• Based in part on numerous listening sessions and public outreach events with a wide range of stakeholders, "Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, " highlights the progress toward implementing those recommendations.

    WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

  • In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies.

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  • This report, produced by the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision-makers manage climate risks.

    WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

  • The report on population change by the Task and Finish Group from Boston Borough Council has made 28 recommendations to the government on how to improve things in the town.

    BBC: Boston immigration levels to be discussed in Parliament

  • In the past, his businesses had to deal with the challenges of moving to competitive markets and finding greener fuel sources, such as nuclear power. (Exelon is the country's largest nuclear producer.) "The problems of the hour change, but the CEO's task in coping with them doesn't change all that much, " he says.

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  • Despite this, many of the comments on Mr Muglia's blogpost took the software giant to task for the change.

    BBC: Coders decry Silverlight change

  • After the earlier roadside bomb in Kandahar, Isaf spokesman Brig Gen Gunter Katz said it had been a "difficult week" for the coalition, but added that the deaths would not change its commitment to the task in Afghanistan.

    BBC: Afghan violence: Seven troops die in two attacks

  • But, more importantly, economic change has made the unions' task harder.

    ECONOMIST: Trade unions

  • Kirk Watson, a Democrat representing Austin, proposed a bill that would have merely set up a task force to study climate change.

    NPR: Mayors Take Action as Texas Slacks on Climate

  • But she is likely to find that nagging men and women to change their natures is a more daunting task than anything she does at her day job.

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  • One reason the Task Force cited for the change?

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  • Ed Miliband's main task in his speech was to change perceptions and be seen as a future prime minister.

    BBC: Leaders' speeches: How they compare

  • Lastly, the Secretary-General expressed his intent to accept the proposal of the Commission on Climate Change and Development, supported by many leaders today, to appoint a high-level task force following Copenhagen to help us concretely develop a way forward on climate change and development after the framework is established in Copenhagen.

    UN: Secretary-General

  • If the scientists change the pitch speed, the robot will relearn the task all over again.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • But Gingrich's own House Majority Leader Dick Armey has taken him to task for not airing his high-risk change of tactics in the privacy of a closed leadership meeting.

    CNN: Looking For Budget Progress

  • This event will bring forward the work of the UN Task Team on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change and in general discuss the need to focus on the social impacts of climate change and appropriate adaptation policies supported by social science research.

    UNESCO: Basic Sciences

  • But in the end, if we are to change the laws we need to change the people who support them, which is no simple task.

    FORBES: Radley Balko on the Raquel Nelson Conviction

  • Even if there was agreement in the EU for treaty change Mr Cameron would have to embark on the equally tricky task of getting agreement within his coalition.

    BBC: Cameron: London under assault by Brussels

  • It wants to begin to change attitudes as well as influence government policies - a difficult task in countries where violence against women is often accepted and endured because of tradition.

    BBC: News | Africa | African women march against violence

  • For the president of any country (or any company, for that matter), a critical leadership task is to create an environment where people believe they can change the world and then do something about it.

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  • After consulting with staff for a few days, our task force had taken note of over a hundred reasonable proposals for change.

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  • But the experienced role players surrounding them, many of whom have failed in their task to help the team win during the postseason, could easily change.

    WSJ: The Knicks' Burning Questions

  • So the task facing any new government is enormous: nothing less than to change the mentality of a nation, while rebuilding the institutions of a state.

    ECONOMIST: Will he try to give Zaire a new start, or more of the same?

  • The potential for change is clearly massive but weaning British motorists off liquid fuel will be an uphill task, as the authors acknowledge.

    BBC: Promise, but daunting challenges for electric cars

  • The women also showed altered behavior in their visual search task when they were exposed to the chemosignals, but had no awareness of any change in their expression or behavior.

    FORBES: Yes, You Really Can Smell Emotions

  • "As the change is coming much sooner than anyone had anticipated, we now, regrettably, have the task of writing to tenants again to let them know that surveys and installations are not going ahead, " he said.

    BBC: Leeds City Council solar panel plans "reluctantly" on hold

  • She marshalled the signatories of the Google Buzz letter and took Facebook to task last year for breaching Canada's data privacy laws, which led the company to change its policies.

    ECONOMIST: Legal confusion on internet privacy

  • Large numbers of people with those kinds of characteristics, we have found, can be infinitely more powerful than just an executive committee or the kind of task forces that you see set up all the time when people are trying to make some kind of change.

    FORBES: Building the Team You Need to Drive Change

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