Sentences with phrase «member over climate change»

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The miner is withdrawing from the World Coal Association over a clash of views on how to fight climate change, with BHP saying it'll reap little benefit from staying on as a member.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

Indeed there is no doubt that the future direction of the European Union will have a major impact on the political landscape of the UK: Completion of the single market, enlargement, climate change and security are some of the salient challenges which Member States will confront over the coming years and we as British Conservatives should be at the forefront of those advocating sensible and workable solutions.

AG Eric Schneiderman has shot down a request from Republican members of a congressional committee that he turn over a number of records related to an investigation into climate change and what ExxonMobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

Republican members of Congress have accused Democratic state AG Eric Schneiderman and his counterparts in 16 other jurisdictions of chilling free speech over climate change through their legal and political campaign to curb fossil fuel burning.

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

News about EPA's climate change website «confirmed our fears,» said Jerome Whitington, a faculty member in New York University's anthropology department who has attended multiple data rescue events over the past two months and is organizing a New York City event in February.

Over the weekend, I posted and alerted senior members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Friday.

As recently as last week, senior members of the intergovernmental climate panel had told me that some colleagues did not see the need for changes in practices and were convinced that the recent flareup over errors in the 2007 report was a fleeting inconvenience.

Even for the Senate, where members are well - known to prefer talking to listening, the amount of unilateral jabbering on the climate change bill has been remarkable, with lawmakers both for and against the measure arguing repeatedly over how much time was allotted for them to speak.

Formerly known as «Eco-Cell at St. John's,» the group has grown over the past five years to include a core group of 12 along with a wider involved community of 40 members who organize meetings, community events and maintain an email list focused on climate change and other environmental issues.

But they are not getting nearly the support that they need from those who care about climate change policymaking, because nearly all of that support — in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars — is going instead to groups that prefer to pound the other team's members over the head with «consensus messaging.»

Lord Donoughue, a member of the GWPF board of trustees, put forward a total of 25 questions over 15 months to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) relating to obscure climate Climate Change (DECC) relating to obscure climate climate models.

It was so special to see so many friends and family members who had been so supportive of me with my climate change work over the years at the wedding.

According to Peter Lilley, a member of the British parliament and member of the Parliamentary Energy and Climate Change Committee, the U.K.'s 2008 Climate Change Act is perhaps the most costly government program since the introduction of the Welfare State, with an impact of over # 17,000 per household.

CRC members and staff also engaged in a variety of community outreach activities, such as the development of the booklet Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: Highlights of the National Academies Reports, of which over 200,000 copies have been disseminated.

«While the existence of climate change is even now being debated by some members of the public, the general insurance industry has been attempting to quantify the issue for well over a decade.»

The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with... Instead of organizing meetings with free and open debates on the basic physics and the likelihood of AGW induced climate changes, the leaders of the society... have chosen to fully trust the climate models and deliberately avoid open debate and discussion... My interaction (over the years) with a broad segment of AMS members... have indicated that a majority of them do not agree that humans are the primary cause of global warming.»

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greeclimate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

Despite American Association of Petroleum Geologists (of which I am a member) making that ridiculous award to Michael Chrichton, I will professionally recommend AAPG Studies in Geology # 47, «Global perspectives on climate change» as a serious scientific review of what professional geolgical scientists have concluded about climate change over the geological record.

At least six members of his 18 - strong cabinet have in recent years expressed scepticism over whether fossil fuel burning can cause climate change.

Don, I don't expect my opinion to influence the APS members already considering quitting over a single issue climate change policy statement one bit... but one never knows.

This study has highlighted the role of internal variability of the NAO, the leading mode of atmospheric circulation variability over the Atlantic / European sector, on winter (December - March) surface air temperature (SAT) and precipitation (P) trends over the next 30 years (and the next 50 years: see Supplemental Materials) using a new 40 - member ensemble of climate change simulations with CESM1.

With over 140 member organisations in more than 30 European countries - representing over 44 million citizens - CAN Europe works to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable climate and energy policy in Europe.

Over the years he has shown a concern for maintaining a strong scientific research and assessment program on climate change — something to which few members of Congress pay much attention — both in proposed legislation and in calling out political interference with climate science communication.

Last year The UN Climate Change Conference brought together over 22,500 participants, including nearly 15,800 government officials, 5,400 representatives of UN bodies and agencies, intergovernmental organizations and civil society organizations, and 1,200 members of the media.

They wanted to know my reaction to Zinke's reportedly dressed down Joshua Tree superintendent over climate change tweets, National Park Service scrubbing 92 documents about climate change from its website, or most recently nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration.

Our members make up a network of over 250,000 Americans who donate to tackle climate change, build fair trading systems, stop corporate abuse, and support local communities.

This framing of the issue could thus end up pitting members of these two groups — already at odds over climate change, nuclear power, gun control, and various other risks — against one another.

At the 21st Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP21), the World Water Council, together with over a dozen members of the...

And on Wednesday 8th November, in a deeply moving combination of storytelling, song and dance, the Warriors delivered their Declaration on Climate Change — signed by over 23,000 people from countries around the world — to Pacific Island leaders inside COP and members of island delegations including Former President of Kiribati Anote Tong.

Similar works of art will travel from all over the world — created by professional artists, unknown artists and members of developing communities — to be exhibited at the UN conference, representing a unified global movement around climate change and poverty.

I would think the members of the climate change advisory panel would have already followed the lead of those «brave» (sarc) CEO's who resigned from the business advisory councils in protest over Trumps response to Charlottesville.

And meanwhile, Lynas can demand that climate change must take precedence over all of the other problems out there that are «worse for the poor» (which he does)-- indeed, that are worse for the poor than climate change, according to no less than the WHO itself — and still be a respected member of the political climate change community.

The Climate Change Authority, of which I'm a board member, recently looked into the issue and concluded that, over the lifetime of a vehicle, fuel efficiency standards matching those of the US would save motorists thousands of dollars.

With over 120 member organisations in more than 25 European countries, CAN Europe works to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable energy and environment policy in Europe.

The CRF is the first major US pension fund to join the Coalition's 28 members, who between them control over $ 3 trillion in assets and have pledged to gradually decarbonize a total of $ 600 billion by designing investment portfolios with a smaller climate change impact.

The company's environmental policy is also nothing to sneeze at: It is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Energy & Climate Change Working Group and has trimmed carbon dioxide emissions by over 10 percent since 2006, with an investment of over a cool $ 2 million.