While there are ongoing failures in the community bank space, it has become very clear that the climate and environment for those institutions has strengthened, and in fact fourth-quarter earnings for the group have improved.
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This is not only an issue of helping our climate and the environment, but it's one of our national security.
We also discussed the opportunity to cooperate in the area of climate change, environment, and also management of the forest.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Yudhoyono Press Availability | The White House
Kim Carstensen, director of the global climate initiative with environment group WWF, said that much more movement was needed on the Kyoto Protocol negotiations here.
It found that the main drivers for countries to deploy renewable energy are to improve energy security, encourage economic development, and to protect the climate and the environment from the impacts of fossil fuel use.
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Other issues raised included greening, with the EC proposing that 30% of direct payments should be used specifically for agricultural practices benefiting the climate and the environment, young farmers and capping of payments for an individual farm at a maximum limit of 300, 000 per year.
Stern is the chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and also chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at Leeds University.
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To address issues related to environment, climate change and disaster risk management, the UN will support central and local authorities in the sustainable management of the environment and natural resources across all sectors, and better environmental education and awareness - ultimately contributing to sustainable economic growth and increased quality of life.
We're making this new politics our own, just as we're setting the agenda on the environment and climate change.
"Our attention to the environment and climate change has been core to Johnson Controls throughout our history, " he says.
That satisfied global-warming sceptics in the ruling party but failed to address rising public concern over the environment and climate change.
In closing the debate, Environment and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson told MSPs the government had a challenge and an opportunity.
In the first part of the committee Environment and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson said purchasing carbon units should be "an option".
Its report has now been sent to the Minister for Environment and Climate Change Paul Wheelhouse, Tayside and Grampian Police and the RSPB.
Most recently, I have been writing about climate change and the environment and am an active member of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).
He says that his views on climate change and the environment are so strong that they led to clashes with senior staff at the company.
Social development, the prosperity of our people, climate change, the environment -- those are the type of issues that we can now include in our agenda.
Bob Ward, policy and communications director for the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment in London, said the warming of the Earth's surface was unequivocal.
But Correa stressed that the knowledge of how to work with the environment, climate and materials had long been available - but modern architects had "forgotten and forsaken" it.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on the environment and climate change.
With more than 25 years of experience in broadcast journalism, Allen has also worked at NBC News, MSNBC and The Weather Channel, where she served as the network's first full-time environment and climate correspondent.
"Companies like Cairn and BP are desperate to pursue the last drops of oil on Earth, even if that means risking our environment and climate in the process, " Greenpeace said on its website.
We noted U.S. support for green growth in ASEAN through, inter alia, facilitation of a trade and environment dialogue in ASEAN and looked forward to continued cooperation on green growth, environment, climate change and biodiversity.
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"We measure the ecological load an area can take and we offer licences only where were convinced there is a proper balance between effects of fish farming and the ability of local environment to absorb the effects of farming, " says Stewart Stevenson the Scottish Minister for Environment and Climate Change.
Historically, high net worth (HNW) individuals and families supported the causes they cared about by giving money to nonprofit organizations, with the expectation that it would be used to generate certain social benefits feeding the hungry, preparing children for kindergarten or mitigating the effects of climate change on the environment.
We both agreed to enhance, increase cooperation in various fields with the specific agenda and specific priority that we wish to enhance -- that is in the area of trade and investment, in the area of education, energy, in the area of climate change and the environment, in the area of security and democracy and also civil society.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Yudhoyono Press Availability | The White House
He spoke in a conference call with several reporters on the eve of his Clinton Global Initiative University this weekend in San Diego, where 1, 100 students from 300 schools around the world and in every state will gather to create problem-solving pr0jects in five areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, and public health.
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It provides layers of observations on local shifts in the environment relevant to climate change issues today.
Streets would be less congested, emissions would be reduced, and the environment, our climate in particular, would benefit.
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