Sentences with phrase «on immediate climate action»

Targets in 2025 will be too late if we continue with the weak proposals for the next six years - you face a political and physical imperative to drastically change direction on immediate climate action.

The Partnership will focus on immediate climate actions between now and 2020 to support the success and overachievement of the Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs, and National Adaptation Plans, or NAPs.

Not exact matches

Although virtually all climate scientists agree that human actions are changing the climate and that immediate action must be taken, roughly 60 percent of Americans believe that no scientific consensus on climate change exists.

That said there should be no excuse for not taking immediate action on global warming on climate change or whatever you want to call it, which is probably the reason for a large part of the reaction to this article.

«Changing climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.»

«Alarmist» suggests someone sticking his / her head in the sand and ignoring the data in order to justify a pre-conceived irrational notion (human influence on climate will lead us to certain disaster unless immediate action is taken).

It presents 12 key findings which focus on four main citizen requests: immediate and faster climate action by national leaders; greater finance for climate action; building more progress in line with the different capacities of countries; strengthening the role of citizen participation in the UN climate negotiations.

Those that don't support immediate action on climate change are attempting to get the point across that it's the «Catastrophic» part that supports the need for «immediate action».

Those actions not only serve our immediate needs, but might also have an impact on biodiversity and climate change, or at least attitudes about climate change.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Prime Minister Modi and President Obama have put themselves in the vanguard of global climate policy, not because of any immediate political pressure, but because both leaders see action on this front as crucial for future generations» health and prosperity.

2007/04/27: NYT: Public Remains Split on Response to Warming Ninety percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans said immediate action was required to curb the warming of the atmosphere and deal with its effects on the global climate.

The IPCC recently stated that, today, climate change is wreaking havoc «on all continents and across the oceans,» and it will only get worse unless we take immediate action.

Offset purchasers are taking immediate action on climate change by being responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions they are unable to reduce.

On Thursday November 10th, civil society mobilized with a series of events to ask for legal protection and immediate action for climate migrants.

74 % of people would take immediate action to change their lifestyle now if they knew that climate change would affect their children's lives 52 % of people believe that their actions as an individual can help stop the effects of climate change Only a quarter (26 %) believe that climate change is already impacting on the UK Respondents cited flooding as one of the most common effects of climate change that will happen in the UK (69 %)

A Working Group of the V20 commenced immediate follow - up to begin implementation of the first Action Plan, progress on which will be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference at Paris (COP21) later this year.

The aim is to get political officials to agree «equitable, immediate, and bold action on climate change» as we enter the final two months before the COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris in December.

... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global wClimate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global wclimate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global wClimate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global warming.

Why on earth Mr Lacis raves on about the ins and outs of the technical issues under discussion in the area of climate science / global warming when it is the issue of the ethical and legal aspects of Gleick's actions that are the immediate issue.

Being a force for more immediate and direct action through a nonpartisan price on carbon, such as I - 732 or the Citizens Climate Lobby have pursued, is a critical role that needs to be carried forward.

When and if the urgency of climate change dawns on more of the political spectrum, they may be ready for immediate action by any means, perhaps even advanced nuclear (but non-carbon) power.

And I think the scientists in question were * well aware * of the uncertainties, and didn't care, because getting immediate political action on climate change was everything to them.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

But a sober reading of the literature put out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not support the alarmist message or the claim that immediate and drastic action is needed to mitigate climate Climate Change (IPCC) does not support the alarmist message or the claim that immediate and drastic action is needed to mitigate climate climate change.

The scientists sent their letter, dated October 29, in response to a letter the Senators received from the American Association for the Advancement of Science claiming a «consensus» of the scientific community on climate change and asserting that «immediate and drastic action is needed to avert a climactic catastrophe.»

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

calling for immediate action on climate change.

As Myles Allen, head of Oxford University's Climate Dynamics group, told the Battle of Ideas last year, the arguments for immediate action on climate change are economic ones rather than scieClimate Dynamics group, told the Battle of Ideas last year, the arguments for immediate action on climate change are economic ones rather than scieclimate change are economic ones rather than scientific.

Earth Ministry member Sara Cate wrote this Op - Ed for the Yakima Herald calling for immediate action on climate change.

Millions of dollars spent on scientific research comes to the same conclusions our elders warned us of years ago — that «Combatting climate change is an urgent common challenge for the international community and requires immediate global action».

It presents a «People's Test on Climate» with the criteria: did the agreement catalyze immediate, urgent and drastic emission reductions; provide adequate support for transformation; deliver justice for impacted people; and focus on genuine, effective action rather than false solutions.

Denial Is Not A River In Egypt While the fossil fuel industry continues to hawk its wares in total denial of the devastating global effects of its actions, the new International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report confirms the necessity for immediate and sustained action.

With clear rules and standards to ensure quality, companies that are committed to leading action on climate change use carbon offset programmes as part of a broader carbon management strategy to guarantee immediate, effective emissions reductions while delivering value to their business.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Take a few minutes to contact your political representatives and the media to tell them you want immediate action on climate change.

The meeting resulted in an agreement to cooperate on reducing climate emissions by taking decisive and immediate action on a number of points, most notably the creation of procurement policies and alliances to accelerate the uptake of climate - friendly technologies and influence the market place.

The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report confirms the necessity for immediate and sustained action on climate change, detailing how close we are to a turning point in the earth's climate Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report confirms the necessity for immediate and sustained action on climate change, detailing how close we are to a turning point in the earth's climate climate change, detailing how close we are to a turning point in the earth's climate climate system.

While the fossil fuel industry continues to hawk its wares in total denial of the devastating global effects of its actions, the new International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report confirms the necessity for immediate and sustained action.

Speaker after speaker took the stage, offering comments on the destructiveness of coal mining, the floundering climate bill, simple things we can all do at home, and the dire necessity of immediate action.

With big banks beginning to rethink their addiction to coal, and with investors urging action on climate change, crowdfunding efforts like SunFunder don't just create an immediate impact through the projects they support — they act as a test case for the viability of a much larger expansion of the sector.

A better model may be BICEP, a coalition of companies like Starbucks and Nike that is pushing for immediate action on climate and real targets for emissions reductions.

Climate science, which no one had ever heard of previously, burst on to the scene with an announcement that ACO2 was causing the planet to heat rapidly and catastrophically, only IMMEDIATE action to curb or eliminate fossil fuels could save us, and that the science was settled.

Harvard's decision comes less than a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounded the alarm for immediate action on climate change and the necessity for keeping much of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, a reality that will affect investments in fossilClimate Change (IPCC) sounded the alarm for immediate action on climate change and the necessity for keeping much of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, a reality that will affect investments in fossilclimate change and the necessity for keeping much of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, a reality that will affect investments in fossil fuels.

Earlier this month, scientists who authored the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which predicted the dire consequences and inevitable global warming, called for governments to take immediate action to curb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have contributed to climate Climate Change report, which predicted the dire consequences and inevitable global warming, called for governments to take immediate action to curb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have contributed to climate climate change.