Sentences with phrase «like global environmental change»

For over a quarter century, EIA has been recognized by government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and independent journals, like Global Environmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmental problems.

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The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.

«We know very little about how rapid environmental changes are in Antarctica,» he says, and yet «what happens in Antarctica will spread like ripples throughout the global system.»

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

Addressing the «global, environmental and technological shifts» changing the United States, here you will find artists like Ei Arakawa and his headpiece structures shaped like Hawaiian and Manhattan islands, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst's Relationship, a series of forty - six photographs, and Dashiell Manley's The Great Train Robbery, a multipart installation and video project inspired by the silent Western film of the same name made in 1903.

So we will continue to pursue advances in science and engineering, in infrastructure and innovation, in education and environmental protection — especially science - based initiatives to help us minimize and adapt to global threats like climate change.

Here, in one of Adam Nieman's experiments in visualizing global environmental change, is what four seconds of worldwide emissions of CO2 would look like if you could track the gas by its volume measured in United Nations towers:

Bachelor in Architecture Engineering University of Indonesia, enjoys studying Environmental Science and likes to give easy understanding of issues of climate change and global warming.

Global coordination and cooperation are needed to foster economic development through sustainable energy strategies and to avoid environmental calamities like climate change.

The Max - Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry contributes to the understanding of how living organisms — including humans - exchange fundamental resources like water, carbon, nitrogen and energy with their environment, and how this affects and responds to global climate and environmental change.

When I am proven right, the Climate Change Department will be swept away; Britain's annual deficit will fall by a fifth; the bat - blatting, bird - blending windmills that scar our green and pleasant land will go; the world will refocus on real environmental problems like deforestation on land, overfishing at sea and pollution of the air; the U.N.'s ambition to turn itself into a grim, global dictatorship with overriding powers of taxation and economic and environmental intervention will be thwarted; and the aim of science to supplant true religion as the world's new, dismal, cheerless credo will be deservedly, decisively, definitively defeated.

... we have political extremists — some of them in our own country — who would have the United States evade and ignore tough issues like global climate change, ozone depletion, or any number of threats to human and environmental health.

You can thank global warming for those mild winters, or global environmental change as I like to call it because as soon as you say the words global and warming together the claws come out.

Moreover, a new environmental review is needed to account for the dramatic changes in the outlook for the tar sands industry, as lower oil prices and a global movement to address climate change has led Exxon to write down billions of barrels of tar sands reserves and companies like Statoil and Total to pull out of the tar sands entirely.

Like ExxonMobil, Chevron also emphasizes potential conflicts rather than synergies between climate solutions and other societal goals: «As we work to address climate change, we must create solutions that balance environmental objectives with global economic growth and our aspirations for a better quality of life for people across the world.»

Climate change skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration at being told «only one side of the global warming debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a global warming crisis.»

Even in light of the recent policy work in the US energy sector, the ambitious goals and approaches to carbon emissions reductions coming out of global climate summits, and an increasing awareness of the various environmental issues we're facing, any changes we're making in our habits, systems, and policies feel like they're too little, too late.

I generally use the Choices for Sustainable Living book in my Environmental Sociology class, but my students have also liked Menu for the Future, Hungry for Change, the global warming course, and the «Just Below the Surface» retrospective on the Gulf Oil Spill.

But trade deals like TTP, which don't address climate change, remain a looming environmental threat, as does rising global beef consumption.

In fact, all the Center's work to fight global warming — from petitioning and litigating for warming - threatened species to enforcing key laws like the California Environmental Quality Act to opposing too - low national fuel economy standards — have played an enormous role in putting climate change on the political map, making it that much harder for those who would deny it to suppress the truth.

The paper — based on interviews with 25 leaders in the mainstream environmental movement (nearly all of them, like S&N, white men)-- argues that environmentalism is ill - equipped to face the massive global challenges of our day, particularly climate change.

Without studying the principles of highly - organized functioning of ecological communities, including their genetically encoded ability to respond to environmental perturbations in a non-random compensatory way, the perspectives drawn from global circulation models with respect to the climatic effects of land cover change (e.g., statements like cutting all boreal forests will ease global warming) will continue to lack any resemblance to reality.

The U.S. Green Building Council has updated its LEED green building rating system to reflect increasing global concerns over climate change and the fact that environmental issues, just like real estate itself, are tied to location.