Sentences with phrase «as good climate policy»

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However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

The comparative framework included the seminal work of German and Japanese urban climatologists, as well as the more recent climate policy initiatives of New York City and the City of Manchester.The project was a collaboration between MARC and the Centre for History of Science Technology and Medicine.

So a realistic look at the international policy dynamics that currently exist, as well as an informed discussion on where those policies could grow to be, is a great way to continue the conversation on actionable solutions to climate change,» said Subhashree Mishra, 2014 - 16 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Energy (DOE).

«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks of climate change.»

Pohl hopes that studies such as this one «will enhance our general understanding of historical and future extreme climate variability, allowing policy - makers to make better - informed decisions for coastal communities.»

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

The task we set ourselves was a synthesis of all the new findings so that coral scientists, conservationists and policy makers could get a really good over-view of what research areas are most promising as global climate continues to change.

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.

«The strong message here is that as we refine our estimates of carbon emissions we get closer to an accurate picture of what is going on and we can improve our climate projections and better inform policy on climate change.»

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.

As discussions about global climate change take place in both the scientific sector and the policy realm, Enzo Sauma is in a good position to bridge the two worlds.

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

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Also, a documentary that intends to influence policy should include economics as well as climate science.

Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change science and policy.

The Institute contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural and social capital, as well as the enabling role of communication technologies in these areas.

Finally, AMLE policy statements have recognized the importance of healthy school cultures and climates that support adults as well as student learning (NMSA, 1995, 2003, 2010).

This report and accompanying policy brief show that there is good reason to pursue the measurement of social - emotional learning (SEL) and school culture / climate (CC) as a way to better understand student and school performance.

Just as Trump's flunkies exert political pressure to halt access to healthcare (or immigration or policies to address climate change), so NJEA exerts political pressure — as well as its deep pockets — to stave off the continued enrollment of children, mostly poor and of color, in high - quality alternative public schools.

This disparity, as well as national trends toward disproportionate numbers of suspensions for African American and Latino students, led LAUSD to reexamine school discipline policies in 2013 with the School Climate Bill of Rights.

June 14, 2017 (Chicago)- Educators for Excellence - Chicago (E4E - Chicago), a teacher - led organization, released its policy paper, «Sounding the Alarm: Building the Climate and Culture our Students Need,» at an event that brought together over 150 Chicago educators and representatives from health care, criminal justice, education and city and state government to explore how Chicagoans can better support students struggling with issues such as citywide violence, food instability and homelessness.

Another example: To decide whether a school is doing a good job, we need to consider several different achievement measures (reading, mathematics, and so on); as well as information about resources (personnel, financial, policy); processes (curriculum, instruction, school climate); and other school outcomes (safety, graduation rate, student and parent satisfaction).

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.

Trouble is it turned out to be a house of cards, and there is no evidence that climate models are any better, and even less evidence that they should be used as the basis for policy decisions.

They are fascinated by the science, asking questions about the climate history of the Tibetan plateau and the chances of reaching environmental tipping points, as well as questions about western environmental thought and policy.

Energy policy impacts climate change and climate change impacts us all, so all of us should be interested in the issue of shale gas drilling, as well.

(The question extends well beyond climate policy; as I did the other day, I encourage you to listen to a great recent discussion of financial bubbles and busts on Leonard Lopate's radio show.)

More importantly, to do this work well one must follow climate change policy controversies as they unfold.

[June 16, 12:45 a.m. Updated A lead author, Dan Kammen, has defended the report below, and the co-chairman of the climate panel working group dealing with climate policy, as well as Greenpeace representatives, have added comments, as well.]

there is no evidence that climate models are any better, and even less evidence that they should be used as the basis for policy decisions.

Mr. Roston, who also writes a weekly online «Climate Post» and is affiliated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University, sent the following thoughts on how this divide exists within developing countries as well, and how it shapes how people in such places perceive the climate pClimate Post» and is affiliated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University, sent the following thoughts on how this divide exists within developing countries as well, and how it shapes how people in such places perceive the climate pclimate problem:

How one sees the answer boils down to an important difference in perspective on how to best deal with climate change: Do we (a) try to influence the course of future human development using carbon pricing as the main policy tool?

Arguments about how to discuss such extreme events in the context of climate policy — while important — are down the list, as well, even with a presidential election days away.

Governmental policies of export and import restrictions, hoarding, subsidies, panic buying, and infrastructure standards of food storage and transport, as well as investor speculation, currency valuations, individual national inflation rates, weather and climate change, the evolving monoculture genetics, rising input costs, and global macro economic health all impact food security.

The key would be to use this clout intelligently to achieve the long - term global climate policy, as well as to encourage democratization around the world, but particularly in Russia and China.

Ecological monitoring efforts need to be improved and better coordinated among Federal and State agencies to ensure that the impacts of climate change are adequately observed as well as to support ecological research, management, assessment, and policy.

I'd love to have some input here from people working in the arena of climate and energy economics and policy, as well as other Dot Earth readers, ideally pointing to studies or examples illustrating the relative merit of markets, science, and personal behavior.

Addendum, 8:40 p.m. This story by Bloomberg's Eric Roston is relevant, as well: «ExxonMobil and Sierra Club Agreed on Climate Policy — and Kept It Secret.

In the meantime, I encourage you to have a look at a fresh nonpartisan analysis and set of recommendations on climate policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, which calls for concrete steps by the United States as well as intensified efforts to build bridges between established and emerging economic powers.

In quieter corners, including at environmental groups focused on energy and climate policy as well as land preservation, the goal has never been a ban, but instead a push to create the set of rules, policies, revenue flows and relationships that give the greatest social and economic benefits with the least risk of environmental regrets.

As prices continue to rise and pressure to act on climate change becomes paramount, it is a good time for policy makers to ask if the trend towards air - conditioning indoor spaces is necessary, desirable or even possible.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

The Riyadh meetings were the 6th ministerial - level gathering of the CSLF, bringing in high - ranking energy and climate change officials from the CSLF member nations, as well as business and NGO experts in CCS that contributed to Policy, Technology, and Stakeholder working group meetings.

Dustin should also be contacted about Global Fishing Watch as well as general U.S. marine science and policy questions, including those related to fishing, climate change and pollution.

The notion of the Earth as a collection of systems in fragile equilibrium on which society is closely dependent, for instance, forms the basis of a great deal of policy as well as research into «climate impacts».

I don't know much about his previous statements on climate science and policy — and overstating the case either way may well not be helpful to the guy, as he gets his feet under the table.

3 - Enable the use of their work by people claiming exactly what I and others are pointing out: dangerous climate change, to demand policies which many of us believe are well documented as bad policies that do nothing they are claimed to do.

Risk Factors, proposed carbon policy and other climate - related regulations in many countries, as well as the continued growth in biofuels mandates, could have negative impacts on the refining business.

A smarter strategy would be to re-envision U.S. climate policy as a vehicle for innovating cheaper and better clean - energy options for all Americans, not just those who can afford them.

Trump, who has described himself as a climate change skeptic, indicated he will sign the $ 700 billion policy bill, calling it an historic boost for the military that «could not come at a better time for our nation.»