Sentences with phrase «climate goals drive»

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My main goal in describing this as a Crash Warning is to drive home the extreme potential for loss and the rather complete unattractiveness of taking market risk in this Climate.

Economic value of energy efficiency can drive reductions in global CO2 emissions End - use energy efficiency can deliver a third of the CO ₂ savings necessary by 2050 to meet climate goals 17 April 2018

Of course, there's not just the congestion - combating part of the plan to consider; as the city and state both move to uphold the Paris climate accord — which seeks to combat climate change and lower carbon emissions — encouraging people to drive less seems an obvious way to get New York closer to achieving that goal.

«Our goal is to provide objective, data - driven analysis to help inform policymakers in California and elsewhere about which technology pathway is likely to be more cost - effective in combating climate change,» Pellow said.

«The city doesn't get to its climate goals without cutting how many miles we're driving on our roads and then electrifying the difference,» said Chris Bast, climate and transportation policy adviser in Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment.

It includes information submitted by a wide range of UN agencies on human, socio - economic and environmental impacts as part of a drive to provide a more comprehensive, UN-wide policy brief for decision makers on the interplay between weather, climate and water and the UN global goals.

The goal of the PCCO is to provide tools for improving public understanding of the mechanisms driving climate change, and possible responses to prevent or adapt to change.

Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.

Additionally, the MyFord Mobile app allows you to remotely lock and unlock doors, start the climate control system to preheat or cool the cabin using power from the grid, and track driver - specific achievements for goals such as reaching a specific range on a charge, driving so many «oil - free» miles, or regenerating a specific amount of energy with the brakes.

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

My goal in creating the image (a larger version is here) was to distinguish elements in the science pointing to greenhouse - driven climate change that are clearcut from those surrounded by deep and enduring uncertainty.

If a goal of realclimate is to inform laypeople of issues in climate science, then arrogance in this forum will only appeal to its most unquestioning adherents while driving away those who prefer to keep an open mind about a complex and dynamic field.

His goal, mirroring the playbook of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, seems to be to sideline environmental concerns by arguing that you're either for fossil fuels and ending energy poverty or for limiting risks of (and from) human - driven climate change and impoverishing humanity.

So how do we advance action and drive up ambition toward achieving our global climate and sustainable development goals?

A set of Sustainable Development Goals to be agreed next year offer a vital opportunity for the international community to tackle the way that climate change is driving people into poverty, saysa new report.

And a proposed goal to «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» needs to address expressly the role that unsustainable consumption and production in richer societies plays in driving climate change.

«We're more explicit this time around about the intersection between our energy choices and our climate challenges and the fact that we have such ambitious climate goals that are really driving a lot of our energy policy,» Klee said.

California's politically driven climate alarmist emissions reduction goals are meaningless and completely unnecessary and threaten to produce massive damage to the states economy and to the lives and freedoms of all of its 37 million citizens.

The Maldives and Costa Rica are the first countries to adopt a carbon reduction goal more ambitious than that of Plan B. 5 Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, describes climate neutrality as «an idea whose time has come, driven by the urgent need to address climate change but also the abundant economic opportunities emerging for those willing to embrace a transition to a Green Economy.»

Ambitious Corporate Climate Action Driving Delivery of Paris Goals Business Commitments Need Reinforcing by Strong National Policies Marrakech, Morocco, 9 November, 2016 - Private sector leaders have come together at the COP 22 Business & Industry day to call for countries to fully implement their national climate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislaClimate Action Driving Delivery of Paris Goals Business Commitments Need Reinforcing by Strong National Policies Marrakech, Morocco, 9 November, 2016 - Private sector leaders have come together at the COP 22 Business & Industry day to call for countries to fully implement their national climate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislaclimate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislation...

This work is an outgrowth of the commitment by 190 countries at the U.N. Climate Conference in Paris in 2015 to take a multi-sectoral and stakeholder - driven approach to climate adaptation planning focused on identifying and mitigating climate risks that will undermine achievement of developmentClimate Conference in Paris in 2015 to take a multi-sectoral and stakeholder - driven approach to climate adaptation planning focused on identifying and mitigating climate risks that will undermine achievement of developmentclimate adaptation planning focused on identifying and mitigating climate risks that will undermine achievement of developmentclimate risks that will undermine achievement of development goals.

(a) the Safe Climate Framework Commission to carry out assessments and make determinations and elaborate the goals and provide targets and metrics to drive action under the Act

Convening cross-sector participants from the private sector, Government, Investors, UN agencies and international NGOs, a strong focus will be placed on discussions around national climate targets and the drive towards business innovations and solutions that need to be implemented in order to achieve these ambitious goals.

When an entire issue has every appearance of looking like it's steered by emotionally - driven figurative lynch mobs whose goal is to achieve «climate justice» by any means possible, including negating facts from critics through character assassination, you have one very serious problem on your hands.

The two policies complement one another by driving investment and innovation in vehicles, fuels, and infrastructure — and both policies are crucial for achieving California's climate goals.

The U.S. Model «recognizes that market forces, driven by consumer preferences, are far better able to achieve our nation's energy, climate and economic goals than government mandates and regulatory dictates.

At the Tagesspiegel event, Michael Knipper, head of the construction industries association HDB, insisted that climate goals for the building sector were «unrealistic» and detrimental to the goal of providing urgently needed housing in German cities, because they drive up costs.