Sentences with phrase «on climate change projects»

He previously spent eight years working on climate change projects at the consultancy firm Atkins.

A 2013 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that temperatures could rise at least 2 °C (3.6 °F) by the end of the century under many plausible scenarios — and possibly 4 °C or more.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that if the world continues to emit greenhouse gasses at its current rate, carbon dioxide could double somewhere around the middle of the century.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected in 2001 that the sea level will rise by no more than three feet in this century — but that projection assumes the major ice sheets will remain intact.

The most recent report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected a global average sea level rise of between about one to three feet, although that report did not take the new findings on Antarctic ice melt into account.

The 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that the earth would warm 1.1 — 6.4 degrees Celsius (2 — 11 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century.

Not exact matches

Their joint project on the economic risks of climate change is a bold attempt to galvanize business people and investors.

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.

«Since 2007 I have been working on Drowning World, a long - term global project about flooding as my way of responding to climate change.

He didn't speak on the environment, but the project he worked on showed something missing from climate change work, at least that I don't see.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Our partner groups Voters Taking Action on Climate Change and Communities and Coal are in court this week, arguing bias in the Port of Vancouver's decision to approve the controversial Fraser Surrey Docks coal project.

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

on Proceeds from Ontario Green Bond to Help Fight Climate Change: Province Raises $ 1 Billion for Eco-Friendly Infrastructure Projects

Green groups oppose the project on the basis that pipeline expansion encourages the extraction of more oil and the release of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

The Risky Business Project focused on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

This means it is willing to admit that some of its fossil fuel assets — possibly including the spanking $ 13 billion Kearl tar sands project in Northern Alberta — could be wiped off its books if governments start taking action on climate change.»

Around five years ago, Hannon Armstrong (HASI) became the first publicly - traded company focused on investing in sustainable infrastructure projects to address climate change, leveraging decades of experience investing in similar assets.

The Risky Business Project focuses on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania has supported this project due to its possible social impacts on climate change control.

A U.K. - based Antarctic research project called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in theproject called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in theProject MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in the world.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recently released results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

Currently, Cambodia and IRRI are conducting joint research projects on climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate - resilient rice varieties, remote sensing - based crop monitoring, improvement of farmers» livelihoods, and postharvest technology.

For three years, UTZ and the DE Foundation worked on an ambitious Coffee Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate climate change.

Results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

The current and projected future impacts of climate change on nature in Massachusetts are very significant, requiring a thoughtful and comprehensive approach and a sustained effort.

The two - year project, called Building Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to action.

A comprehensive look at the projected effects of our changing climate on our nesting birds by 2050.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

Two gubernatorial hopefuls marched with more than 1,000 climate change protesters to call on the Cuomo administration to implement more environmentally friendly policies, starting with a new microgrid project that heats and cools the Empire State Plaza.

The city budgeted $ 60 million in FY17 for the project, according to a spokesperson, and de Blasio said, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.

After listing the infrastructure projects which he believes need attention - the «antiquated» National Grid, climate change, broadband, rail and airport capacity, Balls then moved on.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

The Nana Addo led government was again highly went applauded when government in the 2017 Budget Statement and Economic Policy stated that it had placed high premium on combating climate change through prioritization of climate change programmes and projects.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

The blog provides regular insights into the European project, government waste, Gordon Brown's burdens on the economy, the dangers of state funding of political parties and it offers a sceptical view of a big government approach to combating climate change.

So Jones and his colleagues combined data from 11 standard climate change models with their own models on projected population patterns.

If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.

The survey is part of a five - year research project on public opinion and climate change.

Meanwhile, the new study suggests the effect will intensify in the future with continued climate change, based on computer models that attempt to project how rising temperatures would affect the Arctic's chemical reservoirs.

The new guidance also calls on agencies to address concerns voiced in public comments concerning climate change, which will likely «prompt many agencies to adopt more detailed, agency - specific guidance that is tailored to the types of projects that they frequently review.»

Edward Maibach, an expert in climate change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changingclimate change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changingClimate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing minds.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

Released yesterday by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the finalized guidance recommends that agencies both calculate direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of a project and assess how climate change might affect a project (Greenwire, Aug. 2).

In the Northeast, the researchers project a ratio of high species movement from land use as compared to climate change, based on its already dense development and large population.

Joshua Busby is an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas and one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center project on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $ 7.6 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.