ExxonMobil now gives more than $ 1 million a year to organizations which oppose
taking action against climate change — including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Frontiers of Freedom, the George C. Marshall Institute, the American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research and the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The Guardian, July 2, 2008 has a headline: «Climate more urgent than economy, say voters», followed by an article which starts: «Voters think that
taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian / ICM poll published today.
«With this proposal, New York will lower the emissions cap even further and set the precedent for recognizing and
taking action against climate change to support the future of communities across the globe,» said Governor Cuomo.
Pigs continued to fly in Alberta politics today as energy industry leaders and environmental groups joined Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips at a press conference to release Alberta's much anticipated plan to
take action against Climate Change.
As an ever - growing number of natural product companies
take action against climate change, a new awards program recognizes leadership and bold initiatives.
Emerging economies have often argued that they should be compensated before
they take action against climate change.
The presentation included the movie's US stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad and Maya Rudolph as well as producers John Cohen and Catherine Winder, who asked the attendees for their support to make the Angry Birds happy by doing their part to
take action against climate change.
It is because of this that the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has a Climate Change Program that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to
take action against climate change.
GBM's approach empowers communities to
take action against climate change, the impacts of which are already being witnessed across Africa, through food security and water harvesting activities (adaptation) and planting the appropriate trees in appropriate places (mitigation).
It is because of this that the Green Belt Movement has a Climate Change Programme that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to
take action against climate change.
The Green Belt Movement's Climate Change Programme aims to strengthen the understanding and capacity of rural communities to
take action against climate change.
The Nature Conservancy's new research shows New Yorkers want to
take action against climate change.
It's also certainly to be expected that there are some interests who would not want to
take action against climate change.
JEMS Progressive Community Organization ($ 45,000): To organize trainings and programs that encourage community members to
take action against climate change, the biggest threat facing their island nation, culminating in a national week of climate action.
In a video touting the new climate rule, Obama's lead environmental advocate, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, said that if the rule moves forward, «We'll know we're doing all we can, together, to
take action against climate change.»
Out of Balance also looks at the history of the company, showing a pattern of behavior that goes all the way back to Standard Oil days, through the response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to their current refusal to
take action against climate change.
The document discusses climate change and its impact on the environment and human development and call young people to
take action against climate change.
Matt Dillon There's something about Matt Dillon: He recently teamed up with Global Green USA and Yahoo! to announce a «Greenest City in America» challenge as part of the web engine's new «Be a Better Planet» program, which urges Americans to
take action against climate change.
Simmons is currently working on a program that encourages youth and community members to
take action against climate change; the biggest threat facing their island nation.
This makes the arguments against
taking actions against climate change not just wrong, but dangerous,» Dr. Gleick said in his written testimony.
Not exact matches
This is stalling on
taking real
action against climate change.»
Right across B.C., there are more opportunities for us to
take meaningful
action against climate change.
The Make the Switch campaign is a collaborative effort between nonprofit Mass Energy Consumers Alliance and Mass Audubon to help residents
take a meaningful
action against climate change.
«This city is standing up and saying, «We're going to
take our own
actions to protect our own people,»» de Blasio said, wearing a green necktie and sitting in front of large green sign that said «NYC: Leading the Fight
Against Climate Change.»
While Cuomo has received some praise for being willing to increase state investments in
changes to protect residents
against extreme weather, Hawkins says those funds will be wasted if the state fails to
take action to halt
climate change.
Mr Paterson failed to
take the threat of
climate change seriously and will be remembered as the man who failed to
take action to protect Britain
against it.
Taking action and taking a decision on the 2030 climate and energy framework in October, will bring us just there and make Europe ready for the fight against climate c
Taking action and
taking a decision on the 2030 climate and energy framework in October, will bring us just there and make Europe ready for the fight against climate c
taking a decision on the 2030
climate and energy framework in October, will bring us just there and make Europe ready for the fight
against climate change.
«She also serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but again I have not seen clear signs of leadership on energy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and
against taking action on
climate change,» Squillace said.
And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied
against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of
climate change, to prevent policy
action from being
taken to deal with the problem.
Of the many inane arguments that are made
against taking action on
climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the projections
climate models offer about the future are too uncertain to justify
taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.
«It is possible to secure the reef's future if we continue to invest in local controls of pollution and start
taking serious
action against climate change.»
With regard to health specifically, the state's leaders publicly acknowledge the threats of
climate change and have committed to
taking action against them, even in a conservative state that helped elect a federal administration that sees little, if any, danger from human - caused
climate change.
Young people around the world have started suing their governments to
take stronger
action against climate change, claiming that they have «willfully ignored this impending harm» for too long.
The results show a clear worldwide support by citizens for their politicians to
take ambitious
action against climate change.
We believe that companies can play a pioneering role in the fight
against climate change, by both offering
climate - friendly solutions and by
taking action to reduce their carbon footprint.
«If we don't
take immediate
action against climate change, we are in grave danger of disruptive and devastating changes,» said Kim Carstensen, the Head of WWF Global Climate Init
climate change, we are in grave danger of disruptive and devastating
changes,» said Kim Carstensen, the Head of WWF Global
Climate Init
Climate Initiative.
This project focuses on
taking action against the health effects of
climate change in seven European countries: Albania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Uzbekistan.
Of the many inane arguments that are made
against taking action on
climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the projections
climate models offer about the future are too uncertain to justify
taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.
In truth 10 of its protagonists have either been funded directly by fossil fuel companies, or have received paid employment from lobby groups funded by these companies, which campaign
against taking action on
climate change (11).
• $ 365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) which advocates
against taking action on
climate change because warming is «inevitable» and expensive to address.
But he has received fees from two groups which lobby
against taking action on
climate change — Friends of Science and the Natural Resources Stewardship Project — both of which receive major funding from energy companies (12).
This administration is abdicating its leadership and
taking a backseat to other countries in the global fight
against climate change, New York State is committed to meeting the standards set forth in the Paris Accord regardless of Washington's irresponsible
actions.
The rhetoric emerging from leading Republicans today gives the impression that the party stands
against taking action on
climate change.
As they tend to do from time to time in an effort to distract from the
climate science consensus, a group of scientists who are also
climate «skeptics» have published an opinion - editorial (op - ed), trying to make the case
against taking action to address
climate change.
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After you
take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying
action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the
climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.
With very few exceptions, the US press has utterly failed to cover
climate change as an ethical and moral issue while focusing on the scientific and economic arguments
against taking action that have been made by opponents of US
climate change policies for almost 30 years.
And I'll remind you, every single one of the Republican Senate hopefuls this election season is
against taking any
action about
climate change.