Sentences with phrase «climate plan because»

A federal government release says carbon pricing is «key to any credible climate plan because it's a cost - effective way to significantly reduce pollution while driving clean innovation and creating new jobs.

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BC said it was unable to support the application not because it was skeptical about Rachel Notley's climate strategy, but because Trans Mountain failed to address the government's concerns about spill prevention, leak detection, ground and marine spill preparedness and response planning.

This assumption rests on yet another, still more tenuous one: that uncooperative provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba are unwilling to commit to a national carbon price, not because of their own particular political interests and liabilities, but because they remain unconvinced that the national climate plan will actually succeed.

New dad William described how he and his wife decided to stick with one child rather than have the three children they originally planned for, because they could not afford to do so in the current financial climate.

In Key West, city officials are planning to build a new fire station several feet higher than originally planned, because of worries about climate - driven sea - level rise.

Another potential concern are Jones» emails stating that he convinced FOI officers not to release data to greenhouse skeptics because they planned to harm the university or setback climate science.

However, he and his colleagues were surprised to find that many of the proposed corridors are planned for places where the agricultural potential appears to be very limited, because of poor soils or climates or the remoteness of the area in question.

But the charismatic species is likely to go extinct within 50 years because the current management plans do not account for the effects of climate change.

Officials at the Bureau of Land Management's Lander field office have taken interest in Central Wyoming College's research because it will help the bureau plan for an increasingly arid climate, said Kristin Yannone, the office's planning and environment coordinator.

«This is important for regional planning, because it allows policymakers to identify places where climate change dominates the observed sea level rise and places where the climate change signal is masked by shorter - term regional variability caused by natural ocean climate cycles.»

There must have been an whiff of mania during product planning meetings for the R26.R — amusingly, Dauce later admitted that things did in fact get a bit out of hand — because out went the rear seats, passenger and curtain airbags, climate control, rear - window and headlamp washers, and the radio and CD player.

This is doubly so because, as Machin also pointed out, the general climate of retirement pessimism is exasperated by the fact «private sector defined benefit pension plans have virtually disappeared from the Canadian retirement landscape.»

«The body of work I plan to present is a mixture of New Orleans» culture, including my experiences growing up in this beautiful city... I named this body of work «Humidity,» because it exemplifies New Orleans» social climate.»

Because of this we can now perceive future threats and makes plans to avoid the threat, such as the climate crisis.

Because of the course, I have committed to choosing the wind energy option from our electric company, finding out more about Portland's Climate Plan, and reducing / eliminating packaging from our grocery purchases.

The so - called 100 - year flood is likely to become more frequent.4 Because transportation planners use such events to determine infrastructure needs, future plans based on the past are likely to become less reliable — and planners will need to develop models that reflect the effects of climate change.7

Our youth feel a comprehensive plan is critical because they see that our climate system is reacting to unprecedented levels of carbon in the atmosphere by behaving in unprecedented ways.

The draft plan suggests that despite industry efforts to convince the public that the climate treaty would be costly to carry out and unfair to the United States, the treaty remains popular partly because environmentalists are winning the debate on the science.

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.

This is not unimportant because temperature is used in planning climate policy.To avoid errors from this, use satellite data whenever available.This should be enough to explain why their baseline is wrong.

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 we had a long and fruitful conversation on topics ranging from galvanizing moments and the Clean Power Plan to his own role in the global climate conversation and much more (and because we want you to learn as much as we did), we'll be bringing you the conversation in its entirety, with new installments each Friday for the next fewBecause we had a long and fruitful conversation on topics ranging from galvanizing moments and the Clean Power Plan to his own role in the global climate conversation and much more (and because we want you to learn as much as we did), we'll be bringing you the conversation in its entirety, with new installments each Friday for the next fewbecause we want you to learn as much as we did), we'll be bringing you the conversation in its entirety, with new installments each Friday for the next few weeks.

Provides that CAA provisions concerning state plans to address endangerment of public health or welfare in other countries caused by transported air pollution do not apply to a GHG because of its climate impact.

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

None of the funds made available to the Environmental Protection Agency by this division or any other Act may be expended for purposes of enforcing or promulgating any regulation (other than with respect to section 202 of the Clean Air Act) or order, taking action relating to, or denying approval of state implementation plans or permits because of the emissions of greenhouse gases due to concerns regarding possible climate change.

What that looks like exactly, we're working on because we want to come up with the best plan possible,» said Suzanne Henkels, spokeswoman for NextGen Climate.

