In the last couple of days, political fires have been spreading across
the climate policy landscape, with Peter Gleick and Heartland Institute atop headlines.
In many countries, a third force also contributed to this virtuous circle, as two years on from the Paris Agreement governments began to strengthen
the climate policy landscape.
Environmentalists who sided with the state cheered the ruling as a bright spot in a grim national
climate policy landscape.
Not exact matches
In light of the increasingly hostile
climate toward immigrants and the insecurity caused by the changing
policy landscape, Californians Together is implementing a multi-pronged approach toward creating a safe learning environment for students of all backgrounds.
The December Scientific American has a fine article laying out the
policy landscape for
climate change abatement.
It further explains the GEF's work with countries in helping establish «enabling
policy environments,» or legal and regulatory
landscapes, that encourage the adoption of
climate - friendly technologies and practices.
It suggests three major changes: 1) project and
policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of
climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider
landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3)
climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.
Moreover, the Basler Zeitung writes that the Energiewende has scarred Germany's natural
landscape, has probably cost more jobs than it created, and has «contributed nothing to
climate policy as it hoped to do ``.
Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning
policy and other measures to create high quality
landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to
climate change.
This analytical document refers to a «
climate financing gap», which to be filled requires identifying alternative and innovative sources of funds from both the public and private sectors, but also developing the appropriate institutional and
policy landscape to redirect existing financial flows towards
climate mitigation and adaptation activities that also deliver on sustainable development priorities.