Sentences with phrase «with climate plans»

Christiana Figueres tells RTCC Brazil and India will soon come on board with climate plans, but admits more ambition required

The Alberta and federal governments talk about reducing emissions but somehow believe expanding oilsands production and shipping dirty bitumen around the world to be burned are compatible with their climate plans.

In fact, when compared with the climate plans of his would - be successors on the left — Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley — Obama's ranks last in terms of ambition.

The White House praised the Mexican government for «setting an example for the rest of the world» with its climate plan.

Not exact matches

Even coal enthusiast and climate change - skeptic Trump recently showed some openness to clean power when he floated plans to line his proposed Mexican border wall with solar panels.

In 2017, after years of failure, shareholders at my former employer, Exxon Mobil, passed a resolution calling for the company to outline its plans for dealing with climate change.

«We did that review by increasing engagement with communities, by meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples, by looking at the science and the evidence and also looking at the project in the context of our climate plan, and we approved that project,» she said in Victoria.

They warn that the B.C. government is «trying to break the rules of Confederation and ignore the national climate plan, choosing to agree with only parts of the federal decision.»

He gave a speech in Paris last December in connection with the UN Climate Summit in which he laid out a plan to accelerate humanity's departure from the the fossil - fuel era, and he has revisited that speech's specifics when he unveiled the Tesla Model 3 earlier this year and revealed Tesla's Solar Roof last month.

Allen's move coincides with a surge of new businesses planning to sell internet access, Earth imagery, climate data and other services from networks of hundreds of satellites in low - altitude orbits ar...

The plan was supposed to be instrumental in helping the US reach its goals for the Paris climate agreement, which Obama signed with nearly every other country in 2015 but which Trump in June said he would pull the US out of.

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Faced with worsening smog in large East Coast cities, the Asian giant has ordered thousands of factories and manufacturers, especially those that burn coal, to shut down in accordance with the government's four - year climate action plan.

Ontario plans to join the cap - and - trade market with Quebec and California next January, and Canada's two largest provinces have been finding more ways to work together on initiatives to combat climate change.

In December a major climate meeting is being held in Paris, and the U.S. will have a better seat at the table with this new plan.

Among those who were aware of the meeting, which resulted in the adoption of a new national plan to tackle climate change and spur clean energy, reactions to the outcome were broadly positive, with little evidence of anxiety.

Survey shows majority support for an effective climate plan and minimum carbon price, even if some provinces disagree OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows that two - thirds of Canadians believe it is more important to have a plan to meet Canada's climate change targets than to have all provincial and territorial premiers agree with that...

In support of the President's Climate Action Plan, HabitatSeven has partnered with NOAA to build a suite of data and mapping tools to be included in the Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT).

«The national climate plan negotiations were tense at times, but Canadians are largely happy with the results.

VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — With the province's new climate plan expected to land any day now, a coalition of British Columbia power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations is calling on the government to tackle B.C.'s growing carbon pollution problem.

We contracted Navius Research to model what the policies in the climate plan would achieve when combined with a federal carbon price.

The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups on ongoing or potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the impact their business had on climate change.

With oil sands operations currently emitting roughly 70 Mt / year, the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan leaves «room» for emissions from the oil sands to grow by 30 Mt / year.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

Commentary: International Maritime Organization agrees to first long - term plan to curb emissions Historic shipping industry climate deal is in line with Paris Agreement and the IEA's Beyond 2 °C Scenario 13 April 2018

Business leaders stand ready to work with all levels of government and other stakeholders to fashion a credible, responsible and effective climate action plan.

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

Heyman noted that he and New Democrat Leader John Horgan met with members of the Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change in the coming months.

Even with B.C.'s jobs climate in a rough position, the Premier's 2015 mandate letter to Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Shirley Bond still failed to mention the so - called jobs plan that she has promoted since 2011.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

Ms. Notley will now take the report and the made - in - Alberta plan to address climate change to a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other premiers tomorrow and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris nexclimate change to a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other premiers tomorrow and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris nexClimate Change (COP21) in Paris next week.

Many of those executives stood on stage with Phillips and Premier Rachel Notley, along with environmental leaders, when the climate change plan was released in November 2015.

Since the Climate Leadership Plan was released last year, we have seen groups like Norquest College and non-profits like Iron & Earth step up to help with the transition to renewable energy.

Unlike the previous government, the NDP has intentionally sought to bring together a group of people with diverse and differing political views and expertise to advise on the implementation of Alberta's Climate Change plans.

But with critics and climate change deniers ready to pounce at a moment's notice, it is clear that the NDP government needs to do a better job clearly communicating why their much - lauded Climate Leadership Plan is impclimate change deniers ready to pounce at a moment's notice, it is clear that the NDP government needs to do a better job clearly communicating why their much - lauded Climate Leadership Plan is impClimate Leadership Plan is important.

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

We're leading Alberta's future with our forward - thinking Climate Leadership Plan.

«A John Horgan New Democrat government will put forward a climate action plan before the next election that will have real targets to cut carbon pollution, with a commitment to meet them, and will have a plan to create many new clean technology and renewable energy jobs while protecting our existing industries from unfair competition.

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

With the proper planning, it would be relatively easy to design a house in such a manner that the climate could be naturally controlled.

Our best plan of action now would be to focus on how to deal with climate change once it arrives in force, instead of the current futile attempts to stop it from happening.

Farms with a sound management plan are better poised to increase their food output, combat food insecurity, run more efficiently, save money, and reduce their climate impact.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Schools involved in our program send full teams to attend intensive conferences where they work with a coach to design action plans to implement best practices in areas such as curriculum, assessment, homework, school schedule, and a healthy school climate.

For the case you live in a hot or humid climate or plan to spend a lot of time outside with the baby in this carrier then the mesh will be your best friend.

Mass Audubon partners with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (DFW) on coastal waterbird protection, rare species protection, and planning for climate change, among other issues.

But, of course, most of our work is forward - thinking and includes ambitious and exciting plans to connect people with nature and protect vital habitat in the age of climate change.

In the interview, Stewart - Cousins said she he had hoped the Senate's one - house budget resolution went further on issues such as criminal justice reform, ethics and climate change, saying those subjects should be dealt with in the finalized spending plan.