Sentences with phrase «current climate policy as»

But he once said he didn't want to lead a party that wasn't as committed to climate action as he was, and he also described the Coalition's current climate policy as a «a recipe for fiscal recklessness on a grand scale» and «a very expensive charge on the budget in the years ahead».

Not exact matches

As the Spuds continue to splash their cash and find yet another # 15m to sign a striker today, we at Arsenal are left to make do with both manager and club chairman talking about the affects of the current economic climate and how it influences our transfer policy.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

Strategies to adapt to climate change will dovetail with the current policies and practices that deal with variability and will be understood as more of the same, rather than something alien.

I believe that educators must be more directly involved in policy - with a foundation based upon pedagogy rather than ideology, as appears to be the case in the current climate.

I have attempted to identify elements that could be added to current discussion to brake the current (and for most of us unanticipated) free fall regarding climate change as a public policy concern.

The general picture is that current policy would have to work as intended (not a guarantee in the United States or internationally) and climate sensitivity would have to be very low to prevent exceeding the international target of 2 °C (let alone, 1.5 °C, which will be a policy and technological challenge even in a low - sensitivity world).

Under a hot summer sun, wiping his brow repeatedly as if to underscore the presence of global climate change, Mr. Obama told an audience of students at Georgetown University that future generations of Americans — including their children — would have to live with the consequences of current US climate policy.

Collectively, the reviewers reported agreement with the conclusions of the ISPM and strong support for its publication as «a means of communicating the current state of climate science to policy makers and other general readers».

Generally, the Commission uses the reports as a platform to educate and inform legislators and the public about current critical climate facts, policies, and strategies.

As Steffen Kallbekken, Research Director at the Centre for International Climate and Energy Policy, put it at a conference briefing: by the time the current pledges enter into force in 2020, we will probably have exhausted the entire carbon budget for the 1.5 °C degrees target.

On November 14th as part of the current Warsaw climate conference, the UN issued a new report titled, «Guide for Rsponsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy,» urging active business participation in the UN climate cclimate conference, the UN issued a new report titled, «Guide for Rsponsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy,» urging active business participation in the UN climate cClimate Policy,» urging active business participation in the UN climate cclimate crusade.

With Rep. Waxman's (D - California) announcement that he will retire at the end of his current term, I'm reminded that, seven years ago today, I testified before this champion of climate science and policy when he held his first hearing as... Continue reading →

Organisations who deny or reject current science on human - caused climate change, such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK and the Heartland Institute in the US, have published critical reports, and the Republican Party organised congressional testimony against the consensus research on Capitol Hill.

Yet as a climate scientist and a climate policy scholar, I know market forces and current policies are far from adequate to limit the rise in global temperatures, as envisioned in the Paris Agreement.

Canada faces a significant gap between emissions reductions that would result from current climate policies and what is needed to reduce emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, as promised in Paris.

Many opponents of climate change policies argue that countries like the United States should not have to reduce their ghg emissions until China reduces its emissions by comparable amounts because China is now the largest emitter of all nations in terms of total tons, yet such an argument usually ignores the historical responsibility of countries like the United States which the following illustration reveals is more than twice as responsible for current elevated atmospheric ghg concentrations than China is.

The above illustration depicts, in a very abbreviated and sketchy form, that as the scientific evidence of the threat from human - induced climate change became stronger over a 40 - year period and as the US political opposition to climate change policies successfully fought to prevent the adoption of robust US climate policies, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 rose from below 320 ppm (parts per million) to current levels of over 400 ppm.

These studies compare a particular climate policy scenario with a reference scenario corresponding to the model projection of business as usual (BAU)-- that is, a world in which the economy continues on its current course with carbon emissions unchecked.

These include efforts to retract the Clean Power Plan, to eliminate the use of the social cost of carbon as currently constituted in federal cost / benefit analyses, and acknowledgement the current generation of climate models has no utility with regard to policy.

Current work focuses on climate change policies, energy efficiency, market reform, energy technology collaboration and outreach to the rest of the world, especially major consumers and producers of energy such as China, India, Russia and the OPEC countries.

The current stalemate is likely to persist as long as scientists allow climate change to dominate the environmental policy agenda.

In fact, as a set, the RCPs should be compatible with the full range of emissions scenarios available in the current scientific literature, with and without climate policy.

Here is where it gets interesting, because as much as the current political environment in Washington may seem increasingly unreceptive to an economy - wide cap - and - trade system or some other meaningful and sensible climate policy, there is one promising approach that could actually benefit from the national political climate.

Markus Trilling, finance and subsidies policy coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, said: «The current approach of the European Parliament to the future EU budget is clearly pointed in the right direction as it recognises how vital it is to make all EU spending work for the climate and to end any support for fossil fuels.Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, said: «The current approach of the European Parliament to the future EU budget is clearly pointed in the right direction as it recognises how vital it is to make all EU spending work for the climate and to end any support for fossil fuels.climate and to end any support for fossil fuels.»

President Hu Jintao (pictured right) of China announced that China will build on existing domestic climate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestryclimate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestryClimate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestry cover.

The authors commented «This implies that the current [climate] models are ill - suited to localised decadal predictions, even though they are used as inputs for policy making.»»

This report addresses the current status of coal in Turkey as an energy and greenhouse gas source, its impacts on health, the association between increasing the share of coal in electricity generation and climate and economic policies, and the discussions on «clean coal».

«While climate skeptics gain traction in the media and with policy makers — drawing endless attention to trivial errors (such as an AR4 typo on Himalayan glaciers that was not present in other mentions of the same topic elsewhere in the report), or highlighting media - friendly soundbites from spokespeople and figureheads in as negative a light as possible — it seems to me that this emphasis diverts attention from actually using climate, meteorological and hydrological knowledge and research in the application of pressing current needs in the developing world.»

The Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, with their similar missions to promote the use of science to benefit society and to inform critical policy debates, offer this new publication as a key reference document for decision makers, policy makers, educators, and other individuals seeking authoritative answers about the current state of climate change science.

He has authored more than 300 publications and is also Editorial Board Member of several scientific journals, such as Journal on Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Climate Policy, Energy Policy, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, the International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, The Scientific World Journal, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, and the Journal of Energy Strategy Reviews.

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