Sentences with phrase «climate policy gains»

Forces from the Koch and Trump camps are converging around plans to erase some of the key climate policy gains of the past eight years.

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Liberal policy for the last eight years has been on the ascendancy — gaining successes on issues ranging from climate change to health care reforms.

«Can you guarantee success in Paris, and aren't these climate change policies all pain for the citizens of America and little gain globally?»

Lubbers observed that the issues of an asylum - seeking have henceforth been approached with prudence and led to close scrutiny of both refugee and immigration regulations.37 Refugees and asylum - seekers are the most victims of the growing climate of fear of terrorism and other transnational crimes and thus being treated with suspicion, and sometimes, arbitrary detained and, actually, deported.38 The states are changing their refugee - immigration related policies because of concern that the terrorists may gain entry to the territory through the channel of asylum system.39

Our May policy forum will provide an opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the impact of the contemporary political climate on education.

Our March policy forum will provide an opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the impact of the contemporary political climate on education.

The possibilities that political leaders will soon agree to effective climate policies seem to be close to zero, they are, as James Lovelock noted in «The Revenge of Gaia», only seeking just as Chamberlain 1938 to gain time, and they are not very interested in the realm, because most or all of them subscribe to the by far leading religion of our times: the neoclassical so - called economic «science», which is based on a lot of completely unrealistic assumptions, see fx.

With the paralysis of the climate treaty process and American legislation capping greenhouse gases, a direct focus on energy innovation as a climate, economic and security strategy is gaining some traction in policy circles.

With a much - anticipated round of climate treaty negotiations starting in Paris on Nov. 30, scientists and fire management specialists are strongly considering the gains in integrating improved fire management practices into climate related agreements and policies.

Watch the video to gain some insights into the relevance to climate change, politics, and policy making.

Instead of seizing America's energy opportunity — one that has the United States succeeding in advancing climate goals — the administration is pursuing policies that will cause a retreat from the gains of the past few years.

Energy efficiency gains ground despite lower energy prices, new IEA report says Economies have needed less energy to grow in recent years, especially in China and other developing countries, but more vigorous policies are needed to achieve climate targets, says new IEA report 10 October 2016

Tsinghua University public policy professor Hu AnGang (pictured right) argues that China stands much to gain, both economically and diplomatically, in imposing absolute emissions targets, even if the likes of the US continue to hold out in the global climate negotiations, reports Reuters.

That framing costs as a foregone - gain increased the amount people were prepared to reduce emissions is noteworthy because public messages about climate policy impacts typically frame the costs of reducing emissions as a loss [13]-- a pattern confirmed by our analysis of newspaper communications regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Our results therefore suggest that if climate policy communicators want to raise levels of support for carbon policies then they would be wise to frame the associated costs as a foregone - gain.

While this method is useful to gain context specific insights into the effectiveness of climate policies, statistical studies based on large sample sizes allow analysts to control for various factors and yield generalizable results.

Recognizing that no climate policy will focus on depopulation or reducing wealth generation, Pielke argues that setting objectives for efficiency gains in specific economic sectors and for the expansion of carbon - free energy supplies would be a first step in the right direction to make the UK a world - leader in the actual practice of carbon policy.

First emerging decades ago as a relatively obscure plea by small island states, loss and damage has now gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation.

The likely hyper - partisan rhetoric also threatens to obscure the need for substantive discussion and re-evaluation of policy solutions to climate change, solutions that can gain support from both parties and that offer clear benefits to Americans.

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.

Peddlers of this myth push the assumption that climate science can not take place independently of the influence of policy debates, accusing the climate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personaclimate science can not take place independently of the influence of policy debates, accusing the climate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personaclimate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personaClimate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personal gain.

Rather than engage the climate policy proposals I and others have put forward — like substituting prizes for subsidies, reducing regulatory barriers for alternative energies, increasing industry's carbon efficiency, and promoting efficiency gains in developing nations where such investments are most cost effective — they attack a straw man of «conservative orthodoxy that global warming can be overcome by private companies operating in free markets with little or no help from the government.»

For the next decade — as the emerging science was becoming increasingly robust, and as international efforts to curb heat - trapping emissions gained steam and calls for action grew more urgent — the company persisted in emphasizing the lingering uncertainties of climate science and the costs of ambitious policies, the documents show.

Adaptation has been a central part of UN and IPCC deliberations from the very beginning, gaining particular prominence in political negotiations in the mid 2000s (when adaptation could be described as «the most fashionable item on the climate policy agenda»).

Carlos Rittl of Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental NGOs, said Brazil was now hiding behind the gains it made in the past rather than pushing ahead with more ambitious climate policies involving greater investment in wind, solar, ethanol and bClimate Observatory, a coalition of environmental NGOs, said Brazil was now hiding behind the gains it made in the past rather than pushing ahead with more ambitious climate policies involving greater investment in wind, solar, ethanol and bclimate policies involving greater investment in wind, solar, ethanol and biomass.

Amongst these men are very clear interests in climate change policy, with lots to gain, both professionally, and economically from climate change policies.

Co-author Belén Balanyá, from Corporate Europe Observatory, said: «Polluting corporations with everything to gain from a weak climate policy should have no role in climate policy - making.

To be fair, Rahmstorf is arguing against using ocean heat content in the context of a «climate policy target», R Gates has suggested it in the context of «gains in Earth's climate system energy levels».

A new analysis from the Breakthrough Institute shows how the growing expert consensus that energy efficiency rebound is real and significant substantially undercuts RMI's projected gains from efficiency measures and makes their proposals of limited relevance as far as climate policy is concerned.

Relative - gains concerns incited by the international resource transfers implicit in climate change policy may compel some states to be prudent in their international climate change efforts and conserve resources domestically for future contingencies, including their own adaptation and resiliency.

Then of course there is the role of climate policy which, given the threat to civilisation, seems like it might gain traction at some point!

Climate scientists used to keep their heads down and work away at the issue, but that got the rest of us no policy gains.

«While climate skeptics gain traction in the media and with policy makers — drawing endless attention to trivial errors (such as an AR4 typo on Himalayan glaciers that was not present in other mentions of the same topic elsewhere in the report), or highlighting media - friendly soundbites from spokespeople and figureheads in as negative a light as possible — it seems to me that this emphasis diverts attention from actually using climate, meteorological and hydrological knowledge and research in the application of pressing current needs in the developing world.»

Global Warming Gridlock adds its voice to the «new realism» surrounding climate change science, discourse, politics and policy which is gaining important momentum following the scientific and diplomatic debacles of 2009/10.»

A large percentage of the scientists who contributed to the studies of temperature and climate variations and greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations behind the «Global Warming» political movement, disagree with the conclusions that have been drawn from their work by non-scientific hacks with an «agenda» and a stake in the game (Like making billions from the sale of carbon credits or gaining vast powers to control the energy policies of countries).

Let be honest here, I want to comment on this line ««While climate skeptics gain traction in the media and with policy makers — drawing endless attention to trivial errors (such as an AR4 typo on Himalayan glaciers)»... ok now, who believes this was a typo, no one.

We have to help them gain visibility and media access, so that they will weaken the mainstream science of climate change in the eyes of the public and of policy - makers.

The principles underlying the Aarhus Convention and experience gained in the implementation of its provisions have wide application in many policy domains, including chemicals management, climate change governance and nuclear energy.