Sentences with phrase «committee on climate change»

The CFI Bill was referred to the House Standing Committee on Climate Change, Environment and the Arts (House Standing Committee).

The Committee on Climate Change spends more than eight times that much each year on its own operations.

Earlier this year, the Committee on Climate Change, a body of experts set up under the Climate Change Act to advise government, said Britain was poorly prepared for global warming.

The Government's independent climate advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), have stated that the low carbon grid of 2030 should produce no more than 50g of CO2 for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated.

As Business Green reports, analysis from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has revealed that while the direct costs of subsidizing renewables and energy efficiency programs have added # 9 (around US$ 11 in post-Brexit Britain) per month to the average household energy bill in 2016.

As the Accounting Office responsible for the Committee on Climate Change I have undertaken the Internal Review.

The Committee on Climate Change responded that it did not hold any information in relation to questions 3 to 9, nor in relation to question 12 (while noting question 12 does not bear directly on the Today programme interview).

Lord Adair Turner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of New Economic Thinking & Former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority and the Committee on Climate Change.

The CCA2008 mandated the creation of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to set «carbon budgets» into the future.

Internal Review of decision of Committee on Climate Change not to respond to questions 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 12 of the request.

Ben spent four years in the UK Government Economic Service working on macro themes: first, on energy and environment at Defra; then on climate change at the UK Committee on Climate Change with Adair Turner (Chair).

A report from the Committee on Climate Change shows that gas prices are the main factor in heating bill increases, rather than environmental policies.

Like chair of the UK's Committee on Climate Change, John Selwyn Gummer, AKA «Lord Deben», Nurse does not:

As was pointed out in the previous post, the quality of self - justification does not improve as one moves from the world of online comments, through to the Royal Society and the Committee on Climate Change.

That this House welcomes the Prime Minister's decision to ask the Shadow Committee on Climate Change for early advice on the Climate Change Bill to inform the final stages of debate in Parliament; congratulates the Committee and its chair Lord Turner for providing robust advice despite the time pressure; welcomes their recommendation that the United Kingdom should be more ambitious in its target with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; further welcomes Lord Turner's further statement that this should include all emissions, including aviation and shipping; and urges all parties to support amendments to incorporate these changes in the Climate Change Bill.

When Pielke published his research, I spoke with Professor Julia King of the Committee on Climate Change:

You might start with the UK's allegedly independent Committee on Climate Change, they are charged by the Climate Change Act 2008 with establishing the UK's «carbon budgets».

Take, for example, the Twitter feed of one mediocrat, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change, Lord John Deben, PKA, John Selwyn Gummer, on Twitter.

Thus the Committee on Climate Change and the Royal Society do not have to account for themselves in the face of criticism.

Krebs is, coincidentally, a member of the UK's Committee on Climate Change — the panel of allegedly independent experts which decides the future of the UK's «carbon budgets».

Of course this «modelling» exercise is intended to support the Committee on Climate Change's carbon budgets.

A far more balanced analysis of the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on climate was given to the House of Commons» committee on climate change by Professor Richard Lindzen [2], Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on 22nd February 2012.

At the United Nations Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (UN IPCC) Conference in Bali in mid December, Lord Christopher Monckton, an international business consultant specializing in the investigation of scientific frauds, a former adviser to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and presenter of the 90 - minute climate movie Apocalypse?

The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 61 % below 1990 levels during its fifth carbon budget period from 2028 to 2032, says the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

Or why is the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) chaired by a businessman and green activist?

While our focus here is on national assessments, and in the United States in particular, the project of improving such assessments is an international one, with parallel efforts in other countries or regions (e.g. UK Committee on Climate Change 2017, California's four Climate Change Assessments12); the need for peer learning between respective efforts is critical and often overlooked.

Strengthening the role and responsibilities of the Committee on Climate Change, including by requiring the Government to seek the Committee's advice before amending the 2020 or 2050 targets in the Bill;

It is legally required to listen to the advice of its advisor, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

As announced by the Prime Minister in September, asking the Committee on Climate Change to report on whether the Government's target to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 60 percent by 2050 should be strengthened further;

However, the UK's Committee on Climate Change published a report saying that current policies would meet around half of this target at best.

To preserve the institutional independence and objectivity of Indonesia's cooperation with Norway, under which BP REDD + was established in 2013, the ministry will establish a Steering Committee on Climate Change, led by Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, an environment minister during Suharto's New Order regime.

Title XVI: Climate Change - Subtitle A: National Climate Change Technology Deployment -(Sec. 1601) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the President to establish a Committee on Climate Change Technology to: (1) integrate current federal climate reports; and (2) coordinate federal climate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intensity.

Modeled closely on the UK's Committee on Climate Change, it is the principal advisory body to the federal government on climate change policy.

The plan emerged from months of consultations by federal experts, independent scientists, nongovernmental organizations, members of the general public and international specialists who make up the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of President George W. Bush's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration.

The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of the President's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most complex questions and problems dealing with long - term global climate variability and change.

The UK's Committee on Climate Change says that national growth in aviation demand must be limited to 60 % in order to meet the government's target of keeping emissions in 2050 at 2005 levels.

To attract the investment we need, governments must cover that risk and commit to a clear goal of decarbonising the power sector by 2030, as the independent Committee on Climate Change has recommended.

Note, also, that most popular climate scenarios include an implausibly early peak in global emissions — 2010 in many cases, 2015 - 16 in the case of the Stern Report, the ADAM project, and the U.K.'s Committee on Climate Change.

The Committee on Climate Change's most recent report on heating argues that biogas could sustainably provide about 5 % of our heating needs.

This work supports the department's policies, helps meet UK, EU and UNFCCC reporting obligations, and feeds into the committee on Climate Change and DECC's work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Chaired by Andrew Raingold, Aldersgate's Executive Director, the panel members were: Guy Turner from Bloomberg; David Kennedy, Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change, which is the UK Government's advisory panel on tackling and preparing for climate change; Abyd Karmali, BoA Merrill Lynch; and Neil Johnson from DECC (the UK government Department of Energy and Climate Change).

The government's Independent Committee on Climate Change has found that green subsidies and taxes already add # 45 to the average duel fuel bill, but predict this to rise to # 100 by 2020, and # 175 by 2030.

Vague ambitions, such as banning new petrol cars by 2040, must be turned into solid plans, says the Committee on Climate Change

What the Government's response should be to the Committee on Climate Change's June 2013 assessment of emissions reduction performance, and whether the Carbon Budgets should be tightened or relaxed.

In 2014, the Committee on Climate Change will also report its advice ahead of a Government review later in 2014 on whether the Fourth Carbon Budget (2023 - 2027) should be relaxed in light of a weak EU Emissions Trading System carbon price (a concern covered in the Environmental Audit Committee's 2011 report).

In May 2012, the government's committee on climate change (CCC) published its «advice on how local authorities can reduce emissions and control climate risk» under the 2010 Climate Change Act.

-- Lord Adair Turner, Chairman of UK Committee on Climate Change, Belfast Telegraph, Feb. 7, 2009

Source: Next Steps for UK Heat Policy, Committee on Climate Change.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) tell us that our power network should almost carbon free by 2030 to meet the UK's legally binding climate targets, and should be no longer relying on conventional gas by 2050.

She is the member of the prime minister's advisory committee on climate change since 2008 and in that context, this is most glaring.