Sentences with phrase «of safe climate»

Felix Preston, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, has analysed these and says China's new goals represent an increase in ambition but still fall well short of a safe climate future.

Any new pipelines out of the tar sands would be entirely out of step with the goals of a safe climate future enshrined in the Paris Agreement.

Dan Becker is director of the Safe Climate Campaign.

So how to leverage this political fact in the service of a safe climate?

He was a foundation member of the Climate Emergency Network and a founding director of Safe Climate Australia.

However, if enough states and territories enact No More Bad Investments (NMBI) legislation as a first step in taking climate emergency action it will normalise the practice of governments passing legislation based on climate ethics and restoration of a safe climate.

And in a change of heart, Bloomberg News quotes Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, grudgingly acknowledging, «The Volt is certainly a very tiny step in the right direction.»

«(3) an analysis of the status of worldwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts, including implementation of the Safe Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Full implementation of the Safe Climate Act is critical to engage other nations in an international effort to mitigate the threat of and harm from global warming.

-- It is the general purpose of the Safe Climate Act to help prevent, reduce the pace of, mitigate, and remedy global warming and its adverse effects.

«The goals of the Safe Climate Act are to reduce steadily the quantity of United States greenhouse gas emissions such that --

«(1) require the timely fulfillment of all governmental acts and duties, both substantive and procedural, and the prompt compliance of covered entities with the requirements of the Safe Climate Act;

Dan Becker, a long - time climate activist and Director of the Safe Climate Campaign called it «the single biggest step the American government has ever taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions.»

It stands to reason that the establishment of a safe climate is fundamental, to allow them to grow to their potential, academically and in every other way.

Not exact matches

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

Well, it's self - evident that putting all of one's eggs in any single basket, no matter how safe and sound that basket may seem, is risky — extremely risky in today's financial climate.

If you're not a gym member, you can walk or run outside, provided you're in a safe area and are up to the challenge of the local climate / altitude / potholes.

But in the present policy of globalisation and liberalization the function of the state is only to make the climate safe for the market and withdraw almost completely from the realm of economic goals, leaving the market alone to determine them.

Aiming for a safe climate requires transformations in all sectors, including the food - system,» lead author of the report Reyes Tirado told Food Processing Technology.

It is surprising to me that it is often the activists who speak up in support of the scientific consensus around climate change (i.e. that there is overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is induced by humans and is happening), who are the same activists who don't accept the scientific consensus and evidence that shows that GM crops can be safe.

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For most conditions related to dry air, cool mist humidity is safer to produce and a better addition to the climate of your home.

We provide support for municipalities through the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, which assists communities in addressing the challenges of climate change and prioritizing actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

Mass Audubon provides support for municipalities through the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, which assists communities in addressing the challenges of climate change and prioritizing actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

The program provides support for communities across the Commonwealth to address the challenges of climate change, and to prioritize actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

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.

«David Cameron mentioned the words «security» and «safe» 14 times in his speech, yet climate change, one of the biggest threats humanity is facing, got just one timid nod.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

At 7 p.m. People of Albany United for Safe Energy sponsors a forum on putting a price on climate change through a carbon tax or fee to make polluters pay for the air pollution they emit, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 405 Washington Ave., Albany.

Residents want Governor Cuomo to hear their call to prayer and hope he will be the true climate hero for a safe and healthier future, for all of New York.

Shareholder resolutions will not educate and inspire masses of people to speak up and act for a climate - safe energy transition because few hear about them.

Howie Hawkins, Green Party of NY Gubernatorial Candidates talks to Reason on being called «the only adult in the room» on 100 % Renewables, Safe Act during People's Climate March NYC.

We believe in healing the wounds between our police and our communities and making us all safer together, and we believe in protecting our precious earth from the scourge of climate change.»

Environmental Advocates of New York, and all New Yorkers, stand ready to work hand - in - hand with Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg to fight climate change, decrease our state's contribution to this global problem, and keep our communities safe when the next super storm event comes knocking.»

Climate scientist Jon Foley of the University of Minnesota, who is part of a team of researchers that defined safe limits for 10 planetary systems, including climate, argues for erring on the side of cClimate scientist Jon Foley of the University of Minnesota, who is part of a team of researchers that defined safe limits for 10 planetary systems, including climate, argues for erring on the side of cclimate, argues for erring on the side of caution.

And if we can do that, there might be nothing stopping us from unlocking nuclear fusion, a theoretically limitless source of clean, safe power that could solve all our climate woes.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

So we have a tremendous challenge ahead of us to bring the world's people out of poverty, increase the wealth all over, which seems to be needed by people and desired by people and at the same time keep the Earth safe in maintaining it in the climate regime and which is not throwing huge ringers into the climate system that we are not controlling.

In regions where dairy farming is currently not safe or economical because of an extreme climate or cattle diseases, Sherman says, populations still possess ancestral genes that make them lactose intolerant.

The same plague of us - or - them absolutism that has infested the small community of self - described «climate skeptics,» wrecking any chance they could have played a positive role in critiquing mainstream climatology, now threatens to overwhelm the much larger «safe food» movement, too.

Jumeau said he thinks signing a global climate change accord that keeps countries like his safe from the threat of rising seas and addresses the resource depletion that military leaders say help foster extremism would do the same.

Bradley says, «With the signing of the Paris Agreement to try and limit greenhouse gas emissions, many people have been lulled into a false sense of security, thinking that the 2 - degrees C target is somehow a «safe» limit for climate change.

Ian Dunlop, a former oil, gas and coal industry executive and ex-chair of the Australian Coal Association, now directs Safe Climate Australia.

The report recommends that the American Physical Society take several steps to improve the climate for LGBT physicists, calling on the society to ensure a safe and welcoming environment at meetings through the adoption of a code of conduct, and the establishment of a confidential system for reporting harassment.

His own temporary university job appears safe for the time being, but because of the «current funding climate,» a number of researchers he knows, including some faculty members, «are losing their positions this summer.»

But climate change naysayers were not relishing a return of Browner, who clashed with Republicans over the latters» attempts to dilute the Clean Water Act but also was praised for working with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to strengthen the Safe Drinking Water and Food Quality Protection acts.

BUILDING a network of cool retreats in the forest may create a safe haven for China's vulnerable giant pandas, as climate change threatens the mammal with extinction.

It also breaches the United Nations» safe limit of 2C, beyond which the UN says dangerous climate change can be expected.

Even if we could determine a «safe» level of interference in the climate system, the sensitivity of global mean temperature to increasing atmospheric CO2 is known perhaps only to a factor of three or less.

If we embark on a path that is equivalent to setting emissions to zero now (say by having a period of negative emissions in the 2035 to 2050 time frame), and call the sequestration we accomplish mitigation then mitigation can arrest climate change, make adaptation unneeded and bring us to a safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as Hansen has pointed out.