily, the climate alarmists are spectacularly wrong; unfortunately, their cataclysmic predictions — no matter how frequently discredited — are treated as gospel and repeated endlessly by the usual crisis choir in government, academia, and the media.

World leaders can no longer ignore this urgent call for action as the climate crisis continues to unfold.

«The magnitude of the climate crisis requires that we no longer conduct business as usual,» Ellen Dorsey, executive director for the Wallace Global Fund, said today on a conference call with reporters.

Skeptics are winning because the AGW community was wrong to claim that we are facing or will face some grave climate crisis, and no matter how many studies believers come up with to claim otherwise, the climate continues to fail to cooperate with the apocalypse.

have known for years: that drastic reductions in emissions from fossil fuel use are the only way to avert the climate crisis.

Everyone knows that if we stop this pipeline the climate crisis isn't solved.»

«The world also needs to know that working together our vulnerable countries are doing everything in our power to bring the climate crisis under control, and we won't relent until we've succeeded in our ambition.»

Which brings us, despite Obama, to the public secret of the climate crisis: The more you know of the science, and of the speed with which we must now move, the less likely you are to truly believe that we're going to rise to the occasion.

No, because with no climate crisis, there would be no Climate Insclimate crisis, there would be no Climate InsClimate Institute.

Everyone knows how to play the game of marketing climate crisis activists as «prestigious» researchers, «leading humanitarian organizations» and alliances of «vulnerable» countries that «are experiencing the most direct impacts of climate change.»

Action to confront the climate crisis must be massively scaled if we are to preserve a planet resembling the one humans have known».

We know that successful civil disobedience actions like those on May 8th — coupled with pressuring our cities, churches, universities and local non-profits to sever ties with the banks enabling the climate crisis — represent the most effective way for us to tell CEOs like Chase's Jamie Dimon that we will not stand idly by as you profit from the destruction of our planet.

The state can no longer pretend that its housing crisis is one thing and its climate crisis another.

As you know, the climate crisis is a public health issue.

will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People's Climate March and United Nations Climate Summit 2014 with a rally hailing a Robin Hood Tax — a tax on Wall Street also known as a financial transaction tax — as a key solution to addressing the climate Climate March and United Nations Climate Summit 2014 with a rally hailing a Robin Hood Tax — a tax on Wall Street also known as a financial transaction tax — as a key solution to addressing the climate Climate Summit 2014 with a rally hailing a Robin Hood Tax — a tax on Wall Street also known as a financial transaction tax — as a key solution to addressing the climate climate crisis.

Most everyone, from Barack Obama on the one hand to Lumumba Di - Aping, the Sudanese chair of the Souths G77 negotiating bloc on the other, from you to me as well, dear reader, knows one hell of a lot more about the climate crisis, and its politics, than we did a year ago.

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate is a very child friendly, easy - to - read book that helps readers better understand the climate crisis by giving solid evidence, such as bird migratory patterns and the melting icecaps, to explain what is hapClimate is a very child friendly, easy - to - read book that helps readers better understand the climate crisis by giving solid evidence, such as bird migratory patterns and the melting icecaps, to explain what is hapclimate crisis by giving solid evidence, such as bird migratory patterns and the melting icecaps, to explain what is happening.

What we do know is that a concerted campaign of climate denial, over the past three decades, has measurably slowed down society's reaction to the climate crisis and has wasted valuable time and money.

Still, it's not bad; in fact, it might be the best talk I know on climate crisis and the «second machine age.»

In this brief but pointed essay in Earth Island Journal, EcoEquity's Tom Athanasiou reviews some of the widely known, but rarely acknowledged, public secrets of the climate crisis.

Everything you need to know about climate change in order to form a convincing argument that something needs to be done to adress the coming crisis.