Sentences with phrase «on climate change work»

This analytical report examines how the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change work plan on Loss & Damage relates to food security and livelihoods, and proposes recommendations for managing loss and damage based on evidence from Asian countries.
To the extent that political leaders respond at least partially to the priorities of the general public, we can turn the question around and ask what messages on climate change work with them.
Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and contributed to the International Panel on Climate Change work that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.
The number one solution in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III, the number one solution in various International Energy Agency reports, is increased efficiency (in power plants, transmission and distribution, cars, heating and cooling, appliances, etc).
McKibbin, W.J., M.T. Ross, R. Shackleton and P.J. Wilcoxen (1999), Emissions Trading, Capital Flows and the Kyoto Protocol, Presented at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III Expert Meeting on the Economic Impacts of Annex 1 Mitigation Policies on non-Annex 1 Countries, 27 - 28 May, The Hague.
This summary for policymakers of the International Panel on Climate Change Working Group III analitycal report outlines technological and behavioral changes that can limit the increase in global average temperatures to less than two degrees Celsius, the point at which science shows that climate impacts begin to overwhelm human coping efforts.

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She'd worked on climate change legislation and a national strategy for suicide prevention; she'd been a strong advocate for women's and LGBT rights.
Some focus on providing basic necessities, like food and clothing, while others pledge to fight climate change or work to honor veterans.
• Australia's Defense Signals Directorate and the NSA worked together to spy on Indonesia during a UN climate change conference in 2007.
In 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businesses.
«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.
Macron, in his remarks, called for the two countries to work together against Islamist militants, on North Korea and Iran, on «free and fair trade,» and on climate change.
Weaned on mobile technology, fluent in social media and networking and immersed in issues such as climate change and sustainability, Millennials seek work environments that reflect their ideals.
Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.
Ontario plans to join the cap - and - trade market with Quebec and California next January, and Canada's two largest provinces have been finding more ways to work together on initiatives to combat climate change.
Brown, the two - time California's governor, has been working on climate change and energy for nearly forty years at both the state and local level.
Cilia participated in the Global Opportunity Panel in Oslo on 5th June 2015 and works as advisor on climate change and sustainability services for KPMG Norway.
The report, Perspectives on Climate Change Action in Canada, is an extraordinary piece of work.
Q: Readers familiar with your work will know your writing on climate change solutions like solar, wind and sustainable communities, and your past as a Green Party candidate.
«Making progress on climate change and clean growth is hard and at times slow work, and we can't ignore the fact that Canada is still digging out from a deficit of previous federal inaction.
The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups on ongoing or potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the impact their business had on climate change.
«We had a tipping point in the industry where climate change led to warmer, windier weather that points up the need to innovate to strengthen the coffee industry,» said Rodriguez, his skin sun - kissed from working the fields, a Starbucks cap perched on his salt - and - pepper hair.
OTTAWA — Clean Energy Canada released the following statement in response to the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change released today: QUOTES «For the first time, governments across Canada are working together to hit a national climate Climate Change released today: QUOTES «For the first time, governments across Canada are working together to hit a national climate climate target.
Thus they are requesting a seat on the Clean Technology, Innovation and Jobs Working Group that the federal government is establishing as part of the Vancouver Agreement on clean growth and climate change.
The First Ministers» Meeting on climate change and clean growth, happening this week in Ottawa, is the next step in the process as provincial and territorial premiers work with Ottawa to develop a national climate strategy.
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.
An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, but with the rising threat of climate change, there are now calls for both pilgrims and authorities in Mecca to reduce the environmental damage wrought by this yearly influx of travelers.
Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».
With luck and some hard preparatory work, nations will face these issues at Rio and sign conventions on climate change, forests, biodiversity and biotechnology.
Before joining the Food Program, Brian previously worked at WRI on the 2010 - 2011 edition of the World Resources Report, titled Decision Making in a Changing Climate.
Recent meetings have discussed work on environmental issues of national significance such as threatened species protection, improving the environment for human health, and climate change.
As a founding member of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER), a coalition of leading global beverage companies working together to advance environmental sustainability, in FY17 Bacardi signed the Joint Commitment on Climate Change.
Members work on areas such as water stewardship, climate change, and future scenario.
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.
Since 2010, two large investors have been trying to get Smucker's to work on substantive and meaningful annual sustainability reporting and address risks associated with climate change, with marginal success.
At the same time, it enables work with on a bilateral basis to accelerate the development and deployment of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions of drought, flooding and salinity brought on by climate change.
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.
«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.
«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects of climate change on a global scale.
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).
, Lacazettes barely met let alone worked with the squad, on the back of being in Oz the previous week, huge changes in climate, playing in extremely humid stadium... how does this compare to anything that's likely to occur in 2/3 weeks time back in the uk??
Our scientists work on our wildlife sanctuaries and beyond conducting research on climate change, wildlife, land protection, and ecological management.
As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US CoClimate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.
Join Joe Hanson PhD as he hosts science videos for kids on how Science works, Physics, Biology, Space, Climate Change and Food science!
Our work on climate change policy is also crucial to wildlife protection.
You guessed it: her work focuses on climate change.
I know of one highly experienced research press officer, who had worked on controversial issues like human animal hybrids, GM crops, animal research, minimum alcohol pricing and climate change, who admitted: «Nothing had prepared me for the most polarising, knee - jerking subject of all: breastfeeding.»
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