Sentences with phrase «energy and climate change»

It poses a fundamental challenge to the assumptions underlying every aspect of energy and climate change policy.

A phrase which here means «statement from the secretary of state for energy and climate change».

He served as energy and climate change secretary and has been an outspoken voice on environmental issues.

An opportunity for new, sensible energy and climate change policies has emerged with these low oil prices.

He's long been a nationally - known leader in clean energy and climate change issues.

But in districts without such resources, science teachers can use the ample instructional ideas available on the web to prepare classroom activities and lesson plans about renewable energy and climate change.

In the 2014 proxy season nearly one out of every five shareholder proposals dealt with energy and climate change.

His research to date has focused on the overlap between energy and climate change.

We're talking about nuclear energy and climate change.

His research interests are in the areas of natural resource and environmental economics, specifically in energy and climate change economics.

He is very aware, too, that when it comes to energy and climate change things will not get done without a little help here or there.

«Somehow we've got to get across the message that we're all going to die,» she says, describing her new role as the spokesperson for energy and climate change.

I would say, what international mechanisms and negotiations would you use to reconcile and move beyond the current realist prisoners dilemma on energy and climate change?

These cases are of particular relevance to energy and climate change policy because each of these sectors is expected to be a major driver of future energy demand and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.

The IET submitted evidence to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee Inquiry into a European Supergrid in March 2011.

Department for Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker mentioned a meeting he'd had with the FSB while talking about the work the Government were doing to inform small businesses about the opportunities available in being suppliers for the Green Deal.

According to a report in Monday's Independent newspaper, DECC ministers have met with representatives of the «Big Six» energy firms in the Department of Energy and Climate Change at least 128 times since May 2010.

Cutting the European Union's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 would reduce economic growth by a fraction of a percent, Britain's minister for energy and climate change said on Thursday.

Former energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey reflects that, while the government would have to consider the impact of a Lib Dem victory, or even a large swing towards them, «It doesn't necessarily lead to something changing because, on the other side of it, there's been a referendum result.

Greg Clark has been made shadow energy and climate change secretary for the Tories.

It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress.»

Getting a climate deal agreed in December will require an «uphill battle» said UK energy and climate change Secretary Ed Miliband in London yesterday, despite incremental progress from the world's largest economies on agreeing the way forward.

At a demonstration outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change in London last night protestors called for the government to nationalise the factory as the best way to save the jobs.

He faces a more real threat from energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who has been at the forefront of dissent against the Conservatives» approach to the rejected alternative vote referendum.

Shadow energy and climate change secretary Caroline Flint responds to the high court's ruling that cuts to solar tariff payments are legally flawed:

Our opposition leader Ed Miliband has promised to «freeze» energy bills for two years if he gets into power — a threat that probably caused companies to push them up now — even though it was he as Energy and Climate Change secretary who did most to load green levies on to consumers.

«Does [Ms May] agree with the secretary of state for energy and climate change [Lib Dem Chris Huhne], who told parliament last year «that it is extraordinary that the leader of the opposition, who wants to be prime minister, employs Andy Coulson who, at best, was responsible for a newspaper that was out of control and, at worst, was personally implicated in criminal activity.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

Washington (CNN)- Two leading senators on Wednesday introduced a sweeping energy and climate change bill intended to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions while reshaping the energy sector for the 21st century.

Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

Prior to joining AAAS, Chloe worked at the White House under President Obama, focusing on energy and climate change issues as an intern within the Domestic Policy Council.

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Centrica and other energy companies last week told [the Department of Energy and Climate Change] that, if Britain is to spend # 100 billion on building thousands of wind turbines, it will require the building of 17 new gas - fired power stations simply to provide back - up for all those times when the wind drops and the windmills produce even less power than usual.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change recently told a committee of MPs it could take five to seven years to get a trial project up and running.

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A Department of Energy and Climate Change spokesman said: «An independent panel of experts commissioned by DECC concluded there was a small risk that fracking could cause relatively minor seismic activity.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made towards the Government's target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent.

Sens. John Kerry, D - Massachusetts (left), and Joe Lieberman, I - Connecticut (right), introduced a sweeping energy and climate change bill Wednesday.

If one reads the article closely, though, only one person discusses rationing — Kevin Anderson, a UK professor of energy and climate change who also serves as director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

«The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climate disruption, but also of economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate,» says another of the report's authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change policy at University College London's Institute of Sustainable Resources.

Upon taking that job in May 2009, he said he would be «working on the Repower America campaign to pass comprehensive energy and climate change legislation.»

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change since 2010.

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.