Sentence examples for thwart climate from inspiring English sources

He told an audience of thousands of scientists that California would continue its efforts to thwart climate change, regardless of federal policy and corporate lobbying.

In the popular press there have been reports that view geoengineering as the final option to thwart climate change if all other measures to reduce CO2 emissions fail in the coming decades.

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President Obama has proposed in 2010, if the US Senate can agree on a bill that will appease the powerful carbon industries and their K street lobbies in Washington (who have increased spending to thwart climate legislation by over three-hundred percenthis yearar), to perhaps then negotiate and sign a global climate agreement.

Not only is Abbott trying to repeal Australia's world-leading carbon pricing policy, but he is trying to "thwart" the climate action objectives of our major ally, the USA.

Meanwhile, action to thwart catastrophic climate change is becoming increasingly urgent, and the U.S. Chamber's corporate campaigns to preserve the fossil fuel industry's unsustainable status quo are growing in intensity.

American officials accused China of thwarting a climate change deal in Copenhagen and Chinese leaders threatened to punish the United States for a $6 billion weapons deal for Taiwan.

"The Republican platform slated for approval at the party's convention," writes Ben Geman in The Hill, "includes expanded offshore oil-and-gas development, opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling rigs and thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations".

David Cameron's attempt to neutralise the toxic political issue of airport expansion until after the next election has been thwarted by the climate change watchdog, which has announced it will report this summer on the impact of the plans on the UK's climate commitments.

The legislative measures represent one of two lines of attack that Republicans are now using to thwart the president's climate policies.

But challenges in Congress, Brune recognized, could thwart legislative action on climate change.