Sentences with phrase «reverse climate efforts»
[Translate] THE GUARDIAN Officials around the world warn president not to reverse climate efforts Trump has already begun to peel...
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It would be recalled that while signing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the sidelines of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2016, President Buhari had said it «demonstrated Nigeria's commitment to global efforts to reverse the effects of the negative trend.»
«Climate change could reverse hard - won development gains and could stop our end - poverty efforts completely.
A new study shows how starting and stopping efforts to reverse climate change could speed up global warming
A 2009 report published by the U.K.'s Royal Society argued that such drastic efforts could become important short - term tools for reversing dangerous changes to the climate.
And Australian scientists have their fingers crossed, hoping the directive from Greg Hunt, revealed this morning, really indicates the federal government is reversing a previous decision to scale back climate research efforts.
McMorris Rodgers would have the power to reverse Obama administration efforts to protect federally managed waters from oil and gas development as well as end the research into how coal mining affects the climate.
Gore's efforts helped produce the groundbreaking Paris climate agreement in 2015, but the election of President Donald Trump has threatened to reverse that progress.
One of the major limits to climate change adaptation is the context in which it needs to take place and efforts to slow or reverse negative impacts need to engage the long - term place based change in economy, nature, and society.
Now, with a Trump presidency appearing bent on reversing American climate effort, the carbon competitiveness doom and gloom seems a little more plausible and a lot more threatening.
A 2012 report from the World Bank called «Turn Down The Heat» stated that climate change impacts will have «adverse implications for efforts to reduce poverty,» including reversing possible improvements made in malnutrition and health services (emphasis added):
Trump is set to sign an executive order Tuesday that would promote domestic oil, coal and gas by reversing much of former President Barack Obama's efforts to address climate change, according to details shared with Bloomberg News.
And, if we assume the weather in 2050 or 2100 — and, by extension the climate during that period — remains as unknown today as it has always been and, if we also agree that climate change is not getting reversed or slowed or accelerated by anything we have done or will ever do or even can do, imagine the massive futility of engaging in efforts to sequester CO2.
The Obama administration finally took concrete steps to address climate change, for example by drafting the Clean Power Plan and signing the Paris climate accords, but the Trump administration has (at least temporarily) reversed all of those efforts.