Sentences with phrase «climate policy agenda»

This of course has implications for Labor's climate policy agenda in an election year.

Adaptation has been a central part of UN and IPCC deliberations from the very beginning, gaining particular prominence in political negotiations in the mid 2000s (when adaptation could be described as «the most fashionable item on the climate policy agenda»).

In Issues, a pioneer in geoengineering has laid out the framework for a comprehensive US research plan, saying it should be part of a coherent climate policy agenda that includes vigorous support for climate science, increases efforts to cut emissions, helps the most vulnerable populations to adapt, develops negative emission technologies, and renews a commitment to growing international governance on climate matters.

Not exact matches

Third, he criticizes the Liberals for pursuing their progressive trade policies in these talks: «Did anyone really think that the Liberals could somehow force the Trump administration into enacting their agenda — union power, climate change, aboriginal claims, gender issues?

Professor Amamoo - Otchere said while reviewing some policies on climate change, it emerged that the much touted Better Ghana Agenda espoused by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was actually adopted from works done by the NDPC.

By compromising on green technology to deliver improved performance to consumers government policy can be accused of being not fully committed to the climate change agenda.

Despite Tony Blair's prioritisation of climate change on the international agenda, individual domestic policies are not leading to carbon emission reductions.

For example, much of Ed Davey's chapter on localism sits very comfortably within the coalition's decentralising agenda, and government environment policy, like the Green Investment Bank, at least in part reflects Baroness Susan Kramer's essay on using the market to tackle climate change and pollution.

This very action of the government is therefore not only undermining and defeating the noble objectives of the country's climate change policy and that of the Paris Agreement on climate change but also a demonstration of no practical commitment to the global development agenda such as the Africa Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda such as the Africa Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

7.23 pm: Asked about climate change policy, Huhne says David Cameron «is committed to this agenda».

«But the states have a very active agenda,» he said, noting that most states have renewable energy and climate policies that might ultimately deliver many of the goals of the CPP.

The American public is eager for dramatic change in U.S. energy policy, but Democratic efforts to sell their agenda on energy and climate change aren't reaching voters, a prominent Democratic Party polling firm is warning.

Brian Harding, director for East and Southeast Asia for the National Security and International Policy team at the Center for American Progress, said he expects climate to be on the agenda, but not at the top.

, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, described Obama's climate policies as the hallmarks of a socialist agenda.

Mark Lynas, a former anti-GMO activist who now considers GMO fears a «conspiracy theory,» notes that GMO opponents use the same rhetorical tactics beloved of climate deniers: cherry - picking evidence, emphasizing a few dissenting «experts» over the scientific consensus, and attempting to «capture and control the public - policy agenda to enforce its long - held prejudices.»

In keeping with our rapidly growing innovation agenda, the Center must continue to explore new ways of using a variety of media and advanced technologies to catalyze creative thinking across disciplines and sectors, to support the design and testing of more effective interventions, and to disseminate our findings in a way that transforms the policy and practice climate, both in the United States and globally.

Subsidy reform has been an important international policy agenda, especially ever since the December 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change that called on countries to reduce emissions.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

The challenge inherent in getting the governments present in Bali to come to an agreement signals the growing importance of the climate agenda for their broader energy, economy, finance and trade policies.

There's lots of literature about how climate change has developed into a far more complex «social problem / issue», as it's moved from scientific journals onto the policy agenda.

I would attempt no read - across to the US (different systems, v different policy environment), but my observation is that the local authority which achieved the most on the climate agenda was the one which successfully linked it to local politics.

Earlier this month, The Center for Media Democracy published the Trump administration's energy agenda, which CMD said «outlines fourteen policies to be expected from President - elect Trump, which collectively amounts to a fossil fuel industry wish list and which would be devastating for attempts to slow climate change.»

Expect technology transfer, and in particular, the responsibility of developed countries to facilitate technology transfer to developing countries, to be a key agenda item on China's climate change policy as international climate talks reach a critical phase.

The module is arranged into four subsections: significance of climate change in Asia Pacific's development agenda; the need for low carbon development; how green growth policy options work for low carbon development; facing green growth.

However, there is no need for us to understand it as a problem to see the backwards thinking that has produced the climate and energy policies that now put expensive «negawatts» further up the political agenda than cheaper megawatts.

