Sentences with phrase «existing climate plans»

Between 2014 and 2030, B.C. is expected to have the highest emissions growth of any province when existing climate plans are taken into account.

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(p. 154) That kind of planning will help Canada to take full advantage of our existing clean power resources, and we're going to need to make smart grid and transmission investments under a national climate plan.

«A John Horgan New Democrat government will put forward a climate action plan before the next election that will have real targets to cut carbon pollution, with a commitment to meet them, and will have a plan to create many new clean technology and renewable energy jobs while protecting our existing industries from unfair competition.

She opposed setting a target to reduce carbon emissions, backed plans - which were later reversed - to sell off Britain's forests, and last year, after being appointed energy minister, asked officials whether climate change really existed.

Many of the solutions to tackling climate change already exist, and the government would give them a major boost by strengthening its plans for a new climate change bill,» said Friends of the Earth director, Tony Juniper

Cuomo enhanced the state's already existing plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions after President Trump announced that the U.S. is pulling out of the Paris accord to combat climate change.

For instance, existing plans that enlarge the conservation scope of refuges by promoting wildlife corridors show how conservation reserves can simultaneously improve habitat, reduce nonclimate impacts, and enhance resilience to climate change.

No Obama climate regulation has drawn Trump's ire more than the Clean Power Plan, which would limit carbon emissions from existing coal - fired power plants as a way to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The ICR was part of the previous administration's plan to crack down on emissions from existing oil and gas facilities — a piece of President Obama's broader Climate Action Pplan to crack down on emissions from existing oil and gas facilities — a piece of President Obama's broader Climate Action PlanPlan.

Create an identity - safe school plan or incorporate identity safety and positive climate efforts into your existing plan.

The new agreement also establishes the principle that future national plans will be no less ambitious than existing ones, which means these 188 climate action plans provide a firm floor and foundation for higher ambition.

Reflecting the need to factor existing climate change into national planning, 100 of the INDCs include measures to reduce vulnerability and build resilience.

According to the new national research report of K - 12 educators The State of Climate & Culture Initiatives in America's Schools, 70 % of school administrators use their data from existing climate and culture initiatives to plan for school improClimate & Culture Initiatives in America's Schools, 70 % of school administrators use their data from existing climate and culture initiatives to plan for school improclimate and culture initiatives to plan for school improvement.

Teams are encouraged to look at existing programs that align or can be integrated with Open Circle (such as PBIS, school climate, and school improvement plans).

A recommendation was also made regarding the coordination and expansion of existing and planned climate research programs focusing on aviation.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

President Obama's highly anticipated Climate Action Plan was released earlier this week, the centerpiece of which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants.

The President's existing climate action plan isn't anywhere nearly aggressive enough to achieve a 28 % reduction by 2025, let alone to make a reasonably good start at the task of largely decarbonizing the American economy by 2050.

This will be necessary to support countries in revising their national climate plans, and finalize the rules and guidelines for the operation of the Paris Agreement in order to accelerate the implementation of existing targets.

The climate sensitivity is an important parameter we must consider, but engineers and economists don't need certaintity to start planning, we just need to understand the uncertainty exists.

This devolution of climate policy has been further reinforced by the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) efforts to regulate carbon dioxide from existing power plants under the Clean Power Plan, which requires states to develop their own plans for compliance with emissions standards.

The Bureau of Land Management's climate change page — which discussed the agency's climate - friendly approach to land planning — now exists only in archival form.

The report focuses on existing strategies and plans that some countries have developed to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, including on elements of the prioritization and implementation of adaptation activities.

Thirdly, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction can be best addressed and sustained over time through integration with existing urban planning and management practices.

Considering the impact of climate change on watersheds when planning new dams or revise existing dams is most important for human safety and economic reasons.

The candidate will have existing or emerging research activities that are related to one or more of the School's application interest areas such as marine resources, water, conservation planning, climate, international development, and pollution prevention.

-- Upon approval by the President, each department or agency that serves on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall implement its adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing authority.

In any case, the Senate hearing might well have been the perfect opportunity for Congressional Democrats to match today's climate science to a realistic plan for taking strong action against rising GHG emissions, a plan founded entirely in the provisions of existing environmental laws and regulations.

If CO2 is really a big problem for the climate, then increasing the use of scalable existing CO2 free technology has to be a big part of the plan and ultimately the end goal of the plan.

Adaptation efforts in South Asia have so far been fragmented, lacking a strong link between national climate change strategies and plans, and existing disaster risk reduction, agricultural, and other relevant policies.

WASHINGTON, DC (December 1, 2014)-- Today, The Climate Reality Project announced the delivery of more than 126,000 citizen comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan, a rule that would limit carbon pollution from existing power plants.

A key component will be a National Campus Day of Action on October 2, which will help focus and leverage existing millennial support for climate action at the state level with the Clean Power Plan, and internationally in the lead up to the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris.

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celsius.

The groups intervened in lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency's climate plan addressing new and existing power plants, countering a group of coal companies, polluting power generators and allied state attorneys general that sued to block the first - ever standards limiting power plant carbon pollution.

The Obama administration's plan aims to stave off the worst predicted impacts of climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions at existing power plants by about one - third by 2030.

President Hu Jintao (pictured right) of China announced that China will build on existing domestic climate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestryclimate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestryClimate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestry cover.

[2] See also «How the European Union responds to the threat of global climate change»; an assessment of existing and planned EU measures to fight climate change.

Find the Climate Asia Data Portal at www.bbc.co.uk/climateasia The portal is an easy to use tool designed to help media, non-governmental organisations and policy makers plan and implement communication and other programmes based on people's existing understandings of climate Climate Asia Data Portal at www.bbc.co.uk/climateasia The portal is an easy to use tool designed to help media, non-governmental organisations and policy makers plan and implement communication and other programmes based on people's existing understandings of climate climate issues.

The awareness and information, therefore, on sub-national climate vulnerability as well as urban resilience strategies exist but does not seem to be aligned to city development planning, particularly the smart city proposals examined.

Decision - makers, by contrast, need to understand how climate change may interfere with their plans and compromise their objectives, so they can adapt existing policies and adopt new strategies to stay on track — whether to protect life, health, and well - being, sustain economic growth, preserve natural resources, ensure continued performance of critical infrastructure, or maintain national security.

The study concluded that the existing plan put into place in 2002 «provided [a] sufficient buffer... across the full range of climate change and alternative demand forecasts considered in this case study» out to 2020.

Are India's state climate plans an opportunity to redirect development towards climate and environmental sustainability, or just vehicles for existing development action?

Costs are defined in a variety of ways and under a variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from climate change; ► implementation costs of changing existing rules and regulation, capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ► social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.

In a memo the plan boldly declared its goal would be to convince «a majority of the American public» that «significant uncertainties exist in climate science».

The legal framework for putting the plan into action does not yet exist - no such mechanism was included in the Kyoto Protocol, but Ecuador is hoping to have its plan recognized as a pilot project in climate talks later this year in Copenhagen.

The proposed regulation is the centerpiece of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants, the source of nearly 40 % of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

The president's climate action plan is the federal start button, and its test will be the administration's willingness to finalize strong standards to limit carbon pollution from new and existing power plants.

In one of the most thorough analyses of existing and planned U.S. climate policies to date, a team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the climate policies currently in place may not be enough to meet those targets.

Then in the climate of mutual trust and respect between the new and existing origination staff, we all collaborated on a healthcare originations group initiatives and business plan.