Sentences with phrase «future climate policy»

This is a more plausible representation of a world with future climate policy than assuming a more business - as - usual scenario for these other pollutants — as has often been done when calculating budgets in the past.

In the lead - up to the December UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, NGOs and others working on climate issues have been encouraged to share ideas for how future climate policy... Read More

While the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change findings make clear that future climate policy will be needed to significantly reduce emissions, the timing of the precise policy measures that will implement those reductions remain unclear.

There are still large uncertainties regarding the carbon budget due to lack of understanding of how the climate operates and lack of knowledge of how successful future climate policy will be.

Johnson and colleagues in IIASA's Energy Program also examined two additional strategies with this limitation: grandfathering existing plants so that they are exempt from future climate policies, or retrofitting plants with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a yet unproven technology that would capture greenhouse gas emissions and store them underground.

The rules do not require emissions reductions, although EPA said the proposed measure would help with future climate policies.

The first - of - its - kind proposal asked Chevron to increase dividend payments to shareholders instead of spending so much on unconventional oil, tar sands and other projects that could be rendered unprofitable by future climate policies or a related drop in oil prices.

Not exact matches

A solid balance sheet has First Solar on track to continue to lead the market and generate significant sales when panel demand recovers in the very near future, no matter what the Trump administration's policy on climate and energy.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

It is the combination of future climate change policy (carbon price) and technology cost declines will make capture at the more expensive sites viable.

The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

Given its potential for reducing carbon emissions, enhancing soil fertility and improving climate resilience, Organic Agriculture should form the basis of comprehensive policy tools for addressing the future of global nutrition and addressing climate change.

While it allows, perhaps, for a more integrated clean energy policy in future, the minister in charge and the prime minister must both guarantee their commitment to tackling climate change is not being downgraded in any way.

Today's RGGI proposal, working in concert with the Governor's REV policy and Clean Energy Standard, sends the message to the nation that climate change is real and the future is clean and renewable energy.»

«With the U.S. Senate's recent failure to act on comprehensive energy and climate legislation, we need strong environmental leaders at the state level to move the ball forward on new energy policies that will put America on the path to a clean energy future.»

The «nitty - gritty» of how patents are developed and then protected is a big issue when it comes to the role technology can play in the future of energy security and climate change policy, for example.

As far as communication in climate policy is concerned, the study's results suggest that in future a comprehensive mix of information on climate change and various justifications for climate protection will be necessary.

Pohl hopes that studies such as this one «will enhance our general understanding of historical and future extreme climate variability, allowing policy - makers to make better - informed decisions for coastal communities.»

This latest assessment provides solid science to policy - makers about the intricate relationship between ozone and climate and the need for mutually - supportive measures to protect life on earth for future generations.»

Our record is also of interest to climate policy developments, because it opens the door to detailed comparisons between past atmospheric CO2 concentrations, global temperatures, and sea levels, which has enormous value to long - term future climate projections.»

The results could have consequences not only for future climate models, but may also impact current policies on land use intended to promote fungi.

«On the one hand you wouldn't want to bet the future of U.S. climate policy on it until one has done more work, but on the other hand it looks quite promising,» says engineer M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, a carbon sequestration expert.

A new model developed at Princeton University predicts that, if the poor continue to be affected in this way — and current climate policies remain the same — the world's future poor will be even worse off than impoverished people today.

Since the 1940s, explains Nigel Purvis of Resources for the Future, in a paper on the relevance of the subject to climate policy, the United States has approved 90 % of its international deals — thousands of pacts — through so - called congressional - executive agreements.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

For more by Holden, see «The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.'s Last Chance to Lead.»

Industry observers say the future is likely to bring a less rosy scenario for coal and possibly for Peabody Energy as climate policies clamping down on emissions take hold.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Afpolicy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International AfPolicy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The perception that future climate warming is inevitable stands at the centre of current climate - policy discussions.

On 29 October, 2015, a daylong symposium will review what scientific research has revealed about climate change over the past 50 years, and offer a forward - looking assessment of the range of scientific, technological, communication, and policy options for the future.

As a result, a larger population will leave future generations at greater risk from climate - related damages, especially if policy does not respond to fast - growing populations.

In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com

The optimal climate policy also depends on the future of economic development.

Global climate models are essential tools for understanding climate change and for developing policy regarding future emissions of greenhouse gases, primary aerosol particles, and aerosol precursor gases.

They do, however, raise serious questions about the validity of climate models (which are, of course, used to predict future warming and are used to set public policy and sway public opinion) and how much we are actually warming.

The interaction between ocean science and policy will continue to specify future pathways of climate change.

The role of the Climate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sceClimate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sceclimate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sceclimate scenarios.

At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and measures on mitigation and adaption of future climate change.

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 aClimate 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 aclimate policies and actions.

EN: This year, I am looking forward to communicating the recommendations made in the Climate Change policy paper to other educators, so we can unite in advocating for a better future for our schools.

He used this to argue for climate protection measures, finishing his article by stating that the international community should stretch out their hands to the US with a proposal for the future of an international climate policy.

Some international groups are helping to foster synergies, including the World Health Organization's recent conference on Climate and Health, the Convention on Biological Diversity's initiative on Health and Biodiversity, the Lancet - Rockefeller Commission on Planetary Health, and the DIVERSITAS - Future Earth ecoHEALTH project, which brings together public and animal health, development, ecology, economics, and other sectors to investigate connections between health and environmental change to generate science and policy outputs that can inform sustainability solutions.

(I was a recipient of this award, administered by the Academies» Keck Futures Initiative, in the newspapers / magazines category in 2003, the first year it was offered, for coverage of climate science and policy.)

As surfaces absorb roughly 100 times more solar energy than the CO2 in the atmosphere, future anthropogenic changes in both land and water albedo may figure significantly in climate policy outcomes.

Allen and Frame suggest that the way to address this is though an adaptive climate change policy, in which there are movable CO2 concentration targets that can be revised downwards if future observations suggest that the climate sensitivity is indeed greater than the middle IPCC range.

But it is clear that policies toward construction insurance, and federal disaster relief play the dominant role in setting up the U.S. for a string of natural disasters stretching as far as one can see into the future, with or without climate change.

Perhaps my pursuit of the «research needed to understand it» and my assessment there from of the «causes, risks, and hazards,» may be different from those of other AGU members, but I don't think that should exclude me from trying to «communicate clearly and objectively with those who can implement policies to shape future climate.»

pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.