It turns out that these are all climate-driven employment areas, too -- trends that will grow in demand as climates change because our urban plant life will have greater demands placed on it.
All options for attending to climate change - all political options - are, rightly, still on the table.
In 2010, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission required publicly traded companies to disclose to their investors all financially material climate-related risks, including those linked to water availability and quality.
This is all familiar territory to climate-change aficionados.
Climate panic, after all, is fear of dramatic, life-altering climate changes, not about tenths of a degree.
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Instead, they present sensational statements and dramatic images that leave lasting impressions of calving glaciers, drowning polar bears and all manner of other man-caused climate calamities.
Bid organisers said that all the stadiums will be climate-controlled and zero-carbon emitting to combat what could be temperatures as high as 50C during the two hottest months of the year in Qatar.
By 2021, European directives are expected to force all new construction to be nearly climate-neutral.
The global recession, the energy crisis, food insecurity, climate change -- all these have made development more difficult, yet more urgent.
Everyone obviously agreed that carbon was the common climate-killing enemy of all nations, but with commitments of lots of money it could be defeated.
Today it is the retailing establishment, which makes it the target rather than the challenger - and all the more vulnerable in an economic climate that is likely to remain inclement for years.
Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, is likely to lead a delegation of 53 countries (all of Africa minus Morocco) to the climate-change summit in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, in December, where he will presumably lodge this demand.
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After all, 150, 000 people already die from climate-change related effects every year.
His conclusion is unambiguous: though reducing carbon-dioxide emissions will not end all human influence on climate, it is a necessary step towards reducing the risk of severe dislocation.
The report warns climate change threatens all eight of the Millennium Development Goals-- a set of goals agreed on by leading nations in 2000 that aim to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
Not only does VITIS store all of its wines in a state-of-the-art climate controlled facility to ensure quality, it will also store your wines there, a service they claim no other online retailer offers.
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Energy efficiency, emissions trading, and new technology must all be used, they said, and quickly - the costs of preventing climate change rise the longer action is delayed, they argued.
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Mistakes had been made, she said, at December's Copenhagen summit, which was intended to provide a comprehensive package of measures to combat the causes and impacts of climate change - the conclusion to a commitment made by all governments at the 2007 summit in Bali - but which ended with no such thing.
It is not surprising that Bali is unlikely to achieve anything tangible, for it is aimed at the hardest part of climate-change mitigation getting an international agreement which all the big emitters ratify.
In spite of all the advances in the past 60 million years, no-one can control the climate.
Best of all, this approach offers even defenders of coal a realistic long-term plan for tackling climate change.
Note that it's not all about renewable energy, but about technologies, systems and behaviour change that reduces climate-changing emissions.
The Environmental Defense Fund sent a letter recently to all members of the U.S. Senate appropriations committees asking them to strike anti-environmental climate change riders from the budget appropriations bills.
If it all goes up, CityCenter will represent a gaudy new take on urban renewal, a climate-controlled fantasy land where the well-heeled can sleep, shop and play without dirtying themselves with outsiders.
If it all goes up, CityCenter will represent a gaudy new take on urban renewal, a climate-controlled fantasy land where the well-heeled can sleep, dine, shop and play without dirtying themselves with outsiders.
The last time America was this climate-friendly, carbon dioxide wafted up from smokestacks to the smooth sounds of All-4-One and Boyz II Men.
Under the Kyoto protocol of the UN climate convention, all developed countries save America must make binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.
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The Climate Action Partnership now is without the support of ConocoPhillips, BP, Caterpillar -- all announced today that they are dropping out of it.
Through these collaborative efforts, he transcended his powerful self-centeredness to foster a rich, vibrant, and creative climate that fully tapped the potential of all.
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