Sentences with phrase «climate policy experts»

But perhaps more convincing is the list of climate policy experts that say it can work.

In interviews, more than half a dozen environmental economists and climate policy experts said yes.

Many climate policy experts fear the meeting will not achieve nearly enough, however.

There is a strong consensus among climate policy experts that expanding nuclear energy is required to cut CO2 emissions and improve air quality.

Joel Clement, the former top climate policy expert at the Interior Department before he resigned last summer, said he's also concerned about why employees aren't filling out the survey.

Prominent U.S. energy and climate policy expert Daphne Wysham, Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy, and Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (MP, Saanich - Gulf Islands), held a press conference to discuss climate action and the Paris Agreement in the context of a Trump presidency.

Panel discussion will feature climate policy experts and leading vintners at Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017, Sunday, June 18 NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this -LSB-...]

Christian Aid's climate policy expert Dr Alison Doig said the UK and other industrialised nations needed to urgently commit to deeper emissions cuts ahead of a climate change summit in Copenhagen in December.

Climate policy experts note that U.S. emissions cuts were set to make up a major part - more than a fifth - of the reductions envisioned under the Paris accord between now and 2030.

But according to Dr. David Evans, a statistician and climate policy expert in Australia, it is fuel loads of combustible trees that pose the much greater risk.

After Donald Trump selected Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, ExxonMobil's chief executive was lauded by some in the media and climate policy experts as a possible moderating voice on climate change in a Trump administration where denial is shaping up to be orthodoxy.

But progress toward implementing the agreement at last month's COP23 in Bonn, Germany, shows that the United Nations climate diplomacy framework remains resilient, several climate policy experts told Pacific Standard as the latest round of talks came to an end.

EIA's team will be at these meetings and I sat down with our in - house international climate policy expert, Avipsa Mahapatra, to help us understand why these meetings are being held and why HFCs are taking center stage.

Then just last week, a panel of climate policy experts from various Chinese government think tanks, published an extensive 900 - page report that has gained notable attention in both the Chinese and Western press for advocating the notion that China can feasibly aim to peak its carbon emissions by 2030.

«Nobody is actually saying it's coherent,» says David Keith, an engineer and climate policy expert at Harvard University who wrote some of the early papers on BECCS.

Without concrete action by the United States, climate policy experts say, the rest of the world — which is eager to replicate America's high - revving, energy - hungry economy — will be unlikely to conserve coal or oil for the sake of the shared atmosphere.

CFACT is right now sending a crack delegation of climate policy experts to the UN meeting in Bonn.

As Michael Levi, an energy and climate policy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, noted in his Congressional testimony last week, «During times of severe turmoil in global oil markets, the price of Canadian oil generally rises just as much as the price of Middle Eastern oil does; that inflicts the same pain on U.S. consumers and similar (though slightly less) damage on the U.S. economy.»

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.

Alexia Kelly, a climate policy expert at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, points out that other domestic policies, such improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, will bring further reductions.

For example, Paul is against putting a price on carbon emissions, something that climate policy experts and more than a few multinational companies are nearly unanimous in supporting.

But they fall short of what Brazil could theoretically contribute, according to some climate policy experts.

«There is no question that there has been a change in momentum on this subject,» said Dana Fisher, a climate policy expert at Columbia University.

One climate policy expert is quoted as putting it rather graphically, saying this:

The initiative is being designed so that additional states and provinces can sign on, said Kathleen Drew, Gregoire's climate policy expert.

«This finding reinforces not only that climate policies will necessarily be made in the face of deep, irreducible uncertainties,» says Roger Pielke, a climate policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, US.