Sentences with phrase «energy policy focuses»

While current energy policy focuses on preventing greenhouse gas emissions, the results show that freshwater impacts also need to be considered when deciding future national and international energy policies.

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Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingEnergy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingenergy standards rather than repealing them.

Its research and policy work focuses on trade, investment, innovation, energy, and the environment.

«It took a critical mass of innovation, commercial viability, and political will to make Alberta's oilsands the focus of Ottawa's energy policy,» they say.

Wildrose MLAs will likely focus their energy attacking the carbon levy and calling for more oil pipelines, but will the official opposition defy the radical climate change deniers in their own ranks and present a policy alternative to the NDP's Climate Leadership Plan?

The agency's primary mandate is to focus on the policies regarding the «three Es»: energy security, economic development and environmental protection.

The focus of most reformulation policies is the reduction in quantities of nutrients - to - limit — Na, free sugars, SFA, trans - fatty acids and total energy.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

Those policies have been largely embraced by renewable energy advocates, but critics have focused on inconsistencies in Cuomo's energy moves particularly where politics has trumped policy.

The New Yorkers for Clean Power campaign, a coalition which includes uptown organizations, will focus on advocacy to engage the public, local governments and businesses to push forward renewable energy and clean transportation options and to expand the state's clean energy policies, said Campaign Coordinator Renee Vogelsang.

The energy policies he presented focused on spending, not measureable results.

They also co-founded the Pataki - Cahill Group, a strategic consulting firm that focuses on the economic and policy implications of domestic energy needs.

Andrew Hawkins of ComRes reveals a new poll, exclusively for Total Politics, which shows that 50 % of the public believe the party has «almost no influence over government policy» · Interview with shadow energy Caroline Flint who says: «I'm ambitious to be seen as someone who has made, and can make, a mega-contribution, but too often politicians focus on that big job and not on with what they need to do.

«I chose not to speak publicly about these disagreements, however, because I feel my responsibility as CEO of Success Academy is not to advance my personal beliefs on a broad range of political issues but instead to focus all of my energies on advocating for our kids and public policies that expand educational opportunity and parent choice,» she wrote.

Energy policy in New York has entered the national conversation as the media focuses on the state's April 19 presidential primary, one of the most competitive in years.

When he entered Congress, Tonko said he wanted to focus on the issue he said he knows best — energy policy.

Christopher Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on water security, river - basin resilience, groundwater depletion, the water - energy - food nexus, water reuse, transboundary adaptive management, climate resilience and science - policy dialogues.

As Co-Chair of the bipartisan House Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, my focus has been on pursuing policies that make meaningfully more efficient use of the energy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceEnergy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, my focus has been on pursuing policies that make meaningfully more efficient use of the energy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceEnergy Efficiency Caucus, my focus has been on pursuing policies that make meaningfully more efficient use of the energy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceenergy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceenergy sources for the 21st century.

To harness the energy already generated by the March for Science, «clear, science - based messages must be presented repeatedly to both those making policy and to the broader public, and these messages should focus on the value of scientific knowledge that results from well - funded research,» added Rovito.

To date, the U.S. effort has focused largely on technology and policy solutions that would reduce energy consumption and increase renewable energy supplies.

While much of the debate around energy is focussed on greenhouse gas emissions, our findings highlight the need to consider the full range of consequences of the world's demand for energy when designing energy and environmental policies.»

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.

Robin is an enterprise reporter at E&E News who focuses on the people who drive energy and environmental policy.

As the fifth John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, Josh focused his energies on building bridges between the astronomical science and policy communities through writing, speaking, and member - focused proPolicy Fellow, Josh focused his energies on building bridges between the astronomical science and policy communities through writing, speaking, and member - focused propolicy communities through writing, speaking, and member - focused programs.

The Secretary shall ensure that the geographic areas included in the demonstration program include dwelling units on Indian lands (as such term is defined in section 2601 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3501), to the extent that dwelling units on Indian land have the type of residential structures that are the focus of the demonstration program.

