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As the state's environmental watchdog, the DEC will be responsible for approving or denying this project based on a variety of factors, including whether New York can meet its climate goals with the ongoing development of a fossil fuel infrastructure.

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It will serve you well when you meet with your provincial and federal counterparts to hammer out how the two levels of government will work together to help Canada achieve the climate change goals it agreed to in Paris.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

«AfDB has chosen to support this project because its goals are consistent with our institution's reaffirmed commitment to help African countries like Ghana meet their climate change and sustainable development goals,» said Richard Fusi, Task Team Leader.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

A statement by the U.N. - convened group suggests that tinkering with the atmosphere could be necessary to meet climate goals

The week after Warsaw, Stern met with Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Dan Utech, White House Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Domestic Policy Council Rick Duke, and others to discuss the goals with the State Department pushing for what one person called «maximum ambition.»

Energy standards The California Energy Commission has also been tasked with helping the state meet its climate - change goals.

Every year that we continue with business as usual, it's going to be harder to meet target climate goals.

To have any hope of meeting globally - agreed climate goals, global financial flows must rapidly align with low - emission, climate - resilient development, and government - backed public finance institutions like the World Bank must signal this transition.

The goal of improving a school's climate should be universally accepted by every member of that school's community, but it is often met with resistance.

Although this meeting was planned before Francis was selected, many participants were hoping some of the themes might influence that document, particularly with the United Nations closing in on a set of Sustainable Development Goals and a fresh effort to negotiate a new climate treaty coming to a head in late 2015.

The meeting, organized by 10 universities and paid for by a variety of corporations, was, as one organizer explained, «a deliberate attempt to influence policy,» with a prime goal being to make the case that climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

In the first round the negotiations led to a projected temperature by the year 2100 of about 3.1 °C, after the second round, negotiations improved the climate outlook with a 2.9 °C temperature increase, thus not meeting the expected Paris agreement goals.

The Energizing Finance research, done in partnership with the World Bank Group, Climate Policy Initiative, the African Development Bank, Practical Action Consulting and E3 Analytics, delivers a strong wake - up call to the levels of finance flowing to close energy access gaps, but also creates a roadmap of opportunities which, if finance is more strategically directed, will allow us to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, and provide affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.

«Lighting and appliance efficiency improvements, together with renewable energy, are key to simultaneously meeting the sustainable development goal of providing access to affordable and clean energy for all and the Paris Agreement 1.5 oC limit», said Jasmin Cantzler of Climate Analytics, another consortium member.

Their release comes a week after Shell rolled out its Sky scenario illustrating a possible pathway for the world to achieve the goal of keeping global temperature increase well below 2 degrees Celsius — and sets up a showdown leading into the company's annual meeting in The Hague next month, with Shell facing mounting pressure from climate litigation and its own shareholders.

Now it's up to ministers and heads of state to fill these vessels with increased ambition on climate action, so as to close the substantial gap between the commitments countries have put forward to reduce their emissions and the much higher level of ambition needed to meet the temperature limitation goals established in the Paris Agreement.

We formed this group with the goal of getting local St. Louis area residents who are concerned about climate change to get together for monthly meetings.

Elizabeth served Climate Solutions as program manager for the New Energy Cities program, working with cities to help them meet their carbon reduction goals through innovative programs and policies.

The immediate impetus to the current frenzy apparently came from a secret meeting of veteran environmental activists with the goal of falsely «establish [ing] in [the] public's mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all creation) toward climate chaos and grave harm.»

State Leadership: A Conversation with Governor Kate Brown followed by a U.S. State and Provincial Panel Tuesday, November 14th 14:30 - 16:00 Paris Dome The climate leadership role of U.S. states has been magnified as they step in to continue reducing emissions to meet state and Paris Agreement goals.

By getting to know her staff, my goal is to eventually have a face to face meeting with her to persuade to take action on climate change by supporting CCL's carbon fee and dividend.

«President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, combined with the repeal of domestic actions resulting in halting the decline in U.S. emissions, will likely make it more difficult and costly overall to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding warming well below 2 °C, and limiting it to 1.5 °C,» said Bill Hare, a climate scientist and CEO of Climate Analytics, a group that analyzes climate change sceclimate scientist and CEO of Climate Analytics, a group that analyzes climate change sceClimate Analytics, a group that analyzes climate change sceclimate change scenarios.

Sustainable Event Solutions was formed by a network of partners (POOLgroup, First Climate AG and Stefan Lohmann) to help event organizers meet their sustainability goals with an integrated solution.

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

MIT researchers are working with the Mexican government on carbon pricing options to meet the country's climate goals under the Paris Agreement.

The International Meetings on Statistical Climatology began in 1979, with the goal of bringing together scientists and statisticians in order to promote good statistical practice in climate and atmospheric science.

Since 1999, WWF has worked in partnership with companies to set and meet goals that reduced emissions, advanced projects to protect resources from climate impacts and ensured the sustainability of their core business.

However, meeting long ‐ term climate goals will require large ‐ scale transformations in human societies, from the way that we produce and consume energy to how we use the land surface, that are inconsistent with both longterm and short ‐ term trends.

Last year's growth came after three years of flat emissions and contrasts with the sharp reduction needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

This report reviews a range of modelling scenarios for future GHG emissions, identifies opportunities and recommends lines of action to harmonize energy policy objectives with climate goals that meet the needs for a limited global carbon budget.

But even if the rest of the world presses ahead with emissions cuts, U.S. withdrawal would make it much harder for the signatories to meet the agreement's financial goals, including big funding targets to help developing countries pay for climate adaptation.

The biggest concern associated with renewable energy, however, is that current trajectories are likely still not enough to meet goals to address climate change.

To that end, we are looking forward to continuing our cooperation with the UNECE in demonstrating the role of coal in achieving universal energy access and the importance of low emission coal technologies in meeting climate goals.

Two weeks of meetings seems hardly enough time to achieve a meaningful climate agreement with actionable goals that are legally binding.

Well, admittedly, letting people in the tropics grow food does interfere with the plan to clear cut all the tropical forests to produce renewable energy in the form of wood pellets that can be shipped to the EU so Europe meets their Paris climate goals.

And while it was never clear whether PG&E could have met even these meager climate - related goals, the latest draft decision strips out all of the utility's responsibility to replace Diablo with carbon - free sources.

It finds that «meeting the world's agreed climate goals in the most cost - effective way while fostering growth requires countries to set a strong carbon price, with the goal of reaching $ 40 - $ 80 per metric ton of CO2 by 2020 and $ 50 - 100 per metric ton by 2030.»

The 2006 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update stated that the single largest opportunity to help California meet its statewide energy and climate change goals resides with smart growth - development that revitalizes central cities and older suburbs, supports and enhances public transit, promotes walking and bicycling, and preserves open spaces and agricultural lands.

* With the necessary decline in production over the coming decades to meet climate goals, clean energy can be scaled up at a corresponding pace, expanding the total number of energy jobs.

The goals for the Center for States include to build capacity for increased effectiveness of public child welfare agencies through strong national expertise in child welfare and change management to help build and / or sustain the ability of agencies to perform well; to work in partnership with the Centers for Tribes and Courts to support States and other jurisdictions across the country; to create new and lasting partnerships with States, jurisdictions, Tribes, courts, and the Children's Bureau's Regional Office staff that reflect a shared focus on meeting the unique and individual needs of States and jurisdictions; to use a collaborative and systematic approach to build State and territory capacities across the five domains of resources; infrastructure; knowledge and skills; culture and climate; engagement and partnership.