Sentences with phrase «of leading environmentalists»

A group of leading environmentalists, investors and academics has called on the Bank of England to investigate whether high carbon and polluting investments pose a risk to the UK financial system.

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Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

Environmentalists and health workers in favor of the CPP will emphasize how the plan would lead to billions of dollars in savings on hospital bills because it also would slash emissions from coal plants.

The pipeline, which is a project of TransCanada Pipelines, is reviled by environmentalists and clean energy supporters throughout the U.S. who claim that it will lead to the expansion of «dirty» oilsands projects in Alberta.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, we see that as followers of Jesus, we should not be condemning the environmentalists, but should actually be leading the way in showing this world how to take care of this earth.

It notes that at the same time of the slowing of seafood sales, landings began to shrink, leading to environmentalists and government regulators to pay close attentions to what was occurring along the coast.

Environmentalist Paul Hawken calls on the food industry, as a big part of the problem, to lead the way against climate change.

Environmentalists hoping the state will reject the Constitution argue any decision could also affect the others, at least two of which would be longer and lead to a more dramatic increase in the region's fossil - fuel consumption.

Brian Kavanagh has been a leading environmentalist throughout his tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly.

At one point he was chair of Environmental Conservation Committee and he was the leading environmentalist in the state fighting to protect our environment.»

Longtime Capital Region environmentalist Aaron Mair, who cut his teeth on issues from a trash - burning incinerator to toxic lead paint in inner - city homes, will use his voice as the first African - American president of the national board of directors of the Sierra Club.

Sceptical environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg says some of the world's leading economists are optimistic about the state of the planet (12...

But substantial recent progress has been made by proactive collaborations among environmentalists, regulators, scientists, and industry, leading to progress in the IMO in the development of guidelines for the reduction of underwater noise from commercial shipping.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Cool It (PG for mature themes) Eco-documentary chronicling the efforts of skeptical, Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg to debunk the prevailing conclusion of leading scientists that global warming trends are man - made.

Afterward, she leads him to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a bad guy who is posing as an environmentalist in order to take control of a country's water supply.

As an activist and environmentalist who shattered boundaries for women, Wangari Maathai is a leading figure of post-colonial Kenya.

Blast fishing has been abandoned, and environmentalists on the islands have pioneered a technology that uses a small electric current to accelerate coral growth, leading to a rebirth of marine life.

It is no surprise that Caradonna, a debt - free company for over twenty years, with a staff of avid divers and environmentalists, has become the industry's leading travel partner.

Environmentalist, educator and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben has been seen as a leading voice of the climate movement for years.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

I just was watching your interview with Michael Shellenberger and reading / listening up on this whole «centrist environmentalist» concept and I have to say, I take issue with people claiming the longtime «left» environmental movement was all about being a culture of restriction and somehow not in tune with the idea that this global warming crisis could lead to newer, alternative, healthy economics of another kind.

At around the sixteenth minute, I illustrate my notion of «an inconvenient mind» by recalling the reactions of two leading environmentalists to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plants.

It's all economics, and griping about environmentalists misses what many of them are saying, including Gore btw — get going on energy and lead the world!

Environmental Progress was intensively involved in advocating to save Millstone, publishing an open letter signed by the world's leading climate scientists and environmentalists — as well as Pulitzer Prize - winner Richard Rhodes and Harvard's Stephen Pinker — and publishing an in - depth analysis of the environmental consequences that would result from its closure.

As scientists, policymakers, diplomats and environmentalists begin to converge on Copenhagen for climate talks, the integrity of leading climate change researchers has come under attack; a release of some 1,000 hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain has created a stir, with some suggesting the e-mails demonstrate hoarding of and manipulation of data by climate researchers.

This has led to an internecine dispute among those who claim the mantle of «environmentalist,» who are legitimately concerned about climate, but who split on their positions around the pros and cons of nuclear power.

It typified the atmosphere which led to the aforementioned creation of Environmentalists Against Gore.

«Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), compared Bjrn Lomborg, Danish statistician and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, to Adolf Hitler in an interview with Jyllandsposten, a leading Danish newspaper (Apr. 21).»