If the agenda is really public policy (e.g. «global governance», «climate justice») then it doesn't matter if the models have any basis in reality; they have been created to support the agenda with a specious «scientific» legitimacy.

It does highlight the way that climate issues quickly seep into vast, unrelated areas of public policy, and can be used as a vehicle for completely separate agendas.

The Clinton administration was engaged attempting to upgrade US law and policy on climate change but they never saw Agenda 21 relevant to this effort.

«Middling» with a vile political agenda is what brought us the dark world of «climate change» policy / agenda to begin with.

«He has a policy that emphasizes the increasing certainty of the climate science, and his entire agenda has been to recognize that carbon dioxide is a pollutant,» Cushman told the audience.

However, the call for control of greenhouse gas emissions in Agenda 21 is much less precise than the obligations to adopt policies and practices to prevent the threat of climate change that the George H.W. Bush administration had agreed to when it negotiated and Congress ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change iclimate change that the George H.W. Bush administration had agreed to when it negotiated and Congress ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change iClimate Change in 1992.

OTOH he clearly understands the issues and his agenda (at least on climate and energy policy) is vastly superior to others.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

In this area, the key objectives of the UN System are: to promote active climate change collaboration of local governments and their associations in global, regional and national networks; to enhance policy dialogue so that the urban dimension of climate change is firmly established on the agenda; and to foster the implementation of awareness, education, and capacity building strategies.

«I am concerned that much of our climate policy remains on autopilot,» complained Trump's former energy adviser Myron Ebell, now a research director at the right - leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, who said it reflects a failure by the administration to fill key positions and replace staffers who oppose the president's agenda.

First and foremost would be bringing the issues of climate change and the many dimensions of the food security situation, especially the inequity of food distribution and food wastage to the top of the policy agenda everywhere.

After this strategy mostly succeeded, it went further, targeting organizations that opposed the energy policies of the Obama administration or its other abuses, derived from the climate alarmism agenda.

Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.

Having failed to pass a national climate policy out of Congress and after watching President Trump dismantle President Obama's Clean Power Plan, these activists are completely sidelining democracy and trying to push their agenda through the courts.

This has undoubtedly already occurred to some extent in climate science, where essentially all the costs are covered by taxpayer funds distributed by policy - makers who have their own political agendas.

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We won't change their minds, and their numbers aren't large enough to impact policy in a major way; at least in the U.S. such individuals don't count climate change as very high on the agenda of things they care about (I understand that in several other countries, this is a more salient issue).

In general, mainstream American media has paid much no attention to this removal of climate change from the national policy agenda.

The Topical Group on the Physics of Climate is developing into something worthwhile, but the POPA obviously doesn't want any «interference» with its policy agenda.

Thanks to bottom - up pressure the European Union stepped back from supporting Trump and his big polluters» agenda, but fell short of backing calls for a conflict of interest policy at the UN climate talks.

ExxonMobil and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are running an illegal scheme to promote the oil giant's climate denial policies and legislative agenda in violation of U.S. tax law governing charitable organizations, the Center for Media Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause charged today.

The choice of three titans from the financial world as chairs of the report serves rhetorically to reach out to the business community and get them on board with the climate policy intervention agenda.

All of those attorneys general are Democrats, and as the group stood at a podium bearing the words «AGs United for Clean Power» they made clear that their agenda also extended to supporting the centerpiece of President Obama's climate policies, the Clean Power Plan.

We released an Executive Summary of our research paper («Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Policies Through a Future International Agreement») in New York City on September 22nd at an event co-sponsored by IETA and the Harvard Project, on the sidelines of UN Climate Summit, «Carbon Pricing and the 2015 Agreement» (the agenda of the event is available here).

«Climate Cover - up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a remarkable deconstruction of what he argues is a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign whose goal is to set the agenda in climate policy by discrediting legitimate science and manipulating public perceptions of the scientific evidence... I have no doubt that Climate Cover - up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine - tuned.Climate Cover - up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a remarkable deconstruction of what he argues is a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign whose goal is to set the agenda in climate policy by discrediting legitimate science and manipulating public perceptions of the scientific evidence... I have no doubt that Climate Cover - up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine - tuned.climate policy by discrediting legitimate science and manipulating public perceptions of the scientific evidence... I have no doubt that Climate Cover - up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine - tuned.Climate Cover - up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine - tuned.»