Sentences with phrase «on changing the political climate»

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Political analysts and experts predict we'll see some changes in what they might entail in along the way - based both on political climate and economicPolitical analysts and experts predict we'll see some changes in what they might entail in along the way - based both on political climate and economicpolitical climate and economic factors.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal reviewPolitical scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal reviewpolitical agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

Mirko Drotschmann, or MrWissen2go, a science blogger with about 500,000 subscribers who has recently posted videos on Germany's political parties, Islamic State and climate change, said he would have liked to grill her more on the refugee crisis.

But he wants the firm to take more risks to get its message out, especially as it increasingly takes on deeply political challenges like climate change or health care.

Shareholders need disclosure on issues like political spending and climate change because there is material risk that can affect the bottom line.»

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

March 08, 2017 - PRESS RELEASE: Post-Election Proxy Season Sees Big Boost in Requests on Diversity and Equal Pay But Climate Change and Corporate Political Transparency Still Top the Agenda

As director of the Nathan Cummings Foundation's Corporate & Political Accountability program, Laura employs both grant making and active ownership strategies to address the ways in which corporations can both advance and hinder progress on climate change and inequality.

The report shows how investors continue to seek accountability on climate change risk and corporate political spending, but have growing concerns regarding the treatment of women.

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

Looking back at the visit, it stands in stark contrast to Modi's recent meetings with leaders of the United States, Germany and France, where we saw both political focus and media attention on climate change and clean energy.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

Unlike the previous government, the NDP has intentionally sought to bring together a group of people with diverse and differing political views and expertise to advise on the implementation of Alberta's Climate Change plans.

Intelligent Design and climate change «skeptics» are both political takes on science.

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Disclaimer: James Painter receives funding from The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Norwegian Environment Ministry.

Two of Governor Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the State Capitol, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from adequate.

Indeed there is no doubt that the future direction of the European Union will have a major impact on the political landscape of the UK: Completion of the single market, enlargement, climate change and security are some of the salient challenges which Member States will confront over the coming years and we as British Conservatives should be at the forefront of those advocating sensible and workable solutions.

Two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the state Capitol Monday, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from adequate.

«The time for petty point - scoring on climate change, from any political party, is surely past,» the Conservative MP said.

While voters would have the final say on any proposed changes to the constitution, a convention in today's political climate promises to be contentious, polarizing, costly to taxpayers, and not worth the risk.

Teachers attending the LGBTI Teachers» Consultation Conference, organised by the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union today (Saturday) in Birmingham, raised concerns that progress on tackling discrimination and advancing equality has been rolled back or hampered as a result of changes in the political climate in the last 18 months.

Indy Politics talks to three political insiders to get their take on the state's changing climate now the Governor Mike Pence is the Republican Nominee...

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

But Trenberth says he's still worried that climate change isn't high enough on the list of political priorities.

The CLF buy comes a day after a separate political committee announced a six - figure ad buy touting Curbelo's record on climate change.

Joe Pinion, 34, is African - American, founder of the Conservative Color Coalition, a spokesman for climate change advocacy group RepublicEn, and a prominent political commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Radio.

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.

The economic crisis has changed the political climate dramatically and that is because Brown has been allowed to get on and govern.»

While the massive rally has prompted New York City elected officials to be more responsive to the need to take action on climate change, it has had little impact on state and national political leaders who used their partisan gridlock to avoid needed action on this and many other critical issues while promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for the 1 %.

On Tuesday, ClearPath Action Fund, a political action committee that supports a «free market» approach to climate change, announced it will distribute a direct mail piece in response to a press conference Democratic candidate Mike Derrick and the Sierra Club held Monday to discuss Stefanik's score of 9 out of 100 points on the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental scorecarOn Tuesday, ClearPath Action Fund, a political action committee that supports a «free market» approach to climate change, announced it will distribute a direct mail piece in response to a press conference Democratic candidate Mike Derrick and the Sierra Club held Monday to discuss Stefanik's score of 9 out of 100 points on the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental scorecaron the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental scorecard.

Two of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the State Capitol in Albany Monday, where they said the Democrat's energy policies are far from adequate.

Her political team had been focused on calling out Republican skepticism of climate change — but her refusal to take a position Tuesday has turned the spotlight squarely back to Clinton herself.

The model has novel implications both for when people choose to obtain or avoid information, and it sheds light on phenomena, such as political polarization and emotionally charged beliefs relating to topics like the cause of autism and the reality of climate change.

A recent STPF Science Diplomacy Affinity Group symposium shed new light on climate change and war when an expert on water resources identified climate change as a factor that also contributes to political turmoil.

Other recent surveys show a partisan political gap, however, in views on scientific topics such as evolution and climate change.

In a year when climate change is low on the national political radar, two states are bucking the trend.

«Public opinion regarding climate change is likely to remain divided as long as the political elites send out conflicting messages on this issue,» lead researcher Robert Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a statement.

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.

Having a certain opinion on climate change signals solidarity with political compatriots, regardless of someone's familiarity with the scientific method, he said.

On climate change, the researchers found that political identity was a more important signal of where respondents stood than their academic acumen or scientific sophistication.

«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

«A very receptive audience» The political divide on climate change was concentrated in the run - up to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, McCright said.

The party that Liberals might partner with on some energy issues — the NDP — supports a cap - and - trade system and has policy positions on climate change that are generally more to the political left.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

«White House officials and political appointees in the agencies censored congressional testimony on the causes and impacts of global warming, controlled media access to government climate scientists, and edited federal scientific reports to inject unwarranted uncertainty into discussions of climate change.»

«The Political Divide on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in The U.S.» by Riley E. Dunlap, Aaron M. McCright, and Jerrod H. Yarosh appeared in Volume 58, Issue 5 of Environment.

In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.

Against all political intuition, Republican candidates could win votes by taking «green» positions on the controversy over climate change, according to new poll results released Tuesday.