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AfricaGate — The IPCC claim that rising temperatures could cut in half agricultural yields in African countries turns out to have come from a 2003 paper published by a Canadian environmental think tank — not a peer - reviewed scientific journal.

The telecon offered insight from a provincial government regulator, a lawyer practicing in Alberta's environmental regulatory law, industry interests, and an independent environmental think tank.

Steffen Schlömer (Germany)- researcher, Ecologic Institute, (European environmental think tank).

The report in question — «Post-Partisan Power» — received significant coverage, primarily because of its sponsorship: a combination of a prominent Republican - oriented Washington think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and an equally prominent Democratic - oriented Washington think tank, the Brooking Institution (and a third partner, the Breakthrough Institute, a California - based environmental think tank).

Speaking at the Greener Britain Hustings, hosted by environmental think tank the Green Alliance, Davey called the potential for a Conservative government after the election a «nightmare scenario» that would distract from «the most important climate negotiations ever».

Thus, an analysis by the Canadian environmental think tank Pembina Institute found that Keystone XL would be a «key driver for oilsands growth,» increasing production by 36 percent.

«There has to be $ 100 billion in financing that has to be mobilised in this period between now and 2022, and that is not going to come from government alone,» he told a conference call hosted by the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank.

A more cheerful note came from Camilla Born, of the environmental think tank E3G.

http://www.esquire.com/features/marc-morano-0410-2 Currrently runs the climate website ClimateDepot.com for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a conservative environmental think tank.

Now we need an all - out sprint to get over the finish line in Paris,» said Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute, a Washington - based environmental think tank.

While visiting India two years ago, Stef Van Dongen, director of Enviu, an environmental think tank in Rotterdam, had a different kind of inspiration: A low - emissions auto - rickshaw, or «tuk tuk» as they are known in Thailand.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.

Determining which projects are «additional» can be tricky, explains researcher Larry Lohmann of the Corner House, an environmental think tank based in Dorset, England.

At least 35,000 people died as a result of the record heatwave that scorched Europe in August 2003, says an environmental think tank.

The promises were analysed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank in Washington DC (see map).

Sam Adams, U.S. director of the World Resources Institute, a Washington, D.C. — based environmental think tank, issued this statement:

Against this backdrop, an environmental think tank released guidelines yesterday outlining how communities can work with companies and state regulators to diminish widespread opposition.

Amory Lovins is a physicist, economist, inventor, automobile designer, consultant to 18 heads of state, author of 29 books, and cofounder of Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank.

According to Lester Brown, author of the 2003 book, Plan B (and three subsequent updates) and founder of the non-profit environmental think tank, Earth Policy Institute, the plan is based on replacing the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy.

«Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices — and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it — is risky business,» says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California - based environmental think tank.

Prior to founding Earth Policy Institute, Brown was well known in environmental and policy circles for his work with the Worldwatch Institute, a pioneering environmental think tank he launched back in 1974.

Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

Not exact matches

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

The Happy Planet Index is put together by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), the U.K.'s leading think tank promoting social, economic, and environmental justice.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

According to a recent study from Denkstatt, an Austrian environmental sustainability solutions think tank, «Even if improved packaging solutions contribute to increased CO2 emissions, the CO2 savings from reduced food waste are in most cases much higher.»

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

Maffei spent the two years in between his congressional terms working for a Washington think tank, Third Way, and teaching at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

Juha Siikamäki, a fellow at the environmental economic think tank Resources for the Future and lead author of the study, says efforts to maintain mangroves could add an enormous potential for carbon offset projects.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

Eight countries in southern Asia — and a quarter of the world's population — face severe environmental and economic disruption as the climate changes over the coming decades, warns the Climate Institute, a think - tank in Washington DC.

The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is completing a study for the Environmental Protection Agency on what a three - foot sea level rise would do to Miami.Miami is particularly vulnerable.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

Arjun Makhijani, who heads the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, a think tank that advocates against nuclear power, sees disseminating the technology as incompatible with controlling it.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

«The bill is a result of political, not environmental considerations,» says Hiroyuki Sato, a senior official at the Japan Ecolife Centre, a nonprofit - making think - tank.

«Sustainable food systems and environmental protection may be important, but these issues don't belong in discussions of healthy eating,» wrote Jeff Stier of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., in an op - ed in The Des Moines Register today.

Electric utilities, environmental advocates and a nonpartisan climate think tank all agree that they dislike the way U.S. EPA sets interim goals for states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a draft rule for the power sector.

Will he call for the deep cuts to climate and environmental science, and research on renewable energy technologies, which some conservative lawmakers and think tanks have long advocated?

Based on that book I was invited to be a hormone scholar at an environmental estrogen hormone think tank at Tulane University where I really worked with the guys who were developing this new field.

London, United Kingdom About Blog Green Alliance is a think tank working to ensure UK political leaders deliver ambitious solutions to global environmental issues.

«Think Tanks» funded with this money have kept the push - back narrative humming even while public interest in environmental protection is at an all time low.

As I write in Chapter 1 of the report, in comparison to the relative diversity in goals among national environmental groups historically, conservative think tanks, advocacy groups and aligned industry associations are marked by a much narrower outlook focused on limited government, reduced regulation and economic growth.

I've always been interested in policy and continuing my economic studies at a Washington think tank after graduation, but I had never before considered environmental economics.

If a meteorologist is also a senior fellow at the Marshall Institute, an industry - funded think tank that opposes many environmental regulations, then the journalist's responsibility is to know that connection and to mention it.

He then went on to respond to an environmental group's work to «discredit the testimony of James Taylor of the Heartland Institute,» a climate skeptic think tank that

A study published in the journal Environmental Politics finds that 92 per cent of 141 English - language environmentally «skeptical» books, most published since 1992, are linked to conservative «think tanks.»