Sentences with phrase «global change committee»

At the November 9, 2009 meeting of the National Research Council Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee, the Interagency Working Group on Climate Change and Health reported on its progress.

To guide the efforts, Bush created a cabinet - level global change committee headed by the secretaries of energy and commerce in collaboration with the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Not exact matches

PwC, the global consultancy firm, noted earlier this year that the House of Commons» Finance Committee also recently recommended adopting the change.

In prepared testimony expected to be delivered to the Senate committee by Mr. Cook and other Apple executives on Tuesday, the company said it «welcomes an objective examination of the U.S. corporate tax system, which has not kept pace with the advent of the digital age and the rapidly changing global economy.»

This feature article draws on recent work by the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) to investigate trends in market - making and what they mean for the financial system (CGFS (2014)-RRB-.2 We use a simple conceptual framework to assess how supply and demand for liquidity have changed in fixed income markets, particularly in markets for sovereign and corporate bonds.

In their development of this initiative, the three founders recruited additional members to forge the Project's Risk Committee, a group of dedicated individuals concerned about the economic future of America under the threat of global climate change.

The committee included members whose careers depended on global warming alarmism, and the predictable result was that not one word was changed.

The press conference was held at the State House by Senator Marc Pacheco, chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change and Senate co-chair of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

Maeve Vallely Bartlett; State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change; Wayne Klockner, state director of The Nature Conservancy; and Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

And the administration's plans for expanding research on global climate change have passed muster by a review committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences.

«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in Decemcommittee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in DecemCommittee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.

His 1980s testimony before congressional committees on climate change helped to raise broad awareness of the dangers of global climate change.

In 2011, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research and the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment released a joint report assessing climate change and biodiversity in the Change Research and the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment released a joint report assessing climate change and biodiversity in the change and biodiversity in the Andes.

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

Demands by a House committee chairman for all documents and communications related to research by a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distract from the reality of climate change and can have a chilling effect on scientific discovery, AAAS CEO Rush Holt and Carnegie Institution global ecologist Chris Field wrote in a 16 March op - ed for LiveScience, an online news site.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

The interagency committee shall include research and program representatives of agencies conducting global change research, agencies with authority over resources likely to be affected by global change, and agencies with authority to mitigate human - induced global change.

«Negotiators at the climate summit in Paris must realize that betting on negative emissions doesn't release us from cutting down on carbon now,» says co-author Sabine Fuss, a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and at IIASA, who also serves on the GCP scientific steering committee.

LTER Technology Committee identifies and recommends technology requirements and criteria to meet primary LTER Network research goals (global change assessment and comparative studies of ecological phenomena and theories).

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).

Richard Lindzen testifies at a House Science Committee hearing on global climate change on Nov 17, 2010.

He serves on several scientific committees and boards, e.g., as the vice-chair of the science advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) and he chairs the visioning process on global environmental change of ICSU, the International Council for Science.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

The new plan calls for Radisson to gain ground and become one of the top three hotel companies in the world as it heads into the «start of an exciting era,» said Federico J. González, president and chief executive of the Rezidor Hotel Group and chairman of the new global steering committee of Radisson Hotel Group, in an announcement last week about the name change.

Based on a curious report by the UK House of Lords Economics Affairs committee (in which they made clear that they had no scientific expertise), Lawson demands that the only global scientific assessment process on climate change be shut down, and replaced with....

Mr. Gore, the 2000 Democratic presidential nominee and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the new spending Mr. Obama is proposing will begin to quickly reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants blamed for global warming.

Lewis's letter contained a long list of complaints, ranging from the group's lack of a response to his efforts to convene a committee to assess evidence for a human link to climate change to its defense of choosing the word «incontrovertible» to describe the evidence for global warming in its statement on climate science and policies in 2007.

Paul C. Stern, the director of the National Research Council committee on the human dimensions of global change, has been involved in a decades - long string of studies of behavior, climate change and energy choices.

The coalition did, however, as the article reported, remove from an internal report by the scientific advisory committee a section that said that «contrarian» theories of why global temperatures appeared to be rising «do not offer convincing arguments against the conventional model of greenhouse gas emission - induced climate change.»

Given all the oversimplified assertions over the years about Himalayan glaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.»

On Thursday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved a bipartisan resolution to establish a White House office dedicated to developing a national strategy on climate change within a year and to spend nearly $ 5 billion over the next 10 years to develop technology to control global warming.

More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee's press blog.

The Committee recommends a coordinated approach that draws upon the historical strength of the various agencies involved and uses existing coordination mechanisms, such as the U.S. Global Change Research Program, to the extent possible.»

