Sentences with phrase «of climate challenges»

Among them: consumer products giant Unilever; apparel company Kering; Chinese construction company Broad Group; African telecommunications carrier Econet; Brazilian cosmetics manufacturer Natura; and British - born investment group Virgin — a geographically diverse group that underscores the global nature of climate challenges.
Grouped under five main themes covered by our mandate, the document reflect the multifaceted nature of climate challenges and associated mitigation and adaptation solutions
Given the complexity of some climate challenges, some efforts will require more than two actors.
Regardless of the climate challenge, policymakers and development banks in developed and emerging economies are facilitating more cities to tap into bond markets for their infrastructure requirements.
Assessment practitioners must grapple with the ethical dimensions of making sure important assumptions are transparent, especially when one generation is «kicking the can of the climate challenge on to the next,» she said.
A Four - Step Plan Given the scale of the climate challenge and the consequences of delay, four steps need to be taken to mobilize a more effective strategy.
Scientists unaffiliated with the study said it shows better data is needed to fully understand the extent of the climate challenge posed by landfill methane emissions.
But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.
On almost any aspect of the climate challenge, from the pace of coastal retreats to the fate of hurricanes in a warming world, there is a wide range of informed opinion — leaving aside intentional distortions.
I need to ask you a few questions about your framing of the climate challenge.
Growing awareness of this element of the climate challenge has already spawned a new Web site, maintained by faculty members at Pennsylvania State University, called www.climateethics.org.
What aspect of the climate challenge drives you the most?
Scientists always want to find ways to reduce the uncertainty in findings, but — in the heated arena where climate research meets climate decisions — they have not always been quick to state clearly when they are certain that some aspects of the climate challenge won't be easily clarified any time soon.
1:16 p.m. Updated There's still thinking in many quarters that if the United States acts to restrict its emissions of carbon dioxide, the long - lived greenhouse gas at the heart of the climate challenge, the fast - growing developing countries of the world will voluntarily follow.
I highlighted your thoughts on the dangerously bo - ho - ho - ring nature of the climate challenge.
Ms. Armstrong said she decided the material needed to be framed from the future because so much of the climate challenge derives from the time lag between emissions and the resulting climate change.
For more on the aspects of the climate challenge that make it a bad fit for both the media and the human mind, here's a story of mine from 2000 that might be worth a fresh look: «Global Waffling: When Will We Be Sure?
Sonali McDermid, a climate science and policy scholar at New York University, visited to discuss their positions in the context of the scope of the climate challenge.
Marc Roberts has once again put his finger on a disturbing facet of the climate challenge — that the longevity of carbon dioxide makes it extremely difficult to stabilize its concentration in the atmosphere.
In the face of the climate challenge, countries have joint but differentiated responsibilities.
I've written an essay for Wednesday's Op - Ed page offering a short look at extreme weather in a warming world and the two prongs of the climate challenge — the need to limit human vulnerability to the worst the climate system can throw at us and to curb emissions that are steadily raising the odds of unwelcome outcomes, particularly extreme heat and either too much, or too little, water.
More broadly, the research, by Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, reinforces the case that a large part of the climate challenge is not out in the world of eroding glaciers and limited energy choices, but inside the human mind.
In a world of shrinking conventional coverage of (non-medical) science and the environment, it was refreshing recently to become aware of the The Agenda with Steve Paikin, a popular current - affairs program on public television in Ontario — particularly its five - hour string of shows devoted to some of the prime facets of the climate challenge.
Volunteers who are acutely aware of the climate challenge can play an important role in seeding the debt collectors.
Because the scale of the climate challenge is so large, energy innovations must be paired with bold policy initiatives designed to accelerate the deployment of new technology and to reduce its cost.
As a result, the conversation on climate change rarely talks about climate change as the mess that it is; instead, this conversation tends to devolve into the abstractions around future damages and the pursuit of sustainable lifestyles, complicating our understanding of the climate challenge.
But while forest conservation is a vital part of the climate challenge, deliberate plantation might be counterproductive.
The long - term nature of the climate challenge promises an evolution of available solutions.
Collaborating with scientists and cultural informers in confronting the facts of global climate change, the artists participating in the Carbon 14: Climate is Culture exhibition respond to various aspects of the climate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately human ways.
The differences between a relatively low perception of the climate challenge and public willingness to do something about it are even greater in other nations: in Israel (56 points) and Ukraine (48 points), countries which are not among the top 20 CO2 emitters, and in Poland (44 points) and South Korea (41 points), which are.
In a previous interview with the Guardian in May, a Shell spokesman said: «We have long recognized both the importance of the climate challenge and the critical role energy has in determining quality of life for people across the world.
Europe's Share of the Climate Challenge.
-- Richard B. Norgaard, coauthor of The Climate Challenge Society and professor emeritus, University of California at Berkeley
Cape Farewell Foundation and Pattison Onestop are proud to present Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change, a multi-site urban screens project addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a cultural lens.
Cities are at the forefront of the climate challenge and the heart of the global economy, so they are critical to implementing an integrated approach to meeting the SDGs and building climate resilience.
Myles Allen's technical diagnosis of the climate challenge is clear and spot - on.
In order to ensure that the law remains up to the scale of the climate challenge, Maan Ystävät is continuing to call for — amongst other measures — a 95 % emissions reduction target for 2050.
Welch, E.W., A. Mazur, and S. Bretschneider, 2000: Voluntary behavior by electric utilities: Levels of adoption and contribution of the climate challenge program to the reduction of carbon dioxide.
In the mid-1990s, scientists, engineers and policymakers were looking at the magnitude of the climate challenge that was occurring and realized that the problem was much bigger than people understood.
The scale of the climate challenge is way beyond the simple replacement of coal with gas; the energy transition will have to affect all fossil fuels, including oil.
The report — Europe's Share of the Climate Challenge: Domestic Actions and International Obligations to Protect the Planet — takes a close look at Europe, showing exactly how it can show leadership in keeping global climate change within the necessary planetary limits.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.
«The biggest challenge now is to make sure that everyone understands what's at stake,» DiCaprio said of the dangers of climate change during his speech onstage at the gala.
The native Canadian faces a tough business climate as letter volumes continue to decline and her plans to boost revenue through package growth have been challenged by Amazon's launch of its own delivery network.
Uber is testing many of its cars in Pittsburgh, which has much more challenging climate and geography than Phoenix.
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.
The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.
Amid this volatile economic climate, small business owners may be facing a number of challenges, such as holding too much inventory or sluggish receivables, which can send a business's cash flow into the red.
On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»
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