Sentences with phrase «on key climate»

This is why forward - looking companies are actively ensuring their policy engagement on key climate issues is aligned, transparent, and consistent.
Shortly after the midterms, some 40 climatologists around the world banded together to form a «rapid response unit» on key climate - science questions.
The Climate Classroom provided a opportunity to COP23 attendees to get up to speed on key climate change topics.
Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to today's federal carbon pricing discussion paper: «This proposal is a big step forward on a key climate commitment, and the approach Ottawa has chosen is a promising one.
«This proposal is a big step forward on a key climate commitment, and the approach Ottawa has chosen is a promising one.

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«There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars,» Tesla said in on its website.
Climate - change activists on Tuesday disrupted the flow of millions of barrels of crude from Canada to the United States in rare, coordinated action that targeted several key pipelines simultaneously.
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.
VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.
There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars.
Shareholder resolutions have seen rising support on key issues ranging from governance practices to climate change to pay equity, and the recent expansion of proxy access provides long - term investors with an opportunity to shape the board itself.
In my last column, «Three Numbers that Predict the Future of the Planet», I wrote about the state of the climate crisis and focused on three key data points that...
On the program's launch, Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise said, «The industry's key decision - makers are now in Bordeaux to address the most important topics affecting our shared interests, from the economy to e-commerce, international agreements and climate change.
Two trade industry experts join forces with three key players in the supply chain to spearhead this engaging discussion on driving climate action, focusing on how the Climate Collaborative can support efforts to engage everyone that touches climate action, focusing on how the Climate Collaborative can support efforts to engage everyone that touches Climate Collaborative can support efforts to engage everyone that touches your...
The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia
Key topics discussed are: • Climate change impact on food production • Options for adaptation to a new climate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestratiKey topics discussed are: • Climate change impact on food production • Options for adaptation to a new climate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestClimate change impact on food production • Options for adaptation to a new climate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestclimate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestratikey drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestration.
The EPA last night sent employees a list of eight approved talking points on climate change from its Office of Public Affairs — guidelines that promote a message of uncertainty about climate science and gloss over proposed cuts to key adaptation programs.
«The keys to keeping our economy growing are to keep investing in infrastructure, so we have a better climate for job growth, and to make sure workers all get safe working conditions and a wage they can live on.
«Ministers believe that new nuclear could play a key role in keep the lights on and meeting our climate change targets - but they don't want to own up to supporting it,» committee chair Tim Yeo said.
In an announcement viewed by green campaigners as a key test of the coalition's credentials on the environment, the energy and climate change secretary told MPs progress would be reviewed before the end of the parliament.
In his key note speech to the party conference in Liverpool, the energy and climate change secretary delivered a passionate defense of his decision to back down on his opposition to nuclear power.
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.
Gordon Brown gave a largely unsurprising speech to the UN general assembly last night, setting out his key foreign policy objectives ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh and the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen.
On some key issues, New York voters overwhelmingly (by more than three to one) back a party to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and also believe that climate change is a significant threat to the planet.
Trump criticized the New York Times story stating that he has failed to fulfill campaign promises on undoing key Obama administration policies, calling the newspaper «failing» and pointing to early successes like exiting the international Paris climate accord and getting conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Siena College poll shows Hillary Clinton losing some ground to Donald Trump in their shared home state of NY, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer widening his lead over his little - known challenger, Wendy Long, and voters» opinions on key issues from gun control to climate change.
The Governor also renewed his call for all Californians to conserve water, laid out the key elements of the state's long - term water plan and noted the work ahead to fight climate change and build on historic reforms to the state's school funding and criminal justice systems.
Yet David Cameron has resigned Gordon Brown's chairmanship of a key UN group on financing the fight against climate change.
A key Senate committee approved Trump's top diplomatic pick yesterday, but Democrats cited concerns about Tillerson's position on climate change issues
Monday's key US legal decision on emissions regulation was influenced by the unjustified attacks on climate science, says Douglas Kysar.
The information those satellites collect is also key to understanding climate change — an unpopular topic on Capitol Hill — but the agency has downplayed that aspect as it presses lawmakers for more cash.
«Models do a good job at simulating some elements of the climate system, but they disagree on key aspects of the land - atmosphere CO2 exchange, and in particular the amount of carbon being sequestered,» Rawlins said in a statement.
Predictions of how much sea - levels would rise due to climate change, made by a key UN report in 2001, were conservative, say researchers on the eve of the release of the new update of the report.
The influence of climate on agriculture is believed to be a key factor in the rise and fall of societies in the Ancient Near East.
Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»
«Based on what we've found, it is possible that sea - level rise over decadal time scales will be a key storyline in future climate predictions,» he said.
However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.
Then, of course, there is water, which accounts for more than 70 percent of the weight of living organisms and exhibits an array of unique properties that make it the stabilizing influence on global climate and the key to life itself.
The debate was on display last month when members of the compact met in Key Largo to release a climate action plan that aimed, in part, to offer preliminary recommendations on how cities in the area can prepare for sea - level rise and more powerful storms.
Despite this key role, the effects of climate warming and increased litter input as a result of shrub expansion on N2 fixation in mosses are ambiguous.
As in years past, Our Ocean 2016 will tackle key issues including marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the ocean.
The 2030 cuts would be a key step on the road to the government's legally binding target of an 80 per cent cut by 2050, as set out in the 2008 Climate Change Act.
He points out that Canada's economy grew while key climate regulations were enacted on coal and other sectors and alleges that the speeding up of oil pipeline approvals was necessary to end a process that used to drag on indefinitely.
Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.
Environmental management can potentially devise separate strategies to target key phases in the lifecycle of males and females, respectively, with the aim of minimising the influence of climate change on their development and ultimately the success of the species.»
Moderating communication of climate information based on that realization is key
Hedegaard, who will play a key role in the December climate talks here, appeared to back away from a recent call on Obama to pass legislation designed to reduce U.S. carbon emissions before those talks.
A leaked draft copy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report (AR5) surfaced earlier this summer and triggered a small tempest among climate bloggers, scientists and skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised doClimate Change's fifth assessment report (AR5) surfaced earlier this summer and triggered a small tempest among climate bloggers, scientists and skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised doclimate bloggers, scientists and skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised doClimate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised downward.
Water exhibits an array of unique properties that make it the stabilizing influence on global climate and the key to life itself.
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