Sentences with phrase «climate policy advisor»
The good news about methane is there are already pretty clear paths to progress, explained Jonathan Banks, senior climate policy advisor for the Clean Air Task Force.
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Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to the federal budget released Wednesday: «We're pleased that the new federal budget makes smart investments for clean energy and climate action in Canada.
Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to today's federal carbon pricing discussion paper: «This proposal is a big step forward on a key climate commitment, and the approach Ottawa has chosen is a promising one.
«In our 40 - year - old role as presidential environmental policy advisors we're still very much engaged in environmental policy issues associated with energy and climate change.»
Previously, he was a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy for China affairs, and a senior policy analyst of energy and climate policy at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C. think tank.
Along with Energy Transition Advisors, Carbon Tracker has produced a report concluding that «Shell's approach is based on dismissing potentially weaker demand for its oil due to tougher climate policies, technological advances and slower economic growth.»
«On Climate Change & Energy, «The Vatican's Advisors Have Lost Their Moral Compasses»» (Press Release), Global Warming Policy Foundation, June 30, 2015.
In addition to working for the Niskanen Center, Bookbinder also served as a senior policy advisor at the prestigious Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate climate change.
Phasing out HFCs could take a big bite out of projected global climate change this century, according to Andrew Light, a former advisor to U.S. Department of State on climate change policy and India and a fellow with the Washington, D.C. — based World Resources Institute.
Come hear what senior policy advisors from both major political parties view as areas for bipartisan cooperation on climate change in the future.
This closed high - level, policy driven summit is convened bi-annually by UNEPs the principal forum for Environment Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Cabinet Officials and other senior policy makers and advisors to discuss the most crucial issues affecting the environment, particularly in relation to sustainable development, poverty eradication and climate change.
Christensen will be joined by one of his own constituents, Dr Bob Carter, a «science policy advisor» for the Melbourne - based climate science denialist think tank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA).
But Paul Bledsoe, a senior advisor with the Bipartisan Policy Center, an influential think tank that works with many prominent retired former lawmakers and advises Congress on everything from energy to healthcare, disagreed, pointing out that Shultz's involvement in the California climate campaign helped lead to its victory.
These points are most powerfully driven home by Harvard economist Martin Weitzman (a good summary of his work on this topic and its policy implications can be found in pages 20 - 25 the The Costs of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change from the White House Council of Economic Advisors) and financial risk management expert Bob Litterman.
Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30 - Year Cold Spell, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun.
According to Ward, Ridley later cited a study by Professor Richard Tol, a former advisor to the climate denial organization the Global Warming Policy Foundation, as the source for his statement in the House of Lords.
Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a group run by climate change denier Nigel Lawson.
«It's encouraging to see that China and the United States aren't going to hold HFCs hostage under international climate negotiations,» said Mark Roberts, international policy advisor for EIA.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent UK organisation which yesterday consulted with 2 leading advisors on climate change, Britain's David King and Professor Qi Ye of China's Brookings - Tsinghua Center for Public Policy.
«It was a symbolic gesture — they were sending the message that climate change was just not a priority area for them,» said Qamar - uz - Zaman Chaudhry, advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Pakistan and author of the country's climate change policy.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and a senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary General — not to mention one of the most knowledgeable Americans about the economics of climate policy — spoke with emotion about the importance of the news.
«Governments and policy makers need to know what the health effects from climate change are and who is most at risk,» said John Balbus, M.D., NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) senior advisor for public health and lead for NIEHS» efforts on climate change.
While serving as a top Interior Department policy advisor for seven years as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES), Clement had frequently visited Alaska Native villages in an effort to help them better plan and prepare for a set of devastating climate change impacts, such as melting tundra and severe coastal erosion.
Tol is a prolific and widely - cited author on the economic impact of future climate change and is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a British organization opposed to taking action on climate change.
The primary point of contention stems from Clement's abrupt, involuntary reassignment to an office that collects oil company royalty checks from his post as top policy advisor, where he focused primarily on the deleterious effects of climate change on Alaskan communities.
From his 2008 book Sustainable Energy — without the hot air to his brilliantly effective TED talk on renewable energy to his five years of work at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, David embodies multiple roles at once: engaging author, science communicator, researcher, and policy advisor.
Trump's most visible advisor on space policy has been Bob Walker, a former House Science committee chairman who is now a space - policy lobbyist pressing to move «Earth - centric» and «heavily politicized» climate science out of NASA altogether.
Politico obtained a document that was sent to the Energy Department earlier this week in which Trump advisors requested that the agency identify the employees and contractors who worked on Obama's climate policy.
Nir Shaviv is a regular speaker at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Chance (ICCC), and has been listed as an advisor to both the Committee for Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), although he has denied his affiliation with the former.