Sentences with phrase «greenhouse policy»

More recently, Allen Consulting has been commissioned by the Victorian Labor Government to model the effect of greenhouse policies.

The Australian Government speaks so much humbug about greenhouse policies and the Kyoto Protocol that one could be excused for thinking that it operates in a parallel universe in which the normal rules of logic and evidence do not apply.

And Rosenberg's second point, that even a perfect greenhouse policy is unlikely to have a measurable influence on such threats, is buttressed by Brad Plumer's relevant recent Washington Post analysis of how little even aggressive carbon dioxide reductions would affect the pace at which sea levels rise: «Can we stop the seas from rising?

In a 1998 book, edited by Bill Nordhaus (Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change), Dick Schmalensee wrote about «Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions,» and lamented that the Kyoto Protocol exhibited narrow scope (covering only the Annex I countries) but aggressive ambition for that small set of nations.

In doing so, we can get a clear picture of where greenhouse policy stands in Australia and the options we face.

The Prime Minister told this highly select group that his Government was in political trouble over greenhouse policy as it was being out - manoeuvred by the NSW Government and by Mark Latham who was benefiting politically from his promise to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and support the renewable energy industries.

The members of the greenhouse mafia claim to be more familiar with greenhouse policy than the Government, because they are the ones who wrote it.

I've never discounted the importance of moving beyond the idea of today's energy norms, but don't think that if somehow Al Gore had been in office and we had pushed forward on a perfect rigorous greenhouse policy, that that would insulate New York City from this implicit risk?.

Owing to the complexities of greenhouse policy, two parallel sets of negotiations were taking place in Montreal.

In the tight little world of greenhouse lobbying, the Prime Minister saw nothing improper in going to the country's biggest greenhouse polluters to ask them what the Government should do about greenhouse policy, without extending the same opportunity to other industries, not to mention environment groups.

Here's a deconstruction of a few sections, first on the role of greenhouse - driven warming in causing such losses and the impact of a greenhouse policy on stemming them:

17 See C. Hamilton, A. Pears and P. Pollard, Regional Employment and Greenhouse Policies, Discussion Paper No. 41, Australia Institute, October 2001

Howard then put much of his greenhouse policy in the hands of Senator Nick Minchin, who went on to become the foremost climate science denier in the Liberal Party, even after the issue had cost Howard his prime ministership.

Instead of sticking to the science and economics of greenhouse policy, he started to strategise politically.