Sentences with phrase «energy policy levels»

«This forward - looking energy policy levels the playing field and values all carbon - free energy equally, positions Illinois as a national leader in advancing clean energy, and will provide a major boost to the Illinois economy,» he said in a statement.

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AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill is a rare opportunity for AWEA members and others who want to help advance wind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal level.

All sectors involved in developing and policies and programmes to deliver on fuel poverty targets should attend including representatives from local government and RSLs; central government; the energy industry; Green Deal installer organisations; health agencies; voluntary and not for profit agencies at a national and local level.

3) The EU should make an effort to reconcile climate change, energy and trade policies, both at domestic level (e.g. though inter-service consultations) and at international level.

«With the U.S. Senate's recent failure to act on comprehensive energy and climate legislation, we need strong environmental leaders at the state level to move the ball forward on new energy policies that will put America on the path to a clean energy future.»

«Policy makers at every level of government need to look at all opportunities to lower energy costs and create well - paying jobs,» he said in a statement.

«At the highest levels of government, people viewed economic development and energy policies as a gold rush,» said Blair Horner, the longtime legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

To guide the efforts, Bush created a cabinet - level global change committee headed by the secretaries of energy and commerce in collaboration with the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

The target, it argued, «does not create any obstacles for social and economic development and corresponds to general objectives of the land - use and sustainable forest management policies, raising the level of energy efficiency, reducing energy intensity of the economy and increasing share of renewables in the Russian energy balance.»

«I see it as a best level effort, and hopefully with continued movement in the right direction, we'll be able to get there,» says Jeffery Greenblatt, a greenhouse gas policy analyst in the lab's Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division.

China and India have created advisory and policy bodies at the highest levels of government to deal with climate and energy, and they are cooperating with industrial countries to create climate - friendly energy options.

He added, «We will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the space race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and improve education in math and science.»

- Interdisciplinary energy graduate programs at the master's and Ph.D. level that integrate science, engineering, entrepreneurship, and public policy

«So much of the energy in education policy is in improving the quality with which grade - level material is taught in classrooms,» Ludwig said.

Yet, he says, with the same level of economic growth but different energy policies, «it may well be feasible to meet targets of a 60 per cent reduction in emissions» over 50 years.

States have often been the laboratories for policies that move to the federal level,» notes Jonathan Kevles of the Sierra Club's Clean Energy Solutions campaign.

He has provided funding for a new energy access program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, where Rogers has also taught graduate - level courses on business models for lighting poor parts of the world.

Although the primary responsibility is at the federal level, state and local governments can have a substantial mitigation impact through land - use, energy and transportation policies.

His research in atmospheric chemistry, climate change and energy has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally.

There may be 100 ways of accomplishing the transformation away from monopoly, but the best path will involve policy and finance reform at the state level; municipal rather than district oversight; and a combination of entrepreneurial energy with appropriate public accountability.

Students will also be introduced to the interactive web - based energy calculator, Home Energy Saver, a professional level tool that is used in predicting building performance in terms of energy in order to assist not only in design, but also in policy - menergy calculator, Home Energy Saver, a professional level tool that is used in predicting building performance in terms of energy in order to assist not only in design, but also in policy - mEnergy Saver, a professional level tool that is used in predicting building performance in terms of energy in order to assist not only in design, but also in policy - menergy in order to assist not only in design, but also in policy - making.

On top of good pedagogy, an expanding curriculum and a knowledge of mandatory school policies and procedures, teachers need high levels of energy, a capacity to recognise they do not have all the answers and a willingness to seek the support of others when required.

His leadership, reach and drive are welcomed at many levels — nationally and internationally — and he remains a powerful energy source for policy makers and school leaders.

The Environment team within the Office of Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance works across the spectrum of energy and environmental issues, coordinating across DOT's modes and with other Federal agencies to ensure that the environmental impacts of transportation policies are considered at all levels.

For example, who has worked to stop sensible progress restraining carbon emissions and oil demand, muzzled an open scientific debate on on these issues, kept secret the participants in high level meetings to develop energy policy, vetoed one measure after another that would have advanced his country ever so little in a direction towards climate restraint.

And I couldn't help notice how the Power Dialog is echoed at the high school level by Change Climate Change, an initiative by some students at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles aiming to engage with government officials shaping their city's energy and climate policies.

«Fighting climate change successfully will certainly require sensible government policies to level the economic playing field between clean and dirty energy, such as putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

But it will also require policies that encourage investment in new clean energy technology, which even a level playing field may not generate on its own.»

Compare the year - to - year scale at which humans make policy decisions, reflected in our political frameworks, to the multi-millennial consequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehumbert.

We will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the space race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and improve education in math and science.

According to the Center for Climate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has proposed.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

The study, which appears in November's issue of Energy Policy, determined that while increases in temperature and carbon dioxide levels may actually benefit vegetation in the short run, rising ozone levels would more than offset those gains by harming crops.

Merkel's assessment that the renewable sector was not capable of filling the energy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lenergy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lEnergy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lenergy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lenergy consumption compared to 2008 levels.

In an interview with Reuters, Jennifer Granholm, the departing governor of Michigan, said that action on the local and state level was useful, but that national energy policy was needed for truly substantial change.

Through supporting the Energy Transition Platform, Stiftung Mercator has helped to build a global network of government peers, facilitate the adoption of emerging innovative policy models by states and regions and demonstrate the need for up - scaled action at the national and international level.

With Election Day a week away Kyle Isakower, API's vice president for regulatory and economic policy, and Erik Milito, API upstream group director, held a conference call with reporters to reiterate the embedded nature of energy in a variety of national issues and the importance of selecting leaders at all levels of government who will advance pro-development energy policies.

The Riyadh meetings were the 6th ministerial - level gathering of the CSLF, bringing in high - ranking energy and climate change officials from the CSLF member nations, as well as business and NGO experts in CCS that contributed to Policy, Technology, and Stakeholder working group meetings.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

Within the solar energy industry, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) is looked to as a leading source of information on renewable energy policy — at the municipal, state and federal lenergy industry, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) is looked to as a leading source of information on renewable energy policy — at the municipal, state and federal lEnergy Council (IREC) is looked to as a leading source of information on renewable energy policy — at the municipal, state and federal lenergy policy — at the municipal, state and federal levels.

It is unlikely that DOE's current level of R&D funding or the nation's current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional fossil energy.

A combination of state and Federal level policy including stiffer renewable energy targets and a continuation of existing policies to limit emissions from fossil fuel power stations.

This analytical report proposes that the scaling up of renewable energy to levels that would have a significant impact on the African energy scene could be achieved through deliberate interventions on policy and institutional environment; technology acquisition, development and integration; investment mobilization; and regional integration, networking, and capacity building.

The Energizing Finance research, done in partnership with the World Bank Group, Climate Policy Initiative, the African Development Bank, Practical Action Consulting and E3 Analytics, delivers a strong wake - up call to the levels of finance flowing to close energy access gaps, but also creates a roadmap of opportunities which, if finance is more strategically directed, will allow us to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, and provide affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.

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