Sentences with phrase «urgent than climate change»

With the possible exception of the rising threat of nuclear war, no issue facing humanity is more urgent than climate change.

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Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

«The challenges we work on are more urgent than ever: climate change, deforestation, systemic poverty and inequality are increasingly intertwined with the way we manage land and produce food and forest products.

«In the face of rapidly expanding energy demand and the increasingly urgent threat of climate change, we are continuing to respond to the energy system as it evolves rather than actively managing its transformation,» Didier Houssin, IEA's director of sustainable energy policy and technology, said yesterday at the report's launch.

These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.

Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change.

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

The avoidance of the C word in the bill's title, «Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,» seems at odds with the urgent arguments put forward by backers of the legislation that emissions are climbing and climate is changing more drastically than previously predicted.

This administration's refusal to constructively address the urgent issue of climate change amounts a lot more to a «high crime» than Clinton's lying about a sexual dalliance.

Climate change has made the search for efficient sources of renewable energy more urgent than ever before.

«Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change,» Obama says in this video.

President Obama in under fifty words: «Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change.

The Guardian, July 2, 2008 has a headline: «Climate more urgent than economy, say voters», followed by an article which starts: «Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian / ICM poll publishedClimate more urgent than economy, say voters», followed by an article which starts: «Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian / ICM poll publishedclimate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian / ICM poll published today.

The threat of continued climate change is so urgent, more than 170 world leaders have signed the Paris climate agreement to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the future and transition towards a clean energy economy.

«Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change.

The advertisement objects to President Obama's declaration that «few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change» and claims that «there has been no net global warming for over a decade» and that the dangers of global warming are «grossly overstated.»

The advertisement responds to President Obama's declaration that «few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change.

The report urged governments to take urgent action now to tackle climate change, arguing that it would be much cheaper to act, rather than face the $ 10 trillion cost of not doing anything until later.

The Maldives and Costa Rica are the first countries to adopt a carbon reduction goal more ambitious than that of Plan B. 5 Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, describes climate neutrality as «an idea whose time has come, driven by the urgent need to address climate change but also the abundant economic opportunities emerging for those willing to embrace a transition to a Green Economy.»

The advertisement criticizes President Obama's declaration that «few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change,» by saying «with all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.»

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«Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change... Many of you are working to confront this challenge....

Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

Today, Oil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, andChange International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, andchange more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and coal.

That message has more relevance than ever as hundreds of thousands of people, us among them, marched Sunday in the streets of New York demanding their leaders take urgent action to address climate change, and as heads of government, industry, and civil society gather at the United Nations for an unprecedented global - warming summit.

But the only mention of these words in the IPCC report are in the section «Anthropogenic warming could lead to some impacts that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change», which reveals a far less frightening and urgent picture than such accounts suggests:

What precisely makes these world leaders so convinced that climate change is a more urgent and massive threat than the incessant rampages of Islamist violence?

According to Kert Davies, the director of research for Greenpeace in the US, the Kochs have spent more than $ 50m since 1998 on «various front groups and think tanks who... oppose the consensus view that climate change is real, urgent and we have to do something about it».

«Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change,» he says in the video.

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.

The contest over climate change that characterised the previous three elections seems to have disappeared off the political radar despite the issue being more urgent than ever.

• Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) • Wash laundry in warm or cold water • Use low - flow shower head • Buy products from companies that are trying to reduce their impact on climate • Demand that the government make climate change an urgent priority Fig, p. 485

Romm doesn't have even a few papers to support either his explicit claim that 450 ppm will be better than 750 ppm or his implicit claim that climate change is more urgent than other potential problems.

Climate change and a projected seven-fold increase in tanker traffic from the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion make immediate action more urgent than ever.

He argued that understanding this concept, that the self should be treated as a plural verb rather than an isolated «I», was essential to imparting the urgent need for empathy that might spur people to help one another overcome the challenges of climate change.

If I remember correctly, temperatures are rising in the arctic faster than anywhere else on the planet — so this would seem to be a fairly urgent issue — inextricably tied to all the others regarding carbon emissions and climate change.