Sentences with phrase «adopted national climate change»

The COAG adopted National Climate Change Adaptation Framework identifies the lack of information and knowledge gaps as integral to the two priority areas for potential action.

Not exact matches

Professor Amamoo - Otchere said while reviewing some policies on climate change, it emerged that the much touted Better Ghana Agenda espoused by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was actually adopted from works done by the NDPC.

Mark Dunlea says Cuomo has positioned New York as a national leader on climate change, but «his goals are weaker in several ways than those adopted seven years ago» by former Gov. David Paterson.

Municipal, regional, state and national governments as well as their regulatory agencies, across the globe, are increasingly looking to plan, phase - in and adopt measures that will meaningfully address climate change, resilience and economic growth.

In a Nov. 28 filing to the Utah Public Service Commission, PacifiCorp noted that just two weeks earlier the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners adopted a resolution acknowledging that climate change legislation is likely to occur, and likely to target carbon dioxide emissions.

Parties adopted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories as the standard methodology for reporting their national GHG inventories (Decisions 3 / CP.1 and 9 National Greenhouse Gas Inventories as the standard methodology for reporting their national GHG inventories (Decisions 3 / CP.1 and 9 national GHG inventories (Decisions 3 / CP.1 and 9 / CP.2).

Article 4.2 states that the parties «shall adopt national policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change.»

HERE is one Ceres investor statement by 190 real - money investors with more than US$ 13 trillion of assets: «On 14 January 2010 the world's largest investors released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to quickly adopt strong national climate policies that will establish a stable investment climate and thus spur low - carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change.»

As a developing country, India is not bound to set a greenhouse gas emissions target, but Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said India has adopted what he called an «ambitious» National Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaNational Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both mitigation and adanational missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.

By simply opposing the factual claims of the opponents of climate change, the advocates of climate change policies are implicitly agreeing with the assumptions of the opponents of climate change action that greenhouse reduction policies should not be adopted if they are not in national self - interest.

Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.

After an intense week of editing a paper on the need for national academies and royal societies to undertake environmental health risk assessments for climate change AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, especially to adopt the IPCC's best - case emissions scenario, RCP2.6 (because the IPCC does not and will not make recommendations), followed by a look at the fires burning in Siberia and the sea ice thinning in the Arctic, it struck me...

The opponents of climate change policies have largely succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

The opponents of climate change policies have succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

Alden Meyer, Director of Strategy and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists: «All countries must come to Katowice prepared to adopt a robust, comprehensive rulebook to fully implement the Paris Agreement, and send clear signals they intend to increase the ambition of their national actions, as is required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Co-benefits were discussed presumably to convince nations that it was in their national economic interest to adopt climate policies, a tactic which may implicitly confirm the notion that national economic interest rather than national obligations should be the basis for climate change policy.

The same naming and shaming approach to equity and national ghg emissions reductions commitments should be followed on climate change emissions reductions commitments by adopting better understanding of the ethical bankruptcy of some nations» approach to climate change.

He said climate change adaptation and mitigation measures should be adopted and integrated into Ghana's national development agenda, adding that developing countries should be supported with grants to engage in landscape restoration efforts in degraded lands.

Decision - makers, by contrast, need to understand how climate change may interfere with their plans and compromise their objectives, so they can adapt existing policies and adopt new strategies to stay on track — whether to protect life, health, and well - being, sustain economic growth, preserve natural resources, ensure continued performance of critical infrastructure, or maintain national security.

Later the same month, the standing committee of the National People's Congress, essentially the inner circle of China's main legislative body, adopted a resolution on climate change action that explicitly calls for the strengthening of domestic climate legislation while giving assurance that it will be a constructive player in the international climate process.

New measures to fight climate change are still being adopted worldwide by national, regional and local jurisdictions as if the whole thing was as true as the Law of gravity.