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Gov. Deval Patrick outlines his entire clean energy agenda at the Alliance to Save Energy breakfast on July 17.
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In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.
All provinces will be asked to look hard at how their energy agendas align with Canada's climate commitments.
Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that energy innovation needed to be a top agenda item at the climate change conference now taking place in this airport suburb outside Paris.
Global goals on energy access, renewables and efficiency will not be met without accelerated ambition Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030 18 Aprienergy access, renewables and efficiency will not be met without accelerated ambition Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030 18 ApriEnergy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030 18 April 2018
Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey led attacks against the Conservatives at the start of the Brighton conference, telling the Observer newspaper «tea - party Tories» were threatening his environmental agenda.
«Importantly, we are the only organisation that can help the next government achieve the long term security food, water, housing and energy issues that will be at the top of every party's agenda.
Other initiatives discussed from the Dec. 14th agenda included Brad Hoylman speaking about the negotiations in the NYS Senate regarding the IDC; Laurie Hardjowirigo gave the Voter Reform Committee Report; Nat Johnson gave the Environmental Committee Report by stressing what was learned at the December 4 Future of Renewable Energy Forum; Erik Coler of Affordable Housing recapped the year's achievements by saying this year 42 units had been re-stabilized and he was hoping next year to add 90 more.
«In the Coalition Government, our Energy and Climate Change Minister, Ed Davey, has worked to make sure the environment stays at the top of the agenda, even though it isn't a priority for the Conservatives.
This was a hint at individuals such as George Osborne at the top of the coalition obstructing the energy agenda, indicating a future fight, if necessary, with his right - wing colleagues for the green economy.
In the Jan. 4, article, «Energy costs a top issue,» Capital Region Chamber CEO Mark Eagan also noted that reforming the Scaffold Law was at the top of the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce's legislative agenda.
During an Oval Office meeting at the White House, President Obama told Bernie Sanders to channel the energy of his presidential campaign's millions of supporters behind Hillary Clinton, and said that the Vermont senator would play a central role in shaping the Democratic agenda if he did.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is trying to reboot the energy for his agenda at the Democratic National Convention, though hindering that in part is a very early time slot speak.
And while Gov. Andrew Cuomo now gets to keep a target he can blame when he fails to accomplish pieces of his agenda, it's a blow for the Democrat who exerted more energy into helping his party win a majority than at any previous point in his tenure.
Hillary Clinton yesterday unveiled the first portion of her presidential campaign's energy agenda, vowing an aggressive expansion of the nation's renewable energy production while taking aim at the Republican primary field over the GOP's widespread skepticism of climate science.
WHEN Arab energy ministers met in Cairo in April, there was one thing at the top of their agenda — plans for a regional electricity grid that would stretch more than 5000 kilometres from Morocco in the west to the Gulf states in the east.
With oil running out and climate change at the top of the agenda, renewable energy will become a massive growth industry in the UK.
«The Chinese government has been actively pursuing and supporting a technology development agenda that very quickly allowed China to make a breakthrough in the new generation of various technologies, and carbon capture and storage technology development was at first riding on this wave,» said Ellina Levina, an energy analyst at the International Energy Aenergy analyst at the International Energy AEnergy Agency.
After addressing a packed agenda, CMS COP11 adopted 35 resolutions, including, on: the lion, that will work towards an Appendix II listing proposal to be presented at COP12; the Strategic Plan for Migratory Species 2015 - 2023; the Programme of Work on Climate Change and Migratory Species; the Central Asian Mammals Initiative; and the Renewable Energy and Migratory Species.
Oh, there's no denying that Prometheus Corp. is the world's leading energy provider — but at the cost of permanent environmental damage, corrupt political agendas, and thousands of human lives.
JP Morgan's report, Trading Climate Change, suggests that within the next decade nuclear energy will be at the top of the world's agenda, with the resurgence of nuclear a key element both in the drive to reduce carbon emissions from power generation and to develop zero - emission hydrogen - fuelled transport.
The first step is not to lay out a detailed administration agenda, but to hold a yearlong conversation on energy, and climate, aimed at clarifying points of agreement amid the shouting.
One is better integrating the ministers» work with the research - focused agenda of the Mission Innovation initiative, as well as with Bill Gates's private investment pool aimed at long - odds energy breakthroughs.
This morning, Michael Levi, who analyzes energy and the environment for the Council on Foreign Relations, answered my question about the limits of presidential influence in a way that says Obama got it right by insisting that cutting demand through policies aimed at energy efficiency and the next generation of energy technologies had to be part of a long - term American energy (and oil) agenda.
In January, the governor announced a «comprehensive agenda to combat climate change» that called for aggressive increases in energy storage, development of at least 800 MW of offshore wind resources and new energy efficiency targets.
Understand the issues shaping the global and regional energy agenda: from the financial crisis to the water - energy nexus and the role of CCS and renewables, what issues keep energy leaders awake at night?
