Sentences with phrase «climate policy process»

«Two years after adopting the Paris Agreement, the global climate policy process is on cruise - control in the race toward a low - carbon, resilient future.

The problem is, the selling of this climate policy process has been trying to avoid the conversation of the impact of cap, giving everybody something to beat on in terms of trade (and therefore association with wall street, derivatives, china bashing, and a host of other things)

The FAO workshop brought together high - level staff of Ministries of Agriculture or National Statistical Agencies, and Bureaus responsible for national GHG reporting under international climate policy processes, to help further the conversation on how to improve agricultural / forestry statistics to prepare and submit the Biennial Update Reports (BUR) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA).

Not exact matches

Meanwhile all G - 7 countries except the U.S. — which was «in the process» of reviewing its Climate Change policies — reiterated their desire to uphold the Paris Agreement.

While the risk will fall over time also without policy intervention, time is of the essence when it comes to climate change investments, and therefore policy intervention to speed up this process and alter the risk - return ratio for investors is warranted.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

But to speed up the process, in light of the urgency needed to tackle transportation emissions and mitigate climate change, policy intervention may be required.

This new report, which was written by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), calls for military and intelligence personnel to have a prominent role in crafting climate policy, since that process involves a complex calculus of weighing uncertainties.

Agriculture, ecosystems and ocean levels are all inextricably linked to the atmosphere — and understanding these processes is obviously critical to studies of climate change and the formation of public policies that are shaped by those studies.

«We can say that Enhanced Weathering is not just a crazy idea but could actually help climate policy, yet it is still a challenge to get a precise understanding of the involved processes,» says Amann.

Evaluating Climate Policy The extended, step - by - step process by which governments established the WTO is only just starting in the field of climate Climate Policy The extended, step - by - step process by which governments established the WTO is only just starting in the field of climate climate change.

Mission The mission of PNNL's Aerosol Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aeClimate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aeclimate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aeclimate change and the environmental impacts of aerosols.

He is author of the important book «It has to be Climate Sustainability, and has authored a number of critical reports and alternative policy papers that seek to democratize the United Nations process.

Gaston has more than fifteen years of experience in participative and transdisciplinary research on governance related to issues such as sustainable development, energy, climate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commclimate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European CommClimate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commission.

Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.

According to the over 500 teachers and leaders who responded to our survey, policy and process matter greatly when it comes to an effective and meaningful professional learning climate.

Another example: To decide whether a school is doing a good job, we need to consider several different achievement measures (reading, mathematics, and so on); as well as information about resources (personnel, financial, policy); processes (curriculum, instruction, school climate); and other school outcomes (safety, graduation rate, student and parent satisfaction).

This major emitters» process should include, inter alia, national, regional and international policies, targets and plans, in line with national circumstances, an ambitious work program within the UNFCCC, and the development and deployment of climate - friendly technology.

Found at Tenney Naumer's blog if you want more info: http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2011/03/congressional-hearing-climate-change.html «Congressional hearing: «Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy,» on March 31, 2011, to have real time commentary by leading climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)climate-change.html «Congressional hearing: «Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy,» on March 31, 2011, to have real time commentary by leading climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy,» on March 31, 2011, to have real time commentary by leading climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)»

After following the global warming saga — science and policy — for nearly a quarter century, I've seen the biases at the journals and N.S.F. (including their press releases sometimes), in the I.P.C.C. summary process (the deep reports are mainly sloppy in some cases; the summary writing — read the climate - extinction section of this post — is where the spin lies), and sometimes in the statements and work of individual researchers (both skeptics and «believers»).

Perhaps the scientific community is still trying to accommodate policy - makers who don't understand the scientific process by making it their first priority to get closer and closer to absolute certainty on attributing climate change to human activities.

With the paralysis of the climate treaty process and American legislation capping greenhouse gases, a direct focus on energy innovation as a climate, economic and security strategy is gaining some traction in policy circles.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

I provided all the above - mentioned references and more in a longer essay on climate - change skepticism that I wrote in June in response to requests for an explanation of the apparent continuing influence of deniers in the U.S. policy process, and from which I abstracted the op - ed I submitted to The Globe.

This policy document aims to support the process of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in response to the need for concerted action on fisheries, aquaculture and climate Climate Change (UNFCCC) in response to the need for concerted action on fisheries, aquaculture and climate climate change.