TESTIMONIES Recommendations to Congress for Fundamental Changes in National Water Policy On December 8, 2011, Pacific Institute President Dr. Peter Gleick testified in Washington, D.C. before the before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Hearing on Opportunities and Challenges to Address Domestic and Global Water Supply Issues.

Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.

National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Global Change Research (2001).

Its official climate adviser, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), has already said that a global 1.5 C limit would mean a more ambitious 2050 goal for the UK, in the range of 86 - 96 % below 1990 levels, as well as setting a net - zero target at some point, while the government has long accepted the need to set a net - zero goal «at an appropriate point in the future».

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

On Wednesday at 10AM ET (7AM PT) the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will conduct a hearing on (take your pick) global warming climate change climate disruption.

To respond to this need the European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated a new programme, Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).

A Report by the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council

The Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change released a proposed bill today called «An Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future.»

«The majority of proven coal, oil, and gas reserves may be considered «unburnable» if global temperature increases are to be limited to two degrees Celsius,» he wrote in a letter to the British parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (PDF) in October, referring to the widely accepted temperature threshold for avoiding the worst effects of climate change.

US House of Representatives, Mar 16, 2010 hearing on Black Carbon and Climate Change by the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

The CRC contributed to work by the Transportation Research Board, the Institute of Medicine, Board on International Scientific Organizations, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, and other units.

Pak Observer: IUCN Pakistan and the Climate Change Division, Government of Pakistan signed an Agreement in Islamabad during the GEF Global Environmental Facility Steering Committee meeting.

Subtitle E: Adapting to Climate Change - Part 1: Domestic Adaptation - Subpart A: National Climate Change Adaptation Program - Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efChange - Part 1: Domestic Adaptation - Subpart A: National Climate Change Adaptation Program - Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efChange Adaptation Program - Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efGlobal Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efChange Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efglobal change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efchange for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efglobal change research efchange research efforts.

Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.

Sen. Boxer — Time TBD — Hoover Institution, Reason Foundation, Pacific Research Institute Sen. Coons — Time TBD (or Monday)-- Group TBD Sen. Schatz — 5 pm — Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Heartland Institute Sen. Franken — 5:15 pm — Heritage Foundation Sen. Warren — 5:30 pm — Science and Public Policy Institute Sen. Heinrich — 5:45 pm — American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Shaheen — 6 pm — Competitive Enterprise Institute, Energy and Environmental Legal Institute Sen. Reed — around 6 pm — SEC climate change disclosures and the dangers of climate change denial from a national security perspective Sen. Markey — 6 pm to 6:30 pm — Acton Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Lexington Institute, Global Climate Coalition Sen. Peters — 6:30 pm — Cato Institute Sen. Blumenthal — Time TBD — Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Whitehouse — Time TBD — The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Chamber of Commerce, Committee for Constructive Tomorrow, Franklin Center for Government and Policy Integrity, James Madison Institute, John Locke Foundation, Locke InsChange, Heartland Institute Sen. Franken — 5:15 pm — Heritage Foundation Sen. Warren — 5:30 pm — Science and Public Policy Institute Sen. Heinrich — 5:45 pm — American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Shaheen — 6 pm — Competitive Enterprise Institute, Energy and Environmental Legal Institute Sen. Reed — around 6 pm — SEC climate change disclosures and the dangers of climate change denial from a national security perspective Sen. Markey — 6 pm to 6:30 pm — Acton Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Lexington Institute, Global Climate Coalition Sen. Peters — 6:30 pm — Cato Institute Sen. Blumenthal — Time TBD — Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Whitehouse — Time TBD — The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Chamber of Commerce, Committee for Constructive Tomorrow, Franklin Center for Government and Policy Integrity, James Madison Institute, John Locke Foundation, Locke Inschange disclosures and the dangers of climate change denial from a national security perspective Sen. Markey — 6 pm to 6:30 pm — Acton Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Lexington Institute, Global Climate Coalition Sen. Peters — 6:30 pm — Cato Institute Sen. Blumenthal — Time TBD — Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Whitehouse — Time TBD — The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Chamber of Commerce, Committee for Constructive Tomorrow, Franklin Center for Government and Policy Integrity, James Madison Institute, John Locke Foundation, Locke Inschange denial from a national security perspective Sen. Markey — 6 pm to 6:30 pm — Acton Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Lexington Institute, Global Climate Coalition Sen. Peters — 6:30 pm — Cato Institute Sen. Blumenthal — Time TBD — Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Whitehouse — Time TBD — The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Chamber of Commerce, Committee for Constructive Tomorrow, Franklin Center for Government and Policy Integrity, James Madison Institute, John Locke Foundation, Locke Institute

Requires such committee to include research and program representatives of agencies conducting global change research, agencies with authority over resources likely to be affected by global change, and agencies with authority to mitigate human - induced global change.