Sentences with phrase «climate policy portfolio»

The project thus provides important insights for policymakers about the acceptance of SRM and its influence on the climate policy portfolio.

Reasonable people can disagree and, ultimately, can come down on different sides of the question of whether solar geoengineering could — or should — play a role in an overall climate policy portfolio.

Not exact matches

There is probably no other policy portfolio which has as many question - marks hanging over it as does the energy and climate change brief.

FIGURE 3: State - Based Climate and Renewable Energy Policies in the United States Twenty - five states and the District of Columbia have independently enacted a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which require that a certain portion of the state's energy consumption come from renewable energy.

However, to date, countries have not incorporated coastal blue carbon into their portfolio of climate change mitigation or coastal management policies and actions, largely because the mechanisms for assessing blue carbon were not well defined or standardized.

States and regions have often taken the lead in developing climate policy, from renewable portfolio standards to cap - and - trade programs, particularly in North America.

In the financial industry, investment portfolios are exposed to risk from increasingly stringent climate policies.

As the public learns more about climate engineering technologies, they will look to ENGOs to understand what the policy issues are, and understand how these ideas fit in, it at all, with a climate change response portfolio.

This document argues that access to and development and use of a wide portfolio of genetic resources is an essential insurance policy that enables responses to future changes in production conditions due to the impact of climate change.

This policy document offers recommendations to the UNFCCC on how Carbon Capture Use and Storage, including carbon capture and storage for enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons, can positively contribute to net climate change mitigation outcomes as part of the policy portfolio established to support the post-2015 instrument.

Recommended policies and strategies include: (1) establishment of clear energy and climate change adaptation / mitigation policies in Africa; (2) implementation of renewable energy development - inducing policies; (3) creating conducive environments for private - public partnerships in clean energy development; (4) enhancement of broader regional and continental collaboration in energy and climate change policies; (5) accessing existing international funding sources for promoting less carbon - intensive energy technologies; and (6) implementation of energy portfolio diversification.

This is an initiative that seeks to encourage systemic change in national adaptation - related policy through evidence based results from a portfolio of community - driven climate change risk management projects.

In combination with new approaches to grassroots advocacy and election campaigns, a complementary paradigm for climate advocacy is needed to shift our focus toward a broader portfolio of smaller scale policy actions and to the promotion of a more diverse array of technological options.

As outlined over the past decade in articles at Science and Nature, and in reports such as the Hartwell paper and Climate Pragmatism, various experts have argued that political success will only come by pursuing a diverse portfolio of policy solutions and technologies, implemented across levels of government and through the private and nonprofit sectors.

Prior to joining IISD, he spent three years (2006 — 2008) with the Official Opposition Caucus in the Manitoba Legislature as a substantive policy researcher specializing in the portfolios of Science, Technology, Energy and Mines (including climate change) and Manitoba Hydro.

All that can be told — and certainly should be told — is that climate change brings new and changed risks, that these risks can have a range of significant implications under different conditions, that there is an array of political considerations to be taken into account when judging what needs to be done, and there are a portfolio of powerful, but somewhat untested, policy measures that could be tried.

In a study released just hours before President Obama's speech, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), CalCEF and the Climate Policy Initiative highlighted the interplay between state and federal policy, but also showcased how moves by states — including aggressive renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and green banks — are pushing renewable investment foPolicy Initiative highlighted the interplay between state and federal policy, but also showcased how moves by states — including aggressive renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and green banks — are pushing renewable investment fopolicy, but also showcased how moves by states — including aggressive renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and green banks — are pushing renewable investment forward.

Despite established theory and proven practice regarding public participation and engagement, citizen consultation, and related fields, their application to climate change management, and in particular to assessing geoengineering as part of the portfolio of policy options, remains nascent.

This guidance document shows an initial portfolio of adaptation case studies to establish specific policies of adaptation to climate change with respect to impacts on water resources.

«Effective climate policy aimed at reducing the risks of climate change to natural and human systems involves a portfolio of diverse adaptation and mitigation actions (very high confidence).»

Its evolution over coming years will determine whether it becomes an effective part of China's portfolio of climate policies.

A greater appreciation for this body of research would allow for consideration of a broader base of policy options to respond to the challenges of climate change, as well as the composition of climate research portfolios more likely to contribute useful knowledge to decision makers.