Sentences with phrase «climate impact of the government»

The climate denial issue came up again in Andrew Bolt's interview with Kevin Rudd, and I've been reminded of his repeated claim that I got estimates of the climate impact of the government's emission target wrong.

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Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

The government has created an online Global Calculator to help people understand how their lifestyles and energy use impact on the climate — and which underlines the importance of eating less meat.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

These negative impacts are the legacy of a climate policy that was conceived in 2006, when the previous Labour government announced that all new homes would be «zero carbon» by 2016.

The Government announced its intention to create a new framework for aviation in the UK, to replace the previous government's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communitiGovernment announced its intention to create a new framework for aviation in the UK, to replace the previous government's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communitigovernment's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communities.»

Insurers are already pursuing policies with an aim of reducing climate impact and they will do much more, alongside governments and other industries.»

The report concluded that the government needed to do more to make people aware of the impacts of climate change, and encourage the population to prepare for them adequately.

David Cameron betrayed anxiety about the coincidence — and its impact on potential Ukip supporters opposed to overseas aid or sceptical of climate change — by refusing to say how much Britain is likely to offer and stressing the funding would come from existing government funds.

Government needs to be constantly reminded that research has already shown clearly that impacts of climate change will intensify in northern Ghana with temperature increasing by 2OC by the year 2030.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

Regrettably, this same government in this very month of August is authorizing the cutting down of the same rosewood trees in the part of the country that has livelihoods seriously threatened by the harsh impacts of climate change.

We wish to conclude by urging government to, as a matter of urgency stop all these companies from further logging of the rosewood trees in northern Ghana that is already grabbling with desertification and other climate change impacts.

Also, FDA clears the party drug ecstasy for post-traumatic stress disorder clinical trials, and U.S. courts rule that the federal government must consider the impacts of major energy projects on climate change.

Scientists have warned of the impact of HFCs on climate for years, but government action has been slow to follow.

China is poorly prepared to tackle the impact of climate change that presents a serious threat to the country, thanks to a lack of planning and public awareness, the government said on Monday.

«White House officials and political appointees in the agencies censored congressional testimony on the causes and impacts of global warming, controlled media access to government climate scientists, and edited federal scientific reports to inject unwarranted uncertainty into discussions of climate change.»

The government said run - off from farms, crown - of - thorns starfish and climate change remain the biggest threats to the reef, but acknowledged that shipping and dredging occur in reef areas already facing pressure from other impacts.

In late June, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released an assessment of how the consequences of climate change, from rising temperatures and sea levels to changes in precipitation patterns and sea ice cover, might impact the military.

As long ago as 2005, Allen told New Scientist that the legal route would have more impact on climate change than governments: «Just the possibility of legal action would have a big effect... in boardrooms.»

Its tweets share facts related to climate changeand its impact on U.S. national parks — and on the planet — and call for more rigorous government support of science - based policies related to the environment.

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

But a new analysis led by Michael Pahle of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany shows that when the German government issued permits in 2005, its allocation rules encouraged a «dash for coal».

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

The time frame in which China's emissions were overestimated «is too short to have a cumulative impact on climate scenarios,» says Zhu Liu, the lead author and a climate change specialist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceclimate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceClimate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceclimate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

Its revision by the Trump administration is part of a broader shift within the federal government to downplay the impacts of climate change and will have important implications for how U.S. EPA regulates greenhouse gases.

But for the regions that are faced with increasingly stressful weather patterns, «there's a great deal that could be done to offset the impacts of climate change through adaptation, farming with new technology and government policies that are conducive to promoting small - holder agriculture,» he said.

It is the policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.

(1) provide technical assistance to Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and interested private landowners in their efforts to assess and address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources;

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Rahmstorf, Stefan Stefan Rahmstorf is Professor of Physics of the Oceans and department head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, a Lead Author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a member of the German government's Advisory Council on Global Change.

Fellows will work with local government agencies, civil society groups, and universities to discuss regional impacts of climate change and energy policy, and develop relationships for continued multi-lateral cooperation.

The online petition is designed to push the four cooperating governments to increase their commitment to protecting the reef, including preventing toxic discharges in the area, work to eliminate the destruction of mangrove forests, and address climate change impacts on the reef.

All this multidimensionality and complexity of the real science of climate impacts was really inconvenient for activists who, understandably, were trying to get governments to stop dawdling.

Some state and local governments have already begun their planning and preparation for extreme events and other impacts of climate change.

Chris FIELD (Carnegie Institution, USA)-- Chair • Philippe CIAIS (Climate Environment Society, France) • Wolfgang CRAMER (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale, France) • Purnamita DASGUPTA (Institute of Economic Growth, India) • Ruth DEFRIES (Colombia University, USA) • Navroz DUBASH (Centre for Policy Research, India) • Ottmar EDENHOFER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Michael GRUBB (University College London, UK) • Jean - Charles HOURCADE (Centre national de la recherche scientifique [INRA], France) • Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA) • Kejun JIANG (Nanyang Technological University, China) • Vladimir KATTSOV (Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia) • Hervé LE TREUT (CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) • Emilio LEBRE LA ROVERE (National University, Brazil) • Valérie MASSON - DELMOTTE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France) • Cheik M'BOW (World Agroforestry Centre [ICRAF], Kenya) • Isabelle NIANG - DIOP (Institut de recherche pour le développement, Senegal) • Carlos NOBRE (Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais [Cemaden / MCTI], Brazil) • Karen O'BRIEN (University of Oslo, Norway) • Joy PEREIRA (University Kebangsaan, Malaysia) • Shilong PIAO (Peking University, China) • Hans - Otto PÖRTNER (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) • Monika RHEIN (University of Bremen, Germany) • Johan ROCKSTRÖM (Stockholm University, Sweden) • Hans SCHELLNHUBER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Robert SCHOLES (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) • Pete SMITH (University of Aberdeen, UK) • Youba SOKONA (The South Centre, Switzerland) • Jean - François SOUSSANA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique [INRA], France) • Mark STAFFORD - SMITH (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) • Thomas STOCKER (University of Bern, Switzerland) • Laurence TUBIANA (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France) • Diana ÜRGE - VORSATZ (Central European University, Hungary) • Penny URQUHART (Independent analyst, South Africa) • Carolina VERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Alistair WOODWARD (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate climate impact.

Meat has not been part of the global conversation about climate change for far too long, as governments fear backlash from powerful meat lobbies and the angry public, and as a result many individuals have not yet learned about the impact it has.

Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments.

The report on global warming as a source of conflict sees climate change amplifying discord in parts of Africa and Asia, but not enough to destabilize governments — and even as its impacts through 2020 in rich countries remain small.

The clearest risks lie overseas, particularly in poor countries with weak public health agencies, according to a draft government report on climate impacts on human health and welfare, done at the request of President Bush.

What responses are needed from donors, governments and civil society to reduce impacts of climate change on food security?

We, heads of state, ministers and representatives of government from Africa, Asia, Caribbean and the Pacific, representing some of the countries most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change:

On March 12, 2008 the US government quietly released a report, Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Transportation and Infrastructure — Gulf Coast Study.

The groups are calling on EU governments and the European Commission to review urgently the real impacts of biofuels on climate change and food security, and to prioritise energy efficiency in transport.

Ms Najira said that the Government of Malawi is using climate information to derive resilient designs and to address the impacts of climate change and variability, to plan for disaster risk management and for contingency planning (seasonal forecasts).