Sentences with phrase «projected changes to climate»

To help regional stakeholders in British Columbia plan for projected changes to climate, PCIC, with the support of the BC Ministry of Forestry, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, has put together a set of climate summaries for the eight resource regions of BC.

Two recently published articles explore how projected changes to climate and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may affect grasslands in temperate regions and three crops in the United States.

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But the project has galvanized environmentalists who say developing Canada's oil sands would spike carbon emissions linked to climate change and that much of the oil would be sold abroad.

Their joint project on the economic risks of climate change is a bold attempt to galvanize business people and investors.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

Keystone XL is strongly opposed by environmentalists both in the United States and Canada, and President Obama says he won't approve the project until he's convinced it won't seriously contribute to climate change.

«Since 2007 I have been working on Drowning World, a long - term global project about flooding as my way of responding to climate change.

«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

He said that new forms could include specific real estate projects (such as jails, universities and hospitals buildings) or investment strategies tied to specific themes (such as insurance risks, population growth or climate change).

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President Barack Obama clearly wants to use the project to prove his seriousness in tackling climate change.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

«The critical factor in my determination was this: moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combating climate change,» Kerry wrote.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial cClimate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial cclimate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Our partner groups Voters Taking Action on Climate Change and Communities and Coal are in court this week, arguing bias in the Port of Vancouver's decision to approve the controversial Fraser Surrey Docks coal project.

In this segment, BNN speaks with Al Gore's right - hand man at Climate Reality Project, Stefan Sjöstrand, the president of IKEA Canada, and Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada about what businesses are doing to adapt to climate Climate Reality Project, Stefan Sjöstrand, the president of IKEA Canada, and Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada about what businesses are doing to adapt to climate climate change.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

on Proceeds from Ontario Green Bond to Help Fight Climate Change: Province Raises $ 1 Billion for Eco-Friendly Infrastructure Projects

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

Founded by co-chairs Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Thomas F. Steyer, the Risky Business Project examined the economic risks presented by climate change and opportunities to reduce them.

-- 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 means it is willing to admit that some of its fossil fuel assets — possibly including the spanking $ 13 billion Kearl tar sands project in Northern Alberta — could be wiped off its books if governments start taking action on climate change.»

Around five years ago, Hannon Armstrong (HASI) became the first publicly - traded company focused on investing in sustainable infrastructure projects to address climate change, leveraging decades of experience investing in similar assets.

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

These projects seek to mitigate or adapt to climate change.

In their development of this initiative, the three founders recruited additional members to forge the Project's Risk Committee, a group of dedicated individuals concerned about the economic future of America under the threat of global climate change.

The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania has supported this project due to its possible social impacts on climate change control.

The company, Canada's No. 2 pipeline operator, released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other department officials saying that increased carbon levies for Alberta oil sands producers and new Canadian targets for greenhouse - gas emission cuts should serve to help assuage U.S. concerns that approving the C$ 8 billion ($ 6.41 billion) project would increase climate change.

«In the 1980s, Exxon needed to understand the potential for concerns about climate change to lead to regulation that would affect Natuna [the gas field] and other potential projects,» Bernstein wrote.

The campaign against food waste is part of Tearfund's Renew Our World project which aims to tackle climate change.

In a climate of rapid change, it is difficult to project costs.

When composted, single serve coffee from compostable pods delivers a conservatively - projected 23 % reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, compared to conventional drip brewed coffee over its life cycle.

SCAA Sustainability Award This is given annually by SCAA's Sustainability Council, and went this year to Thanksgiving Coffee Company for their project «Responding to Climate Change: Building Community - Based Reliance.»

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Launched last week, the project is part of the Wellcome Trust's # 5 million Our Planet, Our Health programme, which aims to improve human health while at the same time protecting a world struggling to cope with the effects of climate change.

With increased attention to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsets, the goal of the project partners is to provide a free, easy - to - use, wine industry specific, greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol and calculator that will measure the carbon footprints of winery and vineyard operations of all sizes.

For three years, UTZ and the DE Foundation worked on an ambitious Coffee Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate Climate Care (C3) project with 1,250 coffee farmers in Vietnam to help them adapt to the effects of climate climate change.

As the world races toward a projected 9 billion inhabitants and against the backdrop of climate change, resource shortages and urbanisation, the question of how to ensure adequate food supply for everyone looms rather large.

Keeping abreast of the new scientific discoveries and tools related to climate change, designing and implementing our own research and monitoring projects, encouraging scientists to use our wildlife sanctuaries, and sharing lessons learned with our partners are appropriate high impact strategies for a science - based organization like Mass Audubon.

Individuals, classes, or stewardship teams may help with projects relating to climate change or invasive species.

After the park board approved the project over the summer, opponents continued to argue that placing the interpretive center near the shore could lead to the structure being damaged by the elements due to inclement weather and climate change.

The two - year project, called Building Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to action.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

Warren Pearce's new «Making Climate Social» project seeks to investigate the «contributors, content, connections and contexts of social media climate change communications» in order to determine «what the social media revolution might mean for the tricky relationship between science, politics, and publics.Climate Social» project seeks to investigate the «contributors, content, connections and contexts of social media climate change communications» in order to determine «what the social media revolution might mean for the tricky relationship between science, politics, and publics.climate change communications» in order to determine «what the social media revolution might mean for the tricky relationship between science, politics, and publics.»

Also, should China manage to shape the climate change regime to its favour, it could even gain an advantage vis - à - vis India, which already share with the PRC the highest number of projects under the KP's Clean Development Mechanism.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has been an incredible success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development projects.

Two gubernatorial hopefuls marched with more than 1,000 climate change protesters to call on the Cuomo administration to implement more environmentally friendly policies, starting with a new microgrid project that heats and cools the Empire State Plaza.

Also at noon, Democratic Nassau County executive candidate Laura Curran pledges to uphold the Pre-Trump Rule ensuring taxpayer funded infrastructure projects are built to accommodate effects of climate change if she's elected, the Boardwalk at Riverside Boulevard, Long Beach.

Despite the overwhelming response to the consultation stressing the importance of not reigning in the FITs scheme, the Department of Energy and Climate Change decided to exclude FITs for all projects over 50 kilowatts.

The city budgeted $ 60 million in FY17 for the project, according to a spokesperson, and de Blasio said, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.