Sentences with phrase «climate plans when»

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Even coal enthusiast and climate change - skeptic Trump recently showed some openness to clean power when he floated plans to line his proposed Mexican border wall with solar panels.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have tended to agree on major issues when it comes to energy, such as calling for more clean energy and supporting aggressive plans to fight climate change.

He gave a speech in Paris last December in connection with the UN Climate Summit in which he laid out a plan to accelerate humanity's departure from the the fossil - fuel era, and he has revisited that speech's specifics when he unveiled the Tesla Model 3 earlier this year and revealed Tesla's Solar Roof last month.

We contracted Navius Research to model what the policies in the climate plan would achieve when combined with a federal carbon price.

Neither Ottawa nor Alberta's provincial government has a plan in place to address what happens when the imperatives of confronting climate change make depressed oil prices the norm.

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.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Phillips is one of the government's smartest cabinet ministers, and has done a good job promoting the flagship Climate Leadership Plan, but the NDP have fallen short when it comes to easing Albertans worries about the cost of implementing the carbon tax during an economic downturn.

When the Alberta government released its Climate Leadership plan in November 2015, I said that Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips had made pigs fly by uniting a coalition of industry leaders and environmental leaders in our province.

Many of those executives stood on stage with Phillips and Premier Rachel Notley, along with environmental leaders, when the climate change plan was released in November 2015.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

Though we had planned to move to a warmer climate when we retired, we recently decided to stay right where we are.

Bambrick said the governor should consistently consider the impacts of climate change and apply the state's energy plan when making decisions.

When I signed my Executive Order last June calling on the Departments of Public Works and Environment and Planning to prepare a plan for the County to implement the United States» target contribution to the Paris Climate Agreement, reducing Erie County's greenhouse gas inventory by twenty - six percent below 2005 levels by 2025, some people laughed.

FoE's Planning Campaigner, Hugh Ellis said: «With no reference to climate change in the planning bill, people have no guarantees that ministers will take climate change into account when considering major projects such as roads, airports and power stations which will lock us into the path towards climate change and environmental destPlanning Campaigner, Hugh Ellis said: «With no reference to climate change in the planning bill, people have no guarantees that ministers will take climate change into account when considering major projects such as roads, airports and power stations which will lock us into the path towards climate change and environmental destplanning bill, people have no guarantees that ministers will take climate change into account when considering major projects such as roads, airports and power stations which will lock us into the path towards climate change and environmental destruction.

Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has attacked the plans after a climate change amendment - which would have created a statutory requirement to consider climate change when approving major infrastructure projects - was defeated by 15 votes (with 24 Labour MPs rebelling).

Ms. Paulin plans to introduce legislation to require a survey every two years — coinciding with when a new Legislature is seated — to «measure the legislative workplace climate as it relates to discrimination and harassment procedure.»

When informed about Tom Steyer — a retired billionaire investor who plans to spend $ 100 million during the 2014 elections to pressure lawmakers to act on climate change — Teachout said that his money would be better spent on addressing the root causes of our government's failure to address climate change.

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When asked about key climate policy decisions, the largest shares of Americans say they oppose the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

When infrastructure plans are based on a set climate scenario, rather than a flexible one, it can be very costly in both human and economic terms, especially in the developing world, the paper argues.

But post-disaster is also a really good time to think about creating more resilient communities that factor in climate change and other stressors and plan for a time when flood insurance might not be as heavily subsidized.

The debate was on display last month when members of the compact met in Key Largo to release a climate action plan that aimed, in part, to offer preliminary recommendations on how cities in the area can prepare for sea - level rise and more powerful storms.

Experts should take note of local knowledge and beliefs when making plans about how to help people in vulnerable regions cope with the impacts of climate change.

But the US plans to allow HFCs only when there is no climate - safe alternative.

«When you want to plan for climate change, what you want to know is which species will be sensitive to climate change and which won't,» he said.

With a one - party, socialist - communist political system, once the decision was made at the top to embrace climate action, Chinese officials have been able to move fast since 2007, when the 11th five - year plan set first - ever energy consumption targets: a reduction of 20 percent energy use per unit of gross domestic product by 2012.

Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming.

Brazil's ethanol roller coaster is a sobering example of what can happen when climate and energy planning clash with economic decision - making.

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When students and others in the school community work together to understand school climate findings, dig deeper, prioritize goals, and create an action plan, they take part in a democratically informed process of school improvement.

ESSA dictates that when crafting accountability plans, states must assign indicators of academic performance «much greater weight» than other measures like class size and school climate.

The school climate changes that helped boost the numbers: helping teachers think outside the box when it comes to lesson planning, and encouraging a spirit of teamwork throughout the building.

The legislation required schools and districts to develop «safe school climate plans,» it established deadlines for reporting, investigating, and notifying parents about bullying incidents, it prohibited retaliation against those who report bullying (i.e. the Torrington situation) and required school officials to notify police when they believe bullying conduct constitutes a crime.

But when Ludovico's grand plan to control Europe begins to crumble, immortality through art becomes a luxury, and the two sisters must choose between familial loyalty and survival in the treacherous political climate.

The key is to have an investment plan that won't make you wonder so much when the economic climate and markets are shifting.

When to Go: The Nazca Desert's consistently dry climate means visibility is good year - round — but since a haze of dust often hovers during the height of the midday heat, plan to fly in the morning or late afternoon.

With a near - perfect climate and friendly locals, there are few reasons not to choose Barra De Navidad as a preferred vacation destination when planning to explore coastal Mexico.

When Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, launched India's climate change plan, he used that oft - quoted line of Gandhi's that the «earth provides enough to satisfy everyone's need, but not everyone's greed».

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.

Could the US government get a major plan to curb greenhouse gases passed by next Earth Day?At this point, it's incredibly hard to say — it's going to be a long road until the next Earth Day when it comes to climate legislation.

The biggest step facilitating progress in Paris actually came just over a year ago in Beijing, when President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China unveiled a joint package of pledges and plans on climate change after the countries had spent years locked in a «you first» standoff.

A plan: See: http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/28/winning-climate-messages-combine-dire-scientific-threat-with-solutions-for-a-just-world/ «New psychological research finds that dire messages about the threat of global warming will strengthen people's acceptance of climate science when combined with solutions, which is the approach taken by leading climate activists.

My print story today assessing the outcome of President Bush's effort to extract climate plans from the «major economies» (aka «major emitters») includes a description by Gwyn Prins of a moment when those imperatives seemed to clash.

In 2007 BC's Premier shocked North America when he announced his government's bold Climate Action Plan.

But he insisted that, when looked at from where countries stand today, the United States trajectory — as set in the Waxman - Markey climate bill being shaped in the House — is similar to European plans.

This is precisely the connection that Bill Clinton made very effectively when he came to Chicago to help us launch Mayor Daley's climate action plan.

In response to an email asking: «Why was no plan drawn up when you were in the climate issues office in the White House?»

I'd add that a forum should be established for working out a protocol by which the world's variegated countries, each with a distinct sense of the «ideal climate,» might examine scenarios to plan a response if and when conditions point to the need for some kind of intervention.