Sentences with phrase «climate policy debates»

Many are simply struggling internally to understand business risks and opportunities, ensure consistent messaging, and find the capacity to engage in climate policy debates.

These are opportunities to influence climate policy debates with a strong, collective, constructive corporate voice.

My colleagues and I at the World Resources Institute worked with the United Nations and several esteemed partners on a Caring for Climate report to answer these questions and create a common standard for engaging responsibly in climate policy debates.

In climate policy debates, there is broad agreement on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid dangerous climate change impacts — but not on how fast or how soon.

In climate policy debates, it's a matter of faith among some in the environmental and economics communities that «price is king.»

She recognizes Mann qualifies as a «public figure,» at least in the context of climate policy debates.

Ocko, IB, SP Hamburg, DJ Jacob, DW Keith, NO Keohane, M Oppenheimer, JD Roy - Mayhew, DP Schrag, SW Pacala, Unmask temporal trade - offs in climate policy debates, Science, 356, 6337, p.492 - 493 (2017)

If anything the role of sustainable development has taken on an ever - increasing footprint in climate policy debates, which may render untenable a narrow focus on emissions.

One bet I will make is that Arctic sea ice will not play a significant role in climate policy debates (as opposed to US summer heat, e.g.) in our lifetimes (no stroke factor here; my grandfather had a midlife stroke but lived to be 98).

Folks on all sides of the climate policy debate have already done this, while some knowledgeable commentators, most notably Jeff Masters at Wunderground's Wunderblog, have clarified how this weather relates to climate.

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).

Much less systematic attention — again in the context of the global climate policy debate (as opposed to domestic debates, where thanks to the environmental justice movement the topic is very much in play)-- has been paid to the problem of inequality within nations.

They continue their gate - keeping while your message is being missed in the climate policy debate.

The Conversation US, a brand new web feature, held a debate June 15, 2015 under the headline «EPA Clean Power Plan reenergizes the US climate policy debate.

Global warming contrarian Bjorn Lomborg told POLITICO he is trying to defend the «smart middle» ground in the climate policy debate.

As the executive summary states, the Baker Institute analysis seeks to «help clarify and debunk common myths that currently plague the U.S. energy and climate policy debate.»

«The context here is that climate activists have long accused Exxon — along with various other large energy companies — of seeking to influence the climate policy debate to their benefit.

To the extent the climate policy debate can be analogized to building a bridge, it is the «consensus» advocates who want to do the building, and have embraced uncertainty as a justification for building an even bigger untried bridge.

This is a very good question to ponder, its at the heart of the climate policy debate.

is a very good question to ponder, its at the heart of the climate policy debate.

Common to these arguments is that they have successfully framed the climate change debate so that opponents and proponents of climate policies debate facts about costs, scientific uncertainty, or economic harms to nations that act while other large emitters don't act rather the moral problems with these arguments.

When Mark Twain wrote, «Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story,» he could have been describing Canada's current climate policy debate.

Goklany is one of a handful of indispensable thought leaders in the climate policy debate.

Yale economist William Nordhaus is an influential voice in the US climate policy debate.

As far as your broken climate policy debate goes, your suggestion seems remarkably one - sided and promotes a number of rather poor «skeptic» talking points.

I don't care how people in the climate policy debate «engage».

The article, of course, does not want to consider the future and the important role of fossil fuels in determining it, and therefore misses the thrust of the current climate policy debate.

Not exact matches

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

Debating whether climate policy can fuel economic growth, with Christopher Horner, «The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming & Environmentalism» author & Competitive Enterprise Institute; Chris Miller, Greenpeace global warming campaign director and CNBC's Becky Quick

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

Obama Secretly Laid Out Why Climate Skeptics Are Bad For Democracy Former President Barack Obama said while debating climate change policy solutions is good for democracy, questioning the underlying science is bad for sClimate Skeptics Are Bad For Democracy Former President Barack Obama said while debating climate change policy solutions is good for democracy, questioning the underlying science is bad for sclimate change policy solutions is good for democracy, questioning the underlying science is bad for society.

TransCanada pledged to seek another permit for its Keystone XL pipeline after the Obama administration rejected the project, ending a seven - year review that had become a flash point in the debate over his climate policies.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

Similar to the debate on fracking, public opposition to the gas port became part of a larger discussion about New York State's energy policy and how the state should respond to climate change.

The letter, which included a statement on climate science by the leaders of 18 scientific societies, stated, «Although debate about policy options exists, climate change is not a scientifically - controversial topic.»

A testy exchange on energy policy remains as close as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have come to addressing climate change in this campaign's debates

The Accu - Weather report was commissioned by a lobbying organisation called the Global Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&climate change issue».

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

«Current climate change measurements mask trade - offs necessary for policy debates.»

Pielke has been something of a lightning rod in climate debates, sometimes drawing attacks from all sides as a result of his views on research and policy.

A Global Approach Until recently, nearly all policy debate about building institutions to protect Earth's climate focused on the global level.

In terms of how probable each of those is, there's a lot of debate, but in terms of actually making policy, you have to look at all possibilities and figure out possible actions you could take to limit the damage from climate change.

«Given his background,» Cohan adds, «Jason would have been a leading voice on health care and adherence to evidence in debates over climate and energy policy.»

Three Republican presidential candidates stated their belief in climate change last night during two debates that wandered from economic policies to sharp attacks on the media.

In polarised and divisive policy debates, as we have seen with climate change, it is all the more important that scientifically accurate and rigorous advice is given freely and without fear or favour.

«So it might be that even while climate and energy were part of the Brexit debate, that those who are favoring less strong policies might feel stronger and might attack existing legislation.»

Monckton's father - in - law is Lord Lawson of Blaby (Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer), who has contributed many times to the public debate on climate change, most recently in a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies, in which he drew parallels between climate researchers and Islamic fundamentalists.

The episode also illustrates how the climate misinformation camp has exploited opportunities to influence climate policy, by targeting those with a direct stake in the policy debate.

The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment with carbon and other dangerous emissions — it's also polluting the debate over climate policy by funding bad science.