Sentences with phrase «effect on climate change policies»
Dr Otto concludes: «At a crucial time for climate negotiations, the proposed index offers a transparent and accountable method of evaluating climate policies that deals with the remaining uncertainty of the climate response, which has so far had a paralysing effect on climate change policies.»
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«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks of climate change.»
But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.
Global spending to combat climate change fell last year and remains far below the level needed to prevent its most dangerous effects, a report by the Climate Policy Initiative said on Tclimate change fell last year and remains far below the level needed to prevent its most dangerous effects, a report by the Climate Policy Initiative said on TClimate Policy Initiative said on Tuesday.
«As their science curiosity goes up, the polarizing effects of higher science comprehension dissipate, and people move the same direction on contentious policies like climate change and fracking,» Kahan said.
Methods: To understand the effects of economic forces from climate policy on terrestrial carbon and land use changes, the researchers used the MiniCAM, an integrated assessment model developed by the PNNL team over the last two decades, to compare different scenarios.
The ASA's Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy, for example, produced such a review (PDF download) in response to a query from a congressional committee about the health effects of climate Climate Change Policy, for example, produced such a review (PDF download) in response to a query from a congressional committee about the health effects of climate cChange Policy, for example, produced such a review (PDF download) in response to a query from a congressional committee about the health effects of climate climate changechange.
In a complex climate of challenging pupil behaviour, emotional difficulties and ongoing policy changes, the effect on health and wellbeing is significant.
Many are concerned about the effect of climate change policies on our economy.
In light of those concerns, I suggest a suite of policies, focused largely on risk reduction and adaptation, to insulate the United States and countries of strategic concern from the worst effects of climate change.
pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.
«Thus, if climate change effects are anticipated, or detected in basin - wide storm statistics, sensible policy decisions should depend on the projected overall shift in the probability of damage rather than on a high - threshold criterion for trend emergence.»
As climate science advances, the department will regularly re-evaluate climate change risks and opportunities in order to develop policies and plans to manage its effects on the department's operating environment, missions, and facilities.
The summary has already contributed to current policy documents and like the NAS report on global climate change, will have significant effects on policy documents if not actual policy and dedisionmaking.
The continent's policies most likely have the biggest effect on aerosol - related climate change.
It has been difficult to come to a global consensus on what are the best policies for mitigating the effects of climate change.
... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»
As climate science advances, the Department will regularly reevaluate climate change risks and opportunities in order to develop policies and plans to manage its effects on the Department's operating environment, missions, and facilities.
This report from the International Food Policy Research Institute analyses in great detail the effects of climate change on agriculture, with an emphasis on developing countries.
On balance, most Americans believe it is possible to reduce the effects of climate change, and about half say that policy efforts to diminish those effects have a net benefit for the environment.
In contrast to public views on other specific policy proposals, opinion is closely divided — 45 % to 52 % — over whether solar geoengineering would make a difference in reducing the effects of climate change.
This policy document describes the increasing attention paid to the relationship between climate change and human rights in recent years, reviews the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and outlines the application of human rights obligations to climate - related actions.
PHYS.Org: Monitoring communities of climate sensitive species, such as insects, could enable scientists to develop indicators for climate change effects on biodiversity and help devise policies to protect it.
The intention is that by not incorporating such effects, SSPs can be more easily used by other researchers across a broad set of studies to evaluate how varying levels of climate change and types of policies affect on the «reference» socioeconomic and environmental conditions described in the SSPs.
He leaves no excuse for the public and policy makers to prolong the misguided effort to spend trillions of dollars trying to reduce the insignificant effect of CO2 on global climate change.»
But there is no evidence that commercial policies to «fight» climate change have any measureable effect on global temperatures.
On the other hand, campaigns that focus only on demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years agOn the other hand, campaigns that focus only on demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years agon demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years agon the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years agon laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years ago.
Because of the looming specter of climate change that is threatening to disrupt agriculture, we may find that energy policies will have an even greater effect on future food security than agricultural policies do.
All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.
Importantly, whether one thinks global warming poses little or no threat or that the planet is on a path toward catastrophe, the cumulative climate effect of these policies, if implemented, would be a change in the earth's temperature almost too small to measure.
Along with many other economists, my view on global warming - associated climate change is that the world is most unlikely to be able to agree and coordinate globally, and then sustain for the centuries required, the growth - denying policies that would be needed if we were to limit human - induced global warming to any material effect beyond the [continue reading...]
Dr. Qamar - Uz - Zaman Chaudhry, former director general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, calls climate change a threat greater than terrorism for its ability to have a widespread effect on a country, even influencing economic policies and other plans for the future.
The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»
The briefing Wednesday follows the introduction of House Resolution 825, which supports policies addressing the causes and effects of climate change and recognizes its impact on outdoor recreation.
