Sentences with phrase «leading environmentalists»

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Alex Epstein debates leading environmentalist Bill McKibben on the issue of global warming.

Leading environmentalist Professor Tim Flannery has warned that Australia is now entering long - term climate change, which could cause longer and more frequent droughts.

Bill McKibben, who leads the anti-carbon group 350.org and has been described by The Boston Globe as «probably the nation's leading environmentalist», seems a bit of a humorless plonker even by the standards of global warm - mongers.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

Environmentalists and health workers in favor of the CPP will emphasize how the plan would lead to billions of dollars in savings on hospital bills because it also would slash emissions from coal plants.

The pipeline, which is a project of TransCanada Pipelines, is reviled by environmentalists and clean energy supporters throughout the U.S. who claim that it will lead to the expansion of «dirty» oilsands projects in Alberta.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, we see that as followers of Jesus, we should not be condemning the environmentalists, but should actually be leading the way in showing this world how to take care of this earth.

If it's the former, can you explain to us how being a Christian led you to also being an environmentalist?

It notes that at the same time of the slowing of seafood sales, landings began to shrink, leading to environmentalists and government regulators to pay close attentions to what was occurring along the coast.

Environmentalist Paul Hawken calls on the food industry, as a big part of the problem, to lead the way against climate change.

With this positive discipline technique, I have to get off my butt, zip my lips and lead her by the hand (or pick her up and take her if she pulls the tried and true environmentalist protest limp drop) to her room and close the door.

The environmental audit committee is currently hearing evidence from scientists and environmentalists in the lead up to the Copenhagen summit.

Environmentalists hoping the state will reject the Constitution argue any decision could also affect the others, at least two of which would be longer and lead to a more dramatic increase in the region's fossil - fuel consumption.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

Longtime Capital Region environmentalist Aaron Mair, who cut his teeth on issues from a trash - burning incinerator to toxic lead paint in inner - city homes, will use his voice as the first African - American president of the national board of directors of the Sierra Club.

In addition to DARPA environmentalists, biosafety experts and leading gene drive researchers say a new approach to mitigation and control is needed for the technology to advance safely.

Environmentalists, led by Green Party leader Elizabeth May, argued that the federal approach was too modest, with May taking to Twitter to declare the government's initial price on carbon as «too low to be taken seriously.»

Sceptical environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg says some of the world's leading economists are optimistic about the state of the planet (12...

It also led to a «Wolf Summit» in January, where sport and subsistence hunters, environmentalists, and state officials gathered to present their cases.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

But substantial recent progress has been made by proactive collaborations among environmentalists, regulators, scientists, and industry, leading to progress in the IMO in the development of guidelines for the reduction of underwater noise from commercial shipping.

Well, somehow that saying has led me here as a humanitarian, environmentalist, artist, entrepreneur, CEO and athlete.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Cool It (PG for mature themes) Eco-documentary chronicling the efforts of skeptical, Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg to debunk the prevailing conclusion of leading scientists that global warming trends are man - made.

Afterward, she leads him to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a bad guy who is posing as an environmentalist in order to take control of a country's water supply.

As an activist and environmentalist who shattered boundaries for women, Wangari Maathai is a leading figure of post-colonial Kenya.

Blast fishing has been abandoned, and environmentalists on the islands have pioneered a technology that uses a small electric current to accelerate coral growth, leading to a rebirth of marine life.

It is no surprise that Caradonna, a debt - free company for over twenty years, with a staff of avid divers and environmentalists, has become the industry's leading travel partner.

A long - time environmentalist, Kimberly led online outreach at Environmental Working Group.

Palzom is a passionate environmentalist, leading «No Thanks!

Environmentalist, educator and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben has been seen as a leading voice of the climate movement for years.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

I just was watching your interview with Michael Shellenberger and reading / listening up on this whole «centrist environmentalist» concept and I have to say, I take issue with people claiming the longtime «left» environmental movement was all about being a culture of restriction and somehow not in tune with the idea that this global warming crisis could lead to newer, alternative, healthy economics of another kind.

* We have been warned by scientists and environmentalists for decades that the nation's water resources are dangerously over stretched, that this is leading to the severe degradation to our aquatic ecosystems and is subjecting our agricultural economy to unacceptable risk (see here for example).

Now a movement lead by a self - described «former environmentalist» is seeking to consolidate their efforts.