Sentences with phrase «leading climate change»

This research is part of a report on ocean warming by some of the world's leading climate change scientists.

Trump's apparent disdain for climate science and his appointment of leading climate change skeptics to his cabinet has caused environmentalists to urge Obama to do everything in his power as outgoing president to protect the environment.

Rupert Murray's film introduces leading climate change sceptics, attempting to understand their arguments and motivations — are they misguided, are they opportunists, or do they have a point?

«Much of the strength of Climate Impacts Group comes from its varied membership, drawing from leading institutions around the region such as PNNL,» said Spencer Reeder, lead climate change policy strategist for the Department of Ecology.

While his career has been largely dedicated to slowing or eliminating regulations of pollution that could affect his clients» revenue, he is descibed as a «leading climate change lawyer» defending companies «confronting major environmental and energy development challenges.»

Described as «the biggest carbon bomb on the planet» by leading climate change scientist James Hansen the extraction of tar sands causes pollution and deforestation, kills wildlife and threatens indigenous Canadian communities.

The Alberta Government has appointed three wise men to help: Former Governor of The Bank of Canada David Dodge to develop an infrastructure plan, University of Alberta economist Andrew Leach to lead the Climate Change Panel, and ATB CEO Dave Mowat to head up the Royalty Review panel.

Environmentalists are hoping for the government to maintain its momentum, after signing a world - leading climate change bill into law last month cutting emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.

White House Secretary Robert Gibbs told journalists that recent signals of new commitments by China and India created possible momentum toward an agreement at the U.N. - led climate change talks that started Monday and are scheduled to conclude on December 18.

The report by former World Bank economist David Wheeler, who now leads the climate change division at the think tank Center for Global Development, finds that China spent 94 cents of every $ 10,000 of average income on clean energy between 1990 and 2008.

North Atlantic circulation is weaker today than it has been for over a thousand years, and leading climate change models could be overestimating its...

Atiq is one of Bangladesh's leading climate change experts and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

As scientists, policymakers, diplomats and environmentalists begin to converge on Copenhagen for climate talks, the integrity of leading climate change researchers has come under attack; a release of some 1,000 hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain has created a stir, with some suggesting the e-mails demonstrate hoarding of and manipulation of data by climate researchers.

Pomona hosts Know Tomorrow, a student - led Climate Change Awareness event featuring an activity fair, speakers, and prizes.

Rockefeller Foundation grant for «For use by the climate community and biodiversity alliance in support of developing an agriculture standard that will help to elevate the quality of smallholder farmer - and community - led climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in developing coun»

Seth Itzkan leading climate change discussion at the Africa Center for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe.

The LDP recruits fellows from developing countries who have the potential to become leading climate change activists and builds their professional leadership skills through trainings, mentoring and capacity building activities, following a learning - by - doing approach.

China's lead climate change official has told a forum in Shanghai that the country has met its targets to reduce the carbon intensity of the economy two years ahead of sched

The head of the world's leading climate change organisation has backed the Howard Government's decision to defer setting a long - term target for reducing greenhouse emissions until the full facts are known..

Our current government, and the provinces who have signed the Pan-Canadian framework, are leading the climate change conversation and truly paving the way forward.

For instance, the organization advocates an end to obtaining energy from ANY fossil fuel sources, nuclear power, or large - scale hydroelectric projects even though leading climate change scientists note that wind and solar aren't enough to meet our energy needs.

However, he completed the transformation from an environmental outlier advocating on behalf of free trade, deregulation, and the privatization of our natural resources, to an outright pariah due to the release of his 2008 book The Deniers, which established him as one of the world's leading climate change skeptics.

While his career has been largely dedicated to slowing or eliminating regulations of pollution that could affect his clients» revenue, he is descibed as a «leading climate change lawyer» defending companies «confronting major environmental and energy development challenges.»

The head of the China's leading climate change research centre has likened China's «unbearable» air pollution to a smoker at increasing risk of lung cancer.

Dr. Curt Stager, a leading climate change scientist, said the Adirondack Park will inevitably be negatively impacted not only by a projected increase in temperatures, but also any rise in emissions from coal - burning power plants.

«Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats,» the Canberra Times reports.

One of the world's leading climate change scientists will give a free public seminar at the University of Adelaide at 11:00 am on Monday 7 July to help explain how humans have contributed to global climactic changes.

The EPA cited a 2007 Supreme Court ruling declaring that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act, but the science upon which that ruling was based has now been called into question when emails and internal documents between the UNâ $ ™ s leading climate change scientists were leaked to the public.

On Sunday, the province took out a half - page ad in the New York Times asserting that it is «committed to raising the bar higher on its leading climate change policy.»

If local governments truly want the federal government to «mitigate» these problems they should be backing federal efforts to address the climate crisis, instead ALEC has long been a leading climate change denier providing an array of discredited claims to state legislators.

«Britain's leading climate change sceptic Nigel Lawson says global warming is real,» Independent, September 14, 2016.

«The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.