Sentences with phrase «terms of addressing climate change»

So — how important is this in terms of addressing climate change?

«Methane is the strongest human greenhouse gas on a political or short timescale, and also has more bang for the buck in terms of addressing climate change,» said Leifer.

Not exact matches

«I fundamentally disagree that this is an issue that isn't urgent to address in terms of climate change,» Mr. de Blasio told Senator Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with Senate Republicans and had brought the groceries.

He is a proponent of campaign finance reform, term limits, greater focus on education and a «balanced» effort to address climate change.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

And with the service's centennial happening in 2016, NPS is working on a «plan of action» to improve the parks for the big celebration, as well as to address long - term concerns, including cultural resource management, invasive species, and climate change.

The idea that climate behaves like a dynamical system addresses some of the key shortcomings of the conventional view of climate change — the view that looks at the planet as a whole, in terms of averages.

This module will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long ‐ term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

It would mean that DOE has given up on addressing the challenge of climate change and instead is just focused on the near term goal of reducing oil imports and modestly reducing the expansion the coal fired power plants.

Limiting emissions of greenhouse gases is a long - term challenge that needs to be addressed in ways that achieve results; building and living resiliently in tornado zones is a real - time imperative, with or without a push from climate change.

It's interesting to google the address and phone number supplied on the Terms of Use page, and also Peter Kriss's name plus «climate change»

Which candidate gets an «A +» in terms of his / her plan to address climate change, and which candidates get lesser grades, in some cases perhaps D's and F's?

To respond to this need the European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated a new programme, Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).

Irrespective of the state of US national climate policy, North American governments at all levels should not lose sight of the longer - term opportunities and benefits of harmonizing policies to address climate change.

But Canada is further ahead on implementing the actions required to address climate change that will provide a long - term sustainable future for wind energy development by looking beyond wind energy's role in the electricity grid to its role (with other renewable energies) as a substitute for fossil fuels in other sectors of the economy where most of our greenhouse gas emissions are produced.

WWF supported H&M to develop a new strategy to address climate change which included setting ambitious short and long term targets to address climate impacts through their entire value chain as part of a broader transformational partnership between H&M and WWF.

e Commit adequate and predictable new and additional long - term finance to support developing countries to reduce their emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change with a particular focus on addressing the current structural underfunding of adaptation needs;

Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.

«Improving energy efficiency is the most cost - effective concrete action governments can take in the short term to address climate change and energy security concerns,» said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

As the world's largest economy, and the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States is central to any long - term strategy to address global climate change.

In a December 4 address to the high - level segment of COP18, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon spoke in apocalyptic terms of the «existential» threat to humanity and the planet posed by the «crisis» of climate change.

«(n) the promotion of sustainable settlement and transportation strategies in urban and rural areas including the promotion of measures to --(i) reduce energy demand in response to the likelihood of increases in energy and other costs due to long - term decline in non-renewable resources, (ii) reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and (iii) address the necessity of adaptation to climate change; in particular, having regard to location, layout and design of new development.»

Lee Raymond, chairman of ExxonMobil, responded that, «Our investment in G - CEP is a demonstration of our long - held belief that successful development and global deployment of innovative, commercially viable technology is the only path that can address long - term climate - change risks while preserving and promoting prosperity of the world's economies.»

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(a) state the country endorses the Framework for the Coalition (b) state the country endorses meaningful action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (c) identify particular areas of interest related to short - lived climate pollutants and any specific actions taken or planned to address near term climate change, and (d) identify a primary point of contact, with name, title and email address for communication.

For these reasons alone, it becomes obvious to anyone with a sense of fairness that — to the extent that the international community is to cooperate on addressing the effects of climate change — the terms of cooperation ought to be fair.

Yet action to address the risk is complicated because of what Wagner and Weitzman call the Big Four problems: Any one country's effort to prevent climate change alone would be ineffective; political systems struggle to address long - term challenges; by the time humanity decides to act aggressively, it may be too late; and the risks are highly uncertain, which makes them easy to dismiss.

Mitigation and adaptation are essential to addressing climate change over the long term, but over the short to medium term they will almost certainly be insufficient to protect the world's poorest from the worst effects of global warming.

Climate Change Commission Vice-Chair Mary Lucille Sering said the long - term climate financing is one of the crucial and important aspects to address the climate change chaClimate Change Commission Vice-Chair Mary Lucille Sering said the long - term climate financing is one of the crucial and important aspects to address the climate change chalChange Commission Vice-Chair Mary Lucille Sering said the long - term climate financing is one of the crucial and important aspects to address the climate change chaclimate financing is one of the crucial and important aspects to address the climate change chaclimate change chalchange challenge.

If Premier Prentice is committed to achieving cost - effective, long - term GHG emission reductions in the electricity sector as part of addressing climate change, wind energy will need to play a primary and growing role in Alberta's electricity system.

Despite providing some real safety benefits in the short - term, this technology does nothing to address the bigger issue of limiting dangerous global climate change.

«What the long term looks like [for tar sands] really depends on whether we move to address climate change or whether we adopt failure,» said Anthony Swift, director of the Canada project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and international level, for: assessing the international community's collective and individual efforts to address climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.

Specific goals of the Synthesis Workshop included inter alia: to inform health scientists, practitioners, and officials of the impacts of climate variability, and long - term climate change in the Indian Ocean, Pacific, Caribbean and other regions; to address vulnerability assessment and adaptation options for Small Island Countries; and to summarize conclusions and recommendations for common actions and activities for Small Island States and vulnerable islands in general.

If NDCs are to become the long - term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies.

Instead of a near - term treaty, we may see a kind of climate interregnum, a shift from an era of treaties (1992 - 2009), where addressing climate change was grounded in international law, to an era when climate change is addressed through national pledges with no binding international arrangements.

Obviously, Turner's thoughts are on the extreme side — but not addressing the issue of climate change could very well have very real consequences in terms of food, health, and habitat.

In what his aides called one of the most significant policy addresses of his second and final term, the mayor argued that directly taxing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change will slow global warming, promote economic growth and stimulate technological innovation — even if it results in higher gasoline prices in the short term.

The analysis is in terms of Europe's» two fold obligation,» and shows how it can act, on the one hand, by undertaking domestic actions to rapidly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and, on the other, by fulfilling its international obligations to help other countries address the twin crises of climate change and development.

F Pachauri, an Indian economist (and vegetarian) who had just been reelected to a second term as chairman, made one of the most public and bold statements about the connection between our diet and global warming on the world stage: Choosing to eat less meat, Pachauri said, or cutting out meat entirely, is one of the most important personal choices we can make to address climate change.

If you mean that human caused climate change should have been better addressed by WG1, I think societies impact on climate is implicit in the physics, at least in terms of CO2 and biome impacts, and WG1 was intended to provide an understanding of the physical science, which I don't find reductionist.

The knowledge of climate and its variability during the past centuries can improve our understanding of natural climate variability and also help to address the question of whether modern climate change is unprecedented in a long - term context (Folland et al. 2001; Jansen et al. 2007; Hegerl et al. 2007; Mann et al. 2008 and references therein).

Intervention characteristics associated with more effective outcomes: promoting positive mental health rather than the prevention of mental illness; continuous and long term; whole school approach, focusing on school climate and environment rather than on individual change; opportunities for practice in range of contexts, addressed self - concept, self - esteem and coping skills; combining universal and targeted programmes