Sentences with phrase «global climate policy»

Given the lack of success in creating lasting changes in global climate policy so far, this summit is an incredible opportunity.

So, instead of framing the question of global climate policy in terms of national self - interest, how about we frame it in terms of «doing the right thing»?

A bedrock principle addressing global climate change issues is that science - not emotional or political reactions — must serve as the foundation for global climate policy decisions.»

«I think it can be an example of cooperation between leading countries with a lot of renewable energy potential,» said Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at WWF Brazil, adding, «Dilma could see this as a strategic opportunity for Brazil's economy.»

Whether betting big today with a comprehensive global climate policy targeted at stabilization will:

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

Can the EU still serve as a model to lead global Climate Policy?

The GCC claims that «science must serve as the foundation for overall global climate policy decisions and enhanced scientific research must be the first priority.

«Global climate policy after Lima,» The Washington Times, January 21, 2015.

The key would be to use this clout intelligently to achieve the long - term global climate policy, as well as to encourage democratization around the world, but particularly in Russia and China.

Robert Stavins, an economist at Harvard University who has written extensively on carbon markets, noted that during the creation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the United States insisted, over European objections, on inserting market mechanisms into global climate policy.

As research activities generate a clearer understanding of the feasibility of CDR and SRM technologies, bringing the science to bear on the normative commitments to equity, human rights and the nature of climate change as an issue of common concern will be critical to realizing a broader coherence in global climate policy under the Paris Agreement.

Through the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) they controlled national weather offices so global climate policies and research funding were similarly directed.

Current global climate policy is unsustainable; the U.K.'s commitment to boosting offshore wind power is only the latest example.

Figure (right) shows the increase in energy demand to 2030 and 2050, which requires global climate policy to leapfrog to low carbon energy development pathways.

Forest Trends (co-convener; AGWA lead convener) discuss how global climate policy is reshaping technical and political cooperation, synergies, and tensions between governance levels, sectors, and countries.

With less than two months to go before UNFCCC COP 19 opens in Warsaw, and the UN Secretary - General planning to host a Climate Summit with world leaders in September 2014, the WGI contribution to AR5 is well - timed to influence global climate policy.

5 As long as global climate policy is supposed to be based on the precautionary principle, this is the only justifiable course of action in my opinion.

This brief analysis summarizes the main findings of the report, reflects on the SPM approval process, and places the meeting in the larger context of evolving global climate policy.

It illustraties one clear message to world leaders just before the Paris climate summit: The effective global climate policy that we need — can not come without «economic sacrifice».

Sippel, Maike and Michaelowa, Axel (2009): Does Global Climate Policy Promote Low - Carbon Cities?

The only major global climate policy is the European Union's 20/20 policy, which promises to cut CO2 emissions 20 % by 2020.

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

Judith raises concerns about the epistemology of models for open, complex systems, distinctly indefinite... and then... adopting an uncertain global climate policy that could possibly produce «losses that throw mankind into economic, social and environmental bankruptcy.»

This research provides another lens to examine global climate policy because it offers the first comprehensive accounting of historical emissions from producers, including many multinational institutions that initially extracted fuels from the earth.

Our starting point is to recognise that we won't stabilise the climate until we base global climate policy on a binding, global «emissions budget», which covers all countries and declines over time to keep the world on course for warming of less than two degrees» celsius.

In a recent policy paper, Droege says it will be up to Europe and China to lead global climate policy, starting with key international meetings like the upcoming G20 summit, where Germany and its allies could «show their economic interests in setting a reliable and ambitious climate - protection agenda,» she wrote.

The following is from an article Fred Singer wrote for The Washington Times titled «Global climate policy after Lima»: [11]

Putting Costs of Direct Air Capture in Context: This working paper provides an overview of various estimates and claims on direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide, and places them in a broader context of global climate policy.

The newly minted deal, which is being hailed as a watershed moment in global climate policy, is designed to let the United States participate without formal ratification.

Limiting warming to no more than two degrees has become the de facto target for global climate policy.

«They show that it is technically feasible to achieve a central goal in global climate policy: Namely, to limit average global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius compared to the level at the beginning of the Industrial Era.»

In 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) decided the objective of global climate policy should be to stabilise humans» influence with the climate below the level at which it can be considered «dangerous».

The argument is that a global climate policy will speed the development of renewables.

The latest science suggests that national and global climate policy is seriously misdirected.

Prime Minister Modi and President Obama have put themselves in the vanguard of global climate policy, not because of any immediate political pressure, but because both leaders see action on this front as crucial for future generations» health and prosperity.

Much less systematic attention — again in the context of the global climate policy debate (as opposed to domestic debates, where thanks to the environmental justice movement the topic is very much in play)-- has been paid to the problem of inequality within nations.

The game is so uncooperative that it may even increase total emissions relative to what would occur without any global climate policy.

This article, The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework: Drawing attention to inequality within nations in the global climate policy debate, just released by Development and Change (by invitation for special issue on climate change and capitalism), thus begins to fill a very large, and very important hole.

The last year has seen a massive uptick — under the signs of «carbon debt» and «historical responsibility» and even, in rhetorically extreme cases, «reparations» — in the amount of attention being paid to the problem of inequality between nations, in the context of the global climate policy debate.

He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2016 «For Distinguished Service to Education as an Economist, Particularly in the Area of Global Climate Policy, and to Financial Institutions and International Organisations» and the Centenary medal in 2003 «For Service to Australian Society through Economic Policy and Tertiary Education».

If this budget was unanimously accepted as the guiding principle of global climate policy and stringent action was taken to limit emissions to 1000 GtCO2, could we be reasonably certain that warming would be limited below 2 °C?