Sentences with phrase «understanding climate solutions»

One part is a discussion of wedges as a means of understanding climate solutions.

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He's the Managing Director and Head of ISS - Ethix Climate Solutions — a unit of Institutional Shareholder Services that enables investors to understand, measure and act upon the implications of climate change on invesClimate Solutions — a unit of Institutional Shareholder Services that enables investors to understand, measure and act upon the implications of climate change on invesclimate change on investments.

APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise in offering solutions to Asia's climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global influence.

According to Professor Judith Stephenson: «Bringing together natural and social scientists with people from different organisations and communities in the global South and global North is essential to improve understanding of the interactions between consumption, demographic change and the climate, and to devise more scientifically and politically integrated solutions for global health.»

«Assessment has had these phenomenal successes, and that ranges from framing the understanding of climate change to creating foundations that enable people to step forward and try out climate solutions,» Mach said.

This partnership supports the DOE efforts to better understand and predict Earth's climate in order to develop sustainable solutions to the nation's energy and environmental challenges.

′ Our improved understanding of this trait could offer relatively straightforward solutions to growing blood oranges reliably in warmer climates through genetic engineering.

Shreeranya Renewable India is a scientific and educational start - up dedicated to exploring and recognizing the importance of renewable energy resources amidst climate change to protect environment and habitats, and helping the guardians of the future to understand, adopt, protect and implement renewable energy technologies and sustainable energy solutions in the day - to - day life.

These four worksheets help students to understand climate change, greenhouse gases and the effect they have on our mountains and planet as well as discuss the possible solutions to the continuing problem.

From what I understand... their process of making the rawhide is washing in a Brine solution (no toxic chemicals used in the brine), rinsing in water, Rolled or braided, and laid out to dry in climate controlled rooms.

Museum educators led a variety of hands - on activities to help students understand the complexities of climate science and the possibilities for local solutions in approachable, tangible ways.

The largest international science conference before the Paris COP21, with close to 2,000 participants from almost 100 countries, CFCC15 explores current understanding of all dimensions of the climate change challenge plus the full range of mitigation and adaptation options that can lead to sustainable, equitable solutions across all nations and regions.

In a recent press release, The National Science Foundation said, «From understanding climate change to predicting infectious disease outbreaks to engineering solutions to address disability, scientific research is increasingly crossing the boundaries between disciplines.»

If true, I am truly freaked out that any climate site would want someone who does not understand economics, climate, nor solutions.

It is this sphere — in social science climate literacy — that increased understanding and better solutions will be found.

Until our schools teach about climate change, share the fears of leading scientists, and start to create an understanding of how we can each be part of the greater solution, I am afraid we have no hope of changing our rather bleak future.

Keep in mind that war what happens when sensibility breaks down, and while I'm not an Al Gore hater, climate hoax believer, I do see where there is a lot of impetus to find solutions based on what we know now instead of doing what science ideally does, which is seek further to expand our understanding with new questions and new answers.

Add in to that the Pope's eminent «encyclical» letter that will make climate change a priority for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, and you understand why Oil giants are scrambling to find an alternative to stone walling on climate change solutions.

Carbonfund.org helps individuals and businesses understand climate change and develop practical and cost - effective solutions to slow, stop and reduce our climate crisis.

They provide ideas on how positive changes can be attained as well as an understanding on how cities can generate solutions that have large, short and long - term positive benefits in terms of climate change mitigation and how this approach can be effectively embedded into local policy settings to contribute to cities» ability to generate co-benefits at local level.

This partnership supports the DOE efforts to better understand and predict Earth's climate in order to develop sustainable solutions to the nation's energy and environmental challenges.

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers understands the issue of climate change and is looking to secure alliances with other labor and environmental organizations to find solutions that protect workers and the environment.

«Institutional investors understand that climate solutions will require close co-operation between governments and investors.

The website compiles tools, research, and information on drought in California to facilitate the work to understand, plan for, and find sustainable water management solutions in the face of a drier future for the western United States with changing conditions from climate change.

To evaluate what happened in Copenhagen one must understand that the Copenhagen meeting was only the last in almost two decades of meetings that have failed to achieve a global solution to climate change.

One have to understand that in the assessments of IPCC there has not been used any proper cross-disciplinary approach needed on the solution of complicated problem of climate warming.

