Sentences with phrase «comprehensive national climate»

Both voluntary activities and a variety of policies and measures that lower emissions are currently in place at federal, state, and local levels in the U.S., even though there is no comprehensive national climate legislation.

However, with a stronger market signal now unlikely for many years because of the delay in comprehensive national climate and energy legislation, the United States might well fall behind China in this new era of global competition over green technologies and services.

As the political likelihood of passing comprehensive national climate policy has remained low, many states have taken up the mantle.

The US Global Change Research Program is required by statute to produce the comprehensive National Climate Assessment report on climate change impacts on the United States every four years.

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Carbon pricing can be a key policy tool, but a comprehensive national plan to address climate change must encompass many other facets of Canadian life.

She's brought in comprehensive climate reforms and a carbon tax, but she is using those commitments to try and secure national support for the Energy East and Trans Mountain pipelines, references that received only tepid applause in a convention speech that otherwise had NDP delegates overjoyed by her enthusiasm and winning ways.

This is certainly very alarming and what NORPRA expects of government is to rededicate itself to the implementation of a very comprehensive national policy on climate change to minimize the threats posed by climate change.

And, most importantly, they advocate that the world ditches the comprehensive approach of national climate emissions targets laid out in the U.N. climate process.

By contrast, Monday's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said a «comprehensive climate policy» was needed in which all greenhouse emissions would be cut.

Alarm bells started ringing in 2001, when the first comprehensive research on climate impacts for the park was done by the South African National Biodiversity Agency.

Every year that goes by without a comprehensive public and private sector response to climate change is a year that locks in future climate events that will have a far more devastating effect on our local, regional, and national economies.

No comprehensive national studies have been done, but a 2011 poll of its members by the National Science Teachers Association found that 82 percent had faced skepticism about climate change from students, and 54 percent had faced skepticism from national studies have been done, but a 2011 poll of its members by the National Science Teachers Association found that 82 percent had faced skepticism about climate change from students, and 54 percent had faced skepticism from National Science Teachers Association found that 82 percent had faced skepticism about climate change from students, and 54 percent had faced skepticism from parents.

National Snow and Ice Data Center This comprehensive National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site, useful for teacher reference or for older students, includes information on snow and ice as indicators of climate change, snow avalanches, blizzards, historical snow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebergs.

Most importantly, we are bringing together community members, parents, school principals and vice principals, teachers, local authorities, officials responsible for emergency situations, media and national authorities to discuss the importance of taking joint and coordinated action on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and biodiversity conservation, in a comprehensive manner and towards long - term solutions.

Nationally recognized, comprehensive, job - embedded professional development curriculum aligned with national paraeducator standards, with more than twenty modules such as School Climate, Instructional Strategies, Managing Behaviors, and Common Core Standards.

Our 2013 National School Climate Survey discovered that more LGBT students reported having an anti-bullying policy at their school than all prior survey years, including a modest increase in comprehensive and enumerated policies.

Furthermore, the National School Climate Center recommends that policymakers and administrators use its Comprehensive School Climate Inventory for internal needs assessments rather than to compare schools.77 Nonetheless, some states are already using survey instruments to classify schools.

The full Presidential Climate Action Plan (as opposed to summaries) contains a comprehensive set of ideas to reduce transportation emissions, covering not only improvements in vehicle efficiency and alternative fuels, but also changes in national policy to promote high - speed rail for intercity travel, mass transit and telecommuting, and smart growth in urban development.

We believe that policymakers, the media, and the public should pay attention to scientific expert credibility and the well - vetted comprehensive assessment reports prepared by a large number of the leading scientists — in particular the new IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, along with the National Academy of Sciences (4 - volume America's Climate Choices report) and the National Climate Assessment forthcoming from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

We should continue to support broadly - authored scientific assessments, also including the U.S. National Climate Assessment now ongoing, as the best vehicle for engaging the leading scientists in a well - structured and systematically reviewed format, with comprehensive references, and so forth.

And that reality has been demonstrated over and over again, most recently in the work of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, led by Dr. Richard Muller, who began his comprehensive assessment as an avowed climate skeptic and ended it convinced by the clear evidence that global warming is happening and is caused by human activity.This conclusion is emphatically shared by the best and brightest of the global scientific community, including our own National Academy of Sciences.

This title is part of the America's Climate Choices project, the National Research Council's most comprehensive study of climate change tClimate Choices project, the National Research Council's most comprehensive study of climate change tclimate change to date.

An update from the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the third National Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued so far.

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, national, sectoral, and fuel levels and identifies implications of the data for international cooperation on global climate change...

As a part of its efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change the government of Kenya has identified the need to develop a comprehensive national carbon accounting system for Kenya (NCAS - K).

Calling for «a comprehensive, proactive national planning and preparedness strategy for limiting and adapting to the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of climate change,» Climate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legisclimate change,» Climate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legisClimate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legisclimate and clean energy legislation.

The National Assessment to this day remains the most comprehensive, scientifically based assessment of the potential consequences of climate change for the United States.

National and international agencies to adequately support comprehensive observation and research programs that can clarify the urgency and extent of needed mitigation and promote adaptation to the consequences of climate change;

Despite this, fire really hasn't factored into comprehensive examinations of climate change, argue the authors of the Science paper — led by David Bowman of the University of Tasmania and Jennifer Balch of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Research groups (MIT, RTI, and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratories [PNNL]-RRB- have also analyzed the economic impacts of a generic comprehensive, economy - wide climate policy to reduce GHG emissions 50 - 80 % by the year 2050.

