Sentences with phrase «climate policy failure»

«Europe's climate policy failure demonstrates beyond doubt that its unilateralism has been a complete fiasco,» Dr. Peiser told the Senate committee.

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Failure to consider the competitiveness impacts of misaligned Canada / US climate policy and carbon pricing will put additional Canadian refineries and their employees at risk.

«With the U.S. Senate's recent failure to act on comprehensive energy and climate legislation, we need strong environmental leaders at the state level to move the ball forward on new energy policies that will put America on the path to a clean energy future.»

At the same time, if it's viewed as a failure, I think it could hamper climate policy in many parts of the world.»

As Jeffery D. Sachs argues in this month's issue of Scientific American, the failure to play a more active role is policy proposals — namely in health care and climate change control — has created weak policies and a suspicious American public.

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.

Just before I left Cancún, the journalist David Kroodsma grabbed me for a short video interview on climate communication, policy and the negotiations, which he posted on Huffington Post under the provocative headline, «Andy Revkin: How Does Our Collective Failure Make You Feel?»

The failure to do that effectively is one of the reasons why climate science hasn't been more directly linked to policy.

The model explores short - term scenarios of policy decisions by simulating social - economical - environmental systems, including the impact of climate - induced drought on crop failures and food prices.

Current national and international innovation programs are not sufficient to effectively manage the risk of policy failure or higher ranges of climate sensitivity.

The prominence of climate risk and policy in the minds of business leaders is reflected in the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016, which found that the risk with the greatest potential impact is a failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

In the wake of this failure, Obama explicitly tried to advance the climate policies he could through the EPA's statutory powers.

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.

«I am concerned that much of our climate policy remains on autopilot,» complained Trump's former energy adviser Myron Ebell, now a research director at the right - leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, who said it reflects a failure by the administration to fill key positions and replace staffers who oppose the president's agenda.

But where most economists would contend that climate policy is intended to fix one market failure — greenhouse gases — Stern identifies six: greenhouse gases; underinvestment in research, development, and deployment (RD&D) of energy technologies; imperfections in capital and risk markets; lack of coordination among networks; imperfect information; and under - recognized co-benefits.

Although the conclusions reached in this post are initially counter-intuitive, we here explain why ethical arguments are in some ways much stronger arguments than self - interest based arguments and the failure to look at climate change policies through an ethical lens has practical consequences.

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The frigid weather, freezing families, record budget deficits, soaring unemployment — and complete failure of global warming computer models to predict anything other than «a warmer than normal winter» — have caused a meltdown in Europe's longstanding climate and energy policies.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

Robert, Since not one AGW community policy or law has worked to reduce CO2 or change the climate at all, it is odd but not surprising for you to rely on a figment of your imagination - your delusions about the «right» - to blame instead of taking responsibility for your own failure.

Lomborg appeared in the documentary film Cool It which focused on his views regarding climate policy where he suggests «that there's a well - financed effort underfoot to spin the failure of climate action into a new political strategy for high - tech mega-investments.»

Broadly, though, I think the failure of climate scientists to even recognise the significance of the secondary uncertainty and the need to «clean house» is in effect the largest obstacle to the long - term formation of any climate policy worth deploying.

Thus the myth of Lord Monckton, attacker of science, destroyer of progressive climate policies... Because that, fundamentally is the only way the failure to turn climate alarm into political authority can be explained.

But the defeat of federal climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate climate policy.

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Even as the May auction demonstrated the need for post-2020 policy, its failure sent jitters throughout the world of state climate politics.

«A policy narrative that continues to frame this target as the sole metric of success or failure to constrain climate change risk is now itself becoming dangerous,» wrote Todd Sanford and Peter Frumhoff of UCS in the commentary published Wednesday in Nature Climate Change.climate change risk is now itself becoming dangerous,» wrote Todd Sanford and Peter Frumhoff of UCS in the commentary published Wednesday in Nature Climate Change.Climate Change.»

Given that climate change is obviously an ethical problem, and that if climate change is understood as an ethical problem it has profound significance for climate policy, the utter failure of the US media to cover climate change as an ethical problem is an enormous practical error and tragedy.

