Sentences with phrase «for climate change policy»

5.4 That government departments which have specific responsibilities for Indigenous affairs (for example, FaHCSIA and Attorney - General's Department), work closely with departments responsible for climate change policy to ensure that the social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts of climate change on Indigenous peoples are identified and addressed.

What difference for climate change policy - making is entailed by the conclusion that climate change violates human rights?

«Most recent polls... have indicated a clear drop in the public support for climate change and therefore, if Government wishes to retain its mandate for action it needs to improve public understanding of the scientific basis [sic] for climate change policy,» it reads.

In another negative signal for climate change policy, the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Assam and West Bengal have all prepared state - level action plans on climate change, but none have received any funds so far.

This work is extremely important for climate change policy, because emission targets to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen early next month have been based on projections that have a carbon free sink of already factored in.

This is the 3rd entry in a series that has been examining the practical significance for climate change policy formation of insights of sociologists about the failure of governments to respond to the enormous threat of climate change.

Co-benefits were discussed presumably to convince nations that it was in their national economic interest to adopt climate policies, a tactic which may implicitly confirm the notion that national economic interest rather than national obligations should be the basis for climate change policy.

One might ask why the US media is failing to cover the obvious ethical questions raised by climate change issues given that the ethical issues have profound consequences for climate change policy and climate change raises obvious civilization challenging ethical issues.

The fact that climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical problem, an understanding that is of profound significance for climate change policy formation.

«Given the importance of these findings for climate change policy however, repeating this work in the context of a multi-model analysis — for example CMIP6 — is now a pressing concern.»

And the worst case scenario for climate change policy in this country?

Similar opportunities exist beyond the federal level for climate change policy.

The implications of the US midterm elections for climate change policy: An international perspective

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

And, accordingly, support for climate change policies faded away.

These front groups missions are to undermine support for climate change policies, a mission that virtually guarantees they will publish and promote claims that lead citizens to conclude that there is no risk from increasing levels of greenhouse gases emissions around the world.

To equate climate models with «bad» science must be understood to be an attempt to undermine any scientific justification for climate change policies because models are needed to make predictions about the future states of complex systems.

Because of the prevalence of cost - benefit justifications for climate change policies, future IPCC reports could make a contribution by identifying all of the ethical issues raised by cost - benefit analyses.

For example, a recent nationally representative study [18] found that the degree of perceived scientific agreement influences key beliefs about global warming, which in turn, drive public support for climate change policies.

Previous research has suggested that perceptions of the scientific consensus play an important role in the formation of public beliefs and attitudes towards climate change and, moreover, that (mis) perceptions of the scientific consensus potentially decrease public support for climate change policies [15 — 19].

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

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While local environmentalists have been pushing the government to adopt greener policies for years (with limited success), the government's newfound enthusiasm for climate change policies is apparently the result of external pressure, namely the Copenhagen summit and the environmental requirements of the OECD, which Israel seeks to join.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

Or think of the price the Canadian economy is expected to pay for the damage wreaked by climate change after years of oil industry lobbyists opposing serious carbon reduction policies.

Third, he criticizes the Liberals for pursuing their progressive trade policies in these talks: «Did anyone really think that the Liberals could somehow force the Trump administration into enacting their agenda — union power, climate change, aboriginal claims, gender issues?

«In a nutshell, it looks like Canada is becoming a leader in just transitions in the same way that they've been a leader on climate change policy for the past two or three years,» McGowan said at the time.

Younger millennials (18 - 24) are more likely to argue that economic opportunities should shape Canada's foreign policy, while older millennials (25 - 34) are more likely to identify opportunities for collaboration on global issues, such as climate change, as shaping our international outreach.

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

There's also $ 135.4 million (over four years, starting in 2018) to the two lead departments, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for «policy, communications and engagement» for the climatClimate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for «policy, communications and engagement» for the climateclimate plan.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

Such challenges are hardly trivial, but the climate change - inspired policy dictates looming on the horizon carry more profound ramifications for oil prices than any mere cyclical downturn.

According to this meta - study (a fancy name for a literature review), there seems to be a systematic tendency to downplay the economic costs of climate change policies:

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

This is best illustrated with the Summary for Policy Makers of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007).

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

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 Leadershiclimate change deniers in their own ranks and present a policy alternative to the NDP's Climate LeadershiClimate Leadership Plan?

While the risk will fall over time also without policy intervention, time is of the essence when it comes to climate change investments, and therefore policy intervention to speed up this process and alter the risk - return ratio for investors is warranted.

In case anyone didn't notice, the context for climate policy and carbon pricing in Canada has just changed dramatically.

«The federal government has taken a leadership position on climate change policy while also enabling greater access to international markets for our natural resources, which ensures that Canadians receive full value for those resources.»

Chief Executive Officer Asim Ghosh has a stern warning for Canadian political leaders considering changes to climate policy: don't go it alone with a carbon tax.

In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change, but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy.

«On June 6, Minister Freeland outlined a new foreign policy for Canada, and underscored our commitment to a rules - based international order, progressive trade policies, gender equality, and fighting climate change.»

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

Given the presence of Naomi Klein at People and Planet, and the fact Pope Francis has already delivered an extensive message on climate change with his encyclical, it is possible the meeting will be much more policy - focussed, calling for very specific and detailed changes.

«Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main challenges for humanity.

Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.