Sentences with phrase «change mitigation programs»

It provides them with a more complete picture of the true costs and benefits climate change mitigation programs, «says Greenblatt.

This is designed to convince other countries to follow suit, hopefully eliminating what economists call the «free rider» problem of climate change mitigation programs.

• There is no evidence, textual, historical, or otherwise, that when Congress enacted the Clean Air Act in 1970, or amended the Act in 1977 and 1990, it intended for EPA to implement an economy - wide climate change mitigation program.

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Funding includes $ 154 million for open space programs, $ 86 million for parks and recreation, $ 39 million for solid waste programs and 21 million for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Of all of the participants, 48 percent said they would agree to enter a government program for climate change adaptation or mitigation, Niles said.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

Investing in human development programs could result in avoided climate change mitigation costs enough to pay for the programs themselves, the researchers found.

For the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, he co-authored a number of landmark reports addressing CCS and other climate change mitigation technologies.

By instituting adaptation and mitigation programs, forest managers can act now to lessen the likelihood and magnitude of climate change impacts on Montana's forests.

The State Allocation Board on Wednesday made sweeping changes to the eligibility criteria for the Seismic Mitigation Program, a move intended to finally open nearly $ 200 million in earthquake repair funds that have languished for five years.

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

One section authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to universities and colleges to develop curriculum and training programs that prepare students for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other forms of climate change mitigation.

Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

«We need to change the emphasis of the NFIP from a rebuilding program to a risk mitigation program,» said Moore.

The ENERGY STAR Certified Homes Program equips policy makers with a proven marketing platform and technical specifications to help reduce long - term energy use and peak demand in a community and contribute towards climate change mitigation goals.

The only policy change now required by a proper assessment of the «basic» science is to immediately defund all mitigation programs and refund the real science that has been exsanguinated by crimatologists and their enablers.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

This ABC program subsequently led to the identification of short - lived climate pollutants as potent mitigation agents of climate change, and in recognition, UNEP formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to deal with these pollutants.»

This proposal also includes various changes to the E15 misfueling mitigation regulations (E15 MMR) which are minor technical corrections and amendments to sections dealing with labeling, E15 surveys, product transfer documents, and prohibited acts; and changes to the survey requirements associated with the ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) program.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

I have seen little sensible, or even honest, discussion from the orthodox of what a full - on program of climate change mitigation would mean to the poor of the world, especially with the global economy teetering over the abyss here and now — not theoretically in 2100.

Roger replied that he favors incremental approaches to climate change (i.e., don't let failure to legislate adaptation stand in the way of getting started with mitigation) and does not support waiting for a grand comprehensive program, but that his testimony is simply a call to develop a larger vision with which to organize individual initiatives on sustainability («I am calling for a little bit broader vision than tuning the atmosphere to a specific ppm target.»)

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

The UN Development Program estimates subnational governments» decisions can influence 50 - 80 % of greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation initiatives needed to address climate change.

National and international agencies to adequately support comprehensive observation and research programs that can clarify the urgency and extent of needed mitigation and promote adaptation to the consequences of climate change;

Senior Program Officer (Bangkok)-- The Center for People and Forests The Senior Program Officer works as a key member of the Capacity Building and Technical Services (CBTS) Unit, and will contribute to the development and implementation of activities of RECOFTC's People, Forest and Climate Change (PFCC) thematic area, particularly relating to community involvement in both climate change mitigation and adaptChange (PFCC) thematic area, particularly relating to community involvement in both climate change mitigation and adaptchange mitigation and adaptation.

The IPCC was established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in 1988 to assess for governments the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, and to identify its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

Utilize incentive programs for addressing methane leakage in utility and customer - owned pipelines that prioritize safety and climate change mitigation.

With the CZC program, organizations can showcase their commitment to climate change mitigation and declare the carbon neutrality of their event under a structure that maintains a high level of environmental integrity and consistency.

Countries are spending countless billions of dollars annually on faulty to fraudulent IPCC climate models and studies that purport to link every adverse event or problem to manmade climate change; subsidized renewable energy programs that displace food crops and kill wildlife; adaptation and mitigation measures against future disasters that exist only in «scenarios» generated by the IPCC's GIGO computer models; and welfare, food stamp and energy assistance programs for the newly unemployed and impoverished.

In consultation, we advise government institutions, international organizations and private companies in the development and implementation of climate change mitigation and resource protection programs.

China's National Climate Change Action Program, published in June 2007, provides for three major mitigation efforts that, in combination, reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

Friends of Science Society says trillions of dollars are being diverted to climate change initiatives, such as wind and solar farms, when that money would be better spent on adaptation, flood mitigation, and reserve funds set - up for post-hurricane restoration programs.

Our aim is to support the participants of our workshops to work successfully under the conditions of the CORSIA program and make an impactful contribution to climate change mitigation.»

The project is one of nine groundbreaking climate change initiatives selected and funded by the NRCS's 2011 Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) program, and is focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation for one of the least protected and most imperiled ecosystems in the world.

Paula Garcia, an energy analyst in the Climate and Energy Program, evaluates energy resource and climate change mitigation options in the electricity sector and works to advance public understanding of renewable and conventional energy technologies, policies, and markets.

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) launched a learning toolbox for its Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation Mitigation Program (SWAMP), a research program that aims to inform policy makers on the crucial role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation sMitigation Program (SWAMP), a research program that aims to inform policy makers on the crucial role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation straProgram (SWAMP), a research program that aims to inform policy makers on the crucial role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation straprogram that aims to inform policy makers on the crucial role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation smitigation strategies.

The program's next challenge is to help push national leaders around the world to consider transportation when putting together Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), the low - carbon, sustainable development plans written by developing nations to receive funding under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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ES&T;'s Naomi Lubick brings us word of a new draft report on the effects of climate change on water management, called «National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change,» which provides a valuable insight on its challenges and the potential mitigation strategies we should be considchange on water management, called «National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change,» which provides a valuable insight on its challenges and the potential mitigation strategies we should be considChange,» which provides a valuable insight on its challenges and the potential mitigation strategies we should be considering.

Rajasa's remark directly contradicts an earlier statement by Agus Purnomo, head of the secretariat of Indonesia's National Climate Change Council, that part of the billion dollars pledged by Norway would be used to compensate palm oil developers and timber companies that would lose forest concessions under the emissions mitigation program.

The lawyers in the group routinely counsel clients on addressing sustainable practices such as using renewable and alternative energy, recycling and conserving water and other resources, financing green initiatives, following LEED and green construction practices, implementing corporate sustainability programs, managing climate change risks through adaptation and mitigation, and establishing clean - tech ventures.

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