Sentences with phrase «role of the changing climate»

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Recognizing that carbon emissions resulting from consumption of these fuels is driving catastrophic global climate change, my role as leader of the company is to ensure that Virgin provides financial support to non-profit groups that are exploring renewable energy and seeking market - based solutions to climate change, like the Carbon War Room.

Moreover, looking «outside - in» means acknowledging that business does not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from climate change to sustainable development.

«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

Prior to assuming this role, Sarah served as director of government relations for Spectra Energy Transmission's Western Canadian operations, responsible for leading the organization's government relations and climate change functions.

Macron might even try to bring up climate change or the role of the European Union's new Permanent Structured Cooperation defence pact.

In her prior role as the Director of Shareholder Activities at the Foundation, Laura successfully engaged public corporations on topics ranging from climate change to corporate governance.

The joint statement by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the Investor Network on Climate Risk, and the Investors Group on Climate Change also encourages intensive gas users and governments in oil and gas importing regions to consider playing a role in encouraging control of methane emissions.

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with...

A new government report on the science of climate change has made it past the Trump White House unscathed with forceful statements about humanity's role in rising temperatures and their severe threat to the United States.

Or you could take a stake in a firm that plays a big role in your issue of choice, like Exxon with climate change, to try and push them in the direction you want.

At a recent meeting of Indian provincial environment and forestry ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that nuclear energy will play a critical role in helping the country to meet both its energy security and climate change mitigation goals.

Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Mitigation of environmental impact and adaptation to climate change will be discussed at the upcoming IDF Symposium on the Role of Dairy in Sustainable Diets, Seville, 1st and 2nd February 2018...

Their journey reveals the chile pepper's dynamic role in understanding climate change and the future of food production.

Other papers in the Sustainability Initiatives session discuss the role of sustainable agriculture in food security and climate change.

Grace Boyle, chair of the student union's Love Veggie society, played a key role in Ulster's adoption of MFM by starting a petition to gather support for the move, because of a lack of meat free and vegan options at Ulster, and because the university does not formally acknowledge that the meat and dairy industries are major contributors to climate change.

Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease Environmental: climate change, aging trees, unfertile soil Social: limited access to education, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women Financial: poverty, lack of access to finance

The role of sustainable agriculture to mitigate climate change was discussed.

Discussions covered future role of eco-labels and certification schemes, transparency in global supply chains, climate change mitigation and risks, use of sustainable ingredients, and tackling food waste.

Australia's current Conservative - led coalition government is playing down the role of climate change on Australian agriculture.

Climate change, smog, acid rain, dead zones and the ozone hole are real issues affecting the planet, and nitrogen pollution plays a key role in each of them.

Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.

In this program, students define climate, discover carbon's role in climate change by becoming a carbon molecule, explore the possible outcomes of climate change, and brainstorm ways to positively impact their environment.

Wildlife corridors will play a particularly important role in the age of climate change, where many species will need to shift location to find a more comfortable setting.

I am immensely grateful for the huge contribution you have made to the government over the past 18 months; both in the trailblazing work you have undertaken as Energy and Climate Change Secretary and in your wider role in government as a key architect of the coalition.

I am proud that the UK has played a leading role in the revival of international climate change talks through the United Nations at Cancun and Durban.

Along with most people who recognise the reality of climate change, I do not doubt that markets and private property rights have, or can have, an important role to play in handling the problem, e.g., through suitably designed emissions trading systems and the like.

Trump's likely pick to fill the role of a top scientist at the USDA — Sam Clovis, best known for hosting a conservative talk show in Iowa — is a climate change skeptic with no background in science.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

«The Ghana CIC solidifies the role of the private sector in helping Ghana mitigate and adapt to climate change,» said Henry Kerali.

The Green Party's principal speaker Dr Derek Wall highlights the shortcomings of carbon offsetting, concluding it can have only a very limited role in the fight against climate change.

Climate change campaigners begged both Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband to make arrangements for the energy secretary to remain, because of the vital role he had been given by the Mexican hosts in leading discussions on the fate of the earlier Kyoto Protocol.

Given the importance of the industry to the UK economy the CIOB believes the role should be located within a highly influential government department; probably the Cabinet Office, with excellent links into the Treasury, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR).

As well as expertise in improving the sponsorship role of construction within government, providing an effective interface with the Governments role as a regulator and improving the sustainability of the built environment and climate change.

«We will not ignore the science and reality of climate change which is why I am also signing an Executive Order confirming New York's leadership role in protecting our citizens, our environment, and our planet.»

The «nitty - gritty» of how patents are developed and then protected is a big issue when it comes to the role technology can play in the future of energy security and climate change policy, for example.

Natural England commissioned report NECR149 «The role of landscape and site scale characteristics in making species populations resilient to climate change and extreme events» http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5849831096451072 BASC white paper «The role of shooting in landscape - scale land management» http://basc.org.uk/business-intelligence-unit/what-we-do/white-papers/

So the importance of getting our Brexit settlement right is vital in this area both in terms of Britain's industrial role in reducing climate change and in terms of protecting jobs and industry.

work with education providers to ensure climate change policies fully recognise the role of education and schools in delivering behaviour change, and bring more understanding of ecological issues into our schools.

«It is absurd to leave someone in charge of a department whose role is to protect the country from a growing climate crisis who himself believes that «people get very emotional about this subject, and I think we should just accept that the climate has been changing for centuries».

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They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.

They both sat in Gordon Brown's cabinet, with Ed filling the less high profile role of climate change and energy secretary.

Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have played vital roles in the collection of scientific data on climate change.

Seeing the vast areas affected by climate change during this cruise has highlighted for me the importance of the science I play a small role in.

«We are quickly running out of time to prevent hugely dangerous, expensive, and perhaps unmanageable climate change,» wrote the report's authors, who include former U.N. Environment Programme chief Achim Steiner and Mexican chemist Mario Molina, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering the threat that chlorofluorocarbon gases pose to the Earth's ozone layer.