The entire process of the development and imposition of the consensus — with the intervention of government, funding agencies and media — is remarkably similar to the process in the area of climate studies, up to and including the demand for public policy before the research has been solidified.

However, claiming an overwhelming scientific justification for the Plan based upon anthropogenic global warming does a disservice both to climate science and to the policy process.

First step in this direction would be to constrain GHG emissions and to integrate climate proofing into urban transport planning and policy process thereby synergising development, mitigation and adaptation concerns.

Mountain Voice: In the series of Mountain Voice project the Climate Himalaya team interviewed Dr. David J Molden, Director General of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD, Nepal) and discussed about the climate related issues in Himalayan region and about scientific communications and policy making proClimate Himalaya team interviewed Dr. David J Molden, Director General of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD, Nepal) and discussed about the climate related issues in Himalayan region and about scientific communications and policy making proclimate related issues in Himalayan region and about scientific communications and policy making processes.

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.

Women who are climate experts, gender experts — or both - including grassroots leaders, policy makers, financiers, project developers, and farmers, bring critically important and often different perspectives that can lead to more effective climate policy and action, while advancing gender equality and women's empowerment in the process.

Governments have recognized the importance of involving women and men equally in UN Climate Change processes and in the development and implementation of national climate policies that are gender - respClimate Change processes and in the development and implementation of national climate policies that are gender - respclimate policies that are gender - responsive.

Eamon O'Hara, Executive Director, ECOLISE, said: «There are many thousands of grassroots, community - led initiatives on climate action, in Europe and globally, but they feel disconnected from the formal processes and are operating in a kind of policy vacuum.

Through the project, governments of 19 participating countries Algeria, Bangladesh, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gambia, Honduras, Liberia, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Uruguay have strengthened their capacity to participate in the UNFCCC process and raised awareness of the linkages between international and national climate policies through National Inter-Ministerial Dialogues.

Scenarios represent many of the major driving forces - including processes, impacts (physical, ecological, and socioeconomic), and potential responses that are important for informing climate change policy.

«What the current publication process has evolved into, at the detriment of proper scientific investigation, is the publication of untested (and often untestable) hypotheses... This is the main reason that the policy community is being significantly misinformed about the actual status of our understanding of the climate system and the role of humans within it.»

This policy document represents a coordinated effort among several institutions and organizations in the Latin America and the Caribbean region to present the results of a joint reflection on the issue of water - based adaptation to climate change as part of a Regional Policy Dialog prpolicy document represents a coordinated effort among several institutions and organizations in the Latin America and the Caribbean region to present the results of a joint reflection on the issue of water - based adaptation to climate change as part of a Regional Policy Dialog prPolicy Dialog process.

At a May 29 House Science Committee hearing on the IPCC's «process», climate science assessment was collateral damage in the Republican war on greenhouse gas regulatory policy.

It presents: (1) results of an IEA study quantifying the cost of uncertainty in the process of climate policy evolution, (2) results from interviews with investment departments of electric utilities, and (3) initial policy conclusions.

The politicization of the IPCC consensus formation and reporting process is further reinforced by the substantial vested interests in climate science and ambitious climate policy.

Two days later, delegates from these disparate and often contentious groups were hammering out the fine points of the two - page document, which urges Brazil's federal government to reverse its opposition to direct payments from abroad to people and entities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and to involve more stakeholders in the process of forming climate - change policy.

The «Put a Price On It» coalition is proposing a progressive policy that fights climate change, unleashes clean energy, and makes D.C. families better off in the process.

As Slovenian climate and energy policies are to a large degree being shaped at the EU level, CAN Europe membership makes it possible for us to get involved in this process.

The ultimate goal of the overall scenario process is to produce integrated scenarios that will indeed include socioeconomic and environmental conditions as affected by both climate change and climate policy.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

As climate models become increasingly relevant to policy makers, they are being criticized for not undergoing a formal verification and validation (V&V) process analogous to that used in engineering and regulatory applications.

= Policy It appears to me political process is contending with the climate problem, thus: B (t) = C - A (t) A (t): Science changes over time.

Lomborg then lists hydraulic fracturing (Fracking) as more beneficial than climate policy, without mentioning any of the potential environmental impacts of the process: [79]

This guidance document provides recommendations to policymakers in five areas: policy development; government and resources; curriculum development; capacity building of teachers and education planners; and public awareness, communication and stakeholder involvement, based on the case studies, as well as brief profiles of climate change and education in 16 countries» sustainable development policy processes.