Sentences with phrase «new climate strategy»

The GCEL is NGO - based but it is also fact - based and sufficiently robust for AXA to use it as a key component of our new climate strategy.»

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

«Alberta's new climate strategy, combined with a new federal government that is a true climate change partner for the provinces and territories, positions Canada to enter the Paris conference with a united voice.»

Not exact matches

When Premier Rachel Notley announced Alberta's new climate change strategy over the weekend, analysts and pundits rushed to gauge the impact on the oilsands and on the electrical generation business, still dependent as it is on coal.

He said that new forms could include specific real estate projects (such as jails, universities and hospitals buildings) or investment strategies tied to specific themes (such as insurance risks, population growth or climate change).

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Introducing a new climate change strategy: Coming soon.

Equity analysts now consider climate change - related factors in company valuations, translating sustainability into a new value driver distinct from a marketing strategy.

These include the development of new strategies and activities to promote climate change adaptation by building on our scientific research, strengthening internal capacity, and preparing producer - oriented tools for implementation.

Keeping abreast of the new scientific discoveries and tools related to climate change, designing and implementing our own research and monitoring projects, encouraging scientists to use our wildlife sanctuaries, and sharing lessons learned with our partners are appropriate high impact strategies for a science - based organization like Mass Audubon.

It's a new look for Democratic state prosecutors, but it's hardly a novel idea: The Democrats» strategy is borne in part of a calculated decision to coordinate closely and emulate the way their Republican counterparts relentlessly battled the Obama administration over climate regulations, Obamacare and more.

The World Bank Group announced yesterday [03.02.2016] the upcoming launch of a new Climate Innovation Center (CIC) in Accra to support Ghana's green growth strategy.

President Donald Trump removed climate change from the list of worldwide threats menacing the United States, a shift that underscores the long - term ramifications of the «America first» world view he laid out in his new National Security Strategy.

They will be discussing the business climate in New York and strategies to relieve the burden on businesses.

About Reforming the Energy Vision: Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) is Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's strategy to lead on climate change and grow New York's economy.

«Anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria generally have not met widespread expectations mainly because of lack of political will of those in government to fight grand corruption; absence of an over-all national anti-graft strategy; inadequate legal framework and resources and / or lack of full and effective implementation of new initiatives; limited independence and public trust; lack of an enabling climate and necessary know - how, and lack of basic ethical values.

Reforming the Energy Vision is Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's strategy to lead on climate change and grow New York's economy.

Instead, gun control advocates could learn from climate activists who are devising new strategies to win over the hearts and minds of doubters.

Plant - eating critters are the key ingredient to helping ecosystems survive global warming, finds new UBC research that offers some hope for a defence strategy against climate change.

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.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

An international team of scientists has developed a strategy to boost people's ability to adapt to climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate Climate Change.

Hunt said he would work with Australia's chief scientist, Alan Finkel, CSIRO, and the scientific community to develop a new climate science strategy that will cover remaining staff and charge a new climate change center in Hobart, Australia, with coordinating related research efforts across government agencies and academia.

Conservationists in New Zealand are also weighing the strategy to save the endangered hihi, or stitchbird (Notiomystis cincta), which faces an uncertain future if not moved to cooler climates farther south.

Indeed, many climate scientists caution that extreme weather events resulting from climate change is the new normal for farmers in North America and elsewhere, requiring novel agricultural strategies to prevent crop losses.

Ultimately, the implications could include the development of novel antiscalant strategies, the ability to design new synthetic materials, the control of crystal properties, or a better understanding of CO2 sequestration in sediments, which is relevant to climate change.

Insiders say the new strategy is an attempt to put public pressure on elected officials, while also drawing upon the financial resources and discontent of a global population that finds itself increasingly frustrated with slow - paced climate negotiations.

(E) establishes performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and

(4) establish methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification, and for updating those strategies and actions to respond to new information and changing conditions;

It is intended to help decision makers weigh different strategies for responding to climate change effects and incorporate new knowledge as it becomes available.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors could lead to increased food prices — but new research identifies strategies that could help mitigate climate change while avoiding steep hikes in food prices.

She has over a decade of experience developing new strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change on tropical marine ecosystems and developing tools and guidance to help managers and communities to respond.

A new report shows how multilateral development banks, including the World Bank, gave over $ 9 billion in funding for fossil fuel projects in 2016, nearly all of it following the Paris Agreement being reached and despite claims that they were acting on climate and adjusting their investment strategies.

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting artists of color, queer, and other marginalized intersections of artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works, live performance, and the intersectionality of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.

The National Academies, fulfilling a congressional request, have issued a trio of invaluable reports affirming the scientific case for a growing and largely harmful human influence on climate; proposing a path and strategies for curbing American emissions of heat - trapping gases; and urging the country to work to cut risks attending life with no new «normal» climate patterns or coastlines.

A team of scientists is pioneering new strategies for ensuring that polar bears can persist even as summer sea ice — a vital feeding platform — retreats under the climate change that is already in the pipeline no matter how aggressively societies tackle the greenhouse challenge.

I conjecture that three changes in the way in which the climate problem is presented by the experts to the general public would make the conversation go better: acknowledge that climate constraints are unwelcome (thereby establishing empathy with general audiences, as a doctor does when conveying bad news), present the science as unfinished (thereby taking away the surprise factor that accompanies every new wrinkle — cf. the cosmic ray stories of a couple of weeks ago), and admit that no solution is wonderful (something hard for much of our community, which loves some strategy and hates at least one of the others).

The strategy is explcitly put forward in this memo by political advisor Frank Luntz (as quoted in Elizabeth Kolbert's «The Climate of Man (Part III)» — New Yorker, May 9, 2005.

If the messages had shown prominent climate change skeptics plotting media strategy, obscuring data, and acting more like lobbyists than scientists, the New York Times would certainly have treated it like the scandal it is.

In a fresh post, Darrene Hackler summarizes conclusions from a new report she wrote with Robert D. Atkinson (they both hail from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonprofit research group) that rebuts 10 prominent strategies for avoiding dangerous human - driven climate change.

The debate over a climate communications strategy was disclosed when a string of e-mail messages was leaked to the Washington Times and Greenwire (the Greenwire story was also published online by The New York Times).

It is also an area where mitigation is not the only potentially useful strategy, because it should be possible to create new strains of important food crops better suited to a changed climate than current varieties.

Screening tools and guidelines to support the mainstreaming of climate Adaptation into Development Assistance - a Strategy Report UNDP, New York.

This first Bren School Environmental Research Initiative — SERI Fire — will facilitate collaboration among natural and social scientists, with the intention of filling this knowledge gap and developing new management strategies to prepare for and respond to wildfires in a changing climate.

«We believe that a climate impact lens should be applied to all decisions regarding new fossil fuel development, and urge that a «carbon - reducing clean energy» strategy, rather than an «all - of - the - above» strategy become the operative paradigm for your administration's energy decisions,» the letter said.

A new research project supported by the Research Council of Norway titled «CLIMATRANS — Coping with Climate: Assessing Transport Sector Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Indian Cities» will be examining the GHG emissions contributions of transport sector in cities in India.

No, smart money is betting on the insurance industry's new paradigm shift: For too long Big Oil and other climate - science deniers have been shifting the burden of their short - term profit strategies to the public.