Sentences with phrase «one's climate leadership»
This is the new bar for climate leadership and it very clear: you can't call yourself a climate leader if you are ignoring half of the problem.
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The bar for real climate leadership is simple: public, actionable commitments to a fast and fair transition to a fossil free world, powered by 100 % renewable energy for all.
They have come together to show what climate leadership should look like.
Today we have taken an important step towards continued climate leadership.
In a world of unprecedented climate impacts, we need unprecedented climate leadership.
In fact, we see climate leadership as essential to our province's long - term prosperity.
This is the bold, visionary climate leadership required now.
But as much as future climate leadership will depend on technology, leadership now is largely an issue of policy and law and money.
One implies climate leadership, the other gives into a fossil fuel status quo for decades to come.
By not doing as much as the science suggests we need, they've demonstrated the need for environmentalists to also look elsewhere for climate leadership.
«Our state needs true climate leadership in the age of Trump, and unfortunately Cuomo has been long on rhetoric and short on substance,» said Laura Shindell, New York Organizer at Food and Water Watch.
California is uniquely positioned to set the standard for global climate leadership by ending fossil fuel extraction in our state.
Alberta's failure to act on climate leadership has hurt -LSB-...]
Redefine global climate leadership by setting a global precedent to manage the decline of existing production in line with climate safe limits while ensuring a just transition for affected workers and communities.
The delegation included youth, Indigenous peoples, frontline communities, advocates, and policymakers who came to Germany to stand their ground as the true representatives of people in the U.S. Through direct actions, speak outs and discussions with elected officials, they spotlighted that true climate leadership in the U.S. comes from the people.
That signal is a strong climate leadership plan.»
In response to the complete lack of U.S. climate leadership from the Trump administration, we organized the U.S. People's Delegation to show the force of U.S - based communities and everyday Americans at the COP.
Fossil fuel companies and real estate developers were among Clark's biggest campaign donors and, between B.C.'s climate leadership plan and the long time inaction to address housing inflation, they certainly seem to have had her ear on policy decisions.
Schools should reimagine mission statements as action statements, develop school - based action plans and develop school climate leadership roles for teachers.
WWF Climate Savers is WWF's flagship climate leadership programme that seeks to transform businesses into leaders of the low - carbon economy.
Today the Obama Administration once again demonstrated climate leadership by taking the Arctic Ocean off the table in its five - year offshore oil and gas drilling plan.
«While Trump retreats from U.S. climate leadership, an unprecedented number of U.S. states (15), cities (more than 300) and businesses (more than 150) are at the COP to show America's continuing commitment to moving forward,» said Alex Hanafi, senior manager of multilateral climate strategy with the Environmental Defense Fund.
«So to see a global company like Sony showing climate leadership by committing to ambitious, science - based targets sends a powerful and encouraging message to everyone who is working towards an ambitious outcome at the climate talks in Paris.»
We are happy that Climate Savers companies, who have continuously pushed the envelope of corporate climate leadership over the past 15 years, are stepping up to the challenge.»
Moving west a few days later in Winnipeg, local residents, fossil fuel divestment students, members of the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition, Indigenous organizers, and other allies joined that intensifying wave of protest to ask for real climate leadership at the NDP rally help on August 20.
Their Chief Sustainability Officer Niklas Gustafsson, who has spent almost 30 years at the company, spoke at the Climate Savers Business Event about their engagement on the road to Paris and their role and ambition within climate leadership.
«The world desperately needs climate leadership, and today Barack Obama showed he might turn out to be the guy who provided it.»
Anything less is not climate leadership,» the letter concludes.
«Such a scheme would effectively be the death - knell for the Government's promise to be the greenest ever, and would undermine its ability to show international climate leadership.
The Science Based Targets initiative supports the integration of science - based target setting into existing climate leadership platforms including UN Caring for Climate, WWF Climate Savers and others.
But to imply that Monday's nudge toward cleaner electricity will bring about a bold new era in American climate leadership is disingenuous.
China has become more assertive about climate leadership, with President Xi Jinping pledging last year to make the country the «torch - bearer in the global endeavor for ecological civilization.»
Discussions focused on celebrating California's climate leadership typically omit that the state's oil refinery sector is heavily reliant on imported oil resources from beyond our state borders — including significant imports from Arctic Alaska.
U.S Mayors Report on a Decade of Climate Leadership was issued on the eve of the COP21 in Paris where 35 U.S. mayors shared their stories on a decade of local climate leadership on their city efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Louey added: «Until UNSW pulls its funding from Santos, and other coal, oil and gas businesses, the thousands of students, staff and alumni behind the Fossil Free UNSW movement will continue to campaign for necessary climate leadership and fossil fuel divestment.»
Helen Clarkson, CEO, The Climate Group, organizers of Climate Week NYC, said: «Through our Opening Ceremony and other events, we want to highlight how accelerated climate leadership can drive innovation, jobs & prosperity — our central theme for the week.
In cooperation with C40, a large - cities climate leadership group, this program brings together five of the world's largest banks and four leading energy service companies to work with an initial group of 16 cities to retrofit buildings, reducing their energy use by 20 — 50 percent.
An imbalance that allows many fossil fuel producing countries (think Norway, Canada, the U.K etc.), to insist they are showing climate leadership all the while they are continuing to explore, expand, and exploit massive fossil fuel reserves with no meaningful plan for how they are going to stop it in line with safe climate limits.
The global community will be looking to Canada here to back up its narrative of climate leadership with tangible results.
It is the fourth year in a row that the Empire State Building has been the official Lighting Partner for the summit, which is organized by The Climate Group annually to showcase climate leadership from business and sub-national governments.
The Climate Leadership Team will also advise Victoria on how the province can further its relationships with First Nations and local governments to achieve climate leadership.
Bill McKibben: Because reality reality trumps political reality, we need Obama to show strong climate leadership now.
The United States gave up climate leadership already at the day of Trump's inauguration.
Today at the One Planet Summit the World Bank set a new bar for financial climate leadership by committing to end finance for oil and gas extraction and exploration projects.
As the world waits to hear whether America will once again abdicate climate leadership, one thing is abundantly clear: We need a massive, international movement to speed up the transition to a low carbon economy.