Sentences with phrase «world on the climate change issue»

I am optimistic that we now have a partner that will provide leadership to the world on the climate change issue.

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Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

It's the first meeting of the leaders since Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, in which countries around the world committed to a series of targets on the issue of climate change.

Climate change is one of the world's most pressing issues and, as recognised in the Paris Agreement on climate change, businesses need to take Climate change is one of the world's most pressing issues and, as recognised in the Paris Agreement on climate change, businesses need to take climate change, businesses need to take action.

On its website, We Are Europe states: «With Europe we've had 70 years of peace, and together we've led the world on issues from climate change and human rights, to the fight against global poverty.On its website, We Are Europe states: «With Europe we've had 70 years of peace, and together we've led the world on issues from climate change and human rights, to the fight against global poverty.on issues from climate change and human rights, to the fight against global poverty...

Although Margaret Thatcher was the first world leader to warn about the threat of global warming, and although David Cameron famously highlighted the issue too, other prominent Conservatives including Nigel Lawson and Peter Lilley have been outspoken in their opposition to the mainstream agenda on climate change.

Climate change - the issue David Cameron described a year ago as «one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces» and on which all three leaders signed an important pledge as recently as February — has been studiously avoided in this campaign.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, they have both gone out of their way to take positive steps on climate change; A.G. Schneiderman by issuing a report detailing the need to address climate change at the state level, Comptroller DiNapoli by effectively pressing the world's largest fossil fuel companies to disclose how their business plans fare in a low - carbon future.»

A parade of world leaders from heads of state to corporate chiefs urged action on climate change at the largest summit on the issue ever organized.

A coral reef ecologist by training, she keeps one foot wet in the field, while the other roams the worlds of creative storytelling and problem - solving, with a focus on ocean conservation and climate change issues.

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

Holdren called on scientists and engineers to dedicate 10 % of their time educating policymakers and the public on issues such as climate change, protecting the world's oceans and public lands, continuing Arctic research and demonstrating the importance of investing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for elementary and middle school students.

The Society credits Merkel for boosting German research funding and for «the leadership she has provided on the European and world stages in promoting science - based policy making over issues such as climate change.»

«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

Sachs made his remarks yesterday at a symposium hosted by the institute on how to improve agriculture to address the mounting challenge of feeding the world while combating climate change and stopping the wholesale loss of biodiversity, among other interrelated issues.

The United Nations and World Meteorological Organization established the IPCC in 1988 to provide information relevant to climate change, periodically issuing reports to provide a comprehensive and up - to - date assessment of the current state of knowledge on climate change.

It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make - up of life on earth, and much more.

Trenberth has been a lead author in at least two reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and he's an acknowledged world expert on some of the issues raised in the paper by Hansen et al..

This issue of the TWAS Newsletter has a special focus on science diplomacy in the developing world, and describes the impact in health, climate change, astronomy, education and other fields.

The movie follows the 44th president and a team that includes former Secretary of State John Kerry, ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and senior strategist Ben Rhodes in the West Wing and around the world as they apply their brand of engaged globalism on issues ranging from climate change to Syria.

The movie follows the 44th president and a team that includes former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and senior strategist Ben Rhodes in the West Wing and around the world as they apply their brand of engaged globalism on issues ranging from climate change to Syria.

As the world faces issues such as climate change, drug trade, organized crime, terrorism, and piracy on the high seas, «multinational responses» are needed.

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Working together, the two world bodies are aligning efforts to unify a fragmented travel and tourism industry, speaking with one voice on the critical issue of climate change.

KEY FEATURES — Stunningly detailed pixel graphics — 10 challenging, well - designed boss battles — Hypnotic electronic score by composer Karl Flodin — Modern take on the classic Metroidvania genre: Players can freely explore the world at their own pace — Organic storytelling: The environments tell the story, along with some holo - tapes that are scattered around the drowned cities — Plausible plot driven by real - life issues: Explore the effects of climate change and technological progress

«They also speak to larger issues facing the entire world, including failing infrastructures, climate change, natural disasters, and the tensions between the needs of individuals and small communities on the one hand and national or international social policies on the other.

And although the book covers many topics, it does not discuss population growth, and it touches on communication issues only lightly in discussing why the world has so far failed to act on climate change.

As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

My blog is a way of focusing on actual arguments about climate change policies as they unfold, teasing out these arguments the often hidden ethical questions, and inviting the world to see these questions not as «value neutral» scientific or economic questions but as ethical issues.

The influence it has in the business world makes it accountable for a public trust that so far on the issue of climate change, it has betrayed.

Paul Voosen, one of the most talented journalists probing human - driven climate change and related energy issues, has written an award - worthy two - part report for Greenwire on one of the most enduring sources of uncertainty in climate science — how the complicated response of clouds in a warming world limits understanding of how hot it could get from a given rise in greenhouse gas concentrations:

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado has long warned of issues arising from the treaty definition of climate change, one of which is that the science body created to advise the world's nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, uses an entirely different deficlimate change, one of which is that the science body created to advise the world's nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, uses an entirely different definchange, one of which is that the science body created to advise the world's nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, uses an entirely different defiClimate Change, uses an entirely different definChange, uses an entirely different definition.

Recently released for its debut run on the west coast, Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn set out to create a documentary to confront these issues while discovering why the world's leading environmental groups haven't been addressing how animal agriculture contributes to climate change and how the promotion of a plant based diet is a solution.

It is unfortunate that the great country and its leaders are dragging their feet for a long time on the issue of climate change and the steps and initiatives needed to rid of the world from the catastrophic consequences of climate chnage.

His government, and previous ones, didn't see the need then, and the need now owes less to the fact that the climate is changing, and much, much more to the fact that individuals in the Government want to use the climate change issue to generate moral authority for themselves, especially on the world stage.

«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

COP18 / CMP8 entered the crucial phase of climate change negotiations on Day 9 with world leaders issuing a clarion call for urgent global action at the opening of the High Level Segment of the conference.

I think this is something that the world's going to have to have, unfortunately,» Broecker told CNN from Madrid where he received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his work on the issue of climate change.

We also must be careful not to give it too much credit either, as most of the world's political leaders were laggards on the issue of climate change long before Climategate arose.

Based on its own studies, reports and messaging, the World Bank Group has demonstrated an understanding of the impacts of climate change on development issues.

If we accept that system 1 instinctively responds in harmony with the subjects» world - views, we should not be surprized that people with low scientific literacy tend to be polarized in line with their politics on technical issues such as climate change.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States hopes to promote wider use of fossil fuels at a global meeting on climate change next week, a White House official said, reflecting the gaping divide between Washington and the rest of the world on the issue of global warming.

The chapters assembled for this issue of the State of the World's Forests highlight four key areas that warrant greater attention: regional trends on forest resources; the development of sustainable forest industries; climate change mitigation and adaptation; and the local value of forests.

As Tony observed on one occasion «climate change is crap» or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, its cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.

According to an article in the Guardian newspaper, published on the 8th of July 2015, ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change — seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm's own scientists.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

He went on to say that, «Climate change is one of the most serious environmental issues facing the world today,» and that, «Canada... is determined to do our part for the planet.»