Sentences with phrase «stronger climate change commitments»

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The Welsh Liberal Democrats are today calling for more ambitious climate change targets, stronger commitments to halt the loss of biodiversity in Wales and more concerted efforts for Wales to become a Zero Waste Nation.

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched a Green Partnership, reaffirming their countries» strong commitment to taking vigorous action to combat climate change, ensuring their mutual energy security, working towards global food security, and building a clean energy economy that will drive investment, job creation, and economic growth throughout the 21st century.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

President - elect Barack Obama today named his picks to run the nation's energy and environment policy in a move that shows a strong commitment to getting climate change under control and exploring alternative energy sources such as solar and wind.

At the last MEF, Germany and France called for strong short - term commitments, along the lines of what the world's leading scientists recommend to fight against climate change.

Participants reaffirmed that the risks posed by ongoing climate change require a strong commitment to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation to unavoidable climate change, and development of low - carbon energy sources, independent of whether climate intervention methods ultimately prove to be safe and feasible....

RP: If he's not able to make a strong binding commitment it might leave a lot of people disappointed, and yet the «conservatives» who don't want to have anything done about climate change will just find it one more thing to attack him on, that he showed up at all.

The time has come for countries to take significant action and make strong commitments to reduce emissions, combat climate change and set us on a path towards a better future.

The time has come for countries to take significant action and make strong commitments to reduce emissions, combat climate change.

Without going into further detail in this written testimony, I suggest that this extraordinary scaling back of the Administration's commitment to a strong Earth Science research and observations program at NASA has very serious implications for the strength of the nation's climate change science capability.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

Given a strong commitment to action on the issue and a strong political outlook, advocates like blogger Joe Romm tend to notice and highlight each instance of dismissive media commentary or falsely balanced coverage of climate change while tending to overlook (or go without mentioning) the many other instances of coverage where consensus views on climate change are strongly asserted.

The voting public in California has indicated its strong commitment to a renewable energy future, and the state's voters have indicated their strong concerns about climate change.

Although there are numerous bilateral and multilateral agreements on which EPA might rely, the strongest evidence may be found in the procedural rights provided and the substantive commitments made through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the international efforts to address climate change which recently coalesced in Paris in DecembeClimate Change (UNFCCC) and the international efforts to address climate change which recently coalesced in Paris in DecemberChange (UNFCCC) and the international efforts to address climate change which recently coalesced in Paris in Decembeclimate change which recently coalesced in Paris in Decemberchange which recently coalesced in Paris in December 2015.

As we have seen, each year the tough issues have been postponed, the stronger national commitments must be to prevent dangerous climate change.

And, with cities and states increasingly making commitments to address climate change, including California's mandate of 50 % renewable energy by 2030 and a recent commitment from several Northeast states to reduce carbon emissions 65 % by 2030 — there are strong indications that the solar industry has plenty of growth ahead.

If the international community aims to combat climate change and remain within carbon budget, then strong commitments to phase out fossil fuel use by

If the international community aims to combat climate change and remain within carbon budget, then strong commitments to phase out fossil fuel use by mid-century must be made by politicians around the world.

They need to be supported by a strong commitment to research and development so they can be provided with the tools they need to farm sustainably and abundantly in the face of the world's changing climate.

More electricity generated by renewable sources in 2017 signals strong commitment to addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change.

In ethical terms we see another example of a climate scientist who holds a strong ethical commitment to the policy dimension of climate change and its associated end of shaping public opinion and behaviour, appearing to prioritise the pursuit of those ends above the narrower moral codes of scientific discovery.

Jordan's Agriculture at Risk «Although Jordan does contribute a mere 0.1 % of global carbon emissions it maintains strong commitment to the objectives developed by the international community for the integrated environmental and economic response to the threat of climate change,» Irani wrote.

Under its 2008 Climate Change Act, the UK already has stronger commitments than under EU law, but Brussels acts as a backstop.

The Australian Government has confirmed its commitment to developing policies to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change, with a strong emphasis on consultation and partnership with Indigenous Australians.

I believe that the climate of goodwill that has been evident since the National Apology demonstrates that with bipartisan commitment, constitutional change would have a strong chance of success.