Sentences with phrase «effective climate change policies»

Policy makers need to assess the relative importance of all greenhouse gas emissions to forge effective climate change policies.

Environmentalists agree with the oil industry on one point: that an effective climate change policy must target energy consumers as well as producers.

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If you're worried about climate change, your first concern should be effective policy (by how much will this reduce emissions?)

We, the undersigned, have therefore joined together to express our shared views on effective policies to address climate change.

From defending endangered species to mitigating climate change impacts, one of the most effective ways to protect the nature of Massachusetts is through sound environmental policy.

Experiences with the Kyoto Treaty and the various international climate change conventions, however, tell us that formulating and adopting an effective international policy is very difficult.

Schaal, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, called for more effective communication and public engagement by scientists in explaining their work, both to policy makers and to the general public, across a range of topics — climate change, evolution, stem cells, and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.

Ultimately, climate change is not just an issue for specific sectors and regions: It is a global issue that demands an effective policy response from the U.S..

Policies and finance mechanisms being developed for climate change mitigation may offer an additional route for effective coastal management.

Unless a human «tipping point» is reached soon, with implementation of effective policy actions, large irreversible climate changes will become unavoidable.

Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the principal «s role.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

Week 1: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader Week 2: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader (Continued) Week 3: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team Week 4: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team (Continued) Week 5: Unjumbling the Schoolhouse Week 6: Assessing School Culture and Climate Week 7: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives Week 8: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives (Continued) Week 9: Leading Organizational Change to Improve School Culture and Climate Week 10: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 1) Week 11: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 2) Week 12: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 3)

The nonpartisan Georgetown Climate Center, based at Georgetown Law, seeks to advance effective climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States — policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate Climate Center, based at Georgetown Law, seeks to advance effective climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States — policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States — policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate climate change.

Climate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserClimate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservChange: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserclimate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservchange policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - wide, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

3) The authors do not actually put forth «moral licensing» as their favored explanation of the non-eco behaviors of the climate - believing subsample: they give equal weight, at least rhetorically, to the possibility that the «Highly Concerned» «felt that federal policies were the more effective means of addressing climate change (vs. individual pro-environmental behaviors).»

Given the importance of climate change as an issue, it remains disappointing that prompt archiving of data remains an issue with many authors and that funding agencies and journals are not more effective in enforcing existing policies or establishing such policies if existing policies are insufficient.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

The plan also highlights the need for mainstreaming gender into climate action across societies, because it is critical to effective climate policy and action and it is critical that the needs, perspectives and ideas of all people impacted by climate change are taken into account.

new: scientific consensus on climate issues does not exist - Novaya Gazeta, December 16, 2009 - Instead of articulating and prosecution of false targets political leaders gathered in Copenhagen should concentrate on the other - to develop policies that promote more effective human adaptation to climate change, economic growth, the development of free trade, protection of property rights, strengthen democracy.

In addition to working for the Niskanen Center, Bookbinder also served as a senior policy advisor at the prestigious Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate climate change.

Future generations are counting on us and we will continue to mobile citizens, provide leadership, and advocate for effective, equitable, economically sound, evidence - based, and politically feasible policies to address climate change.

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This has implications for attributing observed climate changes in the recent past as well as for designing effective climate change mitigation policies.

Their impact and potential in facilitating effective disaster risk management and climate change adaptation is assessed, as well as potential linkages between legislation and policy documents.

I'm glad that we both agree that a combination of policies is probably the best alternative, I still think that you're selling incrementalism far too short.The key issue is that incremental change now may be more effective than large change later at preventing the worst impacts of climate change.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason to postpone such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective in order to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost.

According to the authors, an improved understanding of the complex relationship between climate change and society is essential for modifying ecologically harmful human behaviors and institutional practices, creating just and effective environmental policies and developing a more sustainable future.

This policy document outlines a vision for Africa and articulates the continent's climate needs via a 6 - point climate strategy which have the potential to enable African institutions to renew their engagement with climate change impacts and craft effective policies that will help to facilitate climate resilient societies and economies.

- More research is needed to enable the design of effective responses and policies to address the health impacts of climate change.

«We believe that the risks of climate change warrant action... ExxonMobil believes a revenue - neutral carbon tax would be a more effective policy option than cap - and - trade schemes, regulations, mandates, or standards.

This approach involves using research, expert analysis and industry partnerships to broaden the menu of effective policy options and low carbon energy technologies that society has to choose from in combating climate change.

Lomborg was quoted in a piece titled, «Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,» in which Lomborg says that «the UN should focus on more cost - effective environmental policies,» and increase their global target for limiting warming from 2C to 3C: [15]

Broad awareness and collective mobilisation and pressure to demand real change are needed to force the EU to abandon false solutions and adopt effective and just climate policies.

The document states that effective policy related to climate change education requires not only a commitment to teach and learn but a commitment to act.

Pakistan's scientists say that in order for the new policy to be effective a number of steps need to be urgently taken to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

From the article:... GregLaden writes: The argument could be made that the organized effort to disrupt climate change science and the development of effective policies to address climate change is criminal, costing life and property.

Likewise the leadership of fossil fuel exporting nations such as Russia that acknowledge climate change but are sluggish to implement effective policies are similarly primarily responsible for global warming.

We believe that science is nonpartisan and our interest is in getting a clear view of the pace of climate change in order to help policy makers to evaluate and implement an effective response.

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

As part of an important and increasingly global conversation on climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon pchange in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon pChange Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon policy.

ExxonMobil believes that effective policies to address climate change will put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and will:

Part of that dialogue is talking about effective policies to address the risks of climate change.

There is considerable potential for the actions of state and local government, the private sector and individual citizens to contribute to the nationwide response to climate change, but better information and coordination with federal policies would make these decisions more effective.

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (UN 1992a: Art 3, emphasis added).

For this reason, proponents of strong climate change policies should work consciously to build and sustain a social movement to aggressively reduce GHG emissions mindful of what works to make social movements arise, become effective, and be sustained..

It is too early to suggest that politicians might make real progress toward implementing genuinely effective policies on climate change.