Sentences with phrase «early climate action»

And Kallbekken and Rive 2007 states: «a 20 - year delay means that we must reduce emissions at an annual rate that is 5 to 11 times greater than with early climate action.»

Not exact matches

As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks was characterized by favorable valuations and early evidence of favorable market action.

Of all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growth.

According to Governor Paterson's Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate climate change.

McCarthy expressed hope that the report, coming from a trusted source — AAAS publishes the prestigious journal Science — and written by a group of esteemed American climate scientists, would get across the message that 97 percent of climate scientists are in agreement and that early action is needed on climate change.

Without action to stave off climate change, some scientists believe that, at that rate, all of the year - round ice in the Arctic could be gone by as early as 2030.

«Beyond EPA's Clean Power decision: Climate action window could close as early as 2023.»

Farmers helped stop legislative action on climate change early in the Obama administration.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate climate change.

October 18, 2012 • Stymied by Congress early on in his term while trying to advance his climate policies, President Obama has resorted to taking incremental actions that don't need congressional approval.

Focus on early warning - early action systems, insurance, and increasing investment in bid to accelerate climate resilience efforts A new initiative to build climate resilience in the world's most vulnerable countries was launched today by UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon and 13 members within the UN system at COP21, the Paris Climate Confclimate resilience efforts A new initiative to build climate resilience in the world's most vulnerable countries was launched today by UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon and 13 members within the UN system at COP21, the Paris Climate Confclimate resilience in the world's most vulnerable countries was launched today by UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon and 13 members within the UN system at COP21, the Paris Climate ConfClimate Conference.

The final phase two standards were called for by President Obama's Climate Action Plan, and respond to the President's directive in early 2014 to develop new standards that run into the next decade.

Highlights include a private collection of Vivienne Westwood t - shirts from the designer's early days helping to shape the visuals of 70s punk to her most recent designs advocating action against climate change.

In The Phoenix Greg Cook reports that Alexis Rockman, whose earlier work is often compared to the Museum of Natural History's diorama painting, has adopted an «expressionist action - painting style while holding to the disasters - of - global - climate - change theme.

Mainstream environmental groups, not to mention the hundreds of scientists and economists involved in the IPCC, have long argued the business case for early action to address climate change.

Just a few years earlier, in another round of treaty talks, the chief Bush administration negotiator, Harlan Watson, gave a speech holding out state actions as evidence of American initiative on climate.

Here's an excerpt from an earlier post on how I see international climate action unfolding in coming years:

2) We are therefore committed to taking strong and early action to tackle climate change in order to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system...

Earlier today I posted an essay by Robert Socolow, a seasoned energy and climate analyst at Princeton University, in which he proposes a new approach to overcoming resistance to actions that could limit emissions of greenhouse gases even as humanity's energy appetite grows in coming decades.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading internatiClimate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading internaticlimate impacts, and leading internationally.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

Here's an excerpt from an earlier post on how I see international climate action unfolding in coming years: Read more...

The Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP) is what's known in climate policy parlance as an «early action credit» program.

President Obama's highly anticipated Climate Action Plan was released earlier this week, the centerpiece of which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants.

For an analysis that, in contrast, reflects an understanding of the scientific evidence that is generally shared in the climate science community, see MacCracken's recent journal article, «Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,» which is posted on the Climate Institute Web site here (3climate science community, see MacCracken's recent journal article, «Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,» which is posted on the Climate Institute Web site here (3Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,» which is posted on the Climate Institute Web site here (3Climate Institute Web site here (3.2 MB).

Senator Kerry (pictured right), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and co-sponsor of the Senate climate bill, urged cooperation and binding action from every country (including China) in a speech early this afternoon that was standing room only.

As the authors say, smart climate action will take «full advantage of the approaches that are available now while simultaneously investing in research and early - stage deployment, driving down the costs of the immature options, and evaluating side effects.»

Preventive and adaptive actions, such as setting up extreme weather early warning systems and improving water infrastructure, can reduce the severity of these impacts, but there are limits to the effectiveness of such actions in the face of some projected climate change threats.

Thinking about climate change means recognizing the need for early action.

