Sentences with phrase «take bold climate action»

«We can not wait for Washington, D.C. to act — we owe it to our future generations to take bold climate action.

This is the time for business and government leaders to take bold climate action, and build strong economies that rely primarily on renewable energy and low carbon technology.

Anirban Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mahindra Group, shared his experience of taking bold climate action as part of the Talanoa Dialogue at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn this May.

Karol Gobczyński, Climate & Energy Manager at IKEA Group, shared his experience of taking bold climate action as part of the Talanoa Dialogue at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn this May.

Taking bold climate action makes good business sense Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International, had a bold message when he opened the Climate Savers Business Event with a video message: there is business opportunity in fighting climate change.

He also urged all companies to seize the business opportunity of taking bold climate action.

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As an ever - growing number of natural product companies take action against climate change, a new awards program recognizes leadership and bold initiatives.

«With this proposal, New York is taking bold action to fight climate change and protect our environment, while supporting and growing 21st century jobs in these cutting - edge renewable industries.»

Representing $ 180 billion, New York City's pension funds have yet to take necessary bold action on par with what the climate crisis requires, explained the organizers of the action.

«Government has recently made some bold statements about taking action on climate change.

Peralta, who joins the now eight - member - strong IDC, said he's joining the conference because of the current «political climate demands that progressive legislators take bold action to deliver for their constituents.»

Mr. Peralta, whose victory in 2010 made him the first Dominican - American to be elected to the State Senate, said in a statement released by the conference on Wednesday that «today's political climate demands that progressive legislators take bold action to deliver for their constituents,» adding that he wanted results on issues like affordable housing, homelessness and school funding.

«With this proposal, New York is taking bold action to fight climate change and protect our environment, while supporting and growing 21st century jobs in these cutting - edge renewable industries.»

Developing countries that were once reluctant to join in the first phases of a global response to the climate crisis have themselves now become leaders in demanding action and in taking bold steps on their own initiatives.

The growing pace of corporate action is now impossible to ignore as hundreds of the world's biggest businesses take bold action for the climate.

Launching this spring and escalating throughout the summer, the plan will manifest this fall in hundreds of climate action events across the country, tens of thousands of engaged climate - minded people taking to the streets, and even more civically - engaged Americans demanding bold climate action on September 8th and in the months that follow.

As we take bold actions by getting involved with groups like Citizens» Climate Lobby, it does change the world around us.

The optimistic view: there is still time for us to take bold, decisive actions that will shape our planet for decades (and even millennia) to come... A California resilient to increasing 21st century climate whiplash won't emerge overnight, but we now know enough about our plausible climate future to make informed decisions.»

The climate activist group, 350.org, warned it planned to «fill up the room during government consultations» and then «mobilize en masse» to push the government to take «bold and ambitious climate action.»

This May, from 5 — 13 May, individuals and institutions are choosing to take matters into their own hands as governments fail to take bold action to confront the climate crisis and halt fossil fuel expansion.

In 2011, drawing on the city's long history of taking positive climate action, the Mayor of Vancouver set up the Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world byaction, the Mayor of Vancouver set up the Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world byAction Plan (GCAP), a bold initiative that aims to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020.

«Following the Paris climate agreement, we must now take bold action to protect our planet for future generations,» says its president Jim Yong Kim, harping on the need to help nations transition to renewable sources of energy, produce green transport, and build livable, sustainable urban cities.

«By taking this bold step, California and the other partners will not only secure significant emissions reductions but also demonstrate that climate action and prosperity go hand in hand.

And the number of companies making bold climate commitments through the We Mean Business coalition's Take Action campaign has reached over 660.

PARENTEAU: It's testing these theories which are very similar against a body of state law, in different states as you just mentioned, and so it's probing, it's trying to find a breakthrough case where you can find a state supreme court willing to make a really bold decision finding not only a right to a healthy environment, or a safe climate, stable climate, but also finding a duty on the part of the government to take real tangible action to address that.

calling for «governments to take bold action at the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015 to secure a more prosperous world for all of us.»

Instead of creating one more body for business - as - usual, governments, funding agencies, and international organizations should be taking bold action: committing to shift resources away from climate - damaging practices of chemical - intensive industrial agriculture and meat production and towards investment in and commitment to agroecology, food sovereignty, and support to small - scale food producers.

«Following the Paris climate agreement, we must now take bold action to protect our planet for future generations,» said Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group.

-- Thomas Loster 14 Corporate leaders urging the Prime Minister to take bold action on climate change «In May 2005 the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate climate change «In May 2005 the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate climate change.

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«New Yorkers know all too well the devastating impact of climate change, and we have taken bold action to slow its effects and invest in the energies of tomorrow,» Governor Cuomo said.

Greenpeace will be on hand standing with Coast Salish leaders and hundreds of others during the coming days to help train people who want to take bold action to protect the water, protect the land and exercise their right to peaceful protest,» said Mike Hudema, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Canada.