These city - led efforts to catalyze local clean energy economic development are important to watch as federal grants sunset, especially in the absence of a comprehensive national energy or climate policy.

Alden Meyer, Director of Strategy and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists: «All countries must come to Katowice prepared to adopt a robust, comprehensive rulebook to fully implement the Paris Agreement, and send clear signals they intend to increase the ambition of their national actions, as is required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Dr. Romm helped lead the administration's climate technology policy formulation, and initiated, supervised, and publicized a comprehensive technical analysis by five national laboratories of how energy technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions at low - cost: Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions.

The first step recommended in the study is for the national intelligence community to include comprehensive assessments of climate change in future security plans, just as agencies now take into account traditional but uncertain threats.

The 2014 National Climate Assessment provides the most comprehensive current analysis of the observed and projected consequences for the U.S. of global climate disrClimate Assessment provides the most comprehensive current analysis of the observed and projected consequences for the U.S. of global climate disrclimate disruption.

The Climate Change Indicators report generally reinforces the conclusion of the recently - released, comprehensive U.S. National Climate Assessment, that «global climate is changing and this is apparent across the United States in a wide range of observations.Climate Change Indicators report generally reinforces the conclusion of the recently - released, comprehensive U.S. National Climate Assessment, that «global climate is changing and this is apparent across the United States in a wide range of observations.Climate Assessment, that «global climate is changing and this is apparent across the United States in a wide range of observations.climate is changing and this is apparent across the United States in a wide range of observations.»

In the 1970s, the most comprehensive study on climate change (and the closest thing to a scientific consensus at the time) was the 1975 US National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Report.

On December 11, Rep. Jay Inslee (D - WA), Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R - MD), and 22 House co-signers sent a letter to William Brennan of NOAA, the Acting Director of the Climate Change Science Program, in which they say: «The failure of the CCSP to produce a National Assessment report within the time frame required by law has made it more difficult for Congress to develop a comprehensive policy response to the challenge of global climate change.Climate Change Science Program, in which they say: «The failure of the CCSP to produce a National Assessment report within the time frame required by law has made it more difficult for Congress to develop a comprehensive policy response to the challenge of global climate change.climate change.»

The failure of the CCSP to produce a National Assessment report within the time frame required by law has made it more difficult for Congress to develop a comprehensive policy response to the challenge of global climate change.

«Their inquiry's central aim will be to establish a comprehensive view of just how far the original data has been «adjusted» by the three main surface records: those published by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the U.S. National Climate Data Center and Hadcrut,» Booker reports.

Amid controversy surrounding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on melting glaciers, Xie Zhenhua, Vice-Chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission, today urged the UN panel to make the fifth assessment report comprehensive by also citing contrarian views.

While the United States does not have a comprehensive national plan for mitigating climate change or addressing GHG emissions, federal and state governments have developed a number of regulatory programs designed to limit the climate impacts of energy generation and consumption.

The 2014 National Climate Assessment is the most comprehensive analysis to date outlining how climate change affects the United States and is projected to affect it in the Climate Assessment is the most comprehensive analysis to date outlining how climate change affects the United States and is projected to affect it in the climate change affects the United States and is projected to affect it in the future.

Va., forbids the Department of Defense from in any way utilizing the findings and recommendations of the National Climate Assessment or the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment on climate change, two landmark, comprehensive reports reflecting the work of hundreds of the world's top climate scientists and experts — or, as McKinley referred to it, «ideology.Climate Assessment or the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment on climate change, two landmark, comprehensive reports reflecting the work of hundreds of the world's top climate scientists and experts — or, as McKinley referred to it, «ideology.Climate Change's fifth assessment on climate change, two landmark, comprehensive reports reflecting the work of hundreds of the world's top climate scientists and experts — or, as McKinley referred to it, «ideology.climate change, two landmark, comprehensive reports reflecting the work of hundreds of the world's top climate scientists and experts — or, as McKinley referred to it, «ideology.climate scientists and experts — or, as McKinley referred to it, «ideology.»

Under Watson's tenure, the IPCC last year produced its third comprehensive assessment of the state of climate science, concluding that» [t] here is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities,» and predicting that average global temperatures will rise between 3 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the endof the century — conclusions reaffirmed last spring at White House request by the National Academy of Sciences.

All these new attacks on healthy communities and a stable climate come just as the historic, comprehensive, peer - reviewed National Climate Assessment indicates every region of our nation will face disastrous outcomes if we don't act to curb the climate crisclimate come just as the historic, comprehensive, peer - reviewed National Climate Assessment indicates every region of our nation will face disastrous outcomes if we don't act to curb the climate crisClimate Assessment indicates every region of our nation will face disastrous outcomes if we don't act to curb the climate crisclimate crisis now.

ENSURING CLIMATE CHANGE IS INCLUDED IN NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY & PLANNING The United States does not have, and, in reality, has never had, a comprehensive national energy policy that has been deliberated as a whole by the American people.

-- McConnell has repeatedly voted against Senate bills recognizing global warming, including a «sense of the Senate» amendment expressing «the need to address global climate change through comprehensive and cost - effective national measures and through the negotiation of fair and binding international commitments.»

The National Assessment, supported by the federal government but scientifically independent, remains the most comprehensive and authoritative scientifically based assessment to date of the potential consequences of climate change for the United States.

They highlight fundamental and persistent challenges in the United States to the use of energy efficiency as a potent tool for efforts to mitigate climate change, strengthen national energy security, and realize the economic benefits of a comprehensive, forward - thinking energy policy.