Sentences with phrase «environmental economists»

Finally, we're planning to partner with environmental economists to determine the damage costs of emissions from all the sectors due to both climate and air quality impacts, results that we can use to develop alternative mitigation scenarios.

In fact, once you filter out the noise generated by special - interest groups, you discover that there is widespread agreement among environmental economists that a market - based program to deal with the threat of climate change — one that limits carbon emissions by putting a price on them — can achieve large results at modest, though not trivial, cost.

Analysis of insurance data convinces environmental economists that climate change is pushing up the cost of dealing with the disastrous effects of extreme weather events.

Two environmental economists with the International Institute for Environment and Development and Pagiola (an environmental economist with the World Bank) are the editors and among the authors of this collection of 15 essays in this book.

An Introduction to Biodiversity Concepts for Environmental Economists.

It is no surprise that environmental economists and other social scientists with an interest in renewable energy also believe that their research can change the world (and bring in a few research grants and raise their academic profiles at the same time).

Now, the two of us have very substantial disagreements with these environmental economists and most neoclassical economists, many of which we laid out in our on - line debate hosted by Cato, which included participation from Joe Romm.

Although standards may be the path of least resistance, many environmental economists view taxes and other market - based instruments as a more efficient means to internalize the external costs of consumption.

Combining climate models created by CAGW consensus scientists, with econometric models created by «environmental economists.»

In interviews, more than half a dozen environmental economists and climate policy experts said yes.

Environmental economists have long argued a carbon price is the best way to factor in the social cost of climate change.

The researchers are comprised of environmental economists and conservation scientists.

At issue are some of the techniques developed by environmental economists for analysing the costs and benefits of preventing global warming.

ENVIRONMENTAL economists are refusing to revise a controversial report on the social cost of global warming, which values the lives of people in rich nations up to fifteen times higher than those in poor countries.

Environmental economists try to calculate the environmental impacts from making products by using tools called life - cycle assessments or «multi-regional input - output» models, abbreviated MRIO.

The study confirms the hunch of many environmental economists that the costs of economic growth have outweighed its benefits for several decades.

David Suzuki calls economists brain damaged while grossly misrepresenting and denigrating the growing group of environmental economists who put a price on climate change, solution and a host of other extrenalities.

Environmental economist Christina McAlpin set out to create a new - school solution for this age - old problem.

Andrew Leach is an environmental economist, energy enthusiast and a passionate advocate for good environmental policy.

Andrew Leach is an energy and environmental economist at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta.

Ms. Smith, 42, of Greenport who has a Ph.D. in environmental and resource economics, is an environmental economist with the Nature Conservancy.

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

French - Algerian environmental economist Meriem Bouamrane took this route.

Now, environmental economist Chris Hope and Arctic Ocean specialist Peter Wadhams, both at the University of Cambridge, together with climate policy analyst Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have analysed the likely consequences of such a release occurring between 2015 and 2025.

«I don't think [the revised data] will affect the climate negotiations,» says Sha Fu, an environmental economist at China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to the talks.

Although the decision is a landmark in biotechnology regulation, it's also a very narrow one, says Martin Smith, an environmental economist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

«It came as no surprise to us that people who experienced basement flooding were willing to pay for the city to manage the storm - water runoff,» said U of I environmental economist Amy Ando.

According to the British environmental economist David Pearce, «the British government has signalled strongly that it wants to try the same thing to reduce emissions from British power stations».

The premiere installment, «Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change,» featured UCLA environmental economist Magali Delmas and the Engagement Project, which examined the most effective ways to encourage apartment users to reduce their energy use at home and the impact of «gamifying» energy savings.

The honoree is an environmental economist and data expert, and the co-founder of Earth Genome, a nonprofit that provides environmental data to decision makers.

Actress Cynthia Foster and her environmental economist husband, Karel Samson created the hotel and have pledged a percentage of their profits to local... Read More

Actress Cynthia Foster and her environmental economist husband, Karel Samson created the hotel and have pledged a percentage of their profits to local charities.

With an underlying scientific climate equation created by environmental economist Dr. Yoram Bauman, players are sure to experience hours of entertainment in a provocative and satirical, yet realistically - modeled simulation genre.

8:15 p.m. Update Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist at the Alberta School of Business of the University of Alberta, has predicted that the rail disaster will not boost prospects for pipeline transport of oil, but instead create new pressures on the oil business all around (most of which are appropriate and good, to my mind):

Gary Yohe, an environmental economist at Wesleyan University, is one of a large group of veteran students of the climate - energy challenge who say the persistent uncertainties surrounding human - driven warming are the reason to act, to act promptly, and to include a rising price on emissions of greenhouse gases in any policy mix.

You can read my thoughts below, but first I asked Robert N. Stavins, a Harvard environmental economist long focused on climate policy, for his view on the matter.

«Everybody started to believe that shale gas is driving all these CO2 reductions,» said CO2 Scorecard chief executive Shakeb Afsah, an environmental economist and co-author of the study.

John Asafu - Adjaye is an environmental economist whose current research activities include investigating the relationships between trade liberalization, agriculture and the environment.

«By utilising latest natural capital accounting methodologies we have been able to demonstrate the impact offset projects are delivering on the ground» says, Environmental Economist, Imperial, Dr Yiannis Kountouris.

As the World Bank's senior environmental economist from 1988 to 1994, Daly focused on Latin American poverty and development and helped to establish the discipline of ecological economics.

Environmental economist Richard Tol agrees, saying: «Criticism of climate research has become fashionable.»

Alan Carlin, Ph.D., now retired, was a career environmental economist at EPA when the Competitive Enterprise Institute broke the story of his negative report on the agency's proposal to regulate greenhouse gases in June 2009.

«Early flooding of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers is an example of climate change caused by global warming,» Atiur Rahman, an environmental economist, told IRIN, noting a gradual advance of the annual flooding over the past 50 years.

He is an environmental economist whose research focuses on climate change and tropical deforestation.

A senior environmental economist, Lipper has also worked for other UN agencies — such as the World Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Gary Yohe, an environmental economist at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, praised the study as significant and thorough, saying Burke and Hsiang «use the most modern socio - economic scenarios.»

«When you look at B.C.'s policies,» says Mark Jaccard, an environmental economist at Simon Fraser University, «you see the very same things we saw in the first years of the Swedish policy, which is the beginning of this disconnect between economic output and emissions.»

Elsewhere Romm attacked Robert Mendelsohn, another leading environmental economist:

The paper is 39 pages long and includes among its 12 authors Nicolas Stern, a London - based environmental economist, and Hans - Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Environmental economist William Nordhaus ran the numbers on Gore's idea to reduce carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2050.