Not exact matches
To give one example,
Climate Mayors is a group
of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local
efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and
global - level policymaking.»
«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's
global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example
of how major companies can help to make a difference in
climate change,» he added.
More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions
of key
climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international
effort to keep
global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.
In light
of recent political decisions to withdraw the nation from
global efforts to address
climate change, reverting to mother nature may be the...
I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range
of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration
of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face
of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature
of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many
efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges
of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing
climate; and, our extraordinary array
of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront
of the CGIAR change process through the
Global Rice Science Partnership.
«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an
effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects
of climate change on a
global scale.
The United States is leading
global efforts to address the threat
of climate change.
The plan establishes a set
of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the
Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and
Climate Plan; creation and preservation
of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance
of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation
efforts.
Many
of them feel
global warming or man - made
climate change is real and wish to help with the
efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.
The
climate change bill will put the UK at the very front
of global efforts to tackle
climate change.
It would be recalled that while signing the Paris Agreement on
Climate Change at the sidelines
of the 71st Session
of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2016, President Buhari had said it «demonstrated Nigeria's commitment to
global efforts to reverse the effects
of the negative trend.»
WHEREAS, in furtherance
of the united
effort to address the effects
of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session
of the Conference
of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in
global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal
of reducing
global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in
global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
WHEREAS, in furtherance
of the united
effort to address the effects
of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session
of the Conference
of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate
climate change by holding the increase in the
global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue
efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);
Panels focused on current
efforts to tackle
climate change, ranging from local environmental initiatives to the
global Paris
climate agreement, as well as how divestment from fossil fuels can be a tool for
climate justice and curbing the impacts
of climate change.
The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our
global and regional
climates, including mitigation
efforts and
efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»
«Our results indicate that a wide range
of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result
of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate
climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine
global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature
Climate Climate Change.
Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.
Climate change is yet another science - based
global challenge requiring the best
efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris
climate agreement as «an important step forward.
climate agreement as «an important step forward.»
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation
of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the
global response to the threat
of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate change, in the context
of sustainable development and
efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the
global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing
efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts
of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts
of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate change and foster
climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and
climate - resilient devel
climate - resilient development.
World Bank President Jim Kim yesterday put
climate change at the center
of the fight against extreme poverty, part
of an
effort since he began his tenure to link the two looming
global problems.
On Dec. 12, 2015, the 21st Conference
of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations
of the world to «holding the increase in the
global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing
efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»
The lack
of good information on
global soils is hampering
efforts to improve agriculture and combat
climate change
«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity
of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal
efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face
of global pressures like
climate change and a race for resources.»
The 45th president
of the United States will confront a broad range
of global challenges, from addressing
climate change and securing our energy future to sustaining investments in scientific research
efforts in numerous areas, including medicine.
On September 23, the UN Secretary General will host Heads
of State in New York in an
effort to catalyse
global action on
climate.
Tackling emissions from rickshaws are also part
of global efforts to combat
climate change.
«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic
effort to manipulate
climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers
of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.
The NCAR studies, collectively titled «Benefits
of Reduced Anthropogenic
Climate Change,» are an
effort to show the benefits and the costs
of global efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.
According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy
of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets
of efforts to maintain flat
global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts
of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.
What proved possible included an extension
of the Kyoto Protocol for a period
of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list
of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green
Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such
efforts globally, rules for a
global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a
Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
However, a lack
of traits known to be under direct selection by anthropogenic
climate change has limited the incorporation
of evolutionary processes into
global conservation
efforts.
During a Friday morning session titled «Fire and
Climate,» Meg Krawchuk, a UC Berkeley «pyrogeographer,» described her
efforts to model the impacts
of global warming on fire patterns across the world.
Among the new species, Liturgusa algorei, is named for Albert Arnold «Al» Gore Jr., former vice president
of the United States
of America, to honor his environmental activism and
efforts to raise public awareness
of global climate change.
Their results will help to shape the way the University contributes to the
global effort of understanding
climate change and gives geography students at Sheffield access to the latest innovations in
climate change research.
Recent studies
of global warming have necessitated a more comprehensive
effort to quantify the natural
climate variability so that the residual change may be attributed to the anthropogenic emissions
of greenhouse gases.
The United States along with China, Brazil, India and more than 190 other nations agreed to deliver the new goals by early next year as part
of an
effort to ink a new
global climate deal in Paris in 2015.
Lyons and coauthors, along with research groups from around world over, are focusing current
efforts on the timing and drivers
of oxygenation in the late Proterozoic, favoring a combination
of global - scale mountain building, evolutionary controls on the way carbon is cycled in the biosphere, and concomitant
climate events.
The finding is part
of a bigger research
effort to understand the role
of dust in the environment and its effects on local and
global climate.
Our study
of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind
of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective
climate change mitigation
efforts to combat
global warming.»
Others argued that
global negotiations could become impossible to manage, and cited UN-led
climate talks as an example
of how all - inclusive
efforts can fail to solve problems requiring decisive action.
This has created a growing pessimism within the scientific community, with the Guardian reporting that almost nine out
of 10
climate scientists don't believe political
efforts to restrict
global warming to 2º Celsius will succeed.
That said, the news comes at a time
of great uncertainty over the future
of global emissions reduction
efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N.
climate conference.
The paper noted a gulf between
global efforts to reduce the
climate impacts
of deforestation, and the dearth
of a
global response to the
climate impacts
of food production.
One China expert said Obama's emphasis on U.S. - China cooperation ahead
of the United Nations» Copenhagen, Denmark, summit in December — where world leaders will try and hammer out a worldwide
climate change treaty — could aid
efforts to reach a
global pact.
«
Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by
Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius
of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior
global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by
global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's
global climate and energy initiative, said by
global climate and energy initiative, said by email.
«If, as in the past, the ambition
of these sectors continues to fall behind
efforts in other sectors and if action to combat
climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in
global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.
Welcoming Boaty McBoatface back from its first mission, Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson, said: «Fresh from its maiden voyage, Boaty is already delivering new insight into some
of the coldest ocean waters on earth, giving scientists a greater understanding
of changes in the Antarctic region and shaping a
global effort to tackle
climate change.
«(1) as part
of a
global effort to mitigate
climate change, it is in the national interest
of the United States to assist developing countries to reduce and ultimately halt emissions from deforestation;
They included
efforts to prepare communities to adapt to
climate change; the cancer moonshot, precision medicine, and brain research in the health arena; a network
of advanced manufacturing institutes to recapture
global industrial dominance; and public - private partnerships to improve science and math education.
«The results imply that reforestation projects and
efforts to avoid further deforestation are
of the utmost importance in our pursuit to limit
global warming to below 2oC, as stated in the Paris
climate agreement.»
During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in
climate resilient development, as part
of the Great Green Wall initiative and its
efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part
of the solution to many
global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.