Sentences with phrase «climate plan expected»

VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — With the province's new climate plan expected to land any day now, a coalition of British Columbia power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations is calling on the government to tackle B.C.'s growing carbon pollution problem.

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«Most Canadians want a credible plan to meet our climate commitments — including a minimum price on carbon that applies across the country — and are expecting federal and provincial leaders to deliver it.»

Between 2014 and 2030, B.C. is expected to have the highest emissions growth of any province when existing climate plans are taken into account.

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.

Protesters gathered earlier than expected for a week - long protest camp designed to raise awareness about climate change and oppose the planned Heathrow expansion.

Mayor Bloomberg created a taskforce to develop a long - term plan for the city based on expected future climate change, severe weather occurrences, and how to rebuild better.

Erie County and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority («NYSERDA») have announced the development of a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations which is expected to save more than $ 700,000 in energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, equivalent to taking 925 cars off the road.

Erie County is developing a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations with funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) which is expected to not only reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions but also save the County on energy costs.

Climate change is expected to bring more drought to the US Southwest, but few states are planning for this eventuality.

The Obama administration's climate action plan, now being implemented, is expected to steer the U.S. to meet its 17 percent target by 2020.

However, the city needs to be planning for those types of huge barriers more as part of a longer - term plan, and as preparation for the possibility that climate change and sea - level rise may be worse than expected, warns the analysis, published last week in Science.

Key to linking these markets together is a secure and integrated international regulatory framework post-2012 when the Kyoto Protocol will expire, the very subject that so many people are focusing on in Bali and where political chiefs are expected to come up with a new master plan to fight climate change, or rather a blueprint for further negotiations to reach that master plan.

Given that studies of past climate patterns have found evidence of super-deluges in the Northeast, and that scientists have observed a century - long trend toward more rainfall coming in heavy downpours in the world's temperate zones (a pattern matching what's expected in a greenhouse - heated world), the logic in planning for the worst case in designing everything from a dam to a basement to a rural road is growing ever stronger.

That approach is being promoted by a team of climate scientists and biologists, led by Stephanie Pfirman of Barnard College, who have proposed that Arctic nations develop a conservation plan creating a «sea ice refuge» from northwest Greenland west into Canada's Arctic archipelago where thick floes routinely persist through the summer, and are expected to persist through this century.

But states are expected to pick up their activity in response to the federal government's withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement and its killing the Clean Power Plan.

But over time, as the world increasingly realizes that fossil fuel expansion has no place in a world where we plan for success in addressing climate change, we can expect other financial institutions — both public and private — to follow their lead.

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

Heads of state are also expected to announce national climate plans at a specially convened September climate summit hosted by UN chief Ban Ki - moon, before official negotiations resume at a Lima conference in December.

The plan is expected to triple the flow of Canadian electricity into Midwestern and northeastern border states, part of a broader U.S. effort to comply with the international climate obligations that 196 countries agreed to in Paris.

As of March 2015, 19 state climate plans have been endorsed; the states that have prepared them are expected to develop implementation plans, which are a further prioritisation of stated recommendations.

News that China's emissions could fall faster than expected will be welcomed by governments working on plans for a UN climate deal, set to be agreed later this year in Paris.

Pakistan has not even started thinking about what to include in the offer each country is expected to put forward in advance of the Paris climate talks, including plans to curb planet - warming emissions and adapt to climate shifts, Chaudhry said.

The UN's top climate official expects up to 80 % of global greenhouse gas emissions to be covered by national climate plans by the end of 2015.

We are now estimating that within 12 months, the expected cost of Obama's climate plans will climb to $ 5 trillion, $ 43,000 per U.S. household.

Finally, I expect something that looks a lot like Obama's energy and climate plan to pass both houses.

But it is expected to receive only about $ 8 billion of that after U.S. President Donald Trump - a climate change skeptic who plans to pull out of the Paris climate accord - indicated he would not make good on the...

«From what I've read of the modules he proposed writing, they seem designed to foster confusion rather than promote deeper understanding of the current science... and they certainly wouldn't fit with the science education standards framework that the National Research Council plans to release,» he said, referring to the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which is slated to release a draft of new national science standards next month that are expected to include climate change.

But, really, could we expect anything less from the «fine» folks who initially refused to release a global warming plan and who skipped out on the recent Bali U.N. climate summit?

But despite the city's efforts creating and implementing its Climate Action Plan, Boulder is not expected to meet its Kyoto goal.

Reporting from Toronto — In a last - minute turn in global climate talks, international negotiators agreed over the weekend to adopt more ambitious plans than expected to trim government subsidies to oil companies worldwide, part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

The Senate controls the government's budget, and is expected to attempt to withhold funding to the Environmental Protection Agency, the main body tasked with implementing the president's climate action plan.

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The district's strategic plan for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support expects that all schools will adopt a systematic approach to ensure that all students develop the competencies outlined in the Illinois SEL Standards within a supportive school and classroom climate that includes adult modeling, effective discipline, and integrated instruction.