Sentences with phrase «climate policy commitment»

The closure of the San Onofre Generating Station (SONGS) imposed enormous economic, environmental and health impacts, and undermined California's climate policy commitments.

A study published by the Heritage Foundation estimates the cost of the Obama administration's climate policy commitments as offered in Paris in 2015 (a 26 to 28 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 2025 relative to 2005 levels).

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Last week, Trump signed an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama's climate change policies, including the Clean Power Plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants — a key factor in the United States» ability to meet its Paris commitments.

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.

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

«On June 6, Minister Freeland outlined a new foreign policy for Canada, and underscored our commitment to a rules - based international order, progressive trade policies, gender equality, and fighting climate change.»

They were, instead, making the complex decisions that any serious voter must, weighing their own moral commitments against a candidate's professed values, the policies they propose and how much is likely to be accomplished on a given issue given the political climate.

While it allows, perhaps, for a more integrated clean energy policy in future, the minister in charge and the prime minister must both guarantee their commitment to tackling climate change is not being downgraded in any way.

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 (SDGs)

Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on policy options necessary to get on track.

The most promising U.S. climate legislation, the so - called Kerry - Boxer Bill, is currently under consideration in the Senate but likely won't be voted on until February 2010 or later; traditionally the American government likes to iron out its policy legislatively at home before agreeing to international commitments.

The move is a first step towards establishing carbon trading markets in China and further evidence of the country's commitment to tackling climate change, says Felix Preston of Chatham House, a foreign - policy think tank based in London.

President - elect Barack Obama today named his picks to run the nation's energy and environment policy in a move that shows a strong commitment to getting climate change under control and exploring alternative energy sources such as solar and wind.

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.

One uncertainty on the policy horizon is how the economic crisis will interact with President - elect Obama's commitment to take action on energy and climate.

But the U.S. balked, and the slow progress of the U.S. Congress on a climate deal and its refusal to support the policies that keep climate change as far under 2 degrees C as possible must be leaving the rest of the world questioning the U.S.'s commitment.

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

Moreover, I would argue that Obama won an electoral mandate in 2008 for serious climate action, and simply lacked the courage and commitment to follow through with the leadership necessary to turn his promises into policy.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

Looking ahead, analysts such as Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center's policy group and a former climate negotiator in the Clinton Administration, worries that setting a deadline for concluding any negotiations on further binding commitments is risky and bound to disappoint.

Otto Edenhoper, Co-Chairman of the IPCC Working Group III, and a lead author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, demonstrated his commitment to impartial scientific enquiry with his remarkable statement, «One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.

A new paper in Climate Policy, «Energy research within the UNFCCC: A proposal to guard against ongoing climate - deadlock,» cites the need and proposes that research commitments be included in national pledges under the climate Climate Policy, «Energy research within the UNFCCC: A proposal to guard against ongoing climate - deadlock,» cites the need and proposes that research commitments be included in national pledges under the climate climate - deadlock,» cites the need and proposes that research commitments be included in national pledges under the climate climate treaty.

den Elzen, M. G. J., Höhne, N., Brouns, B., Winkler, H. and Ott, H. E. (2007) Differentiation of countries» future commitments in a post-2012 climate regime: an assessment of the «South - North Dialogue» Proposal, Environmental Science & Policy, 10, 185 - 203.

Initially held to encourage and support participation in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol, the event now covers a range of climate action and policy that can contribute to countries achieving their commitments under the Paris Agreement.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

Current global climate policy is unsustainable; the U.K.'s commitment to boosting offshore wind power is only the latest example.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

This policy document explains the United Nations» commitment to combat climate change and presents the CEB's Climate Change Action Fraclimate change and presents the CEB's Climate Change Action FraClimate Change Action Framework.

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.

WWF Climate Savers is a global program in which member companies take on two commitments: to become the best in class in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and to influence policy by promoting their vision and solutions.

«If the U.S. walks from its commitment, I would think it would be difficult for the other OECD countries to sustain donations, and if those donations are not sustained, developing countries will focus on growth as opposed to low carbon growth,» said Henry Lee, a Harvard scholar working in and studying climate policy for decades.

The objectives of the campaign are to increase understanding and encourage commitment by local and national governments to make disaster risk reduction and resilience and climate change a policy priority and to bring the global Hyogo Framework closer to local needs.

A close reading of national policies shows that many countries are taking action on climate not because they have made legally binding international commitments, but because they want to.

The CBAT tool allows visualization of any national response for reducing national ghg emissions commitments based upon the idea of contraction and convergence, one of several equity frameworks under discussion in international climate negotiations, but is also of value for visualizing the policy significance of other equity frameworks that are under discussion internationally.

IEA backs Canada's new energy and climate commitments Review of Canadian energy policies urges federal government to turn climate pledges into energy policies 25 February 2016

With a comprehensive climate change policy, the city has made a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent of its 2005 levels by 2012.

Longer commitment periods — extending beyond the current five - year period — will lower the risks from climate policy and thus increase investment in climate - friendly technologies.

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Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.

Yet, many nations continue to make national commitments under the UNFCCC as if national economic self - interest rather than ethical obligations is an adequate basis for determining national policies on climate change.

The document states that effective policy related to climate change education requires not only a commitment to teach and learn but a commitment to act.

These policy reforms, as well as India's commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, have all contributed to ambitious plans to build 175 gigawatts of renewable power capacity, much of it solar, by 2022.

A commitment towards Europes energy and climate policy Roman Doubrava, DG ENER Covenant of Mayors.

The Phase 1 report examines current non-federal climate policies and actions and identifies promising areas to scale up action for non-federal actors to deepen and strengthen their role in meeting the US commitment to reduce emissions by 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

Stepping all the way up to the climate challenge DOES mean ambitious collective action; more public investment in solutions (as well as good climate policy that drives private investment in the right direction); greater commitment to social and economic equity; and curbs on corporate power.

Unfortunately the same can't be said for DBS and OCBC, whose substandard policies and commitments mean they still have no qualms about polluting Vietnamese lungs and worsening climate change,» said Market Forces executive director Julien Vincent.

This conviction has led her to dedicate her career to achieving meaningful commitments and a global policy framework for climate action, to engaging the private sector to accelerate the industrial transformation, and to inspire civil society to be part of the solution.

Clinton had been challenged from the left by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, but climate activists were confident they would have been able to influence her policy and push her to further commitments to action.

A «Skill - sharing session on monitoring of gender - responsive climate policy» brought forth research on possible synergies or tradeoffs between gender equality and other objectives for climate policy, while a panel discussion with the same partners looked at «Gender equality in climate policy: Translating global commitments to national policy».