Sentences with phrase «aggressive climate policy»

So, in the case of the United States, for example, those policies that will enable the country to achieve its submitted INDC are: the Clean Power Plan (which will accelerate the shift in many states from coal to natural gas for electricity generation, as well as provide incentives in some states for renewable electricity generation); CAFE (motor vehicle fuel efficiency) standards increasing over time (as already enacted by Congress); appliance efficiency standards moving up over time (as also already enacted by Congress); California's very aggressive climate policy (AB - 32); and the northeast states» Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Over the next 20 years or so, even the most aggressive climate policy can do little to avoid warming already «loaded» into the climate system.

«Alarmism» encourages the idea that the case for relatively aggressive climate policy rests on the claim that climate change is more likely than not to produce catastrophic outcomes.

«California is a leading state in aggressive climate policies because back in 2006 they wrote all of their goals into law, while in New York we've done executive actions,» EANY executive director Peter Iwanowicz said.

The move will be a significant boost to the Cuomo administration's aggressive climate policies.

Given the model's dire predictions, aggressive climate policies may be needed to protect the world's most vulnerable populations, the researchers said.

Many solidly Republican states have resisted aggressive climate policies, but Alaska is already seeing the dramatic effects of global warming.

We need to change the game or we risk implementing very aggressive climate policies to accomplish what the world sees as modest goals.

ICN's eight - month investigation assembled details of Exxon's early understanding of the emerging science of climate change, casting a new light on the company's subsequent campaign to postpone aggressive climate policies by sowing public doubt about the science.

Not exact matches

But while Cuomo's budget proposal included the most aggressive set of climate policies he has introduced during his tenure as governor, some key details about two particularly significant climate and energy initiatives remained vague.

«While these are encouraging signs, aggressive policies will still be required to achieve carbon neutrality and climate stability,» the authors wrote.

That decision gave Clinton credibility on climate change as she faced Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, both of whom were promoting more aggressive policies than Clinton to reduce greenhouse gases.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

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.

Instead, you'll see something in between the world sought by «climate hawks,» the term proposed by David Roberts of Grist as the label for aggressive campaigners pursuing policies that live up to the picture delineated by science, and the contrasting world of free marketeers and industrialists who speak breezily of climate uncertainty as a reason to relax and let spreading wealth give people the leisure to start to care for the environment and the money and technology to do something to clean it up.

For that matter, these parties» climate policies are far more aggressive than those of U.S. Democrats, much less Republicans.

COPENHAGEN — A scientist known for his aggressive stance on climate policy made an apocalyptic prediction on Thursay.

The comments build on the reaction early this week from William Nordhaus, the Yale University economist who disputed how the authors of the first Journal piece characterized his work on the economics of aggressive and slower climate policies.

But we'll forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

Tubman co-authored a recent C2ES report called «Leveraging Natural Gas to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,» which recognized natural gas as a short - term climate solution but called for more aggressive policies and investments to promote zero - carbon sources like renewables over the long haul.

To find out, the researchers plugged better cost information and more aggressive cost - curve assumptions into REMIND, a «global inter-temporally optimizing energy — economy model that has been extensively used for analyses of climate policies.»

This relationship between a lobbyist for one of the nation's largest utilities and an aggressive purveyor of attacks on climate science and policies warrants much deeper scrutiny than it has so far received.

«New York has adopted one of the most aggressive greenhouse gas reduction policies in the nation, and these continued investments in infrastructure supporting zero emission vehicles is one more way to help reach these goals, reduce our carbon footprint and combat climate change,» Governor Cuomo said.

And so, one can not escape the conclusion that the basis for the US commitments on climate change include alleged unacceptable costs of more aggressive climate change policies to the US economy, matters of economic self - interest rather than global responsibility.

For example, the figure above shows how aggressive climate - friendly policies in the IEA's ambitious «450 Scenario» (a 2 degree - focussed scenario) could provoke increases in deployment of renewable energy and efficiencies, as well as a relatively big contribution from CCS by 2035.

Her appointment makes additional strides toward an aggressive approach because she will coordinate agency climate change policies while balancing economic and national security considerations.

We have a public meeting tomorrow night in our local market town where Tim Yeo — my MP — who is Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee responsible for climate and energy matters, is going to speak about the necessity to continue with aggressive pursuit of green policies.

But to avoid calamity, more aggressive deployment programs remain the sine qua non of climate policy.

The US media has utterly failed to communicate to the American people about five essential aspects of climate change that they need to understand to know why climate change is a civilization challenging problem that requires dramatic, aggressive, and urgent policy action to avoid harsh impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

The next president of the United States, together with Congress, must quickly repudiate the Bush administration's climate policies across - the - board and embrace an aggressive strategy to bring the myriad tools of government together to address the problem.

As Martin Weitzman has demonstrated in many papers, fat - tails in the damage functions for climate change favor more aggressive and urgent policies to lower GHGs.

WASHINGTON — President Obama made addressing climate change the most prominent policy vow of his second Inaugural Address, setting in motion what Democrats say will be a deliberately paced but aggressive campaign built around the use of his executive powers to sidestep Congressional opposition.

America Rising Advanced Research has launched an aggressive social media campaign against leading figures in the US environmental movement, including creating the website Core News which features attacks on prominent climate policy advocates including Bill McKibben, Tom Steyer and Leonardo DiCaprio.

It must always be repeated that the clean energy revolution can't prevent catastrophic climate change without far more aggressive government policies to speed the transition off fossil fuels.

In a study released just hours before President Obama's speech, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), CalCEF and the Climate Policy Initiative highlighted the interplay between state and federal policy, but also showcased how moves by states — including aggressive renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and green banks — are pushing renewable investment foPolicy Initiative highlighted the interplay between state and federal policy, but also showcased how moves by states — including aggressive renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and green banks — are pushing renewable investment fopolicy, but also showcased how moves by states — including aggressive renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and green banks — are pushing renewable investment forward.

We must start making the transition away from fossil fuels and pursue aggressive energy security policies that are both sustainable, make sense economically, create green jobs at home while fighting climate change.»

One recent review of the available estimates put the costs of a very strong climate policy — substantially more aggressive than contemplated in current legislative proposals — at between 1 and 3 percent of gross world product.

Secretary of State John Kerry made appearances each year at COP summits to convey the United States» growing commitment to aggressive climate action, coaxing China — the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases — into the policy arena in 2014 at COP20 in Lima, Peru, and setting the stage for the breakthrough Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015.