Sentences with phrase «climate policy position»
The best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA climate scientist who now has a climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price on carbon.
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Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.
With the uncertainty surrounding new U.S. energy and climate policy, China has a once - in - a-lifetime chance to move its policy positions forward — and it will, despite some disturbing signals from Beijing.
However, First Solar is incredibly well positioned for the long term, no matter what direction Trump chooses to take on its climate and energy policy.
«The federal government has taken a leadership position on climate change policy while also enabling greater access to international markets for our natural resources, which ensures that Canadians receive full value for those resources.»
In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.
«It is vitally important the UK government does not undermine its position by supporting domestic policies that run counter to climate change objectives,» said chairman Tim Yeo.
A full review of the Obama science policy legacy would have to cover many things, including scientific integrity, open data, STEM education, the creation of high - level positions like the Chief Technology Officer, and an embrace of climate science and the R&D tax credit.
Over the long term, he worries that climate skeptics in the policy world, after dismissing climate change as a risk in recent years, could later change positions and say it was real, embracing climate engineering «as this magic solution that could solve the problem.»
What is your position on cap - and - trade, carbon taxes, and other policies proposed to address global climate change — and what steps can we take to improve our ability to tackle challenges like climate change that cross national boundaries?
The party that Liberals might partner with on some energy issues — the NDP — supports a cap - and - trade system and has policy positions on climate change that are generally more to the political left.
Trump's efforts to dilute U.S. climate policies have made the country an outlier on the issue and put Tillerson in an awkward position at a meeting of the Arctic Council.
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.
Other researchers disagree with the friendly tone of many of the Trump letters, given the president - elect's policy positions — which include questioning the science underlying climate change and proposing to build a wall along the US border with Mexico.
Group leader assumes chair of «Climate Change and Public Policy» in addition to his position at the MCC
It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.
EPA has positioned itself to determine the stringency of fuel economy standards, set climate policy for the nation, and even amend provisions of the Clean Air act — powers Congress never delegated to the agency.
Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change science and policy.
State policymakers are in an ideal position to address disproportionate discipline policies and practices in order to improve school equity and climate.
India voiced its rejection of the American position in an awkwardly public forum: during a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to an energy - efficient office building on the outskirts of New Delhi that was supposed to celebrate cooperation between India and the United States on climate policy.
Sonali McDermid, a climate science and policy scholar at New York University, visited to discuss their positions in the context of the scope of the climate challenge.
The scientific discussion is misframed in the press, in the public mind and in the policy sector, as being between the consensus position and the «skeptics» who are so confident that nothing of consequence is at stake in anthropogenic climate change that they feel comfortable advocating an essentially trivial policy repsonse to it.
That said, once a serious US policy on carbon / climate change is implemented, the US will have a stronger negotiating position since the developing economies will have nothing left to say.
To some extent, the positions above reflect or build on themes articulated by David G. Victor of the University of California, San Diego, in «Global Warming Gridlock,» Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado in «The Climate Fix, and the authors (including Pielke) of «The Hartwell Paper — a New Direction for Climate Policy.»
We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.
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.
Dr. Sachs at Columbia made his position clear in a Scientific American commentary on energy and climate policy.
There's been an ongoing thread on Dot Earth examining whether and how scientists can stake a position on climate policy while maintaining their credibility as objective pursuers of scientific knowledge.
Prior to his postdoctoral position, Dr. Carter was at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he helped establish an interagency task force on improving the health of honey bees and other pollinators, planned the planting of the first pollinator garden on the south lawn of the White House, and also worked on President Obama's Climate Action Plan.
The proposition that «science» somehow dictated particular policy responses, encouraged — indeed instructed — those who found those particular strategies unattractive to argue about the science.36 So, a distinctive characteristic of the climate change debate has been of scientists claiming with the authority of their position that their results dictated particular policies; of policy makers claiming that their preferred choices were dictated by science, and both acting as if «science» and «policy» were simply and rigidly linked as if it were a matter of escaping from the path of an oncoming tornado.
«This policy would supplement ExxonMobil's existing positions on climate policy.»
Heartland's policy positions, strategies and budget distinguish it clear as a lobby firm that is misrepresenting itself as a «think tank» - it budgets $ 4.1 million of its $ 6.4 million in projected expenditures for Editorial, Government Relations, Communications, Fundraising, and Publications, and the only activity it plans that could vaguely be considered policy development is the writing of a curriculum package for use in confusing high schoolers about climate change.
It is now up to the GWPF to re-state their position with regard to climate policies: is there reason to act or to bury the head in the sand?
The Sierra Club, which took a «does not support» position on I - 732 in April, claims that the initiative «does not meet key tests for an effective and equitable climate policy.»
This policy document consists of a COP15 position paper presenting the role that the climate, weather and water communities can and do play in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate, weather and water communities can and do play in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Change (UNFCCC).
In any case, I know of no other field where like climate science the leading researchers in the field have taken a strong position on a political policy question that relies on their science turning out a particular way.
[72] Since climate change has been recognized as a global problem with grave environmental, social, economic, distributional, and political implications, [73] activists and the body politic have now firmly put climate science in the position of having to support policies to protect the threatened planet and the human, animal, and plant life on it.
We have been engaging leaders from around the globe on their position on climate policy.
«We have discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change diverted attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»
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With the same broad coalition that stood up against this pipeline and took to the streets during the People's Climate March, we're better positioned than ever before to make real climate policy a top priority for the U.S. government and achieve meaningful progress in this year's climateClimate March, we're better positioned than ever before to make real climate policy a top priority for the U.S. government and achieve meaningful progress in this year's climateclimate policy a top priority for the U.S. government and achieve meaningful progress in this year's climateclimate talks.
That sounds pretty progressive, and is certainly greener than the position of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has explicitly denied the «broad scientific and policy consensus» on climate change.
[45] In implementation of an overall strategy to influence policy decisions and public opinion, climate scientists are assisted by flanking strategies that treat «consensus positions» as dogma.
Hansen used his bureaucratic position to misdirect public policy on climate change for 24 years.
Bill Shorten is reportedly reconsidering the Labor Party's position on the question of a carbon tax, the latest chapter in Labor's long history with climate change policy.
«So, imagine you are a climate scientist and climate change ideologue, and want to «take down» the single organization (or individual) that is doing the most damage to the movement (i.e. with the end result of thwarting CO2 emissions / stabilization policy)» And why would you ever imagine that this activity was as or more important than working on evidence supporting your position?
«We continue to be concerned regarding the level of attention being paid to the impacts of some of these climate - focused policy positions on Connecticut's ratepayers,» said Eric Brown of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association.
Based on the evidence as it currently exists, it just is not a valid scientific position to assert with certainty that human emissions have caused recent changes to the climate, and therefore the policy implications that stem from that.
«I am concerned that much of our climate policy remains on autopilot,» complained Trump's former energy adviser Myron Ebell, now a research director at the right - leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, who said it reflects a failure by the administration to fill key positions and replace staffers who oppose the president's agenda.
That way, they will individually be in a more impartial position from which to make decisions on climate and energy policy.