Sentences with phrase «enact national climate policy»

[6] The Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy forecasts in their Annual Energy Outlook 2010 that 2020 fossil CO2 emissions in the US will be 3.2 % lower than they were in 2005, this under a reference case (i.e., a business - as - usual scenario) in which the United States does not enact national climate policy.

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Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

The legal bottom line: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy.

Let's just hope domestic political squabbles — cough, complete and utter inability to enact meaningful national renewable energy and climate policies, even if not EPA's fault at all, cough — doesn't reduce that aspiration in practice to polluting corporation's lowest common denominator.

National governments need to promise greater emissions cuts and enact policies to keep global warming to the more ambitious target of 1.5 C or at most 2C, which they set as the goal of the Paris climate agreement.

After decades of delaying any meaningful national climate policy, America was poised to finally enact moderate limits on carbon dioxide emissions from our nation's energy sector — but this executive order threatens to stop that progress in its tracks.

This analytical report analyses the gender dimension of climate change and the policies enacted to mitigate and adapt to its impacts with the aim of developing gender sensitive approaches with regards to mitigation measures, adaptation projects and national regimes.

Far - reaching national and international climate policies have been enacted with minimal opposition or scrutiny within Parliament, and in spite of sceptics» arguments and public opinion.