Sentences with phrase «towards issues of climate»

Articles from Europe and North America are more often biased towards issues of climate change mitigation, such as emission reductions, compared with articles from the southern hemisphere.

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«If we don't address those two issues — of climate change and growing inequalities — we will be moving towards a dark 50 years from now,» she said.

«On issues such as Europe, the integrity of the United Kingdom, climate change, human rights and the spread of the low - wage economy, he has been content to lead the Tories back towards their nastiest and most Thatcherite comfort zones.

The SDTC has about $ 325 million of the government's money to put towards funding clean technologies that fix issues with climate change, air, soil, and water contamination, and...

And let us not forget that, even on this most politically polarized of issues, there are large numbers of conservatives who are deeply concerned about climate change and bravely hold onto this conviction despite the social pressure towards «stealth denial».

Heck, even if AGW weren't an issue, understanding the range of climate variation (that is temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, etc) expected from natural variability is still something that needs quantifying accurately, especially as we zoom towards a 10 - billion world population with all of the major agricultural areas concentrated in small regions of the globe.

And the third one is to engage certain amount of science with politicians and policy makers as responsibility towards climate linked issues.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

Image copyright Reuters Rich nations at UN climate talks are said to be edging towards a compromise on the thorny issue of loss and damage.

In his second term, will President Obama deliver the bold action needed to reduce the threat of climate change to the US and the world, by shifting the US economy towards a zero carbon future, and making the issue a centerpiece of US foreign policy?

While the climate issue is still poorly understood by the general public, we all need to promote the benefits of a real transition towards a sustainable and renewable system model: job creation, restoring democracy, community power - decentralisation of energy systems which are now mostly in the hands of big corporations, energy sovereignty, improved air quality and health, a better quality of life...

A related issue is that there has been quite a lot of opposition among climate scientists towards open public discussion on these uncertainties.

Title Building Capabilities of Local Climate Change Communicators towards Climate Change Adaptation in the Upland Communities in Southeast Asia Authors Wilfredo M. CARANDANG, Leila D. LANDICHO, Roberto G. VISCO, Bao HUY, Christine WULANDARI, and Anoulom VILAYPHONE Issue Issue 6, published April 2016 Highlights The capability... Read more...

If Salby can resolve this issue about the lack of significance of the human contribution then we can forget AGW and move towards the truth about climate changes undistracted and unobstructed.

In light of the recent release of the OECD report, «Climate Finance in 2013 - 14 and the USD 100 billion goal,» and the finance ministerial that took place in Lima, Peru on Oct. 9 on the sidelines of the World Bank / International Monetary Fund annual meetings, 112 groups from around the world sent a letter to those developed country governments that last month issued the Joint Statement on Tracking Progress Towards the $ 100 billion Goal.

Whereas we imagine governments in liberal democracies largely to respond to people's wishes, under the rubric of climate change and other issues, government and its agencies increasingly seek to change behaviour and modify attitudes towards policies that have already been determined.

Some simple things like adding a required course to the list for B.S. Meteorology Certification, inclusion of climate and AGW issues on the exams for broadcast meteorologist and certified consulting meteorologists, would go a long way towards motivating meteorologists to get educated on this issue.

3) and 4) studies of what pushes climate towards warming or cooling across the globe have explored a multitude of relationships and causal factors, so may be some issues here.

At the ongoing pre-Copenhagen climate talks in Bangkok, the US has made a step towards resolving the deal - breaker issue of funds to help developing countries respond to climate change.

(10/30/2012) On Sunday, as Hurricane Sandy roared towards the coast of the Eastern U.S., activists took to the streets in New York City to highlight the issue of climate change.

«However, investors continue to lack trust in the Albanian judiciary, hence I think that the successful completion of justice system reform that is currently under way, will be an enormous step towards improvement of the business climate and that obviously goes hand to hand with addressing other issues raised by investors such as transparency of public procurement and PPP processes, frequency of changes to legislation etc.».

The mass media can play an important role in providing health information and related issues for parents and caregivers.10 However, adolescents are typically portrayed in the media as hostile, violent, delinquent, alienated from parents and families, and resistant to any assistance.3, 51,52 In news and television coverage, content analyses found that adolescents are depicted as perpetrators or victims of crime and violence, problem - ridden and disruptive.51, 52 In addition to the mass media images, public attitudes towards adolescents are predominately negative.51 A population approach to build a climate of public interest and responsiveness will require actively working towards counteracting the predominantly negative media coverage of adolescents.3 Media messages can raise parents» awareness and willingness to attend parenting programmes by normalizing their experiences of receiving professional support.