Sentences with phrase «climate policy challenge»

This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

For the past several decades, RFF experts have helped decisionmakers understand climate policy challenges and assess the costs and benefits of possible solutions, such as a clean energy standard, the Clean Air Act, and various state - level programs, among others.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

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.

But the current economic climate is challenging for several reasons, including the mop - up project in the wake of the extraordinary policy decisions over the last decade.

Such challenges are hardly trivial, but the climate change - inspired policy dictates looming on the horizon carry more profound ramifications for oil prices than any mere cyclical downturn.

We are challenging companies to rethink their «climate lobbying» and instead support forward - looking policies to combat climate change.

Now the challenge will fall to Ms. Notley, Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and Energy Minister Marg McCuaig - Boyd to win the policy war on climate change.

«Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main challenges for humanity.

In a bid to tackle climate change and other environmental challenges, the company recently adapted its sustainability policy to include Meat Free Monday / Meatless Monday.

ICE Scotland challenge policy - makers to commit to infrastructure, setting out recommendations which will help prepare for the challenges of climate change and population growth.

In this type of participation I include fact - checking and challenging scientific findings (e.g. Climate Audit) or policy prescriptions (e.g. Climate Resistance).

On the other hand, institutions may reinforce the EU's foreign policy capabilities, allowing it to play an important role within those multilateral frameworks tasked to tackle new global challenges such as climate change.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

He also challenged government to expedite action on the national climate change policy to ensure its implementation at the regional and district level, to address issues of climate change in the region, since the region is most at risk of climate change.

Such an approach can effectively address the policy challenges facing the country and in some cases the world, including those raised by concerns such as climate change, health care issues, trade, terrorism and agriculture, said Pearl.

In a political climate increasingly challenging the value of science, scientists and engineers need to summon their scientific knowledge and play a larger role in helping inform public policy with solid evidence, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt during a webinar that explored the outlook for science and technology during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

While at ITIF, he tracked federal energy R&D investments and innovation activities, and authored several white papers and policy briefs exploring the role of innovation in solving the nation's energy and climate challenges.

The dynamic illustrates one of the wider challenges in American climate policy, analysts said.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

The statement and the radio appearance are part of a series of outreach efforts AAAS has made to encourage the new administration to leverage scientific evidence and fact - finding in forging policy prescriptions to address challenges from climate change to infrastructure improvements that it confronts.

Similarly, the swing comes halfway through President Obama's second term, as his popularity is plunging amid challenges to his policies on the Middle East, the economy and climate change.

Parsing the exact role a changing climate played in the historic burns can be challenging, especially in Western forests overstocked with woody kindling due to decades of fire suppression and a relatively hands - off forest management policy.

But he notes that climate change policy «requires integration and coordination across almost all sectors; there is no magic bullet to address all the challenges.»

What is your position on cap - and - trade, carbon taxes, and other policies proposed to address global climate change — and what steps can we take to improve our ability to tackle challenges like climate change that cross national boundaries?

On Wednesday, Lavelle provided an update, writing that McNutt's nomination «has won praise as a move that will bolster women in the profession while providing knowledgeable leadership in the policy challenges ahead on climate change.»

Adele Morris, a senior fellow and policy director for Brookings» Climate and Energy Economics Project, said one strategy for getting policymakers to act on environmental concerns is to frame the challenges in economic terms.

Speakers included Audun Rosland from the Norwegian Environment Agency who explained current climate policy and its challenges and constraints, and Peter Wehrheim from the European Commission who set out the options for including emissions from land use and forestry (LULUCF) in the EU 2030 climate and energy framework.

«We can say that Enhanced Weathering is not just a crazy idea but could actually help climate policy, yet it is still a challenge to get a precise understanding of the involved processes,» says Amann.

i.WET includes solutions for three major challenges of water infrastructure in Germany: demographic change, climate change and energy policy.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

«In 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearned that minimizing evidence - based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies,» said Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO in Chicago, Illinois.

Our vision, mission and approach for this research takes into account the complexity of climate science and the need for key advances that will help decision makers as they face policy challenges related to the environment.

Without focused support and resources, military children face social and emotional challenges, difficulty understanding policies and adjusting to curriculum and school climate, difficulty qualifying for or continuing with special education services, and elevated stress and a risk of depression and anxiety.

In a complex climate of challenging pupil behaviour, emotional difficulties and ongoing policy changes, the effect on health and wellbeing is significant.

Not only is developing a new funding policy a great challenge in itself, but seeking to enact that policy in a volatile political climate is a fraught undertaking.

Given the state's current fiscal climate, it may very well benefit the Silver State to embrace educational choice policies that partially mitigate its financial challenges, even if by modest amounts.

The consortium brings together University of Nairobi through the Wangari Maathai Institute & Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mekelle University - Ethiopia, World Animal Protection and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) who will work together to provide together academia to provide research based evidence to inform policy, implementation and challenges caused by disaster and climate change.

Finally, the presence of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility of steady or even declining global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implementation of policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

With a confounding mix of uncertainty and urgency (because of the penalty for delay), a tougher challenge is shaping policies to blunt the human force pressing on the climate by cutting heat - trapping emissions.

Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climatologist immersed in climate science and policy for decades, framed the question a different way in the title of the last chapter of his new book on the climate challenge: «Can Democracy Survive Complexity?»

The goal was to split the climate challenge — a «super wicked» lacework of science, policy, diplomacy and economics — into manageable parts and foster productive online discourse aimed at distilling solutions.

NONE of them have questioned the science behind climate change for more than a decade; they may argue about which policies are the best way to address the problem, what mix of government regulations and private sector actions is best, but not one challenges the science.

* Average citizens «understand» (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the «conventional wisdom» * Media «understands» (recognizes) uncertainties in climate science * Media coverage reflects balance on climate science and recognition of the validity of viewpoints that challenge the current «conventional wisdom» * Industry senior leadership understands uncertainties in climate science, making them stronger ambassadors to those who shape climate policy * Those promoting the Kyoto treaty on the basis of extent science appears to be out of touch with reality.

Climate change is a grave moral challenge that can not be addressed without smart government policy, corporate innovation, and public participation.

A few days ago I was interviewed about the challenges and opportunities in reporting on complicated, but consequential, science (climate change being a prime example) for the Journalist's Resource project of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

It may be that embracing uncertainty and acknowledging the challenges involved in climate policy don't tip public support the way Rob would like.