Sentences with phrase «spending on climate action»

The current level of spending on climate action in 2014 - 2016 was only 17.6 percent of the budget, meaning that the EU would have to increase spending to 22 percent from 2017 to 2020, it said.

Current estimates by the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, of agricultural spending on climate action «include overestimation and lack sound justification,» the auditor said.

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Steyer's NextGen Climate Action PAC spent nearly $ 70 million on elections in 2014.

Spending on R&D has never fully recovered; meaningful action on climate change was long deferred.

This graph is from «Climate Risks: Linking Narratives to Action,» an important new essay in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on the gap between major environmental groups» messaging on human - driven global warming and the focus of their programs and spending.

In Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the Senate.

CDP, voted number one climate research provider by investors, works with 827 institutional investors with assets of US$ 100 trillion and 89 purchasing organisations with a combined annual spend of over US$ 2.7 trillion, to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take action to reduce them.

For those not spending the time marching the kilometer or more between the negotiators» Bula Zone and the Bonn Zone — stopping off at the US Climate Action Pavilion on the way — you can still feel the surge in interest: a flurry of state - of - the - world journalism, the publication of academic and practitioner research, and pronouncements from political leaders and campaigners.

I differ too in that I'm an environmentalist and think generally global warming is a farce and we'd be better to spend the money on stopping pollution of rivers and oceans, buying the amazon, and researching and finding action plans for when oceans do rise, as they will one day, man made climate change or not.

Sadly, the reality of Keystone XL has been masked by $ 10s of millions (if not $ 100s of millions) of propaganda distorting its economic implications and downplaying its climate change impacts (in the shadow of $ billions spent to undermine understanding of and action on climate change).

Many of these stories twisted Brulle's finding into an even more extreme claim, exemplified in this Guardian headline: «Conservative groups spend $ 1bn a year to fight action on climate change.»

I believe that the Government has promised to limit its spending on climate change action to $ 1.5 b, so it seems very likely that little will be achieved by the Direct Action Policy, but perhaps that is thaction to $ 1.5 b, so it seems very likely that little will be achieved by the Direct Action Policy, but perhaps that is thAction Policy, but perhaps that is the aim?

Like the 2006 version, the 2015 press release and executive summary highlight the need for enhanced spending on research and development so as to «mobilise innovation to accelerate climate action».

«Conservative groups spend $ 1bn a year to fight action on climate change,» read the headline in the U.K. Guardian.

If you spend a (x) billion to take actions to lower a countries CO2 emissions, but there is no data to suggest that the amount of the «avoided increase» will have an impact on the future climate - then it would be an inefficient expenditure.

Huffingtonpost: Delaying global action on climate change by 20 more years will put the goal of keeping the world relatively cool out of reach forever, no matter how much money humanity later spends to try to solve the problem, a new study finds.

A new Media Matters analysis found that when corporate broadcast TV news programs reported on climate change last year, they spent 79 percent of the time on statements or actions by the Trump administration — and even that included little coverage of efforts to roll back the Clean Power Plan and other climate regulations.

«Perhaps if they had spent more time and money diversifying their business rather than on lobbying against climate action and sowing the seeds of doubt about the science, they might not have joined the long (and ever growing) list of bankrupt global coal companies.»

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

Having spent time as a Probation Officer in Indiana, a Volunteer Coordinator in Argentina, and an AmeriCorps Tutor in Seattle, it wasn't until after taking a course on the ethics of climate change that her career path and passions would converge into action on climate change.

As Chapter 1 discusses in detail, environmental groups as mostly 501C3 organizations were allowed to spend unlimited sums on public education which includes advertising and communication efforts advocating generally for a need for action on climate change or a general cap on emissions.

«There is a serious risk that the EU's target of spending at least one euro in every five on climate action between 2014 and 2020 will not be met,» said report author Phil Wynn Owen.

Enviro group advertising focused almost exclusively on the need for climate action or cap and trade specifically, industry associations advertised on a range of issues including cap and trade with the Chamber spending heavily on health care.

Millions of dollars spent on scientific research comes to the same conclusions our elders warned us of years ago — that «Combatting climate change is an urgent common challenge for the international community and requires immediate global action».

CDP, voted number one climate research provider by investors, works with 827 institutional investors with assets of US$ 100 trillion and 89 purchasing organisations with a combined annual spend of over US$ 2.7 trillion, to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take action to reduce them. cdp.net @CDP

News leaked this week that the Koch brothers» billionaire network plans to spend nearly $ 900 million in fossil fuel and other corporate money to try to get their way in the 2016 election — in other words, the Kochs and their cronies are planning to spend astronomically to prevent action on climate (as well as income inequality, voting rights, affordable healthcare, and many other issues of importance to the 99 %).

At the same time, the company spends millions of dollars in political donations to candidates who favor dirty energy and oppose action on climate change.