Sentences with phrase «needs climate leadership»

«The world desperately needs climate leadership, and today Barack Obama showed he might turn out to be the guy who provided it.»

Of particular focus for the event will be a call to action on how business, government and the NGO sectors can leverage each other's actions to support urgently needed climate leadership.

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We need our leadership to be committed not only to diversification that will create reliable jobs across a range of industries, but also to cultivation of a stable investment climate that will attract capital to our province.

To maintain its leadership role in the fight against poverty, Britain needs to commit to playing its part in tackling global challenges and implementing the SDGs to address poverty, climate change and other issues.

The same leadership from Latin America is needed in the next two months over climate change.

«With the recent elections, the need for local governments to provide leadership on climate change is more imperative than ever,» said Mark Dunlea of 350NYC.

We're in the right direction but not in the leadership position that I think we need to deal with catastrophic climate change.»

We need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change deal than we saw in the face of the global financial crisis.

ALBANY, NY (01/09/2013)(readMedia)-- «Just weeks after communities were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy — the third massive and deadly storm in just over 12 months — Governor Cuomo showed true leadership by speaking up on the need to fight climate change.

That leadership must come from the United Nations to give it legitimacy, said Holland, who added that it does not necessarily need to come through the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's formal climate negotiating pClimate Change's formal climate negotiating pclimate negotiating process.

These challenges need to be met via regular mindfulness practices as norms in the following areas: school administrators, school union leadership, school structure and process, teacher and classroom structure and climate, effective mindfulness curriculum and QUALIFIED trainers, effective teaching skills, and optimal motivated learning by students.

By developing a framework for effective teacher teams that includes five criteria — leadership, task focus, collaborative climate, structure and process, and personal accountability — Troen and Boles provide school leaders with the tools needed to navigate this relatively new terrain and to make effective teacher teams a reality.

Also from Elias, «You Need an Elevator Pitch About School Culture and Climate,» which highlights how your school's leadership team can help the community understand the importance of culture and climate — and imprClimate,» which highlights how your school's leadership team can help the community understand the importance of culture and climate — and imprclimate — and improve it.

Whether it's instruction, school climate, leadership, family engagement, or any of the other issues schools face on a daily basis, all educators need tools to help them improve their actions and methods.

The completed puzzle includes a school in which young adolescents are recognized as unique learners who need strong teacher involvement, a responsive student - centered learning climate, a school with a strong parent - community network, and school leadership that builds collaboration among stakeholders.

The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).

Explicitly writing into the plan the need for creating a strong culture and climate, which «emphasizes environment and supports needed for the sustainability of a safe school where productive work can occur (e.g., data competency, resource management, building leadership capacity, cultural awareness, communication strategies, professional learning communities, Universal Design for Learning, social and emotional learning).»

It includes a needs assessment on indicators of school climate, instruction and curriculum, leadership, community and family relationships, sustainability, and ASCD's five tenets for the needs of the whole child.

The ASCD School Improvement Tool is an online needs assessment survey that focuses on the whole child indicators as well as measures of sustainability, school climate and culture, curriculum and instruction, leadership, family and community engagement, professional development and staff capacity, and assessment.

At WINGS, the site leadership drives the enthusiasm and energy needed to create a positive climate and keep children active and engaged.

Drawing from decades of research on organizational cultures and school leadership, the authors provide everything you need to optimize both the culture and climate of your school, including

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.

With his leadership, and the leadership of every world leader, we need to establish the tools and financing to help developing nations embrace clean energy, adapt to climate change, and ensure that there's not a false choice between economic development and the best practices that can save our planet.

The real people who need real action on immigration and climate reform need the White House to assert leadership.

And while the leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change initially reacted defensively to assaults over some flaws in its influential 2007 reports, it's clear that some top authors of the next round of reports, especially Chris Field of Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution, see the need for substantial changes in how the assessments are done and the reports written.

As the world waits to hear whether America will once again abdicate climate leadership, one thing is abundantly clear: We need a massive, international movement to speed up the transition to a low carbon economy.

