Sentences with phrase «where climate change goals»

Secondly, the types of fuel used for the energy inputs and their greenhouse gas emissions must be taken into account where climate change goals are targeted through bioenergy use.

Not exact matches

Climate change is an area where working with our European partners can help us to achieve national goals which would be out of reach if we were isolated and alone.

They are, in addition, now bent on scoring own goals with issues like not supporting David Davis, mishandling Boris's appointments - why should his man resign over a comment about black people living where they want - and going on about relative poverty and climate change.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

His biggest goal in life was to see a rational approach to policy about climate change, where he tried to evaluate the odds and show people, just like in many other decisions in life, with climate they had to play the odds.

I've always thought that the way to make progress on climate change, especially in «reluctant» countries like China and even the U.S., is to start by focusing on places where climate goals overlap with other national priorities — like clearing the air or making energy supplies more reliable.

The brief promotes climate - smart agriculture, where: agricultural development is directed along pathways that lead to sustainable increases in agricultural productivity; social and ecological resilience are increased in order to contribute to climate change adaptation; and agriculture is used to support the achievement of national food security and development goals.

Before joining CGD, Sara lived in Morocco for two and a half years as a Peace Corps volunteer where she worked on a variety of community development goals, including water access, climate change adaptation and youth development.

Hansen and Sato (2012), using paleoclimate data rather than models of recent and expected climate change, warn that «goals of limiting human made warming to 2 °C and CO2 to 450 ppm are prescriptions for disaster» because significant tipping points — where significant elements of the climate system move from one discrete state to another — will be crossed.