Sentences with phrase «developing national climate»

The session was kicked - off by Mr. Daniel Abreu, from the National Climate Change Council of the Dominican Republic, who highlighted «the experience of developing the National Climate Change Learning Strategy in the Dominican Republic during the pilot phase of UN CC: Learn was very positive».

Beyond implementing national pilots to engage the private sector in carbon offsetting, some of these governments also view their «voluntary» programs as the first step toward developing national climate action plans and regulated carbon marketplaces.

The First Ministers» Meeting on climate change and clean growth, happening this week in Ottawa, is the next step in the process as provincial and territorial premiers work with Ottawa to develop a national climate strategy.

In response to the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change, Kenya has developed a National Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate change.

Not exact matches

While the prime minister and the premiers work to develop a national clean growth and climate action plan, some provinces have already adopted policies that are cutting carbon pollution and driving clean economic development.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

It could have political and societal consequences if there are regional shortages of climate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Founclimate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research FounClimate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.

By remotely «combing» the atmosphere with a custom laser - based instrument, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have developed a new technique that can accurately measure — over a sizeable distance — amounts of several of the major «greenhouse» gases implicated in climate change.

«No developing country in the world has a climate law, let alone a climate law that has this vision and this ambition, that integrates all of the sectors at the national level in a system for climate change,» said Vanessa Perez - Cirera, head of climate and energy programs for WWF Mexico.

Warsaw (Reuters)- Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

In proposing a system that the United States and China might agree upon, Ramesh in no uncertain terms told U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern and Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman that money and technology assistance to developing countries must be part of any deal on formulating a transparent system.

Mexico in 2012 was the first developing country to enact a national climate law.

A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

This increase would support efforts by DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the nuclear weapons stockpile, and the Office of Science to develop fast, cutting - edge exascale computers, paving the way for advanced climate modeling and biomedical applications.

«Such co-benefits can be a significant opportunity to develop ambitious national climate policies, as they would further increase with strengthening the INDCs,» she adds.

«(1) as part of a global effort to mitigate climate change, it is in the national interest of the United States to assist developing countries to reduce and ultimately halt emissions from deforestation;

«Currently the ability to do that is limited and even marginal, although theory and experiments suggest some skill should be developed,» said climate scientist Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo..

Led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a research team for the first time developed a simplified and computationally efficient way to represent these carbon - based bits in a climate model.

Uncertainty quantification is also a focus for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as eight national laboratories and six partner institutions collaborate to develop and apply the next generation of climate and Earth - system models to the challenges and demands of climate - change research.

Several guidebooks exist for developing adaptation options on forested lands; these include Responding to Climate Change on National Forests (Peterson et al. 2011), Climate Change in Forests of the Future (Millar et al. 2007), and Forest Adaptation Resources (Swanston et al. 2016).

In collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Leung has been developing and applying advanced regional climate models that will help improve the predictions of climate change and its impacts.

The methodologies in the field guide are consistent with international standards as related to guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and relevant sourcebooks (The IPCC recently developed the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands).

A novel system developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and nine partners, which enables climate researchers to solve their most complex data analysis and visualization challenges, has netted the team a Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) award.

The Science paper was part of a large effort by Karl and others at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, as well as climate analytics specialist James McMahon of LMI Consulting, to develop the most accurate possible record of the Earth's surface temperature, based on thermometers.

As the national representative membership organisation for leaders of academies and free schools, the Independent Academies Association is acutely aware of this turbulence and is working with academies to help them develop the skills to manage in the changing financial climate.

«You have the opportunity, in fact the responsibility, to finalize an agreement that enables the achievement of national climate change goals, that delivers the necessary support for the developing world and that catalyses continuously increasing ambition and action by all»

She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.

The National Research Center trains teachers and administrators to apply lessons developed for gifted students to a whole school, to improve overall student performance and school climate.

1 For more information about how to develop a culture of upstanders in schools — and for our six - step bully prevention and pro-upstander effort in particular — see the National School Climate Center website.

The department's National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments also recently collaborated with the American Institutes of Research to develop school climate surveys for state and local use.41

Summary: The New Jersey Culture and Climate Coalition has developed a set of Successful School Guidelines which are based on the National School Climate Council's Standards.

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This locally - planned national conference provides training and information about key components to many successful school initiatives around building and sustaining a positive school climate, reducing bullying, and developing strategies to increase student engagement.

As the co-chair of the National School Climate Council, I believe we need to spend more time developing positive school climates.

I have a feeling this report could be of use to the America's Climate Choices project of the National Academy of Sciences and the scientists developing the outlines of the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

A updated register of national expert climate scientists from across the key and relevant disciplines would therefore seem necessary and urgent if the developing country media — the interface with the public — are to have a fighting chance of covering and getting published / broadcast climate change issues from their national perspective.

Keeping in mind that there were some notable exceptions — Sweden's prime minister calling for 25 - 40 % reductions from developed nations, the Maldives president basically accusing the developed world of trotting them out like a climate change show - pony twice a year and then ignoring their plight for the rest of the time, Japan's new prime minister committing to bring about 25 % domestic reductions — the statements made by national leaders were largely absent of truly strong details.

It supports efforts at NASA, recommended as a priority by the National Research Council, to develop new space - based capabilities to help us better understand our changing climate.

eg pg xii To improve our predictive capability, we need: • to understand better the various climate - related processes, particularly those associated with clouds, oceans and the carbon cycle • to improve the systematic observation of climate - related variables on a global basis, and further investigate changes which took place in the past • to develop improved models of the Earth's climate system • to increase support for national and international climate research activities, especially in developing countries • to facilitate international exchange of climate data

With the developing world now generating half the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, one of the thorniest challenges facing climate change negotiators in Copenhagen will be apportioning national reduction targets in coming decades.

This year's seminar also promises a «lively panel discussion about efforts to develop a national strategy to address one of the most complex policy issues of our time: climate change.»

will allow developing countries to begin preparing national plans to limit their own emissions, and to adapt to climate change.

We provide high quality expert services to develop weather and climate services of the national hydro - meteorological institutes worldwide.

On Thursday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved a bipartisan resolution to establish a White House office dedicated to developing a national strategy on climate change within a year and to spend nearly $ 5 billion over the next 10 years to develop technology to control global warming.

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions is part of the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative, a collection of groups that works to develop and advance carbon capture legislation and its application in oil recovery.

The workshop was organized at the request of the UN CC: Learn partner countries in order to capitalize on lessons learned from developing and implementing national climate change learning strategies.

All three are among more than 20 national and sub-national governmental agencies around the world that have incorporated voluntary climate - change solutions into their formal strategies — creating in the process a means of developing the tools and procedures that will be needed in a low - carbon economy.