Sentences with phrase «climate action approach»

However, the idea for a «New Green Deal» (NGD) as a climate action approach was in gestation with the March 2007 TreeHugger post: New Deal II: The Next Dam Thing?.

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As we approach the global climate negotiations in Paris in just over a week, actions by state governments like New York State provide essential momentum toward a strong and effective agreement.»

On Tuesday, ClearPath Action Fund, a political action committee that supports a «free market» approach to climate change, announced it will distribute a direct mail piece in response to a press conference Democratic candidate Mike Derrick and the Sierra Club held Monday to discuss Stefanik's score of 9 out of 100 points on the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental scorAction Fund, a political action committee that supports a «free market» approach to climate change, announced it will distribute a direct mail piece in response to a press conference Democratic candidate Mike Derrick and the Sierra Club held Monday to discuss Stefanik's score of 9 out of 100 points on the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental scoraction committee that supports a «free market» approach to climate change, announced it will distribute a direct mail piece in response to a press conference Democratic candidate Mike Derrick and the Sierra Club held Monday to discuss Stefanik's score of 9 out of 100 points on the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental scorecard.

«The core principle of Canada's approach to climate change is balance,» Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during his remarks to the conference, stressing that action on climate change should not slow economic activity.

The Presidential Climate Action Project, which Orr cofounded and advises, recommends that the United States bring a new, more streamlined approach to the carbon market.

To arrive at their findings, Supekar and Skerlos calculated the future greenhouse gas contributions of the auto and power industries based on two approaches going forward — «business as usual» and «climate action.»

Ecosystem - based approaches provide an important route to sustainable action and represent a vital insurance policy against irreversible damage from climate change, whereas failure to acknowledge the relationship between climate change and biodiversity and failure to act swiftly and in an integrated manner could undermine efforts for improvements in both areas.

The Asia - Pacific Carbon Forum (APCF) is the leading regional conference on investment in climate action through market - based approaches and carbon pricing instruments.

Finally, almost 40 managers and scientists met to discuss whether an adaptive management approach might be useful to gain an understanding of the interaction among habitats and management actions and how this will be affected by annual weather and climate patterns.

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GBM's approach empowers communities to take action against climate change, the impacts of which are already being witnessed across Africa, through food security and water harvesting activities (adaptation) and planting the appropriate trees in appropriate places (mitigation).

These approaches do not consider how companies and consumers indirectly contribute to climate change by purchasing products from those industries, or that certain companies may be taking actions to reduce their environmental impact.

Do you think it makes sense to keep focusing kids on the «woe is me, shame on you» approach to climate action given [the] entrenched nature of both the «alarmed» and «dismissive» elements in society?

Earlier today I posted an essay by Robert Socolow, a seasoned energy and climate analyst at Princeton University, in which he proposes a new approach to overcoming resistance to actions that could limit emissions of greenhouse gases even as humanity's energy appetite grows in coming decades.

While there have been several attempts to explain the lack of meaningful action regarding climate change, these models have not developed into an integrated and empirically supported approach.

A different approach, to my mind, is to make smart climate and energy actions a natural, rational component of decision making in all arenas instead of keeping them in a box.

I'm glad to see Wei and Monson forging ahead on climate and energy analysis and action despite the deep dysfunction in Washington, which shows signs of hobbling any approach, whether focused on traditional tools like tax policies and pollution regulation or a direct push on energy innovation.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

The President also believes that the most effective approach to maintaining a level playing field is to negotiate a new international climate change agreement that ensures that all the major polluters take significant actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

While crediting Europe's actions on climate starting in the 1990's, he insisted that the best approach now was to see what is realistic in each country going forward.

Even as Senate Republicans blocked Democrats» attempt to move forward with global warming legislation today, other approaches to federal climate action have already begun to percolate.

In addition, the committee believes that these approaches are more accurately described as «climate intervention» strategies — purposeful actions intended to curb the negative impacts of climate change — rather than engineering strategies that imply precise control over the climate.

Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and action on climate change, an international group of energy and environment scholars say in a new report, Our High - Energy Planet.

IMO was represented at the event by Aubrey Botsford, who said that «efforts to mitigate climate change and promote energy efficiency in the maritime sector, through actions taken by Pacific governments and maritime industry, show the dynamic approach taken by your region».

Today, there was a High - level round table aimed to address carbon markets under the UNFCCC titled «market approaches for enhanced climate action».

In sharp contrast to Exxon's approach, BP was the first major oil company to state publicly, in 1997, that the risks of climate change are serious and that precautionary action is justified.

