Sentences with phrase «still focused on climate change»

Still focused on climate change being «fraught with complexity and uncertainty,» Herkströter outlined Shell's plans for the future: «We will continue to find and produce oil and gas — efficiently and responsibly — to fuel the next 20 - 30 years of economic growth... We will provide more natural gas and develop our businesses in gas - fired power generation... We are moving fast in the area of renewables, with a new core business called Shell International Renewables.

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The influence of climate change on this warm water invasion is an ongoing research focus among climate scientists and is still not completely understood.

Despite this year's U.N. focus on migrants, security and other issues, advocates say climate change is still receiving ample attention.

It's no wonder that my friend Bill McKibben, while still pushing his vision of returning concentrations of carbon dioxide to their 1988 level, focused his new book, Eaarth, on girding for life in a turbulent world of disruptive climate change.

Still, some commentators noted that a draft plan for the report approved by scientists had been watered down after the Bangkok meeting, specifically areas focused on strengthening global efforts to tackle climate change.

The premise behind the GDRs project is that the climate crisis can only be understood against the backdrop of an ongoing and debilitating development crisis, and that it is both unacceptable and unrealistic to expect those who are still struggling against poverty to focus their resources on averting climate change.

Shell is almost solely focused on CCS as a mechanism for tackling climate change, sources at the company say, although most independent advisers believe CCS, which has still not proved itself to be commercially or technologically possible on a large scale, will not be ready until 2020 at the earliest.

But the focus of negotiators here is still on reaching agreement on two separate — and substantive — tracks; one is the Kyoto Protocol text, which excludes the US, and the other is the text of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the US is party to.

The influence of climate change on this warm water invasion is an ongoing research focus among climate scientists and is still not completely understood.

Yet it is too early to predict such a transformation will actually take place and reason to believe that the US media still does not understand the practical importance for US climate policy that an ethical focus on climate change entails.

Or is the future shape of the risk still so vague and uncertain that we are stuck having the whole country underwrite it until the effects of climate change on big storms come into clearer focus?

And still there is little being discussed in civil society about it and how it could potentially change the conversation and focus on how to combat climate change.

Despite stating that «the physical facts agree» that large effects of global climate change will be realized in 50 years and that a 2 % decrease in fossil fuel consumption would «considerably ease» the «immediate problem,» the committee still focuses on the «large probable error» of the data.

And how relevant is it at all given the climate changes suddenly, not as the lovely smooth curves Mosher and most of the orthodoxy are still focused on.

But to Parker, those technologies — most of which focus on addressing climate change — are still just a sliver of the innovation needed to address the world's environmental woes.

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