Sentences with phrase «domestic climate plan»

If the foundation of Obama's domestic climate plans is yanked away, it could strengthen the hand of skeptics and nationalists in China, India, and elsewhere, leading the whole superstructure to crumble.

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Airport expansion plans and an over-reliance on buying in emission credits to meet domestic carbon targets are negatively affecting efforts to convince other countries to take a tough stand on climate change, the environmental audit committee has found.

He also will detail plans to take on climate change, the opioid crisis, sexual harassment, terrorism and domestic violence.

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

With a one - party, socialist - communist political system, once the decision was made at the top to embrace climate action, Chinese officials have been able to move fast since 2007, when the 11th five - year plan set first - ever energy consumption targets: a reduction of 20 percent energy use per unit of gross domestic product by 2012.

That timing could also derail perennial Republican efforts to attach riders to next year's spending bills aimed at scuttling other aspects of Obama's domestic climate agenda, as well, including EPA's Clean Power Plan.

Before Trump's reversal of both the domestic and international climate plans, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sclimate plans, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sClimate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sectors.

Climate experts and advocates are concerned that President - Elect Trump will derail progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as he pledged during his campaign to pull the U.S. out of the Paris pact and to dismantle the Clean Power Plan, which is aimed at reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions.

In my judgment, the Chinese government has been inexorably marching towards serious domestic climate change policies ever since its 11th Five Year Plan.

With the U.K.'s carbon scheme very much in mind we are looking at ways to bolster an economically viable climate plan, but in the context of some very difficult Australian domestic politics.

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SciDev.Net: Fast - developing countries such as India should offer up their domestic action plans as part of global efforts when the world gathers for the UN climate talks in Copenhagen this December, says Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate talks in Copenhagen this December, says Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

The new Trump administration has made domestic energy development a major focus and has rolled back regulations like the Clean Power Plan and the Paris Climate Accords that the Obama administration adopted to reduce carbon emissions.

WASHINGTON, DC — As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper today announced a proposed lease sale for 122,405 acres offshore North Carolina for commercial wind energy leasing.

The first - of - its - kind plan aims at achieving comprehensive action on climate change by way of a three-fold goal: cutting domestic carbon pollution, adapting... Continue reading →

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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 Environmental Protection Agency is taking additional steps to undo the Obama administration's marquee domestic climate policy, the Clean Power Plan.

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Then just last week, President Obama in his Climate Action Plan outlined how the United States would take domestic action on HFCs by «identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internatiClimate Action Plan outlined how the United States would take domestic action on HFCs by «identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internaticlimate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives» through the «Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)» of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and by redoubling efforts internationally.

The United States and the EU both took a pass on using international offsets to meet their targets, though their climate plans do not preclude the use of domestic carbon markets to lower emissions.

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