Sentences with phrase «if climate policies»

If climate policies cost an extra $ 10 per month, 60 percent of respondents said they would oppose them.

Another report by the German Institute of Economic Research concluded that «If climate policy measures are not introduced, global climate change damages amounting to up to 20 trillion US dollars can be expected in the year 2100... The costs of an active climate protection policy implemented today would reach globally around 430 billion US dollars in 2050 and around 3 trillion US dollars in 2100.»

If climate policy exceeds the pathway prescribed by NDCs, and overall energy demand is lower, cost reductions in solar PV and EVs can help limit global warming to between 2.1 °C (50 % probability) and 2.3 °C (66 % probability).

Our results therefore suggest that if climate policy communicators want to raise levels of support for carbon policies then they would be wise to frame the associated costs as a foregone - gain.

Not exact matches

If you're worried about climate change, your first concern should be effective policy (by how much will this reduce emissions?)

If there is a silver lining to Minnesota's current business and policy climate, it's that some policymakers are beginning to hear the message from employers in the state.

«I don't know if they've even spent half of it,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

To pick up on this discussion, post cancellation of the TransAlta's Pioneer CCS project, a number of questions will undoubtedly be raised as to what went wrong and if this is a foreshadowing of turbulent times for CCS in Alberta (and Alberta Climate policy).

There has been no spike in gun sales so far — but if gun enthusiasts believe the political climate is ripe for new gun control policies, it might cause them to stock up on guns.

If achieved, the «united industry» approach would be markedly different from the current climate in the UK, where liberalist, free - competition policies allow individual processors to set their own farmgate prices.

Phil Bloomer, Oxfam campaigns and policy director, said: «We have the knowledge, resources and technology to tackle climate change and avert worst - case scenarios - if we choose to do so.

«I think we were a major part in creating a climate where that could happen,» she said, «because I don't think the governor could go out on a limb on his own if there weren't policy and advocacy groups that could help make that case.»

He admitted that green taxes would be a shock to many voters, but said: «If we are serious about the environment and climate change there have to be policies that hurt.»

«We looked into the question of whether — and if so, to what extent — the public's attitude to climate policy and the risks of climate change can be influenced,» explains Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich.

The study also found a comprehensive climate policy (including methane) would produce more climate benefits by 2050 than if soot and methane were reduced alone.

But global temperatures would decrease even further if a comprehensive climate policy was enacted to generally reduce greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (green line).

For further comparison, Smith also evaluated these results against what would happen if a comprehensive climate policy were enacted.

At an event by The Christian Science Monitor that occurred before news of the Gore meeting yesterday, Bipartisan Policy Center President Jason Grumet said the biggest surprise over the next four years would be if Trump deferred to his daughter on the topic of climate.

I would submit that if but a single attribute can be said to characterize climate science in the hostile public policy milieu of recent years, it is surely skepticism.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

It could have political and societal consequences if there are regional shortages of climate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Founclimate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research FounClimate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.

If the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, Carol Browner, are to be believed, those microbes have made quick work of the spill, consuming as much as 50 percent of the remaining oil already.

If storms do become more prevalent and violent as the climate changes, they argue, more people may demand substantive policy changes.

«If you want a stable climate, you have to bring emissions to zero,» says David Keith, a physicist and public policy expert at Harvard University.

This «lukewarm» option has been boosted by recent climate research, and if it is right, current policies may do more harm than good.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

«This is important, as it shows that Mexico is serious about addressing climate change even if there is a change in leadership,» agreed Jake Schmidt, international climate change policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

At the same time, if it's viewed as a failure, I think it could hamper climate policy in many parts of the world.»

Instead, we should offer a thorough analysis of carbon budgets aimed at avoiding 2 °C and the implications for how quickly and deeply we need to cut CO2, as well as the associated climate impacts that society will need to be resilient to if policies fail to deliver.

A new model developed at Princeton University predicts that, if the poor continue to be affected in this way — and current climate policies remain the same — the world's future poor will be even worse off than impoverished people today.

«But the returns are also high, and if we take key principles into account we can begin shaping the policies and practices that could help make cellulosic biofuels a triple win for the economy, the climate and for environmental sustainability in general.»

Observers note that if the vote triggers a prolonged recession, that could have an impact on U.K. energy and climate policy as well as its aid budget, which per capita is one of the largest in the world.

If the Trump administration and Congress attempt to gut U.S. energy and climate policies, states are likely to emerge in 2017 as the nation's bulwark against climate change.

If the world is focused on adaptation, Third World countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the news magazine Foreign Policy.

Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy, praised Indonesia's climate efforts and noted that the government said it can achieve the deeper end of its 29 - to -41-percent emissions curb by 2030 if it receives international finance.

But the climate argument — and subsequent policy — won't sway everyone, even if they already support nuclear energy.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

But, despite the scale and speed of climate change in the north, the researchers believe that if policies and practices change in various ways, these communities are inherently well - equipped to adapt to many, if not all, projected changes in climate.

As a result, a larger population will leave future generations at greater risk from climate - related damages, especially if policy does not respond to fast - growing populations.

Such near - term benefits provide the basis for a no - regrets GHG - reduction policy, in which substantial advantages accrue even if the impact of human - induced climate change turns out to be less than current projections show.

Sabine Bock, Energy and Climate Director for Women in Europe for a Common Future said, «We can only get an ambitious and adequate agreement, if women and men equally decide, contribute and benefit from all climate policies and aClimate Director for Women in Europe for a Common Future said, «We can only get an ambitious and adequate agreement, if women and men equally decide, contribute and benefit from all climate policies and aclimate policies and actions.

Given the state's current fiscal climate, it may very well benefit the Silver State to embrace educational choice policies that partially mitigate its financial challenges, even if by modest amounts.

The options for personal loans are quite varied, but even if lenders in general do understand the injustices that the current economic climate has served up, not all of them are moved to break away from policy.

This (if I understand your statement correctly) is one of the core problems with the interaction between climate modeling and public policy.

If people then run into legitimate criticism of uncertainty and climate policy by well respected skeptics (e.g.: Lindzen), then there is the danger that they will label your site as political and not scientific, and you could lose credibility in the eyes of some people.

If the Democrats own the climate issue more as Roberts says it will influence at least what the Republicans do and say in the way of policy, even if it doesn't change them deep dowIf the Democrats own the climate issue more as Roberts says it will influence at least what the Republicans do and say in the way of policy, even if it doesn't change them deep dowif it doesn't change them deep down.

For my taste, the stuff about the climate denialists is overboard — the whole climate science and policy community is spending too much time thinking about the denialists and imagining that if we could just muzzle or convince these outliers that policy would be different.

Late last week, Stavins distributed a link to «Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Carbon - Pricing and Technology R&D Initiatives in a Meaningful National Climate Policy,» a defense of the primacy of a rising price on carbon if the goal is deep emissions cuts by mid-century.

Even if you reject the policy prescriptions or science interpretations of the Global Warming Policy Forum, the director, Benny Peiser, is an energetic aggregator of climate coverage that you might otherwisepolicy prescriptions or science interpretations of the Global Warming Policy Forum, the director, Benny Peiser, is an energetic aggregator of climate coverage that you might otherwisePolicy Forum, the director, Benny Peiser, is an energetic aggregator of climate coverage that you might otherwise miss.

A functioning market would make this more apparent (e.g., if the market price is equal to the IPCC midpoint scenario), of course, but it appears to me that in the debate motivated by James so far that there is no expectation that emissions reductions policies will have a discernable effect on the climate (as measured by GAT) by 2030 (the terminal point of the bet).