Sentence examples for climate for the first from inspiring English sources

Despite the difficult economic climate, for the first time African nations and private-sector partners have made significant commitments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

I bring all this up because now, in this day and age, and in this political and world climate, for the first time since my youth, I feel that same creeping prejudice (we now call it bigotry) surrounding many of my family and beloved friends and people in general.

The 2015 Paris climate conference is designed to achieve a legally binding agreement on climate change for the first time in over 20 years; however, the participants face a much tougher task in striking a new deal after the disappointing preparatory climate change talks in Lima.

By sharing smart strategies, cities of all sizes have led the way in addressing climate change, and as a result, the UN has given cities an official role in international climate diplomacy for the first time.

_____ Governor Jerry Brown of California turned the convention's full attention toward climate change for the first time this week.

Hansen, who was speaking at a climate summit for the first time, said the planet was out of energy balance.

"Climate really for the first time in a long time is being used as an offensive issue – a wedge issue and an offensive issue – for Democrats," he said.

This September, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon will call world leaders together in New York to discuss climate change for the first time since Copenhagen in 2009.

Yet the year also ended with hope, in the shape of the Paris Agreement of 12 December: the whole world community of 195 nations came together and pledged to fight climate change, for the first time.

Ice and the Sky acts as a kind of bookend to the Al Gore eco-lecture An Inconvenient Truth: that film, released just over a decade ago, was aimed at people who were likely hearing about climate change for the first time.

In this climate – and for the first time – I have asked my students to identify a backup plan for their future if all goes pear-shaped; to consider what they will do if they miss their place by just a few marks and there are no other available places out there.