Sentences with phrase «undermine global efforts»

What legal changes are needed to ensure that the United States» withdrawal does not undermine the global efforts to fight against climate change?

Major exports of publicly owned coal would undermine global efforts to reduce carbon pollution.US coal exports have contributed to increased coal consumption in Europe, and partially offset US carbon pollution reductions.

Allowing the coal industry to export major amounts of publicly owned coal to Asia would undermine global efforts to address climate change.

Major exports of publicly owned coal would undermine global efforts to reduce carbon pollution.

Ignorance of this risk might, e.g. through suboptimisations in technology developments, undermine the global efforts to move toward a more environmentally sustainable society.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Nitrous oxide (N20) emissions could almost double by 2050 if more aggressive action is not taken, undermining global efforts to curb climate change, the United Nations» Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Thursday.

Financial support for coal mines and power plants is undermining the global effort to tackle climate change, environmental groups said Tuesday.

Combined with the US coal industry's efforts to boost exports, subsidized US coal could have a similar impact abroad, undermining global efforts to reduce carbon pollution.

Not exact matches

Increase in US production now threatens to undermine efforts by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and some non-members to reduce the global oversupply of oil.

Robust US production now threatens to undermine efforts by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and some non-members to reduce the global oversupply of oil.

As a result, aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes is undermining efforts to improve breastfeeding rates, with global sales expected to reach a staggering US$ 70.6 billion by 2019 (Paper 2, figure 2).

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

The government has been accused of «actively trying to undermine» the global ban on torture in its efforts to tackle terrorism.

The UK's involvement in Iraq risks undermining its future efforts towards an ethical foreign policy and inflaming global insecurity, two critical reports have concluded.

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

After setting back the global effort to address this tremendously complex issue over the past ten years, the U.S. is again undermining emerging consensus decisions on nearly everything.

Article XXXII of the 35 Articles of Impeachment, introduced on June 9 by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D - Ohio), charges President Bush with «Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change.»

The French hosts of a UN climate summit later this year insisted Thursday that combatting global warming would not undermine efforts to fight poverty as they lobbied for India's support in cutting emissions.

An uncertain global agreement should not be allowed to undermine EU's climate efforts.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).

But the involvement of the Heartland Institute, which posted a billboard in May comparing those who believe in global warming to domestic terrorist Theodore J. Kaczynski, shows the breadth of conservatives» efforts to undermine environmental initiatives on the state and federal level.

Dr. Gleick had also allegedly forged a two - page «strategy memo» purporting that the Institute was engaged in a variety of efforts to fraudulently undermine the claims of global warming scientists.

«By bankrolling the destruction of the Amazon for cattle, President Lula's government is undermining its own climate commitments as well as the global effort to tackle the climate crisis,» said Andre Muggiati, Greenpeace Brazil, Amazon campaigner.

(03/16/2009) The global economic crisis has slowed demand for timber products and may undermine efforts to improve the environmental performance of forestry, reports the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its biannual «State of the World's Forests 2009», released today.

Today, I feature a perfect case in point where an article writer attempted to call out the «problem» of stupid rationale in the global warming issue, but his efforts only result in an undesirable appearance hugely undermining the overall point of his article.

Crichton reportedly met with President Bush last year after the president «avidly read» the novel, «fueling a common perception among environmental groups that Crichton's dismissal of global warming... has undermined efforts to pass legislation intended to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,» according to the International Herald Tribune.

Carly Oboth of Global Witness said: «Questioning the enforcement of supply chain due diligence requirements puts the US at odds with global responsible sourcing efforts and undermines a critical requirement of the Conflict MineralsGlobal Witness said: «Questioning the enforcement of supply chain due diligence requirements puts the US at odds with global responsible sourcing efforts and undermines a critical requirement of the Conflict Mineralsglobal responsible sourcing efforts and undermines a critical requirement of the Conflict Minerals Rule.

Lack of transparency and possibly non-binding offset credit criteria risk undermining efforts to make the aviation sector do its fair share of climate action in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

In two of my other posts here, I showed how IPCC Vice Chair Jean - Pascal van Ypersele had prominently accused a particular skeptic scientist of industry corruption, and how Ypersele cited Naomi Oreskes for his insinuation that the ClimateGate email leaks were the result of an effort ««organized» to undermine efforts to tackle global warming.»

The Economist was echoing the warnings of critics who had identified one of the major risks associated with pursuit of CCS as the way in which it would undermine global mitigation efforts by giving national governments an excuse to do nothing in the hope that coal plants could be rendered safe.

The release of the roughly 200 petagrams (or 200 trillion kilograms) of carbon stored in the top meter of Arctic tundra would greatly undermine any global climate change mitigation effort, Bunn warns.