Sentences with phrase «roles in our changing climate»

We now know the bottom half is also playing important roles in our changing climate.

Studies like this one start to unmask pollution's role in the changing climate.

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The same experts found that widespread vegetarianism could cut environmental costs by $ 35 billion, as meat's role in exacerbating climate change, as well as its contribution to soil erosion, water pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity loss, is well documented.

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.

Such efforts have become more prominent under Xi as the Chinese president vows to take on a leadership role in global affairs from trade to climate change to cyberspace governance.

While it may be surprising to some, Canada's mining sector can play an essential role in enabling the technologies that will help the world address climate change.

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.

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

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.»

According to Giberson and Stephens, you might be an anti-intellectual fundamentalist if you are an evangelical who: dismisses evolution as «an unproven theory»; deny that «climate change is real and caused by humans»; think that «the founders were evangelicals who intended America to be a Christian nation»; defend spanking children; believe in traditional roles for the sexes; think that reparative therapy can «cure» homosexuality; and / or oppose gay marriage.

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...

While it may not be getting much attention at COP21, food loss and waste plays a huge role in the global climate change battle.

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

He also mentioned the role organic farming can play in mitigating climate change.

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.

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.

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.

With sustainable agriculture playing an important role in mitigating climate change and food security, how can adoption rates rise?

Leading European healthy food business Wessanen has launched a new initiative aimed at helping small food entrepreneurs to play an active role in tackling climate change.

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 environmenIn 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 environmenin 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.

He has said he wants to take on an international role in combating climate change.

To maintain its leadership role in the fight against poverty, Britain needs to commit to playing its part in tackling global challenges and implementing the SDGs to address poverty, climate change and other issues.

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.

My government will continue to play a leading role in world affairs, using its global presence to tackle climate change and address major international security, economic and humanitarian challenges.

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.

In his new role, Mr. Gennaro will further DECs efforts to prepare and make New York City more resilient to meet the challenges associated with climate change and to rebuild after recent storm events.

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.

My Government will continue to play a leading role in world affairs, using its global presence to tackle climate change and address major international security, economy and humanitarian challenges.

In her first major party political role as the Green Party Campaigns Co-ordinator, Berry led the Green Energy Works Campaign, calling for low carbon, non-nuclear energy to tackle climate change.

Mr Huhne acted as home affairs spokesman when the Lib Dems were in opposition, but was given the energy and climate change brief after playing a prominent role in the coalition negotiations.

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

«Ministers believe that new nuclear could play a key role in keep the lights on and meeting our climate change targets - but they don't want to own up to supporting it,» committee chair Tim Yeo said.

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.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

Later in the debate, State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan's West Side, grilled Young on investments contained in the budget resolution that, he argued, acknowledged the human role in causing 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.