We had a dream — that the President would understand the commonality of solutions for energy security, national security and climate stability — and that he would exercise hands — on leadership, taking the matter to the public, avoiding backroom crippling deals with special interests.

In an effort to understand the urban vulnerabilities to climate change, and to highlight innovative solutions to increase cities resilience, the Rockefeller Foundation, along with the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD), of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is sponsoring a week - long discussion (July 8 - 13) on «Building for climate change resilience» within of month - long series of... Read more

Ride along with Amanda Little on a cross-country road trip adventure to understand America's energy crisis and emerging climate solutions — kind of like «Heart of Darkness» meets «On the Road» for clean energy enthusiasts.

In summary, they don't understand why Earth's climate changes so their solution is to attribute all unexplained changes anthropogenic forces.

Why, because if IPCC is right, we have to mitigate CO2, promote new energy solutions, understand climate more deeply, assist those countries most affected.

Kerry has been pushing for national and international solutions to climate change for two decades, and he understands that it's a geopolitical problem, not just an environmental one.

It is understood without any possibility of doubt that climate model solutions diverge exponentially within the limits of data resolution.

Leonard herself wants to «ensure that Americans and others clearly understand the solutions on the table and to inspire them to push our leaders for real solutions to climate change.»

Beyond that, the understanding I have built over the years of climate change and its principal cause, carbon emissions, has made me seek opportunities to lower them based on efficient market - based solutions in order to attract the entrepreneurial solutions and capital required to do so.

Participants deepened their understanding of climate impacts and positive solutions through a series of creative exhibits — a photo exhibition on climate impacts on the island nation Tuvalu, various talk sessions connecting climate change and financial choices, as well as live art and music performances.

Kyoto was never understood as the final solution to climate change but only as a small initial step of developed nations to begin to take responsibility for climate change.

As we have seen, the developed nations had agreed in the UNFCCC that they should take the lead in reducing the threat of climate change because they were mostly responsible for the build up of ghg in the atmosphere and Kyoto was understood to be a modest initial step toward a global solution.

From the standpoint of the twenty - year negotiations, Cancun was another failed attempt to forge a global solution to climate change, a failure that must be understood as an ethical failure of the those nations most responsible for climate change.

In previous entries, Ethicsandclimate.org examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (a) the nature of the strong scientific consensus about human - induced climate change, (b) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, (c) the practical significance for policy that follows from understanding climate change as essentially an ethical problem, (e) the consistent barrier that the United States has been to finding a global solution to climate change in international climate negotiations, and (f) the failure of the US media to help educate US citizens about the well - financed, well - organized climate change disinformation campaign.

To understand why natural gas combustion in the electricity sector is not likely be an adequate solution to climate change in the long - term, it is necessary to understand the scale of the problem facing the world.

The author finds that most researchers agree on the understanding of CE as part of a proposed solution to the political problem of climate change — even though there are widely differing opinions and arguments on whether or not it is a good or viable option.

(See for example, Brown, 2010a) This is so because climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical and moral problem and the failure to acknowledge and act on this has been responsible for an inadequate global response to climate change's immense threat during the twenty years of international negotiations that have sought to reach agreement on a global solution.

As has been the case for recent COPs, commentators about achievements at COP - 17 are split on whether these negotiations accomplished some important positive steps toward an eventual meaningful global solution to climate change or whether Durban must be understood as another tragic international failure to come up with an adequate solution to the immense threat of human - induced warming.

Many Americans draw, at least in part, upon their religious beliefs to guide their understanding and interpretation of climate change causes, impacts, and solutions.

I think for the global community to understand the climate change problems in a proper context, I think the new chair should play a very important role in identifying the climate issues, not necessarily only identifying the problems, but also the solutions and what opportunities the solutions may provide for the global society as a whole is very important.

As the climate crisis deepens and we turn toward solutions, we need to look this glaring inequity straight in the eye and understand how it affects our strategy to avoid collapse.

what Americans understand about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to global warming.

This project: 1) investigates, explains, and tracks public understanding of the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change, support for climate policies, and the current barriers to action, and 2) designs and tests new strategies to engage the public in climate science and solutions.

While the workshop was built upon the advances that physics, geochemistry, biology, and physical sciences have made in defining the causes of climate change and economics in defining its solutions, the meeting was predicated on the shared recognition that building shared understanding of climate risks and choices in the United States is now as much a psychological and social issue as it is a scientific issue.