In the next few years, GLOBE will be focusing in particular on the goal of enhancing climate education with a focus on global warming, the carbon and energy footprint, climate and human health, and ecosystems, agriculture, and biodiversity.
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The likely fate of the Amazon under climate change came under focus early last year when, as one of a series of attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sunday Times newspaper accused the panel of having included an unsubstantiated claim that up to 40% of the forest could be affected by climate change in future.
G8 summit in July, which is likely to focus on climate change and on the rising price of food and fuel, his popularity will recover.
Baard Vegard Solhell, Minister of Environment of Norway, stressed that the mission of our generation should be to focus on climate change, which has major social impacts, including its differential effects on women and men.
Obama's renewed focus on climate, including his call for "market-based" solutions -- meaning reopening the idea of carbon markets or other such mechanisms, a couple of years after such ideas were considered by many to be dead -- was a return to promises made long ago.
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.
Climate change has become a focus where - I heard this morning that 33 people - 33 percent of people don't believe global warming is a problem.
His policy interests are energy and climate change, with a particular focus on public-private partnerships for green technology in Asia.
President Obama wants NASA to focus more on issues regarding climate change instead.
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Climate change impacts will be the primary focus of this initiative.
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.
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.
The issue of compensation for climate losses looks set to become a major focus for negotiations at the conference.
Beyond the economic malaise, this year's meeting will also focus on global risks associated with climate change, food and water security.
This is the country that invented the siesta: that most human of solutions to the problem of a sometimes punishing hot climate and the natural dip in energy and focus that comes at midday.
"We must focus on helping corals to adapt to climate change and on diverting people away from destructive practices such as overfishing, " Linden said.
He's just mindful that, in the current climate, the ratings agencies themselves are starting to focus as much on the politics of the government's strategy as the economics.
The focus upon human mortality rates associated with climate change serves to remind us that the far vaster constellation of life species upon which we depend is far more vulnerable than we are.
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The nearly complete focus of the subsequent Congressional energy and climate debate on the primacy of carbon pricing may have ultimately prevented meaningful debate on how to optimize and extend the critical, comprehensive clean energy investments begun under to stimulus and enact a long-term investment strategy to strengthen clean energy competitiveness.
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The authors aim to add their voice to the call for carbon mitigation and will focus on making clear the ways in which climate change will affect health.
The focus has shifted to fighting global poverty and climate change, with musical events such as Live 8 and Live Earth, and while they may not be singing songs of protest, pop stars are using their presence at these global events to push for change.
Unfortunately, Mr Bush's new-found interest in climate change is coupled with, and distorted by, his focus on energy security.
This year the focus will be on the details of a new global climate agreement for when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
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The main areas of focus included business costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life.
This meeting will build on wide-ranging and ongoing cooperation among the United States, Canada, and Mexico with a particular focus on economic growth and competitiveness, citizen security, energy, and climate change.
It is important to focus on the business issues of today, especially in the current economic climate, but having the foresight to look ahead and prepare for the future will have a significant impact on your success.
In the rest of Canada, the focus is on the destruction of the boreal forest and the implications for the climate.
If so, should we let NASA continue to focus more and more of its resources upon trying to protect the planet from natural climate change?
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The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
But getting Egyptians to focus on that problem is hard, says Elsayed Sabry Mansour, the minister's adviser on climate change.
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