Sentences with phrase «many climate policy experts»

Guests: Blake Shaffer, phD candidate at the University of Calgary, fellow with the C.D. Howe Institute, former energy trader, and all around energy and climate policy expert.

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Alexia Kelly, a climate policy expert at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, points out that other domestic policies, such improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, will bring further reductions.

Joel Clement, the former top climate policy expert at the Interior Department before he resigned last summer, said he's also concerned about why employees aren't filling out the survey.

For example, Paul is against putting a price on carbon emissions, something that climate policy experts and more than a few multinational companies are nearly unanimous in supporting.

Many climate policy experts fear the meeting will not achieve nearly enough, however.

But they fall short of what Brazil could theoretically contribute, according to some climate policy experts.

In interviews, more than half a dozen environmental economists and climate policy experts said yes.

Without concrete action by the United States, climate policy experts say, the rest of the world — which is eager to replicate America's high - revving, energy - hungry economy — will be unlikely to conserve coal or oil for the sake of the shared atmosphere.

But according to Dr. David Evans, a statistician and climate policy expert in Australia, it is fuel loads of combustible trees that pose the much greater risk.

«There is no question that there has been a change in momentum on this subject,» said Dana Fisher, a climate policy expert at Columbia University.

There is a strong consensus among climate policy experts that expanding nuclear energy is required to cut CO2 emissions and improve air quality.

But progress toward implementing the agreement at last month's COP23 in Bonn, Germany, shows that the United Nations climate diplomacy framework remains resilient, several climate policy experts told Pacific Standard as the latest round of talks came to an end.

EIA's team will be at these meetings and I sat down with our in - house international climate policy expert, Avipsa Mahapatra, to help us understand why these meetings are being held and why HFCs are taking center stage.

One climate policy expert is quoted as putting it rather graphically, saying this:

Then just last week, a panel of climate policy experts from various Chinese government think tanks, published an extensive 900 - page report that has gained notable attention in both the Chinese and Western press for advocating the notion that China can feasibly aim to peak its carbon emissions by 2030.

The initiative is being designed so that additional states and provinces can sign on, said Kathleen Drew, Gregoire's climate policy expert.

«This finding reinforces not only that climate policies will necessarily be made in the face of deep, irreducible uncertainties,» says Roger Pielke, a climate policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, US.

• What: Climate policy experts to brief journalists on developments in the negotiations in Warsaw.

CAN press conference • What: Climate policy experts to brief journalists on developments in the negotiations in Warsaw.

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Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long - term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published today.

«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.

Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs of communities displaced by climate change, something that is already happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

«On the one hand you wouldn't want to bet the future of U.S. climate policy on it until one has done more work, but on the other hand it looks quite promising,» says engineer M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, a carbon sequestration expert.

Richard Lazarus, an environmental law expert and professor at Harvard Law School, said courts have played an «outsized role» in climate policy in recent years because regulators are working with an old law to deal with a problem its authors weren't specifically addressing.

Some conservative policy experts who support climate action express limited optimism that the GOP candidates are slowly transitioning away from attacking the science directly.

But more controversial proposals — to bounce solar energy back out into space, for instance — split the conference, with policy experts warning climate scientists that there would be a public backlash.

Experts are still questioning the extent to which Trump's promised Paris withdrawal, along with his systematic unraveling of other Obama - era climate and environmental policies, may affect domestic carbon emissions in the coming years.

Mark Lynas, a former anti-GMO activist who now considers GMO fears a «conspiracy theory,» notes that GMO opponents use the same rhetorical tactics beloved of climate deniers: cherry - picking evidence, emphasizing a few dissenting «experts» over the scientific consensus, and attempting to «capture and control the public - policy agenda to enforce its long - held prejudices.»

Many climate scientists, policy experts and environmentalists are concerned about the potential for the incoming administration to limit funding for climate science and roll back both national and international progress toward limiting the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate change.

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issue.

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Some of the climate experts I've talked to over the years predicted that more clarity on the science actually could widen the range of policy views.

When you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone else.

Of course, there are quite a few experts in climate science and policy who warn that debating whether the research pointing to a disruptive human climate influence is, or is not, settled is a complete distraction from the reality that the basics are not in dispute (more CO2 = warming world = rising seas and lots of changing climate patterns).

Jerry Taylor, an economist at the Cato Institute, also sharply criticized the scientists» statement, saying, «I do not believe that «the experts» in any field should be dictating climate policy because there are plenty of important value judgments built in to those policies, and experts, however defined, have no objectively better values than you or I.»

Krosnick was one of the myriad speakers at this year's Climate, Mind, and Behavior conference, an annual gathering of scientists, psychologists, behavioral economists, authors, and policy experts in Garrison, New York.

I remember reading this quote in which you refer to Taylor: «I do not believe that «the experts» in any field should be dictating climate policy because there are plenty of important value judgments built in to those policies and experts however defined have no objectively better values than you or I.» I thought about that statement all day.

Moreover, on issues such as climate change or evolution, scientists and their organizations are often distracted by over-estimating the size and influence of these groups and by thinking that the goal of communication is to convince these particular publics to accept expert interpretations or proposed policy actions.

These strong conclusions have a lot of scientists and policy experts pushing for prompt action, after decades of waffling, both to cut the odds of the worst outcomes by curbing greenhouse gas emissions and by boosting resilience to climate extremes — whatever the cause.

Many experts on climate and energy policy say China will never move meaningfully to curb its carbon dioxide emissions until it sees such steps in the United States.

The opinions of climate experts and energy policy experts regarding what China may or may not do are likely of as much value as the slip of paper in a typical fortune cookie.

The first and most obvious point of consideration in ascertaining the utility of the statement comes from the recognition that it refers to «experts on climate and energy policy» making predictions regarding the actions of China.

Almost all the experts I've talked to in 20 years of exploring the entwined climate and energy challenges agree that satisfying global energy demand while limiting human influence on climate will require revolutionary advances in both policy and technology.

Given the inability of Congress, after seven years of struggling, to pass «comprehensive» climate legislation, it's good to see a shift to the approach pushed by, among others, Stephen H. Schneider, the veteran climate science and policy expert at Stanford University who long stressed the need for a sequence of steps to build public support before the heavier lifting comes.

In reporting my news story on a newly revealed pattern of extreme droughts in sub-Saharan Africa, I set off a bit of an e-mail firestorm within a cluster of climate scientists and policy experts.