What the authors would like to see is the prospect of limited and expensive coal get a serious consideration; currently, most energy policy decisions, such as a focus on carbon capture and storage for coal plants, assume that coal will remain cheap enough to compensate for its added costs.

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, a group that focuses on engaging Republicans on climate policy, welcomed the plan.

John Rogers is a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists with expertise in clean energy technologies and policies and a focus on solar, wind, and natural gas.

The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Unlike other sustainability institutes, we are not addressing policy, education, or economics; we really focus on the seminal science advances and technology developments that can enable the new component energy technology for the future.

Dr. Jon Christensen, his opponent, an adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, emphasized the «consensus» and the «existential threat» of climate change, extolled the expansion of renewable energy sources like wind and solar in California, and insisted that politicians in the Golden State are focused on not burdening poor people with their «green» policies.

Phase II of the DRECP focuses on better aligning local, state, and federal renewable energy development and conservation plans, policies, and goals.

Such policies do help focus teachers» energy and attention on the appropriate content, but teachers may need help in learning to change their instructional practice.

Now, he's broadening his focus to take on agricultural policy, immigration reform and even clean energy.

This report argues that over the next decade and beyond, U.S. national, state, and local policy must focus on developing sustainable biofuels — rather than just more biofuels — that can play a role in the emerging new energy economy.

Her research interests focus on offshore energy, marine population dynamics, seafloor mapping, artificial reefs, effects of contaminants (DDT, heavy metals, and PAHs) on marine species, and marine policy.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

The plan, aimed at filling the policy gap left by the death of a carbon cap and trading system, focuses on stimulating innovation and diffusion of non-polluting energy technology through direct investment and procurement policies.

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

I recently asked whether the world is poised to enter an Obama - style «trance» on climate policy given the focus on economic turmoil and plunge in oil prices, which have in the past seemed synchronized with concerns about transforming energy policy.

Lessons from Japan: An international group of analysts focusing on climate policy says we can look to Japan for lessons in how policies can accelerate a move away from carbon - heavy fuels and toward more efficient use of energy.

With the paralysis of the climate treaty process and American legislation capping greenhouse gases, a direct focus on energy innovation as a climate, economic and security strategy is gaining some traction in policy circles.

The directive focuses on seven broad areas of Arctic policy: 1) National security and homeland security, 2) International governance, 3) Extended continental shelf and boundary issues, 4) Promotion of international scientific cooperation, 5) Maritime transportation, 6) Economic issues, including energy resources, and 7) Environmental protection and conservation of natural resources.

Presumably this is because, even though Hansen is a leading, if sometimes controversial, climate researcher, his personal views on energy policy clash with those the administration first focused on.

But his prescription was different than those of Mr. Barnes and Dr. Hansen, focusing instead on an aggressive policy to deploy new energy technologies for electricity and transportation and a quick phaseout of traditional coal - burning power plants.

I'm glad to see Wei and Monson forging ahead on climate and energy analysis and action despite the deep dysfunction in Washington, which shows signs of hobbling any approach, whether focused on traditional tools like tax policies and pollution regulation or a direct push on energy innovation.

Below I'm posting some more criticism, from four researchers focused on energy innovation and climate policy: Inês Azevedo, an associate professor and public policy analyst at Carnegie Mellon University, Kenneth Gillingham, an economist at Yale, David Rapson, an economist at the University of California, Davis, and Gernot Wagner, lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund.

The document doesn't take readers much beyond what is already well established: that without sustained and focused climate and energy policies by governments around the world, the potential of renewable energy technologies to compete with fossil fuels remains deeply limited.

This interview with Charles Ebinger, a Brookings Institution analyst focused on India and energy, is an essential read: «India's Energy Policy and Electricity Production&energy, is an essential read: «India's Energy Policy and Electricity Production&Energy Policy and Electricity Production»

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.