Sentences with phrase «of impacting the climate»

House Republicans are investigating whether Schneiderman's investigation into the energy company and its claims of impacting the climate was influenced by environmental groups.

By focusing on teenage girls, the authors stress, they are not making light of the impacts climate change will have on boys and men.

The broad range of data they'll collect will give scientists a full picture of the impact climate change is having on the oceans.

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During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Wednesday, former Exxon Mobil (xom) CEO Rex Tillerson said climate change exists — its future impact is just hard to predict.

(After the election, Legere said he had «got way past» the feud and was optimistic about the impact of a less restrictive regulatory climate.)

For the 2018 letter, the couple opted to organize their thoughts in the form of frequently asked questions about their priorities, how the current political climate is impacting the organization, how they decide where to donate funds and what kind of thought goes into their corporate partnerships.

As we face future known threats like war and climate change, and unknown threats like an asteroid impact or new disease, Downey said that that's the kind of knowledge we should want to have.

Almost two thirds of ExxonMobil shareholders voted in favour of a motion asking the company to report on the impacts of climate change.

WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: «If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,» curbing temperature rise by «less than.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.»

He dug into the numbers, consulting with a friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's models were too conservative about the rate and impact of climate change.

The difficulty is that consumers choose foods based on what they like - and this frequently changes but rarely considers the impact of climate change.

For at least a decade after receiving in - house research warning of the potential impact of Climate Change, ExxonMobil continued to fund outside groups that disputed it.

Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.

The future of global commerce will be affected by the impact of climate change, disruptive innovations and other game changers.

«Shifting from animal meat to the plant - based meats developed by Beyond Meat is one of the most powerful measures someone can take to reduce their impact on our climate.»

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

But the Pentagon maintains that climate change impacts, including refugees from drought - stricken areas of the world and rising sea levels, are a significant threat to national security, as The New York Times reported.

«With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, the world took a decisive step toward avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change,» the page used to read.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

The economist accused Jill Stein of spoiling Clinton's chances in Florida and said with Trump as president there would be no way to reverse the impact of global climate change.

Especially on the impact of these protests and the social climate that everybody has to live in.

And he wants more than anything for one — or several — of those hits to make a real impact on climate change.

The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

It also claims the companies were aware of their impacts on climate and tried to obfuscate the truth.

Faithful execution of our environmental laws requires effectively combating climate change to minimize its potentially catastrophic impacts before it is too late.

«If left unchecked,» the United Nations warned this month, «climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

On Wednesday, journalists Andrea Mitchell of NBC News, David Sanger of The New York Times (nyt), and Isaac Lee, chief content officer of Univision, weighed in on the U.S. political climate and its impact on the media.

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The long - term impact of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord will wash over everything from agriculture to economics to housing.

The ruling marks the latest setback for the Trump administration as it seeks to roll back regulations aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change.

If the company can control and contain this energy, it would have a positive impact on the problem of carbon emissions and climate change in the decades to come.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

In Quebec, hearings on Energy East are on hold, as that pipeline's would - be builder chafes at the National Energy Board's new plan to weigh the impact of its upstream climate - change impact.

An article published this week in Nature Climate Change (article via Nature paywall) is making the rounds of the headlines because it makes some pretty bold claims — namely that the US State Department under - estimated the emissions impact of the Keystone XL pipeline by up to a factor of four.

To help meet the challenges of the changing climate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuClimate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate issues that impact people and their communities.

Still, Lazarus said the debate about the climate impacts of energy projects would benefit from a closer look at their market effects.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

MoneyShow Las Vegas — May 15 - 18, 2017 From May 15th to 18th, John Mousseau of Cumberland Advisors will join the nation's top financial minds at The MoneyShow Las Vegas where they'll discuss the economy, the markets, and how the changing political climate will impact them in the coming year.

«There is a big increase in proposals asking companies to take more aggressive action to combat climate change,» says Michael Passoff, CEO of Proxy Impact.

That's a rather vivid way of putting it, but yes, climate - related disasters and other impacts will grow more frequent and severe.

«Climate change worsened the impact of Hurricane Harvey.»

«Climate related risk is one of the biggest trends affecting investors today and will impact the pension pots of millions of workers,» warned Diandra Soobiah, head of responsible investment at NEST Corporation.

Whether you're looking for the latest content on the impacts of climate change, the fossil industries that produce the emissions, renewable energy and energy efficiency alternatives, or climate solutions outside energy, you've come to the right place.

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

There were librarians and archivists focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the impact of the TPP on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists focused on the TPP and climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.

In a 2010 piece discussing the impact of climate change legislation on the U.S., Levi and Trevor Houser write that, «energy security is notoriously difficult to define and thus serves as the perfect weapon for attacking legislation.»

In his May 2009 paper «The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs. Climate Change» (long one of my favorite sources), Levi identifies a list of six security and economic consequences of oil consumption and production and then examines how increased oil sands production and exports to the U.S. would mitigate or exacerbate these impacts.

«I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,» he told CNBC.

Climate change could severely impact the world's coffee - producing nations and turn a cup of decent java into a luxury in the years to come.

Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.