Sentences with phrase «climate policy analysis»

Sue Wing, I. and D. Popp, 2006: Representing endogenous technological change in models for climate policy analysis: Theoretical and empirical considerations.

Gena brings to this role experience on forest carbon project development and analysis, climate policy analysis with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, and strategic communication at McKinsey & Company's Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice.

Climate Analytics: a multidisciplinary and culturally diverse team composed of experts in climate science and impacts, including authors of the IPCC, experts in climate finance, adaptation, climate negotiation, mitigation policies and climate policy analysis.

Results of climate policy analysis under deep uncertainty with imprecise probabilities (Kriegler, 2005; Kriegler et al. 2006) are consistent with the previous findings using classical models.

The first group of authors tries to label the climate science community as an army of influential catastrophists, alarmists, and profiteers — glossing over the reality that the vast body of climate science and climate policy analysis is, as in any field, full of gradations (not to mention that there's not much evidence of substantial influence).

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Employees work in approximately eight branches of the OCE, including Sustainable Development, Agricultural Labor Affairs, World Agricultural Outlook Board, Climate Change Program Office, and the Offices of the Chief Meteorologist, Environmental Markets, Energy Policy and New Uses, and Risk Assessment and Cost - Benefit Analysis.

The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recently released results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

Nature Climate Change published the analysis, which shows that policies with mandatory compliance are associated with the largest reductions in power plant emissions.

This two - valued approach would provide clarity to climate change policy analyses, which often result in misleading debates about policy trade - offs.

A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.

Instead, we should offer a thorough analysis of carbon budgets aimed at avoiding 2 °C and the implications for how quickly and deeply we need to cut CO2, as well as the associated climate impacts that society will need to be resilient to if policies fail to deliver.

Also in Vietnam, fellow Anh Tung Pham will provide analysis to support policy - making decisions related to helping cities adapt to climate change.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

Climate adaptation (effectiveness and planning), programme management, agro-economic systems and agricultural science, policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation.

The analysis finds that a single policy tool — fossil fuel subsidy removal — could deliver emissions reductions equivalent to one - quarter of all current country commitments under the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change.

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LEAP is a software tool for energy policy analysis and climate change mitigation assessment that uses integrated modeling to track energy consumption, production, and resource extraction in all sectors of an economy.

After all, the authors of that letter are all climate scientists, and a critical analysis of their arguments might help to reinforce why RealClimate is wisely NOT a place for «debating» energy policy — at least in part because that's not a field to which climate scientists bring any particular expertise.

3) Development and analysis of policy options to promote transparency and international cooperation in exploring geoengineering options along with restrictions on reckless efforts to manipulate the climate system.

Even as far more effort is put into improving analysis of the climate system, monitoring changes, and forecasting what is to come, the country must also work to build the intellectual capacity not only to do the science but to have such information meaningfully incorporated in policies at scales down to the town manager.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Uncertainty Analysis of Global Climate Change Projections: http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/rpt73.html

There is a huge need to do «applied» climate change ethics as most ethical analysis in the academy on environmental issues has not engaged policy - makers or the general public.

According to news reports (and a news release) from a meeting of solar scientists in New Mexico, three separate lines of analysis point to decent prospects for a sustained downturn in solar activity, with important potential implications for Earth's climate, and for climate policy.

June 16, 12:36 p.m. Updated Douglas Biesecker, a scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the leader of an international effort to chart and forecast trends in sunspots, has offered a detailed new critique of three lines of analysis predicting a long and deep lull in sunspot activity, with substantial potential impacts on Earth's climate (and climate policy).

I'm glad to see Wei and Monson forging ahead on climate and energy analysis and action despite the deep dysfunction in Washington, which shows signs of hobbling any approach, whether focused on traditional tools like tax policies and pollution regulation or a direct push on energy innovation.

Relevant — Don't Count on Long - Term Success in Climate Policy, Warns Paper in Decision Analysis Journal (``... consideration of path dependence in the context of climate policy justifies greater near - term emissions reductions in what amounts to a hedging strategy.&Climate Policy, Warns Paper in Decision Analysis Journal (``... consideration of path dependence in the context of climate policy justifies greater near - term emissions reductions in what amounts to a hedging strategy.&rPolicy, Warns Paper in Decision Analysis Journal (``... consideration of path dependence in the context of climate policy justifies greater near - term emissions reductions in what amounts to a hedging strategy.&climate policy justifies greater near - term emissions reductions in what amounts to a hedging strategy.&rpolicy justifies greater near - term emissions reductions in what amounts to a hedging strategy.»)

My views are close to those of Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations, who's been providing analysis of the climate, security and economic issues since 2009 and who leans toward Obama approving the pipeline while pursuing energy and climate policies that would, in the end, render it insignificant and uneconomical.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

Michael Schlesinger, a climatologist at the University of Illinois, has been immersed in both climate science and policy analysis for decades.

We recommend that «committed emissions» be incorporated prominently into energy analysis, scenario making, and climate policy.

In the meantime, I encourage you to have a look at a fresh nonpartisan analysis and set of recommendations on climate policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, which calls for concrete steps by the United States as well as intensified efforts to build bridges between established and emerging economic powers.

The New York University School of Law's Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) performed a cost - benefit analysis of H.R. 2454: the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (a.k.a. Waxman - Markey - the climate legislation passed by the US House of Representatives).

It's hard to find fault with McIntyre's overarching conclusion about the report and the panel's Working Group 3 (WG3 below), which is tasked with charting possible responses to climate change: The public and policy - makers are starving for independent and authoritative analysis of precisely how much weight can be placed on renewables in the energy future.

Jeff Joslin, a director at San Francisco's Planning Department, said that the group created a map of green roofs in the city, developed a roadmap for policy, produced a cost - benefit analysis and an implementation manual for how to install and maintain green roofs in the region's climate.

If the climate science does not provide the information that is required for rational policy analysis then the climate science is irrelevant.

The report, Building on the best: Keeping Canada's climate promise, used analysis by Navius Research to examine the best climate change policies and solutions being used in Canada and how they can be applied at the federal level.

They finally acknowledged the flawed analysis of the climate threat that has been the basis for our policy till now.

Emily Atkin from Climate Progress has a worthwhile analysis of climate policy statements so far from Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley, concluding that O'Malley's statements rise to tClimate Progress has a worthwhile analysis of climate policy statements so far from Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley, concluding that O'Malley's statements rise to tclimate policy statements so far from Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley, concluding that O'Malley's statements rise to the top.

The US has no plan yet for how to meet its 2020 climate target and has made no analysis of the impact of recent policy changes, according to an official submission to the UN.

> It has been argued recently that the combination of risk aversion and an uncertainty distribution of future temperature change with a heavy upper tail invalidates mainstream economic analyses of climate change policy.

Ostrom E. (2009): A polycentric approach for coping with climate change, WP 09 - 04, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, USA

They say the administration is making «an insufficient response» to climate change and is turning its back on reality: «In its rush to dismantle rational climate and energy policy, the administration has ignored scientific fact and well - founded economic analyses.

And this was a highly conservative analysis that assumes no Kyoto protocol on climate change or other new policies to promote clean energy.

As a Climate Policy intern in the Energy Procurement Department, Heather performed research and analysis related to the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan.

In 2016, she was named a AAAS fellow, and cited for her «distinguished contributions to analysis and outreach aimed at strengthening support for sound U.S. climate policies, and making the science of climate change accessible to diverse audiences.»