C - ROADS C - ROADS is an award - winning computer simulation that helps people understand the long - term
climate impacts of policy scenarios to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
«It is imperative that both the near - and long - term
climate impacts of policies be transparent to a decisionmaker,» said lead author Ilissa B. Ocko, Environmental Defense Fund.
Not exact matches
Failure to consider the competitiveness
impacts of misaligned Canada / US
climate policy and carbon pricing will put additional Canadian refineries and their employees at risk.
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.
Panel discussion will feature
climate policy experts and leading vintners at Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017, Sunday, June 18 NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The
impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this -LSB-...]
Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the
climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible
policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived
climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.
From defending endangered species to mitigating
climate change
impacts, one
of the most effective ways to protect the nature
of Massachusetts is through sound environmental
policy.
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.
Insurers are already pursuing
policies with an aim
of reducing
climate impact and they will do much more, alongside governments and other industries.»
Robert Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor
of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Cornell University, leading researcher on energy
policy impact on
climate change
Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior
Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects
of different types
of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning
policies.
Their report emphasizes the utility
of rapid - response airborne chemical sampling in providing leak rate data, and it reveals how single vulnerabilities in the natural gas infrastructure can
impact local and federal
climate policies.
A new report by authors from UCLA School
of Law's Emmett Center on
Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute
of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and
impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international
policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.
Concerns about the permanency
of forest carbon stocks, difficulties in quantifying stock changes, and the threat
of environmental and socioeconomic
impacts of large - scale reforestation programs have limited the uptake
of forestry activities in
climate policies.
Trudeau has also said his party will embrace «evidence based
policy» and «data - driven decision - making,» do more to address
climate change, protect endangered species, and review the environmental
impact of major energy and development projects.»
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.
Instead, we should offer a thorough analysis
of carbon budgets aimed at avoiding 2 °C and the implications for how quickly and deeply we need to cut CO2, as well as the associated
climate impacts that society will need to be resilient to if
policies fail to deliver.
The report from the Commission on Health and
Climate Change lays out the health
impacts of a warming world and offers
policy advice on how to address medical concerns and prevent them from getting worse.
The model is the first to consider how the effects
of climate change
impacts — and the
policies designed to address them — will produce very unequal outcomes between the rich and poor in the same country.
They also charted the implications for
climate policies that best balance the costs
of mitigation and the benefits
of avoided
climate impacts.
«Given the novelty, we would expect that the study will be useful in demonstrating just how much
of an
impact changes in food production can make and increase the utility
of such options in
climate - change
policy,» Harwatt said.
Depending on how
climate impacts unequally affect the rich or poor within every region, the optimal
policy may involve a lenient or sharp increase in the price
of carbon over the next decades (lenient when
impacts are proportional to income, sharp when
impacts are concentrated on the poor).
Before industry can
impact climate issues and cultivate an internationally competitive clean - tech sector, the investment has to be much broader and profound, said Salman Khan, development and strategy director for the environment division
of Intertek, an international testing company that helps companies assess their green
policies.
Observers note that if the vote triggers a prolonged recession, that could have an
impact on U.K. energy and
climate policy as well as its aid budget, which per capita is one
of the largest in the world.
Climate change could have different
impacts on the many types
of terrain that stretch across L.A. «It's hard to make local
policy when you don't have a clear picture
of how various neighborhoods could be hit.»
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.
Such near - term benefits provide the basis for a no - regrets GHG - reduction
policy, in which substantial advantages accrue even if the
impact of human - induced
climate change turns out to be less than current projections show.
«Changing
climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.
climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president
of the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.
Climate Change, which today released a report on regional
impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international
policy action.»
In summary the projections
of the IPCC — Met office models and all the
impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion
of future
climate trends and represent an enormous waste
of time and money.As a basis for public
policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate
of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com
«Much
of the strength
of Climate Impacts Group comes from its varied membership, drawing from leading institutions around the region such as PNNL,» said Spencer Reeder, lead climate change policy strategist for the Department of E
Climate Impacts Group comes from its varied membership, drawing from leading institutions around the region such as PNNL,» said Spencer Reeder, lead
climate change policy strategist for the Department of E
climate change
policy strategist for the Department
of Ecology.
It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport
of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their
impacts on public health, to
policies to protect air quality and limit
climate change.
Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National
Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and
policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the
impacts of global warming.
Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its
climate -
policy - averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the
impacts of a warming
climate.
Can science results be used effectively in
policy - oriented integrated assessment models that are our only tool for evaluating global - level
impacts of policy and
climate change, particularly with regard to land use?
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.
PNNL scientists have contributed to the IPCC's authoritative assessments
of the state
of the global
climate, the
impacts associated with
climate change, and the set
of technological, institutional and
policy options available to mitigate and adapt to
climate change.
He is a director
of the
Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate
Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration
of more than two dozen economists, data scientists,
climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate
climate scientists, and
policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment
of the economic risks
of climate climate change.
Mission The mission
of PNNL's Aerosol
Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of ae
Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization
of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive
climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of ae
climate modeling frameworks and to inform
policy decisions related to global
climate change and the environmental impacts of ae
climate change and the environmental
impacts of aerosols.
In its 2012 World Energy Outlook, the IEA is very clear about the
impact of climate policy on U.S. oil demand.
I'm one
of the directors
of the
Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate
Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration
of more than two dozen
climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate
climate scientists, economists, data scientists and
policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment
of the economic risks
of climate climate change.
Michael's research focuses on the natural science and
policy aspects
of climate change and its
impacts, especially sea level rise and its causes and consequences.
«Programs or
policies that help reduce the cost and difficulty
of making long - term changes or that bring in whole communities to make long - term changes together can help support people to take big steps that have a meaningful
impact on the
climate.»
Before joining NewClimate, Thomas was an International
Climate Policies Consultant at Ecofys, and previously a Scientific Assistant with the Technical Support Unit
of IPCC Working Group III at Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impacts Research.
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 role
of the
Climate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sce
Climate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on
climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sce
climate change
impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft
policy and engage in planning for future
climate sce
climate scenarios.
Armed law enforcement officers are not educators, social workers, or counselors, and overwhelming evidence shows that when schools involve law enforcement in minor, non-violent behavioral infractions, students
of color are disproportionately
impacted.1 In our 2015
policy paper,
Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department
of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount
of school counselors.
Week 1: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader Week 2: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader (Continued) Week 3: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team Week 4: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team (Continued) Week 5: Unjumbling the Schoolhouse Week 6: Assessing School Culture and
Climate Week 7: The
Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and
Climate Initiatives Week 8: The
Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and
Climate Initiatives (Continued) Week 9: Leading Organizational Change to Improve School Culture and
Climate Week 10: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 1) Week 11: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 2) Week 12: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 3)
Every interaction that is backed by the training and guidance
of restorative practices can transform school
climate and make an
impact on the lives
of students affected by traditional, punitive discipline
policies.