Successful mitigation of climate change is not about finding «a solution,» but developing appropriate institutional and policy options for technological innovation — options that allow experimentation and progress on multiple fronts, tolerate risk, accept that there will be both successes and failures, and focus on creating the initial conditions for progress.

Despite trends in the actual climate data and the failure of models to accurately depict reality, many alarmists still argue that carbon mitigation policies are necessary to combat damages caused by future climate change.

Yet it is clear that there has been widespread failure of those engaged in climate change policy controversies to understand the enormous practical significance for policy formation of the acknowledgement that climate change is a moral issue.

In this post we look at the failure of the US press to communicate about the significance for policy of seeing climate change as an ethical issue.

The common declaration by France and Germany signals a hardening of Europe's policy on climate change, six months after the failure of UN climate talks in Copenhagen.

Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Recognize Duties To Non-citizens

If Pope Francis is Right that Climate Change is a Moral Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against Climate Policies Based on the Failure of Other Countries Like China to Act?

«The Hartwell Paper: A new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009 argues for a changed approach to international climate policy after the sustained failure of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate climate policy after the crash of 2009 argues for a changed approach to international climate policy after the sustained failure of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate climate policy after the sustained failure of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Climate Change.

Again and again proponents of action on climate change have responded to economic arguments against taking action to reduce the threat of climate change by making counter economic arguments such as climate change policies will produce new jobs or reduce adverse economic impacts that will follow from the failure to reduce the threat of climate change.

Fourth, although carbon pricing is not sufficient on its own (because of other market failures that reduce the impact of price signals — more about this below), it is a necessary component of a sensible climate policy, because of factors 1 through 3, above.

Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Made In Opposition to Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Value The Harms That Will Be Caused by Doing Nothing.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

In previous entries, Ethicsandclimate.org examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (a) the nature of the strong scientific consensus about human - induced climate change, (b) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, (c) the practical significance for policy that follows from understanding climate change as essentially an ethical problem, (e) the consistent barrier that the United States has been to finding a global solution to climate change in international climate negotiations, and (f) the failure of the US media to help educate US citizens about the well - financed, well - organized climate change disinformation campaign.

For instance, if the the US not only has economic interests in the climate change policies in political debate but also obligations and duties to poor vulnerable nations to not cause them great harm from US ghg emissions, the United States may not justify failure to act to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of economic cost to the US.

U.S. climate policy discussions that don't include building resilience to extreme weather are set for failure.

This is the 3rd entry in a series that has been examining the practical significance for climate change policy formation of insights of sociologists about the failure of governments to respond to the enormous threat of climate change.

For instance, when some nations including the United States and New Zealand have debated climate change policies at the national level there has been a complete failure to acknowledge that proposed policies must respond to the nation's equity and ethical obligations.

See, for example, «Ethical Failures of National GHG Emissions Reduction Proposals Approaching Copenhagen,» «Ethical Principles Governing the Basic Foundations on Climate Change Policies,» and «Minimum Ethical Criteria For All Post-Kyoto Regime Proposals: What Does Ethics Require of A Copenhagen Outcome.»

A study by the Natural Resources Defense Council does not examine any specific legislation, but instead cites extensive research to develop an alternative business - as - usual economic and climate forecast to draw attention to the consequences of failure to implement comprehensive GHG emissions control policies.

Some of the major human activities responsible for the destruction of wetlands in India include hydrologic alteration, agricultural activities, pollution, legal - policy failures, direct deforestation in wetlands, inundation by dammed reservoirs, degradation of water quality, global climate change effects, ground - water depletion and introduced species — extinction of native biota.

Julia King of the Climate Change Committee was quite frank about the role of behaviour change after Roger Pielke Jr's talk on the looming failure of UK policy a few years ago.

«In our opinion, the experience of the recent failure of the frontal assault on climate policy — the implausibly straight driveway from the present to a magically decarbonised future — suggests that a more indirect yet encompassing approach via the attainment of different objectives which bring contingent benefits is, indeed, the only one that is likely to be materially (in contrast to rhetorically) successful.