Billing himself as «one of Canada's leading environmentalists,» Solomon's free market environmentalism has always been viewed with suspicion.

Next is a leading British science journalist saying that most of his environmentalist friends have gone into denial about Climate-gate, hoping the crisis will go away.

Among the rogues gallery of leading climate change deniers are (from left to right, top to bottom): Congressman Joe Barton (R - TX), fossil fuel shill Steve Milloy, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, self - styled «Skeptical Environmentalist» Bjorn Lomborg, scientist - turned - denier - for - hire Fred Singer, the inimitable Sarah Palin, conservative funders Charles and David Koch (aka the Koch Brothers), and «swift - boat» architect Marc Morano.

NPR «All Things Considered» interviewed CSW director Rick Piltz, Rep. Bob Inglis (R - South Carolina), and environmentalist Bill McKibben for an October 23 lead story on Republicans and denial of the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change.

Hence the need for Supporters of Nuclear Energy, which is led by Baroness Thatcher's terrier - like press spokesman, former consultant for British Nuclear Fuels and self - confessed enemy of environmentalists, Bernard Ingham.

Dr. Moore, who led some of Greenpeace's most famous direct action campaigns against whaling and seal hunts, is the author of Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist.

The claim that science has shown that «climate change is real and is happening» leads to an array of political arguments from environmentalists, as though all that need be shown to legitimise drastic action (the more drastic the better) is that mankind has influenced the climate.

But, according to a team of environmentalists led by Linus Blomqvist of The Breakthrough Institute, that ubiquitous, guilt inducing statistic is oversimplified and very likely wrong.

With the participation of Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations and leading USA environmentalist, author and educator, Bill McKibben, this documentary provides critical information to develop an enduring, local food network in a time of climate change.

An environmental documentary due to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Thursday evening has come under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti-GM campaigners based in the developing world.

But the threat of global climate change has led even some die hard environmentalists to reconsider and embrace nuclear power.

First, as discussed previously on this blog, the BBC's decision to sell the seventh episode of the series — David Attenborough's personal view of climate change and the crysophere — as an option led to screams and shouts from environmentalists.

Ever the environmentalist, rather than heading for the huge expanses of wilderness — apparently the largest and least «disturbed» in Europe — he heads for the environmental disaster: people living near lead smelting plants.

Once considered fringe science, geoengineering gained respectability with an essay two years ago by chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who is something of an environmentalist hero — it was his Nobel Prize — winning work on the ozone hole that led to the ban on Freon and other ozone - destroying chemicals.

First Nations leaders have been occupying fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago for over 200 days, and now, leading environmentalist David Suzuki, invited top chefs concerned with the wellbeing of wild salmon, to add their voice to the resistance.

Carbon capture and storage and nuclear energy have significant risks and trade - offs — and face a great deal of uncertainty in their development, cost and eventual deployment, leading many environmentalists to argue that they should be left out of the conversation when debating steps forward on climate change.

Environmentalists, myself included, are often more concerned about the amount of raw methane released in gas development than the much - publicized fracing issue, even though their presentations may lead with the fracing controversy.

Alex Epstein debates leading environmentalist Bill McKibben on the issue of global warming.

Leading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of bLeading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of bleading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of balance.

Tom O, Whether that is a conscious desire of the (Greens, Liberal Progressives or «Environmentalists») all of whom are patently idealist, and idealism can very easily lead to fascism, I Wholeheartedly agree with you that the consequences of fulfilling [their] desires and aspirations will lead to an inequality of living standards, not only never seen before, even under the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, but may become a cause of species differentiation for Homo sapiens, with The Blessed enlightened ones controlling Everything.

SOA represents a diverse consensus - based membership of solar industries and environmentalists who are working hard to build a world - leading sustainable solar industry that will help protect the environment and create thousands of new jobs for the Province of Ontario.

The highly publicized forecasts made by some leading environmentalists are based on experimental simulations of very complicated forecasting models that have not been found very reliable when explaining past developments.