Sentences with phrase «to climate change»

During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Wednesday, former Exxon Mobil (xom) CEO Rex Tillerson said climate change exists — its future impact is just hard to predict.

Climate change is real.

The organization added that Bloomberg would make extra funds available to the UN Climate Change Secretariat if the U.S. continued to «fail to pay its share of the UN climate budget in 2019.»

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to CNBC's Geoff Cutmore, addressing claims Russia interfered in the U.S. election, climate change and ISIS.

Obama has called the climate change accord the the «best chance we have to save the one planet we have.»

Rather than meet in a pub, per longstanding Irish tradition, the two men laced up their sneakers and went for a run, a picture of youthful energy as they discussed shared concerns about climate change, NATO, and Europe.

That irony points to what I see as an inescapable conclusion: The world probably can't solve climate change without nuclear power.

Bloomberg's announcement was welcomed by Patricia Espinosa, the UN Climate Change Secretariat's executive secretary.

This would help us to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, like dying oceans and widespread desertification, which will harm people around the world, especially the poor.

Recognizing that carbon emissions resulting from consumption of these fuels is driving catastrophic global climate change, my role as leader of the company is to ensure that Virgin provides financial support to non-profit groups that are exploring renewable energy and seeking market - based solutions to climate change, like the Carbon War Room.

With climate change, growing populations, and rising affluence, the demand for water is likely to grow substantially in the years ahead.

But he likens that relaxed attitude to ignoring climate change, saying, «If you are enjoying the weather, it is difficult to see it coming.»

«Alberta's new climate strategy, combined with a new federal government that is a true climate change partner for the provinces and territories, positions Canada to enter the Paris conference with a united voice.»

Similarly, 43 % say they're very or extremely concerned that the U.S. withdrawing from the agreement will hurt global efforts to fight climate change, while 25 % are moderately concerned.

$ AGN is committed to doing our part to reduce climate change: decrease energy consumption, greenhouse gas, water use & waste by ~ 20 % in 2020

The more the world feels the powerful effects of climate change and the longer we wait to reduce emissions the more attractive nuclear energy could become.

CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas industry is being welcomed by environmentalists and, with some reservations, by industry players, as a key step in fighting climate change.

«At some point, the cost of capture intersects with the cost of carbon, and all of a sudden you don't have to subsidize industry to do it,» explains Rob Savage, director of Alberta Environment's Climate Change Secretariat.

Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

The administration says they want to meet the COP 21 climate change goals, which were laid out in Paris last year.

Through water and soil monitoring software, accompanying hardware, and crop loss insurance, it's helping farmers protect their livelihoods in the era of climate change.

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

Saudi Arabia is also a signatory to the Paris Agreement on climate change, but it has not been clear as to how it intends to achieve its carbon emissions reduction targets.

The poll shows about two - thirds of Americans think that climate change is happening, while only about 1 in 10 think it's not.

The Great Stagnation: In «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate change.

In a statement Sunday, Bloomberg's charity Bloomberg Philanthropies said the $ 4.5 million would go towards the operations of the UN Climate Change Secretariat.

Bonnie Sumner, an independent voter who has lived in Colorado the last nine years, is among those who said doing something to combat climate change is important.

Cofounder Martin Eberhard has said Tesla was started to fight climate change.

Even coal enthusiast and climate change - skeptic Trump recently showed some openness to clean power when he floated plans to line his proposed Mexican border wall with solar panels.

But when asked by Sen. Bob Corker (R - TN) if human activity has contributed to climate change, Tillerson said that «the increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect,» and that «our ability to predict that effect is very limited.»

Methane — a compound made up of one carbon atom bonded to four of hydrogen — is, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide.

Seven in 10 Americans — including some of those who aren't sure whether climate change is actually happening — think it's a problem that the U.S. government should be working to address.

Say what you will about Exxon's long - time climate change denial, about the lingering damage from the Exxon Valdez disaster, about the fact it's the archetype of Big Oil.

The head of personal investing at a $ 1.2 trillion fund manager says she plans to rescind investments in companies that haven't worked at reducing climate change — and she's lobbying other fund managers to follow suit.

His issues were poverty and income inequality, climate change, universal health care, and withdrawing troops from Iraq.

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

Women are more likely than men to call climate change an important issue, 59 % to 47 %.

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

The history is important, as a problematic front - page story in The New York Times, How GOP Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science, illustrates.

Steve also led our coverage of the COP21 climate change talks in 2015.

Grantham is clearly worried about climate change, and his investment strategy reflects this.

At that same time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collapsing.

Both climate change and inequality were «two key issues» that would drive us to either utopia or dystopia, Lagarde stated.

Certain countries susceptible to climate change have seen a spike in travel interest over the past year, according to a new report from travel insurance comparison web site Squaremouth.

Oil prices are stagnant, industry has halted capital investment and climate change is worsening.

Yet as an environmentalist, philanthropist and alternative energy investor, he is trying to halt the accelerating affects of climate change and make people understand the connectedness between climate and financial markets.

U.S. officials attended a meeting on Saturday of ministers from more than 30 of the nations that signed the climate change agreement.

She'd worked on climate change legislation and a national strategy for suicide prevention; she'd been a strong advocate for women's and LGBT rights.

Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.