The Sierra Club and a large coalition of groups — including Earthjustice, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Patuxent Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper, Shenandoah Riverkeeper, and Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper — have been fighting this plan since its announcement because it means a massive expansion of natural gas fracking.

The head of the U.N. environment program said Tuesday the United States is likely to live up to the Paris climate deal despite President Donald Trump's planned pullout, because «all the big American companies» are working...

In a memo to the Vice President s office, Mr. Cooney explained: We plan to begin to refer to this study in Administration communications on the science of global climate change because it contradicts a dogmatic view held by many in the climate science community that the past century was the warmest in the past millennium and signals of human induced global warming.

That short chapter is important because Oreskes totally misinterprets the «memos» as Big Coal's plan for a vast national campaign with paid climate scientists that created the lasting public doubt about global warming.

«By the way, yes, my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that is eating our planet because climate change is not a hoax,» President Obama said at a campaign rally last week, absurdly portraying the essential gas CO2 exhaled by humans and consumed by plants as a «pollutant» in need of regulation.

Because adaptation policy requires decision - making amid uncertainties about future climate change and its impacts, the major pillars of adaptation plans are iterative assessment, flexible and adaptive planning, and enhancement of adaptive capacity.

Because of the growing influence of human activities, the climate of the past is not a good basis for future planning.

High cost, unintended consequences, uncertainty, short attention spans, international bickering: if these problems sound familiar, it is because climate skeptics have made the very same criticisms of plans to cut emissions, such as the Kyoto Protocol.

I made June 8th as my last day because I plan to attend the Citizens» Climate Lobby Conference and Lobby Day in Washington D.C. June 11 - 13th and the next Climate Reality Training in Bellevue Washington June 27 - 29th.

The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated sea level rise as the climate changed it might already be too late to replace the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.

Because of that gap and the IPCC's emissions targets, many climate analysts say that while the Clean Power Plan is a significant step toward decarbonization, it doesn't go far enough if the goal is to play a meaningful leadership role in keeping warming below 2 degrees centigrade.

Because of that work and many follow - on studies conducted for state and city officials, New York has incorporated climate - change adaptation and resilience into its long - term planning initiatives, which include upgrading building codes and managing parks and wetlands to accommodate flooding and sea - level rise.

This question is especially important in light of a recent federal court ruling, which blocked plans to expand a coal mine in Colorado because of the failure of the federal coal leasing program to properly consider the federal government's social cost of carbon figures and climate change impacts.

In the United States, the Clean Power Plan, announced by former President Barack Obama in 2015, has been called a «climate game changer» because of its potential to reduce carbon emissions from the largest single source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — power plants, which account for over 1/3 of the U.S.'s carbon dioxide emissions.

Interestingly the Jacobson Plan for weaning the US from fossil fuels relies on wind, water, and solar and leaves biomass completely out of the mix because the climate and health costs of particulates were found to be a net negative.

Here's where this «loophole of uncertainty» comes into play - because China has implemented actions that address climate change through its Eleventh Five - Year Plan since 2005 and has internally funding all of its energy efficiency measures and mitigation actions (and furthermore hasn't asked for any funding with regards to their 40 - 45 % reduction in carbon intensity by 2020 from 2005 levels), China would therefore be exempt from international MRV if this text is eventually agreed upon.

Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen received hefty criticism from fellow scientists for his landmark intervention in 2006 calling for serious research into Plan B (climate engineering) because Plan A (cutting global emissions) had been «grossly unsuccessful.»

Clinton, unlike Trump, did say that her energy plan includes «fighting climate change, because I think that's a serious problem.»

This guidance document aims to promote uncertainty quantification, because quantifying uncertainty has the potential to foster more robust climate - change mitigation plans.

The plans that will offer even a chance of avoiding the worst of the climate Apocalypse are not salable because of their hard demand reductions (and ensuing global economic collapse), and the plans that are salable will insure an express ride to the Apocalypse.

At the time that he denied the waiver (acting against the better advice of his staff, which had strongly urged him to grant it), Johnson claimed that California's law was unnecessary because of the recently enacted energy bill, which would do more to mitigate climate change than «a confusing patchwork of state rules» — this despite the fact that 13 other states, representing about half of the country's drivers, were also on board with the plan.

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

Such plans, because they will make big money, have powerful backers: When Heather Zichal left her post as the Obama administration's climate czar, she accepted a $ 180,000 - a-year position on the board of the country's biggest gas exporter.