Sentences with phrase «effective global climate policy»

It illustraties one clear message to world leaders just before the Paris climate summit: The effective global climate policy that we need — can not come without «economic sacrifice».

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The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

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..

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.

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.

Consider the challenge of putting a price on carbon — arguably our most effective policy tool in averting global climate disaster.

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]

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.

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 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 policy.

No policy to abate global warming by controlling CO2 emissions would prove cost - effective solely on grounds of the welfare benefit from climate mitigation.

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).

Rather than engage the climate policy proposals I and others have put forward — like substituting prizes for subsidies, reducing regulatory barriers for alternative energies, increasing industry's carbon efficiency, and promoting efficiency gains in developing nations where such investments are most cost effective — they attack a straw man of «conservative orthodoxy that global warming can be overcome by private companies operating in free markets with little or no help from the government.»

COP21: With the UN climate conference still trying to agree an effective way to tackle global warming, a scientific group warns that policy is ignoring the reality of a melting world.

Indeed, the market conditions and policies necessary to make the tar sands a cost - effective source of energy will almost certainly result in dangerous levels of global warming that will exceed two degrees Celsius, the internationally agreed upon limit that will prevent climate change from destroying the planet.

Darwall draws on history and science in order to expose the exaggerations of climate change and what he calls the «Global Warming Policy Paradox»; the assessment of whether proposed solutions are even effective.

Rachel Cleetus, lead economist and climate policy manager with the UCS Climate and Energy Program, designs and advocates effective global warming policies at the federal, regional, state, and international climate policy manager with the UCS Climate and Energy Program, designs and advocates effective global warming policies at the federal, regional, state, and international Climate and Energy Program, designs and advocates effective global warming policies at the federal, regional, state, and international levels.

How about global warming, aka climate change, isn't yet well understood to the point that intelligent and effective policy can be based on it.

He also pointed out that World Trade Organization rules enable a U.S. carbon tax to form the template for an effective global carbon tax structure, thereby breaking the UN climate policy gridlock.

will bring together journalists, journalism researchers, policymakers and funders to discuss the future of energy transition reporting, the challenges it poses, and how to promote effective, fact - based reporting to inform the global debate over energy and climate policy.