Sentences with phrase «climate economist»

We'll draw from four different research papers written by teams of respected climate economists, examining the full range of policy options beyond those that we hear the most about.

This is a victory for progressive activists and climate economists who have long opposed the pipeline.

Leading climate economist says radical policies needed as IPCC calculations show planet has used up over half emissions budget

Leading climate economist says radical policies needed as IPCC calculations show planet has used up over half emissions budget

At the U.N. summit last week, climate economists tackled the role of innovation in fixing the world's climate

UK climate economist Nicholas Stern questioned the report for vastly underpricing the cost of climate change, and Brad Plummer at Vox outlined some of the odd items that arguably shouldn't have been included in the calculation.

Ridley told the House of Lords that «the consensus among climate economists and, indeed, in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is that the economic impacts will be positive for the next 40 or 50 years.»

«It will not affect the international coal market in any way,» German climate economist Reimund Schwarze tells Pacific Standard via email, explaining that the CPP rules targeted mostly inferior, high - emissions coal in a market that's already been depressed by cheap oil and gas prices.

The Copenhagen Consensus on Climate project gathered 27 of the world's top climate economists and three Nobel Laureates, who found that the smartest, long - term climate policy is to invest in green R&D, to push down the price of green energy.

A mandatory elementary damage insurance would ensure that extreme, rare or local incidents such as flash floods, earthquakes or land subsidence would become comprehensively insurable,» says climate economist Prof. Reimund Schwarze as a summary to his analysis of catastrophe mitigation.

In a panel discussion that included World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and the celebrated climate economist Nicholas Stern, Lagarde urged governments to directly tax carbon emissions instead of relying on indirect measures such as emissions trading.

Meanwhile, climate economists debate the pros and cons of a moderately warmer and wetter world — and the pros of the CO2 fertilization effect responsible for greening planet earth.

Climate economists argue, for instance, for a globally harmonized carbon tax even as they acknowledge the extraordinary moral, political and economic obstacles to asking the average African to pay the same toll on her emissions as the average European.

Climate economists repeatedly have pointed out that such energy innovation is the most effective climate solution, because it is the surest way to drive the price of future green energy sources below that of fossil fuels.

The Nebraska hearing follows a similar affair held in Washington for the House energy committee, where Canadian climate economist Mark Jaccard testified that, despite the conclusion in the State Department's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), «The denial of Keystone XL will help to slow development of the oil sands.

Pushing China to peak its greenhouse - gas emissions too soon could damage global efforts to tackle climate change by driving industry to less efficient countries, a Chinese climate economist has argued.

Forcing an emissions peak in China too soon could damage global efforts to tackle climate change, says climate economist Guan Dabo

The encyclical engendered surprising pushback from a few prominent climate economists and journalists who misinterpreted Francis's injunctions against carbon trading and offsets.

Climate economist Chris Hope cites values of $ 250 per ton in the United States.

Find out why the top 3 US climate economists agree.

The costs of dealing with climate change are going to be enormous, as numerous climate economists have shown, and it would be much cheaper to mitigate its impacts than wait to grapple with adapting to a much warmer, more volatile world.

The 32 hand - picked signatories comprise a virtual «who's who» of leading climate economists and other «wise men» (and women) including four Nobel laureates, three former U.S. cabinet secretaries, and prominent academics from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Chicago.

At the U.N. summit last week, climate economists tackled the role of innovation in fixing the world's climate

Among climate economists and wonks, the hunches, pet theories, and ritual invocations of «political will» too often are substitutes for deeper, systemic political analysis.

Prof Tol, from Sussex University, is a highly respected climate economist and one of two «co-ordinating lead authors» of an important chapter in the 2,600 - page report published last week by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

To support this effort, UCS regularly sends policy experts, scientists, and climate economists to international climate treaty negotiations, including the 2015 Paris climate summit.

As may Anthony Watts, who's being called a Climatologist by many (I think he may deny this), and Ross McKitrick, the Climate Economist (oh, wait, he's Canadian, too), and John Christy of UAH, and Roy Spencer.

As we will see, a climate economist wrote it.

This all comes very close to being the ideal policy from the perspective of a climate economist, which is no coincidence.

I also have convinced myself there are holes in the Integrated Assessment Models that the climate economists (like Tol and Hope) use that are big enough to drive a semi double trailer through.

The second source of the 97 per cent number was a survey of scientific papers, which has now been comprehensively demolished by Professor Richard Tol of Sussex University, who is probably the world's leading climate economist.

In Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy, Lenny Smith and the Blair Government's climate economist, Nicholas Stern attempt to give this form of politics some justification in the face of questions about «uncertainty».

Why a climate economist is giving carbon's «social cost» a second look (Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 1, 2017)

The world's nations had gathered in the December gloom of the Danish capital for what a leading climate economist, Sir Nicholas Stern of Britain, called the «most important gathering since the Second World War, given what is at stake.»

The climate economists might eventually be capable of convincing the larger community of economists that a real climate policy after all will not be a catastrophe, that the country will not immediately fall into economic bankruptcy.

Recently the top three climate economists in the US along with the top German climate economist have aligned on a new approach (they came to this independently).

«New York City is at the forefront of this work,» Rachel Cleetus, a climate economist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement.