«We also felt it was the right thing to do, given the general increasing
public awareness about climate change, and discussion at various government levels about carbon taxes and other environmental issues.»
NILU is concerned with increasing
public awareness about climate change and environmental pollution.
Not exact matches
Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid
change; educating the
public about polar sciences and
climate; contributing to
climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.
But
public awareness of the urgency of the
climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply
about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those
changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.
Climate change seemed to have slipped out of the
public awareness a little bit, and it wasn't helped at all during the election process, because nobody was talking
about it much then, either.»
Several scientists at the time came forward to accuse the administration of censoring
public awareness efforts
about climate change.
It could be due to a range of factors, the scientists say, from «a well - financed opposition» to the Cape Wind project on Cape Cod, to increasing
public awareness and concern
about changing climate and «global warming,» to health impacts and the recent electricity rate hikes in Delaware.
For polls see e.g., Brett W. Pelham, «
Awareness, opinions
about global warming vary worldwide,» Gallup (2009), online here; Leiserowitz et al. (2010b) and other work by Leiserowitz's group; Council on Foreign Relations, «
Public Opinion on Global Issues» (2011)(no longer available online); Bruce Stokes et al., «Global Concern
about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, online here.
But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative
climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the
public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more
public awareness about the issue prior to the next
climate change convention slated for December.