Tillerson underscored the need for policies and actions to sustain and grow the U.S. energy revolution, for creating broader access in the world to energy's benefits and noted the energy sector's leadership in advancing climate goals.

Save the average American family nearly $ 85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.»

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

Basically, climate science needs to be rebuilt under new leadership without Marxist / Banker political control.

With the Future Fleet Campaign, we along with ForestEthics intend to shine a bright spotlight on the need for corporate leadership to head off a climate crisis, starting with their oil consumption.

We will look back at this as a lost opportunity to create history in Washington State, but also as a catalyst for much needed U.S. leadership on climate action.»

@marklutes of @climateWWF: UN climate talks needs hands on political leadership now if there is to be tangible progress on sticky issues: finance, increasing ambition, differentiation #SB48 http://ow.ly/5xai30jVSAn #StepUp2018 (Pix IISD) pic.twitter.com/WfI 4xjRhII

As the largest greenhouse gas emitting nation, China clearly needs to show strong leadership to avoid the worst global impacts of climate change.

While CDR systems have great potential in the fight against climate, the CDR field needs public, private, and civil sector leadership today to catalyze development of scalable, sustainable, and cost - effective solutions.

Despite Trump's disastrous climate decisions, at the UN Climate Talks, the U.S. People's Delegation spotlighted the solutions we need, showcased what climate leadership needs to look like and strongly resisted fossil fuel cronies» eclimate decisions, at the UN Climate Talks, the U.S. People's Delegation spotlighted the solutions we need, showcased what climate leadership needs to look like and strongly resisted fossil fuel cronies» eClimate Talks, the U.S. People's Delegation spotlighted the solutions we need, showcased what climate leadership needs to look like and strongly resisted fossil fuel cronies» eclimate leadership needs to look like and strongly resisted fossil fuel cronies» efforts.

The massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avoid serious disruptions to Earth's climate system are impossible without U.S. leadership, Dr. Pachauri told members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

[Doha — Qatar]-- December 6, 2012 — The Qatari Presidency of the UN climate talks needs to show leadership now and help ministers finalise a deal in Doha that sees countries reduce their carbon emissions more quickly and provides adequate finance to help poorer countries deal with climate change in the next few years.

«Qatari political leadership has so far failed to materialise but there are two days left of the negotiations, so Qatar needs to, today, pledge to reduce carbon emissions put money for climate finance on the table in order to lift the political energy in the talks,» Hmaidan said.

«But we also need people in all regions of the world to demand leadership from their governments on climate change — just like the new youth movement in the Arab region has done.»

Yes, when it comes to climate - change, America * definitely * needs more Reagan - style leadership!

However, in the wake of federal policies aimed to halt the climate progress, such as increased support for baseload coal - fired plants and tariffs on solar panels, non-federal climate leadership will need to increase policy interventions to maintain the momentum.

We urgently need financing and government leadership to address the climate and ecological crisis.

c. To go into emergency mode on climate change, people need to believe that restoring a safe and stable climate is possible — that the political will can be achieved by the climate movement, and that the rapid transition can be coordinated by competent leadership.

Bill McKibben: Because reality reality trumps political reality, we need Obama to show strong climate leadership now.

The need for private sector leadership on climate has never been greater.

«This is the year for politicians in the UK and abroad to show leadership and to deliver the global agreements and national policy we need needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.»

The Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in the Agriculture Sector and Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was developed under the leadership of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which identified the need for a common tool to foster the collaboration and coordination among its member states with regards to DRM and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in the agriculture sector.

I hear you, Malcolm, about the need to «be pulling all the levers in all countries as hard as possible», but I think Jon's point here is that in the face of failed leadership to undertake such a coordinated global effort, those of us who are ready to take action can focus on the «pullable levers» to get some points on the climate mitigation board.

Although the leadership in the United States and other nations that are failing to make commitments congruent with their ethical obligations will no doubt claim that their position in the international climate negotiations is limited by what is politically feasible in their countries, the world needs national leaders who are prepared to urge their nations to make commitments congruent with their ethical obligations, not on national self - interest alone.