Sentences with phrase «toward climate efforts»

But only a portion of that money goes toward climate efforts, he said.

Not exact matches

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon in Queens on Friday unveiled an environmental policy platform that is geared toward shifting the state to 100 percent renewable energy, strengthening the state's efforts against climate change and rejecting new infrastructure for gas pipelines and other fossil fueles.

Lower Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Cap by 30 Percent Between 2020 and 2030 - Cuomo «has called upon RGGI states to join New York in an effort to continue to lead the fight against climate change and drive the nation's transition toward a clean energy economy.»

China leans toward cap and trade In a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costly.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

The School Climate Bill of Rights is part of the District's larger effort to transform our discipline policies from traditional approaches toward more restorative practices.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

Focusing on the development of a campus» climate as a learning environment is fundamental to improved teacher morale and student achievement (Nomura, 1999) and formally assessing and addressing school climate is essential to any schools» effort toward successful reform, achievement and making a difference for underprivileged student groups (California P - 16 council, 2008).

(Personally, I don't see this kind of effort going anywhere unless and until climate impacts trend toward worst - case outcomes.)

The new policy brief examines the design, enactment, implementation, and performance of the SO2 allowance trading system, with an eye toward identifying lessons learned for future efforts to apply cap and trade to other environmental challenges, including global climate change.

«On balance, the energy revolution lays the foundation for U.S. leadership in global efforts to address climate change and paves the way toward a low - carbon energy future.»

We welcome Mondi's efforts toward helping build a more sustainable business world and are happy to have them join the Climate Savers programme.»

In this context, WCRP promotes current and future leadership in climate science, making particular efforts to support and engage Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from all regions in the world, toward a sustainable climate research community.

While businesses are increasingly taking steps to assess risks and prepare for future climate changes, many companies face internal and external challenges that hinder efforts to move toward greater climate resilience.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

Yet as New Englanders trade in sport utility vehicles for hybrid cars and move toward more climate - friendly technologies, the exporting of old equipment represents a significant leak in the expanding worldwide effort to plug emissions of gases that trap the sun's heat.

Fostering future leaders: WCRP promotes current and future leadership in climate science, making particular efforts to support and engage Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from all regions in the world, toward a sustainable climate research community.

In the hope of mitigating the effects of climate change, the United Nations has started moving toward involving all countries in the effort.

These cumulative additional emissions savings would not only be a meaningful contribution toward a global effort to help limit some of the worst consequences of climate change; it can be done cost - effectively.

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.

While I commend everyone's efforts, locally and nationally, I still see a breakdown of communication between the left and the right as the biggest problem toward achieving a climate solution.

Here is more on the very recent decline in global fossil fuel consumption, due mainly to the economic recession but also perhaps to efforts in some nations toward climate change mitigation:

This admission would seem to run counter to Shell's political strategy, which has been to help fund the obfuscation of efforts toward climate policies.

Rather than being divisive, I think the idea would cause climate scientists on both sides to move toward the center in an effort to secure votes and not overstate their own position.

NAR and some of our members seem to be taking a «not in my backyard» attitude toward efforts to solve the global climate change crisis we face («Climate - change crossfire,» August 2007, paclimate change crisis we face («Climate - change crossfire,» August 2007, paClimate - change crossfire,» August 2007, page 14).