As for climate change, Mr Saran points out that India, like other poor countries, will be among the worst-hit by a warming globe and has an overriding interest in a successful international regime emerging from the climate-change conference in Copenhagen in December.
The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) also contributes directly to the actions under the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change as the ocean component of the Global Climate Observation System (GCOS).
In fact, it is now positioned as a solution to global climate change as a replacement for fossil fuel based energy (burning coal or natural gas).
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On Dec. 7 2009, as expectations grew for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, Jackson signed an endangerment finding that asserted carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health when concentrated in the atmosphere.
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Saying things without providing references to evidence is a hallmark of the denialist argument, even as they demand climate scientists make available for scrutiny every change to every draft of every paper they ever touch, as well as the proprietary source code of computer programs they create to analyze their data.
In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.
Yet whatever Mr Cameron's personal views, his party sees environmentalism as an indulgent luxury: in a poll, Tory MPs ranked climate change as the lowest policy priority for a Tory government.
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"When the Department for Energy and Climate Change increases its headcount, for example - as it has done every quarter over the past year - that only serves to undo the good work being done elsewhere to clean away unnecessary fat in the arteries of government, " it said.
Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has switched off its lights for an hour as the Earth Day climate change protest gets under way across the globe.
It will highlight the role of ESD for the transition to green economies and societies and as a catalyst for cross-sector planning and implementation of programmes in areas such as climate change, biodiversity and disaster risk reduction.
For development experts, such as Ehrhart, climate change is a formidable foe that must be tackled.
Side Events were established as a platform for observer organizations to highlight diverse climate change issues at UNFCCC conferences.
These are companies who see this as part--a business case for combatting climate change and for participating and finding other alternative energy sources.
We do know for a fact that factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.
Conference was intended to produce a framework agreement for climate change mitigation beyond 2012, as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Father Sena argues that his campaign is not just important for his local community in Santarem but for everyone, as damage to the Amazon affects climate change, and this, he says, affects all of us.
Negotiators are struggling in The Hague this week to hammer out rules on implementing a pact sealed in Kyoto, Japan, three years ago that set targets for cutting greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide implicated in climate change.
Throughout the day we worked with many countries to establish a new consensus around these three points, a consensus that will serve as a foundation for global action to confront the threat of climate change for years to come.
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The only thing we are unsure about is how long it will take for the Earth system to display those atmospheric changes as climate change phenomena.
Fortunately, public understanding of climate change is on the rise, as is support for action.
After adjusting--minutely--for climate change, Weatherbill names a price and acts as the underwriter.
Money from the Local Energy Assessment Fund, known as a LEAF grant, was awarded by the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
Governments need to find ways of helping small, independent farmers and fishers adapt to climate change, such as giving them money and investment for new technology, the draft said.
Still, there is a reasonable fear here that an illusory hope of a scientific fix might undermine the sort of dogged and grubby policy solutions, such as carbon caps and carbon quotas, needed for taking the fight against climate change to its source.
"As we change the climate, we're shifting the odds for extreme weather, " he said.
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Britons do seem to regard climate change as a problem, but there is little appetite for big lifestyle changes.
The book's final chapter, however, takes on a more regretful tone as the author turns his attention to climate change and what it means for cold places.
On the other hand we could regard it as pretty good news as well: for it means that we no longer have to worry about climate change.
AEP's commitment to greenery is not driven by rose-tinted altruism: it expects demand for clean power to increase as a result of government actions to limit climate change.
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