Sentences with phrase «raise awareness of climate change»

Mark Steyn (played by Rachel McAdams) and Michael E Mann (played by Lindsay E Lohan) raise awareness of climate change in the new film Warm Girls.

It will aim to promote the service to relevant bodies, and create public awareness of the role of the Climate Change Service, by developing educational resources and organising events to raise awareness of climate change issues.

Al Gore and Pharrell Williams took to the stage at the Davos Economic Forum on Wednesday to announce the second iteration of Live Earth, a series of worldwide concerts to raise awareness of climate change.

She soon co-founded Schools Under 2C, a student - led organization that aims to raise awareness of climate change among students in the US and abroad.

With our indian dance festival this year we wanted to raise awareness of climate change and do our best to make the festival climate neutral.

Further on: «[The Woodland Trust will] raise awareness of climate change, including through campaigning [and will] continue to work in partnership with relevant coalitions, such as The Climate Coalition, to ensure the benefits of, and the threats to, the UK's trees and woodland are included and given adequate consideration in the wider climate narrative.»

The Antarctic blogs, whether official or personal, raise awareness of climate change issues and communicate directly with the public on current polar projects and life on the ice.

The forthcoming Live Earth concert, organised by Al Gore to raise awareness of climate change, has not really educated people on the issues surrounding change and instead risks closing off debate, he concluded.

In Ribble and Craven working with primary age students, many with English as a second language, on a Bug Project brought together the arts and sciences in a project raising awareness of climate change.

Al Gore opposed the war in Iraq and Bush's assault on civil liberties, but he shared the Nobel peace prize instead for raising awareness of climate change.

It has been developed for use by teachers at all levels, aiming at 1) raising awareness of climate change through the role of education, 2) equipping and enhancing teachers with pedagogical skills and knowledge on climate change, and 3) sharing educational materials, ideas and activities in climate change education within the region.

The Committee recognized Gore for his part in raising awareness of climate change through his lectures, his political work, his nonprofit and the broad visibility of his Oscar - winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Climate Reality Leaders aren't just raising awareness of climate change.

Assessing the precise impact of those outputs — the degree to which Cape Farewell achieved its higher aims of raising awareness of climate change — is clearly much more difficult.

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IFOAM — Organics International is attending the COP22 climate talks to speak out on behalf of the organic food and farming community and to raise awareness of the urgent need to make organic agriculture part of a climate change solution.According to Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy Manager at IFOAM — Organics... more

Former Oasis singer narrates Climate Coalition's short film The Very Hot Snowman, to raise awareness of changing Climate Coalition's short film The Very Hot Snowman, to raise awareness of changing climateclimate

«Formula E has done a lot to raise awareness of things like climate change.

Many of my «Green Mom» friends are joining in to raise awareness of the need to continue the fight against climate change.

«The main purpose of this paper is to raise the awareness that climate change actually has an influence on contamination,» she said.

Among the new species, Liturgusa algorei, is named for Albert Arnold «Al» Gore Jr., former vice president of the United States of America, to honor his environmental activism and efforts to raise public awareness of global climate change.

His 1980s testimony before congressional committees on climate change helped to raise broad awareness of the dangers of global climate change.

Divestment creates the social and political will to shift public discussion on climate change and raise awareness of the risks that come with a hotter planet, they said.

President Obama spoke with leaders of Pacific island nations on the eve of the gathering and praised their commitment to raising awareness about the effects of climate change (Greenwire, Sept. 1).

He co-managed the UCS - led Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative, a multi-year program aimed at raising awareness of the energy - water connection, particularly in the context of climate change, and motivating and informing effective low - carbon and low - water energy solutions.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

«The listing not only raised public awareness that climate change is already driving vulnerable species like the polar bear toward extinction, but also forced the Bush administration to adopt the consensus view of the world's scientists on global warming.»

With the evidence of climate change becoming apparently clear, it is vital to strengthen education around the wider subject in the classroom in order to raise awareness and better prepare future generations.

Through a series of photos, virtual reality experiences, films and educational activities for children, the exhibit will raise awareness of the unique diversity of these reefs and the impacts of climate change on them.

I agree that, in addition to raising honest awareness of the issue, the media (and others) should point out the positives of working very hard to address climate change.

«For a response to climate - damaging food to be effective, while also contributing to raise awareness of the challenge of climate change, it must be shared.

The project was also aimed at raising public awareness of Arctic climate change.

While the group's focus remains on climate change, they have also raised awareness around the environmental impacts of fish farming and pesticides and promoted salmon population protection.

The goal of the list is to «raise awareness to other performance metrics of interest (e.g., performance per watt and energy efficiency for improved reliability),» as well as to «encourage supercomputing stakeholders to ensure that supercomputers are only simulating climate change and not creating climate change.»

The MOOC raised awareness and built the capacities of a wide range of interested stakeholders in climate change adaptation planning, specifically for the agriculture sectors.

Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.

March 25, 2017 completed a decade of the foundation of the global initiative Earth Hour for raising awareness regarding the environmental issues and supporting the action for climate change.

«As far as I'm concerned, this issue isn't on the list of government priorities,» said Ahmed Hassan, of the Save Alexandria Initiative, a group that works to raise awareness of the effects of climate change on the city.

One of our supporters, Ted Leeming, has just set up www.zerofootprints.org, an amazing photography website which showcases stunning photographs of things to do with climate change to help raise awareness and money to offset carbon emissions.

We are a diverse group of women and men who are determined to raise awareness of the biggest threat facing humanity today — that of Climate Change.

The caucus itself was formed after a long lobbying effort from the Citizens» Climate Lobby, showing the power of citizen efforts to raise political awareness of climate Climate Lobby, showing the power of citizen efforts to raise political awareness of climate climate change.

This policy document aism to address and raise awareness of the social dimension of ecosystem - based adaptation (EbA) to climate change, laying particular emphasis on: i) the social impacts of EbA on global national and regional level and local communities and ii) social considerations in designing and implementing EbA.

The document is divided into five chapters, namely: 1) Uncovering mitigation potential showcasing initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases emissions; 2) Gearing up for the storm relating to adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects; 3) Nurturing youth leaders presenting activities in education, training and capacity - building; 4) Spreading the message highlighting awareness raising campaigns and materials; and 5) Shaping up the future climate change regime presenting examples of youth participation in climate change policy - making.

It is hoped that the publication will raise awareness of the specific needs of these countries regarding forests and climate change, in particular regarding climate change adaptation but also mitigation, and will provide a point of departure for identifying and catalyzing regional action to complement and enhance national efforts.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

This manual also hopes to raise a deeper awareness of efforts to catalyze technology transfer, and to inspire the readers to scale up efforts to address climate change challenges in partnership with the GEF.

These experiences include different implementation level, methodologies and approaches that can be used by governments and other actors interested in the design and planning of education, training and awareness raising on climate change.

That this House notes Steve Posselt's efforts to raise public awareness of the risks from failing to address climate change.»

Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet, is a public art exhibition designed to raise awareness of solutions to climate change.

Their Secure American Future Program, dedicated to raising public awareness of the threat posed by climate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security pclimate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security pClimate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security pclimate disruption as a U.S. national security problem.