The leadership of the United States and China played a critical role in spurring such early action, but year after year, European countries have championed the fight against climate change.

Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the claim that» 15 — 40 per cent of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.

In fact the U.S. Congress has been a barrier to responsible U.S. climate change action since the early 1990s.

At the 40th Annual Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) congress held in early June 2006 in Toronto, Canada, «Canada's leading scientific society on climate called for urgent government action on climate change,» Stephen Leahy wrote for Inter Press Service.

We hardly noticed A somewhat recent, but hardly noticed paper (open link) has appeared in Energy and Environment 18 (5) 2007 emitted by William Nierneberg's accomplice in killing off early, and less expensive action on climate change, Gary Yohe, Eli's old friend Richard Tol who thought Nicholas Stern should be stood up against the wall and striped of his economic stripes,

While a Minister of the Environment making claims to pursue tougher climate policy is nothing new, I saw two important changes come out in Minister Kent's speech, and I am seeing actions from Environment Canada which I have not seen since the early days of the Harper government and the Turning the Corner plan.

Such programs incentivize «climate action» by reallocating allowances under a future emissions budget or cap from those who don't take early action to those who do.

«We think it is a necessity to commit to climate action and we want to get the young generations involved at an early age», explained Sven Lafeld at the Cosmos training ground in Wedel.

The Conservation Fund has developed several early action projects eligible for California compliance, including the Garcia River IFM project registered with the Climate Action Reserve action projects eligible for California compliance, including the Garcia River IFM project registered with the Climate Action Reserve Action Reserve (CAR).

If a nation emitting high levels of ghgs refuses to reduce its emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends for tens of millions of others, should that nation be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

Senate leaders are expected to release new proposals for action on climate change as early as this week.

President - elect Barack Obama's entry into the White House early next year, vowing greater action on climate change, will also lift expectations of China, said Guan Qingyou, a climate policy researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Seeing as the Climate Change Committee is not expected to present a specific decarbonisation policy roadmap until December this year, practical action under the Climate Change Act is unlikely to begin before 2010 at the earliest.

Though scientific consensus must always be open to responsible skepticism given: (a) the strength of the consensus on this topic, (b) the enormity of the harms predicted by the consensus view, (c) an approximately 30 year delay in taking action that has transpired since a serious climate change debate began in the United States in the early 1980s, (d) a delay that has made the problem worse while making it more difficult to achieve ghg emissions reductions necessary to prevent dangerous climate change because of the steepness of reductions now needed, no politician can ethically justify his or her refusal to support action on climate change based upon a personal opinion that is not supported by strong scientific evidence that has been reviewed by scientific organizations with a wide breadth of interdisciplinary scientific expertise.

Given that for over 20 years since international climate change negotiations began, the United States has refused to commit to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions based upon the justification that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends of others, should the United States be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

At an ICTSD symposium earlier in the week, a WEF - sponsored ad hoc group of trade and climate governance analysts and practitioners launched a call for action entitled: From Collision to Vision: Climate Change and Worldclimate governance analysts and practitioners launched a call for action entitled: From Collision to Vision: Climate Change and WorldClimate Change and World Trade.

I did blog about this earlier this year, To be effective, do mentor folks seeking your advice for climate action.

Reflecting on the growth of RE100 since it launched in 2014, Helen Clarkson, Chief Executive Officer, The Climate Group, said: «We are really pleased at the success of our campaign; by championing the compelling case for business action, we have reached 100 members three years earlier than expected.

Unlike earlier attempts to forge a climate deal, this agreement called for countries commit to action well before they reached Paris, which they did in their national climate plans.

Mr. Su again revisited this question from Tuesday's (Day 2) press briefing, this time taking less of the defensive and saying that China hopes their emissions can peak early and sooner than current predictions (echoing Ambassador Yu's statements in August, see Julian's post «Peaking Duck: Beijing's growing appetite for climate action «-RRB-.

• Asia — Adaptation is being facilitated in some areas through mainstreaming climate adaptation action into subnational development planning, early warning systems, integrated water resources management, agroforestry, and coastal reforestation of mangroves.