Sentences with phrase «climate change committee makes»

His job as chair of the Commons» energy and climate change committee makes him one of the most influential policy influencers in the country on energy and climate change.

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The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has today insisted policy makers must adequately resource initiatives that make homes warmer and healthier and in turn reduce carbon emissions.

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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) makes the warning as the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee today publishes it report A European Supergrid.

Greens: Made carbon pricing a condition of supporting the Gillard Government after the 2010 election, including the creation of Multi Party Climate Change Committee.

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

Energy and climate change committee chair Joan Walley added: «It doesn't make economic sense to let the sun go down on the solar industry in the UK.

After detailed research, the Committee on Climate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bClimate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity byChange — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bclimate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bclimate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bychange targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity by 2030.

The influential energy and climate change select committee found in their scrutiny of the draft bill that the Treasury's anti-green interference had «made energy policy unworkable.»

Thanks to our Ministers, who overcame resistance from right - wing Tories, the Bill does make a provision to allow a target to be set in the future — but as industry itself, and the Government's independent advisors, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), have made clear, investors in low - carbon energy need more certainty than this possible future promise before they go ahead and invest billions in new renewable energy installations.

A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.

The 16 - term Republican is the chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee and has said he does not believe in man - made climate change.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

pledged yesterday to make climate change a top priority as secretary of State as he sailed through a mostly genial confirmation hearing before the committee he still chairs.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

In an op - ed for Fox News, Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House science committee, made a host of false and misleading claims about climate change and related issues.

They recommend that the World Heritage Committee request the State Party to invite a joint World Heritage Centre / IUCN reactive monitoring mission to the property in view of making a comprehensive assessment of the overall state of conservation of the property, including a rigorous assessment of the extent to which the Outstanding Universal Value is currently affected by the existing threats, including invasive species and climate change, and assisting the State Party with the development of a proposal for the Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger based on the findings of the mission.

Based on a curious report by the UK House of Lords Economics Affairs committee (in which they made clear that they had no scientific expertise), Lawson demands that the only global scientific assessment process on climate change be shut down, and replaced with....

As you might expect in a debate about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with climate change.

More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee's press blog.

John Christy has testified on numerous occasions against the mainstream scientific views on man - made climate change including testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, House Committee on Government Reform, House Ways and Means Committee, and others.

No matter what political committees try to absolve corruption of climate science of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), they can not hide the complete failure of the computer models to make a single accurate predclimate science of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), they can not hide the complete failure of the computer models to make a single accurate predClimate Change (IPCC), they can not hide the complete failure of the computer models to make a single accurate prediction.

The key takeaway quote was made by Ed Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication and a member of the federal advisory committee that released the assessment: «Data is accumulating to show that Americans want their politicians to take action.»

As such, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has decided to act on the recommendations laid out in the June report from the Climate Change Committee, with as much as # 9.5 billion to be made available through three separate CCS competition projects over the next 15 years, on top of the # 1 billion already pledged for the first commercial stage demonstration project.

Dismal ManBearPig - worshipper Tim Yeo MP being made chairman of the new Energy and Climate Change committee.

Paul Driessen is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and maintains associations with a range of organizations devoted to the denial of man - made climate change including the Heartland Institute, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (now Atlas Network), and others.

European Parliament, Brussels, 4th October 2006 - Members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee made personal pledges and demands on climate change today as part of a Friends of the Earth Europe photo - action [1].

In the question and answer period following my February 25 testimony on the Administration's Climate Action Plan before the Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Jeff Sessions (R - AL) suggested that I had misled the American people with comments I made to reporters on February 13, linking recent severe droughts in the American West to global climate Climate Action Plan before the Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Jeff Sessions (R - AL) suggested that I had misled the American people with comments I made to reporters on February 13, linking recent severe droughts in the American West to global climate climate change.

Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.), the outspoken Democratic chairman of the Agriculture panel, has been making it well - known that he wants his committee to have full jurisdictional authority over whatever climate change bill emerges from Chairman Henry Waxman's (D - Calif.)

Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 www.CFACT.org Heartland 2010 Climate Conference Speaker List More than 70 speakers will make keynote presentations or participate in panel discussions at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, May 16 - 18, 2010 in Chicago.

The plan emerged from months of consultations by federal experts, independent scientists, nongovernmental organizations, members of the general public and international specialists who make up the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of President George W. Bush's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration.

Inhofe, who is Chairman of the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee, brought a snowball onto the Senate floor to make the case that climate change is not real.

The Nobel Committee made its announcement Friday in Oslo, recognizing Gore and the IPCC for their «efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man - made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.»

In a speech given to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on July 28, 2003, entitled «The Science of Climate Change», [14] Senator James Inhofe (Republican, for Oklahoma) concluded by asking the following question: «With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man - made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?»

In March 2007, Hansen told the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, «The effect of the filtering of climate change science during the current administration has been to make the reality of climate change less certain than the facts indicate, and to reduce concern about the relation of climate change to human - made greenhouse gas emissions.»

If the assessment of climate science presented in Mr. McIntyre's presentation to the NAS committee, the Wegman Report, and the WSJ is an example of what can be expected from those who have not conducted climate research, then the investigation launched by this committee has demonstrated clearly that «independent review» by non-climate scientists is an exceedingly ineffective way to make climate change assessments.»

If passed, the Climate Change bill will force the government to «explain its reasons to Parliament if it does not accept the Committee's advice on the level of the carbon budget, or if it does not meet a budget or target», but won't let us challenge the decisions made by this committee democrCommittee's advice on the level of the carbon budget, or if it does not meet a budget or target», but won't let us challenge the decisions made by this committee democrcommittee democratically.

Professor Julia King, who is both chancellor of the university and a member of the Climate Change Committee, raised an objection to Pielke's analysis: «Before you make statements about timetables and targets which don't ask «can this be done?»

Appearing Thursday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, McCarthy said, «As the President made clear, we must take steps to combat climate change.

If we tried to make a diagram of the organizations that deal with climate change, we would not draw an authoritarian tree of hierarchical command, but a spaghetti tangle of cross-linked, quasi-independent committees.

The Committee confirmed procedures for broad participation of NGOs, recognized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as its primary technical support body, and agreed to use consensus decision - making except when impasses arose, in which case important questions would be put to majority vote.

Although there is not yet a comprehensive Climate Change Bill in China, Congressman Wang Guangtao (Chair of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People's Congress) made the announcement, on 7 November 2010 at the GLOBE International legislators» forum in Tianjin, that China would begin work on a comprehensive climate chanClimate Change Bill in China, Congressman Wang Guangtao (Chair of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People's Congress) made the announcement, on 7 November 2010 at the GLOBE International legislators» forum in Tianjin, that China would begin work on a comprehensive climate changChange Bill in China, Congressman Wang Guangtao (Chair of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People's Congress) made the announcement, on 7 November 2010 at the GLOBE International legislators» forum in Tianjin, that China would begin work on a comprehensive climate chanclimate changechange law.