Sentences with phrase «programs on climate change»

«One of the significant contributions that came out of our partnership was this series of UCTV programs on climate change, masterfully moderated by Jon Clark of the CEC.

There is a need to scale up our national and local programs on climate change adaptation and disaster risk management with urgency,» Lucille Sering told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.

Also cut were 40 public information offices across the country and several scientific and research programs on climate change.

THE FACTS: The co-founder of the MIT program on climate change says the administration is citing an outdated report, taken out of context.

Our approaches are informed largely by research from the Frameworks Institute, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, among others.

Ordinary people can't be experts on everything, so most folks look to people they respect — church leaders, the president, neighbors — for cues on issues of expertise, like climate change, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Regardless of how closely they pay attention to scientific revelations about climate change and its connections to hurricanes, voters are increasingly worried about climate change, according to a new poll from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication released yesterday.

The jump accounts for the single biggest change among all voting groups, and it could symbolize a softening among conservatives on an issue that has sharply divided the political parties, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

The moratorium is part of the Interior Department's three - year study of the impact of the coal leasing program on climate change.

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's (CGIAR) Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security identified world regions that will bear the brunt of climate change's consequences on food availability.

Exxon's own scientists conducted an extensive research program on climate change and «The Greenhouse Effect», running complex CO2 monitoring experiments and publishing peer - reviewed papers, because the company was deeply interested in this emerging threat to its core business, oil, and ultimately the company's survival.

In a TV program on climate change, Jeff Donnelly, a geologist using seabed layers to track past hurricanes, takes the actor Ian Somerhalder into the «Bue Hole» formation in the Bahamas.

Bill Nye, depressed after meeting an ecologist foreseeing the end of the human race by 2030, goes into a tail spin in a TV program on climate change.

For those that don't know, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication is an excellent source.

A Times story earlier this week on social and political factors behind the climate change silence included a telling bit of data from Yale's Program on Climate Change Communication.

Julian Ramirez - Villegas, lead author of the study at CGIAR's Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security said: «This study tells where, and crucially when, interventions need to be made to stop climate change destroying vital food supplies in Africa.

Socio (s): CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, International Livestock Research Institute, World Agroforestry Centre, The University of Vermont, European Commission, Earth System Science Partnership, Canadian International Development Agency, Danish International Development Agency

This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which is a strategic partnership of CGIAR and Future Earth.

They are taking part in an education program on climate change and on how societies can adapt to an altered climate and prevent crises.

Socio (s): CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Vermont, World Agroforestry Centre, Earth System Science Partnership, Climate Focus

In fact, Jennifer Marlon from the Yale Program on Climate Change (YPCCC) Communication says there's actually six Americas.

According to a report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, 17 percent of Americans say the pope's stance on global warming has shaped their view of the issue.

Over the years he has shown a concern for maintaining a strong scientific research and assessment program on climate change — something to which few members of Congress pay much attention — both in proposed legislation and in calling out political interference with climate science communication.

Elisabeth Simelton, climate change scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre in Vietnam and project manager at the Consortium Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS), said the workshop provided an interesting platform where scientists and climate service providers from different countries were able to meet and exchange their experiences and ideas through interactive formats, so that everybody can take something new and useful back to their respective countries.

For example, the Pilot Program on Climate Change Resilience (part of the Climate Investment Funds) is providing $ 110 million in grants and loans.

The joint study, published by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), models the global suitability of arabica cultivation to see how production will be affected in 2050.

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will address the increasing challenge of global warming and declining food security on agricultural practices, policies and measures through a strategic collaboration between CGIAR and Future Earth.

The Zurich Financial Services Distinguished Visitors Program on Climate Change allows the Bren School to attract international leaders in environmental policy, law, business, and science to enrich and expand the intellectual life of the Bren School community and share insights on issues critical to climate change.

It is part of their 10 - year program, The CIGAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and it will be the role of the commission to devise new policies on global agriculture so that the world is better prepared for climate change.

These findings come from a nationally - representative survey (Climate Change in the American Mind) conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.

Socio (s): Met Office Hadley Centre, International Water Management Institute, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Even despite public controversies over the inclusion of climate change in state science standards, «Americans overwhelmingly support teaching our children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming — in all 50 states and 3,000 + counties across the nation, including Republican and Democratic strongholds,» according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (April 11, 2018).

«Climate risk assessment, Evaluation of approaches» Final conference of the Dutch National Research Program on Climate Change, 15 Nov 2001.

New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

And the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication provides a steady stream of important research and thoughtful analysis that nobody interested in engaging the public about climate change can afford to ignore.»

More than 70 percent of Americans oppose drilling in the refuge, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, a fact noted by both the investors and the Gwich «in Steering Committee.

In 2007, Alvidas was selected to participate in an intensive training program on climate change, led by former Vice President Al Gore and a team of environmental scientists.

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In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

As director of the Nathan Cummings Foundation's Corporate & Political Accountability program, Laura employs both grant making and active ownership strategies to address the ways in which corporations can both advance and hinder progress on climate change and inequality.

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

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-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

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.

There are the stereotypes: the ignorant, the uneducated, the angry, the anti-Muslim homophobes, terrifying us on our late - night television programs, deriding progress and climate change and women's equality.

Responding to a recent article in Nature on the psychology of climate change, The Guardian «s Andrew Brown argues that combatting global warming will require something beyond carbon taxes, recycling programs, and technological innovation: There may be ways of fixing [the current....

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.

This year's program is set to probe critical global issues from Brexit to climate change, explore the growing sustainability movement, delve into new technology available to the wine trade, and shine the spotlight on small and organic growers.

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.

Waste Not, Warm Not: Poverty, Hunger and Climate Change in a Circular Food System Dr Karen Brooks, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets, International Food Policy Research Institute