Sentences with phrase «climate policy in place»

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.

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

The main difference this time is that the US now has something resembling a national climate policy in place.

Not exact matches

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

The Nana Addo led government was again highly went applauded when government in the 2017 Budget Statement and Economic Policy stated that it had placed high premium on combating climate change through prioritization of climate change programmes and projects.

However, growing biomass soon in well - selected places with increased irrigation or fertilization could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cuts to achieve climate stabilization below 2 degrees Celsius.

«We are not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will absolutely nothing, nothing to change our climate, to change our weather.»

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

But even with such policies in place — not only in the U.S. but across the globe — climate change is a foregone conclusion; global average temperatures have already risen by at least 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit (0.6 degree C) and further warming of at least 0.7 degree F (0.4 degree C) is virtually certain, according to the IPCC.

As discussions about global climate change take place in both the scientific sector and the policy realm, Enzo Sauma is in a good position to bridge the two worlds.

In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.cIn summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.cin any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.cin error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com

Assuming that the climate response to multiple regions of banded SRM geoengineering can be shown to be roughly the addition of the individual climate responses, we can use the results of this experiment to identify theoretical limits to the extent that SRM geoengineering could compensate for human - induced climate change, a potentially highly relevant check on the weight trust that politicians should place on cheap geoengineering solutions in climate policy.

In the first place, as others have noted, climate change is unique as an intensely politicized public policy controversy (in fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of scienceIn the first place, as others have noted, climate change is unique as an intensely politicized public policy controversy (in fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of sciencein fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of sciencein the entire history of science).

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

The state's grade is high because Delaware has all of the policies in place that Education Week tracks in calculating school climate grades.

And with new, more rigorous standards and assessments in the early years of implementation across most states, and facing political headwinds in many places, the current policy climate is marked by fluctuation and uncertainty.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

Because of the vast academic requirements placed on schools, and teachers in particular, many educators feel like they simply don't have the time to involve students deeply in their own learning, let alone in the broader issues of their school — like climate, governance, or policy.

It is a place for highlighting our latest internationally - ranked research, discussing important contemporary geographical issues such as climate change, food security and water resources, and for recording members» activities such as participation in outreach events, conferences and policy debates.

After all, the authors of that letter are all climate scientists, and a critical analysis of their arguments might help to reinforce why RealClimate is wisely NOT a place for «debating» energy policy — at least in part because that's not a field to which climate scientists bring any particular expertise.

# 26,27: Sure, there are lots of ways of developing the idea in more policy - relevant ways (including different variables, and perhaps more interestingly, climate change bets which are conditional on policy), but simple SAT seemed like the most obvious place to start.

There's a third reason: They have long understood Climate Change as the threat it is and have had national policies in place for years.

In the first place, as others have noted, climate change is unique as an intensely politicized public policy controversy (in fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of scienceIn the first place, as others have noted, climate change is unique as an intensely politicized public policy controversy (in fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of sciencein fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of sciencein the entire history of science).

It's placed in the context of climate policy by Tom Yulsman and Brad Plumer.

The only plausible approach is a stepwise policy, building from smart near - term steps that can be sold to many constituencies for many reasons (energy efficiency, boosting resilience to climate hazards in vulnerable places) toward the tougher ones.

-- It's clear that vulnerability to impacts from climate extremes, natural or otherwise, is largely a function of poverty, so fostering economic advancement (and access to any form of relatively clean energy, fossil fuels included) in the world's poorest places is smart climate policy.

Mr. Roston, who also writes a weekly online «Climate Post» and is affiliated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University, sent the following thoughts on how this divide exists within developing countries as well, and how it shapes how people in such places perceive the climate pClimate Post» and is affiliated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University, sent the following thoughts on how this divide exists within developing countries as well, and how it shapes how people in such places perceive the climate pclimate problem:

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

In this case, the committee might have discovered more than a few papers by one of them on the subject, such as Risbey and Kandlikar (2002) «Expert Assessment of Uncertainties in Detection and Attribution of Climate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conferenceIn this case, the committee might have discovered more than a few papers by one of them on the subject, such as Risbey and Kandlikar (2002) «Expert Assessment of Uncertainties in Detection and Attribution of Climate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conferencein Detection and Attribution of Climate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the confeClimate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conferencein the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conferencein Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conferencein expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the confeclimate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conference).

Try to find slide one — depicting the online tussle over climate science and policy — within slide two, which places the first issue in the flow of the moment's news (via the fascinating newsmap.jp Web site):

(10/10/2011) Europe's biofuel push could exacerbate climate change unless policies are in place to accounts for emissions from indirect land use change, warns a letter signed by more than 100 scientists and economists.

Of the 1,500 climate laws and policies in place around the world today, 106 of them were introduced since the Paris Agreement was reached in December 2015, and 28 of those specifically reference it.

The Climate Policy Tracker helps businesses realize these benefits by providing up - to - date information on climate regulation in oneClimate Policy Tracker helps businesses realize these benefits by providing up - to - date information on climate regulation in oneclimate regulation in one place.

If you pay attention to what the climate scinetists are telling us, we don't have forever to get a serious policy in place, internationally and domestically.

It's hard to find fault with McIntyre's overarching conclusion about the report and the panel's Working Group 3 (WG3 below), which is tasked with charting possible responses to climate change: The public and policy - makers are starving for independent and authoritative analysis of precisely how much weight can be placed on renewables in the energy future.

And after her event Monday where she launched her climate change policies, which oddly took place in a room where only media were allowed in (perhaps to avoid a second embarrassing heckling episode?)

What happened in Copenhagen and those other places the other grande climate policy junkets subsequently invaded?

Among the list of policy responses to be assessed under a cost / benefit criterion should be «no response», because this acknowledges the possibility, however slight, that it will be advantageous to deal with climate change's consequences rather than prevent it in the first place.

Ulriikka Aarnio, CAN Europe International Climate Policy Coordinator said: «The EU played a crucial role in ensuring the Paris Agreement came into place, but domestically the EU keeps acting as if Paris never happened.

U.S. oil demand is now seen as having peaked in 2005, and if additional climate - friendly policies are put in place it is expected to decline further.

The climate debate in many ways represents the evolution of an energy policy debate that took place in the 1970s and 1980s.

This brief analysis summarizes the main findings of the report, reflects on the SPM approval process, and places the meeting in the larger context of evolving global climate policy.

In the context of EU climate and energy policy, governance refers to the procedural and institutional arrangements put in place at EU and national levels to achieve resilient energy policy and ambitious climate policIn the context of EU climate and energy policy, governance refers to the procedural and institutional arrangements put in place at EU and national levels to achieve resilient energy policy and ambitious climate policin place at EU and national levels to achieve resilient energy policy and ambitious climate policy.

They also give the first on - the - ground evidence of the policies and guidelines that will need to be in place in any post-2012 climate agreement for transport NAMAs to achieve their full potential.

As the Alberta government crafts a new climate change action plan, it has the opportunity to put in place the policies that will allow the province to compete for this investment, and demonstrate that it knows what it really means to be a clean energy leader.

Both voluntary activities and a variety of policies and measures that lower emissions are currently in place at federal, state, and local levels in the U.S., even though there is no comprehensive national climate legislation.

She said this five - year period could be valuable if offering the world time to secure a global agreement by 2022 — the current climate change negotiations about to resume in Doha call for an agreement by 2015, with policies to be put into place by 2020.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

A new paper published today in Nature Climate Change explores technological, policy, and social changes that would need to take place [continue reading...]