Sentences with phrase «others on climate protection»

So it's peculiar that the country's leaders would think it's fitting to go around lecturing others on climate protection.

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Mass Audubon partners with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (DFW) on coastal waterbird protection, rare species protection, and planning for climate change, among other issues.

Carol M. Browner, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Board Chair of the League of Conservation Voters said: «By building victories in different states and on multiple policies, we can demonstrate strong public support for climate action, demonstrate success that others will want to replicate, and drive down the costs of clean energy».

And when others won't lead, whether it is on climate change, infrastructure, economic inclusion, fair housing, or the protection of the most vulnerable amongst us, you know we will.

Moore criticized Hanna for, among other things, sponsoring a bill that would repeal all of the state's rules and regulations on pesticide protection, and for making what he called, «outlandish remarks,» like saying that climate change doesn't exist.

Moore criticized Hanna for, among other things, sponsoring a bill that would repeal all of the state's rules and regulations on pesticide protection, and for making «outlandish remarks», saying that climate change doesn't exist.

Jeremy is now a Senior Energy Analyst in the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, conducting analytical work on the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon regulations and other areas of energy research.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

They address the need to improve climate awareness and understanding of how climate protection and development can support each other, as well as reducing carbon emissions in a credible way», stated Suzane Kahn, the president of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate climate awareness and understanding of how climate protection and development can support each other, as well as reducing carbon emissions in a credible way», stated Suzane Kahn, the president of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate climate protection and development can support each other, as well as reducing carbon emissions in a credible way», stated Suzane Kahn, the president of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Climate Change.

They undermine action on climate change and environmental protections; promote school privatization; defund unions and stop progressive wage and benefits policies; and, among other things, call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to restrict the federal budget.

Single - coated dogs, on the other hand, may require some extra protection to allow them to live comfortably in cold climates.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

DeBuys finds that things will be fine for the 3.5 million people who currently depend on this water for daily use as long as (1) predictions of climate change models prove groundless, (2) the kind of droughts documented by tree rings and other records of past climate disruptions don't occur, and (3) the cities of central Arizona don't grow so much that they consume their agricultural buffer, their main protection against uncertain years ahead.

Then in 1987, Congress, recognizing that «man - made pollution — the release of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane and other trace gases into the atmosphere — may be producing a long - term and substantial increase in the average temperature on Earth,» passed the Global Climate Protection Act.

Gasoline indirect cost calculated based on International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), The Real Price of Gasoline, Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 34, and updated using ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated with Global Climate Change: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: September 2004), ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: January 2005), Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 60, and Bureau for Economic Analysis, «Table 3 — Price Indices for Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Purchases,» GDP and Other Major Series, 1929 — 2007 (Washington, DC: August 2007); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), This Week in Petroleum (Washington, DC: various issues).

The International Development Finance Club (IDFC)-- a group of international, national, and regional development banks based in the developed and the developing world — released its annual report on green investment (i.e. mitigation, adaptation and «other» environmental finance which includes environmental protection and remediation related projects)-- as the world's climate negotiators were meeting in Lima, and its numbers are significant.

new: scientific consensus on climate issues does not exist - Novaya Gazeta, December 16, 2009 - Instead of articulating and prosecution of false targets political leaders gathered in Copenhagen should concentrate on the other - to develop policies that promote more effective human adaptation to climate change, economic growth, the development of free trade, protection of property rights, strengthen democracy.

The new power plant rules — which will be formally announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday morning — represent the most ambitious effort by Barack Obama or any other president to deal with climate change.

According to Inside Climate News, the Environmental Protection Agency, which plays an important role in rating the performance of other agencies in performing environmental assessments under NEPA, has repeatedly urged the State Department to focus on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and how to offset them if Keystone were to get the green light.

30 July: ABC Big Ideas: What Australians really think about the world An expert panel considers and interprets the results and discusses some of the other findings that shed light on Australians attitudes towards the economy, climate, border protection, our political parties, leaders and neighbours.

That's crowding out reporting on other, more critical climate - related news, from how the Trump administration is aggressively dismantling climate protections to how climate change makes hurricanes and wildfires more dangerous.

As a senior energy analyst in the Climate and Energy Program, Jeremy Richardson conducts analytical work on the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon regulations and other areas of energy research.

Virtually every other key policy role was filled by environmental regulators — former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Carol Browner as climate czar, former Browner aide Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator, and Nancy Sutley as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

In order to reach its own targets and to be a model for other combatants on climate change Baden - Württemberg develops efforts on climate protection.

Others think that focus should be on ways towards climate protection rather than arguing over numbers.

Organized by Our Task — a non-profit group dedicated to helping young adults become leaders in creating a more sustainable world — the two - day event featured speakers and representatives from many other organizations as well, including: Climate Progress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Center for a New American Dream, Population Institute, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Worldwatch Institute.

Zaelke and his team at IGSD are continuing to focus on other fast - action climate mitigation strategies, including black carbon, other non-CO2 gases, protection of forests, bio-char sequestration, and renewable energy.

(1) Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my Administration on a wide range of issues, including improvement of public health, protection of the environment, increased efficiency in the use of energy and other resources, mitigation of the threat of climate change, and protection of national security.

The Environmental Protection Agency stands on one side, along with environmental groups, climate activists and even several large corporations, and on the other side are two dozen states, supported by industry groups and utilities.

The most widely quoted estimates, like those in the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy, known as DICE, used by Yale's William Nordhaus and colleagues, depend upon educated guesswork to place a value on the negative effects of global warming in a number of crucial areas, especially agriculture and coastal protection, then try to make some allowance for other possible repercussions.

Under Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking to repeal the Clean Power Plan, a key component of Obama's climate legacy that sets limits on greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, and has gutted numerous other rules and regulations aimed at drawing down emissions, reducing our use of fossil fuels, and otherwise protecting the environment.

In an exclusive interview with the Reuters news agency on January 9, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is reported to have «reaffirmed plans for the EPA to host a public debate on climate science sometime this year that would pit climate change doubters against other climate scientists.»