Sentences with phrase «climate policy in»

Macroeconomic effects of post-Kyoto climate policy in 2020.

Researchers from arrhenius Institute for Energy and Climate Policy in Hamburg say the caps are fine in the short term and allow the country to reach its target of 35 percent renewable power generation in the year 2020.

I firmly believe that this plan is a historic turning point for climate policy in Germany,» Environment Minister Hendricks said on the plan's publication.

In this post, I want to talk about one of these ideas, a policy that if enacted could represent one of the most profound changes in Massachusetts climate policy in a decade.

Bringing all pollution sources under a market - based cap is a critical next frontier of climate policy in Massachusetts.

Climate scientists face an ethical choice: do they conform to established ethical standards of scientific practice or do they sacrifice those standards in favour of actions and statements that will be more likely to shape public opinion and climate policy in their preferred direction?

The climate science community might be allowed to design a climate policy in a few decades when / if it might be more unequivocal that the knowledge actually exists to create a «climate policy».

Compston, H. & Bailey, I. (eds) Turning Down the Heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Affluent Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Dieter Dürand and Sven Titz write at Germany's flagship business weekly Wirtschaftswoche (English: Business Week) that it's high time for a new climate policy in the wake of the massive IPCC failures.

We've been talking climate policy in a serious way since 1988.

Hey, even if you've already made up your mind about the presidential candidates, are you well informed about the local issues that effect climate policy in your community?

Neil explained that he focused on the surface warming «pause» because he was trying to challenge Davey to defend the government's climate policy in the face of this seemingly contradictory global warming evidence.

«This finding can have major implications for the design of climate policy in the context of loss and damage from climate change at national and global scales»

«Efficient Climate Policy in the Presence of Free Riders,» Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol.

«This finding can have major implications for the design of climate policy in the context of loss and damage from climate change at national and global scales,» they conclude.

Implications for energy and climate policy in the United States.»

Nature's main reasoning behind supporting the pipeline seems to be that the whether or not the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, the expansion of the tar sands will continue until there is a broader energy / climate policy in place.

«In the absence of strong national leadership, climate policy in North America is increasingly being driven by action at the subnational level, including Ontario's neighbor Québec,» says IETA President and CEO Dirk Forrister.

And yet climate policy in the country is proliferating.

For example, just having a climate policy in place would be a major achievement.

In his comments, Inhofe was his typical climate - denying self — which is frustrating because he wields significant power on U.S. climate policy in the newly Republican - controlled Senate.

That § 115 keeps coming up shows that there is strong demand for better climate policy in the U.S..

Though they have played out on a fairly small stage, with relatively little national notice, the struggles over climate policy in Washington presage larger national battles.

Although Hooke has recently stepped down as chief executive of the MCA, in his 12 years at the helm he leaves such a trail of devastation through climate policy in Australia that his influence will live on.

The gap between production and consumption grew rapidly from 1990 to 2008, and explains the focus on climate policy in papers published around that time, as the growth in the gap between consumption and production more than offset emission reductions in Annex B countries.

Its author, its publisher and its billionaire supporters have all been key to the coordinated public relations effort that has blocked climate policy in this country by making climate science a partisan issue in this country and rallying the American public behind the very lies they themselves fabricated.

Does this mean that there will be no Federal climate policy in the meantime?

He has established the «Arab Climate Campaign» in the organization, which aims at achieving a strong post-2012 climate policy in the region.

Congress and the next Administration should reverse course on climate policy in order to unchain economic potential and allow for the world to adapt to the real problems the future may bring.

Niklas Roming, Climate Policy Analyst Supports the team in a wide array of tasks, including qualitative and quantitative analyses of climate policy in different countries, as well as regional and in the global context.

To his credit, Obama is following through on his promise to pursue climate policy in «chunks» in the fall of 2010, after cap and trade had died the summer before.

I didn't mean that all scientific issues have been settled — far from it — but rather that we face a situation of seeking a negotiated climate policy in a situation in which one of the major parties, to quote National Journal, appears to be «coalescing around a uniquely dismissive position on climate change.»

But with debates regarding national climate change policy becoming more acrimonious in Washington as midterm elections approach, it is important to ask, what are the real options for climate policy in the United States — not only in 2010, but in 2011 and beyond.

The report lays out the main developments in environmental and climate policy in Serbia, analyses challenges and provides recommendations on how to move forward.

Michael Levi, author of a Council on Foreign Relations study of the Canadian oil sands, told the Washington Post that, with the decision, «the Obama administration made clear that it's not going to go about its climate policy in a crude, blunt way».

On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.

This issue of Canadian Public Policy contains an article called «Intensity - based climate policy in Canada» that addresses the issue that you ask about: http://economics.ca/cgi/jab?journal=cpp&article=v36n4p0409

Using recent data on the carbon - intensity of the economy and the overall tax take, I show that this cap constrains almost any climate policy in at least some countries.

In India, on a completely different note, the topic of the role of gender differences in climate policy in developing nations is becoming visible.

DBS became the first bank in Asia to publish a climate policy in February, but the policy did not rule out financing coal power in developing countries.

She has worked on sustainable forest management and climate policy in Southeast Asia and is a former Director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The fight over clean energy and climate policy in California is dripping with out - of - state oil money because the oil billionaires want to stamp out the progress that has been made to move toward clean energy and energy efficiency, and keep us addicted to their fossil fuels.

«Why sustainable transport policies will fail: EU climate policy in the light of transport taboos.»

But it is also the case that Australia's most recent brief window of bipartisanship on climate policy in 2009 did not end well.

When discussing climate policy in the public sphere it is very hard to communicate the caveats associated with each emission budget, even if assuming that the budgets are scientifically sound.

So, instead of framing the question of global climate policy in terms of national self - interest, how about we frame it in terms of «doing the right thing»?

-- an Indigenous - led initiative to ensure Indigenous communities, rights, culture and knowledge systems are fully recognized, protected and implemented in climate policy in Canada.

Obama will almost certainly veto those measures, of course, but there is no way his party will be able to avoid debate about climate policy in 2016, as it did in 2012.

«New Report Reveals the Dangerous Influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on Climate Policy in Virginia,» eNews Park Forest, March 24, 2016.

Framing international climate policy in such terms is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole because it simply sweeps over the fact that supply chains have become, after decades of low energy prices, highly transnational in nature.