Sentences with phrase «with climate change commitments»

That could mean neglecting what it sees as expensive renewables in favour of supposedly cheap North Sea fuels — however long they last — with climate change commitments falling down the country's list of priorities.

Fred Pearce has framed his latest opinion piece in Yale Environment 360 as one about Europe fiddling around with its climate change commitment (with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as lead violin), while the US is poised to reengage with the world under the Obama administration.

Not exact matches

During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

Trudeau's commitment to fighting climate change coincides with his recognition that the Canadian economy has been too dependent on oil for too long.

The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are expected to walk away from their meetings this week with new continental commitments to tackle climate change and boost clean energy generation.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imChange Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iclimate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imchange - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

In Buffalo, we stand in solidarity with leaders from across the country in condemning President Trump's retreat from the Paris Agreement and reaffirm our commitment to the global community fighting climate change,» he said.

Miliband represented the UK at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, from which emerged a global commitment to provide an additional US$ 10 billion a year to fight the effects of climate change, with an additional $ 100 billion a year provided by 2020.

«The New York City Council was proud to stand with environmental advocates, community groups, faith leaders and New Yorkers to pass legislation to make New York a more green and sustainable city and we're confident Speaker Heastie and the State Legislature shares our commitment to protecting the environment and combatting climate change,» Council spokeswoman Robin Levine said.

«AfDB has chosen to support this project because its goals are consistent with our institution's reaffirmed commitment to help African countries like Ghana meet their climate change and sustainable development goals,» said Richard Fusi, Task Team Leader.

«Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface are key drivers of their local tourism economies, and with this commitment they are joining New York's nation - leading efforts to fight climate change, reduce our carbon footprint and foster the development of renewal resources,» Cuomo said in the release.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

«Make commitments to show that the U.S. is serious about fighting climate change with India by providing clean energy access,» she said.

Remaining issues include mechanisms for transparency that would ensure nations live up to their commitments, how much money will be available to help struggling nations adapt to climate change or deal with loss and damage from extreme weather, and whether commitments will be revisited and made more ambitious in the future.

The letter to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits the nation to combat climate change, but with a caveat: any such commitment must be backed by legislation, which has not passed the U.S. Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits the nation to combat climate change, but with a caveat: any such commitment must be backed by legislation, which has not passed the U.S. SChange (UNFCCC) commits the nation to combat climate change, but with a caveat: any such commitment must be backed by legislation, which has not passed the U.S. climate change, but with a caveat: any such commitment must be backed by legislation, which has not passed the U.S. Schange, but with a caveat: any such commitment must be backed by legislation, which has not passed the U.S. Senate.

With the agreement in effect, COP22 has been designated «the COP of action,» and the focus will be on implementation of the agreement and detailed questions of enforcement, commitment, and issues such as the loss and damage due to climate change, which are already occurring.

President Obama spoke with leaders of Pacific island nations on the eve of the gathering and praised their commitment to raising awareness about the effects of climate change (Greenwire, Sept. 1).

Leading doctors are backing legal action against UK government ministers on the grounds that they have not fulfilled their commitments to cutting carbon emissions in line with the Climate Change Act of 2008 and the Paris Agreement objective of limiting warming to 1.5?

With this definition then, there is no climate change commitment because of climate inertia.

«While submissions came from a variety of organisations representing the feedback of a diverse group of interested parties, there were areas of general agreement, including the positive economic benefits to Canada, alignment with Canada's commitment to fight climate change, important applications for remote communities, and the potential to enhance nuclear safety through next - generation nuclear technology,» CNL said.

Rigg doesn't just point a finger at President Obama though, she also has words for developing nations (who need to recognize too that they need to get on board with commitments to low - carbon energy and not just stand behind historical obligations to combat climate change) and the EU (who have tried to eliminate language on fisheries reform, no doubt under domestic political pressure).

A commitment to the objective of Carbon Tracker to align capital markets with climate change objectives

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

These commitments were made in recognition that inefficient fossil - fuel subsidies distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change.

