Sentences with phrase «urgent need for climate action»

Not exact matches

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

Writing in Current Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change iClimate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change iclimate change impacts.

LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy demand.

Through these efforts, the Institute has been able to launch a new initiative for films and emerging media projects exploring stories related to the urgent need for action with regard to the environment, conservation and climate change.

The need for prompt (urgent) action implied by these realities may not be a surprise to the relevant scientific community, because paleoclimate data revealed high climate sensitivity and the dominance of amplifying feedbacks.

The UN Summit on Climate Change, convened this week in New York by Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon, brought together more than 100 heads of state and dignitaries to tackle the urgent need for action and to mobilize real

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

As the impacts of climate change become increasingly evident, the need for international climate action is ever more urgent.

The strategy identifies three priority areas that match calls for international guidance, the urgent need for action at a national level on climate change and the organization's skill set, experience and mandate.

In 2009, Commission on Social Action to the Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution on the «unprecedented challenge of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions» and need for urgent aAction to the Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution on the «unprecedented challenge of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions» and need for urgent actionaction.

The current negotiating text for Rio +20 does not fully and explicitly recognise the urgent need to act on climate change as part of a global action plan for delivering sustainable development.

As the «older» spoke to the «younger» about their joint efforts to get our local city councilors and county commissioners to grasp the need for urgent action on climate and to use the power they have to take such action, he succumbed to tears.

«Late last year in Paris the nations, including Australia, agreed on the need for urgent action against climate change.

The letter calls on youth to show up and join the action because of the risks presented by the Kinder Morgan pipeline, the need for urgent climate action, and because of the role youth and young people played in winning Justin Trudeau his mandate in 2015.

«In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its worsening impacts, and the related issue of air pollution from burning fossil fuels, the United States and China recognize the urgent need for action to meet these twin challenges,» the countries said in the statement.

Kakakhel, a member of Pakistan's original task force on climate change, said the need for action is urgent.

The need for urgent action to address climate change is now indisputable.

Exxon later pivoted to the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing public doubt about the need for urgent action.

As the need for action to reduce climate changing emissions and emissions causing ill - health and death becomes more recognised and urgent government incentives for owning EVs will increase.

Given that Victoria has adopted carbon reduction targets (Point 6 below), and given the need for urgent climate action, it makes no sense to invest in infrastructure that would assist and lock in continued gas use.

I can logically say the precautionary principle indicates the need for urgent action on climate change and the need for slow, cautious, well - studied progress on GMOs.

«The findings in this National Climate Assessment underscore the need for urgent action to combat the threats from climate change, protect American citizens and communities today, and build a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids,» the White House said in a staClimate Assessment underscore the need for urgent action to combat the threats from climate change, protect American citizens and communities today, and build a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids,» the White House said in a staclimate change, protect American citizens and communities today, and build a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids,» the White House said in a statement.

Sessoms» concern echoed testimony on June 18 from four Republican former EPA Administrators before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the urgent need for action on climate change.

«Why Revoking the EPA GHG Endangerment Finding Is the Most Urgent Climate Action Needed Reducing CO2 Emissions Is Not a Useful Substitute for Effective Stormwater Management»

«Ministers stressed the need for urgent action to reduce SLCP emissions to contribute to Arctic climate change mitigation and to the preservation of the unique culture and ecosystems of the Arctic which are under threat from rapid climate changes,» read the statement issued at the conclusion of the meeting.

Fahad Bin Mohammed Al - Attiya, Executive Chairman of the QNFSP and the Chairman of the COP18 / CMP8 Organising Sub-Committee, and Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, opened the session with speeches highlighting the need for urgent action in the Arab world amid climate change.

If Huntsman decides to make a run for the Republican presidential nomination, will he distinguish himself from his competitors by sticking to his guns and insisting that climate change is a real problem that needs urgent action?

Given the increasingly urgent need for courageous action to fight climate change and the environmental and human injustices that it causes (climate justice), we now require a new level of congregational engagement.

It is expected to stress, more convincingly than ever before, that our planet is already warming due to human actions, and that «business as usual» would lead to unacceptable risks, underscoring the urgent need for concerted international action to reduce the worst impacts of climate change.

Political focus on tackling climate change has dropped since Paris talks, but need for urgent action remains writes Thoriq Ibrahim

Having said that, writing as a person who — thanks to the work of climate scientists — already «gets it», and already understands the urgent need for action, it does seem to me that developments like the permafrost study are telling us what we already know:

In a shocking new assessment of the prospects of meeting food needs, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy research centre in Washington, says that the climate is no longer reliable and the demands for food are growing so fast that a breakdown is inevitable, unless urgent action is taken.

No less by the very people (climate scientists included) who hide behind their claims they accept the science of climate change and the urgent need for immediate actions which must include changes to Laws and Regulations directly related to energy production and use.

The 18 corporate members agree; the group was created «to underline the need for urgent action by the global community and to influence the post-Kyoto process by demanding a global framework supporting a market - based solution to the climate change issue.

UK About Blog Campaign against Climate Change (CCC) pushes for the urgent and radical action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of the global cClimate Change (CCC) pushes for the urgent and radical action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of the global climateclimate.

«Importantly, the meeting agreed on the need for urgent action to protect, respect, promote and fulfill the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples, especially in relation to the impact of climate change on the human rights of Indigenous Peoples,» Commissioner Gooda said.