Sentences with phrase «urgency around climate change»

As part of that reinvention he urges Transition Movements to convey the sense of urgency around climate change and peak oil to their communities — arguing that within a few short years we will begin facing stark choices about «how we live, where we live, and even who lives.»

The campaign aims to create a greater sense of urgency around climate change using an image that suggests an aerial view of the Earth with only a narrow band of life remaining.

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During Earth Hour, cities, towns and individual families from around the world were encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. People in more than 92 countries participated in a global call to action for, and to demonstrate the urgency of, climate change.

Officials specializing in combating climate change from cities around the world are meeting in New York City this week and say there's new urgency to their work as President Donald Trump tries to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accords.

One can tell by how climate change policies are being debated around much of the world that few people, including many very educated people, understand the scale and urgency of the problem now [continue reading...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and environmentalists worldwide use the graph to create a sense of urgency around warming.

Just over a year ago, he went public with a charge that made headlines around the world: The Bush administration, Hansen said, had been trying to silence his warnings about the urgency of the need to address climate change.

This guidance document presents that climate change adds to the urgency of sustainable urban planning and management and to the a broad set of challenges for many city governments revolving around providing jobs, services and housing to growing urban populations.

There's also a growing understanding in communities around the world of the urgency of accelerating the transition to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate climate crisis.

Twenty years from now it's a country that has closed the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, where cultural safety doesn't begin in the health system but in our homes and schools and public discourse, and where recognition of the urgency of climate change has prompted a profound sea change around the world in the way we live and do business.

At the AMA's national conference in Brisbane, doctors voted to ramp up the political pressure around climate change, and they passed an urgency motion requesting the government to review the Border Force Act, which they said had the potential to gag doctors from speaking out about the treatment of refugees being held in detention centres.