Sentences with phrase «for national climate policies»

In fact, the researchers found that behavioral shifts could be faster than waiting for national climate policies and widespread energy transformations.

Not exact matches

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

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.

IFOAM — Organics International advocates for the inclusion of Organic Agriculture in national governments» policies on addressing not only climate change, but also hunger and poverty.

The Unite union's national policy committee overwhelmingly opted for Ed Miliband in a significant boost for the former climate change secretary's campaign.

The Institute of Energy and Climate Change Policy (IECP) has said it will be difficult for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to achieve its 2016 manifesto target in the energy sector in the next four years.

Correction: The National Commission on Energy Policy is calling for passage of climate legislation during the 111th Congress.

It could have political and societal consequences if there are regional shortages of climate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Founclimate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research FounClimate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.

The EU's climate policies set binding targets for the region's 27 member states, but Ivanova says the different countries need «a finer spatial dimension of consumption - related and environmental information that moves beyond national averages.»

Gelbspan condemns corporate indifference to climate change as «a crime against humanity» and indicts the Bush administration for allowing the fossil - fuel lobby to dictate national energy policy.

Its tweets share facts related to climate changeand its impact on U.S. national parks — and on the planet — and call for more rigorous government support of science - based policies related to the environment.

The next time Texas purchases science textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, California.

Baldick estimated that the United States would have to adopt a national climate policy imposing a price of $ 30 per ton of greenhouse gas emissions before wind power can stand on its own economically — a target that appears out of reach politically, at least for now.

Brian Harding, director for East and Southeast Asia for the National Security and International Policy team at the Center for American Progress, said he expects climate to be on the agenda, but not at the top.

«Changing climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.»

Many climate scientists, policy experts and environmentalists are concerned about the potential for the incoming administration to limit funding for climate science and roll back both national and international progress toward limiting the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

Executive Member, Energy Change Institute; Researcher at Centre for Climate Law and Policy, ANU College of Law, Australian National University

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries» performances in climate change.

For the first time, GLSEN's National School Climate Survey also includes insights on bisexual student experiences, school policies that specifically affect transgender students, and anti-bullying student education.

In addition, for the first time, this installment of GLSEN's National School Climate Survey also includes insights on bisexual student experiences, school policies that specifically affect transgender students, and anti-bullying student education and asks students about discriminatory policies and practices around extracurricular activities and school events.

But a recent survey by the Character Education Partnership, the National Dropout Prevention Center and the National School Climate Center revealed that nine out of 10 educators reported a «strong» to a «very strong» need for detailed and practical school climate policy and practice guidClimate Center revealed that nine out of 10 educators reported a «strong» to a «very strong» need for detailed and practical school climate policy and practice guidclimate policy and practice guidelines.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

This disparity, as well as national trends toward disproportionate numbers of suspensions for African American and Latino students, led LAUSD to reexamine school discipline policies in 2013 with the School Climate Bill of Rights.

For many years, there has been a great deal of discussion about carbon - pricing — whether carbon taxes or cap - and - trade — as an essential part of a meaningful national climate policy.

I'll try to convey to the folks back home that any money that will come from the Cancun agreements is not only for specific climate change mitigation or adaptation projects but also providing us a chance to rethink and revise our national agricutural, energy, and land use policies.

The wedge / identity politics success is probably largely to blame for the inability of the US to move forward consistently (or at all) on important public policy — global leadership on climate change or national gun control policy come to mind, right off the top.

There's a third reason: They have long understood Climate Change as the threat it is and have had national policies in place for years.