At the beginning of this new Congress, it is already becoming clear that energy policy will have a major place on the agenda.
And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.
OTOH he clearly understands the issues and his agenda (at least on climate and energy policy) is vastly superior to others.
Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030 IEA introduces new online resource for all its Sustainable Development Goals data and projections 19 March 2018
«I am concerned that much of our climate policy remains on autopilot,» complained Trump's former energy adviser Myron Ebell, now a research director at the right - leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, who said it reflects a failure by the administration to fill key positions and replace staffers who oppose the president's agenda.
Despite the result of the US presidential election and related uncertainties about trade and hemispheric cooperation, a number of economic realities are likely to favor a free trade agenda — at least for energy commodities and related investments, which are likely to be resistant to political winds.
Many are looking to the G20 for a clear signal from world leaders that the message of Paris was received, and that member countries are putting climate and clean energy action at the heart of their growth agendas.
Renewable Energy World For at least the last 40 years, since the oil shocks in the 1970s, dealing with fossil fuel subsidies has been on the international agenda.
Greg Wetstone, senior director of governmental and public affairs at the American Wind Energy Association, said in a statement, «We salute Members of Congress in both parties who fought under difficult conditions to keep the renewable energy production tax credit and small turbine investment tax credit on the agenda until the very end, and then pushed them across the finish line.&Energy Association, said in a statement, «We salute Members of Congress in both parties who fought under difficult conditions to keep the renewable energy production tax credit and small turbine investment tax credit on the agenda until the very end, and then pushed them across the finish line.&energy production tax credit and small turbine investment tax credit on the agenda until the very end, and then pushed them across the finish line.»
Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.
Maurice Strong became Chairman of Ontario Hydro, a state monopoly of energy production, in 1992: the same year he introduced the political and science agenda of the IPCC at Rio 92.
However, it is precisely these essentials — especially access to abundant, reliable, affordable energy — that are most at risk under the agendas being promoted by global warming (climate change) alarmists.
Shadow environment minister Mark Butler has responded, calling the modelling «ridiculously outdated» and noting that the ALP did not adopt emissions reductions targets at its national conference (although significant targets for renewable energy were a signature part of the conference agenda).
«If the president vetoes the pipeline or prevents the pipeline from happening, it will confirm that he is moving forward with his agenda of growing the economy through investments in clean energy rather than dirty energy,» said Daniel Weiss, a senior fellow at the American Progress, a progressive think tank in Washington.
«Scott Pruitt and his team are doing an outstanding job implementing President Trump's ambitious de-regulatory agenda, which is designed to restore robust growth to resource and energy - intensive manufacturing industries that have been stagnant for the past decade,» said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
They exploit the Canadian sector's ineptness at telling its story, as well as Canadians» ignorance, to push their competing anti-oil, pro-green energy industry agenda, stretching facts and magnifying risks... Unlike Big Oil, they are not transparent about their motives.»
JLF's Agenda 2014 includes a section on «Renewable Energy» that recommends that the Senate repeal Bill 3, «the overarching legislation that contains the renewable energy mandate or, at the very least, repeal that portion of the bill that contains the 12.5 % renewable energy / energy efficiency mandate.&Energy» that recommends that the Senate repeal Bill 3, «the overarching legislation that contains the renewable energy mandate or, at the very least, repeal that portion of the bill that contains the 12.5 % renewable energy / energy efficiency mandate.&energy mandate or, at the very least, repeal that portion of the bill that contains the 12.5 % renewable energy / energy efficiency mandate.&energy / energy efficiency mandate.&energy efficiency mandate.»
«What do you get when you cross an energy litmus test that costs a dozen Dem senators with an agenda that consistently is at the bottom of issues ranked by voters?»
These two articles provide a clear indication of the extreme lying that is promoted at the highest levels of the Obama administration and at UN agencies, all in the name of pushing a favored political agenda to control energy supplies and prices (i.e. more tax revenues).
Prompt legislation on the CCC's fifth carbon budget at the level it suggests will be the litmus test that shows that the government remains as committed to the UK's carbon reduction agenda as it has claimed, despite the doubts raised by recent energy policy changes.
«We need to put some political weight behind a bolder agenda and come to terms with, yes, that may require some up - front investments, but ultimately it's going to put Connecticut in much healthier shape both in terms of our economy and our environment,» said Claire Coleman, energy attorney at Connecticut Fund for the Environment.
Review of the urban goal in the Sustainable Development Agenda: In July 2018, nations will convene at a High Level Political Forum to review progress on a subset of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG11 on cities and human settlements, as well as related goals on energy, production and consumption and biodiversity.
Many wanted a clearer outline of how his calls for cleaner energy translate into actual policy, or at least a hint of if and how Obama plans to move clean energy onto his agenda
The president, in an interview for TIME's Person of the Year award, said the economy, immigration, climate change and energy would be at the top of his agenda for the next four years...