Sentences with phrase «climate change policy because»

These cases are of particular relevance to energy and climate change policy because each of these sectors is expected to be a major driver of future energy demand and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.

To equate climate models with «bad» science must be understood to be an attempt to undermine any scientific justification for climate change policies because models are needed to make predictions about the future states of complex systems.

Do you agree that those nations and people around the world who will most be harmed by climate change have a right to participate in a decision by a nation that chooses to not adopt climate change policies because costs to it are deemed unacceptable?

48 - 52) If there is any doubt that economic self - interest is not compatible with the idea of «equity» it also is an unacceptable basis for establishing national climate change policies because economic self - interest is also inconsistent with well established international legal principles including:

When you claim that a nation such as the United States which emits high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change policies because adverse human - induced climate change impacts have not yet been proven, are you claiming that climate change skeptics have proven that human - induced climate change will not create harsh adverse impacts to the human health and the ecological systems of others on which their lives often depend and if so what is that proof?

When you argue that a nation emitting high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change policies because there is scientific uncertainty about adverse climate change impacts, are you arguing that a nation need not take action on climate change until scientific uncertainties are resolved given that waiting to resolve all scientific uncertainties before action is taken may very likely make it too late to prevent catastrophic climate change harms to millions of people around the world?

When you claim that the United States need not adopt climate change policies because adverse climate change impacts have not yet been proven, are you claiming that climate change skeptics have proven that human - induced climate change will not create adverse impacts on human health and the ecological systems of others on which their life often depends and if so what is that proof?

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Mrs May must work with our European neighbours to continue with a policy of united action, because pollution, climate change and wildlife do not respect national borders.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

«I applied for the fellowship, because my research both in climate change and bio fuel has always been extremely applied, and I didn't have a strong background in policy.

He pointed to the United Kingdom, where long - term investments in power generation have stalled because climate and energy policy keeps changing «week to week.»

Because of globalization and interdependence, the relationship between climate change, migration and security should become the «new normal» in international policy conversations, the panel said.

«This system is a starting point for being more transparent, because the more transparent we are, the more opportunities for financing further actions we will have in the international arena,» said Juan Mata Sandoval, director - general of climate change policy at Mexico's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

«Because global mismanagement of plastic is fueling the growing marine litter problem, policy responses are needed at all levels, from the international community of nations down to national and local communities,» said report co-author Cara Horowitz, executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.

The findings, the authors write, hold implications for policy makers because the projections reveal the intractability of a climate change across millennia.

Robin: It's interesting to me because I was at bunch of sessions where scientists and sometimes journalists were trying to figure out why the general public and policy makers in the United States have yet to really take any significant action to mitigate and pull back climate change.

Also spurring growth in the industry is a number of pro-electric vehicle policies and incentives that have been adopted in California, in part because the state is counting on electric vehicles to help it meet its ambitious climate change goals.

Climate change multiplies stress China faces it more than India, because of China's one - child policy, which brought fertility rates down significantly even as life expectancy continues to improve.

Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market - based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change.

However, to date, countries have not incorporated coastal blue carbon into their portfolio of climate change mitigation or coastal management policies and actions, largely because the mechanisms for assessing blue carbon were not well defined or standardized.

Lubbers observed that the issues of an asylum - seeking have henceforth been approached with prudence and led to close scrutiny of both refugee and immigration regulations.37 Refugees and asylum - seekers are the most victims of the growing climate of fear of terrorism and other transnational crimes and thus being treated with suspicion, and sometimes, arbitrary detained and, actually, deported.38 The states are changing their refugee - immigration related policies because of concern that the terrorists may gain entry to the territory through the channel of asylum system.39

And working to change school climate is least restrictive because few state or locally mandated laws or policies define school climate, thereby providing the greatest latitude for student voice, buy - in, and leadership.

His six years of research on climate issues was ignored by a bureaucracy that has absolutely no education on climate change simply because the policy was already decided, and no evidence was needed.

Since the early 1990s we have made basically no progress in cutting global emissions — in part, as Kerry says, because the conversation about climate change policy strategy hasn't really changed.