The consensus on attribution can not reasonably extend to represent an agreement about what the effects of climate change are, and what is the best policy response is.
Like the protesters at last year's Climate Camp who turned pages from a climate change study into gloves, and marched under the slogan «we are armed: only with peer - reviewed science `, the CCC seemingly wave science around to legitimise policies which will have far - reaching effects on society, and to justify the existence of a political elite which is increasingly estranged from the Climate Camp who turned pages from a climate change study into gloves, and marched under the slogan «we are armed: only with peer - reviewed science `, the CCC seemingly wave science around to legitimise policies which will have far - reaching effects on society, and to justify the existence of a political elite which is increasingly estranged from the climate change study into gloves, and marched under the slogan «we are armed: only with peer - reviewed science `, the CCC seemingly wave science around to legitimise policies which will have far - reaching effects on society, and to justify the existence of a political elite which is increasingly estranged from the public.
Costs are defined in a variety of ways and under a variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from climate change; ► implementation costs of changing existing rules and regulation, capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ► social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.
Both of these effects, along with changes in natural variables must be examined explicitly by efforts to understand climate change and devise policy that complies with the objective of Article 2 of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to stabilize «greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.climate change and devise policy that complies with the objective of Article 2 of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to stabilize «greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.&change and devise policy that complies with the objective of Article 2 of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to stabilize «greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.Climate Change to stabilize «greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.&Change to stabilize «greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.climate system.»
In April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced for the first time that rebound effects «can not be ignored,» and that attention to them is essential for «providing a clearer understanding of [efficiency's] contribution to climate policies.Climate Change announced for the first time that rebound effects «can not be ignored,» and that attention to them is essential for «providing a clearer understanding of [efficiency's] contribution to climate policies.climate policies.»
A new survey from Carbon Tracker has revealed that while fossil fuel companies are well aware of the impacts of climate change and the effects carbon - cutting policies will have on fossil fuels reserves, only 7 % integrate the risks into corporate project and capital expenditure assessments.
«Governments and policy makers need to know what the health effects from climate change are and who is most at risk,» said John Balbus, M.D., NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) senior advisor for public health and lead for NIEHS» efforts on climate change.
This policy brief discusses the potential negative effects of climate change mitigation programmes on biodiversity.
The resolution called for one panel discussion on identifying challenges and ways forward towards the realization of all human rights for all, including the right to development, in particular those in vulnerable situations, as well as the measures and best practices to promote and protect human rights that can be adopted by States in addressing the adverse effects of climate change on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights, and another panel discussion on how climate change has had an adverse impact on States» efforts to progressively realize the right to food, and policies, lessons learned and good practices.
As a family medicine professor and physician for over 30 years, Dr. Sarfaty has engaged in research and teaching focused on primary care, cancer screening, and public policy, including the health effects of climate change.
The primary point of contention stems from Clement's abrupt, involuntary reassignment to an office that collects oil company royalty checks from his post as top policy advisor, where he focused primarily on the deleterious effects of climate change on Alaskan communities.
Written by thousands of science, policy, and economics experts from around the world, the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports represent a synthesis of existing climate research knowledge, focusing on the evidence of a warming climate («virtually certain»), the global impacts, and the ways we might avert its most catastrophic eClimate Change (IPCC) reports represent a synthesis of existing climate research knowledge, focusing on the evidence of a warming climate («virtually certain»), the global impacts, and the ways we might avert its most catastrophic eclimate research knowledge, focusing on the evidence of a warming climate («virtually certain»), the global impacts, and the ways we might avert its most catastrophic eclimate («virtually certain»), the global impacts, and the ways we might avert its most catastrophic effects.
Policies to address climate change would affect both consumption and investment, but for the purposes of evaluation what matters is the effect on investment, since it is the effect of policies on investment decisions that will determine rates of innovation and hence economic growth, the ability to adapt to climate change, and future consPolicies to address climate change would affect both consumption and investment, but for the purposes of evaluation what matters is the effect on investment, since it is the effect of policies on investment decisions that will determine rates of innovation and hence economic growth, the ability to adapt to climate change, and future conspolicies on investment decisions that will determine rates of innovation and hence economic growth, the ability to adapt to climate change, and future consumption.
However, climate mitigation policies do not generally incorporate the effects of these changes in the land surface on the surface albedo, the fluxes of sensible and latent heat to the atmosphere, and the distribution of energy within the climate system.
In this way I've benefited from courses on global climate change, climatology, future energy supply and demand, the physics of the greenhouse effect and planetary radiation balance, and climate politics and policy options.
The judgment is to be welcomed for giving both the EU and its Member States sufficient policy discretion on how to mitigate the effects of climate change.