Sentences with phrase «of action on climate change»

Many scientists, he said, have been frustrated by the lack of action on climate change.

We both knew we wanted to take some kind of action on climate change as soon as we met, but we were not sure what it should be.

Any successful program of action on climate change must support two objectives — stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) and maintaining economic growth.

One of the biggest excuses given for the lack of action on climate change is that it will harm our economy today.

Concluding the five - day world economic forum (WEF) conference at Davos in Switzerland, the prime minister emphasised the importance of action on climate change among both emerging and established countries in order to mitigate the impact of global warming.

Long in favor of action on climate change, Turnbull is gradually shifting the government's course.»

The urgency of action on climate change, acknowledged by members of the OWG, is supported by climate science.

Economic stasis continues in Europe, previously the most vocal advocate of action on climate change.

A survey by The Carbon Trust examined reactions to corporate promises of action on climate change and a green agenda.

Those efforts, though, won Hansen few fans among opponents of action on climate change.

«The lack of action on climate change not only risks putting prosperity out of reach of millions of people in the developing world, it threatens to roll back decades of sustainable development,» Kim writes in a foreword to the report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4 °C Warmer World Must be Avoided.

About Climate Week Climate Week is a supercharged national campaign to inspire a new wave of action on climate change.

Alongside its dismissive position on the science, AFP mischaracterizes the economics of action on climate change.

Only 7 % of respondents in the UK believe a company's claims of action on climate change.

Citi bank warned investors in Australia's vast coal industry that little could be done to avoid the future loss of value in the face of action on climate change.

In a world that is in dire need of action on climate change some are denying that it is happening, others want to support mining and the fossil fuel industry for short - term economic or selfish reasons, still others are in favour of renewable energy anywhere other than near them, while Dr Pierpont, Ms Laurie and those like them are slowing adoption of sustainable energy because of ignorance and delusion.

The Carbon Plan, being a Government - wide plan of action on climate change and the Green Investment Bank are primed to invest in low - carbon infrastructure such as renewable energy and the development of new, clean technologies.

And back in the US courts, the polar bear is bearing the burden of action on climate change.

I would actually say it should be «The economic damage of action on climate change outweigh the future benefits of action.»

In a recent article in the Nation magazine, «Confronting the Climate Cranks», he takes on the political obstructionists, the «corporate lobbyists and right - wing ideologues,» who have stood in the way of action on climate change for two decades.

, the US national day of action on climate change, was a huge success.

A Congressman from our region made national headlines this week by releasing a resolution backed by 10 House colleagues in support of action on climate change.

Voter turnouts this year were substantially different from 2008, skewing toward groups least likely to be in favor of action on climate change: older and more conservative.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia and Africa's first elected woman president, on the impact of private sector investment, the urgency of action on climate change...

Since becoming governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo has staked out a position as a strong advocate of action on climate change.

But Mr. Obama's promise of action on climate change may signal trouble for the Canadian pipeline project, particularly if he is looking for a highly visible action that does not requires backing from Congress.

BP is Europe's fiercest corporate opponent of action on climate change, according to a ranking of companies by their efforts to obstruct carbon - cutting initiatives.

Due to the current administration's lack of action on climate change, U.S. scientists appear to be intentionally leaving the term «climate change» out of grants in an attempt to get more funding.

It has become something of a sport, played by those that might be called free - market environmentalists, to blame the environment movement for the lack of action on climate change (Mark Lynas in the UK and Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus in the US come to mind), and even to hold them responsible for climate change itself.

The stunt, organised in the shadow of the chimneys of a disused power station by Friends of the Earth Ireland as part of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, was to highlight the government's lack of action on climate change.