Sentences with phrase «of climate crises»

More so than ever, media have a responsibility to prioritize coverage of climate crises and amplify the voices of those affected the most, which hasn't happened in the past.

In my last column, «Three Numbers that Predict the Future of the Planet», I wrote about the state of the climate crisis and focused on three key data points that...

I'm deeply honored and grateful that Paramount Pictures and Participant Media have once again taken on the task of bringing the critical story of the climate crisis to the world.»

As COP20 comes to a close, the members of the UNFCCC's Women and Gender Constituency, representing hundreds of thousands of women and men from around the world, respond to the failure of the Lima outcome to reflect the urgency of the climate crisis.

«The danger is real, but we can still stop the worst effects of the climate crisis — if we act now.»

As the class of 2099, you are about to enter the 22nd century in a few more months, and you will bring with you not only your university experience here at NTU, but also your career expectations and personal anxieties as citizens living on a planet in the midst of a climate crisis.

«However, to fully mobilize and accelerate these processes, a universal acknowledgment of the climate crisis will be required.

Bill McKibben did a superb job explaining the basics of the climate crisis with three key numbers in his must - read post for Rolling Stone last summer.

Farmers and ranchers in the U.S. and around the world need to know that they can be part of the solution; • The assurance that developing countries will have access to mechanisms and resources that will help them adapt to the worst impacts of the climate crisis and technologies to solve the problem; and, • A strong compliance and verification regime.

We are here today to talk about how we as Americans and how the United States of America as part of the global community should address the dangerous and growing threat of the climate crisis.

Mr. Solheim said Norway hopes that other countries will follow its lead in trying to use the combination of the climate crisis and the financial one to boost spending on green issues.

While I don't envision human extinction as a * likely * outcome of the climate crisis, I also don't think it can be ruled out.

It is these and many thousands more species who are bearing the brunt of this climate crisis which is absolutely our responsibility to address in the ways we can.

Two major studies from military intelligence experts have warned our leaders about the dangerous national security implications of the climate crisis, including the possibility of hundreds of millions of climate refugees destabilizing nations around the world.

Learn the basics of the climate crisis and how you can take action.

But back in the world of the climate crisis, we find ourselves in the ludicrous situation of having to wage a battle to ensure that the Green Climate Fund (GCF) doesn't fund climate change.

But back in the world of the climate crisis, we find ourselves in the ludicrous situation of having to wage a battle to ensure that the Green Climate Fund doesn't fund climate change.

«Equity and justice in the face of the climate crisis requires nations like Norway to prove the possibility of the end of a fossil - fuel based economy.

Even as the reality of the climate crisis becomes more apparent and urgent by the day, we choose hope.

Weather extremes are proxies of climate crisis, dismantling the climate complexity into the simpler and more visible conventional idiom of atmospheric hazard.

Saying NO to Keystone XL would be a positive step for the US to demonstrate seriousness in face of the climate crisis.

Instead, large parts of the climate movement wasted precious decades attempting to make the square peg of the climate crisis fit into the round hole of deregulated capitalism, forever touting ways for the problem to be solved by the market itself.

Seven Star Events, the green event planning company that helps put on the Festival, has gone on to use the low - waste strategies they learned on the job at Green America and Global Exchange's Green Festivals to green other large events, including the «Live Earth» concert for awareness of the climate crisis last summer.

And I started to see signs — new coalitions and fresh arguments — hinting at how, if these various connections were more widely understood, the urgency of the climate crisis could form the basis of a powerful mass movement, one that would weave all these seemingly disparate issues into a coherent narrative about how to protect humanity from the ravages of both a savagely unjust economic system and a destabilized climate system.

In short, we have reached what some activists have started calling «Decade Zero» of the climate crisis: we either change now or we lose our chance.29

The imperatives of the climate crisis and the logic of economic austerity are at war — and Washington State is on the front lines.1

Pittsburgh, as well as the rest of the Mid-Atlantic region, is feeling the negative effects of the climate crisis right now.

Ken Levenson, President of New York Passive House, said, «With these planned actions New York City shows we have the knowledge, capability and courage to deliver deep building energy efficiency in the coming decades commensurate to the scale of our climate crisis.

A resounding post — Paris Agreement wake - up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions — and above all, hope.

This doesn't mean the end of the climate crisis is in sight.

That organization is working to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis — to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for the planet.

In the recently convened COP 16 in Cancun, the challenges women face, given they are on the front - lines of the climate crisis, was a major highlight as well as how gender factors in handling the challenges brought about by climate change.

«The way the Australian government is ignoring the issue of the climate crisis is truly worrying.»

«The magnitude of the climate crisis requires that we no longer conduct business as usual,» Ellen Dorsey, executive director for the Wallace Global Fund, said today on a conference call with reporters.

Young people, communities of color, and low - income communities are on the front - lines of the climate crisis and we need to stand together now.

They formed a red line with their bodies, with giant banners, and with 5,000 red tulips — a line representing both the victims of the climate crisis past and present, and our collective commitment to keep fighting for the things we love.

Other manifestations of the climate crisis are already retarding economic growth, harming subsistence agriculture and creating social unrest.

Especially in the face of the climate crisis, we need storytellers around the world to share their own realities, their victories, and their hopes.

In preparation for the People's Climate March in September, she's also now partnering with The Mother's Project to create a symposium on the impact of fossil fuels and climate change on children's health, bringing together policymakers, scientists, researchers, and parents to explore this vital but frequently overlooked aspect of the climate crisis.

One of the few upsides of the climate crisis is it has unleashed a wave of evocative writing and memorable sound bites.

Miami is one of the places where many people experience the acute impacts of the climate crisis, and is also a city that has a powerful potential for leadership.

Mike Tidwell, Executive Director at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, stated: «The urgent nature of our climate crisis requires a significant, immediate response.

The one that preoccupies me most has to do with the way it reflects the fundamental inequity of the climate crisis itself — and that core question of whose security is ultimately valued in our lopsided world.

«International sector - based offsets will exacerbate environmental justice issues and ARB has failed to address concerns from impacted communities living on the front lines of the climate crisis with some of the top offset users in our backyards.

Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and the answers are the reason climate summits so often end in acrimony and tears.

Which brings us, despite Obama, to the public secret of the climate crisis: The more you know of the science, and of the speed with which we must now move, the less likely you are to truly believe that we're going to rise to the occasion.

Given the urgency of the climate crisis and the pressing need to develop our clean energy sector, this year's stalemate feels particularly frustrating.

Phil Gregory, of Gregory Law Group and co-lead counsel for the youth plaintiffs commented, «By setting a trial date of October 29, 2018 the court clearly recognizes the urgency of the climate crisis.

We need to base our policies and actions on a systemic and structural analysis of the origins of the climate crisis, giving specific consideration to how climate change affects different genders.

I watched the episode with my family, and the next evening we sat around the dining room table talking about how to translate the urgency of the climate crisis to evangelicals skeptical of science.