Sentences with phrase «societal change action»

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Concerted and co-ordinated action at national, local and societal level is required to change the environment in the UK and enable mothers to breastfeed; in health services, in the community and in the home.

Delaying action to address climate change will increase the environmental and societal consequences as well as the costs.

Whether it be the horror of school shootings, the anxiety many children feel about the threat to their families» through the proposed changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), or violence, children are deeply affected by these societal pressures.

Legal or legislative actions are often the fastest way to make overdue societal changes, e.g. the civil rights acts in the 60's.

Humans at the societal / national level can cooperatively engage in the making of laws and other actions that will press these changes even further.

No one disputes that multiple surveys show a decline in public concern with climate change or that societal / political action appears to have stalled.

In his testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in July 2009, OSTP Director John Holdren took note of the National Research Council recommendation to restructure the (USGCRP) around «`... the end - to - end climate change problem, from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope with the impending societal problems of climate change.

I have worked with this community for the past half decade and continue to work with this community as I dedicate my scholarship, research, and teaching to identifying barriers to societal action on climate change and possible strategies for overcoming these barriers.

In turn, a change in these key beliefs is subsequently expected to lead to a change in respondents» support for societal action on climate change (H2).

I wrote the Climate Shift report to inform the decision making of environmental leaders, philanthropists, scientists, scholars and others as they consider next steps in the effort to mobilize societal action on the undeniable, human causes of climate change.

But this will prove impossible without rapid action and societal change, as the global population continues to grow and more ecosystems are lost every year to agriculture, urbanization, mining, and logging.

These actions, alongside the support of science in tackling the major challenges in projecting the impacts of ocean warming and climate change more generally, will help the insurance industry to avoid market failures and increase societal resilience.

... [O] ngoing political debate about global energy policy should not stand in the way of common sense action to reduce societal and environmental vulnerabilities to climate variability and change.»

Probably, the major issue that forces us as individuals to take action is health and in so far, no socio - environmental issue like climate change has given rise to such international political and institutional movement, and societal initiatives, including governmental and non-governmental ones, devising strategies in sectors like Energy and so on — for instance, biodiversity maintenance does not have that power!

Views differ on what, exactly, is the best way for scientists to advocate for societal action against climate change.

Responsibility for climate change lies at the heart of societal debate over actions to address it.

Whether it be the horror of school shootings, the anxiety many children feel about the threat to their families» through the proposed changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), or violence, children are deeply affected by these societal pressures.