Sentences with phrase «meet the climate challenges of»

In a press release, Ted McMeekin, Ontario's Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing said the initiative will result in «needed upgrades to older, energy inefficient homes to reduce energy costs and better serve tenants, while helping Ontario meet the climate challenges of today and tomorrow.»

Not exact matches

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»

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We should meet the challenges of climate change and aging population.

One assumes he endorses the use of technology to meet the challenges of global climate change, uses that will amount to an unprecedented attempt to manage and manipulate the earth's ecosystem.

To meet the world's growing food security needs and face the parallel challenges of improving nutrition and reducing poverty under a changing global climate, a second — science - based — Green Revolution in agriculture is already under way.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

Food group and beverage giant Danone and Veolia, the global resource management group, have announced an innovative strategic partnership focusing on the water cycle, waste management, sustainable agriculture and energy efficiency, to meet the challenge of climate change.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Today, however, both sides appeared to have put aside their differences when they urged Mr Miliband to agree to their agreement in recognition of the «need for political parties to work together as far as possible to meet the challenge of climate change».

«Individuals are responsible for almost half of emissions, so people have to start taking action in their own lives if we are to meet the challenge of climate change,» Mr Benn said.

The Clean Power Plan, which was already on hold pending the results of a court challenge from Republican governors, was central to President Barack Obama's plan for meeting the emissions reductions the United States pledged as part of the Paris agreement, which updated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The UK will need to reorganise its infrastructure to meet the challenges of climate change, Gordon Brown said today.

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

«Because the complexity of the climate makes accurate prediction difficult, the APS urges an enhanced effort to understand the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate, and to provide the technological options for meeting the climate challenge in the near and longer terms.

SAN JOSE, California — Africa will be the source of the «innovation and intellectual power» necessary to confront global challenges of climate change, threats to energy security, and pandemic disease, predicted Naledi Pandor at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Nelson stresses that not only does the work identify the role of the past in informing the present but also the importance of exploring diverse conditions for understanding how to meet current challenges related to climate - induced disasters.

On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.»

The International Polar Foundation welcomes financial support from individual donors and corporate sponsors, towards specific program allocation, to implement its mission for science in the polar regions, meeting the challenge of climate change, and the establishment of a low carbon society.

The success of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica marks an important development in the philosophy of sustainable development, demonstrating how the climate challenge can be met through goodwill and collaboration between civil society, business and governments.

With the Agreement now ratified and in force, the next challenge is actually meeting its ambition, says the study's lead author Dr Glen Peters, senior researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO) and project manager of the Global Carbon Project.

To meet this societal need, the world climate research community is challenged by underlying science questions and the quality and coverage of the observational data that are used to monitor and understand extremes.

The nations of the world gathered on Monday in Paris to reach a new and universal climate change agreement, in the knowledge that they have already delivered an almost universal set of national responses to meet the long - term climate challenge before the conference even begins.

Empowering students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to meet the greatest challenge of their lives is a necessity, says Tony McNally, managing director, Climate Change Solutions

There are some inherent problems that all schools face in meeting the challenge of improving climate:

But HFCs remain a small contributor to meeting the grand challenge of stabilizing climate, with many centuries of heating of the climate and oceans being driven predominantly by the unrelenting buildup of long - lasting carbon dioxide, as Raymond Pierrehumbert of Oxford University and others have shown.

Motivation can come from gut - level agreement that experimenting with our climate is bad instead of predictions of specific dire outcomes if we don't meet the challenge.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

At the same time, the unrelenting rise in greenhouse - gas emissions in developing countries is propelled by an unbending reality identified way back in 2005 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, when he said, «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

«While the statement may appear as a movement forward, we are concerned that it may, in effect, be a regression from what is required to make a meaningful contribution to meeting the challenges of climate change,» van Schalkwyk said in a statement.

Key Message 6: Meeting the Challenge To achieve the societal transformation required to meet the climate change challenge, we must overcome a number of significant constraints and seize critical opporChallenge To achieve the societal transformation required to meet the climate change challenge, we must overcome a number of significant constraints and seize critical opporchallenge, we must overcome a number of significant constraints and seize critical opportunities.

While the Statement may appear as a movement forward, we are concerned that it may, in effect, be a regression from what is required to make a meaningful contribution to meeting the challenges of climate change.

As we focus on balancing the federal government's operating budget, we should also develop a capital budget to fund the upgrading of critical regional systems to meet the challenges of climate change and population growth.

Scientists always want to find ways to reduce the uncertainty in findings, but — in the heated arena where climate research meets climate decisions — they have not always been quick to state clearly when they are certain that some aspects of the climate challenge won't be easily clarified any time soon.

The Catholic Church, working with the leadership of other religions, can now take a decisive role by mobilizing public opinion and public funds to meet the energy needs of the poorest 3 billion people, thus allowing them to prepare for the challenges of unavoidable climate and eco-system changes.

I'm on my way to a meeting in Sicily where several dozen scientists from a variety of disciplines and countries will be exploring the influence of climate change on insect - and tick - borne diseases, the spreading challenge of Internet security, the longstanding challenge of finding safe ways to handle and store nuclear waste and a heap of other pressing subjects.

Thank you for your treatment of the Meeting the Climate Challenge report and providing a link to the report.

Climate change represents one of the major challenges of the 21st century, but as a nation of innovators, we can and will meet this challenge in a way that advances our economy, our environment, and public health all at the same time.

The climate writer and campaigner Bill McKibben (left) met for a beer in Chico, Calif., with Anthony Watts, a former broadcast meteorologist who runs a blog challenging many aspects of climate change science.

This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

Organizers say that the meeting is larger than last year's, which centered on challenging the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Two stories this week, a paper in Nature (Stainforth et al, 2005) describing preliminary results of the climateprediction.net experiments, and the Meeting the Climate Challenge report from a high level political group have lead to dramatic headlines.

Just as no country is immune from the impacts of climate change, no country can meet this challenge alone.

I am absolutely convinced that any challenge presented by the change of the climate caused by man or nature or by the combination of both will successfully be met by our scientists and engineers.

We affirm the critical role of technology and the need for technological breakthroughs in meeting the interlinked global challenges of energy security and climate change.

When he was Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair put it this way in 2005: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

The world's most powerful established and emerging nations — together responsible for more than 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — concluded a day - long meeting after the Group of 8 summit in Japan and emerged on Wednesday with a joint statement calling climate change «one of the great global challenges of our time.»

I couldn't attend, so I asked two students of Gary Yohe, a Wesleyan economist and conference organizer, to reflect on what they learned at the meeting, given the incredibly tough politics surrounding the climate challenge and any discussion of a tax.