Sentences with phrase «urgency of climate change»

The sheer urgency of climate change demands an all - of - the - above approach to making carbon - free energy.

In the wake of the Great Recession and the growing urgency of climate change, Walden emerges again as a home - grown American handbook dedicated to self - reliance and a life lived with, not against, nature.

The ceremony itself received praise for pulling off a dazzling spectacle on a budget and for a show which highlighted Brazilian history and culture, the urgency of climate change, and even a special appearance from Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, wife of New England Patriots superstar Tom Brady.

The East River Blueway Plan is a model for resiliency as it provides a vision of an accessible and dynamic waterfront that also addresses the urgency of climate change and its effects.

The debate is especially fractious among climate scientists, who ostensibly agree on the scale and urgency of climate change (ClimateWire, Dec. 21, 2015).

He senses that people at local levels are grasping and acting on the immensity and urgency of climate change, an environmental issue his detractors have said he was late in recognizing.

The authors add that «while there is no real scientific basis to why global warming of 2 degrees C should be considered «safe,» it emerged as «the least unattractive course of action» and has been used as an easily understood, politically useful marker to communicate the urgency of the climate change problem and to drive action on a global scale.»

While the force of nature has always attracted Diane Burko, her landscape investigations have become more scientific in the last decade as the urgency of climate change has intensified.

This exhibition examines the urgency of climate change through an architecture and design process that takes climate, atmosphere, and physiology as its primary material.

Rev. Cizik is a card - carrying evangelical, conservative, Republican, Christian political activist who now gets the urgency of climate change.

In particular, solar and wind represent huge resources and can be deployed fairly rapidly, consistent with the urgency of the climate change crisis.

Yet the urgency of climate change and peak oil are such that incrementalism is unlikely to get us where we want to go.

Given the urgency of climate change, we need the policy and investment that will help create a low carbon economy as soon as possible.

«In agreeing with the youth plaintiffs in this case, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court joins growing global judicial recognition of youth's rights to demand that their governments act in accordance with the urgency of the climate change crisis,» said Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel at Our Children's Trust.

Read more in our section about the urgency of climate change and how offsets help address the situation.

While BP is far from a green company and is not even greenwashing itself like it was in the «Beyond Petroleum» days, this reminds some climate policy observers of the late 1990s corporate defections from the Global Climate Coalition, when companies were no longer denying the urgency of climate change nor the scientific consensus underpinning that urgency.

In his 2009 talk, «A Really Inconvenient Truth,» Dan Miller, Managing Director of The Roda Group, a venture capital group focused on clean technology, had this quote about the urgency of climate change:

Despite this, it's quite clear from the Kahan Study that there is nothing to support the idea that instinctive skeptics are likely to become persuaded of the urgency of the climate change problem by scientific education alone.

By referring to an impending «disaster» or «catastrophe» to highlight the urgency of climate change policy was questioned by some of the participants.

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And it helped erect a vast edifice of misinformation of think thanks, fringe researchers and politicians that continues to shape public opinion about the reality and urgency of climate change to this day.

However, the urgency of the climate change challenge demands that MDBs consistently seek transformational and innovative approaches to meeting development needs.

While renewable energy is welcome, Jenkins said the urgency of climate change will require a broader swath of options, from supporting existing nuclear plants to developing new emissions - free technologies.

She spoke on the science and urgency of climate change, and the challenge of communicating climate risk to the public at large.

To fully appreciate the urgency of climate change, it's important to understand the ways it affects society and the natural environment.

The National Academy of Sciences released a series of reports (2010) emphasizing the urgency of climate change and why the U.S. should act now to reduce emissions of heat - trapping gases.

Tenenbaum discusses her own emotional response to the climate crisis, and then describes her conversation with Susan, in which Susan acknowledges that conveying the threat and urgency of climate change is important — but it is equally important to communicate hope.

Still, she says the urgency of climate change and the reluctance of many meteorologists to discuss it mean «we have to do a lot of things quickly.»

In fact, he understands the urgency of climate change perhaps better than any other world leader.

Still, the Strategy is a highly commendable first effort, representing and acknowledging the urgency of climate change threats to humans and wildlife alike, and seeking to initiate a unified response.

It's disingenuous to claim to recognize the urgency of climate change and simultaneously hold that the only acceptable solution is a carbon tax given that, as Brad Plumer recently noted, every GOP member of the House voted against such a policy only last June.

As part of Whitechapel's Late Night Fridays series Cape Farewell presented the sell out Earth, Wind and Fire - a night of new songs, performances, artworks and information prompted by the urgency of climate change.

One who shows more commitment to the urgency of climate change than Commissioner - designate Cañete has shown tonight,» said Wendel Trio, Director of CAN Europe.

Today Members of the European Parliament engaged in a debate on the urgency of climate change calling for increased European action.

The urgency of climate change is no longer a concept that they can deny.

And that got me thinking — given the urgency of climate change, peak oil and resource depletion, we need radical visions and bold plans to create a better world.

At every Climate Change conference the question is posed «where will we get the funds to address the urgency of climate change?»

Given the urgency of the climate change problem and this country's ravenous energy hunger, it seems obvious that the U.S. will need industrial - scale solar power if it is to make significant progress in cutting its reliance on fossil fuels.

Indeed, given federal budget concerns, not to mention the urgency of climate change, President Obama tried to cut back subsidies during his first term.

While historically conservatives have been the prominent supporters of nuclear energy, the urgency of climate change has recently compelled liberals and progressives to reconsider nuclear as the best zero - carbon source of baseload electricity for a world with rapidly rising energy demand.

ExxonMobil's deliberate attempts to sow doubt on the reality and urgency of climate change and their donations to front groups to disseminate false information about climate change have been public knowledge for a long time, now.

For the last decade, property insurers have been leading business voices about the urgency of climate change, because they bear the brunt of catastrophic weather sooner than most other businesses.

If you wanted a good (if belated) first step — with the world coming together to acknowledge the urgency of climate change, to agree to strong long - term goals and to put in place some measures to help encourage future action by individual countries, then this agreement was a success.

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.