As the authors say, smart climate action will take «full advantage of the approaches that are available now while simultaneously investing in research and early - stage deployment, driving down the costs of the immature options, and evaluating side effects.»

Part 1 summarized the global climate crisis, Part 2 explained the importance of the review and how CCA should approach it, and Part 3 outlined the role Australia should play in climate action.

Analysts at the global think tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) warn that Russia's «ostrich approach to phasing out fossil fuels and its denial of the human origins of climate change» could hamper climate action globally.

Pointing in the opposite direction, a revenue - positive, price - and - invest approach could be politically winnable in some states, particularly given the new urgency for state and local action on climate.

Instead, Martha Rudolph, who is one of the leading health and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental agenda.

Your concern for genuine science and for the poor requires a more cautious approach, one that carefully considers the scientific evidence regarding the real, not merely the theoretical, effects of human action on global climate, and carefully considers energy technology and economics in seeking to protect the poor from harm.

Rudolph also said a potential climate lawsuit represented a heavy - handed approach, adding, «Trying to get to the goal and figure out why you would want to go there» is important when considering any potential action as a government entity, including consideration of a lawsuit.

Jim D, the Obama Administration's Climate Action Plan, of which the Clean Power Plan is one part, is not in any way indicative of what a truly aggressive approach to reducing America's carbon emissions should look like, if the goal is to reduce America's GHG emissions to the extent that the Progressive Left believes is necessary.

It also presents action to advocate a multidimensional approach to climate change policies to take into account the potential social co-benefits of effectively addressing climate change as well as opportunities to focus on the most vulnerable and to develop climate - related policies and measures to provide better living conditions in their societies as a whole.

She worked with partners to promote resilience - based management, an approach that uses knowledge of current and future drivers of system condition and function to prioritize and adapt management actions that sustain system resilience and human wellbeing in a changing climate.

This technical document complements the Planning for Climate Change: A strategic values - based approach for urban planners, a resource and planning guide developed for city planners and other professionals to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the localClimate Change: A strategic values - based approach for urban planners, a resource and planning guide developed for city planners and other professionals to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the localclimate change at the local level.

It briefly presents the FAO's approach to developing a database of data and analysis that will facilitate financing through the Green Climate Fund via the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs).

ACR remains steadfast in our commitment to demonstrate the value of market - based mechanisms to mitigate the impacts of climate change, and we are eager to collaborate more closely with organizations and institutions in the U.S. and around the world to pioneer new approaches to incentivize climate action.

Key outcomes from the talks included a text on the final «approach» of the 2018 Talanoa dialogue, which aims to help raise ambition on national climate pledges, and a recognition that more focus is needed on «pre-2020 action».

As the movement in support of action on climate change grows in strength over the coming years — and I sincerely hope it does — the leaders of the movement would be wise to counsel supporters to respect the need for multiple perspectives and approaches to the problem.

«As time goes by, however, we are approaching the point where any actions we might take will be inadequate to protect humanity and the planet from dangerous climate change,» he said.

In a world where the GOP has united against climate action (a major shift from a decade ago, as this article documents), attitudes about climate are a reflection of tribal identities, instead of the rational, fact - driven approach that David Roberts describes as cosmopolitanism.

So as hurricane season approaches, advocates for action on climate mitigation would be well served by playing to their strengths and avoiding using hurricanes to promote their cause.

Innovate4Climate 2018 will convene global leaders from industry, government and multi-lateral agencies for a one - day Summit, workshops and a Marketplace, to work and dialogue on development of innovative financing instruments and approaches to support low - carbon, climate - resilient development pathways; mobilization of private investments in climate action; support to developing countries in their NDCs implementation; development of ideas on how market - based and non-market based climate finance instruments identified in the Paris Agreement can best be designed to maximize impact and minimize costs.

[YB: What I wrote was «Yes there will be ongoing efforts to emulate AB32 as well as push forward with other approaches to climate action.»]

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

This brought not only great scrutiny of the approach, but — more important — it meant that all of the hostility to action on climate change, mainly but not exclusively from Republicans and coal - state Democrats, was targeted at the policy du jour — cap - and - trade.

In combination with new approaches to grassroots advocacy and election campaigns, a complementary paradigm for climate advocacy is needed to shift our focus toward a broader portfolio of smaller scale policy actions and to the promotion of a more diverse array of technological options.

Such a project by project approach of selecting climate action raises some important concerns: