Sentences with phrase «working on climate change solutions»

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation also announced a $ 600 million donation over five years, from 2018 to 2023, to nonprofits that are working on climate change solutions.

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Q: Readers familiar with your work will know your writing on climate change solutions like solar, wind and sustainable communities, and your past as a Green Party candidate.

«Along with 16 of my colleagues, I am proud to introduce a resolution calling on the House of Representatives to commit to working on economically viable solutions that address the threat of climate change,» Stefanik said in her remarks on the House floor.

«There's more New York must do to fight climate change — this forum is an opportunity to highlight significant issues and work with experts on additional solutions.»

«Working together, California and the UK commit to build upon current efforts, share experiences, find new solutions and work to educate the public on the need for aggressive action to address climate change and promote energy diversity.»

She tries to broaden the range of groups involved in climate change research, and works with federal, state and municipal government agencies and the private sector on science - based solutions.

We need to work collectively to find solutions as this would not only generate multiple benefits at lower individual costs, but would also define saving water as best practice and provide strategic opportunities to address climate change impacts on water.

With regard to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has done remarkable work in mobilizing the search for scientific consensus and possible solclimate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has done remarkable work in mobilizing the search for scientific consensus and possible soluchange, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has done remarkable work in mobilizing the search for scientific consensus and possible solClimate Change has done remarkable work in mobilizing the search for scientific consensus and possible soluChange has done remarkable work in mobilizing the search for scientific consensus and possible solutions.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

That is why we announced this week the formation of a U.S. - India Working Group on Climate Change to seek new ways to find solutions and push the curve of discovery.

If I were working for oil companies (which I am NOT) my goal would be to put forward a tantalising but impossible (carrot on a stick) solution to climate change to make people THINK the situation is controllable whenever we like.

PETER: Then call on your Members of Congress to get to work building bipartisan solutions to climate change.

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

Gary's work with co-author Lynne Cherry on How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate has been instrumental in empowering students to become involved in climate change solClimate has been instrumental in empowering students to become involved in climate change solclimate change solutions.

What we don't cover is the fact that these organizations and deniers are also working on another front, attacking solutions to climate change.

Students in Laurie Solchenberger's class at Lincoln Elementary School worked with local Madison Audubon Society's education specialist, Carolyn Byers, and implemented a series of Climate Change lessons on climate changes, its causes, habitats impacted, and on possible solClimate Change lessons on climate changes, its causes, habitats impacted, and on possible solclimate changes, its causes, habitats impacted, and on possible solutions.

The most important answer to this question is: whatever is most crucial to stopping climate change in your community, whether it be education, recruitment and team - building, campaigning and policy change, or working directly on solutions to cut carbon emissions.

* We know it's not true because the Rio Summit was 25 years ago, the «solutions» the most climate - concerned wanted don't work, the solutions they opposed do, and the «climate concerned» haven't changed their tune on solutions.

Jessie Smith Noyes Fdn grant for «General support for an organization working to ensure that low income communities, indigenous groups, and communities of color participate in policy debates on climate change and food justice issues in Minnesota and the Midwest to achieve solutions»

The website compiles tools, research, and information on drought in California to facilitate the work to understand, plan for, and find sustainable water management solutions in the face of a drier future for the western United States with changing conditions from climate change.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in India over the weekend and gave a speech urging the fast - developing country to work closely with the U.S. and other countries on solutions to climate change.

I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market - based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago.

Atlas has cosponsored Heartland Institute events dedicated to the proposition that climate change is not a crisis and has supported organizations such as the John Locke Foundation which has attacked efforts by state elected officials working on climate solutions with the Center for Climate Straclimate change is not a crisis and has supported organizations such as the John Locke Foundation which has attacked efforts by state elected officials working on climate solutions with the Center for Climate Straclimate solutions with the Center for Climate StraClimate Strategies.

My wife Tanya and I are working on the idea of me setting up a website, donations, and a 501c4 non-profit called Climate Solutions Lobbyist so I can raise funds from family, friends, and donors to exclusively lobby and organize on climate Climate Solutions Lobbyist so I can raise funds from family, friends, and donors to exclusively lobby and organize on climate climate change.

After the movie, join us across the street to learn about Ice911's work as a boots - on - the - ground solution to reduce climate change impacts, and share in the organization's recent successes.

She worked on a multi-stakeholder project that combined agriculture and climate science by seeking climate change solutions on grazing lands.

«Working together, California and the UK commit to build upon current efforts, share experiences, find new solutions and work to educate the public on the need for aggressive action to address climate change and promote energy diversity.»

With a focus on addressing global megatrends such as demographic and social needs, increased urbanization and climate change, BASF works to increase the proportion of its products and solutions that make an extensive sustainability contribution along the value chain.

The Met Office, working with other interested parties, is taking the lead in providing the advice and solutions government, veterinary experts and farmers will need to mitigate against the effects of climate change on animal and plant health in the future.

Manomet scientists work to identify the most effective and promising solutions to climate change by synthesizing the rapidly evolving research on the interplay between climate change and natural systems.

So, with Climate Change, widely seen as an Egalitarian problem, more work could be done on proposing non-egalitarian, or even anti-egalitarian policy solutions.

The number one solution in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III, the number one solution in various International Energy Agency reports, is increased efficiency (in power plants, transmission and distribution, cars, heating and cooling, appliances, etc).

«It's our role to be a leader in this battle against climate change — to show that it works, that there is a positive business case, that there are great opportunities for doing this; but also to give the right technologies, the right solutions, also the right vision on what they can do.»

Ban commended the work of the International Centre on Small Hydro Power in carrying out innovative cooperation projects, and said that China's experience in climate change solutions and the mitigation of environmental impacts should be spread to other developing countries.

The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders» Group is a select group of European business leaders working to advocate solutions on climate change to policy makers and business peers.

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We work to educate the public about the impacts of climate change on our world and the animals and plants that live in it and to build the political will to enact solutions.

For example, the resilience work will include climate adaptation - specific goals (e.g., providing reliable access to power during increasing heat waves, or storms), while also supporting carbon neutrality goals (implementing low or no carbon - emitting solutions for those reliable power sources), and it will equally importantly focus on building community capacity to deal with a constantly changing climate, including changing extremes.