Sentences with phrase «new climate challenge»

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Michael Burger, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, told the Post that New York's lawsuit was significant because it brought the legal challenge beyond California.

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.

«Without forcing the parallels, because climate change is in many respects sui generis, a similar suite of allegations could readily be brought against a company for its responses to this new challenge,» they write.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

As the Obama administration pushes a new plan to fight climate change, many businesses, from start - ups to multinationals, already are adapting to ensure their businesses can grow and profit amid sustainability challenges.

I have sometimes thought that if religious and moral teachers would only admit that sex is interesting, that it challenges to new discovery and is replete with unanswered questions, the confession would create a new climate for this critically important discussion.

In the complete change of religious climate after Constantine most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

In the complete change of religious climate most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

The bottom line is that Asia must grow more food using less land, water, and labor, while overcoming new challenges from climate change.»

With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully understand the situation (though the match official, knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters from Madrid, simply by virtue of having already come so close considering the current climate of the Spanish game.

Last week's New Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people'sClimate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people'sclimate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.

«New York State is facing unprecedented environmental challenges — from climate change, to poisoned water, to failing infrastructure, the list goes on and on,» Krueger said.

Also at 11 a.m., the state Nurses Association, Transit Workers Union and climate change activist challenge New York to step up after Trump's exit from Paris Agreement on climate change, outside Senate lobby, state Capitol, Albany.

In my capacity as chairman of the Senate Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business committee, I hear every day how challenging New York state's business climate can be.

In his new role, Mr. Gennaro will further DECs efforts to prepare and make New York City more resilient to meet the challenges associated with climate change and to rebuild after recent storm evennew role, Mr. Gennaro will further DECs efforts to prepare and make New York City more resilient to meet the challenges associated with climate change and to rebuild after recent storm evenNew York City more resilient to meet the challenges associated with climate change and to rebuild after recent storm events.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

The lawsuits are the latest legal challenges against oil companies over climate change and come as the firms are searching for new business models amid pressure by governments and consumers for cleaner energy.

«As a former small business owner, Assemblyman Morelle knows the challenges that employers face on a daily basis and we look forward to working with him to advance measures that will improve New York's business climate and strengthen the future of our Upstate communities.»

On the other hand, institutions may reinforce the EU's foreign policy capabilities, allowing it to play an important role within those multilateral frameworks tasked to tackle new global challenges such as climate change.

Chris Huhne «got» climate change long before his new job — the challenge for him now is to deliver real cuts in emissions.

Speaking Friday in Nairobi at an event organised by Rich Management, Kenya, Mr Mahama described climate change as a «new global challenge» which requires sustained focus.

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

Local growers and farmers say climate change is creating new challenges, with extreme weather conditions, sudden storms, rising temperatures and drought making it even more difficult to cope with a perennially unpredictable Mother Nature.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.

1013 - DECC - Energy and Climate Change Committee publishes report on «Building New Nuclear: the challenges ahead.»

«The individuals receiving our PAC's endorsement today have demonstrated a strong commitment to improving the business climate of New York State,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «While we will never agree on every issue, each of the endorsed candidates recognizes the challenges facing our state and is prepared to face those challenges with legislative solutions that will improve the lives of all New Yorkers.

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

«New York faces serious fiscal challenges in 2018 and beyond, but the last thing Upstate's economy, its employers or its residents can endure are any additions to our already suffocating tax climate.»

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

Governor Cuomo, in a statement, called the President's plan a «visionary step», and agrees that New York has already «embraced the challenge of climate change.»

The plan is one of the most comprehensive yet from the Westchester County executive, who is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bid for a second term, and highlights an issue that both candidates say is a top priority: how to boost New York's business climate and increase jobs, particularly in upstate regions grappling with decades of economic malaise.

The statement and the radio appearance are part of a series of outreach efforts AAAS has made to encourage the new administration to leverage scientific evidence and fact - finding in forging policy prescriptions to address challenges from climate change to infrastructure improvements that it confronts.

And potential triggers are multiplying as wilder weather from climate change, rising concerns over terrorism and fluctuating power from renewable energy sources heap new challenges on aging grids.

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences exposes new national security challenges for the Navy as a result of climate change

As the effects of climate change rapidly alter communities, economies and natural systems, the need to advance new solutions to what may be the most pressing biological challenge of our time has never been more urgent.

For example, while the current economic climate has presented new investment challenges, industry still sees startups as critical to the bioscience enterprise, says Alvarez.

Their work, which links ancient climate and archaeological data, could help modern communities identify new crops and other adaptive strategies when threatened by drought, extreme weather and other environmental challenges.

From tasteless carrots to sunburned apples, a new report by two University of Melbourne researchers paints a challenging picture for Australia's agricultural sector and the impacts of climate change in the decades to come.

Salazar said he would also be open to broader changes to ESA regulations — since the act faces new challenges as more species are protected due to threats from global climate change.

Each nation has employed its own methodology for maintenance and repairs, but new, daunting challenges created by climate change — extreme heat, extreme cold, and severe flooding — require yet more rigorous solutions.

COPENHAGEN — Opening the 3 - day climate conference here, Danish Minister for Energy and Climate Connie Hedegaard challenged the new U.S. president to strengthen the American targets for carbon emiclimate conference here, Danish Minister for Energy and Climate Connie Hedegaard challenged the new U.S. president to strengthen the American targets for carbon emiClimate Connie Hedegaard challenged the new U.S. president to strengthen the American targets for carbon emissions.

«It's a new breed of climate change challenge we have to think about.»

Though agricultural intensification and climate change could pose new challenges for managing liver fluke transmission, early results in the afflicted Lawa Lake region are promising, with human infection rates in the worst - hit areas down to below 10 %, fish infection rates dropping from 70 % to below 1 %, and no infected snails detected.

By comparing recent measurements with results from new models, the network challenged the long - debated assumption that the Sun's slight change in radiation could cause Earth's climate to change.

The failure of Congress to reach agreement on climate and energy legislation has left the future of U.S. new nuclear projects up in the air, focusing more attention on the possibility and the challenges of further extending the life expectancy of the current nuclear fleet, industry officials say.

As the world faces new agricultural challenges — shifting climate, bugs and diseases that have developed resistance to old defenses — such genetic resources are likely to become increasingly valuable.