Sentences with phrase «better climate policy in»

That § 115 keeps coming up shows that there is strong demand for better climate policy in the U.S..

There has been no pivot to support good climate policies in the first year of the Trump administration and I sincerely doubt there's any pivot coming over the next three years.

On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.

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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.

Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate policies.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailIf you follow climate policy in Canada, there's a good chance you already know the name Andrew Leach.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

The Senators should make certain that the nominee pledges to use the best available evidence on climate change in making policy — not unsubstantiated and fringe beliefs.

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.

However, growing biomass soon in well - selected places with increased irrigation or fertilization could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cuts to achieve climate stabilization below 2 degrees Celsius.

IPCC, an international organization founded in 1988 by the United Nations, is best known for its lengthy, periodic reports assessing climate science and policy options for curbing global warming.

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.

But, despite the scale and speed of climate change in the north, the researchers believe that if policies and practices change in various ways, these communities are inherently well - equipped to adapt to many, if not all, projected changes in climate.

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.

«In 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearned that minimizing evidence - based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies,» said Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO in Chicago, IllinoiIn 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearned that minimizing evidence - based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies,» said Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO in Chicago, Illinoiin the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearned that minimizing evidence - based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies,» said Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO in Chicago, Illinoiin Chicago, Illinois.

Having better economic models should increase confidence in projections of the effects of various policies, and greatly improve communication with climate modelers.

The ICCG ranking recognizes the best think tanks active in the field of climate economics and policy.

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.

This suggests the climate models need to be retooled to better reflect conditions in the actual climate, while policies based on previous climate model output and predictions might need to be reconsidered.»

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.

An accompanying report to be published in November from the UNFCCC secretariat — «Climate Action Now» a Summary for Policymakers — will underline the enormous emission reduction potential and multiple economic benefits possible from best practise climate policies across major sectors from energy to transport, from buildings to fClimate Action Now» a Summary for Policymakers — will underline the enormous emission reduction potential and multiple economic benefits possible from best practise climate policies across major sectors from energy to transport, from buildings to fclimate policies across major sectors from energy to transport, from buildings to forests.

To dramatically reduce violence and work towards a more peaceful world where individuals have better self — esteem and better conflict resolutions skills, instruction in peaceful living must be intentional and school climate, policies, and practices need to shift to be more caring and responsive to learner

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.

Motivated to action by this news, Christina co-authored a policy paper with E4E colleagues that has supported her advocacy with her union and district for better training and support for teachers in using alternative methods for discipline and improving school safety and climates.

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.

EN: This year, I am looking forward to communicating the recommendations made in the Climate Change policy paper to other educators, so we can unite in advocating for a better future for our schools.

Since the 2002 elections, the political climate in Kenya took a turn for the better, with government leaders listening more intently to issues affecting women, and in turn allowing women to have more participation in policy decisions.

Whether or not the backers are directly linked to the oil industry, they reflect how the fight over energy policy remains highly polarized, well financed (on both sides), and — so far — has resulted in few policies that oil markets or the climate system are likely to notice any time soon.

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.

Joe demonstrates a remarkable intellectual breadth and depth that goes well beyond his obvious expertise in the area of climate and energy policy.

Responding to comments 14, 25, and 56: I'm a policy analyst in Seattle, well - read on the impacts of climate change, but also other global resource constraints — like peak oil, peak phosphorus and the limits of industrial agriculture, waters supply (closely related to climate), and human systems / governance.

Could someone who knows, please recommend the best climate science or policy textbooks in comments here at Less Wrong (link)?

[ANDY REVKIN disagrees: Sorry, policy (a better word would be leadership, perhaps) still drives most game - changing innovation and large - scale investment, particularly in the arena of the «public good» (New York City's reservoir and aquifer system, the climate system, the grid).

The best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA climate scientist who now has a climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price on carbon.

Or, perhaps, NCAR believes that institutions other than itself would be better suited to enter into discussions on how science should be applied in formulation of national policies or should influence individual household decisions when either climate or weather is a factor.

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.

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.»

Concern about policies based on science is understandable and can be used to create better policies, but in many cases the concern about policies is prompting some to misrepresent the facts about climate change science.

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.

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:

To be risk averse is good policy in my VALUE SYSTEM — and we always must admit that how to take risks — with climate damages or costs of mitigation / adaptation — is not science but world views.

In that regard it raises good questions and topics worthy of further exploration, but it is not a document that can be used for setting policy for anthropogenic climate change, although it pretends to be so.

The fate of the Paris deal lies largely in the hands of voters in democratic countries, and we can not expect democracies to produce good policy responses to challenges of climate change if voters have a confused understanding of reality.

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?

Various researchers studying the interface of climate and energy policy have said that such technology is well worth pursuing, particularly given that oil and other liquid fossil fuels are almost surely going to be burned — particularly in vehicles or other dispersed sources — for many years to come, according to many assessments.

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.

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.

In 2006, I interviewed dozens of experts on energy, climate, and the economy for a story in our ongoing Energy Challenge series, and more than a few warned then that, in the world of politics and policy, the need to deal with a growing global oil crunch could well trump the need to curb greenhouse gases and limit long - term climate riskIn 2006, I interviewed dozens of experts on energy, climate, and the economy for a story in our ongoing Energy Challenge series, and more than a few warned then that, in the world of politics and policy, the need to deal with a growing global oil crunch could well trump the need to curb greenhouse gases and limit long - term climate riskin our ongoing Energy Challenge series, and more than a few warned then that, in the world of politics and policy, the need to deal with a growing global oil crunch could well trump the need to curb greenhouse gases and limit long - term climate riskin the world of politics and policy, the need to deal with a growing global oil crunch could well trump the need to curb greenhouse gases and limit long - term climate risks.

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.