Sentences with phrase «leaders see climate change»

Hundreds of miles away in Oregon and Washington, states where much of the plant's power is transmitted, leaders see climate change as a reason to end their reliance on Colstrip's coal - fired electricity.

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China saw an opportunity to replace the U.S. as a leader of the world's effort to combat climate change.

Looking back at the visit, it stands in stark contrast to Modi's recent meetings with leaders of the United States, Germany and France, where we saw both political focus and media attention on climate change and clean energy.

And it is particularly galling to see European leaders issue excoriating critiques of Donald Trump's attitudes to climate change when they continue to ground policy in such an unscientific manner.

At a time when the evidence of deadly climate change is growing by the day, it is shocking that elected leaders are too blinded by their fossil fuel entanglements to see the way forward.»

Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secClimate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuChange; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

With regard to health specifically, the state's leaders publicly acknowledge the threats of climate change and have committed to taking action against them, even in a conservative state that helped elect a federal administration that sees little, if any, danger from human - caused climate change.

Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

Some might see USCAP as being leaders in the industry around climate change - but I think their real goal is to ensure they dominate public discourse and have strong lobbying positions for any future climate / carbon legislation.

«As the costs of climate change accumulate in the years ahead,» Vertessy said, «I can see that leaders of this climate change denial movement will really be seen as culpable.»

Thus, I left Chicago feeling another peak experience of seeing Al Gore, enhancing my knowledge of how to give better climate change talks, and mentoring 20 Climate Reality Lclimate change talks, and mentoring 20 Climate Reality LClimate Reality Leaders.

DeBrum said countries such as his, on the frontline of climate change, needed to see concrete signs that leaders were prepared to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and put up the cash needed to help poor countries cope with climate change.

With the US under Donald Trump indicating it wants to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, China is increasingly seen as a world leader in the battle to cut carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe.

As our dear leaders meet over climate change, here in NC they are spraying more in the sky than I have ever seen.

While the rest of the world sees Australia as a pariah on climate change, Campbell proudly tells all who'll listen that we are actually regarded as a world leader on climate change.10 While the rest of the world thought that Australia was doing all it could to undermine Kyoto and to wreck consensus, Campbell says we are seen as being a constructive player.

Meanwhile, even preventing a 3 ° increase looks iffy, given the sluggish pace of clean - energy construction so far and the fact that President Donald Trump, the leader of the world's second - biggest emitter, has vowed to exit the Paris accord (see «Exiting Paris, Trump cedes global leadership on climate change»).

All around the world, people are seeing the reality of climate change and speaking up with one voice and one message for their leaders: Now is the time for you to act.

Ahead of the next round of global climate talks in Poland in November, local governments and business leaders are coming together for the biggest event the world has seen to encourage local action on climate change, at the Global Climate Action Summit from 12 - 14 Sepclimate talks in Poland in November, local governments and business leaders are coming together for the biggest event the world has seen to encourage local action on climate change, at the Global Climate Action Summit from 12 - 14 Sepclimate change, at the Global Climate Action Summit from 12 - 14 SepClimate Action Summit from 12 - 14 September.

Those hopes continued to swell when in a press conference a few days later, he responded to a question from the media on climate by saying that he planned to start «a conversation across the country...» to see «how we can shape an agenda that garners bipartisan support and helps move this agenda forward... and... be an international leader» on climate change.

This was seen by many as the most controversial aspect of Heartland's attempt to «influence» the debate on climate change, because it is one thing to confuse political leaders (they almost seem to enjoy it), but quite another to spread misinformation to students.

If Americans are not well - enough informed to successfully tackle issues like climate change, Otto contends that seeing political leaders directly address the issues will foster greater public interest in the topics, help Americans distinguish scientific finding from rhetoric, and encourage our children to devote their education to the subject.

After a U.S. Presidential Election where not a single moderator in four debates asked a question on climate change — an issue that many scientists and world leaders see as the globe's most pressing — Hurricane Sandy changed everything, at least in the short - term.

Based on Lester Brown's Plan B book series, this 90 - minute film — Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization — airing on PBS Wednesday, March 30 in the United States (see listings for time in your area) follows Lester as he speaks in Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, New Delhi, Rome, Istanbul, Ankara, and Washington, DC, and visits with world leaders to discuss ways to respond to the challenges of climate change.

But he's seen as a leader of a younger and more liberal batch of Democratic representatives, and climate change is one area where he's been out in front.

GENE SPERLING, Natl. Economic Adviser, 1997 - 2001: Developing country leaders uniformly saw the effort to put a binding climate change regime on them as an effort by the United States, the most advanced, productive economy in the world, to now stunt their growth before they could even have a chance to catch up.

What was striking about the summit wasn't only the commitment to a new kind of international cooperation from these leaders, but also how many saw action to address climate change not only as a moral imperative, but also as an economic opportunity for their jurisdiction.

Being my first COP, I saw how respected leaders from developed countries failed to show leadership and political will in addressing the structural issues that have caused climate change.

Here in the west, we're already seeing the impacts of climate change... But west coast leaders are not only committing to adapt to our changing climate, but to turning back the worst climate disruption: Our region will accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and invest in transit.

Friends of the Earth International Climate Change campaigner Yuri Onodera said: «We have already seen many empty promises by G8 leaders over the past years but there has not been much real action, so we urge G8 leaders to act now and cut their greenhouse gas emissions drastically and immediately.»

Health leaders have also begun to see other opportunities in mitigating climate change.

Germany, seen as a longtime leader on climate change, is still getting 40 percent of its energy from coal.