Sentences with phrase «climate policy negotiations»

The criticism mainly focused on the conceptual use of untested methods of CDR to keep global warming below 2C above pre-industrial levels in model simulations, the potential risks of deploying CDR technologies at scale, and the role of science in climate policy negotiations.

LONDON, 30 May, 2017 — In forthright language seldom heard in international climate policy negotiations, a renowned German economist says it is time for the world to accept the truth about the real cost of fossil fuel, and to reject the lie that coal, oil and gas cost society nothing.

Not exact matches

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

When Boston - based Oxfam America began addressing climate issues, «they had no one with climate change or policy experience, and found me,» recalls Coleman, who was eager to move into international negotiations.

As many of us are paying attention to the climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar these next two weeks, I think it's important to keep in context just how many moving pieces there are when it comes to crafting domestic policies that address a global issue.

«As the Federal Government begins negotiations with the new Senate to repeal the carbon price, any technologies, policies or plans that aim to tackle climate change should take water usage into account, especially in arid countries like Australia,» Dr Wallis said.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

By implementing the quartet of policies by 2015, nations could buy «precious time while international climate negotiations continue,» says economist Fatih Birol, the lead author of a report released here yesterday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries» performances in climate change.

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?»

Too often in venues like the climate treaty negotiations, the living nature of climate science is downplayed for the sake of supporting a particular policy.

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.

That was the case in 2000, when I was leaked a final draft of the summary for policy makers of the second science report from the panel ahead of that year's round of climate treaty negotiations.

But it's particularly vital for high standards to be sustained in negotiations leading to profoundly consequential shifts in energy and climate policies.

Looking ahead, analysts such as Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center's policy group and a former climate negotiator in the Clinton Administration, worries that setting a deadline for concluding any negotiations on further binding commitments is risky and bound to disappoint.

He can lead climate policy development by using existing authority and can ensure that the U.S. has a strong position going into the next round of international climate negotiations.

In short, the paralyzing budget deficit, the weak economy and the lack of bipartisan agreement on climate policy will make for an interesting set of negotiations in terms of developing and funding a broad energy policy.

This means, as Reuters explains: «the Obama administration, which has said the United States will play a leadership role at the Paris climate negotiations, will not risk the possibility of having its signature climate policy blocked at the U.N. summit.»

Below is a statement by Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), who has actively participated in the UN climate change negotiations since they began in 1991.

To suggest that a carbon tax system would obviate the need for «highly politicized and uncertain negotiations» and that, by contrast, «a carbon - tax model provides a friendly way for countries to join a climate treaty» indicates that Nordhaus» carbon tax sits comfortably in a text book but has little relevance to the real world of climate policy.

That's not because the UN climate negotiations currently underway in Paris look like they might succeed, or because the United States is finally getting serious about a clean - energy policy.

Fierce policy debates about responsibility for climate mitigation and adaptation have long focused on the «common but differentiated responsibilities» of nations, the framework used for the Paris climate negotiations.

The IPCC is a successful organization that with scarce resources produced policy relevant assessments, which are critical for the climate change negotiation... (p. 199)

Moving Targets: Negotiations on the EU's Energy and Climate Policy Objectives for the Post-2020 Period and Implications for the German Energy Transition.

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A striking aspect of these negotiations was the increasing presence and visibility of state and provincial governments, who are not formal participants in the talks but in many cases are implementing climate policies of their own.

«This report shows that 2 degrees is still technically possible and ought to remain the primary policy target» for climate negotiations that intend to produce a global agreement in 2015, said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Ecoclimate negotiations that intend to produce a global agreement in 2015, said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of EcoClimate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

When it was pointed out how radical it was to advocate binding caps on emissions given the history of the international climate negotiations, Hu responded philosophically, in reference to his own experience in policy advocacy on various issues over the years:

This paper presents one example of how «the human face of climate change» has been brought to an international policy arena — the UNFCCC climate negotiations — in a relatively short period of time by a coordinated effort of research and operational organizations

The CBAT tool allows visualization of any national response for reducing national ghg emissions commitments based upon the idea of contraction and convergence, one of several equity frameworks under discussion in international climate negotiations, but is also of value for visualizing the policy significance of other equity frameworks that are under discussion internationally.

There's been a sense this year of developed countries hiding behind negotiations on other issues, such as agricultural policy, to avoid reaching the point where money has to be talked about, but developing countries want to see that richer nations are doing more than just expressing sympathy and empathy and instead are putting their money where their mouth is on climate action.»

Christoph Bals, Policy Director, Germanwatch, said: «This COP sends a powerful message to the German coalition negotiations: We expect that Germany implements its climate targets for 2020 and 2030.

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.

In support of the Paris Agreement, science - based targets from leading companies demonstrate to policy - makers the scale of emission reductions that are achievable to positively influence international climate negotiations and domestic climate policy.

The goal of these assessments is to inform international policy and negotiations on climate - related issues.

CBDR has been the linchpin argument of China's negotiation position in the international climate change policy arena (see previous post).

The chapter on climate change discusses forests in the Kyoto Protocol, progress on forest - related climate change negotiations and forest carbon tenure, and calls for further work on the role of forests in adaptation in climate change policies and actions.

«Mistral gives us the opportunity to set an important sign in a climate policy - relevant year,» said Müller and went on to say: «It is up to science to identify ways to deal with the risks, so that finally a breakthrough in the upcoming negotiations at the COP21 conference in Paris can be achieved.»

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.

A particularly hot autumn and winter could add to the pressure on policy makers to reach a meaningful deal at December's climate - change negotiations in Copenhagen.

At the end of the first round of negotiations, the policies of the parties resulted in a 2.9 °C temperature rise using the C - ROADS World Climate software.

Developers and other stakeholders are also carefully watching the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process to see what kind of policy signals emerge from the next round of Conference of Parties (COP) negotiations in Lima next month and in Paris in 2015.

The utter ethical and moral bankruptcy of the positions of opponents of climate change policies in the United States that are being presented in opposition to the Paris negotiations.

Now it can sit back, relax and watch the action from a coffee shop outside the United Nations conference, content that its efforts to derail U.S. climate policy have effectively hamstrung the international negotiations.

Assuming that people were following the process and policy closely while at the same time speaking in UN jargon, is what sometimes prevents us from spreading our climate justice narrative outside the negotiation rooms.

World leaders are trying to solve the climate crisis through negotiations and policy, but by focusing merely the environmental side of the problem, they risk missing the point.

Over the past week and a half youth have challenged Canada's irresponsible Canadian negotiation strategies, indicative of the close relationship between Canada's climate policy and dirty fossil fuels.

I suspect his party's support for climate policies will be subject to be whittled away in negotiations of other goals KAP might consider more important.

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