Sentences with phrase «by environmental think tanks»

Speaking at the Greener Britain Hustings, hosted by environmental think tank the Green Alliance, Davey called the potential for a Conservative government after the election a «nightmare scenario» that would distract from «the most important climate negotiations ever».

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According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

The Happy Planet Index is put together by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), the U.K.'s leading think tank promoting social, economic, and environmental justice.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

According to Lester Brown, author of the 2003 book, Plan B (and three subsequent updates) and founder of the non-profit environmental think tank, Earth Policy Institute, the plan is based on replacing the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

The promises were analysed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank in Washington DC (see map).

As I write in Chapter 1 of the report, in comparison to the relative diversity in goals among national environmental groups historically, conservative think tanks, advocacy groups and aligned industry associations are marked by a much narrower outlook focused on limited government, reduced regulation and economic growth.

Local environmental advocates are using the findings by the nonprofit think tank, Frontier Group, to argue that providing more carbon - neutral transportation options could improve public health and safety.

«There has to be $ 100 billion in financing that has to be mobilised in this period between now and 2022, and that is not going to come from government alone,» he told a conference call hosted by the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank.

Thus, an analysis by the Canadian environmental think tank Pembina Institute found that Keystone XL would be a «key driver for oilsands growth,» increasing production by 36 percent.

«The waters are warm — dive on in,» Janet Coit, Director of RGGI member Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management, said at an event hosted by nonprofit think tank Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES).

THE goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Environmental think - tank and consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

If you have not visited the «About» page on my Blog, and not come across it before, you should read the 2008 article, entitled «The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental scepticism», by Peter J Jaques et al in the journal Environmenenvironmental scepticism», by Peter J Jaques et al in the journal EnvironmentalEnvironmental Politics.

AfricaGate — The IPCC claim that rising temperatures could cut in half agricultural yields in African countries turns out to have come from a 2003 paper published by a Canadian environmental think tank — not a peer - reviewed scientific journal.

Finally, opposition is bolstered by a variety of stakeholders who just aren't convinced that Yucca Mountain is the answer, among them, citizen, environmental groups, and think tanks.

A new study by political scientists Constantine Boussalis and Travis Coan in Global Environmental Change examined 16,000 documents published between 1998 and 2013 by 19 conservative and libertarian think tanks in the climate business to find out.

by Tim Ryan Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN)-- Missing statutory deadlines drew federal complaints Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency both from conservationists and a coal - funded right - wing think tank... In the same court Monday, the EPA was hit with a federal complaint by... the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.

In particular, he asked about New Hope Environmental Services, which was described by Dr. Michaels in litigation as his sole source of income outside of modest speaking fees; Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., which paid Dr. Michaels $ 100,000 and $ 50,000 respectively, according to information Dr. Michaels provided in the course of litigation; and the Heartland Institute, an industry - funded think tank that published a journal on which Dr. Michaels served as contributing editor.