This is extremely dangerous, because the same science also has to inform other policy areas, particular adaptation to climate change.

They do not meet the standard of timing, but that is because the pace of temperature change depends on development, growth, and policy decisions about climate and other things that can not be predicted (but that does not stop the Federal Reserve from setting monetary policy).

The «Alarmed» and «Concerned» support these policies because they care about climate change and the other environmental and health impacts of our continuing dependence on fossil fuels.

The agency chose these actions because it said they all meet these criteria: They can result in significant near - term emissions reductions, do not curb economic growth, rely only on existing technologies and proven policies and produce significant benefits beyond climate change mitigation.

Allen and Frame's suggestion that we should «resist the temptation to fix a concentration target early on» because «Once fixed, it may be politically impossible to reduce it» seems hard to reconcile with their faith in «our descendants [having] the sense to adapt their policies to the emerging climate change signal...».

I was wondering for some time now, how much the findings of the work of scientists, be it the IPCC, be it the PIK in Potsdam or what have you, can be taken for granted in order for policy makers to make valuable decisions (e.g. cutting carbon emissions by half by 2050) and if the uncertainties in the models might outweigh certain decisions to reduce carbon emissions so that in the end it might happen that these uncertainties make these decisions obsolete, because they do not suffice to avoid «dangerous climate change»?

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 echange,» 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 eChange 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.

This policy matters to me because, like you, I recognize climate change as a central issue of our time that affects us all.

The policy community has been reluctant to even discuss higher thresholds of temperature rise because it does not want to be accused of botching its efforts to forestall catastrophic climate change, he argued.

Lindzen may feel compelled to «mislead» about science because he sincerely believes more harm will befall us if society follows the policy outcomes of the scientific consensus on climate change.

Among the list of policy responses to be assessed under a cost / benefit criterion should be «no response», because this acknowledges the possibility, however slight, that it will be advantageous to deal with climate change's consequences rather than prevent it in the first place.

One of the reasons Bangladesh is suffering is because money that could be going to solve their real problems is being diverted to «global warming / climate change / climate disruption» research and policies.

The plan also highlights the need for mainstreaming gender into climate action across societies, because it is critical to effective climate policy and action and it is critical that the needs, perspectives and ideas of all people impacted by climate change are taken into account.

«Because the 21 individual reports are planned to address scientific uncertainties associated with climate change and other technical subjects and are to be issued over a period of three or more years, it may be difficult for the Congress and others to use this information effectively as the basis for making decisions on climate policy,» according to the GAO.

Judge Finnane said the Prime Minister's plan to abolish the Climate Change Authority and the axing of CSIRO jobs came as no surprise because he had said it was part of his policy.

Because climate change is a moral problem, issues nations must face in formulating climate policies need to be guided by moral considerations.

Because SSPs do not include the effects of climate change and climate policy, they may not describe plausible assumptions for the future, but this is an intentional component of the design.

A variation of this argument is that the United States should not adopt policies on climate change until other nations such as China take steps to reduce their emissions because if the United States acts and other nations don't reciprocate this will harm the US economy.

The second most frequent argument made by opponents of climate change policies are assertions that governments should not take action on climate change because adverse impacts have not been sufficiently scientifically proven.

It is because of such complications that the National Commission on Energy Policy concluded in its December, 2004, report «Ending The Energy Stalemate» («ETES») that «hydrogen offers little to no potential to improve oil security and reduce climate change risks in the next twenty years.»

Clinton specifically used the term «climate change» in her answer: «So I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem,» she said.

The state says a climate change lawsuit filed by 16 young Alaska residents should be thrown out because climate policies...

Bob Ward, policy and communications Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spoClimate Change and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotChange and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spoclimate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotchange is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotlight.

«-LSB-...] We're focusing initially on climate change, because that's Pat's area of expertise, but we're also trying to branch out into other areas, science - intensive policy areas, and really science as a whole.»

The opponents of climate change policies have largely succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

Leading up to the Copenhagen Conference he caused CSIRO to force a leading academic to resign from CSIRO because he had written a paper which implicitly criticized the economic analyses behind the Labor («Progressive») government's climate change policies.