Sentences with phrase «from climate policy»

From a climate policy perspective, the warmth of 2015 is also highly significant.

Ah so that's what he means — we need to take a lesson from climate policy, and run around implementing stuff for no apparent reason.

For example, in the IEA report that Chevron cites frequently, stranded assets are «capital investment in fossil - fuel infrastructure that ends up failing to be recovered over the operating lifetime of the asset because of reduced demand or lower prices resulting from climate policy» [3].

For example, the model assumes there can never be any net job creation benefits from climate policy, because it assumes that everyone already has a job.

But in fact, only about 10 percent of the money currently being spent on climate is controlled by consumers, as you can see in this fascinating diagram of climate finance from the Climate Policy Initiative.

Longer commitment periods — extending beyond the current five - year period — will lower the risks from climate policy and thus increase investment in climate - friendly technologies.

Australian governments to date have acted as if our future depends on protecting the fossil fuel industry from climate policy.

Methods: To understand the effects of economic forces from climate policy on terrestrial carbon and land use changes, the researchers used the MiniCAM, an integrated assessment model developed by the PNNL team over the last two decades, to compare different scenarios.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

Yet he said the effort shows that states won't step away from climate policy.

Monday's bombshell abuse allegations changed all that, removing a critical player from the coalition of state Democratic attorneys general confronting the Trump administration on everything from climate policy to immigration.

Sabine Bock, Energy and Climate Director for Women in Europe for a Common Future said, «We can only get an ambitious and adequate agreement, if women and men equally decide, contribute and benefit from all climate policies and actions.

Not exact matches

Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.

«Forcing people to have claims adjudicated in a foreign climate is bad policy and divorced from the way capital markets function today.»

High on their list of points of discord are Washington's exit from the Paris agreement on climate change, the intention to scuttle Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, steel and aluminum import tariffs, allegedly tactless and unpredictable American policies, etc., etc..

Last week, Trump signed an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama's climate change policies, including the Clean Power Plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants — a key factor in the United States» ability to meet its Paris commitments.

With the uncertainty surrounding new U.S. energy and climate policy, China has a once - in - a-lifetime chance to move its policy positions forward — and it will, despite some disturbing signals from Beijing.

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.

Cenovus and Suncor have been vocal supporters of the NDP government's climate change policies which include an annual 100 - megatonne cap on total emissions from the oilsands.

Policy - makers from around the world are currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23).

The IEA's forecasts overlap largely with the Trump administration's pursuit of what it calls «energy dominance» — a strategy that has been visible in its rollback of various Obama - era policies this year (above all in the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord), and in a big expansion of federal acreage offered for oil and gas prospecting.

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.

In the Los Angeles Times Tracy Wilkinson saw Trump's withdrawal from the climate deal as «the most concrete sign yet» that his America first foreign policy «has begun to disrupt the global order and ultimately could cede Washington's dominant role on the world stage to China.»

Industry advocates often blame the Obama administration's «war on coal,» specifically two signature policies to reduce fossil fuels» carbon emissions — the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect before the Trump administration moved to eliminate it altogether, and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States has withdrawn.

If there is a silver lining to Minnesota's current business and policy climate, it's that some policymakers are beginning to hear the message from employers in the state.

These results come from a survey of 1,848 Canadians conducted December 12 to 14, 2016, by Abacus Data at the request of Clean Energy Canada, measuring Canadians» views of climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Climate Change.

So it was this afternoon that he yawned his way through three questions from Michael Ignatieff on the government's policies on climate change and shrugged away three questions from Jack Layton on the extension of this country's military mission in Afghanistan.

It is a trend that is only set to accelerate as policy measures such as the recommendations from the Taskforce for Climate - related Financial Discosures and new green finance rules from the UK and EU start to take effect and require firms to disclose more information on the climate risks theClimate - related Financial Discosures and new green finance rules from the UK and EU start to take effect and require firms to disclose more information on the climate risks theclimate risks they face.

As with some other areas of policy, such as climate change and immigration, California's priorities in the area of international trade differ substantially from those of the Trump Administration.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

With the right policy framework, we are confident that America can reduce the economic risks from climate change while seizing new market opportunities.

Through policies such as withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, rescinding the Clean Power Plan, approving the Keystone XL Pipeline and removing countless Obama era regulations on energy production, the Trump Administration has created an environment which fosters energy independence and growth rather than stifling it.

Tonight, I was a little surprised to read the following tweets from Marc Lee, Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), and Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project:

- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

But in the present policy of globalisation and liberalization the function of the state is only to make the climate safe for the market and withdraw almost completely from the realm of economic goals, leaving the market alone to determine them.

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

If achieved, the «united industry» approach would be markedly different from the current climate in the UK, where liberalist, free - competition policies allow individual processors to set their own farmgate prices.

The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recently released results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

Climate Collaborative is a group of concerned businesses from the natural products industry working collaboratively to catalyze bold action, amplify the voice of business, and promote sound policy to reverse climate Climate Collaborative is a group of concerned businesses from the natural products industry working collaboratively to catalyze bold action, amplify the voice of business, and promote sound policy to reverse climate climate change.

From defending endangered species to mitigating climate change impacts, one of the most effective ways to protect the nature of Massachusetts is through sound environmental policy.

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

Trump's decision to withdraw from international climate agreements, and his seeming climate change denial, may restrict the US from legitimately using climate security rationales for informing grand strategy and foreign policy.

Liberal policy for the last eight years has been on the ascendancy — gaining successes on issues ranging from climate change to health care reforms.

Two of Governor Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the State Capitol, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from adequate.

That seems implied by your comment that the «state's tax climate also matters» and adding that the state faces a $ 4 billion deficit, plus additional lost revenue from federal changes to health care and tax policy, which is estimated to be over $ 2 billion.

Tomorrow, Mr Blair will deliver a major speech on foreign policy on how «global values» such as democracy and the rule of law are applied, looking at everything from interventions in Kosovo to a broader policy towards Africa and climate change.

The report, the product of the conference's Senate Democratic Policy Group, also calls for blocking budget sweeps from environmental protections funds in order to ensure the money fights climate change.

Professor Amamoo - Otchere said while reviewing some policies on climate change, it emerged that the much touted Better Ghana Agenda espoused by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was actually adopted from works done by the NDPC.

Two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the state Capitol Monday, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from adequate.

Indeed, a Greenpeace policy paper from 2001 shows Greenpeace's initial enthusiasm for the project: «Instead of cutting tax on fuels that wreck the climate, Gordon Brown should use this week's budget to boost genuine green fuels like biodiesel, hydrogen and green electricity.»