The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned
with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.
Not exact matches
I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range
of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration
of long — term and multilocation trials
with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face
of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature
of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to
change the way rice is grown to
meet the
challenges of changing rural economies,
changing societies, and a
changing climate; and, our extraordinary array
of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront
of the CGIAR
change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.
The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders
of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to
meet the
challenge of providing the world's growing population
with a sustainable, secure supply
of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land,
with lower inputs, and in the context
of global
climate change, other environmental
changes and declining resources.
While Exxon Mobil provided plenty
of details about the company's thinking on
climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to
meet regulatory and other
challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be
met with low - carbon energy alone.
Empowering students
with the knowledge, skills and motivation to
meet the greatest
challenge of their lives is a necessity, says Tony McNally, managing director,
Climate Change Solutions
The Catholic Church, working
with the leadership
of other religions, can now take a decisive role by mobilizing public opinion and public funds to
meet the energy needs
of the poorest 3 billion people, thus allowing them to prepare for the
challenges of unavoidable
climate and eco-system
changes.
The
climate writer and campaigner Bill McKibben (left)
met for a beer in Chico, Calif.,
with Anthony Watts, a former broadcast meteorologist who runs a blog
challenging many aspects
of climate change science.
The world's most powerful established and emerging nations — together responsible for more than 80 percent
of global greenhouse gas emissions — concluded a day - long
meeting after the Group
of 8 summit in Japan and emerged on Wednesday
with a joint statement calling
climate change «one
of the great global
challenges of our time.»
Conscious
of our leadership role in
meeting such
challenges, we, the leaders
of the world's major economies, both developed and developing, commit to combat
climate change in accordance
with our common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and confront the interlinked
challenges of sustainable development, including energy and food security, and human health.
Press Trust
of India: India will work
with global community to
meet the
challenges of climate change, Government today said and spelt out local action plans to tackle the warming.
With 70 %
of global energy demand currently
met through the burning
of carbon - based fuels, and demand predicted to double by 20351, the world faces a growing
challenge: reducing
climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.
The United States must
change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal - fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency
with which energy is extracted, captured, converted, and used if it is to
meet the urgent
challenges facing the energy system,
of which
climate change and energy security are the most pressing.
On that basis, the report concludes that while continued oil sands production will make it very hard for Canada to
meet its national emission reduction targets — which again it's worth pointing out, are in line
with those
of the US and far far below what science says is needed to minimize the impacts
of climate change — on a global basis «elimination
of oil sands GHG emissions will not eliminate or substantially lessen the immense
challenge facing the world to reduce GHG emissions.»