When presented with a blank space for their carbon emissions commitments, one wonders whether climate change foot - draggers like Australia or Canada will be tempted to write in «gonads» or something similar.

With his long history in the clean tech sector, King brings a commitment to sustainable energy, both as a means of addressing ocean acidification and climate change, and as a platform for economic growth.

Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University said: «If the EU is to transform its energy system to align with the Paris temperature and equity commitments, it can not continue with business as usual and must instead initiate a rapid phase out of all fossil fuels including natural gas.

And, with that commitment to helping address this important societal challenge, ExxonMobil has continuously and publicly researched and discussed climate change risks, carbon life cycle analysis, and emissions reductions.

Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with former Vice President Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked - about documentary of the year.

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It finds that across the oil and gas industry $ 2.3 trillion of upstream projects — roughly a third of business as usual projects to 2025 — are inconsistent with global commitments to limit climate change to a maximum 2 ˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies.

With a comprehensive climate change policy, the city has made a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent of its 2005 levels by 2012.

There followed three days of discussions among the attendees who were divided into 5 roundtables each with a particular issue at hand: 1) social impacts of climate change; 2) Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in theclimate change; 2) Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in theClimate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in theclimate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the South.

The role of the United States as a climate leader is also at stake, with an uncertain future for the Clean Power Plan, U.S. commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the country's ability to meet its national target to reduce emissions 26 - 28 percent by 2025.

«The major parties refuse to address climate change with any clear commitment, only broad platitudes.

The Keystone XL pipeline proposal was dealt yet another blow this week when the world's most influential newspaper decried the project as dangerous and not in keeping with U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to doing whatever he can to limit the impacts of climate change.

«Having just returned from visiting over 8 countries in Europe and the UK I was ashamed at Australia's lack of commitment to climate change and the urgency other countries are dealing with it.

The same decision further specifies that, for the purpose of providing information referred to above in the second commitment period, Parties included in Annex I shall apply, as appropriate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol in a manner consistent with decision 2 / CMP.7, and consistent with annex I of decision 24 / CP.19 Revision of the UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories for Parties included in Annex I to the Convention and remaining regulations contained in decision 6 / CMP.9.

ACR remains steadfast in our commitment to demonstrate the value of market - based mechanisms to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and we are eager to collaborate more closely with organizations and institutions in the U.S. and around the world to pioneer new approaches to incentivize climate action.

We will need to see a deep decline if we are to limit dangerous climate change, and even with existing emissions - reduction commitments, global emissions are not expected to decline until at least after 2030.

«As a critical component to growing the economy, and with a long - standing commitment to reducing emissions, Canada's railway industry can deliver prosperity while becoming part of the country's climate change solution,» RAC said in a submission made last year to Environment and Climate Change climate change solution,» RAC said in a submission made last year to Environment and Climate Change Cchange solution,» RAC said in a submission made last year to Environment and Climate Change Climate Change CChange Canada.

In a joint statement issued ahead of the G20 conference in China this weekend, insurers with more than USD$ 1.2 trillion in assets under management warn that support for the production of coal, oil, and gas is at odds with the nations» commitment to tackle climate change agreed in Paris last December.

Morocco - Global climate negotiations concluded last week with renewed commitment to action on limiting global temperature rise and preparing for the impacts of climate change.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

Now that the Obama administration is pledging to act with urgency to respond to the threat of climate change and acknowledging that this requires a commitment to a sustainable energy system, administration policy should be re-framed to show how it is driven by these commitments.

This needs to be complimented with commitments to dedicated financial assistance to developing countries, so they can adapt to the impacts of climate change and tackle urgent development needs, according to Friends of the Earth Europe.

The manufacture of ignorance is most obvious in relation to climate change, where the gullibility associated with «scepticism» has reached levels that would have seemed unbelievable (at least in the absence of the kind of religious commitment associated with creationism).