Chris FIELD (Carnegie Institution, USA)-- Chair • Philippe CIAIS (Climate Environment Society, France) • Wolfgang CRAMER (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale, France) • Purnamita DASGUPTA (Institute of Economic Growth, India) • Ruth DEFRIES (Colombia University, USA) • Navroz DUBASH (Centre for Policy Research, India) • Ottmar EDENHOFER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Michael GRUBB (University College London, UK) • Jean - Charles HOURCADE (Centre national de la recherche scientifique [INRA], France) • Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA) • Kejun JIANG (Nanyang Technological University, China) • Vladimir KATTSOV (Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia) • Hervé LE TREUT (CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) • Emilio LEBRE LA ROVERE (National University, Brazil) • Valérie MASSON - DELMOTTE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France) • Cheik M'BOW (World Agroforestry Centre [ICRAF], Kenya) • Isabelle NIANG - DIOP (Institut de recherche pour le développement, Senegal) • Carlos NOBRE (Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais [Cemaden / MCTI], Brazil) • Karen O'BRIEN (University of Oslo, Norway) • Joy PEREIRA (University Kebangsaan, Malaysia) • Shilong PIAO (Peking University, China) • Hans - Otto PÖRTNER (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) • Monika RHEIN (University of Bremen, Germany) • Johan ROCKSTRÖM (Stockholm University, Sweden) • Hans SCHELLNHUBER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Robert SCHOLES (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) • Pete SMITH (University of Aberdeen, UK) • Youba SOKONA (The South Centre, Switzerland) • Jean - François SOUSSANA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique [INRA], France) • Mark STAFFORD - SMITH (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) • Thomas STOCKER (University of Bern, Switzerland) • Laurence TUBIANA (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France) • Diana ÜRGE - VORSATZ (Central European University, Hungary) • Penny URQUHART (Independent analyst, South Africa) • Carolina VERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Alistair WOODWARD (University of Auckland, New national de la recherche scientifique [INRA], France) • Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA) • Kejun JIANG (Nanyang Technological University, China) • Vladimir KATTSOV (Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia) • Hervé LE TREUT (CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) • Emilio LEBRE LA ROVERE (National University, Brazil) • Valérie MASSON - DELMOTTE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France) • Cheik M'BOW (World Agroforestry Centre [ICRAF], Kenya) • Isabelle NIANG - DIOP (Institut de recherche pour le développement, Senegal) • Carlos NOBRE (Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais [Cemaden / MCTI], Brazil) • Karen O'BRIEN (University of Oslo, Norway) • Joy PEREIRA (University Kebangsaan, Malaysia) • Shilong PIAO (Peking University, China) • Hans - Otto PÖRTNER (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) • Monika RHEIN (University of Bremen, Germany) • Johan ROCKSTRÖM (Stockholm University, Sweden) • Hans SCHELLNHUBER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Robert SCHOLES (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) • Pete SMITH (University of Aberdeen, UK) • Youba SOKONA (The South Centre, Switzerland) • Jean - François SOUSSANA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique [INRA], France) • Mark STAFFORD - SMITH (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) • Thomas STOCKER (University of Bern, Switzerland) • Laurence TUBIANA (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France) • Diana ÜRGE - VORSATZ (Central European University, Hungary) • Penny URQUHART (Independent analyst, South Africa) • Carolina VERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Alistair WOODWARD (University of Auckland, New National University, Brazil) • Valérie MASSON - DELMOTTE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France) • Cheik M'BOW (World Agroforestry Centre [ICRAF], Kenya) • Isabelle NIANG - DIOP (Institut de recherche pour le développement, Senegal) • Carlos NOBRE (Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais [Cemaden / MCTI], Brazil) • Karen O'BRIEN (University of Oslo, Norway) • Joy PEREIRA (University Kebangsaan, Malaysia) • Shilong PIAO (Peking University, China) • Hans - Otto PÖRTNER (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) • Monika RHEIN (University of Bremen, Germany) • Johan ROCKSTRÖM (Stockholm University, Sweden) • Hans SCHELLNHUBER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Robert SCHOLES (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) • Pete SMITH (University of Aberdeen, UK) • Youba SOKONA (The South Centre, Switzerland) • Jean - François SOUSSANA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique [INRA], France) • Mark STAFFORD - SMITH (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) • Thomas STOCKER (University of Bern, Switzerland) • Laurence TUBIANA (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France) • Diana ÜRGE - VORSATZ (Central European University, Hungary) • Penny URQUHART (Independent analyst, South Africa) • Carolina VERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Alistair WOODWARD (University of Auckland, New national de la recherche agronomique [INRA], France) • Mark STAFFORD - SMITH (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) • Thomas STOCKER (University of Bern, Switzerland) • Laurence TUBIANA (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France) • Diana ÜRGE - VORSATZ (Central European University, Hungary) • Penny URQUHART (Independent analyst, South Africa) • Carolina VERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Alistair WOODWARD (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Rather, the real choice is between regulatory chaos and legislation that fixes the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act so that pro-Kyoto litigation groups can not use those statutes for a purpose that Congress never intended — to dictate climate and energy policy for the nPolicy Act so that pro-Kyoto litigation groups can not use those statutes for a purpose that Congress never intended — to dictate climate and energy policy for the npolicy for the nation.

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

National and global discussions of climate science and related policy choices have intensified markedly in the last several months, which is not surprising given pledges by President Obama and congressional leaders to pursue climate legislation and the December deadline world leaders set for a new climate treaty.

Pfeffer talked to me from Washington, where he'll be spending the next year working on improving the interface between climate science and policy at the State Department or Agency for International Development as a Jefferson Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Frank Jotzo, director of the Center for Climate Economics and Policy at The Australian National University Crawford School of Economics and Government (he's written on the implications for United States poPolicy at The Australian National University Crawford School of Economics and Government (he's written on the implications for United States policypolicy):

I would have had no need, in my initial print story on the affair last December, to seek a comment from Patrick J. Michaels — a climatologist who speaks and writes on energy and climate policy for the Cato Institute, which fights most regulatory solutions to environmental problems — if Benjamin Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, using his government e-mail account, had not vented to colleagues on October 9, 2009, in this way: Read more...

The full Presidential Climate Action Plan (as opposed to summaries) contains a comprehensive set of ideas to reduce transportation emissions, covering not only improvements in vehicle efficiency and alternative fuels, but also changes in national policy to promote high - speed rail for intercity travel, mass transit and telecommuting, and smart growth in urban development.

As Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University, wrote in The Coversation,

The plaintiffs contended that the fossil fuel development plans for the vast Miles City, Montana, and Buffalo, Wyoming, federal tracts violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to account fully for the damage the coal, oil and gas would do to the environment, including the climate.

He is leading efforts to build a national Climate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solClimate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solclimate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

An effective national climate policy must include several key elements; one effective approach would be a well - designed cap - and - trade program for carbon emissions.

The National Environmental Policy Act requires BLM to analyze these foreseeable climate impacts and their serious implications for future generations.

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Specifically, progress has been made on agreeing an early freeze date for ending the use of HFCs, a baseline from which to start the phasedown and potential national reduction targets,» said Benson Ireri, Senior Advocacy and Policy Officer, Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture, Africa Division, Christian Aid.

Driven by the IPCC's mandate to provide scientific support for UNFCCC policies, climate scientists have been encouraged by the IPCC and national funding agencies to shine their research light on anthropogenically forced climate change.

Bipartisan Policy Center Task Force on Climate Remediation Research, Geoengineering: A national strategic plan for research on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-reClimate Remediation Research, Geoengineering: A national strategic plan for research on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-reclimate remediation technologies (BPC, Washington, DC, 2011); http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/task-force-climate-remediation-reclimate-remediation-research.

This is the report of a workshop identifying successful examples of integrating practices and tools for climate risk assessment and management and disaster risk reduction strategies into national policies and programmes.