Sentences with phrase «climate policy efforts»

Looking beyond the nuclear phase - out, other policies endanger its climate policy efforts, such as the use of the European Union's trading scheme for carbon dioxide to protect and promote coal - fired power generation.

So, what does this grim situation say about our current climate policy efforts?

Third, we will present a case for a proactive climate resilience effort, an effort that must take its place amongst our core climate policy efforts.

Applying up - to - date solar PV and EV cost projections, along with climate policy effort in line with the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), should now be the starting point for any scenario analysis.

Users can also vary the level of climate policy effort and global energy demand in each scenario to understand their role.

Not exact matches

Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.

The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

A national climate policy based on this kind of perpetual horse trading is hardly sustainable, or likely to be sufficiently stringent to be worth the effort and expense.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon in Queens on Friday unveiled an environmental policy platform that is geared toward shifting the state to 100 percent renewable energy, strengthening the state's efforts against climate change and rejecting new infrastructure for gas pipelines and other fossil fueles.

Instead, Cameron and Osborne were fighting against a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), a policy backed by Germany, France, Bill Gates and the Pope among others, which, even on modest estimates, could raise billions for domestic and international efforts against poverty and climate change.

After moving last month against former President Obama's efforts to limit fossil fuel exploration and combat climate change, Trump will complete his effort to overturn environmental policy this week, signing two executive orders to expand offshore drilling and roll back conservation on public lands.

3) The EU should make an effort to reconcile climate change, energy and trade policies, both at domestic level (e.g. though inter-service consultations) and at international level.

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 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.

China leans toward cap and trade In a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costly.

Conversely, climate policy that results in little or no effort to control greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide would likely result in a substantial release of carbon from the permafrost region by 2300, the study found.

The meeting is also one of Obama's final efforts to cement his legacy on climate change in the waning days of his term in office while his signature domestic climate policy remains stalled in the courts.

Given the importance of East Anglia's data and correspondence in shaping climate policy, including via IPCC reports, some mainstream scientists now say they find the evidence of efforts at data withholding troubling.

Yet he said the effort shows that states won't step away from climate policy.

More broadly, efforts should be focused on strengthening government institutions in vulnerable countries and helping them invest in «green growth» policies aimed at increasing economic growth while fostering resilience to climate shocks, he said.

The American public is eager for dramatic change in U.S. energy policy, but Democratic efforts to sell their agenda on energy and climate change aren't reaching voters, a prominent Democratic Party polling firm is warning.

It will take much more efforts before we can get perfectly accurate data in China,» added Li Shuo, a senior energy and climate policy analyst with Greenpeace.

On the other hand, while sustained high oil prices could provide climate change mitigation efforts a mild boost, the study concludes that such market developments would be no substitute for concerted global policy to limit climate change to below 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

There was a concerted effort by special interests who are opposed to policies to combat climate change to retrench and fight even harder in their campaign to discredit the science.

In an effort to highlight their differences with some Republicans on climate policy, several Democrats have filed largely symbolic amendments to a bill that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Trump's efforts to dilute U.S. climate policies have made the country an outlier on the issue and put Tillerson in an awkward position at a meeting of the Arctic Council.

Carbon reduction efforts, such the landmark deal struck this week between the United States and China, are viewed largely as climate - change policies.

Once that is done and a «new nexus of research» begins to form around how climate science and the climate change movement can increase racial and ethnic diversity, those fact - based findings can be used to guide public climate advocacy and policy reform efforts.

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.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

With no insight into how climate projections are judged, the public could take away from situations such as the IPCC's uncertain conclusion about Antarctica in 2007 that the problems of climate change are inconsequential or that scientists do not know enough to justify the effort (and possible expense) of a public - policy response, he said.

Climate scientists and international negotiators are concerned that the election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement and dismantle domestic climate policies, will derail the efforts to limit wClimate scientists and international negotiators are concerned that the election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement and dismantle domestic climate policies, will derail the efforts to limit wclimate policies, will derail the efforts to limit warming.

Ecosystem - based approaches provide an important route to sustainable action and represent a vital insurance policy against irreversible damage from climate change, whereas failure to acknowledge the relationship between climate change and biodiversity and failure to act swiftly and in an integrated manner could undermine efforts for improvements in both areas.

«Even when global efforts fail, we show that local policies can still have a positive impact,» Tol said in the statement, «making them at least a useful insurance for bad climate outcomes on the international stage.»

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

But along with the preening admiration bestowed on Taylor from many of those most stridently rejecting climate science or any effort to manage climate risks, he also won the very begrudging respect of those mainstream climate scientists and policy advocates who, while admiring his communications savvy and stage presence, trashed what they dismissed as his pseudo-science proclamations.

It contained information about their funders and the Institute's apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy.

The International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group supports efforts to integrate blue carbon in existing international policy frameworks such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) among oPolicy Working Group supports efforts to integrate blue carbon in existing international policy frameworks such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) among opolicy frameworks such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) among others.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

Interestingly enough, regarding climate change, there are efforts to have a resolution passed in the UN General Assembly that would ask the ICJ for an advisory opinion that would define states» obligations and responsibilities with respect to greenhouse emissions under international law (see policy brief issued by The Hague Institute for Global Justice).

From a policy standpoint, the adoption of SEL standards, funding for teacher professional development, and the incorporation of school climate into measures of accountability are all potential levers (among many) to support empowerment efforts.

Quality Counts 2005, the ninth annual edition of the report, continues to track state policies and information across key areas of education: student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and financial resources.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

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The School Climate Bill of Rights is part of the District's larger effort to transform our discipline policies from traditional approaches toward more restorative practices.

>> I'm also wondering, Dan, what your thoughts are on adopting new policies or what's federal or state or local barriers should be removed in effort to improve school climate, to help with school discipline issue.

Formulates and recommends Departmental policies, plans and guidelines related to the natural and human environment, including efforts regarding resiliency and climate mitigation; livability and quality of life in states and communities; equity and economic growth; historic preservation, and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.