Sentences with phrase «by climate and energy policies»

But, what DECC emphasise is that by 2020, «the market» will have made energy prices so expensive, that the costs caused by climate and energy policies will suddenly become insignificant.

Energy prices (average gasoline and retail electricity price) and public infrastructure (share of working population commuting via public transportation) were important in explaining the interstate variation in the use of transportation fuels and residential electricity and are readily addressed by climate and energy policies.

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«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

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.

These results come from a survey of 1,848 Canadians conducted December 12 to 14, 2016, by Abacus Data at the request of Clean Energy Canada, measuring Canadians» views of climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate CEnergy Canada, measuring Canadians» views of climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Cenergy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Climate Change.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&renergy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&rEnergy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

The coalition government is unwaveringly refusing to reverse a combination of the housing and climate change policies formulated by Ed Miliband as secretary of state for energy and climate change in Gordon Brown's last Labour government.

Carol M. Browner, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Board Chair of the League of Conservation Voters said: «By building victories in different states and on multiple policies, we can demonstrate strong public support for climate action, demonstrate success that others will want to replicate, and drive down the costs of clean energy».

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.

They analyzed 17 policies adopted by various states relating to climate and energy.

In an early primary field crammed with 16 candidates, presidential hopefuls could find traction by attacking Obama's climate policies, said Jeremy Carl, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution who has advised a number of the candidates on energy and climate.

U.S. Energy Policy must be guided by two intertwined goals: guaranteeing the security of the nation's energy supply and limiting runaway climate cEnergy Policy must be guided by two intertwined goals: guaranteeing the security of the nation's energy supply and limiting runaway climate cenergy supply and limiting runaway climate change.

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

The renewables milestone comes amid actions by the Trump administration to turn back federal climate policies intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions by embracing wind, solar and other renewable energy.

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«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

Professor of Economics and Research Chair in Energy, Ecology and Prosperity at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy Dr. Ross McKitrick discusses the wide disparities between the expected results of climate models and real - life observations, during an in - depth interview for The New Criterion by Ben Weingarten

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.

That means it will serve any faction in the climate policy fight — providing uncertainty to be sprinkled by those seeking energy stasis and reasons for concern for those pushing for action.

India voiced its rejection of the American position in an awkwardly public forum: during a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to an energy - efficient office building on the outskirts of New Delhi that was supposed to celebrate cooperation between India and the United States on climate policy.

And by all means let's ask Walmart to be a louder voice in public policy debates about energy and climate chanAnd by all means let's ask Walmart to be a louder voice in public policy debates about energy and climate chanand climate change.

And I couldn't help notice how the Power Dialog is echoed at the high school level by Change Climate Change, an initiative by some students at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles aiming to engage with government officials shaping their city's energy and climate policiAnd I couldn't help notice how the Power Dialog is echoed at the high school level by Change Climate Change, an initiative by some students at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles aiming to engage with government officials shaping their city's energy and climate poClimate Change, an initiative by some students at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles aiming to engage with government officials shaping their city's energy and climate policiand climate poclimate policies.

Postscript: In the meantime, there are few signs of serious action by wealthy countries to carry out the pledges they made last December to help poorer ones withstand climate impacts and adopt less - polluting energy policies and technologies.

Now climate research has become entwined with energy policy and the brutal politics of fossil fuels, in which states» stances largely are shaped by the presence or absence of coal or industries reliant on coal or oil for profits.

Compare the year - to - year scale at which humans make policy decisions, reflected in our political frameworks, to the multi-millennial consequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehClimate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate scientists, including Pierrehumbert.

Nisbet concludes by referring readers to an earlier post in which he laid out a proposal for «a post-partisan plan for communicating climate change» (clearly echoing the recent call for a post-partisan approach to climate and energy policy).

With Republicans controlling the House, with stasists on energy and climate policy looking forward to a couple of years in which they are likely to get their way, I thought it worthwhile starting the year by exploring a couple of questions.

The document doesn't take readers much beyond what is already well established: that without sustained and focused climate and energy policies by governments around the world, the potential of renewable energy technologies to compete with fossil fuels remains deeply limited.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

According to the Center for Climate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has prClimate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has prclimate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has proposed.

There's more on California's (and the world's) energy options in an audio interview conducted by Science's news staff with one of the authors of the new paper, Snuller Price, an energy and climate policy analyst at E3, a consulting firm in San Francisco.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

The key issue here — far larger than the debate over a 17 % or an 84 % excess emissions per [barrel] of tar sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].

So it felt like a fresh spring breeze to see constructive discussion sparked by «Fighting Climate Change With Innovation,» a Foreign Affairs essay proposing a public - private mix of clean - energy investments, policies and incentives aimed at overcoming technological hurdles and accelerating deployment.

Dr. Holdren has been widely praised by the scientific community for decades of work on issues ranging from nuclear proliferation to climate and energy policy.

The Energy Transition Platform is part of the States & Regions Policy work and was launched by The Climate Group, alongside the initiative's lead government, North Rhine - Westphalia, and Stiftung Mercator, in early 2016.

And the answer to this is unambiguously «no»,» Lindzen declared at the At the Crossroads III: Energy and Climate Policy Summit, organized by the Heritage Foundation and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPAnd the answer to this is unambiguously «no»,» Lindzen declared at the At the Crossroads III: Energy and Climate Policy Summit, organized by the Heritage Foundation and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPand Climate Policy Summit, organized by the Heritage Foundation and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPand the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF).

Dec 8: «Renewable Energy Policies — Global Trends, China Leadership, and Security vs. Climate Rationales» by Eric Martinot, Tsinghua University.

Energy groups risk wasting $ 1.6 trillion of investment by assuming that current emissions - cutting policies will not be tightened up in the light of the latest science and international climate change goals, according to the think tank Carbon Tracker.

The New York University School of Law's Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) performed a cost - benefit analysis of H.R. 2454: the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (a.k.a. Waxman - Markey - the climate legislation passed by the US House of Representatives).

Richard Lindzen was a speaker at the «At the Crossroads III Energy and Climate Summit,» an event co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF).

Since then, EU energy policy has been driving energy market integration, cross-border trade and the implementation of energy and climate targets by 2020.

The pledges and determination shown by world governments at the Paris climate change talks in Paris meant there would likely be «further policies aimed at shifting the fuel - mix towards cleaner, lower - carbon fuels, with renewable energy, along with natural gas, the main beneficiary,» said Dale.

Speaking at «At the Crossroads IV: Energy & Climate Policy Summit,» a conference co-hosted by The Heritage Foundation and Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), Lindzen declared: [78]

It is clear that what he thinks and says matters, as the Department of Energy and Climate Change is an important department of the British Government, responsible for all aspects of UK energy policy, and is tasked with tackling global climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview aEnergy and Climate Change is an important department of the British Government, responsible for all aspects of UK energy policy, and is tasked with tackling global climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview Climate Change is an important department of the British Government, responsible for all aspects of UK energy policy, and is tasked with tackling global climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview aenergy policy, and is tasked with tackling global climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview above).

The Great Transition, written by EPI's research team — Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams — focuses on a rapidly evolving global movement toward cleaner sources of energy, driven by policy, economics, and the hard realities of accelerating climate change.

The statute, subsequently amended by AB 109, authorizes the Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state's climate change policies.