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Jesse Jenkins is Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute, and author of «Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant,» «Strengthening Clean Energy Competitiveness,» «Power to Compete,» and other reports and articles on clean energy competitiveness policy.

The research and investments have led to sharply higher electric generating capacity and reduced cost to a point where renewable energy is nearly competitive with natural gas, said Jesse Jenkins, director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute.

But if the warming is spread over a long enough period we have plenty of time to adapt to it, which is one of many reasons why the correct climate policy at the moment is inaction.

David Victor, an expert on global climate policy at University of California, San Diego, explains how here.

We maintain hope that the Polish COP Presidency will raise to the challenge and secure a successful outcome at COP24, despite their negative approach to climate policy at home and at the EU level.»

Rixa Schwarz, Team Leader International Climate Policy at Germanwatch: «We were positively surprised how clearly the most crucial issue was discussed in Bonn: we need more ambition in order to reach the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

«It's clear that much of the sales pitch for a carbon tax that has been aimed at Republicans has fallen flat,» says Joseph Majkut, a geoscientist and the director of climate policy at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank that supports a carbon tax.

«Since I fought fire in Alaska over 30 years ago, the planet has rapidly warmed and wildfire conditions have noticeably deteriorated,» commented Nicky Sundt, a former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper who now works on climate policy at the World Wildlife Fund, by email.

«CRU is just one of many climate - research institutes that provide the underlying scientific basis for climate policy at national and international levels,» said Dave Reay, a climate scientist at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Another way is implementing some climate policy at home.

Pete Ogden is a Senior Fellow and the Director of International Energy and Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress.

«It's absurd to watch governments sit and point fingers and fight like little kids while the scientists explain about the terrifying impacts of climate change and the fact that we have all the technology we need to solve the problem while creating new green jobs,» Tove Maria Ryding, coordinator for climate policy at Greenpeace International, said in a statement.

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.

Prior to his government service he was Senior Fellow and Director of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., where he advised the Center's founder John Podesta, and worked primarily on comparative mitigation ambition, transparency, climate finance, and mitigation of short - lived climate pollutants.

He currently serves as Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate Policy at the American Security Project, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, DC.

Two days after the talk, Mr. Gore was sharply criticized for using the data to make a point about global warming by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political scientist focused on disaster trends and climate policy at the University of Colorado.

Prof. Nick Eyre, Energy Demand Research Champion for the Research Councils» Energy Programme and Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford.

Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy, praised Indonesia's climate efforts and noted that the government said it can achieve the deeper end of its 29 - to -41-percent emissions curb by 2030 if it receives international finance.

The other group had to defend James E. Hansen, the NASA climatologist who had already become a strong advocate for particular climate policies at that time and, more recently, got himself arrested in coal country.

WASHINGTON — Even as the Trump administration dismantles climate policies at the federal level, a growing number of Democratic state governors are considering taxing or pricing carbon dioxide emissions within their own borders to tackle global warming.

And while indicators like ocean heat content may respond more quickly or dramatically to the carbon emissions that cause climate change, surface temperature is more closely related to the effects of climate change — and the effects, after all, are what climate policies at any level are intended to ease.

Already there's been tons of headlines about the tar sands and climate change, thanks in large part to the dozens of people taking action to force climate policies at the top of the agenda, and it's not even September yet.

Because of this, national economic interest rather than global obligation dominates debates on proposed climate policies at the national level.

GBM also supports the effective planning and implementation of climate policies at county level.

Not exact matches

So far Coady's work at Enbridge has been about conducting outreach around specific areas such as water stewardship and updating climate change policies.

«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

«What we've seen is that the economic climate has had a huge effect on people being willing to take vacations,» says Karen Sumberg, vice president and director of projects and communications at the Center for Work Life Policy.

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.

«In a nutshell, it looks like Canada is becoming a leader in just transitions in the same way that they've been a leader on climate change policy for the past two or three years,» McGowan said at the time.

Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate policies.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailVANCOUVER — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. government's Budget 2017 — September Update: «The B.C. government committed to decisive action to address climate change, and has begun delivering just that with today's budget update.

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.

These results come from a survey of 1,848 Canadians conducted December 12 to 14, 2016, by Abacus Data at the request of Clean Energy Canada, measuring Canadians» views of climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Climate Change.

VANCOUVER — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. government's Budget 2017 — September Update: «The B.C. government committed to decisive action to address climate change, and has begun delivering just that with today's budget update.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

Guests: Blake Shaffer, phD candidate at the University of Calgary, fellow with the C.D. Howe Institute, former energy trader, and all around energy and climate policy expert.

It is the combination of future climate change policy (carbon price) and technology cost declines will make capture at the more expensive sites viable.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

Failure to consider the competitiveness impacts of misaligned Canada / US climate policy and carbon pricing will put additional Canadian refineries and their employees at risk.

Climate change is an important issue to the long - term health of our community and the world, however policies in our relatively small jurisdiction which are not aligned with the realities in other Canadian provinces and the United States put us at a competitive disadvantage.

«Everybody needs the kinds of cheaper panels, not only in China, but also the world,» said Li Junfeng, a senior Chinese economic adviser and the architect of many of China's renewable energy policies, at The New York Times's Climate Tech conference on Thursday in San Francisco.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

Given the presence of Naomi Klein at People and Planet, and the fact Pope Francis has already delivered an extensive message on climate change with his encyclical, it is possible the meeting will be much more policy - focussed, calling for very specific and detailed changes.

At a media conference on Wednesday Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane was asked why the paper did not discuss climate change as a driver of energy policy.

Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.