Sentences with phrase «about future climate policy»

Not exact matches

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

This latest assessment provides solid science to policy - makers about the intricate relationship between ozone and climate and the need for mutually - supportive measures to protect life on earth for future generations.»

On 29 October, 2015, a daylong symposium will review what scientific research has revealed about climate change over the past 50 years, and offer a forward - looking assessment of the range of scientific, technological, communication, and policy options for the future.

They do, however, raise serious questions about the validity of climate models (which are, of course, used to predict future warming and are used to set public policy and sway public opinion) and how much we are actually warming.

Therefore, it is a (by some deliberately promoted) misunderstanding to draw conclusions from such a short trend about future global warming, let alone climate policy.

It's hard to find fault with McIntyre's overarching conclusion about the report and the panel's Working Group 3 (WG3 below), which is tasked with charting possible responses to climate change: The public and policy - makers are starving for independent and authoritative analysis of precisely how much weight can be placed on renewables in the energy future.

Government climate models that had predicted climatic changes haven't at all fit the facts of how the climate has changed, but the government still wants to use what they say about future climate to make today's policy.

In the face of uncertainty about future policies to address climate change, companies are using internal carbon pricing in their strategic planning to manage regulatory risk and explore future scenarios for potential investments.

Yet even though I have significant experience and knowledge about future climate change policy challenges, the CBAT model helps me visualize the significance of certain policy options facing the world.

That's thrown the future of US climate policy into some doubt, as Republican voters and politicians are generally less concerned about the issue than their Democrat colleagues.

«Such surveys are often cited as demonstrating a near - unanimous scientific consensus in favor of a climate policy, when they never ask any question about whether and to what extent the anthropogenic component in recent warming might be dangerous or about whether a «climate policy» should be adopted in attempted mitigation of future warming.»

It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse gas emissions and the environment, it also has inhibited the scientific and policy discussions that we need to have about our climate future.»

The core of the issue that I worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

To equate climate models with «bad» science must be understood to be an attempt to undermine any scientific justification for climate change policies because models are needed to make predictions about the future states of complex systems.

That framing costs as a foregone - gain increased the amount people were prepared to reduce emissions is noteworthy because public messages about climate policy impacts typically frame the costs of reducing emissions as a loss [13]-- a pattern confirmed by our analysis of newspaper communications regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme.

I'll look forward to hearing more about what CarbonWA does in the future, and I'll keep holding out hope that my home state can lead the way on good climate policy.

One wonders how a man with Newman's bizarre understanding of the state of the world can provide the government with sound advice about Australia's business future, particularly when his claims about how climate policies have «decimated» our manufacturing industry have been rebuffed time and time again by systematic economic analysis.

Because adaptation policy requires decision - making amid uncertainties about future climate change and its impacts, the major pillars of adaptation plans are iterative assessment, flexible and adaptive planning, and enhancement of adaptive capacity.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) supports scientists, policy makers, and businesses by providing authoritative, quality - assured information about the past, current and future states of the climate in Europe and worClimate Change Service (C3S) supports scientists, policy makers, and businesses by providing authoritative, quality - assured information about the past, current and future states of the climate in Europe and worclimate in Europe and worldwide.

Bob Ward, policy and communication director at The London School of Economics» Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, wrote that Lomborg's study contains «bizarrely pessimistic assumptions about future emissions.»

In an article on «the perils of confirmation bias,» published for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (a group firmly opposed to policies that counteract climate change), Ridley suggested that «governments should fund groups that intend to explore alternative hypotheses about the likely future of climate as well as those that explore the dangerous man - made climate change prediction.»

To better understand the potential of emissions policies, studies are needed that assess possible future health impacts under alternative assumptions about future emissions and climate across multiple spatial scales.

Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private sector coal company, has agreed to make more robust disclosures to its investors about the financial risks it faces from future government policies and regulations related to climate change and other environmental issues that could reduce demand for its product.

There is also limited knowledge about climate - related policy interventions that might affect future patterns of fossil - fuel production.

In the same way, traditional owners require information about the Government's policies before they can make informed decisions about land and future social, cultural, and economic opportunities relevant to climate change.