Sentences with phrase «on climate challenges»

For a different take on the climate challenge, watch Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian *, describe her research on scientists as sentinels and her new book of fictional future climate history, «The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future,» co-written with Erik M. Conway.

Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climatologist immersed in climate science and policy for decades, framed the question a different way in the title of the last chapter of his new book on the climate challenge: «Can Democracy Survive Complexity?»

I chose a different metaphor when writing drafts of one of my hundreds of articles on the climate challenge a couple of years ago.

This post is for anyone wishing to dig in deeper on missteps and next steps on the climate challenge.

1:19 p.m. Addendum I encourage you also to consider the latest essay on the climate challenge by Robert H. Socolow of Princeton University: «Truths We Must Tell Ourselves to Manage Climate Change» (Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol.

Climate Solutions has worked as part of the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy to create something new, wonderful and significant — a broad, inclusive policy that takes on our climate challenge with urgency.

Instead, it's a broad cross-section of our economy — a cross-section that increasingly sees both risk in inaction, and opportunity in taking on the climate challenge head on.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

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.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquOn a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquon the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»

Moreover, looking «outside - in» means acknowledging that business does not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from climate change to sustainable development.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

Beijing is acutely aware of its energy challenges, which include dependence on international energy markets, price volatility, regional energy shortages, climate change and deteriorating ecosystems.

«Assembling a workable public consensus on energy and climate change is the most challenging agenda item in Canadian politics today.

Such challenges are hardly trivial, but the climate change - inspired policy dictates looming on the horizon carry more profound ramifications for oil prices than any mere cyclical downturn.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2018 / PRNewswire / — At OhmConnect, our goal is audacious — help people tackle and take action on one of the world's most pressing challenges: climate change.

Numerous ENGOs partner to spread the challenge, including David Suzuki Foundation, Pembina, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, and Voters Taking Action on Climate Change.

«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.

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.

Now the challenge will fall to Ms. Notley, Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and Energy Minister Marg McCuaig - Boyd to win the policy war on climate change.

At Global Citizen, we believe that taking action on the world's most challenging issues — from education to health to climate — can make the world a better place and help eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.

APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise in offering solutions to Asia's climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global influence.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

«Linking health and climate change in challenging our eating habits could have more effect than focusing on each of these issues alone,» said Springmann.

Food group and beverage giant Danone and Veolia, the global resource management group, have announced an innovative strategic partnership focusing on the water cycle, waste management, sustainable agriculture and energy efficiency, to meet the challenge of climate change.

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«The challenges we work on are more urgent than ever: climate change, deforestation, systemic poverty and inequality are increasingly intertwined with the way we manage land and produce food and forest products.

Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scale.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Further judgement on the linguistically challenged defender will have to be withheld until a later date, but the game provided a fine opportunity for him to get acclimatized to the English climate.

Eleven representatives from Piedmont attended the Challenge Success Fall Conference to discuss the social and academic climate at participating high schools on Sept. 25 and 26 at Stanford University.

In the meantime, UK NGOs will redouble their efforts on promoting an internationalist, outward - facing Britain committed to playing its part in tackling global challenges and implementing the SDGs to address poverty, climate change and inequality.

The Committee on Climate Change advises the UK government, and administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on how to meet these challenging goals in the most cost - effective way.

«New York State is facing unprecedented environmental challenges — from climate change, to poisoned water, to failing infrastructure, the list goes on and on,» Krueger said.

Also at 11 a.m., the state Nurses Association, Transit Workers Union and climate change activist challenge New York to step up after Trump's exit from Paris Agreement on climate change, outside Senate lobby, state Capitol, Albany.

I hope you will read a few of Stuart's many posts connecting personal responsibility on climate change with civil liberties challenges.

«As a former small business owner, Assemblyman Morelle knows the challenges that employers face on a daily basis and we look forward to working with him to advance measures that will improve New York's business climate and strengthen the future of our Upstate communities.»

On the other hand, institutions may reinforce the EU's foreign policy capabilities, allowing it to play an important role within those multilateral frameworks tasked to tackle new global challenges such as climate change.

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

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.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

In this conversation with host Grant Reeher, Ravitch looks back on some of those experiences, and argues that a sense of collective responsibility and shared sacrifice were the keys to overcoming the challenges, and considers how those qualities are faring in today's political climate.

1013 - DECC - Energy and Climate Change Committee publishes report on «Building New Nuclear: the challenges ahead.»

«The individuals receiving our PAC's endorsement today have demonstrated a strong commitment to improving the business climate of New York State,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «While we will never agree on every issue, each of the endorsed candidates recognizes the challenges facing our state and is prepared to face those challenges with legislative solutions that will improve the lives of all New Yorkers.

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

The Clean Power Plan, which was already on hold pending the results of a court challenge from Republican governors, was central to President Barack Obama's plan for meeting the emissions reductions the United States pledged as part of the Paris agreement, which updated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

«Is her failure to propose a Brexit bill on the greatest challenge that we face because she simply doesn't care about the environment and climate change?

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»