Sentences with phrase «leading environmentalist»

It's from 160 leading environmentalists from 44 countries, and, believe me, we all approve of the action.

On the same day, Bill McKibben and George Monbiot, leading environmentalists in the United States and Britain, wrote columns in the Guardian laying out completely divergent conclusions.

His most recent film, Pandora's Promise, documents the anti- to pro- conversion of five leading environmentalists who support nuclear energy in light of climate change.

First Nations leaders have been occupying fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago for over 200 days, and now, leading environmentalist David Suzuki, invited top chefs concerned with the wellbeing of wild salmon, to add their voice to the resistance.

The environmental disaster that ensued led some environmentalists to oppose piping dilbit in the belief that it is less safe.

In the days after Shell called off the scuttling, several leading environmentalists admitted that taken strictly as a waste disposal problem the best resting place for the Brent Spar was indeed, as Shell and the British government had argued, the bottom of the Atlantic.

But now, more than 40 years later, leading environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says that all these predictions have proven spectacularly wrong.

Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians.

The figures come as one of the world's leading environmentalists issued a warning that the global food supply system could collapse at any point, leaving hundreds of millions more people hungry, sparking widespread riots and bringing down governments.

A group of leading environmentalists, investors and academics has called on the Bank of England to investigate whether high carbon and polluting investments pose a risk to the UK financial system.

$ 6 billion plan to save the world's rainforests risks derailment before it begins, warn leading environmentalists

One leading environmentalist who has been in contact with the White House is «totally confident» that the administration is preparing to move forward with regulations for existing plants — a move that green groups see as crucial in the fight against climate change.

First Nations leaders have been occupying fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago for over 200 days, and now, leading environmentalist David Suzuki, invited top chefs concerned with the wellbeing of wild salmon, to add their voice to the resistance.

Rapid development at the expense of China's natural environment has become a major cause for discontent in the world's second largest economy, but now the government is finally bowing to public outcry, says a leading environmentalist.

Brian Kavanagh has been a leading environmentalist throughout his tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly.

In the final weeks of the contest Zac underlined how his appeal transcended ideology and generated cross-party support — doing so in a way Sadiq failed to do — his cross-party appeal strengthened by his credentials as a leading environmentalist and a maverick Member of Parliament.

At one point he was chair of Environmental Conservation Committee and he was the leading environmentalist in the state fighting to protect our environment.»

A leading environmentalist reviews his long, contentious past and sets new directions for the future

TreadRight Ambassador Céline Cousteau — a leading environmentalist and explorer and the granddaughter of the late Jacques Cousteau — travels the world as she works to preserve marine life as well as indigenous tribes in the Amazon.

At around the sixteenth minute, I illustrate my notion of «an inconvenient mind» by recalling the reactions of two leading environmentalists to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plants.

In shooting their film, the Pace students interviewed people with a wide range of views, from representatives of Rio's Olympics development project to Theresa Williamson of Catalytic Communities, an organization defending the rights of favela dwellers, from Fernando Pedro Louro, the Secretary of Health in Paraty, to Nelson Palma, the leading environmentalist in Ilha Grande.

The second and totally serious response is to understand and embrace the argument for fracking that's being made by one leading environmentalist.

Billing himself as «one of Canada's leading environmentalists,» Solomon's free market environmentalism has always been viewed with suspicion.

But according to David Suzuki, this country's leading environmentalist, our doors should be barred to new immigrants except in cases of emergency or oppression.

And it fact, Al Gore's ethanol support is putting him in opposition to... leading environmentalists.

Maathai evolved from Kenya's most visible political dissident to one of Africa's leading environmentalists.

The highly publicized forecasts made by some leading environmentalists are based on experimental simulations of very complicated forecasting models that have not been found very reliable when explaining past developments.

Bill McKibben is one of the world's leading environmentalists and writers.