Sentences with phrase «of addressing climate change now»

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«If we don't address those two issues — of climate change and growing inequalities — we will be moving towards a dark 50 years from now,» she said.

In a new report, GRAIN outlines the contributions of industrial meat and dairy to global climate change, arguing that reducing their production and consumption is one of the most important actions we can take to address the climate crisis now.

President Obama mentioned climate change almost in passing during last night's State of the Union address, noting: «The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change.»

«The concern we have: Unless we do a really good job of reducing local stressors now, we're not going to be able to buy sufficient time to address climate change,» said Richmond.

«It means that none of the political discourse, the discussion among the Republican Party right now, is addressing climate change at all.

Now the president - elect of AAAS, Sharp predicts that biology will be crucial in addressing global challenges in climate change, food security, energy, and health.

The average snowpack in the Cascades has declined 50 percent since 1950 and will be cut in half again in 30 years if we don't start addressing the problems of climate change now.

Climate change science makes it clear that addressing climate change will require us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050 and a growing number of jurisdictions (e.g., Ontario, Quebec) have now formally adopted this Climate change science makes it clear that addressing climate change will require us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050 and a growing number of jurisdictions (e.g., Ontario, Quebec) have now formally adopted this climate change will require us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050 and a growing number of jurisdictions (e.g., Ontario, Quebec) have now formally adopted this target.

Having studied under - graduate political science at the University of Iowa, but without graduating, Version # 2 now also accepts the need to address and manage climate change impacts... and risks and accepts also the economic rationale, indeed necessity, for doing so now, rather than putting it off until... forever... as he long had argued for.

You contend that the whole motivation is for governments to extend their power, even though the measures needed to address climate change will alter the very fabric of the economies that have supported governments up to now.

I've witnessed heated debates in here when a scientist like Dr. Hansen steps out of his perceived role of «proof finder» to lend moral or personal overview of what will happen if climate change is not addressed NOW.

Whereas any efforts to mitigate the risks of, prepare for, or otherwise address our changing climate and its effects should not constrain the United States economy, especially in regards to global competitiveness; and Whereas there is increasing recognition that we can and must take meaningful and responsible action now to address this issue: Now, therefore, benow to address this issue: Now, therefore, beNow, therefore, be it

While the US has refused to be a leader in addressing climate change (as in no coherent energy policy), we now must contend with other countries plagued with the same ethos that drove the US to consume 25 % of the world's energy — China, India, ad nauseum.

It is now clear that the outcome of the Paris climate talks was a game changer, delivering a renewed global commitment to addressing climate change.

«As the earth goes barreling past 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, let's take action now, this year, this Congress, to address climate change,» Holt said on the House floor.

Now the impacts of climate change on global biodiversity are addressed on page 28 in a chapter under the above - mentioned title.

You may be getting tired of my stories on climate change and food, but I think this is a critical topic already significantly affecting the lives of tens of millions of people (or more) that will become increasingly important in the years to come (if we don't do something to address climate change NOW).

The «silver lining» of the extreme weather we've been seeing, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres suggested Wednesday, is that climate change is now becoming too real to ignore: «It's unfortunate that we have to have these weather events,» she told the Guardian, but they're also a reminder that «solving climate change, addressing climate change in a timely way, is not a partisan issue.»

The climate change page on the Environmental Protection Agency's website — a government site that presents the science explaining the changing climate, as well as ways to address it — is now void of data.

«Kerry will call on the global community, not just countries but individual citizens around the world, to do more now because addressing the threat of climate change will require a global solution,» a senior state department official is reported as saying.

Acknowledgement of the now urgent need to address the current environment, development and climate change crisis by committing to ambitious levels of binding action, in line with science and equity and with clearly measurable outcomes and milestones.

Rather the world's governments (sometimes run by bad boys and girls now grown up) have failed to address the long - worsening problem of climate change.

There is now overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and with it comes a range of social issues — unprecedented in scale — that must be addressed.

Watson, former chair of the defunct Texas Air Control Board, now part of the commission, pressed Shaw on whether the agency had addressed climate change or even prepared for U.S. regulation of heat - trapping gases.

One of the great opportunities of COPs is to meet with partners and learn about what others are doing to address climate change now.

But it is happening slower than forecast -LSB-...] the effects of climate change are not showing up as bad as we had feared by now,» Ridley said in an address to the Wageningen University.

The Convention must address the issue on Loss and Damage now, before impacts of climate change escalate.

To help address the chaotic nature of the climate change discourse in the UK today, interested agencies now need to treat the argument as having been won, at least for popular communications.

The so called «spillover effects» are now more discussed as potential consequences of policies to address climate change.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

The campaign is based on a recent survey which shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about our ability to address climate change, with 64 % of global citizens believing it is solvable if we take action now.

An IPSOS survey presented during Climate Week NYC, on behalf of The Climate Group and Futerra, shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about addressing climate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new techClimate Week NYC, on behalf of The Climate Group and Futerra, shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about addressing climate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new techClimate Group and Futerra, shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about addressing climate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new techclimate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new technology.

Now, the case for replacing the bulk of the existing subsidies and regulations addressing greenhouse gas emissions with a carbon tax — our preferred policy response to climate change — is quite strong regardless of how one feels about the underlying science.

Climate change science makes it clear that addressing climate change will require us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050 and a growing number of jurisdictions (e.g., Ontario, Quebec) have now formally adopted this Climate change science makes it clear that addressing climate change will require us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050 and a growing number of jurisdictions (e.g., Ontario, Quebec) have now formally adopted this climate change will require us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050 and a growing number of jurisdictions (e.g., Ontario, Quebec) have now formally adopted this target.

Some experts are now going so far as to say that a failure to address the climate change problem commensurate with the threat amounts to a form of child abuse.

Calthorpe now addresses it directly in the title of his new book: Urbanism in the age of Climate Change.READ MORE: Peter Calthorpe Explains Urbanism in an Age of Climate Change

The average snowpack in the Cascades has declined 50 percent since 1950 and will be cut in half again in 30 years if we don't start addressing the problems of climate change now.

So, in my opinion, we must advance on both fronts — confront decision makers with the necessity to address climate change now so we can buy time for the future while at the same time advancing our understanding of the implications of climate change.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.

«It's very clear that from now on when you speak about the responsibility and capacity of countries to address climate change that there will be three points that need to be brought together.»